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9-30-26 Hour 2 - Jared Bednar/Why the Avalanche extended Bedsie/Oh, By the Way... · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is the Jared Bednar Avalanche Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: Proudly rooting for Colorado's hockey team. Here's Coach Bednar with Mark, Vic,
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  Speaker 4: first visit of the year with game one tonight for
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  Speaker 4: the Avalanche. The head coach of the Avs, Jared Bednar,
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  Speaker 4: joins us. Coach, can I borrow some money?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 6: Congratulations on the extension, coach. Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 4: It's one of the things that we were wondering, was
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  Speaker 4: it important for you to get it done before.
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  Speaker 6: The season started?
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  Speaker 7: No, not really. No. It just happened to be the timing.
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  Speaker 7: Like Joe and I have had, you know, multiple conversations
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  Speaker 7: over the summer and, you know, sometimes things take a
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  Speaker 7: little bit longer than, you know, with all the legal
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  Speaker 7: stuff that goes on and all that. But we were
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  Speaker 7: comfortable with our conversations and it just kind of came
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  Speaker 7: together here over the last couple of days. So it
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  Speaker 7: just happens to be the timing of the start of
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  Speaker 7: the season. like we have to have it done by
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  Speaker 7: this date, but it's nice to get it, you know,
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  Speaker 7: put to bed and be able to just kind of
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  Speaker 7: focus on what we have to do this season and
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  Speaker 7: start a game one here tonight.
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  Speaker 5: I know you love this team and I know you
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  Speaker 5: love this place. You love living here. And that's one
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  Speaker 5: of the reasons why you wanted to stay here. When
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  Speaker 5: did you guys start talking about this? Did this start,
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  Speaker 5: the conversation start after the season ended or just most recently?
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  Speaker 7: I can't remember the date exactly, but in the summertime,
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  Speaker 7: like it wasn't right after the season or any of that, like,
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  Speaker 7: you know, obviously we had some changes in the front
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  Speaker 7: office with Chris leaving and Joe coming back. And, you know,
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  Speaker 7: so we, we started talking, you know, I would say
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  Speaker 7: a little bit mid summer somewhere in there and just,
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  Speaker 7: kind of had a few discussions and everyone's traveling and whatnot.
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  Speaker 7: And like I said, neither one of us were like
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  Speaker 7: in a rush to get it done. We just wanted
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  Speaker 7: to make sure we had some preliminary conversations and got
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  Speaker 7: it all sorted out. So it was pretty easy. Dealing
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  Speaker 7: with Joe was pretty easy. You know, like we just
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  Speaker 7: kind of discussed his side, my side, where we're at,
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  Speaker 7: what we want to do, and then kind of move
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  Speaker 7: on from there.
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  Speaker 2: Can we go back just over a decade?
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  Speaker 3: And we know what happened in late August of that year,
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  Speaker 3: and you get the telephone call, and you're getting ready
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  Speaker 3: to go with Lake Erie and so on, and the
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  Speaker 3: Blue Jackets. Hey, I want you to come coach the
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  Speaker 3: Colorado Avalanche. And I remember they hired you, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: who the hell is this guy? And no offense, but
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  Speaker 3: I'm locked into the NHL. Coach, here you are a
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  Speaker 3: decade later, and now a four-year contract extension, a cup
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  Speaker 3: in hand and whatnot, and you turn that team around
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  Speaker 3: after that very difficult first year. You went to the
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  Speaker 3: playoffs the next year. I mean, what a ride it's been.
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  Speaker 3: Could you have imagined when you're getting ready to go
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  Speaker 3: to camp with Columbus, but you're going to coach Lake
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  Speaker 3: Erie again, that this is where you'd be in 2026
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  Speaker 3: and beyond?
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  Speaker 7: No, no. It's like, like, I just feel so fortunate
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  Speaker 7: and grateful to the, to the Kronke family, to Joe
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  Speaker 7: and our management staff, like for all that, you know,
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  Speaker 7: like it's, this is an unforgiving league and, Um, you know,
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  Speaker 7: every team has like sort of a different approach and
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  Speaker 7: how they handle, you know, players, coaches, management, all of it. Um,
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  Speaker 7: we have a similar philosophy. Like I like the continuity that,
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  Speaker 7: that our team has. I'm, I'm as excited like now
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  Speaker 7: to coach his team this year again and beyond as
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  Speaker 7: I was when I first came. And that's the truth. It's,
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  Speaker 7: it's like, it's such a blessing to be able to
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  Speaker 7: coach in this league. And then like for in this
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  Speaker 7: organization and with the players that we have that I've
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  Speaker 7: built relationships with, it's, it's a lot of fun. I'm
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  Speaker 7: excited about this team every, every year, you know, and it's,
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  Speaker 7: there are a lot of hardworking guys give you an
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  Speaker 7: honest effort. They're committed as much as anybody in the league. And,
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  Speaker 7: and they're a lot of fun to be around. And we,
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  Speaker 7: We've had some good years, and I'm just looking forward
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  Speaker 7: to going to try to win another cup. That's our
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  Speaker 7: goal here every year, and it's a fun process with
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  Speaker 7: these guys. I think a lot of them have the
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  Speaker 7: same mentality as I have and as Joe has. The organization,
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  Speaker 7: the culture we've built here is really strong, and we
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  Speaker 7: just want to continue to insert ourselves in the conversation
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  Speaker 7: and go try to get another one.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Coach of the Avalanche, Jared Bednar is with us.
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  Speaker 4: All conversations with the coach are brought to you by Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Ruger Plumbing, proudly rooting for Colorado's hockey team. So, season
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  Speaker 4: gets going tonight, Coach, and you had a whole offseason.
