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Rinkside Chirps - MN Hockey Update - 1/24/2024 · Banter with the Boys

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Get laced up it's time for banter with the boys. Hello everybody welcome back to this episode of banter with the boys ringside chirps
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Minnesota hockey edition in this episode we got quite a few different topics to talk about but as always we're going to go over
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Kind of just while they're doing what the NHL is kind of doing and also a couple other different Minnesota hockey sports teams
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With that kicking over my main man Smeltzi buddy. How are you today? Yo, yo, yo kev what's poppin?
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Just got done ripping, you know NFL was with Tyler if you don't listen to that you're into it into the NFL
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Go check us out there as well. But yeah, no
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But similar things that we obviously, you know care enough about to talk about and can have a good conversation about so as always
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You know like comment subscribe, but with that smell see looking at the wild right now. We recorded our last episode
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They have gone five four and one and with that they won the last night's game
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Against the Washington Capitals the game that I did go to in fact
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Awesome game wild one five to three easily should have been five to one
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But they let their foot off the gas towards the end of the game
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And they won it anyway were those those the final two goals there for the caps were they more of a Gustafson thing or I?
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Think it was an all-around team thing
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I mean you're winning five to one with a just a handful minutes left minutes left
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I think in the game that's when they scored both it was towards the latter half of the third period as bogus
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That's not yeah, I watched part of it, and then I literally turned it off
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I think when it was five one yeah, so I went to some out or whatever
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Yeah, they held it out for quite a bit
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And I'm pretty confident that they I wouldn't say super duper confident went with that
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but they definitely had
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You know a little bit of time left in the game and the lot just kind of took the
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Took the you know the pressure off and and they came back, but at the end of the day while got the dub
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Great game overall Marcus Johansson who was part of the capitals in the past got himself two on the night
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Which is pretty sweet?
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in that game 11 total players from the wild had points including a goal from Brock Faber and
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Gustafson also had 31 say is in his third straight win
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Minnesota has now gone three in the row out of four and also four of five
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after losing eight and nine
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Right a turnaround yeah, and that's and that's the funny part right because like coming into this week's episode
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To be honest like it like leading up to it right before last week even like before a couple of those wins
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I was planning on like talking how bad we've been right and
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Now they've kind of seemed like they're kind of turning it around again
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Maybe going on a little bit more of another streak here a little bit
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I hate to say it and the reason I hate to say that that we're doing something good right now is the wild are
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notoriously garbage
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after the all-star break
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Even if we've got momentum going into it. I know you know knock on
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wood here
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They're gonna probably be garbage after the all-star break in a matter just a few weeks, but we've been garbage all year
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So maybe maybe this is the year that it changes
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But I agree with you like we'll have all this momentum going into all-star break
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Boom all-star break hits and now it's like we limp into the playoffs and then at first round exit like we know
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Are usual, but you know it's just like maybe maybe this is the year that turns around
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I don't think so, but maybe this is the year you know me hey
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I'd love it to be a turnaround year especially with the think the the reinvigorated team after having Dean let go
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I don't think Dean was the problem
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I think it was just the room and the team in general you got to do something to change things up and they've been pretty
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Successful since he's been a part of the team or been coach of the team so
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I'm happy with it. I mean I mean the wild are still six points out of a wild card
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That's not including last night's win so that was before yesterday's game when I when I grabbed that
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It's also been games played since then right so you know whatever we could be closer farther away either way
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It's within reach. There's plenty of games left. It's within reach
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Do you honestly think I feel like they were also six points out of the wild card our last episode if I'm not mistaken
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But sounds about right something like that. Do you think they they?
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Have a shot do they make the playoffs an outside shot?
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Yes, I think they'll make the playoffs by the skin of their teeth
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It'll be like what it typically is right this history repeat itself for us. Yeah
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It's gonna be a history repeats a substitution where we push really freaking hard at in the season
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And it comes down to X team has to win this game this team can't tie or can't lose in overtime
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And then this team's got to win three games in a row, and we got to you know do whatever
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And then we make the playoffs I thought gets to kind of typically what happens
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We've never like this I can't remember a season in the past recently where we've been like yeah
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We're golden in the playoffs right now like we don't gotta really fight for a whole lot
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We're kind of coasting in you've always got a grind and climb back into it, and it's always like that and again
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What happens then first round exit by?
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Every dang time except for the one year we didn't even make it into the playoffs a couple years ago
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Just really like I want to say something different, but it's hard being a Minnesota sports fan and expecting a different result after the insanity
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We've all in you know ensued
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For however long all of our sports even so that plus like this season in particular. You know the wild have been
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Plagued with injuries pretty much the whole season their captain is not on the ice. It's just yeah
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It just sucks. You know I mean it does again. We've we've always mentioned it
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We'll touch on it one more time, and I promise try not to bring it up again until the offseason
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But like again, we're still capped handicapped by those those per easy and suitor deals
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You know yeah, so just to have the expectation that we're a contender
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I know that's what every Minnesotan in their soul wants to think that we are a legitimate contender every single season
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And I feel ya. I really do
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it's just not realistic and
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Yeah, you know the fact that we're even talking that we could still make the playoffs
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With the team we have right now. That's it that says a lot. We're still competitive
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We're in a competitive rebuild right now in my opinion
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and that's again why we signed felino and Hartman and
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Zuccarello to two more deals. I know people were upset about that. We're overpaying them well
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Yeah, we are a little bit right we're paying them for their dues that they've done the past few years
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And they're helping us stay competitive. Yep in these two years of the
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The cap crap you know to say to say the least you know what I mean. I agree. I think you're right man. It's
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It's tough right. We'll get in a bit more the the contract details, or we should get into it right now
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What do you want to do to get into it? Just go for it all right?
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So with that I think we signed those deals to get us through the crummy cap stuff correct
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And then when we hit cap freedom if you will which is
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25 to 26 right 20 25 20 26 season
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Once we hit that
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We've got these guys locked in for a potentially one more more more more year
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Yep, and then you've got 15 million dollars
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To spend on somebody that these guys can effectively lead these lines for to help us go further
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Which is a lot of money in the NHL?
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It is a it doesn't seem like a lot and pretty much any other major sport in the US maybe other than MLS
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I don't know right. I can't remember how their contracts work to be honest, but um
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Like that's a lot of money to play with in the NHL now if you also look
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That's still you said 24 25 season yep
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2025 2026 is when we're on a look at guys like Jared Spurgeon is he still on the team at that point?
