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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny on the Utah Mammoth, Playoff rematch in Vegas tonight, Finishing a challenging road trip + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Let's start out with Between the Pipes.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, Adrian Denny in studio brought to you
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  Speaker 2: by Valley Plumbing, Heating and Cooling and Aladdin Industries.
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  Speaker 3: Adrian, thanks for being here, man. Happy Veterans Day to you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: happy Veterans Day to you, James. And as you said,
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  Speaker 3: I want to echo thanking everybody that's served our country,
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  Speaker 3: past and present. Couldn't be here without them. So we
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  Speaker 3: for sure appreciate all the freedom. And my dad, a
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  Speaker 3: medic in vietnam.
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  Speaker 1: Okay my shout out to your dad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah my dad greg medic in vietnam a hero my
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  Speaker 3: uncle jim uh marine in vietnam so those two guys
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  Speaker 3: uh two american heroes so.
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  Speaker 1: For sure shout out to the denny family.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah on veterans day always uh always especially thinking about
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  Speaker 3: everything they did but but grateful to be here thanks
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  Speaker 3: to our uh heroic men and women, again, past and present,
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  Speaker 3: who are there defending our country.
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  Speaker 1: For sure. For sure.
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  Speaker 2: And thank you for being here, Adrian. Let's talk some
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  Speaker 2: Mammoth hockey. I mean, let's not bury the lead here.
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  Speaker 2: It's a playoff rematch tonight. The big rival now, the
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  Speaker 2: Vegas Golden Knights, the hated Golden Knights, as.
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  Speaker 1: OC would say.
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  Speaker 2: It's their first game matching up since Vegas, unfortunately, eliminated
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  Speaker 2: the Mammoth on May 1st. from the first round of
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. It's in Vegas tonight. How do you see
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  Speaker 2: this one?
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  Speaker 3: You know, you join the NHL and you're like, I
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  Speaker 3: think we'll be rivals with Colorado, probably Vegas, maybe LA,
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  Speaker 3: and then you play them in the playoffs and you're like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: this is a rivalry. And the way that that series
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  Speaker 3: went for the Mammoth, where they led in the third period,
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  Speaker 3: the first five games, and lost the series in six and,
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  Speaker 3: you know, really felt like they, they should have won
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  Speaker 3: the series and went through some, some first year playoff,
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  Speaker 3: you know, lessons. And tonight, uh, I, I think, uh,
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  Speaker 3: they're going to be raring to go at the, at
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  Speaker 3: the T-Mobile arena. Liam O'Brien even said it in the preseason.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, I hate these guys with, with a mammoth played, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you love that Vegas in, in the preseason. So, uh, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: here we go. Vegas is off to another good start.
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  Speaker 3: They've won three in a row. They're coming back from
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  Speaker 3: a road trip where they just went 3-0-1 with the
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  Speaker 3: only non-win coming against Boston, but picked up a win
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  Speaker 3: against Pittsburgh, Detroit, Buffalo. Mammoth are playing the sixth straight
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  Speaker 3: game away from home tonight. They'll be back home tomorrow,
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  Speaker 3: which is going to feel like a road game because
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  Speaker 3: you played Vegas tonight, you race back, you play another game. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: but that's going to start a five game homestand. But
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  Speaker 3: I think, I think they're pretty, pretty realistic with, with
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  Speaker 3: where they are at this point, two, two and one
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  Speaker 3: on the trip. I told OC, you know, right. As
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  Speaker 3: things got going a couple of weeks ago, it's not long.
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  Speaker 3: They've been on the road two weeks ago is when
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  Speaker 3: I told OC and split on the road, especially given
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  Speaker 3: the circumstances where you're gone this much early with now
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  Speaker 3: 12 of 18 games, but on the roads and I'll
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  Speaker 3: be the 13th. So, Yeah, it's a game against Vegas,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe that's good to wrap up six straight games
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  Speaker 3: on the road against a team you're going to be
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  Speaker 3: that emotionally juiced up and charged for. But my thing
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  Speaker 3: tonight for the Mammoth, James, is keep the emotions in
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  Speaker 3: the middle lane. Use them to your advantage. Stay especially
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  Speaker 3: cognizant of the fact that Vegas is a team that
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  Speaker 3: draws a lot of power plays because they'll frustrate you.