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  Speaker 4: Just curious, do you guys look back at last year?
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  Speaker 4: You have the best team in the league throughout the
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  Speaker 4: regular season. You breezed through the first couple of rounds,
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  Speaker 4: and then the way the season ended against Vegas. Is
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  Speaker 4: there something you can pinpoint to what exactly happened? Do
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  Speaker 4: you look back at that at all, or is it
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  Speaker 4: just time to move forward?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I think, like, at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 7: you're looking back at everything. Like, what made you the
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  Speaker 7: team you were in the regular season? You know, how
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  Speaker 7: you had success round one, two. Like, every year, success
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  Speaker 7: or failure, I think you look at it because you're
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  Speaker 7: trying to study it and replicate it or fix it.
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  Speaker 7: And sometimes the answers aren't easy. That was less heartbreaking
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  Speaker 7: and more frustrating because... Um, yeah, like I, I just
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  Speaker 7: didn't think we, we played great in that series and
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  Speaker 7: you can always kind of like go deeper and go, well,
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  Speaker 7: this play could have helped us in this situation, you know,
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  Speaker 7: scoring here and things are different. And it is really, it's,
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  Speaker 7: it's a minuscule fine line of between winning and losing and,
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  Speaker 7: and they had the edge on us in, um, you know,
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  Speaker 7: a handful of categories that we didn't like. And we had,
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  Speaker 7: you know, individuals not play as good as they had
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  Speaker 7: all year. And we, we had a couple of like
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  Speaker 7: key injuries, missing some guys. I think it's so much
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  Speaker 7: has to go right to win. You know, it was
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  Speaker 7: frustrating and it, but, I still think as a coach,
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  Speaker 7: you have to look at what you did through the
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  Speaker 7: regular season. For example, we've been a high-scoring team. We've
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  Speaker 7: been a dangerous offensive team. We've been working at and
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  Speaker 7: in building our defensive game year over year to just
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  Speaker 7: try and improve it, to give ourselves a better chance.
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  Speaker 7: And then last year, like we're first in goals for,
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  Speaker 7: and first in goals against, you know, and like, that
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  Speaker 7: was a huge accomplishment for a team. I think that's
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  Speaker 7: what kind of led us to the record. We have
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  Speaker 7: that and the consistency of our team. And, and I think,
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  Speaker 7: We just have to keep building on that and keep
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  Speaker 7: putting yourself in the conversation. If the belief is high
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  Speaker 7: in the room and you're proving it on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 7: like I've always said, it's going and playing your best
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  Speaker 7: hockey for a two-week stretch four times in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 7: That's what it is. If you don't do that, you
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  Speaker 7: can't expect to win. We certainly didn't do that against Vegas.
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  Speaker 7: And so we ended up getting knocked out, you know,
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  Speaker 7: and I look at a team like Carolina, you know,
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  Speaker 7: they were in the conversation in the conversation. What is it? Five,
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  Speaker 7: six years now, the top of the division, no playoff
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  Speaker 7: success or limited class success. There's no, no class success.
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  Speaker 7: You're in it, you're winning rounds, but they weren't able
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  Speaker 7: to get over the hump. They just kept putting themselves
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  Speaker 7: in the conversation and, and then they get it done,
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  Speaker 7: and now they're going to have to go and try
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  Speaker 7: to repeat the same thing we were doing leading up
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  Speaker 7: to 22 and coming out of 22. There's a lot
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  Speaker 7: of top teams in the league in the exact same boat,
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  Speaker 7: but you've just got to keep putting in the work,
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  Speaker 7: enjoying the process, enjoying the year, and just grinding to
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  Speaker 7: be the best team you can be. And then, like
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  Speaker 7: I said, you've got to play your best hockey, come
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  Speaker 7: playoff time, or otherwise you're just not going to win.
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  Speaker 5: That is the voice of Jared Bednar, who, if you
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  Speaker 5: haven't heard, just signed a four-year extension with the Colorado Avalanche. Coach,
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  Speaker 5: you're never going to change your core principles as a coach.
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  Speaker 2: That's what makes you who you are.
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  Speaker 5: But you said at the introductory press conference this year
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  Speaker 5: that you might do some things differently. How will you
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  Speaker 5: manifest those things? What are you planning to do differently
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  Speaker 5: this year?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so there's a balance for me that I want
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  Speaker 7: to get to this year with We're a veteran team,
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  Speaker 7: so when we teach things to our group, I expect
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  Speaker 7: our guys to pick them up quickly, and they do.
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  Speaker 7: They implement it in the game, and they compete the
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  Speaker 7: right way on a nightly basis. We tend to focus
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  Speaker 7: on us and then really start digging into the... pre-scouts
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  Speaker 7: and what we're going to see, what, you know, on
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  Speaker 7: a nightly basis in different situations from, our opposition, I'd
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  Speaker 7: like to shorten that up a little bit, like from
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  Speaker 7: what I'm presenting to the team and trust them that they, that,
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  Speaker 7: you know, if team A is similar to team B,
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  Speaker 7: that they understand it and, and, and have that trust and, and,
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  Speaker 7: Take some time and dig in with individuals, lines, D pairs,
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  Speaker 7: and really have more lengthy conversations and video sessions and
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  Speaker 7: whatnot with some of our individual guys to try and
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  Speaker 7: help them. Because we have some younger guys this year.
