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Preds Return Home & Welcome Back Shea Weber · Predators Official Podcast

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  live from Smashville You're on your radio home for Preds hockey
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  ESPN one O 2 five and one O 6 three.
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  The game three of the next 4 Preds games are at home starting
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  Saturday night in Smashville. 6 O clock this Saturday, early
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  start because of Hockey Night in Canada for the Predators and The
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  Jets, then a road game in New Jersey on Monday and then two
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  big home games sandwiching Thanksgiving.
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  Thanksgiving eve, Wednesday night against the Flyers at
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  seven at Bridgestone Arena and Friday Black Friday AKA Gold
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  Friday afternoon at 2:00 against the Lightning.
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  So three big home games coming up this week for the Predators
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  who finished up their five game road trip with a 1-2 and two
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  overall record. Preds are now 611 and three as
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  we hit the quarter point of this season.
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  Crazy to think about. My name is Max Hurst from Preds
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  radio. She is Kara Hammer from Preds
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  TV. Hello Hammer.
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  What's up, Max? I think looking back at this
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  road trip and now that the boys are home, I think maybe one word
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  to describe it or sum it up would be frustration.
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  And let's get it straight into this because this is new, this
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  is fresh. The boys are coming straight off
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  of practice. And you told me there was some
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  frustration already happening today on the ice.
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  Yeah, we had a practice fight today on Friday, November 22nd
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  at Fred's practice. And if you had asked me this
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  morning who is the most likely Preds player to be involved in a
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  practice fight, I would have said without a doubt, Michael
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  McCarron. If you were to ask me who would
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  be the other person in that practice fight, I wouldn't have
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  been sure. I would have had some guesses,
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  but I I really wouldn't have had a firm guess.
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  But I can tell you for a fact, Kara, I would not have named
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  Luke Evangelista to be the person fighting with Michael
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  McCarron and actually initiating the whole thing in Pred's
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  practice today, the largest Pred against perhaps the slimmest
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  Pred. Going back, back to where I I've
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  seen a a few little tussles at practice.
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  I think it always comes from the younger guys.
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  I mean, looking back at a camp, I think one time it was Roman
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  Yossi and Craig Smith. Like, you know, I now I would
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  never picture Yost getting into something like this happening,
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  but frustration, you know, at the end of the day, though,
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  those guys are boys. They're going to, they're going
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  to work it out, right? Oh yeah, and Andrew Brunette and
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  Luke Evangelista said as much after practice.
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  But the frustration comes from Evangelista, who was a healthy
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  scratch on Wednesday. Based on the lines they showed
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  at practice today. Looks like he'll be a healthy
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  scratch again on Saturday. And Andrew Brunette told us on
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  Preds radio this week he wants Evangelista to get a bit of a
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  longer sit to come out for at least a couple games, was what
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  Brunette implied. So I think Evangelist will be
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  out again on Saturday. That has nothing to do with what
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  happened in practice. That was already the plan going
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  in. But he he laid a bit of a hit on
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  Michael McCarron that McCarron was not happy with.
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  He went right after him. Some other guys separated them.
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  They also crossed paths on the way off.
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  A little parting blow from Michael McCarron for
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  Evangelista. And McCarron went straight off
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  after practice ended, undressed and left the locker room as the
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  first guy out. So I think it was time.
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  I, I think it was time for something like this to happen.
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  Kara, the Preds are in last in the NHL.
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  They should be nowhere close to that with everybody they got on
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  this team. It's time for things to start
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  happening, and this is what happens when things need to
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  start happening. This is something that I I can't
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  wait to to get back and and have a conversation with Ryan
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  O'Reilly about Max because he was on a Saint Louis Blues team
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  who in the month of January was in last place in the National
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  Hockey League and turn around and won a Stanley Cup.
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  So I feel like he's the right guy to have in the locker room
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  right now to, to to show proof we can turn things around.
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  We can find a way to do this. It just what's it going to take?
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  Yep, and today it took a little rough stuff at the end of a long
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  hard practice at Centennial Sportsplex here at Nashville
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  going into a home game tomorrow night, Saturday night.
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  Many of you will be hearing this on Saturday on One O 25, the
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  game Saturday night in Smashville against the Winnipeg
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  Jets. And the good news is The Jets
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  will be on the back end of a back-to-back for this game.
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  They play in Pittsburgh on Friday night against the
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  Penguins Predators, of course, coming off a long road trip.
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  And it looks like the Predators will be missing Connor
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  Hellebach, who is scheduled to start on Friday night.
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  So that is a plus for the Preds going into this game.
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  They'll take whatever they can get at this point after a 1-2
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  and two road trip. Kara, we had a podcast one game
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  into this road trip. I feel like that was three years
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  ago. Since then, an overtime loss in
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  Edmonton, A2 nothing shut out loss in Calgary last Friday
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  night, A53 win on Sunday night in Vancouver against the Canucks
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  in a playoff rematch. And then Wednesday night shut
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  out again in a three nothing loss to the Kraken in Seattle.
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  So the Preds made it clear they wanted at least half the points
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  available to them on this road trip.
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  They end up with four out of 10, and I think that last loss
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  against Seattle could have been a defining moment to make the
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  road trip a 5050 or better split with either an overtime point or
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  a second win in a row, and instead they get shut out again
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  and feel like they have to go back to their building blocks.
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  Yeah, I think the Seattle loss was definitely tough, especially
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  after they were so dominating against Vancouver and so many
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  highlights in that game, right? Zach LaRue scores his first NHL
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  goal. Stephen Stamkos breaks Yaramir
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  Yogurt's record for most power play goals.