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  Speaker 3: And the other lane of it is Utah as a
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  Speaker 3: team this year, that when they faced adversity, they've, they've
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  Speaker 3: tried to shift it to overdrive and the emotions haven't
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  Speaker 3: always been channeled into the right spots, which has led
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  Speaker 3: to more penalties, defensive zone, mistakes, stuff like that. So
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  Speaker 3: be emotional, but be cognizant that your emotions are going
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  Speaker 3: in the right place, especially against a, a Vegas team
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  Speaker 3: and especially is you wrap up six straight games away
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  Speaker 3: from home. Mammoth have been in salt Lake since Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: about 2 AM practice Monday and Tuesday down at select
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  Speaker 3: health ice center yesterday. So they've been home, but it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's still six straight game away. Your energy's not quite
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  Speaker 3: going to be a hundred percent. So just make sure
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  Speaker 3: you're cognizant and not, not doing anything to hurt yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't need a repeat of what a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks ago at the Delta Center, all those penalties.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, yeah. Who did they lose to in that game?
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  Speaker 1: I'm blanking. Yeah, that was the last home game against Minnesota. Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: that's right.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a great point, James, because Utah went shorthanded
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  Speaker 3: six times in that game. They gave up two power
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  Speaker 3: play goals. That was the difference in the game. Then
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  Speaker 3: they went out onto the road, and they were incredibly
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  Speaker 3: cognizant and disciplined. They took one, two and two shorthanded
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  Speaker 3: situations in their next three games. So five shorthanded situations
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  Speaker 3: in three games against Pittsburgh, Philly and Toronto. And they
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  Speaker 3: end up winning two of those three games. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's when you can just cut out going shorthanded four
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  Speaker 3: or five, six, seven times a game. You're just in
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  Speaker 3: such such a better spot.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing when you're able to play at even strengths.
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  Speaker 2: Just how much better you can play defensively in particular.
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  Speaker 2: Wanted to get this out of the way before we
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  Speaker 2: continue talking about the road trip and.
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  Speaker 1: The upcoming game tonight and upcoming games after that.
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  Speaker 2: Benson Boone was announced as the concert during the first
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  Speaker 2: intermission of the Winter Classic. I mean, obviously very popular.
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  Speaker 2: He's having a moment right now with his popularity. People
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  Speaker 2: love him here in Utah.
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  Speaker 1: That event... I mean.
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  Speaker 2: We're learning this event is not just a big hockey
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  Speaker 2: game in a unique venue outside at Rice Eccles Stadium,
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  Speaker 2: but it's also like the NHL likes to treat this
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  Speaker 2: like a Super Bowl halftime show type of event, too.
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  Speaker 2: Or the big stars that perform at all-star games, NBA
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  Speaker 2: all-star games. They're bringing in Benson Boone to perform for
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  Speaker 2: the Winter Classic.
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  Speaker 1: That should be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be awesome, especially since we've seen Benson Boone at
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  Speaker 3: several hockey games cheering on the Utah Hockey Club in
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  Speaker 3: the first year and then the Mammoths. Big star there.
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  Speaker 3: I like his music. Grammy nominated. I like his stuff
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  Speaker 3: and it's been fun to see him at the building
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  Speaker 3: because they'll show him on the video board and that
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  Speaker 3: adds another element of So, yeah, James, that's going to
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  Speaker 3: be an unbelievable four day, you know, weekend over New
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  Speaker 3: Year's because you're going to have the jazz playing. They've
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  Speaker 3: got the Celtics and Knicks in town. The Mammoth are
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  Speaker 3: going to play New Year's Eve and January 2nd.
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  Speaker 1: New Year's Eve at Rice Eccles, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Some concerts at the Delta Center are happening. Yeah, Ryan Smith,
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  Speaker 2: you're right. He wants to make this like NBA All-Star
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  Speaker 2: weekend type of full weekend event, not just one incredible
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  Speaker 2: day at Rice Eccles Stadium at the Mammoth game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Post Malone and Alesso, as you said, the New
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  Speaker 3: Year's Eve concert right after the The Winter Classic. So UtahWinterWeekend.com
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  Speaker 3: is the website that has all the stuff on it.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, packed with NBA, packed with hockey, the musical acts.
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  Speaker 3: Down at the Select Health Ice Center, the Gretzky Hockey
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  Speaker 3: School is going to be in town right after Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: First time that they've come. So that's an exciting thing.
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  Speaker 3: And then some youth tournaments will be down there, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll be able to get... Some of those kids up
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  Speaker 3: on the ice up at the football stadium at Rice
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  Speaker 3: Eccles on the outdoor rink. So totally juiced. I was
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  Speaker 3: thinking about that driving downtown this afternoon. I'm like, boy,
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  Speaker 3: that's a month away. We're getting close. It's like six
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  Speaker 3: and a half weeks away. It's sneaking up on us.
