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OVERTIME: Keep or trade the draft pick? And Julius Miettinen from the WHL Championship Series · Seattle Kraken Audio Network

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  Speaker 3: A lot to get to draft lottery reaction, Julius meet
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  Speaker 3: and then a conversation with them. Is the Everest Silver
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  Speaker 3: WHL Championship.
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  Speaker 2: Series I'll be there reaction.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so, you haven't.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be one little game.
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  Speaker 3: the Coachella Valley Firebirds trying to hold off, stay off,
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  Speaker 3: and survive elimination once again, this time tonight at the
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  Speaker 3: hands of the Ontario Rain. We'll get to all of
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  Speaker 3: that shortly here Julius Miette in our conversation with him, though,
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  Speaker 3: right around the corner getting into this here. First off,
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  Speaker 3: its welcome back. Out's the off season.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if we're gonna post the video
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  Speaker 2: of this, but I am in full off season mode.
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  Speaker 3: Oh we see you now you play that beg quarter
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  Speaker 2: I've literally upstairs to it on the couch and are
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  Speaker 2: paying you?
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  Speaker 3: Are they paying you now for this?
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, buddy, listen, I paid I still listen, man.
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  Speaker 2: I paid off my student loans four years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Five years now. That's a flag gun, That's all.
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  Speaker 3: all right, A lot to get to you here first,
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  Speaker 3: something been jump in here from my reaction from the
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  Speaker 3: draft lottery. And for the second time in the last
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  Speaker 3: ten years, the Leafs missed the playoffs. For the second
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  Speaker 3: time in the last ten years, they won the NHL
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  Speaker 3: Draft lottery. I'm not gonna go there. You want to
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  Speaker 3: talk on how lottery favoritism and all that jazz. We
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  Speaker 3: have other guys here on our airwaves who have got
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  Speaker 3: you covered, trust me fully on that topic. I do
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  Speaker 3: want to react here with this. Did the krack and
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  Speaker 3: have a chance at first overall? Sure? Did they reap
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  Speaker 3: what they sewed from a roller coaster season? Absolutely? They
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  Speaker 3: had the six best odds in this draft. The percentages
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  Speaker 3: weren't as high as others, and we tend to see
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  Speaker 3: teams who really stink this up rise to the very
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  Speaker 3: top for a draft order. So what's considered as a
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  Speaker 3: crown jewel draft with really three NHL ready forwards. He
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  Speaker 3: also got a heavy dose of defense that you can
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  Speaker 3: easily pick from. For the forward, you have Gavin McKinnon,
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  Speaker 3: he's NHL ready. Ivar Stenberg many accounts saying he's NHL ready,
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  Speaker 3: Caleb Malhotra by many accounts, NHL ready the defenseman or
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  Speaker 3: no slats here in this draft as well, but they
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  Speaker 3: tend to be two to three years away. Many projections
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  Speaker 3: also have them maybe two to three years away. The
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  Speaker 3: Kraken can add value to their talent pool with a
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  Speaker 3: very wise pick in this case as seventh overall, but
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  Speaker 3: another wise choice looking at trading the pick. GM Jason
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  Speaker 3: Botterrel said last month, the aggressive approach is what they
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  Speaker 3: want to do with overturning this roster. It's pretty clear
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  Speaker 3: cut this will not be a rebuild, so getting the
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  Speaker 3: guy two to three years away will certainly help you,
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  Speaker 3: but that is two to three years away. The mission
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  Speaker 3: is to win now, and we can talk about another
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  Speaker 3: time as far as what merite this has with trying
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  Speaker 3: to overturn a roster once again rebuild it for the
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  Speaker 3: long term. All of that, the focus here is on
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  Speaker 3: the draft and if you can't get a big name
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  Speaker 3: via trade by June, rather than running it back, what
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  Speaker 3: if you trade up and get one of those big
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  Speaker 3: three forwards that we mentioned. I doubt Toronto wants to
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  Speaker 3: trade out from Gavin McKenna. I doubt San Jose wants
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  Speaker 3: to trade in their division with the Kraken elsewhere Canucks Blackhawks,
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  Speaker 3: who knows the Getting a guy who's NHL ready, potentially
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  Speaker 3: with a bright future is another step in turn of
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  Speaker 3: the page to the kind of long term growth that's
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  Speaker 3: healthy for this roster long term, at least for me.
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  Speaker 3: That's something to think about. Fits your opening reaction here
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  Speaker 3: from the draft lottery, Oh thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think number one I was, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: take my cracking hat off. Now, take my cracking hat
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  Speaker 2: off real fast.
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  Speaker 3: The beg hats there somewhere you can pop that too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my fan hat, cracking hats off. Okay, I was angry.
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  Speaker 2: I was, I was throwing stuff. I was so fired
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  Speaker 2: up when Toronto won. That's won the lottery. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not gonna I'm not gonna tell you what my conspiracy
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  Speaker 2: theory was, but I had my own conspiracy theory. I think,
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  Speaker 2: like like the rest of the hockey fans out there, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it was like, are you kidding me? Come on, Like,
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  Speaker 2: you get the lottery twice in ten years. Austin Matthews
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  Speaker 2: is one. Now presumably Gavin McKinnon's gonna be the other.
