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Steve Levy is ready for Round 2: Two crazy Game 7s, second-round previews and Clooney on Broadway. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, folks, we did it. First round is over
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  Speaker 1: of the NHL Playoffs. As we're here on Unscripted breaking
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  Speaker 1: down all that you need to know, we.
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  Speaker 2: Will give you our second rim previews in.
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  Speaker 1: Addition to talking about Maddy Cash getting paid by the
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  Speaker 1: Calgary Flames and Little Cel File and sixty more theater
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  Speaker 1: for you. George Clooney Tony Award nominated for his working
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  Speaker 1: good Night, Good Luck, which is an outstanding show on
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  Speaker 1: Bobway show is able to see. But we're recording this
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night after just watching that thrilling double overtime win.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it makes sense because our special guest this
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  Speaker 1: week is Steve Levy, who is known for calling the
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  Speaker 1: longest games in NHL claff history. So JD. Caley is
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  Speaker 1: going Levia here. We're definitely going DOUBLET and that indeed
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  Speaker 1: was the case. We'll talk about all that this means
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  Speaker 1: for Winnipeg moving forward. But first off, JD, you're watching
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  Speaker 1: it in a slightly different environment than me and Tal
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  Speaker 1: who're watching it in our basement respectively.
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  Speaker 2: You were with a Howard Chuck tell Us about that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I was, no, we had I went to meet
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  Speaker 3: up with some buddies at a bar just to watch
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  Speaker 3: the game and kind of just enjoy the atmosphere. And
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  Speaker 3: of course in Arizon, I'm in Phoenix, Arizona. So in
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  Speaker 3: classic Arizona fashion, it's a game seven, and there's about
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  Speaker 3: seven people.
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  Speaker 2: In the bar.
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  Speaker 3: And meanwhile, if it was like the Panthers versus the Falcons,
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  Speaker 3: it would be you know, it'd be jammed on a Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: So so yeah, so it was it was US seven.
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  Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, you know, Eric Howard
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  Speaker 3: Chuck Deal Howard Chucks then walks in and sits down
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  Speaker 3: with us. So I didn't know he lived in the valley,
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  Speaker 3: but you know, we started chatting and he had his
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  Speaker 3: Howard Chuck gear on and from his family's foundation, and
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  Speaker 3: he had his jets hat on and and it was tense.
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  Speaker 2: He came in.
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  Speaker 3: It was like they're down to nothing, and I mean,
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  Speaker 3: what a crazy game, what a crazy comeback. But as
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  Speaker 3: I was like two minutes left in the game, and
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, I gotta leave, like I gotta go
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  Speaker 3: get ready for this podcast. The game's over. So I
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  Speaker 3: start walkouting. I start walking out of the building and
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  Speaker 3: as soon as I walk out, they score. So I
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  Speaker 3: run back in and I'm celebrating with all of them
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  Speaker 3: and cheering, and they're like, you can't leave. Now, you
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  Speaker 3: can't leave. I'm like, I gotta get back. They're probably
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  Speaker 3: not going to tie it up. So I walk out
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  Speaker 3: at with like thirty seconds left, get in my car,
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  Speaker 3: and as I start pulling away, they're facetiming me and
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  Speaker 3: they're like, here, we did it.
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  Speaker 2: It's I gave one second left. And I'm like, are
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  Speaker 2: you you fucking crazy? I'm like, oh twice. So yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So came back here, watched the game, and I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's just elated. And what a crazy, crazy game, and
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  Speaker 3: what a resilient team in Winnipeg. I mean both Dallas
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  Speaker 3: last game down their top demon, top forward, Winnipeg down
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  Speaker 3: their top demon, top four, and guys just stepped up
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  Speaker 3: and they just hung with it. And and two, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you got to say these two pretty big collapses by
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  Speaker 3: Colorado one and then Saint Louis. So that's it's it's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: And it's what's so amazing about the Stanley Cup playoffs
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  Speaker 3: is it's just so unpredictable and just you. You never
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  Speaker 3: can take your foot off the gas for one second
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  Speaker 3: because somebody will just call their way back into the game.
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  Speaker 2: But what a game. It is a good point.
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  Speaker 1: Did Winnipeg and Dallas win or the Blues and the
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  Speaker 1: Avalanche choke?
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  Speaker 2: You can have that debate as much as you want.
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  Speaker 1: What is inarguable is the home team wins every game
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  Speaker 1: of this Blues and Jets series.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for our friends with NHL.
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  Speaker 1: Never with this research, twelve series down hockey history have
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  Speaker 1: seen the host go seven and oh rost. Recently, in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, Hurricanes beat the Bruins.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the one thing I have to say, you
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  Speaker 3: know about the resilient not only about the resiliency of
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  Speaker 3: Winnipeg and Neil Pionk who had a monstrous game, but
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  Speaker 3: Cole Profetti had a breakout game and a breakout series.
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  Speaker 3: I think he has arrived. If I'm a Winnipeg Jets fan,
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  Speaker 3: that is a young kid that you know. It makes
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  Speaker 3: Winnipeg a lot more comfortable to let Nicolai Eilers walk
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  Speaker 3: after this season, because you know, he is everything they
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  Speaker 3: kind of wanted him to turn into when they drafted him.
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  Speaker 3: And he's homegrown and it's fun to see. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: mean that tip played down low was Sydney Crosby esque
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  Speaker 3: and then he gets another tip goal to tie up
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  Speaker 3: with one second left. He was out in the biggest moments.
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  Speaker 3: Young kid just played hard on pucks and you know,
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  Speaker 3: for him to have some weird contract issues with Winnipeg,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think he's just done a tremendous.
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  Speaker 2: Job of developing and and.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's fun to see, you know that, just that
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  Speaker 3: building in Winnipeg, and you know there's a franchise that
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  Speaker 3: deserved a first round win, which they haven't had one
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  Speaker 3: since twenty eighteen. Yeah, I just think that it was
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  Speaker 3: so deserving to see that fan base get that and
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  Speaker 3: the way they did, in the fashion they did it
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  Speaker 3: is just it's it's very heartwarming to see that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with it.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing quite like the white out I had four games
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  Speaker 1: it was sound problem like that crowd is the electric
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  Speaker 1: when you're seeing the go bananas like that, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: the entire city is rooting for that team. That Francis. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you like your stay goss there in Winnipeg. I would
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  Speaker 1: to further the point because it's so great with you
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  Speaker 1: being a defenseman one of My favorite parts of playoff
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  Speaker 1: hockey is especially if there's an injury something happens, which
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  Speaker 1: unfortunate half for Josh Morrisey.
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  Speaker 2: One of our favorites top de defense from the league
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  Speaker 2: is you and I have agreed.
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  Speaker 1: Is you start to see the total ice time of
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  Speaker 1: the remaining five defensemen. Yeah, and Peok forty six point fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: Sambri forty four, Damello thirty six, forty forty thirty three
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  Speaker 1: oh two.