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  So a lot of highlights. It was a little surprising.
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  Definitely a disappointing result to end the road trip with
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  Joey Decord in the crack and shutting out the Preds on
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  Wednesday night on TNT. Sunday night, one of the best
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  wins of the season so far. As you said, Kara, it was
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  milestones for everybody. And after the game, the post
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  game shovel because it's time to dig the bleep in and rope beach
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  toy 'cause everybody's got to be pulling the rope.
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  We're passed around plenty of times, starting with Roman
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  Yossi, Zach LaRue at his first NHL goal, Roman Yossi at his
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  700th NHL point, Yuso Parson and played his 100th NHL regular
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  season game, and Steven Stamkos had two massive power play goals
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  to get him past the great Yarmir Yager for 11th most in NHL
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  history. Try and keep up with all the
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  milestones in this locker room in Vancouver.
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  Enjoy. See first goal baby.
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  On the games party. Congrats.
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  Wait, Steve Sankos passes the Army yogurt.
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  What are my goals? Financial history. 700 points.
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  Hi, Phil. That's a massive win.
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  We did dig in. Win.
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  Pull the rope. See.
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  Congratulations, Jogger. Hey, we don't.
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  Lose on these nights. Hey boys.
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  But no seriously, way to dig in. We talked about let's get more
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  points and games played on the road.
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  We're still on track so. Pull on this one tonight.
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  Only 7. 100 More to catch Tamer The voices in that, in order,
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  were Roman Yossi, Ryan O'Reilly, Philip Forsberg, Steven Samkos
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  and Zach Larood. Did I get that right?
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  There was. There was a lot of post game
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  party favors going around. You got that.
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  And if you missed the video, you really need to go watch it
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  because I still haven't figured out quite yet what factor was
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  doing that's Ryan O'Reilly. Was he making the Diggy motion
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  they dug in? Was he pretending he was Sam
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  Coast like shooting the power play goal?
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  I just, I've watched that on repeat numerous times and I have
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  just been laughing every single time I watch it.
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  I think you're exactly right. And big credit to Ethan Fleming
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  and the Predators video department for filming and
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  editing that ridiculous video. It's on Fred's Twitter.
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  You'll have to scroll back to Sunday at Fred's NHL.
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  But yeah, O'Reilly is in the corner.
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  He's he's digging the shovel. And then you nailed it.
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  He's doing the Stamkos one timer and he's making the most
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  ridiculous factor faces of all time.
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  You know, again, like we just mentioned, coming off of that,
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  it it's so surprising that the guys didn't come out and have a
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  dominating win against Seattle. It felt like the vibes were so
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  high. It felt like they were buzzy.
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  They were playing together. I think that kind of just sums
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  up what what Bruno said about the road trip.
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  He said, hey, we showed really good, really good parts of
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  ourselves, a really good side of ourselves.
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  But then there were those small details that just were
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  catastrophic. Yeah, and that Vancouver win,
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  definitely a high point. It ends on another low .2 out of
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  three shutout losses to end the trip after two overtime losses
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  to start it. Preds do feel like they deserve
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  better, but they're really having to work really hard for
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  everything right now. So the struggles continue really
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  across the board for this Predators team, for everybody
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  other than UC Soros, who continues to give them a chance.
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  And I, I don't want to think about what their record would be
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  without Soros playing well right now.
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  They've won 6 of 20 games with him at his best.
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  SO it it would be a whole lot worse without Soros being a stud
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  back there that he has been in a lot of losing efforts through no
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  fault of his own. Another fun moment on the trip.
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  We talked last week that Grey Cup day was the same day the
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  Preds played the Canucks literally right next door in
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  Vancouver and I did not go to the game.
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  You would have only been able to go to the first half.
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  The Jonas Brothers ended up playing while we were eating our
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  pregame meal in the arena in Vancouver, so we did get to see
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  the performance on TV. It was lovely but sad I couldn't
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  go. But the Preds did run into the
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  Grey Cup champion Toronto Argonauts after their respective
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  wins in Vancouver that night. And Steven Stamkos and Luke
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  Shen, 2 proud Canadians, got their pictures and got to hoist
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  the Grey Cup. Oh my gosh, that's the coolest
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  thing ever. It's just like so Canadian of
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  them, right? Well, especially especially for
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  Shen because our number one observation of the Grey Cup Fan
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  Fest and just everybody walking around throughout the weekend
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  and game day while we were there in Vancouver, by far the most
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  heavily represented fan base was the Saskatchewan Rough Riders
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  who were not playing in the game.
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  Their fans just go every year. OK, so I have to tell a story.
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  While you guys were on the road I actually took a little trip
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  out to Disneyland and while I was on the ride the man next to
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  me was wearing a Rough Riders hat and I asked him, oh the Grey
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  Cup that's happening and he said we got knocked out at the round
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  before. We will not be playing in it
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  this year but expect us to be back next season.
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  All right, yeah, Well, Luke Shannon is a proud Sasky boy.
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  He got to hoist the Grey Cup and he said it's almost as heavy as
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  Stanley. So him and Stephen Stamkos were
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  excited. I mean, they those are two guys
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  with their names on the Stanley Cup nervous and excited to go up
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  and ask if they can hoist the Grey Cup.
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  So Yep, pretty funny. Pretty funny.
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  Ultra all trophies converge in Canada there, but Stamkos had
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  two power play goals in that game, his first multi goal game
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  as a Predator. And as you heard, he passed Mike
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  Gartner and Jaramir Yauger for 11th all time in NHL history in
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  power play goals. He has 219 of them.