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He's making seven and a half mil yep that might be more money available
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You still have some of these younger guys that could come up. We saw Sammy Walker come up
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He didn't do nothing when he was up here unfortunately, so hopefully he still you know grows down there in Iowa
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Yeah, but you got guys like that that can still come up Lambos
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We got other defensemen you got Jesper coming up
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Yeah, and now you just add a couple bona fide vets to that or like early on in the season there was talk of
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On the show here of Leon Dreisle. I think that's a great idea
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Somebody like that who's probably gonna be a vet not commanding a ton of money, but probably still worth that seven mil range
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And that's worth it
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Especially when you've got the money to spend I think that's our year to make the biggest push in the Minnesota Wilds history ever
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for the
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Long playoff run, and that's where I think ownership's at with like BG with people that might be frustrated with BG or whatever
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I think it's unfair to let go of BG
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Anytime before he gets to play with that money. Yep a hundred percent do not
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Let go of BG. I swear to gosh
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Let him play with that money at least for a year or two
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Yes, and then if it's not looking right or he built the wrong team, okay?
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Yeah, now now you get it right, but you he can't yeah, he's doing everything he can with what he's given right now
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You know what I mean? Don't don't even think about it
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Yeah, he's been dealing with those at Paul Fenton and Chuck Fletcher era days
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of like just trading everything away and having nothing in our farm system and then crummy contract upon crummy contract upon just
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Handcuffing contracts let BG cook. I agree. Let him sit there and marinate and cook
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We're in 2023 2024 season right now, so after next year goes by that's our time to shine right so we got like what a third
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Five eight four. Yeah, we got a good bit of season left here still third of the season left to make a push potentially get into the playoff
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Then go from there with that with the cap space. We're gonna have some room to grow once they get there
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Yeah, an actual push for sure and like that and like the push from now until we get that space any push is
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Literally just all pride you know and the appease the state of hockey. You know you were at the game last night, right?
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So going into that game people that bought tickets for that game knew dang well were six points out of a wild card
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We're not playing that amazing on the season as a whole yep
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But that place still looked packed the upper level still looked packed full up hockey is
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Is a way of life here?
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You know and I think still filling the stands when you're not performing super well as a team as a whole
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That says something you got buy-in from the community that says something. That's what it is to me, and I think
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People say where they say to hockey for a reason right
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Everybody from kids that are being just born they got skates on their feet to
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Old vets and older people playing boot hockey still it doesn't matter people play hockey no matter what it is it's part of the culture
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It's a part of their life forever for their entire life right and that's just how it is so
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Like you said granted the weather was pretty nice. It's like 40 degrees outside almost when the game was going on but like
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People will trek through the elements to get to these games. They'll trek through the losses
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They'll trek through the losing streaks the coach debacles etc
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To go to those games and and to like I don't to be there for the team like I don't think they're selling out
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You know um on some of these games they used to they sold out when they first became a team
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They sold out for what 10 15 years straight or whatever something crazy um surprised by that though right yeah
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But even if it's not a sell-out dude that stadium still packed though. It's pretty it's pretty darn close
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Yeah, yeah, absolutely so I to your point the fans are always gonna back the team as
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You know upset and grumpy as as the the fans may be myself included at a lot of silly things that have happened across my
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My tenure as a fan of the wild
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It's crazy to see what we've done so far and what's coming in the future
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I'm excited about it and the thing is is you being a fan for the last 10 years you haven't even seen the best of the
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Wild to be honest the first like within those first like five six years were awesome. Yeah, and uh
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I just you should go back. I have a dvd for you. You got to watch it actually
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It's like I don't know like about the 2004 or five wild
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I can't remember and it like follows a couple players around you would get a kick out of you won't know any of the players
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But you'll get a kick out of you might make recognized Marion Gabrik or Darby Hendrickson or something you know because Darby's called right yeah
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Um oh dude. I gotta get that to you. You would actually like that for sure. Yeah anyway um
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I've only been a fan for like seven or eight years. It has not been my entire life
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So I was born in Wisconsin that came here in 2011
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Didn't really get into the hockey life up until like 2013 14 ish
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So like I've only been a fan for for a handful of years a little bit a little bit more than that little less
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I'll get you up to speed on wild history because there's not that long right so
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You can't see much. Yeah, no you good you good for sure
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Let's jump on into our next one you mentioned it earlier the team the Minnesota wild is still plagued with injuries
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Currently right now got a couple of big names on the injured report list and just injured in general
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Obviously you mentioned it before our captain's not on the ice right now. Tell me a little bit more about what you're seeing what's going on
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I mean, it's just I think it's just the same injury. He's been dealing with I think he re-aggravated it and you know now they've
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Now shut him down for the season and not only is he I believe having surgery on that
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But he's also gonna have a second surgery on his back. It's like his back and his hip or there's two like
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Two surgeries. I think his hip is the main surgery right? Something like that. And then a second surgery on his back. Yeah, dude. That's not good
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Yeah, well you kind of hope like back to like the Parisi era days where he was just getting cross-checked constantly in the lower back
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And it was never playing like himself for a year or two
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Finally took some time off got his back fixed up and he came back and it was already done good. Yeah, you're right
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He's still Zach Parisi. Let's be real
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But at the end of the day like that surgery helped him get out of a you know an ailment
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That he'd been dealing with for years
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This might be something that really resets Jared Spurgeon and puts him on another track to success. He's still a fantastic defenseman regardless
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But imagine if he's been playing hurt for a hot minute
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You fix the guy up. Come on now
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So but that's that's just it. He's still a fantastic defenseman regardless
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That's that's just it. You know how old's Jared Spurgeon is. Oh
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Take a guess on at the top of your noggin. I was gonna say like 36. He's 34. All right
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I'm ready for all right. So
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You know, so just looking at those surgeries he does need
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You know, he signed here until he is 37 years old. Yeah, what three to go
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More years. Well, he's 30 once he comes back next season 35 36 37. Yeah three years. Okay, including next season
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He's got three years left and he's making 7.5
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All right, you know, he's a 7.5 cap hit anyway
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Is he worth it at this stage in his career and I hate to say that because I've been a huge Jared Spurgeon guy
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I believe he's been here his whole career even
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He's been great for the organization
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but is he I
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Just don't know if he's gonna be here for the remainder of his
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Contract and I can't remember if he has a no trade on that
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Mmm, are you saying that you don't expect him to be here? Even though he's the captain of the wild
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Do you still think that they're gonna take and rip the sea off of his chest metaphorically to say and send him packing elsewhere?
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Like do you really really think in reality that that's gonna happen?