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  Speaker 2: Just like about a month ago, I was with my
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  Speaker 2: family and they were like, we were talking about Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 2: plans or ideas for Thanksgiving plans, and I'm like, that's
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  Speaker 2: six weeks away.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone was like, no way.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, we're about there, and now we're only
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  Speaker 2: a couple weeks away from Thanksgiving. So things sneaking up
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  Speaker 2: on all of us here as we get farther in
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  Speaker 2: towards the end of the year here. Going back to
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  Speaker 2: the mammoth on the ice here, we were talking about
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  Speaker 2: this as you came in off the air, Adrian. Another
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  Speaker 2: thing that snuck up on me, is it felt like
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  Speaker 2: the mammoth were, should be a lot higher in the
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  Speaker 2: standings because it seemed like they went on, got off
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  Speaker 2: to this great start. I'm check the same as I'm like, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: 21 points there. Uh, they're in, they're holding the last
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  Speaker 2: wild card in the West right now. Um, but they're
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  Speaker 2: only three points out of the number two spot in
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  Speaker 2: their division. which is the second best record in the
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  Speaker 2: West right now. So they're, they're in a good spot still,
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  Speaker 2: but what has gone on since that hot start? Is
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  Speaker 2: it just simply what you were talking about? It's just
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  Speaker 2: hard to win on the road, a long road trip.
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  Speaker 2: Like they've been on the last couple of weeks. It
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  Speaker 2: definitely catches up to you.
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  Speaker 3: And, and the mammoth had some injuries too, which last
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  Speaker 3: year they really didn't like John Marino has now missed
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  Speaker 3: nine straight games. And we had a day-to-dayer on Mammoth
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  Speaker 3: Daily today, James, say, how much of, you know, the
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  Speaker 3: last nine games do we attribute to John Marino not
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  Speaker 3: being in the lineup? But it was a great point
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  Speaker 3: because him and Nate Schmidt made up the best defensive
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  Speaker 3: pairing in the NHL last season in terms of five-on-five
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  Speaker 3: goals for and against. And so with Marino in the lineup,
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  Speaker 3: you're allowing the six fewest goals in the NHL. And,
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  Speaker 3: and then Schmidt gets hurt on that trip and misses
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  Speaker 3: the last three games. And Utah without Marino has allowed
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  Speaker 3: the third most goals in the NHL.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, great point. You're missing Marino. And then Schmidt
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  Speaker 1: gets hurt.
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  Speaker 3: There's, there's two huge guys five on five defensively that,
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  Speaker 3: that go down. Kali Yamamoto missed the last four games
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  Speaker 3: of the trip. He, had had seven points in nine
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  Speaker 3: games since, since entering the lineup. Dylan Gunther wasn't at
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  Speaker 3: practice Monday and Tuesday. Hasn't missed any games, but that's
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  Speaker 3: a situation to watch for tonight. Just hearing from Mike
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  Speaker 3: Fulta down in Vegas relaying that, that bear said, I'll
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  Speaker 3: have a couple of game time decisions tonight.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll, we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: But, but yeah, Schmidt and Marino being injured. Yamamoto is,
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  Speaker 3: is a guy that could have been Utah's best player
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  Speaker 3: of the playoffs last year in that Vegas series, missing the,
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  Speaker 3: the last four games of the trip.
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  Speaker 1: So injuries travel.
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  Speaker 3: I think if you'd ask bill Armstrong, general manager of
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  Speaker 3: the mammoth, like, okay, you're 10, seven and one, you
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  Speaker 3: play 12 of 18 on the road. This is where
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be. He'd be like, yeah, that's what
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  Speaker 3: I told you two months ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, so only would he take it? He'd say,
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  Speaker 1: I told you it would be this way. Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: So, so, so you, so you have that some injuries,
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  Speaker 3: I think five on five, the mammoth, um, analytically you're looking, uh,
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  Speaker 3: better than what they're scoring. Um, they're third in the
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  Speaker 3: NHL and shot attempts. They've hit the second most amount
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  Speaker 3: of posts and crossbars, which was a stat that I
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  Speaker 3: didn't know existed until I, you know, hunting for something
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  Speaker 3: else on, on Sunday. But, but analytically the mammoth have been,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the first two years, a top third
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  Speaker 3: team in the NHL five on five, both analytically and
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  Speaker 3: actual goals for, and, and goals against. And, and this
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  Speaker 3: year they're in the bottom third, which you could say, well,
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  Speaker 3: veggie hasn't made enough saves, which is a hundred percent true.