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  He's 13 away from getting into the top ten with Dino Ciccarelli
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  up next. The number one power play goal
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  scorer is Alex Ovechkin with 316.
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  That's 97 more than Stamkos, who is 11th.
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  So he's going to have to keep working hard to catch Ovi as
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  Ovi's had an awesome season so far.
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  But awesome milestone. Anytime you pass Yarmir Yauger
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  in any stat, it's pretty good because he played like 35 years
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  in the NHL. Yeah, that's amazing.
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  And although we are the Predators official podcast, I
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  think we're all here right on the OV watch.
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  I think he was just listed that he's going to be out four to six
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  weeks. But Max, do you think he's going
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  to get it this season? Do you think OV is still going
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  to break Gretzky's record? After the injury, probably not
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  sadly, but seeing them in person 3 weeks ago, I said on the
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  podcast, the Capitals look really good.
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  They look really good. So maybe they're peaking too
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  early, but they look great right now and they've been strong at
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  pretty much everything the Preds have been deficient in so far
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  this season. So we'll see if those things
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  turn around later in the year. But the Preds still looking for
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  way, way, way, way, way more five on five in every regard.
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  Jonathan Marshiso still does not have a single five on five point
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  in his first 20 games as a Predator.
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  Philip Forsberg did not score a goal on the road trip.
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  Ryan O'Reilly is in A10 plus game goal drought.
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  A lot of things are going to have to turn here for the Preds.
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  They got to get goals going, they got to start making plays,
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  and it's going to have to start against the team off to the best
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  start in NHL history, the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday night
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  in Smashville. The game is Saturday night at
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  six. Many of you are listening to
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  this on 102.5, either the morning of the game or on the
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  way to the game, so thanks for listening to Preds radio on your
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  way down. The game is at six on Saturday
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  night, November 23rd against The Jets.
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  Be in your seats early, it's Hockey Night in Canada.
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  It is also Hockey Hall of Fame Night and the Preds will welcome
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  their two homegrown Hall of Famers, the recently inducted
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  General manager David Poyle and Captain Shay Weber.
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  They will be on the ice for a pregame ceremonial puck drop.
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  So make sure you are in your seats right at six for the boys
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  to take the ice. The puck drop, the national
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  anthems Hockey Night in Canada and Saturday night in Smashville
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  for the Predators and The Jets. 2 more home games this week
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  around Thanksgiving as well. Wednesday night, Thanksgiving
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  Eve, a lot of people's favorite day of the year.
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  Kara, I'm a big Thanksgiving eve fan.
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  Awesome, underrated, made-up but very real holiday fun night.
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  Everybody be back in Smashville. We welcome home so many of our
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  great fans who are from here but no longer live here.
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  It'll be an awesome atmosphere. So great to have everybody back
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  home. Looking forward to seeing you
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  guys. Wednesday night against the
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  Flyers at 7:00 and then Black Friday afternoon as Black Friday
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  becomes Gold Friday. Preds and Lightning at 2:00,
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  Friday afternoon at Bridgestone Arena.
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  Two home games on each side of Thanksgiving.
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  Should be a lot of fun this week. 3 big home games on
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  premium nights, Gold games here in Smashville.
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  When we come back we'll talk more about Shay Weber who is in
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  Smashville and spoke to media on Friday morning before he drops
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  the ceremonial puck in his Hockey Hall of Fame Blazer on
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  Saturday night in Smashville. She is Kara Hammer from Fred's
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  TV. I'm Max Herz from Preds Radio.
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  You are listening to the Predators official podcast here
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  on ESPN. One O 2 five and one O 6 three.
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  The Game Your radio home for Nashville Predators hockey.
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  One O 2 five and one O 6 three. The game which is always your
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  radio home for Nashville Predators hockey.
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  My name is Max, Hers from Predators Radio joined by Kara
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  Hammer from Preds TV. As always, Saturday night in
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  Smashville coming your way. Saturday night, November 23rd.
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  Predators and Winnipeg Jets first of four meetings this
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  season between the teams currently at the top of the
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  Central Division and the bottom of the Central Division.
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  Preds will be looking to take down the top dogs.
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  The Jets are off to the hottest start in NHL history.
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  History, Kara. That is not hyperbole.
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  That is statistical fact. They are 16 and 3 going into
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  their game Friday night in Pittsburgh to start this
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  back-to-back. That is pretty good.
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  That is really good, but I'm hoping that with Shay Weber in
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  the building and David Foyle in attendance that the the the
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  Preds and The Jets will have a little bit of that old rivalry
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  feeling, remember? That.
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  Yeah, you know, almost a decade ago when the, when they really
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  used to, to go at it and get us all, you know, they, they just
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  set the tone. It used to be such a fun
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  rivalry. And I'm hoping that they they
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  bring a little bit of that on Saturday night.
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  Yeah, Shay Weber and David Poyle went into the Hockey Hall of
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  Fame last weekend, I guess 2 weekends ago now.
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  Time is a flat circle at this point after the road trip, but
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  if you want to hear more about that, go to our last episode.
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  Brooks Bratton was there reporting on the whole thing and
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  talked with us about it and gave us some great detail on the
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  speeches and the celebrations for Shay Weber and David Poyle
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  who are truly Kara. The 1st 2 Preds Hockey Hall of
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  Farmers, Paul Korea and Peter Forsberg are in, but those are
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  not guys who were primarily Preds, were not home grown
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  Preds. We love them and we claim them,
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  but these two are the first of many at a next level going into
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  the Hockey Hall of Fame from Smashville.