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I'll give you my opinion on that if you care to know I think they do that
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I think if he comes back from this injury and
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Towards the last year maybe two years of his just got three to go ready comes back. He's got a couple more years to go
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I think they may not keep him around. I think he'd be
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Fantastic on the trade market, especially when we got money to spend
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But if and then that's just it if he comes back and they decide to take the sea from him
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I don't think they take the sea from him on the
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And let's say traded force, you know, cuz if you take the sea off a guy, that's gonna be weird, bro
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You can't go back in that locker room
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You know, so I
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So, hmm. I got that just hurts to say cuz I'm a big Jared Spurgeon guy
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I wanted his jersey actually for a while. I still don't have one. I'll probably still get one whatever with the sea, of course
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There you go
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But like it's just I don't know
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I just I don't think that with the direction that that Garin's going with the money
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He's gonna have with the big bruise II beefy tea, right?
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What was their thing last year grit first or some nonsense that we'd still lost anyway in the first year, right?
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Like some goofy slogan that they had grit first your captain's four foot tall
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Come on like you can't I understand like sizes and everything when it comes like ice hockey players
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But like at the end of the day you're gonna get bodied and it happens all the time
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But also Jared Spurgeon is also a gangster and fights back. He does
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There's a give-and-take with that. But again, if he comes back from the surgery these injuries and is not himself
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Or if he just kind of is is never the same as you do see what other players who do get injured
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Is he coming back?
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And if you've done or some of your phrase when he comes back
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Is he gonna stick it out for the last three years and now they're gonna give him an extension because no way dude
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He's not getting an extension at least from the wild if it's from the wild. It's gonna be dummy cheap
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Well has money to spend at that point that he's 37
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He's 37 years old just came off a seven and a half year cap hit for the last seven years long
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I don't think you're paying them that kind of money. Is he still gonna garner like a four mil deal possibly? Yeah
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I have man three to four three to four makes sense to me. I get you know for like a two-year deal
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Yeah, because I mean you see some guys play into their 40s in the NHL, which is crazy considering
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The the wear and tear on their bodies. Yeah, not only that they're balancing on
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steel
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It's crazy the athleticism and like the physics behind it, but I don't know dude
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I've been dreading this Jared Spurgeon talk because he is getting up there in age really
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And I don't want to say that because I'm not far off from that age so that's kind of bogus
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But but for a professional athlete you know that's that's getting up there once you hit your mid-30s
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Yeah, well so now we've been talking a bit about like if he goes what are we gonna do?
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Well, he's gone right now the wild needs someone to fill that space. Who do we go and get?
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Is there there's a right answer this question smells and you better not get it wrong. We're gonna fight
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There's oh, there's a right answer
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Better know it. Oh, that's funny as heck. I do know I do know where you're going
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Don't even say it yet because I know exactly where you're going yeah
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I'm cool bringing them back on like a three mil deal actually
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He's already on nine million dollars right now solo year. That's fine
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We're talking about Matt Dumba you you would know it if you follow the pod because that's kev's guy yep, and
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I mean why not right right now. It only takes up half that money. You can still sign another guy
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That's my thought you know you don't go blow it all on one player yeah
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And you might as well pick up. I don't know if you pick up 2d guys or not
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But I think it's not a bad idea
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It's really not nope he's hurt right now. That's the only issue
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I don't know what the details of his injury are how long the details of it are what you know what the terms of it
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Got the chemistry with the team right? That's it. He's a locker room guy. He's the freaking DJ locker room guy
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They do like him in there used to be an assistant freaking captain last year
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He was the man right everyone had high appraises you read his articles that Russo wrote about him
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And everyone had nothing but great things to say teammates talk about pranks
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He pulled being the guy you'd have everybody over for holidays and stuff like that
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I think he's who you go and get is an unrestricted or he's I think he's unrestricted free agent at the end of the season
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Might be restricting is no unrestricted right right shot defenseman. He knows everything
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He knows the system now granted the new head coach in town
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But everybody else had to learn it Maddie had to go and learn it over in Arizona
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I think you bring him back here
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And you still got you know potentially a couple of million dollars to go around and play with something maybe just for
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Another beefy guy that you're trying to get out there to be you know
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Beef up your team a little bit or do you go out there and possibly get just a young?
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A young guy to maybe spruce things up down in Iowa help the boys out down there right two-way player guy
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You sent him down there. Maybe he's a good call-up player who knows right like
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It's definitely an option in my opinion the question is is what we have to give up to get him
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Because you can't just send him money much
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I don't think it's gonna be much because the coyotes haven't really used him in a massive role by any means
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It's not like he's lighting the lamp either. He's got five points in 44 games. Yep again
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He's a defenseman his plus-minus is negative 10 don't like seeing that no
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But his average time of the ice is 20 minutes. He's still being used yeah
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He's not obviously their top guy. Nope. I would imagine they would move him considering. He's on a one-year deal
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Why would you not if you can get something for a guy?
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That's gonna leave probably anyway, and that's where the coyotes kind of were already when we when he signed there
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We already knew he's playing for a bigger contract somewhere else most likely just a one-year deal prove it deal right yep
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That's what he got
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He was making I think he was making up to six million bucks here for a little bit part of his contract
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It could be wrong, but I think he was making four to six million dollars a year here on his last deal
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Did he just yeah?
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Money, I think he was making four here for something like that right yep. I could be wrong
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But I know it was always different either way at the end of the day we can afford him
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You know any on how cheap he goes effectively it might be worth bringing them back
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fill in that spot because any you know the
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Downside of that that is is you break up the Brody and the favor line put him back with with
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With Dumba or do you leave the goal that you have right now with favor just playing so much?
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Nope you find somewhere else to plug dumb and you do not mess with yeah, the only good thing
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That's happening for the wild defensively right now. Yeah, you do not mess with that
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I like you do add them in though. I do like adding them in there somewhere, but that's not my decision
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Yeah, but yeah for the money. He would be a decent option. I agree. I agree
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Do you have any other players who you think may be worth coming in a trade over here for him?
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Anybody can think of the top of my head right now sure I think I want to be
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Want to say that there's a couple of players that I was just talking to a buddy of mine about today
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actually who might be
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Might be worth
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Looking into here as well, but at the end of the day. There's definitely some some room
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For us to grow and I'm hoping that with again now that you want to see somebody out
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but
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Well, I use and take advantage of the situation that we're dealt right now with spurge and being out
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I mean alleged cash allegedly you got tan of Chris Tanne of and Calgary
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That's on the block
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He's looking at four and a half mil could afford that ufa after this year
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You got
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looks like Sean Walker from the flyers is
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Also a ufa after this year for two point six mil. He's got five goals on the year 16 points
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Okay, who's that now his name Sean Walker for the flyers interesting. That's kind of yeah, that is interesting
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Well
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Wait a minute the trade deadlines already passed the trade deadline isn't it there's a not no when is it?