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  Speaker 2: I get it now, Like my cracking hat's back. On
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  Speaker 2: the results of this draft lottery. When you really break
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  Speaker 2: it down and when you really look at the purpose
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  Speaker 2: of a draft lottery, this year, the lottery worked as
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  Speaker 2: it was contended, as it was intended to work. All Right, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I understand that folks don't like the fact that Toronto
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  Speaker 2: got the first overall pick. San Jose, Vancouver, Chicago, New York, Calgary, Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: All those teams were in your bottom six to eight
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  Speaker 2: teams in the NHL. The draft lottery is just that,
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  Speaker 2: it's a lottery. It gives you an opportunity, albeit sometimes
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  Speaker 2: heavily weighted if you're Vancouver and not if you're Washington. Right,
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  Speaker 2: it gives you an opportunity at that number one pick.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand how folks in Vancouver, folks in Detroit
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  Speaker 2: who have never moved up Calgary, they've never been able
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  Speaker 2: to move up. If you wanted to go based off record,
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  Speaker 2: then just do what the NFL does and give you
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  Speaker 2: the number one over all pick if you're the worst
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  Speaker 2: record in the league. So the lottery, while unfortunately for
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  Speaker 2: a lot of folks, the team that won the lottery
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  Speaker 2: isn't the most popular team, the lottery worked as it
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  Speaker 2: was intended to work. I mean, he gave the bottom
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  Speaker 2: tier teams and opportunity to get the number one overall pick. Now,
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  Speaker 2: say what you want about conspiracies and whatever. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna sit here and say that I believe that the
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  Speaker 2: draft lottery is fixed when they want to try to
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  Speaker 2: fix it and whatever. I will never ever go on
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  Speaker 2: record and say something like that. However, I do think
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  Speaker 2: that you're right, Mike. The Kraken have a good opportunity
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  Speaker 2: here to do a lot with this pick. Now, this
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  Speaker 2: is where the pick for me becomes a little bit complicated.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of us know, a lot of fans know,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't the NFL, this isn't the NBA. All Right,
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  Speaker 2: top ten draft pick in the NFL is gonna make
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  Speaker 2: twenty five to thirty million dollars. They're gonna come in immediately,
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  Speaker 2: and they're gonna they're gonna have an impact. Right, most
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  Speaker 2: years in the NHL, outside of your top two, outside
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  Speaker 2: of your top three, you're going back to the minors.
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  Speaker 2: You need more seasoning, you're going back to junior hockey,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the case may be. Now, you can put a
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  Speaker 2: nineteen year old in the American League, so that spot
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  Speaker 2: will probably be reserved for Jcobrien next season. So for
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  Speaker 2: the Kraken, yeah, there's gonna be some some good talent
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  Speaker 2: available at number seven. And historically when you look at
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  Speaker 2: some of the best number seven overall picks, Quinn Hughes
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  Speaker 2: is on that list, Nazim Kadriy, William Ecklund, former t Bird,
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  Speaker 2: Kevin Korchinski, number of guys are on that list. But
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  Speaker 2: I think for me, I'm with you, partner, I don't
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  Speaker 2: have a problem with trading the pick because I do
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  Speaker 2: think that for Seattle there is a lot of talent
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  Speaker 2: in the organization already. You want to make a sizable move.
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  Speaker 2: Todd Mawiki said, a prolific offseason. You got two second
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  Speaker 2: you have two first round picks. You have yours at seven,
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  Speaker 2: and you have Tampa's at whatever they're gonna be, probably
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  Speaker 2: twenty third, twenty fourth. I'm not gonna sit here and
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  Speaker 2: say that the same guy you're gonna get at seven
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be the same caliber of guy you'll get
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  Speaker 2: at twenty third. But for my money, if you're outside
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  Speaker 2: the top four, I don't I personally I don't need it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need it. I would rather trade that pick
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  Speaker 2: for someone or some other asset that can help you
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  Speaker 2: today and help you immediately. And I think the Krack
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  Speaker 2: and have a lot of strong pieces in their organization
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  Speaker 2: right now. I know on the blue lines a little
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  Speaker 2: bit lean. But if you can get that seventh overall
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  Speaker 2: pick and bring back an NHL player that can help
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  Speaker 2: you starting in October, I would venture down that route.
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  Speaker 2: That's not to say that that Jason and the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the Crack in front office aren't going to explore
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  Speaker 2: that opportunity and those avenues as well. But this is
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  Speaker 2: one of those drafts you've got to first trade your seventh,
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  Speaker 2: keep your twenty third, probably going to be on the
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  Speaker 2: same timeline in terms of being here in the next
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  Speaker 2: two to three years anyway. Again, I know the talent
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  Speaker 2: is going to be different, but it's not like you
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  Speaker 2: trade the number two overall pick. You traded seven. And
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  Speaker 2: from a lot of folks, I've read a lot and
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  Speaker 2: listened and watched a lot of the draft experts. Once
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  Speaker 2: you get out of that top four, top five, you're
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  Speaker 2: looking at guys who are still going to be a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years away, two to three years away.
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  Speaker 3: And when you get to this what does aggressive mean?
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  Speaker 3: It means trying to go for something drastically different. You
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  Speaker 3: can go in different directions, but it means either trading
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  Speaker 3: for somebody who's going to help you now on this
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  Speaker 3: roster for this next season, or trading up to find
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  Speaker 3: somebody who's going to be NHL ready off the bat
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  Speaker 3: and help you from day one and grow into potentially
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  Speaker 3: a star role. Now what will that cost. It's gonna
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  Speaker 3: cost a seventh overall pick to get that done. The
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  Speaker 3: Crack can also have a deep stable of draft picks
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  Speaker 3: that they can easily deal from coming up here. They
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  Speaker 3: have two first rounders in this draft, they have a
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  Speaker 3: second rounder in this year's draft. They have two first
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  Speaker 3: rounders in twenty twenty seven. They have two second rounders
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  Speaker 3: as well in twenty twenty seven. So when you talk
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  Speaker 3: about so many pieces that you can play with, there
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  Speaker 3: is potentially an attractive package to bring somebody in. And
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  Speaker 3: if you can bring somebody in already that's a season
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  Speaker 3: veteran making a lot of money, Well, guess what cat
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  Speaker 3: just went up and you have twenty eight million dollars
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  Speaker 3: here to deal with. Of course, assuming that you take
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  Speaker 3: care of a guy named Bobby McMahon, he'll get the bag,
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  Speaker 3: but still plenty of money coming out the books here
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  Speaker 3: to get this done. Everett.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think too that that also goes into
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  Speaker 2: this this prolific, major offseason that we're talking about. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I've said this for a long time. You need to
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  Speaker 2: be prepared, and I think I I we have no
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  Speaker 2: choice but to believe management and ownership what they say.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be ready to make that potentially unpopular decision.