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  Speaker 7: We have some new guys. Schwartz is new, Spechkoff's new,
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  Speaker 7: LaRue's new. Waugh came to us at the end of
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  Speaker 7: last year. You know, you got Hughes now as a
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  Speaker 7: younger guy coming in in his rookie season. So I
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  Speaker 7: want those guys, like, if we can improve a little
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  Speaker 7: bit as individuals in different situations, troubled areas or strengths
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  Speaker 7: and get them playing to their strengths, you know, even
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  Speaker 7: more so than we have in years past, I think
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  Speaker 7: it makes our team better, right? Players want the communication.
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  Speaker 7: They want the time. They want to know where they stand.
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  Speaker 7: And to a certain extent, we've always done that. But
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  Speaker 7: I like to help make our team better by sitting
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  Speaker 7: down with some individuals and letting the team kind of
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  Speaker 7: take care of itself a little bit more. So there's
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  Speaker 7: a bunch of different thoughts I have. But it is
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  Speaker 7: a balance, and I have to– make sure I find
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  Speaker 7: that balance with their team. When our team needs a
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  Speaker 7: team meetings and reviews, we're going to continue to do
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  Speaker 7: all those, but really trying to focus on our group
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  Speaker 7: a little bit more than our opponent.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, I know what we're going to get with Jaden Schwartz,
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  Speaker 3: an elevator guy, a veteran, a Stanley Cup champion. I
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  Speaker 3: know what you're going to get with Nick Waugh, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll see about the other guys that came from Nashville,
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  Speaker 3: but I want to ask you about TJ Hughes. What
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  Speaker 3: makes a guy like that, and I know you're dealing
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  Speaker 3: with some injuries right now, but what makes a guy
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  Speaker 3: like that, an undrafted free agent, you know, elderly college
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  Speaker 3: senior kind of guy be able to come in, get.
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  Speaker 2: Some experience with the Eagles, but then crack this.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of lineup for opening night the following year. And
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  Speaker 3: not only that, but I'm not telling.
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  Speaker 2: Any secrets here. I watched practice yesterday. He's in the
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  Speaker 2: bumper on PP1.
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  Speaker 3: What allows a guy like that to be able to
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  Speaker 3: show up, show out, and then do his job?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's, so first off, like he made our team
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  Speaker 7: and that, honestly has nothing to do with the injuries.
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  Speaker 7: Like it's, it's his play. Right. And for me, it's,
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  Speaker 7: it's a mix of his skillset. And I think he's
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  Speaker 7: got an elite brain. Like he thinks the game, um, offensively,
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  Speaker 7: especially at a very high level, he has the ability,
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  Speaker 7: hands passing ability, smarts to be able to make plays
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  Speaker 7: with top players. And so we feel like he can
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  Speaker 7: add offense to our top nine. And, um, like we
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  Speaker 7: always try to keep in mind, like they're all, once
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  Speaker 7: we draft these guys, once they're ours, free agent, first rounder,
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  Speaker 7: late rounder, they're all our players, right? So we can't
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  Speaker 7: like lean towards certain guys because of, you know, their
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  Speaker 7: draft status or free agency or, you know, their history.
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  Speaker 7: We have to go on, you know, a real good
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  Speaker 7: understanding of who they are as a player and what
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  Speaker 7: they do when they come to us and play for
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  Speaker 7: us and what they're doing in the minors. He's shown
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  Speaker 7: up in a way that we feel like we can
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  Speaker 7: insert him into our top nine and he can help us,
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  Speaker 7: including on the power play. The handedness, being a right-hand
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  Speaker 7: shot on that power play, is a factor for sure,
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  Speaker 7: but his play is what really speaks to why he's
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  Speaker 7: on that unit right now and why he's playing with
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  Speaker 7: who he's playing with in the lineup because he's an
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  Speaker 7: elite thinker and we feel like he can produce a
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  Speaker 7: significant amount of offense for us this year.
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  Speaker 6: Jared Bednar with us.
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  Speaker 4: That's one of those things in talking about the power
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  Speaker 4: play that you guys were so elite in so many
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  Speaker 4: different categories last year.
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  Speaker 6: Power play got better as the year went on.
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  Speaker 4: But also some talk during practice of McKinnon moving around
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  Speaker 4: to different spots. How much time have you guys spent
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  Speaker 4: maybe doing things differently on the power play this year?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, lots, lots. Like we've been digging into it. Like
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  Speaker 7: the first handful of days for our training camp is
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  Speaker 7: all five-on-five stuff, getting the guys dialed back into our
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  Speaker 7: five-on-five structure in every area, and we practice it and
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  Speaker 7: review it and practice it again. We played those first
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  Speaker 7: couple exhibitions. games and then since that weekend we've been
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  Speaker 7: digging in um reviewing all our five on five stuff
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  Speaker 7: and then digging into our special teams and power play
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  Speaker 7: has been a big part we've had multiple meetings already
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  Speaker 7: um and we've been working on it every single day
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  Speaker 7: we hit the ice so it's been it's been looking
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  Speaker 7: good i like both units right now um with hughes
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  Speaker 7: going on to that first unit um Now you've got Nelson, Kadri, Lackanen, Schwartz,
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  Speaker 7: and Taze all on the second unit. They look good.
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  Speaker 7: Unit 1s look good. The strongest it's looked, I think,
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  Speaker 7: is just yesterday's practice. I like the direction we're going
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  Speaker 7: in here. It's a fresh start for our guys. It's
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  Speaker 7: a little bit of a different look. Some of the
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  Speaker 7: There's a lot of similar ozone philosophies, but I feel
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  Speaker 7: like our guys are kind of bought into it, dug
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  Speaker 7: into it here early and making adjustments based on what
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  Speaker 7: the penalty kill is doing even in practice and finding
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  Speaker 7: ways to create quality scoring chances around that. So I
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  Speaker 7: like their thought process. I like their execution so far. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: it'd be nice to get that thing firing right out
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  Speaker 7: of the gate here, game one, if we get an
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  Speaker 7: opportunity tonight.