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  Speaker 2: Like again, you can speak to this, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: That's insane to these guys are playing two hockey games
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  Speaker 1: out of the greatest pressure imaginable.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I think my first or second year against the Kings,
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  Speaker 3: we went to two overtimes and I think we lost
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  Speaker 3: the demon in that game as well. I think I
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  Speaker 3: played thirty two to thirty three minutes. And it's an
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  Speaker 3: interesting I had like pools of water in my skates,
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  Speaker 3: like my socks were just completely soaked, and you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to skate up ice, but you seem to get kind
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  Speaker 3: of into a little bit better of a flow and
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  Speaker 3: your the rhythm and you take shorter shifts, but the
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  Speaker 3: rhythm of the game just seems to kind of fall
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  Speaker 3: in place for you. It's it's hard to explain. It's
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  Speaker 3: you know a lot of the times you kind of
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  Speaker 3: heard the guys, the guys on TNT were talking about it,
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  Speaker 3: and they're like, it seems like they're gonna be more
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  Speaker 3: and more comfortable. And when you're a demon like that,
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  Speaker 3: you just kind of keep it simple. You keep the
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  Speaker 3: puck moving north, you wait for your opportunities, and you
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  Speaker 3: almost play a little bit better. As a unit of five.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of chatter on the bench and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's something that's hard to explain why, but guys
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  Speaker 3: just step up in the right times, in the right moments.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought that decor as a whole just can't
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  Speaker 3: say enough good things about them. And Neil Pionk has
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  Speaker 3: really developed, Dylan Samdberg. I mean a ton of credit
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  Speaker 3: goes to all five of these guys.
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  Speaker 1: Just a thought on the Blues, how do you evaluate
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  Speaker 1: this because the one hand, you say, well, guy, I
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  Speaker 1: who was expecting the Blues to do anything. They had
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  Speaker 1: an amazing second half up particularly in at home ice.
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  Speaker 1: If you just go like gold differential, like they really
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  Speaker 1: hammered Winnipeg at home, whereas the Jets barely speakpot home.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm with you. You can also look at it
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  Speaker 1: and go your gag. A three win lead in game seven,
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  Speaker 1: that's a tough build, A swallow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's I think there's more positives than negatives in
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  Speaker 3: this series. I don't think anybody had this going seven.
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  Speaker 3: I think everybody was very bullish on Winnipeg. You got
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  Speaker 3: to think too. You know, Saint Louis was missing Dylan Holloway.
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  Speaker 3: That is arguably their best player down the stretch. They're
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  Speaker 3: missing him, and you know, I thought the only tough
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  Speaker 3: thing for me is moving forward. They do have an
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  Speaker 3: aging decorp and now they're all a year older, a
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  Speaker 3: lot of guys with a lot of miles on them.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you can run it back. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure Ryan Soudor will be not coming back to that team.
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  Speaker 3: I just can't see it. In a world They'll probably
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  Speaker 3: bringing a young kid, but everybody gets a little bit older.
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  Speaker 3: They do have a youthful, you know, top nine, top
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  Speaker 3: six up front, So I think they're good. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you have a great coaching staff, you get a great
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  Speaker 3: front office, you got a lot of good talented studs
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  Speaker 3: up front. I think they're not far off to making
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  Speaker 3: another run, but I think the windows, like now, especially
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  Speaker 3: with that decor, you want to keep as much of
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  Speaker 3: that veteran decor there. And with Jordan Bennington, who's kind
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  Speaker 3: of shown how good he can be in these moments
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  Speaker 3: and nothing he didn't, I don't think he. I think
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  Speaker 3: he outplayed Connor Hellibuck for that series. Majority of that series,
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  Speaker 3: they just one or two lucky goals was the difference.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I I'm bullish on them moving into
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  Speaker 3: next year, like a lot of these teams, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I saw Brad richardson yesterday and fan of the show,
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  Speaker 3: and we were talking and we both kind of said
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  Speaker 3: the same thing. I was like, this year is like
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  Speaker 3: the most parody there's ever been in the league per team,
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  Speaker 3: Like every team I feel like in the West could
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  Speaker 3: have could win the Cup. And in the East maybe
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  Speaker 3: you know minus injured New Jersey Devils in the Montreal Canadians,
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  Speaker 3: like same thing in the East. Like there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of teams that can that can win, and so it
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  Speaker 3: was very tight, and I thought it's a lot tighter
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  Speaker 3: than everybody thought. But you know, great first round, but
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  Speaker 3: in Saint Louis and Minnesota as well, I'd say I'm
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  Speaker 3: bullish moving forward, so I don't think they lost anything
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  Speaker 3: from getting knocked out in the first round.
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  Speaker 1: As I've said on this podcast, I've christened you no
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  Speaker 1: strech Demurs, but it might have to be no stra.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell were you thinking?
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  Speaker 1: Because you have the Avalanche going all the way my bracket,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking. You kept talking about their speed and now
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  Speaker 1: their speeders at a different level. They expred their way
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  Speaker 1: speedily out of the playoffs after gagging once again choking
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  Speaker 1: against the Dallas Stars.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: You a lot of company here who picked Colorado to win.
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  Speaker 1: But what the hell happened to your avalancheer?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I don't, man, It's tough. I think the Decorps
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  Speaker 3: really let down the team as a whole. I think
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  Speaker 3: they brought in some veteran guys that did not play
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  Speaker 3: great hockey in that series. Overall, I thought the decor
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  Speaker 3: of Dallas missing Miro Hayskin, outplayed them categorically. They're more physical.
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  Speaker 3: I just think Colorado needs to get a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more physical in the back end. The only guy that
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  Speaker 3: hits is Josh Manson. And listen, their top guys got
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  Speaker 3: outplayed in the biggest moments against the top guys of
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  Speaker 3: the Dallas Stars. You know, you look at Why Johnston
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  Speaker 3: and Miko Randon who had just Turkey Lee in Game seven,
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  Speaker 3: but you know Why Johnston was unbelievable once again. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Jamie Benn, you look at Rupe Hints, like those guys
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  Speaker 3: just kind of over that sixty minute hockey. They just
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  Speaker 3: outplayed them. And I thought they all played the top guys.
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  Speaker 3: They had some flashes Colorado, but you know, it just
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  Speaker 3: it's interesting. I you listen to Nate McKinnon after the game,
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  Speaker 3: and you kind of watched him during that series, and
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  Speaker 3: he's kind of yelling at Charlie Coyle. He looked frustrated
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  Speaker 3: the whole series, and after he goes, well, he just lost,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to a team missing their best forward and
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  Speaker 3: best team manse I don't know where we go from here,
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  Speaker 3: and seemed a little defeated, and it's just tough because
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  Speaker 3: you know, I don't know if man, it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: say where Colorado goes from here because they they retooled
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  Speaker 3: mid season and they didn't get it done. So you're
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  Speaker 3: gonna lose a lot of guys. You're gonna lose brock Nelson.
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  Speaker 3: You mortgaged your quite. You know, you're I like the
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  Speaker 3: trade initially, but him not scoring in the playoffs and
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  Speaker 3: then losing Callum Richie Anna first is gonna hurt them
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  Speaker 3: because he's Brock Nelson's going to Minnesota. He's gonna get
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  Speaker 3: overpaid in Minnesota, which good for him. But then you
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  Speaker 3: got Charlie Cole. You got some older guys on the
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  Speaker 3: on the bottom six, you know, man, they could have
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  Speaker 3: used Miko Ranton, and though.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus well that one. Oh, you're right because it's it's
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  Speaker 2: one thing you're no, you're right.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're right, because it's like it's one thing you lose,
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  Speaker 1: but you lose with the guy who you had just
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  Speaker 1: a few months ago, and.
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  Speaker 2: He just torches you. He starts the season.
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  Speaker 1: In Colorado, played thirteen games in Carolina, feels like a
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  Speaker 1: blip on the radar. He takes over for Dallas, and
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  Speaker 1: specifically late in the series first four games he was
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  Speaker 1: quiet like, oh, they're doing a great job shutting down Ranson.
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  Speaker 1: But eleven points in games five, six, and seven, a
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  Speaker 1: hat trick in the third period of Game seven, going
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  Speaker 1: along with the assists on Wyatt Johnson's game winner, first
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  Speaker 1: ever hat trick in the third period of a game
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  Speaker 1: seven in hockey history. I mean again, people loving Colorado's
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  Speaker 1: the front row. They haven't won a game seven now
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  Speaker 1: since two thousand and two. And Pete de boor your
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  Speaker 1: boy improves his record in game seven is to nine
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  Speaker 1: and oh, I mean props to Ranson, but also props
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  Speaker 1: the coach tevot nine and oh, you can't be even
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  Speaker 1: in a game of seven.