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  Speaker 2: Right there are a number of players on the current
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  Speaker 2: roster right now who other teams have expressed interest in
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  Speaker 2: and who have got some talks around during the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 2: You need to be willing potentially to let some of
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  Speaker 2: those players go. You look at all the prospects, a
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  Speaker 2: ton of prospects, a ton of kids, a ton of
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  Speaker 2: guys that people are high on in your minor league system,
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  Speaker 2: in your junior prospect pool stable like you mentioned about, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: if somebody really likes prospect X and we're gonna give
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  Speaker 2: you NHL player why back, you need to be ready
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  Speaker 2: to make that move. There's a number, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of guys on the crack and current roster
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  Speaker 2: right now that you need to potentially be willing to
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  Speaker 2: listen on conversations with and this is where I think
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the fans are. You know, this is
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  Speaker 2: the best. One of my favorite parts about this job
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  Speaker 2: is working for Seattle and working for a team with
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  Speaker 2: a brand new fan base, and you're still learning some
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  Speaker 2: of the nuances and some of the you know, the
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  Speaker 2: underlying things about this sport. You know, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: folks bought their very first jersey, the very first hockey
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  Speaker 2: jersey was a crack in jersey. Some of their favorite players.
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  Speaker 2: You know that the first hockey player I ever rooted
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  Speaker 2: for is on this team. And you're getting to a
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  Speaker 2: point now where a lot of those guys are either
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  Speaker 2: coming up on a contract or you're gonna maybe need
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  Speaker 2: to turn the page on that first generation of Seattle
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  Speaker 2: Kraken players and start moving forward. So that's what I
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  Speaker 2: mean by hard decisions. There's gonna be some fan favorites
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  Speaker 2: whose name come up. There's gonna be some guys that
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  Speaker 2: you know are pretty good. There's gonna be some prospects
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  Speaker 2: that we all like, and all of that. Nothing can
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  Speaker 2: be off the table. I think for me, I probably
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  Speaker 2: have two or three what I would call untouchables, But
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  Speaker 2: other than that, I mean, if I'm Jason Boschril, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm the rest of this management group, I need to
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  Speaker 2: listen to everything. Everything's out there. I can always say no,
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  Speaker 2: I can always say no, but I need to be
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  Speaker 2: ready and prepared to listen to every offer and make
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  Speaker 2: potentially an unpopular choice that will you know better this
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  Speaker 2: hockey Club for the future.
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  Speaker 3: UFA's coming up here for this summer, Jayden Schwartz, Ellie Tulvenan,
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  Speaker 3: of course, Bobby McMahon. That's some big fish that we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about. Jamie Alexiak as well on the back end,
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  Speaker 3: goaltender Matt Murray all a part of it. And then
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  Speaker 3: the contract years coming up, Jared McCann as well, along
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  Speaker 3: with Vince Dunn, Josh Mahura and Cale Flurry among those,
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  Speaker 3: and goaltender Philip Grubauer all on top of that. And
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  Speaker 3: one more thing too.
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  Speaker 2: You talk about the UFAs coming up, Bobby McMahon for
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  Speaker 2: one of them for Seattle. This year's UFA class is
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  Speaker 2: not a strong class. I think you're looking at Bobby
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  Speaker 2: hey Ben, You're looking at Bobby McMahon here in Seattle.
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  Speaker 2: You're looking at Alex Tuck in Buffalo. That's all I'm
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  Speaker 2: willing to say, right, those are going to be your
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  Speaker 2: big fish on the free agency market. Now, there are
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  Speaker 2: guys out there. Jason Robertson in Dallas, He's gonna won
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  Speaker 2: a pretty big ticket, you know. I heard someone even
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  Speaker 2: say that Nikita Kucherov, if they can't get a deal
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  Speaker 2: done with Cooch in Tampa, he potentially I don't think
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  Speaker 2: Cooch is going anywhere, but right.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely solves your problem.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, solve your problem. I don't think he's going anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: I'll bet money on that. I'm not allowed to bet.
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  Speaker 2: I work for an angel, but if I was, I
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  Speaker 2: bet money on that. So there are pieces out there,
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  Speaker 2: and that's and that's why I think you need to
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  Speaker 2: start preparing for those trades to come down. You need
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  Speaker 2: to start preparing for, Hey, this guy will not be
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  Speaker 2: here next year. This guy's got a year or two
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  Speaker 2: left on his contracts, he will not be here next
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  Speaker 2: next year. There are a couple of guys that fit
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  Speaker 2: that exact same qualification on this crack and roster that
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  Speaker 2: you need to be ready to part with because the
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  Speaker 2: UFA market, if you're looking for sizeable change, seismic change
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  Speaker 2: on this roster, it's not coming from the open market.