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  Yeah, it's going to be such a special night being able to
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  honor these two. I'm I'm really looking forward
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  to it. So before the game, David Poyle
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  and Shay Weber will drop the ceremonial first puck and we'll
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  honor them in Smashville. So make sure you're in your
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  seats right around 6:00, as early as you can.
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  For Saturday night's game against The Jets.
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  David Poyle was in Nashville and still spends a large portion of
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  his time living here. He was in Nashville a couple of
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  weeks before the Hockey Hall of Fame induction for his Hockey
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  Hall of Fame Blazer Fitting, which we talked about on the
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  podcast a few weeks ago. Basically, he was measured by
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  his tailor in front of a a live studio audience at Bridgestone
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  Arena, which was quite enjoyable to watch.
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  And now Shay Weber has made his return.
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  He flew with the Preds back from Seattle.
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  He lives in British Columbia, joined the Preds in Seattle,
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  flew back with the team after the game on Wednesday, was at
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  practice today and spoke to media before Preds practice
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  about what it meant to be in the Hockey Hall of Fame and said a
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  lot of the same things that he did up in Toronto.
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  But a couple of Preds specific questions from Shay Weber that
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  we want to play for you first, talking about the new captain.
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  I was going to say his successor as Captain Kara, but Mike Fisher
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  got a year in between, so does that still count?
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  Roman Yossi, the successor of Shay Weber's captaincy.
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  No, I feel like, I feel like Mike Fisher taking that year
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  wearing the seat doesn't make him the successor.
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  I mean, he he maybe next in line.
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  I don't. Know he's as grand little, I
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  guess, if they're going to be a sorority family of Prince
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  captains. But anyway, Shay Shay Weber had
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  some very sweet comments about following Roman Yossi's career
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  and being involved in his family life.
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  Here's Shay Weber. Yeah, we still stay in touch.
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  And last time I was here, I got to go out and meet his kids.
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  And, you know, full circle for me because it's before it was
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  him with my kids and now I came back and got to meet his.
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  And I mean, he's a tremendous hockey player.
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  He was when I played with him. I was grateful to have him as my
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  partner and definitely keeping tabs on on how he's doing.
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  Isn't that sweet? It's so sweet, you know, did you
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  also hear what Roman said about Shay?
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  It was almost the same thing he said.
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  I I used to sit next to you in the locker room and he goes, I
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  admired you. I've looked up to you.
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  That's awesome. Well that's the Preds family
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  right there. The defenseman passing the torch
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  on down and all of a sudden Yossi is 2 years past Shay
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  Webber for the longest tenured captain in Preds history.
• 21:26
  So I miss flying. Yeah, eight seasons with the C
• 21:29
  for Roman Yosi, 6 for Shay Weber, who used to have the
• 21:33
  title. So I think he's to be honored
• 21:35
  that he was passed in that way. So great to hear from Shay Weber
• 21:38
  that he and Roman Yosi are still so close.
• 21:41
  And yeah, it was. It was young Yos playing with
• 21:43
  Shay's kids, and now it's old Shay meeting Yosi's little kids.
• 21:48
  So pretty cool. Excuse me, Yosi.
• 21:52
  Shay Weber, the Hockey Hall of Famer, was also asked by the
• 21:56
  great Pete Weber no relation about shouting out legendary
• 22:01
  Predators locker room attendant and soon to be 60 year old Craig
• 22:06
  partner Baugh in his Hockey Hall of Fame speech.
• 22:09
  What about your mentioning a partner in your speech?
• 22:13
  Well, you can't forget partner. I mean that guy since day one,
• 22:17
  you know, he's just, he's such a great personality.
• 22:20
  He's such a good guy. Everyone knows him.
• 22:23
  He's he's just such a positive influence.
• 22:27
  And yeah, I couldn't not, couldn't not bring them up.
• 22:30
  Have you ever? Had your ribs broken by a
• 22:32
  partner hook? Today was pretty close.
• 22:34
  That was a long 1. Today it's it was.
• 22:38
  I knew it was coming. I, you know, did a little
• 22:40
  stretching before, but it was amazing.
• 22:42
  Yeah, it was good. Great to see you this morning.
• 22:45
  A big Smashville welcome home from partner for Shay Weber.
• 22:50
  It's the bus. I mean, when partner gives the
• 22:52
  hugs, when the guys come back, I always think about the time when
• 22:55
  Scott Hartnell went up and surprised him.
• 22:57
  And that video made its rounds on social media.
• 22:59
  And I mean, it's a bear hug. You're in there for a good long
• 23:03
  while. Yeah, I I guess it's good that
• 23:09
  he only hugs the guys on the other team so our guys don't get
• 23:13
  injured because of it. I think so.
• 23:16
  I also I feel like also Max on on Saturday night.
• 23:19
  This is a great time if you have a Shay Weber jersey to to bring
• 23:22
  it back out, get the sweater going.
• 23:24
  Let's like show some love for Weber wise back in the building.
• 23:27
  Yeah, I love it. And our fans do a great job of
• 23:30
  wearing jerseys of guys who are in the building for the other
• 23:33
  team or for whatever reason they're appropriate for that
• 23:36
  match up. People do a good job picking out
• 23:38
  the right sweater, and I know you're exactly right.
• 23:42
  Lots of folks still got their Shay Weber sweaters in their
• 23:44
  closets. So yeah, wear them.
• 23:47
  Make it happen. Make sure you get in your seats
• 23:49
  early. Tickets are still available for
• 23:50
  that game as well. For the game Saturday night in
• 23:53
  Smashville, Predators and Winnipeg Jets.