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  Speaker 3: I listen, you could probably say, like you know, two
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  Speaker 3: and oh, three and oh, you know it's on the players,
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  Speaker 3: on the players, but nine and oh, you're you're doing
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  Speaker 3: something and you're getting that team to believe in a
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  Speaker 3: way you know that's not luck and and versus. You know,
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  Speaker 3: same thing with Bedner. I think he's a great coach,
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  Speaker 3: but they panicked way too much. You know, they they're
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  Speaker 3: up to fifteen minutes left in the game and it
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  Speaker 3: they just shut their brains off. And no lead is
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  Speaker 3: safe in the new NHL. But I just feel like
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  Speaker 3: you have to shut it down a little bit again.
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  Speaker 3: They're missing their top four and their top team, and
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  Speaker 3: and you let Miko ran and run rough shot all
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  Speaker 3: over you guys, which he did the previous two games.
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  Speaker 3: But I just thought that, Yeah, too much space on
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  Speaker 3: the penalty kill on the one, they allow Miko to
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  Speaker 3: walk down the middle on the first one, and then
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  Speaker 3: you know it's it was just I kind of was like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I thought Mackenzie Blackwood had a great game,
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  Speaker 3: but I just think all those goals, he couldn't do
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  Speaker 3: a thing. The penalty kill I thought was atrocious at
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  Speaker 3: that point of the game. You can't give up that
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  Speaker 3: back door tap in to Whi Johnston. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's man like Miko's in, didn't I ask U tal
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  Speaker 3: what's that stat of him with playoff playoff scorers. I
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  Speaker 3: know he's like top five in the all time in
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  Speaker 3: the NHL with eighty games played minimum.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, Miko Rantinen is averaging one point two eight
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  Speaker 4: points per game in the playoffs for his career. The
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  Speaker 4: only players in NHL history who have played a minimum
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  Speaker 4: of eighty career playoff games who are ahead of him
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  Speaker 4: are some guys you may have heard of named Wayne Gretzky,
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  Speaker 4: Mario Lemieux, Connor McDavid Leon, dr Dryseidle, and Nathan McKinnon.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the only guys in the history of the
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  Speaker 4: game ahead of him minimum eighty playoff games, and he's
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  Speaker 4: just ahead of a group of guys named Messier Or
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  Speaker 4: and Bossy.
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  Speaker 2: But like, how crazy is that?
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  Speaker 1: Ad Net like the greatest players ever in your rightcord,
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  Speaker 1: you'd never think of that. The guy's a great player. Store,
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  Speaker 1: he's not like Bossy. You nuts, it's not Bobby Or
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  Speaker 1: it's not Eithan Kennon. Again, that's why I keep thinking
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  Speaker 1: I'm Colorado. Im like I got McKinnon in my car
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  Speaker 1: and I couldn't win around.
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  Speaker 3: For two hundred and fifty thousand they traded him. Is
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  Speaker 3: the stories we're hearing hundred and fifty k. That's like
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  Speaker 3: us being underpaid for this podcast. Thank you for bringing
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  Speaker 3: it back to us, Miko Ranton and of the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: We are hoping to get a big bump going into
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  Speaker 2: season two.
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  Speaker 1: We'll drop that now early and often the second round preview,
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  Speaker 1: and again JD will be very humble about the fact
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  Speaker 1: the bracket hasn't gone the way he wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: But I think we start fresh now. Screw the bracket.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're going for three three of eight.
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  Speaker 3: Three p K better than PK su Man PK doing
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  Speaker 3: two of eight, so I got beat by one. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know what's the best I was gonna say, I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to ask you. Yeah, we we got to be
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: kind of celebrating a bit because we predicted is no,
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  Speaker 3: well Mike Sullivan won. Yeah, we'll take our flowers. But
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  Speaker 3: we we talked about a Canadian team winning the cup.
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  Speaker 2: So we got three out around one. Not bad. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: that was a bit we needed.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if Winnipeg, but Edmonton surprised us and
• 15:06
  Speaker 3: we're we're we're kind of cooking here.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: We are got three and a round too, so we're
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: still good. That is a good point of redempt if
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: we're waving the flag right now. Trew with the Tariffs Stars.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Jets Winnipeg win three or four against Dallas during the season,
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: including a big four nothing statement win last month. Dallas
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: maybe the favorite after his South Hayes Gonn and Jason
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Robertson expected back for Game one. No update on Mark
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Scheiffley or Josh Morrison again recording this Sunday night. We'll
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: see what happens. First playoffs years between these two teams
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: and the Jets. Two point zero Era Ranson's exploits amazing,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Kyle conn are great, twelve points against Saint Louis that
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: ties Ranton and for the tops the NHL this playoff season,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: my listen, I think it's Stars and six United. Said before,
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: the winner of this series wins the Stanley Cup. So
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: I can't go against the Stars. Maybe Winnipeg has some
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: fight them. Obviously be nice to get back Morrisy and Shiffley,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: but I would be hard pressed to see winning this.
• 15:56
  Speaker 5: You.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gotta rock with Dallas because I took I
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: better not go against the team that knocked out the
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: team that had winning the Cup. So I have to
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: say I have to go down. I gotta ride with
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Dallas all the way. And I think if Robertson comes
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: back and Miro and Shiefley's on one hundred percent and
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: more season, I don't see a world in which Winnipeg
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: that that series against Saint Louis. Regardless who won that,
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: that took a lot out of both of them. Like
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: that was the most physical series by far. You watch
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: that overtime, they were still fucking running each other in
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: overtime and I was like, it's boys, we're trying to
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: score a goal here. It just was dirty and I
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: think a lot of guys are gonna be banged up,
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: and man, Dallas just looks fast. And Dallas's back end
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: even you know you're gonna have Mirro back. But they're
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: big on the back end too, and they're very you know,
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: I think the thing that Colorado didn't realize was how
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: physical they were gonna be on the back end. That
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: that lean, that lean bischel is is a big boys
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: the fridge, the Drome Bettis of the NHL. Yeah, so
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: they're gonna they're gonna have their work cutout from.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: And Jake Gotteners.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: It's it's gonna come down to hellabuck and what Connor
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: can do. But I haven't seen enough to to make
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: me confident in any aspect of this series. And if
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: I'm Dallas watching this, you know exactly how to get
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: to him. It's it's traffic to the net and shoot
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: it high.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hellibugs performance certainly uninspiring. So if you're looking at.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Goaltending, I don't know how you wouldn't be really raving
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: about Atten during Dallas in this series Hurricanes and Capitals.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: She made a good point. Both of those teams were
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: very much tested here. The Jets and the Stars, the
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Kaynes and Capitals. Neither of them are very tested as
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: you did correctly predict Monreal will get one game at
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the Bell Center. So the Capitals move on and the Devils,
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: you know, marks me thought might be better than he was.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I missed. I missed that one. They were under me.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: You're looking for this walk. They lost seven guys in
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: the first game.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Correct, So they split their four meetings this season. They
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: closed up their season by splitting two games eight days
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: apart in April. Take that for what you will. Ovechen
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: scored four goals and Washington's five game win over Montreal.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Sebastian Ajo Carolin, his top guy in the first run
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: against Jersey, led the team eight points in five games,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: including the double ot winner in game five to close
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: up the series. If I'm just going by talent JD,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I will say Capital Since what do you got?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: You went?