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  Speaker 3: This is all part of the prolific offseason that we
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  Speaker 3: heard about from this last month, and we're talking about that.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to get to here as we get deeper
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  Speaker 3: into this offseason. Change has already happened. The coaching staff
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  Speaker 3: has seen the departures of Jessica Campbell also Adam Perner
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  Speaker 3: on the video coach. So we'll get to some more
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  Speaker 3: of this reaction here as we get more changes potentially
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  Speaker 3: a foot as they come in the oncoming weeks here,
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  Speaker 3: but certainly matters are already underway all right. The WHL
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  Speaker 3: Championship Series opening up in Everett, not Everett, Fitzhu's house
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  Speaker 3: Angel the Winds Arena, the home of the Everetts Silver
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  Speaker 3: Tips coming up for Game one on Friday night, Silver
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  Speaker 3: Tips and Prince Albert Raiders, and the best of seven
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  Speaker 3: matcha basically one two decide the WHL champion and two
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  Speaker 3: the WHL bid for the Memorial Cup that going down
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  Speaker 3: in Kelowna. The Silver Tips seeking their first title in
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  Speaker 3: franchise history, the Prince Albert Raiders seeking their first title
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  Speaker 3: since twenty nineteen when they beat the Vancouver Giants. And
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  Speaker 3: a big piece of this is silvertip center Julius Meetnam,
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  Speaker 3: also a crack and draft pick second rounder back in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. My goodness, how much he has grown,
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  Speaker 3: My goodness, how much he has filled out, and now
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  Speaker 3: he has taken on the role not just a score
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  Speaker 3: and a go to guy on their top line, but
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  Speaker 3: also a face off behemoth. Here's our conversation back from
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  Speaker 3: Angel with the Winds Arena Julius Maetan, and thank you
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  Speaker 3: very much here for doing this first off. Is it
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  Speaker 3: hit you yet that this could be your last month
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  Speaker 3: here in this building as a player?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: Not, Actually, that's that's kind of crazy to think about that.
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  Speaker 4: I've been here for three years and this could be
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  Speaker 4: last month or probably will be.
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  Speaker 3: I remember back in twenty eighteen when they were last
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: in this round facing the Swift Current Broncos, and just
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: how loud and how electrifying the buildings sounded for that
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: playoff series. What's the lettus that you've heard this building
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: so far in this postseason run.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: I think last series against Penticton was a game two
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: over time that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: The place was going. It was loud, it was really loud.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: You spent three years wearing green as far as a
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: jersey in this town. You only needed one WHL season
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: before proving that the NHL draft was ready for you.
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: What part of your game has taken the biggest step
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: over the course of the last three years.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: I would say skating. Skating was a big thing. It's
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: still a big thing for me. I'm a big guy.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: I have to get moving. But coming here from a
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: big guys, you have a lot more room. You got
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: a lot more time to gather speed. But here you
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: just gotta be back and forth, back and forth. Conditioning,
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: it's it's still the thing. But that's that's being the
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: two biggest things.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: I'll get into the conditioning part because it's very very
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: interesting as far as how players go about it here
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: at this stage. And you got a long way to go,
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: of course, going through the minor leagues before the NHL
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: ranks also come calling your name here. But two years
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: have pass since the Kraken took you back in the
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: second round. Having an NHL team just thirty minutes away.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: How much has that meant to you and for your development?
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's it's just been awesome. I mean,
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: I get to go to the games whenever I want.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: It's just a forty five minute drive and they're here
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: almost every week to see me. If I have something
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: to ass they're here, we can talk, and then they
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: just give me everything that I need.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: What's the last great Kraken game that you saw live?
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: I can tell you've seen plenty here because you're having
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: to go deep into the memory. Basic yea, I remember
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: my first ever. That was a good one.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: I went to overtime against Calgary and they won that game.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: But I wasn't even drafted yet, so that was that
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: was kind of cool, going into a game like looking
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: at it like wow, oh what a life decision. Then
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: getting drafted.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: I remember even you know, back ten years ago when
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: the NHL was a pipe dream for this kind of town.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Now you've got an NHL team in your backyard. Just
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: looking at this year from the WHL scope of things,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: when it comes to trying to, you know, lure players
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: here and they're thinking about WHL that route versus a
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: different route, how much a bit of a difference does
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: it make having an NHL team in your own back.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Gad, it's huge for sure. I mean, coming to Everett,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: there is an NHL team forty minutes away. You know
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: that you get to go to a game. There's gonna
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: be Seattle scouts here every night to see play. Yeah,
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: it's just huge for junior hockey players and Norman. There
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: is a team close.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: Caitlin Parker a part of this, Corey Murphy a big
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: part of this, Franz Nielsen as well. How much have
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: they meant for you and your growth? Oh so much,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: so much.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: I talk with KP probably every week, Murph we have
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: when we talk, we have long conversations. And then France
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: we have a zoom meeting every month, may be everyone
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: once in two weeks, and uh yeah, I just get
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: so much out of them, Like they just they know
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: all what hockey like. They're the guys you want on
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: your side.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Face offs are very much a big thing as far
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: as the position that you play at center. We've heard
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: from you know, Franz, We've heard from Caitlin Parker and
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: more about how much it matters and what you've got
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: to work on here at this level. So how much
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: have you learned about the kind of technique that you
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: need to succeed now versus what you will have to
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: learn once you turn pro.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, here I would say I'm like probably the
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: biggest guy on the draws, I can outpower the guys,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: but going to the next level, I'll be an average
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: sized guy. Like, of course, I'll still have my size,
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: but there's gonna be big guys to go against. So
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: you just got to find ways to win the draws.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: A lot of small details. It's it's just chess game.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: You're playing chess against other guy. You got to see
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: what he's gonna do and try to out smart him.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Jonathan Daves, Sydney Crosby, Nicohescher are one of the names
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: who have excelled at that kind of chess. Gained this
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: faced off guys in the NHL. Who have you looked
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: up to for your position and for that area of
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: your game as well?