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  Speaker 5: Goalie rotation. I know McKenzie had a great offseason, came
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  Speaker 5: back healthy. Do you want one of these guys to
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  Speaker 5: take the bull by the horns here and become goalie one,
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  Speaker 5: or is it going to be a shared situation again?
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  Speaker 7: Well, ideally, we have... goalie one, there's still like, to me,
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  Speaker 7: there's plenty of opportunity for both guys. It's just that
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  Speaker 7: long of a season, adding two more games to it
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  Speaker 7: this year. Right. So you want to be rested and
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  Speaker 7: peak performance, regardless of who's in that. I think the
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  Speaker 7: feeling like for me is like, it's, it's Blackwood's net
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  Speaker 7: is the number one, um, He obviously last year, tough year,
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  Speaker 7: starts right in late summer, the injury, the procedure, and
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  Speaker 7: just fighting to try and... you know, stay at the
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  Speaker 7: top of his game, get to the top of his
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  Speaker 7: game and stay at the top of his game. But
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  Speaker 7: this year, incredible, incredible off season comes in lighter, faster.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, he just, he's just in a different place
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  Speaker 7: this year than maybe ever in his career. And I mean,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know how many times we've been on the
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  Speaker 7: ice in the last two weeks, 10, 11. And he,
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  Speaker 7: he hasn't had a bad day yet, you know? So that's,
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  Speaker 7: that's really encouraging for our team and then wedge can
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  Speaker 7: do what he does and and like i said it's
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  Speaker 7: it's a tandem no question and it's such a long
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  Speaker 7: season that we're going to have to rely on both
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  Speaker 7: guys but i i like to see you know black
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  Speaker 7: would have a bigger year than he did last year
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  Speaker 7: and he certainly looks capable and a real good place
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  Speaker 7: mentally and physically to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what else? Is that it? I mean, we covered
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  Speaker 2: a lot.
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  Speaker 6: Is that your question?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we plot a lot of ground today.
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  Speaker 6: I got a question. I got one more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's that?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, you get the contract extension, and again, congratulations.
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  Speaker 6: That's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Andrew Cogliano got a promotion to assistant general manager. How
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  Speaker 4: do you feel about one of your former players being
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  Speaker 4: a boss of yours now?
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's great. It's great. I love Cogs. I think, like,
• 18:13
  Speaker 7: it's well-deserved, and, like, he's– He's a worker, right? Like
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: that's what he is. And like in every aspect of
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: his professional life and personal life, he's just the top
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: notch individual.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: When he moved into, you know, a management role after playing,
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: he's been digging in and put a tremendous amount of
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: work in with our prospects. Like he was, him and
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: Kevin McDonald, like both are the guys that kind of
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: went after Hughes and talked to him all year to
• 18:45
  Speaker 7: recruit him. And then we got him, the prospects that
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: we already had, the draft picks. He's done a, an
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: awesome job there. And so they'll split up all the responsibilities,
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: but he's, he's a great guy to have around and,
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: and he's, that's the job he's doing. And the promotion,
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: I think just kind of follows that. It's yeah. I'm
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: really excited to be back working with these guys. It's,
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: it's like coaching in the league is one thing, but
• 19:14
  Speaker 7: it's the people that you work with on a daily
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: basis and the relationships you have and the way you
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: see the game and, And I think we've got a
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: great group here from, you know, our ownership to Joe
• 19:27
  Speaker 7: and right on down the line, we're all kind of
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: on the same page and pulling the rope in the
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: same direction. And the players do the exact same thing.
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: So it's a great family to be a part of.
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: And again, I'm super happy and grateful and excited to
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: get going here for the season to take another run
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: at this thing.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: Okay. Is that it? What do you got? No, I
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: got nothing. I mean, we.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Moe, did you get a tee time? No.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Can I suggest this?
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: If you're going to stay here for four more years,
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: can you find a better partner to take me.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: On, please?
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: How bad was I? I admit it. My irons coach...
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Let him down. Total junkie. I'm sorry. It's my fault.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: You should take blame.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: I would.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Congratulations, Coach, man. That's great news to hear, man. Super good.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Looking forward to another season. 84 of them starts tonight.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: That's a long time. Good luck tonight, Coach, and we'll
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: talk to you next week.
• 20:25
  Speaker 7: All right, fellas. I appreciate you.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: There you go.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Head coach of the Avs, Jared Bednar, fresh off a
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: contract extension, and I don't know why you feel the
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: need to just bomb the end of the interview.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: You know what Mosher does? So we have hand signals
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: during this. Take people behind the curtain. There's hand signals. Like, hey,
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: I got a follow-up question. Hey, are you ready for
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: a question?
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: And Mosher does this. He gives me– he points to
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: himself and then does the wrap. Like, I'll wrap up
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: the interview by.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: Asking one last question. And I said, cool. And his
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: question was, is that it?
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: What was at the end of that rainbow?
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, did he want to share something that
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: we haven't? We talked about every pertinent thing going in.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Hang on, hang on, hang on. When do you end
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: an interview by going, is that it?
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: This isn't just like, hey, open forum, coach. What do
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: you want to talk about? He's here to answer questions.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Have you ever heard anybody end an interview by going, hey,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: is that it?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: If he was sitting in front of a microphone at
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: a press conference and nobody asked a question, do you
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: think that he would just sit there and talk?