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Find out no I'm an idiot. What am I talking about? There's no way why would it be before the all-star game nope?
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I've March 8th March 8th. Okay. Yeah, wow sorry folks. I don't know what I'm talking about
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Yeah, so there's room to go for it. I did the day I can't offend to yeah Calgary. He's a 20 dude
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4.95 mil, but he's a 25 point getter right now 26 year old ufa after 24, but
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Chichurin out of Ottawa
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He's ufa after 25
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Four point six mil that might be intriguing potentially right because you got him for another year year after that if you're gonna
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You're gonna absolutely add to your probably your top four defense even good
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No, we're struggling right on the defensive area right you got John Merrill. That's our biggest issue. Yep, Merrill's playing kind of crummy
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Middleton's doing decent for right now. He's gotten some points in the last few games. He's playing well
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I would feel comfortable if we had enough pieces where Middleton's playing on our third D bearing
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Yeah, that would mean that solid pretty comfortable on the top four. Yep. That's where I'd like us to get to defensively
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I don't know if we're gonna do that this year
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But I'm telling you folks just waited out these few years the wild they're gonna win a cup. Let's see
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What is it 2024 25 26 the wild they're gonna win a cup by?
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28
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28 you say 28 maybe 2030 may 2030 before the decades out the Minnesota wild are bringing a cup to the state of hockey before the decades out
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Like it. I like it. I'm holding you to it. Yeah hold me to it. I'm into it
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With that let's move on here. I've always got to talk about them the guys a stud Brock Faber, man
25:48
Come on Brock Faber. Just an absolute beast right now
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Russo tweeted out earlier today fresh off college ice
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He shouldn't be this good, but to know the fact that he's played 200 more minutes this year than the next wild player
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End quote what a wild statistic
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200 more minutes what he said
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Oh, can you imagine right now? He's got 24 and like a half minutes average per game
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Still over a minute over the next player on the list for the wild Wow is your college defenseman
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Obviously like granted had Spurgeon been in all season not having these issues
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I think his ice time might have been a little bit less because I never really paired him up with Spurgeon
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But I think this in general
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The kid is showing off his stuff right now right everybody in the locker room talks about him
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How he's just crazy good, and he just shouldn't be as good as he is right now, but
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Again if you bring anybody else up here
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How do you what happens to those lines because you know even if you lose a couple of games they shift things around
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so
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Maybe you might find some spark there with with other defensive pairings if we you know go on a downward spike
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Like we talked about before after the all-star break right switch things up a little bit
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Maybe find some magic somewhere else, but yeah, I mean
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Obviously there's something to be said about Brock Faber. I mean he's right now. He's looking like he's about fourth in
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Calder voting which allegedly Bidart is still running away
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Bidart is still running away unanimously just crazy while he's injured with yeah, but then you got Luke Hughes
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I believe he's out of the New Jersey Devils. He's second with 47 points
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Bidart has 75 points. This is the voting I'm talking about so far right this came out January 14th. This is from NHL.com
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Columbus Blue Jackets Adam Fentili. I hope I said that right 36 points
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he's third and then you have Faber at 24 points and
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Marco Rossi at 20 points of rounding out fifth we have two players in the top five for voting really for the caller
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That's impressive if that doesn't make you feel good about a couple years from now like we're talking about
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Add Jesper to that yeah
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You let you let him prove a little bit more because right now Brock Faber can be resigned to an extension or
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Something other than his rookie year deal right now. He's in July 1st. You'd lock him up
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I hundred percent somebody even asked for you so when he tweeted about that like how soon can we bring him and what?
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Are you thinking what do you think is gonna get?
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No, there was did he say what he's gonna get nobody thinks no he didn't say he didn't reply to that tweet
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But I the the comments went wild. What do you think he garners?
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Depending on how long the deal is I hope that they keep him around for the max what I think is eight years
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And with a potential moving clause midway through or towards the end
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Potentially an average of five to six roughly he's shown in my opinion last year in the playoffs
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Being fresh off of losing the championship game for the Gophers now appeared us
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He's proving himself all the way across the board five to six. I think we got to give him more
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really
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I think I get him seven dude. Yeah, I think between six and seven of seven at the top
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I know dude spendy right a lot of money guy. That's
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Only played a year. Yeah, you know he
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He's got a key proving stuff has he proven stuff absolutely right absolutely we're in a greens there
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Yeah, but he's got a key. He's got to add to it right and he is
29:13
But that's just taking a bet you know you see it in the MLB all the time
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You got a couple guys that play really well one season. They're
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Crazy young boom 12 year deal. No
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How do you know that dude's gonna be the same player in ten years you don't crazy? That's part of the risk
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And you're seeing it in all major sports right now in the US
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Specifically, but I'm sure around the world to you're locking these when you see talent
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You're locking them up for a long time now. I will say that Brock favor. We should he need I think we should too
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I think at some did it with Brodean. Yeah, I think at some point in time Capri soft guess VA
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Oh, this would be the sea. I think that's just I think it's just how that goes. I don't think they're gonna
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Let him go anywhere. He is the franchise player. I think he gets to see
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Don't know when I think Capri soft ends up with the CNS chest at some point
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But I think it's what's gonna happen, and I think your favorite six around. I think he gets an a for sure
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Depending on who else is around again. We got some moves to make we got some time to kill before we get some of that money
30:15
Back you never know who's gonna come and go you never know I
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I hate myself for this. Oh, I hate myself for this row raggie
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but
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Kirill Kapri soft is gone before he gets a see in Minnesota
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Really you don't think he's gonna stick it out or you think we're gonna use him as trade bait for something potentially
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What the hell you're gonna get for?
30:38
That's the thing you got to get something incredible for him
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He's one of the he's going to be one of the top players on his own now. You've noticed this year
30:45
He's taking a step back. It's a little slower. Yes, right
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Now last year he was ridiculous. Yeah, some of the stuff he was doing was ridiculous. What happened less injuries?