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Tays he has been always my favorite bread player. I
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: grew out watching Chicago and of course he was there
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: with Kaner, so yeah, he's always been my favorite. I mean,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: he's so good at druss.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: He's just the best, almost, he could say. Julius Miettan
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: and joining us here. As we get close to the
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: WHL Championship Series, the Everest Silver Tips taken on the
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Prince Albert Raiders, and you hear a lot about how
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: you train, how you eat, how you sleep, and it
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: really gets drilled into guys here at this level. First off,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: what's your ideal game day routine for what you eat? Breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: all that in between.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I usually wake up around eight thirty five. We
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: leave at nine, so have a breakfast. Usually try to
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: get a lot of food in me before before morning skate.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: After morning skate, I usually have a snack like a
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: breeder or something. I drink, I go home, I have
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: a lunch and not for one to two hours. See
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: how much I need to snap that day. Wake up
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: a big meal, a lot of food, a lot of carbs,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: and then during the game just snack, snack whatever's available,
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: honey like whatever to get a lot of sugars, and
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: then after the game just whatever you can get.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: So here's a million dollar question. If you can just
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: guess how many calories do you think that you consume
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: per day when it comes to a game day. Oh yeah,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: that's a lot, a lots of very good start.
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: I would go like six to seven thousand.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: So if calories don't count for one day, what are
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: you eating? What's your cheat meal? Anything?
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: That's a hard one that's a hard one. I like sushi,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: but that's I wouldn't say that's a cheat meal though.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: McDonald's always good. McDonald donald always good, going for the
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: big nac Yeah, but back home it's better though, really Yeah,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: So what difference.
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: Does it make back home versus the US version of McDonald's.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: I feel the food is more fresh back really, like
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: it comes in the same day and then they like
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: actually make it.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: I feel like here it's all how much do you
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: miss that part of where you grow up, where a
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: lot of things are basically consumed fresh and you're starting
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: over and over day after day versus you know around here.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: You know, you can obviously pack it in as far
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: as the calories, but things are often filled the preservatives
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: and a lot of artificial things that go into food
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, of course it's a lot harder to
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: get them from here. But I try to eat healthy.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: I try to find the best things for me that
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: can make me a pro player. And that's a big
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: thing for my billets. They do an awesome job with that.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: When it comes to sleep, you know, you have the
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: bus routine and often for tot you know, for guys,
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: it's hard to try to find a way to, you know,
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: lay down, get what feels like a good night's sleep,
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: especially when you're having to travel about you know, six
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: seven hours. The average bus ride from Kelowna or camb
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Bloops and back is not easy, and then obviously gets longer.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: I should go to the Eastern conference here. But I
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: mean this is the part where I'm jealous. You guys
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: have a serious upgrade now in your bus accommodation, so
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: you know, take us back through that there's less lying
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: down I would imagine here and all, you know the
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: amenities as well, but what kind of bus do you
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: have and how does that help you recover as well?
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, the boss is awesome. We have really good
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: seats in the bus. I don't know about the rookie
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: said they still might need to double up. There's not
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: that much phase up front. But I got a good sleep, Useler.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: In the bus, I just try to close my eyes
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: and put my phone away. It might take an hour
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: or two, but I usually get there.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: So what's the bus ride like going all the way
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: out to Brandon and back. Well, if I love that,
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: by the way, the.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Story here, yeah, Well, if it's a twenty hour bus drive.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: There's a lot included in that. So usually you just
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: start the first couple hours of the guys just talking, talking, talking.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Then you go on your phone and at some point
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: you're like wow, like we're eight hours, and then we
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: got twelve hours ago, and then you just go on
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: the floor and just shy to sleep. You might get
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: three hours and then you still have seven hours left, but.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: So then you're not easily lying back in captain chairs.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: You were still trying to find a way to lay down,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: put a mattress on the floor, and find some way
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: to knock yourself out for about yeah, seven eight nine hours.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: When it comes to what with you being at home,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: how much sleep do you need per night to feel
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: like you're at your best.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: I usually go for nine twenty nine and a half,
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: but at minimum I always get an eight hour sleeping.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: That's that's what I need.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Name one piece of gear for training or recovery that
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: you don't own yet but you would like to own.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Norm attacks really air pressure. I don't own them. We
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: haven't just worked then, so.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: I don't know what the real technique in them is,
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: but like they pump pressure in your legs and then
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: the blood comes solid or something. I'm not flow and
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: blood pressure something like that, and it helps a lot.
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: Give me something here. As far as your guys on
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: the ice, on Land and DuPont, how much since he
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: meant to this team, and who does he remind you
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: of in the NHL?
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Well, at start, I think he's the best team man
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: in the league. He's he's the best, like doing this
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: at age of sixteen, Like I don't know who does this.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: He's an awesome guy. He's a huge part of our team.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: And as NHL guy, I would say macarr, but there's
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: still some like something about him that I think makes
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: him even better.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: Whatd shock you to see him not go first overall
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: next year?
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: The Silver Tips team is loaded. You land a DuPont,
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: there's Carter Bear, there's Terrence Smith and the guy who
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: might get drafted soon and Matias van Hannen as well.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: What's the most important thing that your coach, Steve Hamilton
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: has taught you as far as maneuvering through a long season,
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: but packing up the amount of wins that you have
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: packed and piled up here.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: I mean he always tells that we're skilled, but the
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: way we win games is how we work, how we
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: play together. We just work the guys on nice and
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: then the skill comes up when we need it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: When's the last time he was seeing Steve disappointed? Was
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: with you with somebody else on the bench? Like, what
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: does it take to to really make him disappointed on
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: the bench?
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know if I have seem like that on
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: the bench sometimes?
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: What about practice?