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  Speaker 3: You've been without Marino and Schmidt, but maybe a little,
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  Speaker 3: a little off track in terms of analytically where you
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  Speaker 3: might be expected to be in five on five goals.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's something, especially as the mammoth come
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  Speaker 3: home for five straight, you can look for them five
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  Speaker 3: on five to maybe put a few more pucks in
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  Speaker 3: the net because they've been led by the power play
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  Speaker 3: power plays off to, an unheard of start one of
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  Speaker 3: four teams in the last 50 years to be over
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  Speaker 3: 37% through.
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  Speaker 1: 17, 18 games.
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  Speaker 3: So power play has been carrying the mammoth and five
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  Speaker 3: on five is really where this team has, you know, gotten,
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  Speaker 3: you know, to where they are making the playoffs last year.
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  Speaker 3: So I think you could expect your, your five on
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  Speaker 3: five production to, to go up a little bit to,
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  Speaker 3: to quite a bit here as we, as we, We
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  Speaker 3: keep rolling.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like it probably needs to, but there's plenty
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  Speaker 2: of time in the season for that, for them to
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  Speaker 2: raise that level. And like you said, it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: as far as with the amount of shots they're getting
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  Speaker 2: and the close, the close calls, I didn't know that
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  Speaker 2: they kept those stats.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Posted cross. I just hit the miscellaneous button. Yeah. On the, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the NHL stats. That's pretty cool. That came up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's a, that's a cool stat, but it sounds like
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  Speaker 2: you should expect it to be raised to based on
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  Speaker 2: those kinds of things.
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  Speaker 1: When there's smoke, there's fire, right? Or fire.
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  Speaker 2: There should be fire at some point. You mentioned veggie,
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  Speaker 2: not making enough saves. Uh, our colleague, Brogan Houston, Deseret
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  Speaker 2: news does a great job covering the mammoth for them.
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  Speaker 2: He reported recently that veggie is on pace to record
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  Speaker 2: the lowest safe percentage of his career and is, and, um,
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  Speaker 2: He's second worst in the league in the advanced metric
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  Speaker 2: goals saved above expected right now. How serious of a
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  Speaker 2: problem is the goaltending? And not just Veggie. Kosa's got
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  Speaker 2: the great wins, but his advanced metrics aren't as great
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  Speaker 2: as you would like it to be either. How serious
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  Speaker 2: of a problem is the goaltending right now?
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  Speaker 3: Head coach Andre Cherney said this week after practice on
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  Speaker 3: Tuesday that our goaltending was okay.
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  Speaker 1: It was fine. on the trip. Do you always want
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  Speaker 1: more of everything? Yeah. From your goalies. Do you always
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  Speaker 1: want another save or two?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Um, I, I think Cosa has been, I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to say a pleasant surprise because the mammoth were
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  Speaker 3: pretty confident in him signing him to the two-year contract
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  Speaker 3: after they traded for him, uh, this off season, he's
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  Speaker 3: got the four, one and one record, but you know, um, his,
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  Speaker 3: his numbers are just okay in terms of goals against
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  Speaker 3: average and save percentage. Um, but he's made big saves
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  Speaker 3: at big times to win one goal games. So that's,
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  Speaker 3: that's the biggest thing there with, with Cosa and, and
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  Speaker 3: for Vamalka, he's, he's such an even keel guy. Like
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't really handle anything differently, whether he's on a
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  Speaker 3: hot streak or not. He same routine, same guy, pretty chill,
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  Speaker 3: pretty competitive. So he's, you know, like every goalie has
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  Speaker 3: his head ups and downs.
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  Speaker 1: I look at last year at this.
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  Speaker 3: Time when the mammoth again had, had the exact same
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  Speaker 3: amount of road games that they played. And he went
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  Speaker 3: through a little bit of it right after the Olympics
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  Speaker 3: last year, where he hadn't played in three weeks and
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  Speaker 3: didn't appear in any action. And the practices weren't, you know,
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  Speaker 3: practices really just didn't see a lot of rubber early
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  Speaker 3: on this year before John Marino.
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  Speaker 1: Got hurt.
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  Speaker 3: Mammoth were allowing shots in the teens. So the goalies
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  Speaker 3: weren't seeing a lot of action, which is a great thing,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also kind of, kind of hard on the
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  Speaker 3: goalies to take them out of their rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: If they don't see a lot of shots. Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And it makes their numbers look bad too. When something
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  Speaker 3: goes in so good or bad, they're allowing fewer shots lately.