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: Give us thoughts about things?
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: I just want to know why you just did that.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you know, there's more comfortability on this
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: show than there is like standing in front of.
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: That was totally uncomfortable. I was uncomfortable when you did that.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: That was an awkward pause at the end of that interview.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: All right, Grandpa, let's get you to bed.
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: All right, hang on one second here.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Straw pole.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: 303-504-0925.
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: Were you uncomfortable with what Mosher did at the end
• 21:46
  Speaker 6: of that interview?
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Twice.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: Twice.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Yes or no?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: 303-504-0925.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: A chance to win Avs tickets to tonight's game.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I think it's an absolutely appropriate way to wrap things up. Like,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: is that it?
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I mean, you got anything more you want to tell
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: us because we're over time, but Brett keeps dragging it
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: on and Vic playing with his hair.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: Two pairs of tickets we're giving away. So a chance
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: for you to win those next. All right, so we'll
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: give you a chance to win the two pairs of
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: tickets here, and all you have to do is fill
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: in the bleeped-out section of an answer from Jared Bednar
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: and text that in. You'll have a chance to win
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: one of the pairs of tickets, one of two pairs
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: of tickets to tonight's game.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Are we done? Again. Feels like it. Anything else? I'll
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: see you at the rink.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: It sounded like he was wasting your time by answering
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: questions for us. That's what it sounded like.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: No, we were wasting his time at the end. He's
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: got to get ready tonight. It's the home opener, bro.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: It's the opener of the season.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: He's got 12 hours, Moj. It's okay. He's already at
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: the rink, bro, at 828 in the morning. What do
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: you think this is? We done? Tickle fight play time?
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: This is.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Brett, this is the National Hockey League. I got things
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: to do today. We done?
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: That was the exact same amount of time he joins
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: us every time he's ever been on the show.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: During playoff games, he's been on with us for 20 minutes.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: It's once a week.
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: It's what he does.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Now, I'll tell you this.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: If he had something else to add, you can try
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: to drag something out of him with a horse and rope,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: but if he had something else to add, that was
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: his opportunity.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: He had nothing else. We haven't talked to him since May.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: There was a lot of things that we could plow
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: with him.
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: Well, I have.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: We don't?
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Anyway, I'll tell you this.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: If you guys are just tuning in this morning, you
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: missed the Jared Bednar interview. He had a four-year contract
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: extension literally an hour ago that was just finalized. So
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: he is here another four years. The texture says, This
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: is how we should have ended the interview with him.
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: That would have made it less awkward.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing, man.
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: That dude who joins us every week is in a
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: texture set. It's the truth.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I don't think you're going to get a more articulate
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: and well-answered coach on any interview in, in the bleeping
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: country than what he gives you.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Well, how about honest?
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: And let's not ignore the elephant in the room.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: There are a lot of people on the text line who.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Don't like this move.
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Who are very upset that the Avs brought him back
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: for four more. And that's fine.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: I can't change your opinion. And I'm sure he understands
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: there are people that have that opinion. But that's not
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: going to be our opinion. And if you're looking for,
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: and I've said this before, I said it when the
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: heat was on after the Vegas series. and I'm being
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: bluntly honest, if you're looking for fair and unbiased regarding.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Coach Bednar, you ain't going to get it from us.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: You just ain't.
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: True.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: I do think that there is a certain level, though,
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: when you look at where the Avs are at right
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: now and the caliber of team they have, this move,
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: this extension does not happen. Last year, with the way
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: the season ended, If the players wanted a change, a
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: change would have happened.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: There was a year left on his contract. There was
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: obviously the shock of losing the way that they did
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: last year. And I can almost guarantee you, can't fully
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: guarantee it, but I can almost guarantee you that conversations
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: that were had with players were about, do you want
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: to do this again? Do you trust this guy? And
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: all of them said yes. And that's why he's here,
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: and that's why he's extended.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I think it's.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Important when players do have exit interviews and that sort
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: of thing that.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: You get a feel of the room.
• 25:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: If you're the GM, okay, absent the coach and the
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: coaching staff and everything else, I think everybody needs to
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: be upfront about how they feel and what their true
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: wishes are. Vic, let me go back to 1996. Who
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: was the head coach of the Avalanche when they won
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: the Cup in 1996?
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: That was not Bob Hartley. That was Mark Crawford. Mark Crawford.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Who was the head coach of the Avs when they
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: won in 01? That was Bob.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: But what's so– this is what I'm asking listeners and
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: fans to take into consideration.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Joe Sackick was on both of those teams.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Joe Sackick knows you have– if you don't trust Joe Sackick,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: that's fine.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Just say, I don't trust Joe Sackick.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: If you don't trust Cale McCarr and Nathan McKinnon and
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: Gabe Landeskog and Moore– That's fine, but I need you
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: to come out and say, you know what, I don't
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: trust those guys' judgment on coaches and systems and everything else.
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: Okay? Yeah.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, but be honest about it and say it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: I don't trust Joe Sackick and I don't trust those guys.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Joe has a unique perspective, Vic, because he was on
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: those teams when they transitioned from one coach to another
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: and both teams won. But he's got an idea in
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: his head on, yeah, you know what, we probably needed
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: a coaching change or, you know, we didn't or what.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's got that perspective from being inside that
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: room on two teams that won with different coaches to
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: understand all the factors that go into winning a Stanley Cup.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: So I trust Joe's judgment on this, number one. Number two,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: we're talking about Cale. We're talking about Gabe. We're talking
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: about Nate. We're talking about, you know, all these Devon Taves,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: all these terrific coaches. terrific players who understand why you
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: win and why you don't win and systems and why you,
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: why a system works and why it doesn't work.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: They all wanted him still. He wanted them still. Joe wanted, it's, don't.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Try to overthink this thing, people, and you may not
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: like this or that or, and nobody's without criticism when
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: you lose.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Nobody is. But you've got to take everything into consideration.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Please.