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Also practice there might be here and there he might
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: get a little angry, but like usually on the ice,
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: he's he's really calm or on the bench, but during
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: their emissions he might get a little feasty sometimes, but
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: I think he he keeps like sole calm.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: It's just calm.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: So being three rounds down and now one round to go?
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: What would a championship mean to you? This dressing room
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: and this town?
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: For me, it's a dream. I've been here for three years.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: I wanted to play in the finals for every game
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: I've been here. For the team, it's just how close
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: we have been. It would be cherry on the cake.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: I just to finish it with the championship, going to
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: Memorial a Cup and for the talent of Everett, I
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: think it means it means a lot they haven't had
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: a cop yet, and I hope we can bring.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: It here that dressing room in your corner. You've got
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: this town in your corner. You've got the Seattle Crack
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: and in their fan base also in your corner as well,
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: and they can't wait here for what's next. Julius, good luck, you,
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: appreciate you, thank you, My goodness. What a conversation with
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Julius Miett. And in twenty years of age and a
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: strong grasp as well of the English language. It's awfully
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: hard to come over from overseas and you know, learn
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: a new culture, learn a new language. But there's just
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: a high degree of confidence that he carries with his
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: body language, not just which dictates the kind of person
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: he is, but certainly can make a big difference for
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: the kind of player that he can turn into. Assertiveness
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I think is a good word to describe his game.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: And based on his size already six foot, he said
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: he's one of the bigger boys now in this league,
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: but he's going to be having to play a big
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: boy type of game against big boy type of players
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: in the pro ranks, so already one being aware of
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: that very critical as ever, I fits he's back now
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: for the conversation. But as well as faceoffs, it's always
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: been a big issue here for this team. You mention
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Jonathan Taves, a guy that he loved to watch growing
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: up in one of the biggest face off players of
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: this generation. So he's gonna be a guy to watch,
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Dax and Rudolph. I think it could be taken high,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: maybe even fall to seven for the krakend On Prince
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Albert on their blue line. He's a guy to watch
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: here Landon DuPont by many accounts, cansensus first overall pick
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: coming in twenty twenty seven. But for local folks, Julius
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Miettinen is the main course I think of this championship round.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: He's gonna be fun to watch. But additionally, the Tips
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: have never won a championship and they're now they're four
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: more wins away from doing something they haven't done before,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: which would just send a large degree of shock waves
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: all across the pace NW hockey landscape.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be great, man. I think anytime that you
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: can bring championships to your area, obviously it is. It
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: is great for that team's fan base. It's great for
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: those players of course, because you want your guys to
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: have success. It doesn't I don't care what level. I
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: don't care if you win the U seven Pee wee
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: tournament or you win the Stanley Cup. Right, there's something
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: about winning. You know how to win, you know how
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: to lose, and having those experiences are great and I
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: think you know you're right. Let's staying to a guy
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: that's got the grasp of the game that he does.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: He's he's very self aware and a lot of players
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: in this cracking organization were either former captains other places,
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: they were leaders other places. They understand their role, they
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: know how and what they need to do to succeed
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: at this level. So it was very refreshing to hear
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: that conversation from him. But you know, the tips winning
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: this thing, I mean, that would just be huge. That
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: would send I mean the t Burds a couple of
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: years ago, right, they won the dub and then they
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: went to the Memorial Cup as well.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Member, Now you can have.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Both teams on either side of the Sound, either end
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: of the Sound, winning Western League championships in a what
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: three four year spam And now with the NHL team here,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: you just announced a brand new rinkover in Kirkland the
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: Kraken did. That's coming in a couple of years as
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: youth hockey and rec league hockey and curling and figure
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: skating and all these ice sports that weren't here in
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: the numbers that they are now six seven years ago.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: So it's only gonna do wonders for this area, for
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: this community to see another team like the Tips that
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: grassroot youth level. Right, we talked so much about wanting
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: to grow hockey at the youth level. And yes, it's
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: great to see the Matt Eveneers of the worlds. Great
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: to see those guys succeed in having success here in
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Seattle for the Kracking. But when you can go to
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: a Tips or a TA Birds game and you can
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: see that sixteen year old land in DuPont, that's seventeen,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: that twenty year old right being homegrown right here in
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: the P ANDW and ultimately succeed and achieve their NHL dream.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: I'm still counting down the days of the first junior
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Kraken prospect that signs and goes plays for the Tips
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: or the t Birds, goes plays college hockey at UAF
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: and then goes to the NHL. Right, you have your
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: first ever P and W trained and educated, born bred prospect.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: I'm waiting for that moment to come. But looking forward,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: we'll be there that we'll be there for game one
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: for the Tips and then the PA Raiders, so I'm
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: excited for that game.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Similar Elesean Jose's already got their kind of guy from
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: a Graspers standpoint in Macklin celebrating the crack and can
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: only hope one of theirs is coming years out there.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Wes is doing skating right now on on Tuesdays, and
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: there's like a learned to Play class right at the
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: same time, so we'll watch the last fifteen minutes have
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: learned to play when he's done. I'm telling you right
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: now there is a Maclin Celebrini up in Casey. I
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: promise you right now, there is a Maclin Celebrini in
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: the making right here in Seattle. From what I've seen
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: from some of these kids.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Game one again tomorrow night at Angel of the Winds
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Arena seven o'clock. Game two is Saturday. Sunday is a
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: travel day, and then Game three, four and then if
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: necessary five and Prince Albert before Game six and seven
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: if necessary, back and Everett series due to end on
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: May eighteenth.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: I gotta ask you, so you you were a former Tip,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: you rode those buses? Right?
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Brother? First of all, how far is PA from Everett?