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I I don't disagree. I have Oh man, Jordan Martino's
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: gonna want to kill me.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: By the way, Jordan MARTINOK is responsible for the highest
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: rated episode of Anchelling scripted so far.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: So we love Marty and.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: The problem is is I took Jersey. He texted me,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: he said, keep my team's name out of your mouth.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: And then I'm I'm flirting with taking the capitals, but
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: I honestly go bold. I think I'm gonna go as
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: much as I was talking with EJ. Raddick, you know,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: another fan of the show, Nice he you know, we
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: kind of talked about and he goes. Eventually, the issue
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: in net for Carolina is gonna come to a head
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: because Freddie Anderson cannot play when if he's not rested,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: he needs to be rested. Co check off is good
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: at times, but I don't think he'll be good enough
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: to stop when it stop washing it Washington, But I
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: just think Carolina matches up better. I think, you know,
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Washington likes to really play a little bit cute coming
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: out of their own end, and we saw Montreal really
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: get to them of the Ford check. I think Carolina's
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: four checks on another level. And I do think if
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Svechnikov stays on this scoring pace that you know, they've
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: needed him for years, they've needed a game breaker, and
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: you know he kind of did that last series. I
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: think they get past Washington. Wow, and then you know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: so I'm gonna go Carolina in seven.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Third is Marty give it a little push, Marty, clip
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: that and send it to him.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Tell all right, we'll get to the rest of what
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: to expect you in the second room. But first, Steve Leeve,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: he's been the face of hockey out of USPN for
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: so many years, he'll tell us, but his distinguished career
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: not only calling hockey and all those overtime games, but
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: also take us behind the curtain on Alexander Vetchkin and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: this is sports and a commercial.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: That's next after this.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Our special guest, ESPN's main man in the studio throughout
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup playoffs as the second round opens across
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: ESPN's family of networks. He's been on the air for
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the World Wide Leader since nineteen ninety three, Wow, thirty
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: plus years at the mothership on the best in the business.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Since that time, particularly covering the NHL, he's been the
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: voice somebody and at football he's been a MAINSTAD sports center.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: And of course he and I were both little league
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: coaches in West Harford, which is a story we'll be
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: telling you in a minute.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. Steve Leavy leaves, it's great to see
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: you man.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: Hey, how you doing, guys, good to good to be
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: with you. Thanks for having me on.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: First off, it's great to work at ESPN with your longevity,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: But how envious were you the last time I saw
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you in New Jersey Amazon Prime invading the turf. We
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: had a studio which was the size of Ben Hurr.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I mean we have we have a cast and crew
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: that put you in PK.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Subant to shame. How inferior did you feel? That was?
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: Like Fox's pregame for the Super Bowl. You guys had
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: like twenty five on air people. Talent if you will,
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: but a lot of on air people. I looked around, like, oh,
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: we don't even have our producer with us. They were
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: in Bristol. I'm lucky Eve a truck, you know so.
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: But you guys are a big deal. If you're a
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: big deal, it's a big deal, it's a big show.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: The best person we did the scrub would talk it
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and we thought we were We just made it for
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: you to leave, Like, well, now you guys have your
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: own separate scrub.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: What is this?
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: And if you guys each have two or three questions,
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: I mean, ale, it's an our press conference. Craziness.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: How are those scrubs in the preparation for that? Do
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: you find like over the years, it's it's you've gotten
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: more comfortable or is there something a nuance in a
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: certain way to take it that allows you to get
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: more from the coaching staffs.
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: It's really I found, it's really about relationships, you know,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: and some guys you know, right, some guys you know,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: some guys you know that you have really they're not
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: gonna They're not gonna burn you, and I'm not gonna
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: burn them.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: It's sort of a trust factor, right. And then you
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: get into some older guys who are old school, who
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: probably you know, super tight lipped, and they don't want
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: to play it all, they don't want to joke. I
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: found Lobbyoletta was extremely straight, you know, and really hard
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: to get anything from. And then you get new guys
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: who aren't sort of sure how this is gonna go,
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: you know, and a sort of trying to figure it
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: out themselves. So I just we just did the game
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: in Minnesota with John Hines, and there was all these
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: rumors in the press room, Hey, Marc Andre Fleury's gonna play.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be flurry starting tonight, and so we asked Hines, Yeah,
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: you know, I just want to make sure Gus is
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: good to go ton is yet Gus he's one hundred percent,
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, John, yeah, you're giving it to me
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: straight right, I'm hearing a lot of buzz. So I
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: followed up with him and he goes, no, I wouldn't
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: do that to you. I'm like, okay, cause some guys
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: have and I won't name names, but absolutely, next time
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: you get Sean and ray On you can ask them
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: they have absolutely been misled by a head coach ninety
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: minutes before puck drop. I'm a starting goalie on an
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: ABC game, and that is flat out wrong. You know,
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: you don't want to tell people publicly, that's fine, but
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: at least you tell the broadcasters, Hey, don't say it
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: before puck drop, or just save it for the open.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: You know, we're all trying to work together on this thing.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Let's not try to make somebody look foolish. But I
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: really enjoy him. I get a lot out of them.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: But I'm like a three question guy, you know, and
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: I've written it down. I know exactly what I want
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: to ask, and I find it can be very helpful.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: We've had mcdone on the pod.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: You're right, it's not suffer full as gladly as you
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and I both know, a great guy to go drinking
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: with it him a late night diner because Sean lets
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: it fly. We can talk with this year's playoffs leaves
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: me well a little bit, but you know, for me,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I'll always think of you, Flyers, Penguins, Marathon Man, Keith Primo.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I know you told the stories before, but kind of
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: like how Joe Tess our buddy has become snaymous with
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: these great college football finances, the guy and he tell's
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: an overtime game. Steve Levey was on the call first off,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: how did your bladder hold up? And tell me about
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: that Flyers game with Primo Scord.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: So it's really an experienced thing, like I got better
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: at it doing more of them, right, because you never
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: know how you're going to react. And so I believe
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: I have two five overtimes and a third game that
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: was forty five seconds from a fifth overtime. And I
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: think Gord just recently passed me two years. I still
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: have the longest game ever broadcast, and I think I
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: had the top three. Maybe I have three in the
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: top four, two of the top five, something like that.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: I'm still number one. Nice for those for those who say,
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: you know, records are made to be broken. That's bullshit. Okay,
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: I want that longest game, man, are you kidding? Like,
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: I want to be known for something. I want to
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: hang my hat on something. I'll be pissed if somebody
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: beats me out on the longest televised game. But so
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: the first one I had was at the Old Cap
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: Center in Landover, Washington, Pittsburgh. Guys were Daryl Ray and
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Peter Nedven wound up ending that game. So this gets
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: back to the experience part of it, because I found
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: in the first overtime my excitement level at xuberant's voice
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: volume is already up here, right. This is videos people
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: can see here, right, Okay, but if they're on, say
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: on radio, see here, really is not gonna help anybody.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: And then so it gets ratcheted up. Okay, now we're
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: in the second overtime. By the third overtime, I've got
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: nowhere to go, right, I've got nowhere to go. My
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: heart is in my throat now on you know, icing's
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: you know, like it's just insane. And so now we're
• 25:15
  Speaker 5: in the fourth overtime. Now we're into the fifth overtime,
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: and you know, you get to a double overtime. This
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: is a call that's going to be replayed. You really
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: don't want to blow that call. You don't want to
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: miss the name. It looked like an eight, it turns
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: out to be a nine. And you know that old
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Cap center was really dark, and I think we're in
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: a corner when I didn't center ice and so I
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: wound up getting the ned bed call. But I just
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: remember being totally out of gas to the point where
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: I had I went out of words right, like it
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: was just strictly last names, you know, Lemieux, Jones, Smith,
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: ned Bed score and it was it was what Mario
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: got kicked out of the game, kicked out of that
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: game there. I think he ran into the goalie, got
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: in a fight. It was a I mean, how Mario,
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: you'll get kicked out of a five overtime stay like
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: a playoff game. What referee is doing that? Right? But
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: that was all way So yeah, and the other story
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: about that, I'm always from Kevin Kaminski. You remember Killer,
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: He didn't play a single shift. He might not even
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: played in regulation, okay, and so Barry Melrose and he
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: you don't lose Saskatchewan guys, they are like cousins or whatever.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: I remember Barry saying, hey, you had the best seat
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: in the house. But a five overtime game. I don't
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: think he ever saw the ice, which is hard to
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: do so anyway, So fast forward. Then I got another
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: one of those games. I was much more relaxed in
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: the third period. This could be overtime now, I'm okay.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: First overtime, second and ratchet up to a normal level.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: That was in Pittsburgh with Panger. That was Keith Primo
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: that you're referencing. The funny story about that is we
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: had a runner who would try to find us, you know,
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: cold pizza or a stale popcorn. The igloo ran out
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: of everything at that point. The runner even left us
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: mid game. It was a school night. His mom took
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: him home. Like that's that's what we're dealing and who
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: can blame him? Right, Like, you know, people are sleeping
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: in the crowd. Uh, there's all of that. Hangar. I
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: believe I think he's okay with me telling the story.