• 23:55
  David Poyle, the original GM, and Shay Weber, I can we say the
• 24:00
  captain, one of many captains, but in my head and he's always
• 24:04
  going to be the captain. Fun fact, he was the first
• 24:09
  hockey player I ever met on my first day when I joined News 2,
• 24:13
  and my first story I ever covered was a morning skate.
• 24:17
  And he was the first professional athlete.
• 24:19
  And I guess in local Nashville, obviously I'd worked around
• 24:22
  professional athletes before, but the first local professional
• 24:25
  athlete I went up and was introduced to to the captain,
• 24:28
  Shay Weber, He was the guy. Kara Hammer starting at the top.
• 24:34
  Working my way up. That's awesome.
• 24:37
  Yeah. So David Boyle and Shay Weber
• 24:38
  will be honored before the game. And we talked last week with
• 24:41
  Brooks. Go back and listen to that
• 24:43
  episode if you have in our most recent episode talking about the
• 24:46
  Hockey Hall of Fame. I just the most touching thing
• 24:49
  for me from those speeches is Shay Weber, who's the big,
• 24:54
  tough, physical, hard nosed, 105 mile an hour, slap shot
• 24:58
  defenseman talking about his family, his late mom, the
• 25:02
  sacrifices his dad made working at the sawmill so that he and
• 25:07
  his brother could play hockey and continue to play hockey as
• 25:10
  teenagers and do so at a high level at that just hit home for
• 25:14
  me 'cause it's, I don't know. You think about Shay Weber in
• 25:17
  such a different light on the ice and so many folks in
• 25:20
  Smashville, especially those who met him through a, a charity
• 25:23
  work or community contacts, which I know was a lot of you,
• 25:27
  you see that more human loving side of him.
• 25:30
  And I think they combine to make such a special person.
• 25:33
  And there's a reason why he was so successful and so special
• 25:38
  here for such a long time. Yeah, I mean, think about, you
• 25:41
  know, his 365 foundation that him and Pecorine started.
• 25:46
  I mean, he's just given so back so much back to the community
• 25:50
  and he really is just a great person.
• 25:52
  Yeah. And well, in the Shay Weber talk
• 25:54
  on this, they still have not issued jersey number six since
• 25:59
  he was traded away. So we'll save that one for
• 26:02
  later. But Hockey Hall of Fame Day,
• 26:03
  Saturday night in Smashville, Predators and Winnipeg Jets on
• 26:06
  Saturday night, that's November 23rd.
• 26:08
  Many of you are listening on the radio on Saturday, November
• 26:11
  23rd. If you're headed to the game,
• 26:14
  first of all, you better be headed to the game.
• 26:16
  But second of all, get there early.
• 26:18
  Be in your seats at six O clock. Puck drop will be around 6:15
• 26:21
  for that ceremonial face off on Hockey Night in Canada.
• 26:24
  Preds and Jets Shay Weber and David Poyle back together as
• 26:28
  Hockey Hall of Farmers in Smashville.
• 26:31
  We'll take a break, come back, tell you about an exciting
• 26:34
  update for Predators TV viewers here in Nashville.
• 26:38
  Plus some things to get you ready for Thanksgiving, the
• 26:41
  Christmas season and more with your Preds.
• 26:44
  She's scary Hammer from Fred's TV.
• 26:46
  I'm Max hers from Fred's radio. You're listening to the
• 26:48
  Predators official podcast here on your exclusive radio home for
• 26:52
  Fred's hockey. This is ESPN1O25 and one O 6
• 26:55
  three the game. Welcome back to the predators
• 27:26
  official podcast here on ESPN 102.5 and 106.3 the game little
• 27:32
  ZZ Top for you coming back trying to play the jams for you
• 27:35
  here on the POP. My name is Max Hurst from Preds
• 27:38
  radio along with Kara Hammer from Preds TV.
• 27:42
  Kara. I had AI had a fan tweet at me
• 27:44
  some point during last season. It's probably a fan who listens
• 27:47
  to every episode so I feel bad. I can't remember who it is but
• 27:50
  they wanted me to make APO playlist of all the intro songs
• 27:55
  for segments and I absolutely should have done it.
• 27:58
  It was a great idea and I think we're just in too deep right
• 28:01
  now. It's too late.
• 28:03
  I feel like this could be an offseason job for you, like go
• 28:06
  back, play some. I mean, when, when you were
• 28:09
  producing and Brooks was running the podcast with Thomas, I mean,
• 28:14
  they're, those are like 2 musical guys.
• 28:17
  They weren't really bringing it. I I'm impressed that you still
• 28:19
  have some some tunes coming out. Yeah, I'm, I have, I don't have
• 28:23
  as deep of a archive as they do, but I also think I'm a little
• 28:27
  more diverse. Their music kind of all fell
• 28:30
  into the same category that I don't know how to describe it.
• 28:32
  So I just call it Brooks and Thomas Music.
• 28:37
  Well, for those who don't know, Brooks Bratton's brother-in-law
• 28:40
  is Ryan Hurd. So he's kind of married into a
• 28:42
  musical family now. Yeah, yeah.
• 28:44
  And they interviewed Ryan Hurd on this podcast before Brooks
• 28:49
  had even met his sister Amy, who is now Brooks's wife.
• 28:55
  It's all meant to be. It's crazy, but yeah, we got a
• 28:58
  we'll get the playlist going. I don't know.
• 29:00
  Yeah. Remind me in the summer.