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  Speaker 1: And the games are just going to keep coming.
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  Speaker 3: So a chance for Vamalka to get rolling at home.
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  Speaker 3: He's always been a better goaltender at home, and the fans,
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  Speaker 3: their veggie chants and stuff really fires him up in
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  Speaker 3: the broccoli heads.
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  Speaker 1: And stuff like that. It makes sense. I think just waiting.
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  Speaker 3: I thought against Minnesota, James, that game we were just
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  Speaker 3: talking about where they went shorthanded six times, lost 3-1,
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  Speaker 3: gave up two power play goals. I thought that followed
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  Speaker 3: a game against Tampa Bay two nights earlier, three nights earlier,
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  Speaker 3: where the Mammoth were down 4-2. Fumalka doesn't allow a
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  Speaker 3: shot the final 27, 30, 33 minutes of the game.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't allow a goal to go in. Utah wins 5-4
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  Speaker 3: in overtime. And that Minnesota game, I thought that might
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  Speaker 3: be something that kind of spurs him along. And then
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  Speaker 3: on the road trip, it was fine. Bear said goaltending
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  Speaker 3: was fine, but you're looking for goaltending to be elite
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  Speaker 3: because it's the national hockey league. So we'll see if
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  Speaker 3: he gets a start tonight or tomorrow, but, but I
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  Speaker 3: think that the five game homestand is going to do
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  Speaker 3: a lot to make everything look better for, for Utah being,
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  Speaker 3: being at home. They're playing St. Louis missed the playoffs
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  Speaker 3: last year. San Jose is struggling. Vancouver is the worst
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  Speaker 3: team in the league. Colorado is always a challenge. They're
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  Speaker 3: coming out for a one-off. So it's not like they're
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  Speaker 3: on a road trip or anything. And, Anaheim, who's all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden the hottest offensive team in the league.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: So that's what the homestead looks like. But I think
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: there's a chance to just be home, get settled. I
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: was asking Mike Fulton and Sarah Merrifield from our broadcast team, like,
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: can you explain this?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Because it sounds like such an excuse. It sounds so bad.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: I hate saying it, but road games catch up to you,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: and road weariness is a real thing. So... Excited for
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: the next five games at home after tonight before Utah
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: will hit the road again for four straight.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I've got to think that, yes, tonight's a road game,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: but being in Vegas in the region probably helps them
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: get back into, kind of snap out of that road
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: weariness a little bit because they're back on the western
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: United States. They've been east and up in eastern Canada
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: for the last couple of weeks, so this has got
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: to feel good to at least be you know, a
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: few hours drive away from home instead of all the
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: way across the country as well.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: That's at 7.30 puck drop.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: What time do you guys get started on Hockey Night
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: in Utah?
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: We'll be on the air at 6.30.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: It's a radio exclusive for Hockey Night in Utah.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Right, because TNT game. Yes, national TV. You're going to
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: get an Olchek, just not Nick Olchek.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Okay. It'll be Eddie Olchek and Kenny Albert and Brian
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Boucher on the TNT broadcast and Mike Folta and Nick Olchek.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: on our Hockey Night in Utah radio exclusive.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Shout out to the old chicks.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: Getting some air time on radio and TV today.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I hear there was a great dinner in Vegas last
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: night for the folks that were on the trip because
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: it's a one-off, James, so our TV team isn't on
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: the trip. Matt, Dom, and Sarah are not on the trip,
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: so a little more of an exclusive dinner group.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: In Vegas last night. That's awesome.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: So yeah, 7.30 puck drop, 6.30 on the radio side.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: You guys know where you can... listen to that. Uh,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: you can hear Adrian Denny and company, um, on hockey
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: night in Utah and the radio broadcast AD. Thank you
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: so much for coming in, man. Um, and doing some
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: between the pipes with us.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Love it.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Keep up the good work, man. We'll be listening, uh,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: tomorrow and Friday and, and OC like he, Dubai? He's
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: in Dubai?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's in Dubai for a PFL event.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: So my favorite thing to ask OC when he's going
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: on these trips, like I like to know the itinerary.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, all right.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: And he'll be like, yep, stop in San Francisco, stop
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: in London, stop in who knows where, Amsterdam, and then
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: we'll continue on to Dubai.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely not a direct flight to the Middle
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: East from here. I'm not sure if there's many around
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: the world that way. But, yeah, he's an exotic world
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: traveler once again this week. You got me holding it down.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Adrian. We'll talk again next week. Appreciate you, buddy.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me in.
• 20:49
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