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: I know thirty years later, he of course was in
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: Mario suite at the time. Pierre LaRouche, probably enjoying some
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: red wine, you know, between overtime periods while I'm drinking
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: you know, diet coke without any fuzzy visited so and
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: then I the last one was, uh like I think
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: it was close to five more times with Dallas Anaheim.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: I think it was an afternoon ABC, Peter Soakora and
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: my game. And so those are the three games. Listen.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: There's no skill like to get those games right. That's
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: totally fluky to be in the building at that time.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: But when you get there then you really want to
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: nail them. And I've been fortunate. I feel pretty good
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: about the calls there.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: So you know, talk about these these Stanley Cup playoffs
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: so far, and you know what a wild turn of
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: events in a lot of these games. Do you have
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: a moment that's kind of because you've been at the
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: forefront with PK and MESS that's really kind of stood
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: out to you as like a great storyline.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean last night, I just you know,
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Dallas had no chance to win that game. They're just
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: they're just not They're not winning that game. And McKinnon
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: scores thirty seconds into the third. You know, PK and
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: I get into it, and the intermission going into the
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: thirdies like Dallas have been the better team, Like, they
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: just went ten minutes without a shot, How could they
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: be the better team? They have ten shots through forty
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: minutes and a lot of time, a lot of hockey
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: left that we all joke about that, right, it's only
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: twenty minutes and at that point they're only down one nothing,
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: and now it's down two nothing and there's a penalty.
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: You know, for Colorado, it felt like them they might
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: have three minors the Abs last night, two on fourth liners,
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: one on their six defensemen, like some odd players who
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: don't see a lot of ice. We're taking penalties last night,
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: and I couldn't object the call we watched on replays.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: Those were good calls. Those were real penalties, and that
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: sort of turned it. And then all of a sudden
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: they get the puck luck right, it goes off the
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: skate of Girard and goes into the net, the same
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: things that but happened to the Blackwell and the Stars
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: going off of Dallas into their own net. Now it's
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: sort of flipped. But that's an all time, all time game.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: And I got I got some heat post game because
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: people wanted to draw comparisons to Rantman's hat trick to
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: the messier hat trick, uh added with an empty net,
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: and I'm like, hey, one guy guaranteed it, the other
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: guy didn't. This is the first round, not the conference final.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Like everybody relaxed a little bit, okay, but it was.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: It was an all time moment, certainly in Dallas Star's
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: hockey history. And I love that building. It's not Reunion Arena,
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Jason Reunion arenas where they used to play. Okay, you're so,
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Know that, but I listen. I love that building that Dallas.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: When the fans stand up and you can't see really
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: really good, it's just an amazing atmosphere.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: Loud. Yeah. I ask Adman about the old Stars Club
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: at Reunion a post.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: Sure Mart took there. He said, you worked at Darryl
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Ray too.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Do you have a great I mean that guy lives
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: with the Tasaurus in his back pocket or something, because
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: the ship he brings up is incredible.
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: He is, I mean, he might be the best local
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: analyst in the game. Like he is so good at
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: his job. And quite frankly, I loved Ralph with him.
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: This is back in the day. It's a long time ago.
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: I always thought they were the top and I've pushed with,
• 30:34
  Speaker 5: Like when the ESPN bosses asked me, you know, hey,
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: maybe we're looking for the guy. I'm like, let's call
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Darrel Ray. You know. Now, maybe Razor doesn't want to
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: do it. You know, maybe he's got a cushy thing there.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: He's beloved in Dallas. He's kind of a god there.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: He's done play by play, he can host, he can
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: do it all. But for my money, he's among the
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: very best local analysts. And believe me, if he wanted
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: a network job, he'd have it. He's he's great and
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: everything because he can do he can do it all right.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: He's got the sense of humor, he's got the fun,
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: He's obviously got the the great vocabulary. The goaltender is
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: a critical part I think of the analyst role, so
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: he obviously checks that box too. But but he can
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: do it all. And I love him personally. I think
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: he's hysterical to be around.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: I still have a bone to pick with him because
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: he he It was a viral moment on Twitter where
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: you know, I was with the stars and and I
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: love him. I think he's great, but I was I
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: had my hand on Jamie Benn and then just during
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: the broadcast, he just goes, what's Jason de Murz gonna
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: do to Jamie Benn And then everybody posted it.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: And I was like, Daryl, come on, man, like give
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: me a break.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: But you know, going in that, did you ever have
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: a moment when you were calling games like where guys
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: would come up to you when they saw you were
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: you maybe had to toe the line to not chirp
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: guys and kind of adjust to that situation because it
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: happens a lot. And I mean you have to be
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: honest as well. You can't just sugarcoat it because fans
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: are smart.
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: Absolutely, you have to be accountable. I get I get
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: this all the time because I've been lucky enough and
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: I'm one of the few guys who can do studio
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: and remote. And when I say do it, I don't
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: mean the ability. I mean bosses allow me to do both.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: And so I think it's really important. And I've said
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: this my entire career, Like it's really easy to sit
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: behind the Sports center desk in Bristol, Connecticut and be
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: all clever and cute and fun and make fun of athletes.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: Look at this guy, he can't make that play. What's
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: he doing? What was he doing last night? You know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: that kind of thing in all the sports, and then
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: it's a different story to have to be in the
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: dressing room there. You know, again in all the sports,
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: go out to training camps, either there's NFL guys and
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: have the hockey guys walk up to you. So you know,
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: we do run that fine line. Look in the studio,
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: we're trying to entertain and inform. You know, we're look,
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: we're trying to have a good time. It's a lot
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: of laughs and at some point, you know, we're taking
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: some shots. My rule of thumb's always been if a player,
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: I think would admit to making a mistake himself, then
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: it's okay for me to say it was a mistake,
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: but it was a gray area. I wouldn't go there.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: So I try to sort of stick to that. But
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: I make it a point now when I'm on the
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: road to go see the coaches and players, I'm right
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: there in the hallway if anyone wants to say something
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: to be now. Sometimes they come up to me, they
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: talking about PK and mess I'm like, whoa way, that's
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: that's their business. I'm just sorry about leaves right here.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: You got the issues. The leaves. I'm right here in front.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Of you, all right, so bag of leaves, not sending messages.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: A couple more from me. Let's talk a little movies.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Of course, along with a brilliant career at ESPN, you
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: have been a successful actor and still getting residuals and
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: royalties for such films. A million dollar arm of John Hammond,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: of course. The Fairly Brothers hooking up in favorite Pitch.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: You've told me the story, Bobby Fairly, pretty good goalie.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: How did you get the flies?