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: I would present this to you.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: The top three coaches in winning percentage in the NHL,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: in order, are Rod Brindamore, John Cooper, Jared Bednar.
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: It's a three.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Rod Brindamore just got his first one last year. He
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: has coached 624 games for the Carolina Hurricanes. Bednar's at 782.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: It took a long time for Rod Brindamore to get there.
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: There is a certain level of if your players trust
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: you and they think they put you in the best
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: spots to be successful. The Avs have been consistently a
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: top three favorite team in the league. And I don't
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: think that just happens. You can't chalk that up to, well,
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: look at the lineup. How about you look at how
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: the lineup was made? Yes, you have Nathan McKinnon and
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Kel McCarr.
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: That's great.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: You've never exactly had in this iteration of the Avalanche
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Moj a top five goalie in the league.
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: You've had good goaltending, for sure.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: Last year, you were best in goals against, but does
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: anybody consider McKenzie Blackwood or Scott Wedgewood a top five
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: goalie in the NHL?
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: No. On the outside looking in, no, but the numbers
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: would reflect that they were this past year.
• 29:17
  Speaker 6: That's what I said. Numbers-wise, it said that nobody would
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: consider them that way.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Nobody's saying, hey, we.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Want to pay you $ 12 million a year to come
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: play goalie for our team.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: How many different examples can I point to of Val
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Nachushkins out there? Where they have no success outside the abs.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: They come here, they're developed into a good player.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: That's coaching.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: That's what coaching does.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Amen.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Live in talk radio world. He doesn't live on Twitter.
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: He doesn't live on the text line. Frankly, he shouldn't
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: care what people think.
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Just do your job.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: And the bottom line is a coach understands it. Hey, man,
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: it didn't work. Changes are necessary.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: He's already made changes.
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure the conversation with Nathan McKinnon on
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: the power play, how was that?
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: That wasn't comfortable. Change your spot. But Nate, he wants
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: to win desperately. I understand, but a coach has to
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: initiate that, right?
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: Agreed.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: And he told us he's going to do things differently.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: So I don't think he cares. He shouldn't care. If
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: he cares, we'd have a different circumstance, different set of
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: problems here. They don't care. Just do your job, and
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: we'll talk here in about seven months, and we'll see
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: how it goes.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: The.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Theme of, boy, they should have more cups by now
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: with this lineup. I guess you could make that argument.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, two years ago when they lost.
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: That's fair.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Everybody would want that. Two years ago when you lost
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: to Dallas, could that team have won?
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: I think the answer is yeah. Heck, the year when
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: they lost to Vegas in round number two, when they
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: won the first two games and lost four in a row,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: should they have won that year? You could make that argument.
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: But I'm trying to stress to you, it's so hard.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: And there are so many, so many circumstances. Coach just
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: talked about it. That go into winning a period, winning
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: a game, winning a series at that time of the year.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: It's not excuse making, but it's incredibly difficult. And again,
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: why did the Carolina Hurricanes, when they're in the mix, Brett,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: every year for six years and they get bounced in
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: the first, bounced in the second, bounced in the first,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: bounced in the final, conference final, bounced in the first.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: Why is that? Gas Rod. Rod the Bod can't get
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: it done. Then he does. It's because it's frigging hard.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: It's not going to change your opinions. And, again, that's
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: the beauty of talk radio. Everyone's got one. But, I mean,
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: the polarity of some of these thoughts coming in on
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: the text line.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: This is from 1162.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: The system is stagnant. The team will continue to stay stagnant.
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: We are turning into the Penguins. Many more second-round exits
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: to come.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: That's one.
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: And then for every one of those, you get only
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: one coach, wins every year. It can't be you every year.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: Be happy you have a top five coach in the
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: league every year.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: So, I mean, listen, get it. Totally get it. And
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: I'm sure he gets it. Game one is tonight.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: But there are some times when the message gets dull, lost,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: and old on players. It doesn't with this guy, with
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: this group. I can promise you that.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Your chance to get in the building. This is called
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Listen Up, Jack. We're going to play a clip. Nelly
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: has something bleeped out of a sentence from Jared Bednar.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: You have to text in the correct answer, and it
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: gives you a shot to get in the building tonight.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: So here is what you need to decipher.
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: Excited to get going here for the season, to take
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: another run at this thing.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, is that it? What do you got? No, I
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: got nothing. I mean, we could. I got nothing. What
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: are you doing?
• 32:51
  Speaker 7: Moe, you get it.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: So if you can find what's missing in the bleep,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: text it in to 303-504-0925.
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: You get it right. You got a chance to get
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: in the building tonight. One more time, Nelly.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: What are you doing?
• 33:06
  Speaker 7: Moe, you get it.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: So there you go. Well, now it's a winner at
• 33:11
  Speaker 6: the end of the show. Oh, by the way, next.
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely nothing to do with all that.