• 29:02
  Oh, remind me. Remind me during the Olympic
• 29:03
  break. Actually, maybe that's when we
• 29:05
  can do it. We could put together like a
• 29:07
  Spotify. Yeah, yeah, PO playlist, POPPO
• 29:12
  playlist. Yeah, Predator's official
• 29:14
  playlist. Yeah, we can make that happen
• 29:16
  for sure. But I did shout out to Thomas
• 29:18
  Willis, who we love. I did see him at a game as a fan
• 29:20
  recently with his lovely wife, who's a big Ole Miss fan.
• 29:24
  And she was excited that I said Hotty Toddy on the air to start
• 29:28
  the pregame show because we were playing the Ole Miss game and it
• 29:33
  went long and we had to take it off the air with 30 seconds
• 29:36
  left. But they were winning by 20.
• 29:37
  It was, I think they'd beat Georgia.
• 29:39
  It was a big upset. But she said, did Max just say
• 29:44
  Hotty Toddy? And Thomas was like, I don't
• 29:47
  know. I don't, I tune out everything
• 29:49
  Max says. I think that's what he said.
• 29:50
  So. But yeah, anyway, they were
• 29:52
  listening right around this exact time when this podcast
• 29:55
  will play before the game on Saturday.
• 29:57
  So maybe we'll catch the Willis's again.
• 29:59
  A lovely family. I think they have eight kids by
• 30:02
  now, but we miss Thomas. Brooks is back, but everyone
• 30:06
  asks him, where's Thomas? They're inseparable.
• 30:11
  Brooks is back. I've enjoyed having him back.
• 30:12
  He does such great coverage of the team.
• 30:14
  And we had some big news come out over the week too, Max huge.
• 30:19
  Do you want, do you want, do you want to break this?
• 30:21
  This is like breaking news that we have happening.
• 30:23
  Fred's TV Kara, take it. Tell him.
• 30:26
  All right, Preds TV has partnered with Scripps sports
• 30:30
  and if you don't know who that is, that's news Channel 5 local
• 30:33
  in Nashville and we're going to simulcast three games this
• 30:38
  season. Well, maybe, maybe it could be
• 30:42
  more, I don't know. We have 3 for sure, November
• 30:44
  30th at Minnesota, December 14th at Colorado and December 27th at
• 30:49
  Saint Louis where you could just tune into News Channel 5 and
• 30:54
  watch us, our FanDuel Sports Network.
• 30:56
  So, so the our local broadcasters, myself, Lindsay
• 30:59
  Rally, Hal Gill, Chris Mason, Willie Donnick will all be on
• 31:02
  the call, but you'll be getting it for free.
• 31:05
  I think we're going into like 2.5 million homes across Middle
• 31:08
  Tennessee. Yeah, it's awesome.
• 31:10
  The games will still air in the way they always air on FanDuel
• 31:13
  Sports Book, but they will also play on news Channel 5.
• 31:17
  That's Channel 5 in Nashville 5-1 like not 5 dash two or three
• 31:22
  or one of those crazy antenna extra channels. 3 Rd. games
• 31:26
  between now and New Year's all either Friday or Saturday
• 31:29
  nights. Next Saturday November 30th is
• 31:33
  the first one in Minnesota, Saturday December 14th and
• 31:38
  Friday, December 27th, the first game after Christmas.
• 31:40
  They will all be on news Channel 5.
• 31:42
  That's Nashville's CBS affiliate.
• 31:45
  And the big news is that Channel obviously is available a lot of
• 31:49
  places with a free antenna. That's big.
• 31:51
  It's also on YouTube TV and some of the other outlets where we
• 31:55
  know fans have not been able to watch every game.
• 31:58
  So here's my challenge for everybody.
• 32:00
  Hammer, you ready? I'm.
• 32:02
  Ready. I need everybody to watch the
• 32:05
  games on News Channel 5. They're all Rd. games.
• 32:08
  If you travel to see the Preds on the road, you're excused, but
• 32:11
  if you're home, we need you to watch the game and set your
• 32:13
  DVRS, especially those of you with YouTube TV, record the game
• 32:18
  off News Channel 5. The more people who watch it, we
• 32:22
  want to know you love it and we know you will love it.
• 32:26
  I mean, I love it. I this is a great thing, you
• 32:29
  know, obviously people know I, I spent a lot of time in Colorado
• 32:32
  and it's something that's happened out here.
• 32:34
  The altitude TV does the Avalanche and the Nuggets, and
• 32:37
  they've been put it on on a local channel, the local NBC
• 32:40
  station out here. And it provides people like my,
• 32:42
  my parents an opportunity to watch the game.
• 32:44
  And it's not something they always had access to.
• 32:47
  So I think it's great. I think it's going to grow the
• 32:50
  sport of hockey in Nashville. It's already huge, but you know,
• 32:54
  just to get into more homes, get more people involved.
• 32:57
  I love this Max. Yeah.
• 32:59
  And we can, we can speak on behalf of other people who work
• 33:02
  at the Preds behind the scenes. They understand that many of you
• 33:06
  are not able to watch the games in the way that you would like,
• 33:09
  and this is a step towards that and they're working for you.
• 33:11
  So very appreciative of everybody involved.
• 33:14
  Yeah. It's great.
• 33:16
  It's great. So I thank you to everybody at
• 33:18
  News Channel 5, at FanDuel Sports and at the Preds for
• 33:23
  their cooperation on this. Three Rd. games will be on News
• 33:26
  Channel 5 in addition to their usual home on the recently
• 33:29
  rebranded FanDuel Sports Network.
• 33:31
  Saturday November 30th 7:00 at Minnesota Saturday December 14th
• 33:36
  8:00 at Colorado or as Kara would say Colorado and Friday
• 33:40
  night December 27th are very short stay in Saint Louis.