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah? So the Fairlies happened. I've been in quite a few.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: It's hard to remember all of them. And then you know,
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: John ham won't stop calling me. I'm gonna put him
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: on blast, Okay, I'm serious. When the Blues play, he
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: texts me, not like once, like I mean like six
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: or seven times during the game, my hammer time. I'm
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: trying to watch the game over here. Okay. But he's real,
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: he's he's hard and all the Fairly Brothers. I was
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: in the Boston area and I was I was dating
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: a girl at time again all the time, and she
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: was sort of a part time actress. And then got
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: had a couple of roles in uh, oh you love
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: What was the first big hit for the Fairlies.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Uh she was in something about Mary, Yeah, pink Pin, which.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Was what was with the weight the weight issue shallow
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: that's the one, okay, yeah it was. So she had
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: a relationship with the Faarilies and must have introduced me
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: at some point to them and they were like, you know,
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: and I joked, so, hey, you got anything is sports canister,
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: I'm your guy. I'm in the neighborhood, that kind of thing.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: And that's how fever Pitch happened. And they put me
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: in a few other things, and then I got friendly
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: with the Rock. I bumped into the Rock a couple
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: of places, the game Plan, tooth Fairy, don't sleep on
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: a tooth fairy, ad Man sneaky right. What's the other one?
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Special Olympics.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: You're a lad, I think the most.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: I'm in that way too much. I mean, that's that's
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: how you know about the movie. I am in the
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Ringer way too much. I feel for sure some of
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: those scenes would be cut out. I get that one
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: all the time. People come up like a cult following
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: for that. Again, I'm not there for my acting ability.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: I asked for a sex scene in one of these,
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: you know, a cop chase. I promised my mom, no nudity,
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: but I could take my top off if that would
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: work for somebody. Can I have a gun like Adam
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: Sandler at least gives Dan Patrick other than he's Dan Patrick.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: You know, I always play sportscaster X or whatever.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: So I had a couple of really quick ones. But
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: one thing I had to ask you about.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: We talked about the sort of the the Heyday that
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: you I mean, You've been a part of so many
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: great eras of ESPN, but for me that this is
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Sports Center ads through the years are just so incredible,
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: so iconic, and you, of course star and a great
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: one with a younger Alexandra Ovechkin where he kind of
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: plays a Russian spy. So I can't speak to how
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: well the ad has aged over the years, but it's
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: a classic. I'm sure you get asked about it frequently.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: I'd love to hear any stories about being on the
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: set with Ov and Semyon Varlamov of course.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, make that ad.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: So that's been uh, that's gotten controversial by the way, Yeah,
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: because of what you mentioned. Yeah, what's going on in
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: the real world and We did run it back a
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: few times recently, you know, after he went for the chase,
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: going for the chase and gets the goal. So the
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: two quick stories about that and man, were you on campus?
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: Would you have been on campus that day?
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Now, well, the day I did see avetch in the
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: one day. Yeah.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: So they wound up building the set on our basketball court.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: It looks like it's a copy room right with the
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: copy machine and files and stuff like that. But because
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: of the goof of having to have him go through
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: the roof the ceiling there, they couldn't do it in
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: a real building. They had to set make a set
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: outside and rig the contraption there. And because of the
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: contraption and building a set out side on the basketball court,
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: I was told it was the most expensive This is
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: Sports Center promo ever made because of all those things
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: and the other really cool thing and this will not
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: surprise anyone. We had a stunt double for Ovi. We
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: had a real stunt double, full Uni pad, same height, weight,
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: with color hair at the time, all that stuff standing
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: right there, and OVI refused to let him in, ob
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: I do my own stunts. He's Tom Cruise. He figured
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: that out, you know that kind of thing. So those
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: were the two really cool parts about that commercial. And
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: and people still come up randomly, like I got a
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: text from Neil Everett out of the Blue Gian Perderson
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: and the only line is late night filings. You know,
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: like it because that's what he says. He adds the
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: s for some reason, you know, like it's just it was.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: It was a classic. Those are fun to be in.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: Guys anchors like myself, not like myself. Other anchors would
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: jump over themselves to get in the building when they
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: knew they were filming. Eyes would come back from vacations early.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: I don't care there was their day off. They don't care.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: They're coming to work because they wanted to be in
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: these things. It was such a big deal. And the
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: last one I'll tell you about this the athletes did
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: not get paid. Ladanian Tomlinson through flew coast to coast
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: on his own dime because he wanted to be in one.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: And that would be really cool. With the mailbox, you
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: gotta talk about the story about.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: This one hit it.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a goof with Ladanian Tomlinson. Is we're in
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: the mail room and he wears the shaded shield the
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: visor in his helmet, okay. So he's putting the mail
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: in all the wrong places and all the wrong slots.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: So I'm like, hey, lt, you know, what are you doing.
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: That's not for me, that's not me, that's not me,
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: and that's oh he's sorry. And they keeps putting it
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: in the wrong thing. So that's how it ends. But
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: his PR person is right there, as they often are,
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: and the PR person's a young person, I guess, and
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: they don't really get the goof, and they're pleading with
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: director and the producer he can we do one with
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: his helmet off? Okay, And everybody's like, well, then he's
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: just an idiot. Why would he be putting the mayor
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: the whole goof is because it's the shaded shield right
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: that he can't see if he has no helmet on,
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: Why would he be putting it in the wrong Then
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: he's just an idiot. And so the producer, to try
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: to please this PR person does a whole other spot,
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: you know, just at that second. It's not funny. It
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: never aired. I'll be surprised if it was even filming
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: the camera at the time, just to sort of appease
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: that PR flack at that moment. But those who are
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: blast to do and again same deal, I'm not funny.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: Like they gave us the words to say everything is
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: everything is less right because sports said today big bag
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: poo want to play, Oh my god, and everything is
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: taken down and understated and less words and less and
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: that was the genius behind Widen and Kennedy. That was
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: the firm.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Shout up to Neil Ebrett.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Obviously you know how much I left bet Or he
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: was in that commercial with Neil, which is one of
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the all time.
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm in the top ten, right, I'm in the.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Top all right.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Last day with Steve, theyve been a personal note. We
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: did one Watch Game seven.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: It's fun. You're in the game on it right now,
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: get a live stream.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Mode, do one Sports Center together. Clearly was well of
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: the highlights of your career.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Along with me.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: As we're walking outside afterwards and I said, leave's any
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: advice for me and he said, no, you're a professional anchor.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: I said, come on, you gonna have something you go. Okay,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: I'll give you two things. One you said when you
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: toss in the sound he said, most guys just.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Go what's the role?
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: You meaning, what's the first thing Jason Demurr says, hey,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: we gotta get the fucking deep. Here's Jason Demurr speaking
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: about the importance of controlling the puck. He is, I
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: listened to the whole sound bite because he goes there
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: might be something more interesting later the bite.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: So you say, hey, demurs.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: For this, but also did this, and I go, that's
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: just a slight attention detail. I don't know any other
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: ankle that actually did that, So I appreciate that advice.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: And another one you said, don't make fun of names.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: He said, it's an easy one, a quick joke. And
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: every time I see asker Off the goalie, I want
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: to say, kiss my asker off.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: And your point was you don't know what a name
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: means to someone, and you go specific for yourself.