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: Anime, Star Wars, Star Trek.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: The toilet suddenly shattered and collapsed beneath him.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: Wait, are you still driving that Honda?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, by the way, with Mosher, Lombardi, and Kane.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: Pay attention and stop looking at that squirrel.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Altitude Sports Radio 92.5.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, stories around sports in the world
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: we feel like you should be aware of. I'd like
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: to start here. I'd like to start with Vic's confusion
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: on why a tailgate is fun.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: I didn't say it wasn't fun. I said it would
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: not be fun cooking for everybody. I'm not doing that.
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: So Vic is very confused as to why people, when
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: they tailgate before a football game, a Broncos game, whatever,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: would bring a grill and make burgers and hot dogs.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about just a little mini grill.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about the big old, like, that's a lot
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: of work.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like to cook.
• 34:12
  Speaker 6: I like cooking for my friends sometimes.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Have you ever done that then? Have you ever gone
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: to a game, brought a grill, and cooked for people?
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: I have not. No, I have not done that at
• 34:19
  Speaker 6: a tailgate. It is a lot of work.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Kudos to those who can do it. I couldn't do it.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: I'm just bewildered by it.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: But if we all, all four of us, went to
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: a game, And Moe's brought a grill and started making
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: hot dogs and burgers and stuff like that.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Well, he wouldn't do it. He's never done it. That's
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying. Only rare people. I would do it.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: I would do it. You've never done it.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: I don't go to many football games anymore because I'm
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: always working in the wintertime.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: It's difficult.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: And so I don't have the bandwidth. To do that,
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: but I have attended tailgates. I choked on a lamb
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: chop one time. You were with me when I choked
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: on it.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: What if we invite Bambi to a Broncos game and
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: she starts whipping up some pasta right there in the
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: parking lot?
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: How about that?
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: She's got to be in her own kitchen. She wouldn't
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: do it. Maybe that's why. You got to have your
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: own tools. Oh, by the way, did you see what
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: happened to the Minnesota Wild? We were talking about this
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: yesterday at Avalanche practice. Brock Faber.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what?
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: How did that happen?
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: So over the weekend, on Friday, the Stars and the
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Wild played in a preseason game. And they had some fights,
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: and it was pretty crazy, right?
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Well, Faber, in the second period, took a puck to
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: the head above his ear, and it cracked his skull.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: He had surgery to repair a fractured skull.
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: Jeez.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: He didn't miss his next shift, but he was taken
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: to the hospital in the third period with a fractured skull,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: and then the next day he had surgery to.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever seen.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: I've seen a guy get his face busted up in
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: a fight, that kind of thing. But I don't think
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: I've ever seen a guy take a puck to the
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: head and have a fractured skull.
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: How much time is he missing?
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: It's unknown. I mean, it's probably at least eight weeks.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: If not more.
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, you know, the UFL is expanding.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: It is expanding to Colorado. Rick Neuheisel is going to
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: be the head coach of whatever the UFL Colorado team
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: is going to be named.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Vic, how do you feel about old Rick?
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: Way back in the day when I was on the news,
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: occasionally I would do the Rick Neuheisel shows. I'd fill
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: in when McIntosh wasn't available. Rick Neuheisel had a coaching show.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: They would actually drive him down from Boulder. He loves
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: it here.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I'm not surprised he's coming back here.
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: How much do they get paid, do you think, UFL coaches?
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: That's a great question. I don't know. Do you think
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: they're making a mill? No. No way.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: Wade Phillips was a UFL coach at one point, right?
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: You know, I've always kind of liked Rick Neuheisel. Is
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: that bad?
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, I know he took a lot of grief
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: here because he left here and he went to Washington, Brett.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: And he was a winner in Washington. He never had
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: a losing season. He was 33-16 overall. Then he left Washington,
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: got gassed.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: So it's anywhere from 100 to 500 a year seems
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: to be the number.
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Like 500 for guys like you get Bob Stoops to
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: come out of retirement or something.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: Make it worth his while.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Then he went to UCLA. That was six years later
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: and wasn't really good with the Bruins, and that kind
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: of was it.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: But I don't know. I kind of liked Rick, man.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: I thought, I don't know. I just liked him.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: Oh, by the way, which current NFL lineman has the
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: longest streak of snaps without giving up a sack? Garrett Bowles,
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: 999 consecutive snaps. A chance to make it an even
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: K on his first snap Sunday in San Francisco.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: What a change.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Has a player changed the perception of themselves as quickly
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: and drastically as Garrett Bowles did? Garrett Bowles was somebody
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: entering the fourth year of his rookie contract. They declined
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: the fifth year and were like, I don't trust this
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: at all. This is probably his last year. And worked
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: his way into a massive extent to massive contract extension.
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: Who was the coach that came in and worked with
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: him and it changed his whole life? Yeah, Mike Munchak.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: How mad were you on the last drive, the go-ahead drive,
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: when there.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: Was a holding call? Well, he actually was illegal formation.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: He was not on the line of scrimmage. Oh, is
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: that what it was? Yeah, he backed up. Holding offense.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Number 72. Those days are long gone. No, they're gone.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: The man deserves all the credit in the world. He
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: has changed his game. He has changed everything about himself.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: He has become a Mark Elite, Elite tackle in this league.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. Oh, by the way, the NBA is going to
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Las Vegas, Nevada. You know that, right? And did you
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: see who the potential owners might be? Sure did. Who's
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: front and center, leader in the clubhouse.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: It happens to be the same people that first bought
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: the Nuggets and the Avs.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: That is correct. Before Stan Kroenke did.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Bill Laurie and Nancy Walton Laurie. They bought, they were
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: under contract to buy the Avs and the Nuggets. Eventually,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: they got out of that deal, and they ended up
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: buying the St. Louis Blues, which is very interesting. But
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: their group, there's three groups, and the NBA is going
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: to decide which group is going to get the team.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Are you ready for this? How much do you think
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: the expansion team is going for?