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You know he has the people that have been with him have been changed quite a bit different coaching staff
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Again, you lost the room in the beginning
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You need continuity. I don't care what sport it is. I don't care what team it is you need continuity to play well you do yeah, so
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Man, dude, I don't know I know that was I know that was a doozy right there
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I know it's a doozy right there, but like I just I don't know I want him here
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Yeah, but if there's something on the table. I don't know what would have to be on the table right now
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I'm not saying I have a deal in mind
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I don't it need to be wild for he's here for what the next six years something he signed a five-year deal
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So then he had one left. I can't remember yeah, but like I don't know man. I know that's crazy, but it's just
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We got we got to do more to keep him here
31:41
I know what I mean like yeah again
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I hope like BG has explained that to him where the status the team right where we're at we're in a competitive rebuild
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Most likely again. He hasn't said that that's my take on it from what we've noticed right yeah
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Like I just hope he realizes that in krill's 26. You know it's just I
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Don't know I don't know why I said that I hate like I said hey myself well
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That's the crazy thing so I'm looking at his contract right now. I just pulled it up
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He garners nine million dollars for your correct five-year deal
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Nine million bucks this year nine million bucks next year and then nine million bucks
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2025
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2026 now as a note next season and the following season have no move no move clauses
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They then specify if it's a full no move or what the details of those are what season next season next season and 25 26
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Yep, don't forget 25 26 when we get that money, so
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Maybe he gets paid then and then what you lock him up long term
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Yeah, and you go get his partner whoever that may be yeah
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It's not gonna be Zuccarello at that point Zuccarello's gonna be 55 years old. You know
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It'll be interesting hmm. It'll be 28 dude. That's that's your prime for NHL players, right?
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Like like that 28 to 32 if you're something special that'll be oh man. What is he gonna cost?
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That's the thing he's making nine million bucks a year. He has not been playing this year
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Like he deserves nine million bucks a year
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Just that's just it but again I agree to your point about continuity you got to fight no matter what next man up next man up
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Mentality I don't care I get it, but how many times can you kind of get beaten down by like oh?
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This star player is out for six weeks. Oh this star player is hurt because of this
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Oh Capri saw probably has broken ribs like he may still not be better from that like he never know right there's still things
33:28
It could be lingering so so of course. I don't know what what site did you use to pull up his contract?
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This is cap friendly okay, so this is spow track. I use them for NHL stuff to spow track calm. Okay. I don't know
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I just like their stuff. They explain it good, but anyway yeah
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They're saying that in 2526
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Obviously his cap hit nine mil still yep the cap hit percentage, and I'd imagine this is for the team
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Yep, is 16.5 percent. That's if it doesn't go up
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I'm sure it's gonna go up a little bit. It goes up a million
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That's probably including people that are dropping off right that will probably resign or whatever right?
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But like even right now. This is it's this is probably more realistic right now 10.4 percent of our
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basically 10 and a half percent of our
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salary right
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He's not he's not playing up to that level right now. He's definitely not no I
34:21
I still think he's still got leaders boldies, but that's another conversation
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He was though for a little bit, but he's not anymore
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Tendingly Rossi right gonna Rossi's not making that crazy money yet, but he will be
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But like like we've mentioned maybe that's just part of the continuity these these specific players including Rossi and boldy and caprisov
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Yeah, they need to grow together now
34:42
Throw favor in there
34:43
Rodin is now your vet which is crazy to say because bro Dean used to be the young
34:48
As you like to say the young buck young that was gonna be you know our stud and now that's exactly who he is
34:53
He's still underrated nobody appreciates what he does truly because it's not a stat thing
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You know so but anyway
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Let that core growl man, and then you hit that money in two years and then
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Hopefully you add a good locker room guy, but also somebody who's
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At the top of the league yeah
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I want somebody at the top of the league to come in here and play with Kirill need a stud center
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That's it you do you do that's what I'm saying
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You do you do that's what you need a number one center ever I said that one is a perfect number two center
35:28
He's not he's not your number one. No, I said that before in the season
35:32
I'm pretty sure you did that we need a stud center and
35:35
after we lost koi vu
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We've never been the same when it comes to winning face-offs and granted towards the last
35:41
Year, maybe two years with us. He wasn't waiting. He wasn't what he was you know
35:45
But when he was at the top he was one of the best centers in the league for what he what his job was
35:50
Yep, I remember them saying too that they changed one of the rules in like the face-off like process
35:55
I don't know what it was, but he couldn't quote unquote cheat anymore
35:59
So he wasn't I don't remember what the rule change was but I remember hearing on the radio
36:02
From what people were saying on like the broadcast that they're like yeah
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One of the rules had changed somehow were like I don't know if it's like who puts their stick down first or like
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The process and like the whole flow of the the face-off or whatever
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Also, they get like the double kick out and you get a penalty now that that's newer in the process so things changed
36:17
So he wasn't as dangerous if you will but in the past he was just a killer on the face-offs
36:22
So I bet his brother did the same thing to sac who yeah, we just need somebody to win a freaking draw
36:29
If you can get somebody with that money you throw him up there with capri stockers again
36:33
Like he said, it's probably not gonna be zuccarello. You never know who will be
36:37
There might be something there that's magical. I don't know what it is
36:40
We hope we can only hope but you heard it before 2030 and honestly my god's telling me before 2028
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But yeah, there's a cup in minnesota
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That's the hope right? We'll see what happens
36:53
All right, we're gonna move into our next section here this episode
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We're gonna talk a little bit about some of the news around the nhl got two points
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He that we want to talk about first one first being the owners of the utah jazz
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Have officially formally requested an nhl expansion team to bring a hockey team to salt lake city
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Currently right now the utah grizzlies play in utah at the moment
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They are an e chl team that feeds up through colorado's avalanche team
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So kind of an interesting dynamic there. I'm not quite sure if if a team is warranted
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Out in in utah, but that might be kind of cool. I'm always down for more
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um, not necessarily more expansion teams but more viewership of the hockey sport because again
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It is everything here to us right it's culture. It's in in your life since you're a kid hockey to the minnesotans is crazy
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So seeing it broadcast elsewhere and bringing up a new fan base to it
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That's awesome also gives us more players to look out for and and better
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Better chances for some cool players to be drafted and also who the heck do you you know?
37:53
Who do you protect in the expansion draft right a lot of a lot of hey?
37:56
Havoc and chaos that it brings but what do you think spouts? You think it'd be kind of cool to see an age or?
38:02
You know see these guys out there and then yeah, I mean, I guess my only concern would be
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if
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They would draw enough fans, and I mean maybe for a professional hockey team they they would
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um
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But like if you look at what is it the utah grizzlies?
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their average attendance for last year was
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uh
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5167
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Okay, so now whether I don't know how many people they can fit in their arena wherever the heck they play
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um you know, but it just
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Can they can they fill out a stadium for an nhl hockey game? I'd be curious. I think they held some event
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I don't know what it was
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Gosh, I wish I could find it because
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this thing that i'm doing is not letting me go in there, but
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they held some event and it was a hockey game and they brought like
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9 000 people sure to that so that's you know that's at least more three quarters of the stadium so they play at maverick center
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Apparently in sultake city or nearby. Uh, it's a 12 600 cap
39:09
Okay, so if they're doing about half of it if they sold that out, you know
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Then consistently sold that out consistently then maybe you could um, but it's not like look at the coyotes right now
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It's not like they have room for a ton of fans either
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So maybe maybe you could build a little or play there play at the 12 000 seat arena
39:28
Yeah, and see what happens, but I just yeah, how many can you look up quick?