• 33:45
  Friday December 27th the first day after first game after
• 33:49
  Christmas at 7:00 PM. Some other things we want to
• 33:52
  tell you about here related to the holidays.
• 33:56
  If you have a Preds fan in your life that you still need a
• 33:59
  Christmas gift for The 2025 Nashville Predators Player
• 34:04
  calendar is available for order now.
• 34:06
  It features Preds players with animals from the Nashville Zoo,
• 34:12
  featuring an extremely rare sighting of the rhinoceros
• 34:20
  Rhinosaurus, a rhinoceros with UC sorrows.
• 34:25
  Did that? Did that pun come out?
• 34:27
  Did it land at all? I didn't get it the first time,
• 34:29
  but I got the sorrows the second time.
• 34:31
  Yeah, it it lands better in print or my jokes are just
• 34:34
  terrible, it might be part of the problem.
• 34:37
  But anyway, you can get the rare rhinoceros, Rhinosaurus, and
• 34:43
  neither of those really works. It's better when you type it
• 34:45
  out, but you can get that rare animal and other animals with
• 34:50
  other Preds players on the 2025 Preds Player Calendar.
• 34:54
  All benefits go to the Preds Foundation and Nashville Zoo, so
• 34:57
  it's for a good cause. Calendars are $20 each, or you
• 35:01
  can get 2 for $30. Go to
• 35:04
  nashvillepredators.com/calendar to make that happen.
• 35:08
  Nashville predators.com/calendar to place your donation and order
• 35:14
  for the Preds 2025 player calendar.
• 35:17
  Any animals you would like to see with specific predators?
• 35:21
  Kara, it may be too late, but any good combinations in your
• 35:25
  head? I'm a big fan of the flamingos
• 35:28
  at the Nashville Zoo, so I don't know, maybe who would I like to
• 35:35
  see standing on one leg? I maybe Mccarrick, you know,
• 35:38
  because he's so big. Let's see, let's check his
• 35:40
  balance. I think Colton Sissons might
• 35:42
  have the poise of a Flamingo. One other holiday related note,
• 35:46
  Kara, I want to pass on to everybody.
• 35:48
  The Preds will be hosting another Jewish Community night,
• 35:51
  which I was very happy to be a part of last year.
• 35:54
  This year's night will be on Tuesday, December 10th.
• 35:58
  Hanukkah is very late this year. It is a between Christmas and
• 36:02
  New Year's Hanukkah, so very, very late.
• 36:04
  But we'll get the menorahs out a couple early for the game.
• 36:07
  Tuesday, December 10th against the flames.
• 36:10
  Good Manora pun, right? There will be a lot of flames in
• 36:13
  the building that night as we light the candles.
• 36:16
  We will have more details for you guys on how you can sign up
• 36:18
  for that on next week's podcast. If you already have a ticket for
• 36:22
  the game, there will be a way that you can add the pregame
• 36:25
  Jewish Community Night to your ticket.
• 36:27
  If not, you can also get a ticket for that.
• 36:29
  But want to let everybody know Tuesday night, December 10th
• 36:32
  before the game will be the Predators Hanukkah Celebration
• 36:35
  for Jewish Community Night. And they're also maybe a special
• 36:38
  giveaway Hanukkah themed Preds item for those who come to the
• 36:43
  event. But we'll have more details next
• 36:45
  week. But wanted to make sure
• 36:46
  everybody knew the date for that one.
• 36:48
  And everyone is welcome. Every Preds fan is welcome
• 36:51
  regardless of your religious affiliation.
• 36:53
  Last year we had how GAIL and Chris Mason join the party.
• 36:57
  Will Cara Hammer be joining the Hanukkah party this year?
• 37:00
  I would love to, that sounds great.
• 37:02
  You're in Jared Stillman and I will be running the show, so
• 37:05
  we'll make it happen. That's Tuesday, December 10th.
• 37:07
  More details will come. If you're interested, tweet at
• 37:09
  me or DM me on Twitter at Maxers talks.
• 37:12
  I can send you a direct, direct link for that.
• 37:14
  Once the tickets for Jewish Community Night are available,
• 37:18
  we'll take a break. Come back.
• 37:19
  Got a couple more fun stories from the road trip to tell and
• 37:22
  our interview of the week here on the Predators official
• 37:24
  podcast on ESPN. One O 2 five and one O 6 three
• 37:27
  the game. Let me upgrade.
• 37:35
  I hear you'll be the block, but I'm the like to keep the streets
• 37:37
  on. No, that's true.
• 37:38
  The type that like to keep them on the least though.
• 37:43
  Welcome back to the Predators official podcast here on ESPN
• 37:46
  102.5 and 106.3. The game.
• 37:49
  My name is Max hers from Preds radio along with Kara Hammer
• 37:52
  from Preds TV. Now we're just going deep in our
• 37:55
  bag on the PO playlist here. Kara a little throwback Beyoncé.
• 38:00
  I don't think Brooks and Thomas are pulling that out.
• 38:03
  I don't think so either. Yeah, I love some BAE.
• 38:05
  Yeah, Queen Bee saw her at Nissan Stadium a couple summers
• 38:09
  ago before she went country. Paul McCann is a huge Beyoncé
• 38:15
  fan, so did you see him there? There were a lot of people
• 38:19
  there, but I'm sure he was there.
• 38:21
  Paul was sadly not doing PA for the concert.
• 38:24
  That would have been fun. I've heard that Coldplay is a
• 38:27
  hot is a hot summer item in Asheville this this season.