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Adnan Urk is not a common name, and I'm made
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: for me to add me on the bad of it.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means for your culture in
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: your background. So pretty good advice for your leaves.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: So ay, I don't remember doing your show with you
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: at all, quite frankly, and then I'm gonna I'm gonna
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: have the schedule or fired. Okay uh And that came
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: from my dad. My dad is in the other room
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: right now, and I'll tell him you brought that up.
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: He said it to me. He told me, Uh, you know,
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: guys have nicknames, and you never know what a nickname.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: It came from their grandmother who's no longer with us,
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: and she meant the world to him. It's just it's
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: not worth it, right, Whatever you say is not gonna
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: be funny enough to overcome the potential hurt or pain.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: And so I just stayed away from the name's first name,
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: last names. I can't I can't believe I told you that.
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: I can't believe you remember it. And that's but I
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: know it's very true. Those are two good things. And
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: I love the throat of the sound bite. I live
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: for that stuff. That's such an important piece to me
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: to this day. I still do it. I want to
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: hear the whole bite, and I want to find a
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: way to the smoothest throat to to make people stick.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: Let's do it because de Mayor's is gonna go for forty
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: five seconds in a sound bite, and his last five
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: seconds might be the best.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: That might be the only good thing there.
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: So gott to keep it around the whole time.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Love it man, Steve Leeby, I tell you one of
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: the best things about Leaves is his humility.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: You've heard him say a couple of times this interview.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: I'm not the funny thing. I'm not this.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: And one time you said to me, I've made a
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: career of being the second band. I said, what are
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: you talking about? He said, no one ever watched it
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: for me, either watching it for Stuart Scott or Scott
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: van Pelt or Neil Evert. And I'm just the other guy.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: But you know how I feel. Nobody thinks of you
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: as just another guy. You are a great guy, and
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: you're a tremendous at your job and have been a
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: great friend to me and obviously just love watching every
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: time talking to hockey talk whatever it may be.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: So thanks so much, Leeves. Appreciate you man, very kind.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: I hope to see you guys a stay in the
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: Cup final or someplace soon.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I didn't know I Nan could be that sweet.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: So that was beautiful.
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: You should hear what he tells me about you, man,
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: It's not the same.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: It's oh junker. So more hockey talk here in just
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: a second.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: At once again thanks to Steve Levy but Little Cinephi
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: in sixty more theater for you your boy hitting broad
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Away again, this time for the star power of George
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Clooney and good Night and good Luck.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: I love the film when it came out. When asked
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: on a podcast.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: By Scott Finberg for what's the favorite way of his
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: own career this is two years ago, Clooney said, oh,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be a good Night and good Luck. His dad,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Nick Clooney, was a broadcast for years in Los Angeles.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Cloney grew up in Cincinnati slash Kentucky that areas. Had
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: always dreamed of being a broadcaster and it didn't work out,
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: became an actor.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: It seems I have worked out well for George, but.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Wanted to make a movie called good Night and good Luck,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: which is all about Edward ar Morrill, the fame broadcaster
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: who took on McCarthyism back in the day. The play
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: and the movie both very relevant today, the whole assault
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: on journalism, what's real, what's not, vast, etc.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: But I'll tell you JD.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: As a play, I thought it was phenomenal because of
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: and Jill would appreciate this. The depth of the set.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: It's two levels, so up top you have the jazz band.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: They have these jazz interludes, jazzing they're playing. And on
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: the bottom you have the TV studio, which you and
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I are f well familiar with, So you have these
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: gigantic cameras as if back in the fifties and sixties
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: and Edward Armour was broadcasting and the move.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: The play was nominated in fact for the Best Set Decoration.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: They're up for Best Lighting for the Tony Awards, and
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: of course Cloney is up for Best Actor. And in
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: the original movie played Fred Friendley, who's the producer. David
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: stretheraorn who's incredible actor, played Edward Armour. To be honest,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: think Edward Murrow, Stretharon Nail that Cloney couldn't do it
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: any better. But what's been getting a lot of notoriety
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: along with George's Tony Wward nominated performance is the fact
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: he died his hair. And because George is so charming,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: he's been making fun of it, saying, you know, people
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: are making fun of me.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: You know, my wife's good. It's a bad look. Listen,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: tell this is why George Coloney is George Clooney. Because
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: he's sixty three. It looks like he's fifty.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Three, He's so smart, his aeradite, he's charming, his handswer
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: and he can still be self deprecating. How can George
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Clooney pull this up? I still think he looks like
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: a million bucks. And I gotta tell you the play
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: was fantastic.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Tal go ahead, he looks phenomenal.
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  Speaker 4: He played in a recent I'm sure I'm gonna get
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: some of the details wrong, but there is video of
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: him playing in some sort of like Actors Equity softball game.
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  Speaker 2: I just was gonna say that. I just was gonna
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: say that.
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  Speaker 4: This guy is one of the biggest stars in the
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: world and he's still playing like a union guy. Basically,
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: he's playing softball with the boys, you know, during an
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: off day from from the This like one of the
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: biggest shows on Broadway. It's pretty impressive. I'm a huge
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: Clooney fan, Yeah, big Clooney head. The fact that he's
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: been so deprecating about the die job is it just
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: makes me love him even more. He had an interview
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: he may have been with CBS News where they brought
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: up they brought up his hair, his die job, and
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: the reporter said something like, oh, it's not that bad.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: And he immediates like, no, no, it's bad, It's okay.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: What he laughed?
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: He said normally in New York, he goes, I wear
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: a happy people still know it's me. This diesis be
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: unblieable because nobody knows it's me. I'm walking around New
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: York City. That's how bad this touch up is. All right,
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: let's get back the second round previews and dive into
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: the Vegas gold Knights taking on the Edmonton Oilers. All
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: of us pretty much fell at Grere picking the Kings
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: on home ices. They couldn't possibly lose to Edmonton four
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: straight years in a row, but well they did. Edmondon's
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: won the last two games between these two teams, including
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: with Vegas. Vegas elimited Edmonton in six games the second
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: round two years ago, Golden Knights won the whole thing.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Connor mcdavi in the first round eleven points in six games.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: He's one point behind Ranson in most points in the
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: plast Vegas pretty balanced offense, and there's six game dance
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Five points for Hurdle and Ikele, four points
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: for Stone in Theodore. I see ikle by left for
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: the lady bing nice Vegas and the Oilers. I will
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: say Vegas in six, but I don't feel great about
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: because I picked against the Oilers and I'm loaded to
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: do it again.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: But I like Vegas's balance a little more.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you know what, did we hear Mitia
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Satcomb's not gonna be ready for round two? So you know,
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: I can't go with that, Mintonnage, I can't. I personally think, listen,
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: they it's amazing resiliency for them to win. And that's
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: my word of the day. I've said about nine thousand
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: times in this podcast today.
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  Speaker 2: But then bullish word of the day.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: You said bullish, Yeah, bullish, resilient, Yeah, yeah, yeah, very
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: it's like emphatic for you, resounding, resounding was resounding and emphatic.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I just think it was more LA blowing
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: that and bad coaching decisions than Edmonton winning it. I
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: feel like LA just shot themselves in a foot when
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: they had it.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: I don't think Vegas will do that.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: And I think, listen, Calvin Pickard, we're gonna have them
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: on the show eventually. I love them, but you know
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: they're eventually going to lose a game in this series.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: And do they stay with him?
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: The whole playoffs or do they go back to Stuart
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: Skinner and how is Stuart Skinner? And they kind of
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: do what they did last season and bounced around. But
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: I just think Vegas their top guys. They beat Minnesota
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: in six, and their top guys did not play good
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: until like the last game or so, so I think
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: they're kind of cresting, and you know, I just go
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: back to kind of history repeats itself, and I think
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: in a seven game series, I think Vegas overall will
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: play more solid, better games. And you know, you obviously
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: it's hard to bet against Leon and Connor because they're
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: just absolutely electric. And I do love what Evander Kaines
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: brought to this team, but I just can't with no
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: Matias Ekoma once again have to go against the Edmonton Oilers,
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: and if they win this round then I'll probably take
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: them to win the Cup. But yeah, I gotta bounce
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: back and go Vegas, and I'm god, I'm sweating it
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: too right now, But.