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: I don't know how far it is? And like, what
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: do you what do you mean?
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: We're gonna play Friday Saturday, I'm gonna drive fifteen hours
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: on Sunday and then I'm gonna go play Monday.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: So so here's something we we we also should should
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: disclose here on this podcast we talk with Julius meet
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: about this. I mean, the the Tips have an unbelievable bus.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: By the way, It's like basically first class seats front
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: to back. I'm supremely jealous. Never had that in my career.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: You would have been the talk of the league. If
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: you had this back whl ehl, you would have been
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: through these ranks, et cetera.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: We had those, We had those those artists sleeping sleeper buses.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: We had like the twenty bunk sleepers we even love
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: that we didn't have when I was traveling in Sincy,
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: we had those long music tour buses.
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  Speaker 3: So I want to say, if you're going from first
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: off from Everett to Prince Albert, drive time I'm looking
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: this up right now as we record this dot dot
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: dot dot d. It's about roughly a twenty one hour drive.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Absolutely not.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Here. So that's where this conversation turns. You're not allowed
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: to fly in WHL until you get to the WHL
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Championship Series. Okay, we actually had a chartered plane through
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: the league back in twenty eighteen. This is what made
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: it fun because they had a chartered plane. Swift Current
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: had home ie advantage, so they just flew the Tips
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: out just by themselves, all of us out to Swift
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Current for game one and two, then brought both teams
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: on the same plane back for three, four and five.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: In Evert Now there's a bit of a buffer zone,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: if you will. So front of the plane is all
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: Silvertips players, coaches, staff and the like, a buffer zone
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: of WHL staff, and then at the very back. I
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: use this as an example, the Swift Current Broncos were
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: in the very back. Last I heard. It's unsure if
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: the Silver Tips will use a charter or if they're
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: going to fly commercial. From what I gathered, Prince Albert's
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: got something up on social media. They've already flown into
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: town here. I believe they flew commercial and they had
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: a layover in Calgary. So bottom line, as you're allowed
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: to fly, I'm glad that. I'm glad.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Of course common sense takes takes over here in this
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: case because you only have one day in between games
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: two and three.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: It's not even common sense. It's safety.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: It's players safety.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I'm not gonna sit here and say
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: that you know we're slumming it, especially up here at
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: the NHL. We are there is the definition of slumming it.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: I will never complain of travel in the NHL for
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: US lot.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Our idea of slumming it is the fact that the
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: airports in Denver and Edmonton are thirty five minutes away
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: from the hotel. That's slumming it, all right, So you'll
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: never hear me complain.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: But you want to make it to the big league,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: something to look.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Exactly right for exactly but no, I mean player safety.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: You can't be busting twenty one hours a day and
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: then I mean you're gonna stop and practice somewhere, you
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, Like and bus the product isn't
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: as good. So I'm hoping they fly, but I'll never forget.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: A couple of years ago, I went out CV to
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Coachella Valley with their team on their finals run when
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: they lost to Hershey, and it was me, it was
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Marcus Allen, it was Austin from our production team. So
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: we went down to Coachella. We flew with the team
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: out to Hershey. Now, had the Firebirds won those games
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: in Hershey, same thing would have happened. They would have
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: put everybody on the Alaska Airlines Bird. It would have
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: been Coachella Valley in the front, myself and the league
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: media in the middle, and then the Bears in the back.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: So I've heard of that happening. I think that happened
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: in the EHL once too. I forget what team it was,
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: but there was that happened, and I guess there was
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: a really big brawl after game two and you had
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: to put everyone back on the same plane the next morning.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: That didn't work. That didn't go Overwhell. But yeah, I
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: hope they figure something out because that would just be brutal.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Twenty one hours. Listen, I'll y'all catch me when you
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: come back.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: I'm no, We're gonna wrap this up here with a
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: brief look at the Coachella Valley Firebirds and the Stanley
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Cup playoffs. Plus also one quick thought on the World
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Championships rosters which have just come out here for Team
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: USA and Joey Decorda and Matty Beniers are the hot
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: topic of conversation with us. We'll get to all of
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: this here in just a bit, but first off, the Firebirds.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: They need a win to stay alive. Tonight down two
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: games to one of the Ontario Rain that's the best
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: of five second round series. Game four is thatch Coachell
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Valley Tonight. Firebirds gotten upset in game one, beat the
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Rain three nothing, lost game two five to one, lost
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: Game three two to one, So offense has got a
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: bit bone dry ever since Game one Coachelle Valley bell
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: was two to zero and back to the wall situations
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: meaning facing elimination. They beat the Bakersfield Condors in both situations.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Oscar Fisker muleguard for me a key in this second
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: leading score in the AHL postseason. I chatted with a
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: member of the crack in front office. He is blowing
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: their doors down right now in AHL postseason. He's got
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: seven points in six games again second leading ty for
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: the second leading scoring score here for ahel postseason play
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: He had a four game point streak snapped in Game three,
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: but ultimately can he drive the bus? And then nick
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Ka Koco has appeared in all six playoff games, back
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: in NET and looking to bounce back from back to
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: back losses.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Oscar Fisker Mulgard proving that he's not
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: trying to go back to CV next year. I think
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: he's got a spot on this team. Yanni Newman right
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: behind him with six points, and you're waiting to see
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: him take that next step. Jacobrien was added to that
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: roster as well. I don't know if he'll play. I
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: think maybe this is just a move to get him
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: some practice time, to get him a customed and acclimated
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: to be in down there. He'll more than likely be
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: in Coachella next season as a nineteen year old for Jacobrien.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, listen, like I said before, this
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: is so vitally important for Oscar Fisker Molgard and Yonnie Newman,