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Yeah, how many seats the kraken arena seats? Yeah, because obviously pledge arena, right? Yeah climate. Yep, that sounds right
39:40
And I mean obviously that's a newer team, right? Um, I think vegas seats quite a few
39:44
Yeah, but 18 300 for climate and that's a normal that's a normal nhl size arena. We are here. So
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I
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Don't know. I don't know if they would sell enough to be honest with you. I think it'd be great
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Yeah, you know, I like seeing more teams personally, but now you gotta add probably another one right because that'd be an odd number
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so utah and
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Who knows?
40:06
You know like no clue right bring back the hartford whalers. I don't you know what I mean? I don't know
40:12
Atlanta thrashers, alana makes a return to the nhl, you know, hey, there you go. I don't know it balance out
40:18
It balance out. It is two different. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know so it's interesting. I didn't heard that
40:23
I didn't heard hear that yet. Yeah, so that was definitely some news to me
40:27
Yeah, some official news this morning and the second little bit of news here is this is not 100% verified
40:32
So please take that with a grain of salt here if it is untrue
40:35
I apologize
40:35
But some of the information that I saw this morning earlier today was that zach parese might possibly sign with colorado avalanche after the all-star break
40:44
Do I really care about that? No, not really
40:46
No, not really, but I'm surprised to possibly see him moving around from where he's at
40:51
But also is he going to colorado do they have a chance right now? What is their status in his do you see parese making any?
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Like any benefit any benefit one anywhere, but in general in colorado right now
41:04
It's it's not like he was complete garbage last year, right? Yeah, but he's aging just like anybody else. It's a normal thing. Yeah
41:12
His better years are behind him. He's 39 years old. Yep
41:17
Um do I see them like answering your legitimate your actual question here?
41:22
Um do I see him actually helping colorado?
41:28
Uh, I don't know where he'd slot in. I don't know if colorado's suffering from a bunch of injuries right now
41:32
Sure, you know one thing I will say is the last two seasons zach parese has played 82 games
41:39
Unhurt which is kind of surprising for the islanders for the islanders. Wow
41:43
So then he had 35 points and 34 points the following year and last year last year
41:48
He had it was the 34 points with a plus seven
41:52
Average it's about a half a point every other game roughly a little less right because 82 games and you got what?
41:57
Yeah, yeah, something points roughly both probably third third fourth liner average ice time was about 16 minutes last year
42:04
Okay, so yeah, obviously up some obviously your bottom six, right? Yep. Um, what kind of crazy?
42:09
He's a fat dude. He could he could bring they must be suffering from an injury if you heard that then
42:15
Is my guess could be right? I mean great again. It was just wild, you know twitter x
42:20
Hockey garbage banter who knows right? But it's kind of an interesting thought to think about anyway big
42:26
Hey, it'd be good to see him keep playing. Yeah, and you'd see a bit more of them too here being in colorado
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Yeah, right. Oh, right time will tell but that's all we've got here for for the nhl news as things stand right now
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Uh, we're gonna jump over into one of our newer, uh segments that we talked about last time on the uh on the podcast stay tuned
42:45
Moving on to our next topic here. We're talking about the pwhl minnesota team
42:50
As we talked about it. We were super excited to one have the pwhl
42:55
Become a thing and also
42:57
Bless us with a hockey team here our team's been pretty darn solid. What's their record right now?
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Four one and one I think is what you mentioned there. Uh, yeah. Well, yeah. Yeah
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Uh overall their four
43:08
Oh and one now dropping literally just a few minutes ago to four one and one
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Uh taking their first regulation l at home
43:18
Which is a bummer but also at the end of the day like you're not expected to win every single game
43:22
Especially in your own league. You're not expected to win every single game
43:26
Especially in your inaugural season
43:28
But I think that does show four games in five six games into the season that they were just went undefeated in the regulation
43:35
Up until tonight, which is pretty crazy. So
43:37
Stoked to see that took to see that the gals are doing well
43:41
We talked initially about the home opener beating records
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I wanted to see if that would continue for the attendance for the pwhl and for just a minute. So the minnesota team specifically
43:51
We looked it up and right now the pwhl average is about 5 000 per game
43:57
ish
43:59
Minnesota has a league high
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Uh game average of about 8600 give or take per game over the first six games of the season
44:06
But how many of those are home games for them? Um, that's you know, don't have off the top of my head. However,
44:12
That's fine. I feel like they've only played like three home games
44:15
And i'm certainly not here to hate by any means. I I love that as a thing
44:19
Uh, but 13 000 opening night. They had about 5 000 tonight
44:24
Averaging out at 8 000. That makes sense. So dropping off a little bit here and there so that other crowd must have been
44:31
What closer to 9 000 then maybe roughly?
44:35
Maybe 10. Um, but if there was three games played or whatever, uh, I thought this was kind of interesting
44:42
What do you got? Uh, I pulled this from some site called
44:46
Blackout dallas. I don't I think it's a dallas stars fan page. Maybe okay interesting
44:51
Um, we'll we'll take that with a grain of salt then. Yeah. Yeah, right, right, right, right
44:55
Um, but they say here and i'm taking this from their little article here. Yep. Uh, shout out
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Uh, the pwhl has had over
45:03
72 500 attendees across 15 games based on data collected from current game sheets if grouped
45:09
This is almost the equivalent of selling out american airline center four times
45:13
Which has a capacity of roughly 18 500
45:16
So I thought that was kind of interesting. It's about the same size as our venue here. Yeah, it's 15 games
45:22
But selling it out four times for a brand new league. Yeah, it's not horrible
45:27
No, if you really think about it, it's not great, but it's not bad when you consider like they've pretty much lost about a half of their
45:36
Home opener stats as far as like attendance, but it also tonight was a no tonight was a wednesday night
45:40
True, right. You're not saturday matinee 2 p.m. For your home opener in the season and series ever in your inaugural season
45:48
That's a different beast. So
45:50
I'm not too upset about that average. I'm sure the weekend games will will definitely get more
45:55
Exposure and have a better attendance and turnout
45:57
No, no doubt and and I mean according to this same article as of january 22nd, which is two days ago. Yep
46:03
Um the general merchandise for the league is sold out across the league. Wow, that's impressive
46:12
That's pretty darn cool
46:14
That's pretty darn cool
46:15
Now do you think that was just a safe bet by the league not ordering a bunch of stuff or do you think that the country?