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  Speaker 1: I like that logic. You'll go against the Oilers twice,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: but you want to it a third time.
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: If indeed, let's check to you fool me twice, you're
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: not gonna fool me again.
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  Speaker 1: The series of the second round. I cannot wait for
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: Panthers Leaves. This is gonna be awesome.
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Florida to really oh. I think it's gonna be fantastic.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be I think it's gonna be
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: like you think Florid's gonna push him around.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be like hot knife through a
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: butt through warm butt.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Ha.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Florida took three or four from Toronto and the season
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: series split their last two things, which they played in
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: the final two weeks the regular season. Panthers knocked out
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: the Leaves in five games. In the second round. Two
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: years ago, Florida made it all the way to the
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Cup Final. They lost to Vegas. Leaf fans were hurt,
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: chanting we want Florida during their first round series against Otto.
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Would be careful you wish for Florida scored nineteen goals
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: in five games against Tampa. Ryd hurt, Chuck Bennett Barkoff,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Brad Marsham buzzing, and for Toronto, they need to win
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: this series otherwise we know what's.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: At if they can look at themselves. J D and
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: go hey.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: We went final four Eastern Conference Finals been a while
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: there for the Leafs.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: Marty and Taveras both unrestricted free agents.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Matthew Downs, You've spoken about how good he's been so
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: far restricted free agent. I just think Toronto played such
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: a strong game against Ottawa, particularly win of those two
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: overtime games. Propably look good early on, and they're able
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: to study the ship after looking vulnerable that I do
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: think they'll get Florida test. I like the Panthers and six,
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: but I think it'll be hard fought. Why are you
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: more skeptical?
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, other than I'm very excited to see Anthony
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: Stolar's versus Babrovski.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Nice. You know, the student against the mentor and the teacher.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, take yeah there. You know.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: I think it'll help. They have a couple of the
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: ex Panthers guys, you know, Eckman, Larson, Lorenz kind of
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: helped them get ready. But I just don't think they're
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: physical enough. I think Florida is going to kind of
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: bully him around. We saw what Florida can do against
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay team that a lot of us had,
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: I know, didn't add an end. A lot of us
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: had to win the Cup in this Tampa Bay team
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: that was very good down the stretch. They handled them
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: like it was nothing. I and listen, I wasn't bullish
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: on the series Toronto had. I think, out of that
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: whole series, I think Toronto outplayed Ottawa on maybe one game,
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: and I thought overall, Ottawa was a little bit faster, better,
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: quicker to pucks. And you know, I don't think Florida's
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: gonna give him that many chances as Ottawa did to
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: kind of get back. And Bobrovsky looks unbelievable, that decor
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: looks great. You know, ek Blad's going to be back again.
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: I know he was. He was out because that hit
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: on Hegel, but he's gonna come back after Game one
• 50:47
  Speaker 3: and they've proven they can play without him. And up front,
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: Sam Bennett looks looks incredible. Brad Marshan is playing like
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: the Brad Marshan that's won a Cup and and that's
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: been just dominant for so many years. He looks rejuvenated.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: And I just don't think they have enough answer. And
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: I just don't know if that core four can handle
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: the physicality that's gonna come their way. And I just
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: think it's gonna be Florida and five.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: I love it, love the aggressive prediction. It'll be the
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: worst series of the second in terms of games played.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Taal which series are mostly going forward to Stars Jets,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Kane's Caps Oilers, Golden Knights or Panthers leaves.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: I think I I think JD said it before. I
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: think the winner of Stars Jets is the favorite to
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: win the Cup. After that, I think both those if
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: they're if they're both healthy, assuming they're both healthy coming
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: out of that series. The idea that Dallas just went
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: through that ridiculous series. Nico Rannon looked like Mario out there,
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: and they're getting heiskin In and Robertson back for game
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: one of the next series.
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: Think of that. I mean, that's the worst two one
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: I'll be watching.
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: That's the one I'll be watching. I think there's there's
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: so much talent Ottinger versus Hellibook. I mean, hey, Helly
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: needs to show up and show out in these playoffs.
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's if it's not happening now in this series.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: I don't know when it's happening.
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: I think there's so many fascinating narratives, so much talent.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: That's the series.
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: And maybe it's because those two teams just played, so
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: we're still fresh in our minds. There's a little recency
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: bias there, but that's the series I'll be watching for show.
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: But I thought Florida was the most impressive team in
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: the first round to go to take on a team
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: like Tampa that a lot of people were taking them
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: as a potential Cup front runner coming in that series,
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: and they just wiped the floor with them. Really, I
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: mean they really, they really took it to them in
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: that series. And I wouldn't say they made it look easy,
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: but they beat a really really good team.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: They beat them good.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: Oh you can say it that they made it look
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: about as easy as you could make a series look
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: for like two Juggernauts and yeah, it's I just it's
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: gonna be. And again nothing on Toronto. And you know, here,
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: I am sounded like an idiot because we just did
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: all our predictions at and then I picked every Canadian
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: team to lose this round.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: But I know what you're doing. It's like the reverse curse.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: You're like lou Holts, like chance, I want.
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: I want a Canadian team to win so bad and
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: then just we'll go back to that initial one, say
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: this is the year but never take a Canadian team
• 53:20
  Speaker 3: to get to the finals, not one.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Which jd prediction came true the first one when he
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: said the Canadian to win the Cup.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: I'm at where, everywhere, where, everywhere, So then we can
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: just cherry pick.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna be called it on Sullivan. Do
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: you think Selly can turn the Rangers around?
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think so.
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: I think he's got a you know, winning pedigree, and
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: you know, I always like to talk to people that
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: kind of around that organization, like you know, Brian Boyle
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: and Mike Rupp, and they're very both very high on
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: Mike Sullivan and what he could do for this team.
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: And I think the biggest thing is accountability. That is
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: what this team needs. That is what these top guys need.
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: They need accountability, folks. No, not the accountant with Ben
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: Stiller accountability.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: No Bet Affleck, not Benn Stiller. But yeah, oh that
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: would be great tho. I'd love to see Benn Stiller
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: in that.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: I can't believe they made a sequel to the account
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Like it wasn't like that was a juggernaut of a movie.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Or particularly well received. I thank you all right, one
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: more for it. Matty Cash.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Congratulations coming back to Matt Coronado, Back to Calvary, seven
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: year extensionportably worth an average annual value of six point
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: five million dollars. He's twenty two years of age, breakout season,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: twenty four goals, forty seven points in seventy seven games.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: Mackenzie Wiger, by the way, referred to as Matty Cash
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: on social media. Freddie Anderson also got an extension signed
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: for one year and two point seven five million dollars.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Secures what happens there in around two But Coronado excellent
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: season there for Calvary, and I see they're building that
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: core with a good young player.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought he you said it exactly hit nail
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: on the head break through season, and I think he's
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: a little water bug that's got a hell of a
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: shot when he utilizes it, and just a good power
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: play forward. So I think it's good. It's a good
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: contract at a good price, and CAP's going up. I
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: think it's going to look really good in five years
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: and you're gonna be really happy Calgary Flames fans, so.
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: And you'll be even happier NHL and scripted fans again
• 55:10
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• 55:12
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• 55:13
  Speaker 2: And speaking of flair, JD play us out.
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  Speaker 6: Good Night Yeah.
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