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: Jacob Alanson, Jagger Fercus, a number of these guys that
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: we're expecting to see here in Seattle, hopefully sooner rather
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: than later on a permanent basis, you need this experience
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: two and zero in winner go home game. So far
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: this year for CV, you're getting experienced and playing in
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: these high pressure situations. And anytime you get playoff championship experience,
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: it's gonna benefit you down the road. So this is great.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: And regardless of what happens in game will that be
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Game four tonight, you know they're they're gonna have some
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: experience to take with them. Most of these guys, I
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: would imagine, are gonna be at development camp in July.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: We'll see, at least the cracking pit prospects will be.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: We'll see. But no, I think that this is gonna
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: be good. And Oscar Fisker Moulegard, I mean, I mean,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: I've I've had my eye on him as well through
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: this series, and he's doing everything that this brass wants
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: to see from him. And like I said, I think
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: he is. He's making that case for Hey, I'm gonna
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: be in Seattle full time. I got an apartment ready
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: to go for next year.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: My goodness of Oscar Fiskom Wolgart can find a way
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: to pop and stay on this roster and make a
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: big impact for this next season. That's going to take
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: where this team wants to go for a long, long ride. Certainly,
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: very briefly, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Let's go Buffalo Sabers. Ye
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: all in the Buffalo Sabers one game to nothing lead
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: over the Montreal Canadians. It looks like that they mean
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: business right now. Ducks evening their series up on the
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Western Conference side with Vegas at one game, a piece
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: of Colorado avalanche looking like a wagon right now, up
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: two games to nothing on the Philadelphia Flyers. And then
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: you have the Carolina Hurricanes, and you have the Philadelphia
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: Flyers as well. Flyers right now down two games to
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: nothing to Carolina. Game three is coming up here for
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: tonight f five pm. I think how as far as
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: how this is all playing out. Not not a ton
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: of surprises here for me, Everett, But I think it's
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: confirming for me what it is confirmed for you. The
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: Buffalo Sabers are a problem. They are for real, They
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: are a threat. They will do damage.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I think this playoff so far has confirmed two things
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: for me. The fact that out west you have four
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: verse seven and one verse three in the second round.
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: What are we doing here? Go back to one versus eight?
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Make it straight through. Don't give me the travel, don't
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: give me the rivalries. I don't care. Right like it
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: should be one through eight. Now that being said, I'm
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: all in on the Buffalo wagon. I am. I am.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Give me a beer saber, give me, give me the
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: old goat head, give me the old buffet slug, you know.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: Bring back all the great.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: Beer skate wired beer saber, Yes.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: Bring back Greer, bring back Palmonville, bring back all the
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: Mark Tannber, bring back Dominic Hasha, bring back everybody. I
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: am all aboard the Buffalo Sabers train out West. I
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: don't really care. I hope they all last forever. Maybe
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: maybe Minnesota. I love Joe O'Donnell and Tom Reid their
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: radio team uh to just amazingly tremendous guys. I root
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: for guys when it comes to teams in your own
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: conference and in your division. So I love those two guys.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: So I guess gimme Minnesota to come out of the West.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: I don't really care, gimme Buffalo. I'm all in on Buffalo,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: and they look good. The Sabers. They don't look like
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: a team that has been on the playoffs for fifteen
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: years like they they're they're not just happy with being
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: back in the playoffs. They want to bleep bleep up
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: if you if you catch my drift. They're trying to
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: take some uh take prisoners, write no names and I
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: love it. I love it.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Or two victory over Montreal Zach Benson. Josh done multi
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: point games in that game one. They're gonna be fun
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: to watch and fun to look at here before we
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: get out of here. By the way, World Championships, the
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: prelim roster coming out here for Team USA. Surprised that
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Maddy but here's enjoyed the cord, aren't there a little bit?
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit surprised. Now. I will say this,
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: A lot of times you've got people that potentially could
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: be added later. A lot of these teams will leave
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: spots open for guys who are still currently playing in
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, so you could see some guys added, you know,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: after a couple of games or in a couple of weeks.
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: But Ryan Lingren made the team for USA, which is great.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: But I will say this. Bill Garren came out before
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: the Olympics, I believe, or right before the Olympic camp
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: back in the winter time, and he said that these games,
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: the World Championships, We at USA Hockey want these to matter.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: If you want to play in the Olympics, if you
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: want to go to the Four Nations, you need to
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: be ready and you need to be prepared to potentially
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: play in the World as well. And so for so long,
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: the US hasn't really set their best, they haven't really
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: taken the Worlds very seriously. Well, then they win the
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: gold medal last year for the first time in ninety
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: some odd years. The Team USA is now taking the
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: World Championships seriously. So I think you're gonna start seeing
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: a lot better players than you have in the last
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: decades skate for Team USA in the World Championships. But
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: I'm a little surprised that matt E Vaniers and Joey
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: the Cord were left off the initial roster. Now they
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: also we don't know, they could have been asked and
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: said hey, thanks, but no thanks. We don't know, but
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: I was a little surprised that we didn't see those
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: two dames.
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: Brian Lindren, is there pre tournament game going down by
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: the way this Sunday, in case you're interested, at eight
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: a m. Pacific time. That going down in Germany with
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: Team USA taken on Germany as well. That's all the
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: time we have here for this overtime podcast. The Bowling
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: Green Quarter Zip served Everett fits you well, look good,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: feel good, talk good ink. The Beg had us coming
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: around here for this next drop.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Is that right? Oh yeah, you'll be here, maybe even
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: for Game one.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: We're gonna be there, inev you meet Al Konisky as well,
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: have us some pops and enjoy the WHL fun. Big
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: thanks again to Julius Miettinen and Everett fits You, I
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Mike Betting for the overtime podcast.
• 47:23
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