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The communities have rallied a little both. I think it's a little both
46:22
But if you think about it, right if they're if even the lower teams
46:27
Are averaging almost five thousand a game. Yeah, that's what ahf is doing
46:31
That's what the echl is. They're averaging anywhere between
46:36
I'm sure some are less like three thousand, right? Yeah, you know they go up but they go up to like eight maybe ten thousand
46:42
And you're seeing five thousand so far in the first year of the league. That's probably only gonna grow
46:49
That's impressive. I think it's I think it's impressive. It might not seem like a lot to people but yeah, you know
46:54
I know there's only six teams, but you're drawing people there
46:57
I like to see it. I just googled it real quick here on a couple of quick little google searches
47:02
Roughly the iowa wild attendance is about six thousand in the game give or take six thousand for iowa wild for iowa wild granted
47:08
That was on a very very quick google search with a couple of different random things that came up one of them being reddit
47:12
So take it. Yeah, however, it sounds about average. I mean
47:17
Downtown harder to harder to moly right on the river. You got uh, wales fog arena. There's only so many people no offense
47:23
You iowans. It's true. Is that iowans? Iowans. Yeah, we got family out there. So do you yeah, okay? Yeah, nice
47:29
I still want to make a road trip down there. I want to see an iowa wild game really bad this year
47:33
I mean, especially now once we have everybody healthy in the wild and you send all of our iowans back to iowa to play
47:38
I know now they can turn their season around
47:41
There are a few points out of play playoffs right now, too
47:44
But that is true. That is true talking about some of the pwcs
47:48
Out players real fast though grace zoom winkel zoom winkel. I believe is how you pronounce the last thing
47:53
I apologize for butchering that second in goals in the league with five. That's pretty impressive
47:57
Yeah, and I think those came in the first game ever. Yeah, and I think the league leader was at uh
48:03
I'm sorry at like six or seven. I can't remember
48:06
League leaders at six. Okay, so only one goal away. That's that's that's that's manageable and you're not chasing that too hard
48:13
And and uh, I think it's some week. Oh wait, we're gonna have to figure that out. But uh
48:18
She's also only two points behind points leader for the league who has eight and she has six so perfect
48:24
So she's right. Yeah, she's right there, which is awesome
48:27
And then you've got a line here in our in our our document here about the goal tending you want to tell us a little bit
48:31
About the tendies dude our tendies in minnesota are playing very well. Um, I just want to say
48:38
Really quick how many each has played looks like maddie rooney has played
48:45
Two games, I think okay two games for maddie and both six games total and so nicole has played
48:53
Four games then if there's six total games. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so
48:58
So let's just talk about them really quick nicole
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Hensley, I think I'm saying this is a good one
49:04
Let's talk about them really quick nicole, uh hensley. I think i'm saying that right sounds right to me
49:10
Um, let's see. She
49:12
Right now has got a 1.75 goals against
49:16
Solid that's great. Uh
49:19
And a nine three nine save percentage
49:22
That's gangster and about she's got three wins. Okay
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Pretty solid. Uh maddie. Let's go back to maddie here
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maddie rooney
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our other tendy 1.45 goals against
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with a
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943 save percentage
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That's impressive. So we have surprise. We're not one and two with those numbers, dude
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So we got we got a couple good tendies here. We do it sounds like you can send either one out there
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Which it that's awesome. That's awesome. That's a that's a good problem to have it sucks
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Maybe for the girls maybe not because you know, it's so new and they're just excited
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Everybody's just excited to be a part of it right now. Yep
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Um, but the thing that people like overlook and obviously i'm not a woman, but so i'm not gonna know right but like
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They're way more competitive than you think. Oh, yeah, you know what I mean?
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And I hate that people just automatically dismiss women as not competitive, you know, not physical. No, that's a bunch of bull
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That's a bunch of balls. It is so eventually if you have two good tendies
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Eventually, one of them is going to want to move on so they can be a stud somewhere else, which is fair
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You know, yeah, so for now good problem to have something to keep an eye on for the pwhl minnesota team
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Yeah, but inaugural season. There's plenty of room to go dude. There's a lot of good happening
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They could win the inaugural championship the way it's going
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Knock on wood a little
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Do we know how many I think it's probably four teams that make the playoffs right? Six teams in the league probably four, right?
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You have two semi-finals which may be best of five
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I don't think they play a seven game series maybe three for the semis and then five for the finals
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Could be I don't know. I'm trying to think of like and I know way different sport, right?
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I'm just trying to think of how the
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Wnba does it I think they do
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Gosh, I want to say they do five and then seven for the finals, but I could be wrong. Okay, so
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Per let's see per wikipedia. Anyway, I don't know if I want to listen. Yeah, but try it out
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That's a couple of different size a couple of different options that are on here
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But really quickly looking at the wikipedia answer it says
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The season will culminate with two
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A two round best of five playoff series including the top four teams to determine the season champion
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So we pretty much had it
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So sounds like the semi-final round and the final round are both best of five. That's awesome, dude
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What sounds like did you did you met? Can you imagine what a playoff game for them will draw here in minnesota?
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I mean that that imagine i'd imagine close to that record. Yeah, I agree. I think it'd be really crazy to that
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I mean everyone loves playoff sports in general
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I think playoff hockey is awesome playoff women's hockey especially coming up as much as it has been
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I think you'll probably get a very very similar if not better
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Turnout than the home opener or the inaugural opening. Did you go to the inaugural opener?