• 38:31
  Have you heard that, Max? I don't know, I I was hoping to
• 38:34
  get my way into Jelly Roll at Bridgestone Arena in a couple
• 38:36
  weeks, which I guess now is 4 days away because time is
• 38:40
  flying, but I'm, I'm not good at planning far in advance.
• 38:44
  I don't know, I mean, I'd go to Coldplay.
• 38:45
  That's a Brooks Bratton concert right there.
• 38:49
  I I would be excited to go see Jelly Roll.
• 38:51
  Yeah, I saw his night headlining at CMAS this summer, which was
• 38:56
  quite good, so a full show would be even better.
• 39:00
  Andy's teaming up with Post Malone this summer.
• 39:03
  All right, well then, I'm no longer interested.
• 39:05
  Time for our interview of the week from the road trip.
• 39:08
  We had a lot of interviews this road trip.
• 39:10
  Our interview of the week, as it sometimes does, comes at Hal
• 39:14
  Gill's expense from Philip Forsberg after the win in
• 39:17
  Vancouver on Sunday night. Pretty impressive.
• 39:20
  Yeah. I I got to ask you, I feel like
• 39:23
  the hockey gods haven't taken care of you guys.
• 39:25
  You think you haven't been getting the breaks.
• 39:27
  But tonight I feel like you really, you had to work for the
• 39:29
  breaks and you made them happen. Do.
• 39:31
  You take a deep breath now and feel a little like OK, we're.
• 39:35
  We're on to something now I. Mean, you know this league is
• 39:38
  you can't take any deep breath in this league, you know that
• 39:41
  you're huffing and puffing. Always I think, but.
• 39:44
  No, but I think it was, it was like I said, the effort was was
• 39:47
  great obviously and and I thought yeah, key.
• 39:50
  Key moments. We stepped up tonight and I
• 39:51
  thought that was very encouraging going forward.
• 39:53
  No deep breaths in this league, Philip Forsberg says.
• 39:57
  Unless you want to be huffing and puffing like Al GAIL out
• 40:00
  there. Forrest Gilsey.
• 40:04
  He's the butt of every joke and that's why we love him.
• 40:10
  Just unnecessary shots from Phil, but we love it for sure.
• 40:13
  One other fun story from the road trip we talked in the first
• 40:16
  segment. Zach LaRue scored his first NHL
• 40:18
  goal in that same game against Vancouver on Sunday night.
• 40:21
  That was a late game 9:00 Nashville time start.
• 40:24
  He scored his first goal in the first period and we talked after
• 40:29
  LaRue debuted on the podcast about his parents, Robert and
• 40:32
  Siobhan, who hopped around in Nashville for two or three weeks
• 40:35
  and actually stayed on the pull out couch in Larue's hotel room
• 40:39
  here in Nashville to stick around as long as they possibly
• 40:42
  could. They were not in Vancouver for
• 40:44
  his first goal. That would have been quite a
• 40:45
  trip from Quebec to British Columbia.
• 40:48
  But they texted him as soon as he scored.
• 40:50
  They knew he obviously wouldn't see it till after the game, but
• 40:53
  they said we're staying up to FaceTime.
• 40:56
  You FaceTime us when you can after the game.
• 40:59
  And they got to share a special family moment, the three of them
• 41:02
  on the phone after the goal. That's so cool.
• 41:06
  Oh my gosh, His family was great.
• 41:08
  I love that they were there for his NHL debut, but what a
• 41:12
  special moment to to FaceTime after the game.
• 41:14
  And they basically never left. And you talked about his
• 41:17
  grandparents who were in the house for his debut.
• 41:20
  One set of them was there. Was it his mom's grandparents or
• 41:24
  his dad's grandparents who were there, do you know or no?
• 41:26
  You know, I, I never got clarification on that.
• 41:29
  I was just told from Marc Borvietsky that the grandma who
• 41:33
  was not in attendance was was the was the grandma who who was
• 41:38
  like the real Spitfire of the family.
• 41:39
  Oh my God, that's a family full of them too.
• 41:42
  But we have a paternal grandfather who is an active
• 41:46
  tweeter. This is Raymond LaRue on Twitter
• 41:48
  who quote tweeted one of my tweets about the goal.
• 41:50
  And I just want everybody to feel good 'cause everybody has
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  their grandparents who who loved on them and embarrassed them and
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  all this stuff as grandparents do.
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  And it can still happen when you're a 21 year old NHL rookie
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  scoring your first goal. The tweet from Raymond LaRue.
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  So proud. You are spectacular.
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  Love you grandma and grandpa. And then five fluttering heart
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  emojis and five hockey stick emojis from Grandpa LaRue.
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  I love that. So that just hits you in the
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  fields. Even in the NHL, you can still
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  get embarrassed by your grandparents.
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  It's a great league, isn't it? And the Predators will be
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  looking to dig their way out of last in that league against the
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  league leading Winnipeg Jets on Saturday night in Smashville.
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  Get there early. 6 O clock game time early start.
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  Shay Weber and David Poyle Hockey Hall of Fame ceremonial
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  puck drop. Make sure you are in your seats
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  at six. We'll be back with a podcast
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  during Thanksgiving week. The Preds play Monday night in
• 42:50
  New Jersey in Mark Del Gaizo's first NHL game in his home
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  state, then home games Wednesday night the night before.
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  Thanks. Living against the Flyers and
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  Black Friday becomes gold Friday.
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  Friday afternoon against the Lightning.
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  She's Cara Hammer from Fred's TV.
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  I'm Max Hurst from Fred's radio. Thanks for listening to the
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  Predators official podcast. Wait.
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  What Steve?