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: I was just going to say the numbers.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: That number is just unreal to me.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: Vegas expansion team, $ 12 to $ 13 billion.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: So why is that?
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: Why is that?
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: That is an unreal number to me. How does it
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: balloon to that number that quickly? Moj, can you remind
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: people how much the Las Vegas Golden Knights went for
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: in expansion fee?
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: 900 million? No, no. I think it was like 400, 500,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: 600 million maybe. Vegas might... Sorry.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: I think Seattle went for like 650 million. Yeah, the
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Golden Knights might.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Have been like 450. Think about that. Let me look
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: it up.
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: Why is it 12 to 13? What's the point of that?
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to that question.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: You have to have money to build an arena and
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: have enough money to fuel a roster.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: What is the other billions upon billions for?
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Whatever math they're doing... Vegas was 500.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: And now they're looking at 12-bill minimum.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: But does that just go into a league pot? The
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: rest of that cash?
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I think it does.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: I think it goes to all the teams.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, and once one of these teams gets an expansion
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: hockey squad, that bill number is like two billy. That's
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: coming up. That's like five times what they were. The
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: numbers are just preposterous at this point.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Let me look at the Kraken here.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Kraken... Expansion price, the Kraken went for, since they went
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: for 500, the Kraken, I was right, was 650 million.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, I don't know how much of
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: the baseball you guys watched yesterday, but there is one
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: takeaway that I have.
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: I'm going to be careful.
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: Cam Schlittler is incredible. That guy is borderline unhittable. You
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: watched during the course of the regular season. I mean,
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: that dude had a sub-2 ERA, a 1.95 ERA, 239
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: strikeouts this year. He was mowing down Red Sox. Six
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: and a third, two hits allowed, 10 strikeouts. He's incredible
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: to watch. And there are a lot of pitchers in
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: the league this year that had really good seasons, but
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: I don't think anybody's touching him right now.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: I'll give you an oh, by the way, based on
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: the baseball playoffs, first day of the playoffs, my favorite
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: venue in all of baseball right now, San Diego. Those
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: fans in San Diego sold out, not a seat in
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: the house, 47,000. Compare that to Atlanta that had empty
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: seats everywhere.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: Houston, empty seats everywhere. Not San Diego.
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: So you guys know this. I went to San Diego
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: a couple months ago, two or three months ago. Went
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: to a game.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: It was a Padres-Dodgers game. And when I first arrived there,
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: the Padres were still on the road, so there was
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: no game downtown. And I had this, it was a
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: really cool experience. I stayed at a hotel that's attached
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: to the stadium. So you just walked from your room
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: straight in.
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: I was in a.
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: Suite in that little apartment thing in left field.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: What?
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was amazing. How did you get that?
• 42:18
  Speaker 6: My wife knows people.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: But what blew me away, because you think like San Diego, gosh,
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: they had their team removed from them.
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: The football team moved to Los Angeles.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: And I thought, man, maybe they're just like a whole
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: bunch of surfer dudes who don't really care about sports.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: I have never seen, and this would include, like, I've
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: never been to Boston or New York.
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: I bet it would rival it.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: The amount of Padres gear that was downtown when they
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: weren't even playing that night blew me away. Machado jerseys,
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Tatis jerseys, everything.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: They love that team. But it's a party.
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: It almost feels like a European soccer party, right? You know,
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: the fans are, like, chanting. I don't know what happened
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: when that turned in San Diego, but But that became
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: the epicenter of fandom for MLB.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: If any fan base wants to mirror another, it's San Diego.
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: It's really, really cool. And they're really good.
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: Really good. Nelly, you got one for us?
• 43:15
  Speaker 8: Oh, by the way, Johnny Knoxville has suffered immense amounts
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: of pain in his life. He's hurt himself in ways
• 43:21
  Speaker 8: that none of us can ever imagine. And he's about
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: to undergo probably the worst pain of his life to date.
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: So he was a guest picker on college game day
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: for this past week because he is a huge fan
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: of the Tennessee Vols and they do that segment where
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: they're predicting all of the matchups and he made this
• 43:39
  Speaker 8: proclamation I'm.
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: So sure about this game that if Missouri loses I
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: will punish myself by listening to Pat McAfee's new album on.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Repeat until Halloween Don't do that. No offense.
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, dude.
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: That's taken.
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: Hate to break it to you, Johnny. Mizzou lost to
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: Mississippi State. So now, I hope you're spinning that Pat
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: McAfee album.
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: I still have not heard any of that McAfee album,
• 44:07
  Speaker 6: and I don't know if I want to.
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: I'm not a music connoisseur. I don't know what to
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: tell you.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: Matt, you said this before, man. I don't mind McAfee.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: I know some people don't like him. I think he's
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: great on college game day. I got McAfee fatigue.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: He's everywhere, man.
• 44:26
  Speaker 6: He's college game day. Every day on ESPN with a show.
• 44:30
  Speaker 6: On Monday night football.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: Stephen A was doing the same thing.
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: He's doing music. He's in that movie that's coming out.
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: Wrestling.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Wrestling stuff.
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: Wrestling stuff. He's everywhere.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: It's like, dude, you got to chill.
• 44:42
  Speaker 6: You got to chill. I need a McAfee offseason.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: Okay?
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: That's what I need.
• 44:46
  Speaker 7: 303-504-0925.
• 44:46
  Speaker 6: Jesse Montano is going to join us at 920 this morning.
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: Get some NFL true false next.