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So what was the atmosphere like? It's crazy, man. There was let's go. Let's go in minnesota
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Minnesota
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That was pretty much how they were chanting. Because I was gonna say let's go minnesota. I was like that's too long
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There was a lot of different. Let's go PWHL minnesota. That's too long
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There was a handful of variations throughout that. Everybody trying to figure it out
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Yeah, it's pretty cool though because they they had the the goal song for them was uh don't or can't stop me now
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I believe by Queen. Oh dope. So
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Please tell me they lit the lighthouse. They did. Did they? They did. Yes, and it was the wild horn. It was. Oh dude
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That's lit. That makes me excited. Yeah, they they went out
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Their their intro wasn't as cool with the laser light show and all that jazz but also it's fine
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Yep, but also it's like their inaugural season. So like they introduced every single player. That's fun
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One by one they skated out and said hey home opener. Yeah, rinse and repeat
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So that was pretty cool. The environment was cool
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So I can only imagine how rockin that place would be during get some towels going for PWHL playoffs
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Let's go. It'd be really cool. Dude. Let's go
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We'll have to we'll keep you guys posted with how the gals do and maybe we'll take a bandit with the boys trip to a
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PWHL let's go. I'm in I'm in playoff game. We'll see how things go. I'm in but with that
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We've got one little bit of hockey news
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We're going to talk about which is very very local here to the state of Minnesota talking about hockey day, Minnesota
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Yeah, so hockey day Minnesota, I can't remember when it was actually created
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I wish I should have probably pulled that up before I started this. Yeah
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But really it's it's an event that is held
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Actually Thursday Friday and Saturday with Saturday being the the actual hockey day Minnesota
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So it starts off right away at 9 30 in the morning
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With Warode playing Lakeville North the girls varsity squads facing off
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And that is in an outdoor rink in Warode, Minnesota
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So hockey day Minnesota is being held in Warode
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Which is a solid like five hours straight north of where we are located here in the cities
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It's a hike. Yeah, it is a hike and it gets cold
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But there is so many NHL players that have came out of Warode
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There's over 80 division one players that have came out of Warode, Minnesota some like that
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There has been every medal that the Olympic men's team has won
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There has been a player from Warode, Minnesota on the team
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Wow
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So I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure if I saw that commercial the other day
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I'm pretty sure I did
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But no so yeah it starts with the varsity girls Warode versus Lakeville North
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And then you go on at 1 p.m.
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You got Morehead facing off against top ranked Wyzetta
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I'm sorry I think they're number two in the state
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I think the skippers are still number one
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And then you go ahead and you got another varsity game at 4 30 p.m.
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Warode facing off against Roseau
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Just that is just a classic northern Minnesota game right there
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Yeah
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Oh dude 100 p you know that's a matchup that you're used to seeing in the state tournament
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It's yeah unless they're from the same section actually they might be
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Now they think about it
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But it's just a classic northern Minnesota matchup for sure
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7 30 p.m. this is not televised but you got the Warode Bantam A's playing the
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Morehead Bantam double A's should be a good matchup there
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And then the day concludes I think PWHL actually also plays that day
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If I'm not mistaken I think I think they're between 4 and 7 p.m.
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Somewhere in there I don't know who they play off the top of my head
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That's not listed here which is atrocious but
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But to cap the day as always the Minnesota Wild will be playing
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They play the Ducks at about 8 p.m.
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So which is pretty sweet when I first moved to Minnesota and started following hockey
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I found out that like hockey day Minnesota was a thing
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I was dumb and I'm like dude how cool would it be to watch like the wild play like outside
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In like Warode or you know Duluth or whatever they're playing it
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So I'm like heck yeah we're gonna go and then of course I didn't actually go
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But I did some research and I'm like oh that's not how it works
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Like the outdoor games they have once or no twice they've played outside here
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And then what's it called Winter Classic finally
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There you go Winter Classic yeah
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Two games which I wanted to go to and did not attend
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I went to the Winter Classic last year a couple years ago
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Did you?
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It was crazy
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That's cool I went to the
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When they had the stadium series here it was at TCF Bank
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At the Gophers where the Minnesota Gophers play football
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Yeah
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And the Gophers men's hockey team played against Ohio State like two days before that
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Or whatever before the stadium series game so I went to that
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That was lit stupid cold
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Oh yeah
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You know but there was like there's still like almost 20,000 there it was crazy it was fun
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Hockey's crazy out here man
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Yeah and I went to the Winter Classic same thing it was like zero degrees minus 20 win
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So when the game started
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A ton of people
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Oh yeah and it was like minus 10 minus 35 with the windchill when the game was over
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We lost too didn't we
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We did lose that game which stunk
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Darn it
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But at the end of the day it was awesome so I did check here it looks like the Minnesota
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PWHL team plays at Boston at 4 p.m. Eastern time to be 3 p.m. Central time here for us
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Minnesotan folks
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On Saturday
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On Saturday the 27th
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Yeah
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So that'd be pretty cool to really bring Hockey Day Minnesota all together
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Obviously a little bit of a different beast there but still be really really cool to see
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The Gals play too
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But yeah man fun fact Hockey Day Minnesota next year you know what it's gonna be
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Let me think next year next year next year is it in the cities
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It is no not necessarily in the city
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Burbs
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Yeah
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Okay it's in the burbs
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Yeah
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It's not gonna be in Shockby is it really
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It's gonna be at Valley Fair
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What
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Yeah I'm very very interested to see how they're gonna do this
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We should go
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I'm going 100,000 percent
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Yeah
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100,000 percent we should go for sure
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Because I wanted to go to the one that was in Stillwater because it was so close to the water
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And it looked cool with the lift bridge and blah blah blah
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And then they had one in Duluth right next to that lift bridge I was like darn it
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I didn't go to that one
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Yeah
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Valley Fair that's so random
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Look how I can only imagine like how cool the pictures are gonna be that I'm a photographer
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For you guys who don't know how cool the pictures are gonna be imagine the kids like
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Breath coming out of their mouth like in the fog that comes out of your mouth and you're
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Breathing in super cold air with like your hockey stick and your face mask on and everything
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Your helmet's all decked out and then he's got like roller coasters in the background
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They're not gonna be running
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No but like how crazy like
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They should run one though
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Why not in the background?
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They might just for fun but I think that the picture is still gonna be super cool
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How like the tracks and stuff running behind the power tower
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The only place I can think they would put it is in that parking lot
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The parking lot I can't
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So if they put it in the parking lot you have a steel venom still there
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Yeah
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So you got steel venom the wild thing right there yeah you got power tower there
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That might be cool I didn't know that it was at Valley Fair
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I believe it's at Valley Fair I apologize if I'm wrong
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I had a gut feeling about Shakopee but Valley Fair man
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Yeah it's sounds like it's gonna be pretty cool
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I'm surprised it's not like Canada or something
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Yeah I mean it'd be crazy if it was there but they don't have the seating for it
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They only have the seating in like that one corner section so
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With it being at Valley Fair they should be able to either use something that's already
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Pre-existing or just build an entire stadium
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They'll just build it out yeah I would imagine
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So it'll be cool though man so here's hoping for Hockey Day Minnesota 2025
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Here in the homeland of Shakopee if you guys didn't know that's where I live
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So with that man this has been an awesome episode
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You got anything else to take us out with?
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No man not at all it's just been a pleasure as always I'm glad to talk some puck
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You know luckily we got on some topics here so I didn't have to bring in a new segment
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Well maybe we'll save that for later but uh what what?
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That'll be awesome to bring it back in
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I like how we're expanding to some other hockey stuff in Minnesota
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We got some time to to kick things off maybe over the NHL All-Star break
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We'll bring in some other things as the other boys are taking a chill but
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With that said thank you so much everyone for your time thank you for listening as always
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