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JD POV: 4 Nations vs NBA All-Star · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to our guest, Jeremy Piven in just a
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  Speaker 1: second last topic though, speaking of the passion of NHL
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  Speaker 1: players versus the lack of passion the NBA All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: Our buddy PK Suban, you've hosted Coast to Coast with
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  Speaker 1: him Andy Patrello on Amazon. PK went on ESPN and said, hockey's.
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  Speaker 2: A different sport from the NBA. You can't compare the
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  Speaker 2: cultures because of the way the game is played. You
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  Speaker 2: can step on an NBA floor and go through the emotions.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do that in hockey. You can't like the
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  Speaker 2: culture of our sport. You have to play it with passion.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be willing to fight, you have to
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  Speaker 2: be willing to leave it on the ice. That's what
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  Speaker 2: fans are investing in. So for us, when we charge
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  Speaker 2: fifteen hundred dollars for a ticket to come to fort
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  Speaker 2: fans know what they're getting.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I don't mean to be that guy Schirp in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, but if you've ever seen a greater Di comedy,
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  Speaker 1: people what hockey all is all about, and that intensity
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  Speaker 1: versus the lame mass NBA All Star Weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that was pathetic to watch that. I would love
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  Speaker 3: to see the viewership. If anything, it was pathetic. And no, listen,
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  Speaker 3: nothing against them, it's you. Listen to Kevin Durant. He
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  Speaker 3: tweeted just today talking about retweeted yesterday just talking about
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  Speaker 3: how he said, Hey, listen, like, maybe we just scrapped
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  Speaker 3: the All Star Weekend because everybody's complaining and guys don't
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  Speaker 3: try hard enough. And I'm like, that's you, guys. You
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  Speaker 3: guys aren't trying hard enough. That's what's causing the problems
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  Speaker 3: in the complaining. And then somebody's clapped back at him
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  Speaker 3: and he just went, well, go watch hockey then, because
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  Speaker 3: they seem to care a lot. And I'm like, are
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  Speaker 3: you eating me? There's no other sport where they could
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  Speaker 3: just openly shit on the fans and the fans are like,
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  Speaker 3: here's my money, here's my money. Load. It's just load.
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  Speaker 3: It's crazy. And listen, I've said it on multiple of
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  Speaker 3: these of these episodes. Get your paper booboo. I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: if you can find a way to hack the system, head,
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  Speaker 3: good for you. I give you the golf clap, But
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  Speaker 3: for canon. What makes me prideful to be a guy
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  Speaker 3: who played in the NHL and representing his country is
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  Speaker 3: the fact that we could put that all aside and
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  Speaker 3: there's no friends. You could be playing with guys on
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  Speaker 3: your same team and then you play against them because
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  Speaker 3: they're from a different country, and there's such a melting
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  Speaker 3: pot of guys and it's just balls to the wall. Man.
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  Speaker 3: Guys just sacrifice themselves. This is middle of the season.
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  Speaker 3: You're not getting paid for this. Yes there's a bonus
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  Speaker 3: at the end, but you are not getting your predetermined contract.
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  Speaker 3: You are getting a bonus if you win as a team.
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  Speaker 3: The way these guys lay their their bodies on the line,
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  Speaker 3: it's just it gives me chills. It gives me clammy
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  Speaker 3: paws in my hands just thinking about it, talking about
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  Speaker 3: it and watching these guys, it makes me I said,
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  Speaker 3: I said it a couple of times in the last
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  Speaker 3: few days. This has been one of the only things
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  Speaker 3: that's made me want to come back as a player,
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  Speaker 3: to experience that feeling again of just the buzz, the hum,
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  Speaker 3: the fans, the country, the people like It's just this
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  Speaker 3: is what makes hockey so great. And this is also
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  Speaker 3: a magnifying glass of what makes basketball so great is
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  Speaker 3: they don't truly care about It's very much an individual sport,
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  Speaker 3: even though you're within a team. It's very individualistic the
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  Speaker 3: culture of it. And I was sitting with somebody yesterday
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  Speaker 3: for lunch and they told me something pretty interesting. They
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  Speaker 3: said they were like the NBA All Star Game and
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  Speaker 3: specifically the sport has really started to change since Kobe's passed.
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  Speaker 3: Since Kobe was gone, the culture's tried to change because
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  Speaker 3: he kind of moved the bus. Jordan as well was
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  Speaker 3: doing that, but Kobe was the guy that took the mantle.
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  Speaker 3: Then after that, how do you expect Like PK said
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  Speaker 3: it perfectly, and I love what he said, how do
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  Speaker 3: you expect Lebron's that, I'm out, I'm good, I don't
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  Speaker 3: need to play it. And credit to him, He's created
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  Speaker 3: a monster franchise around himself and and he's created this
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  Speaker 3: brand that's synonymous with him and his lifestyle. But again,
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  Speaker 3: people follow that, and then all the players follow that.
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  Speaker 3: There's no accountability anymore. Guys don't hold each other accountable.
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  Speaker 3: And then I just feel like Kobe's been a huge
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  Speaker 3: missing piece in terms of culture within the NBA gamers.
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  Speaker 3: So it's sad to see that Durant would even say
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  Speaker 3: that because I'm a big proponent. You've heard me talk
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  Speaker 3: about it before. I nan of respecting the fans because
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  Speaker 3: without them, there's no money. Yeah, without them, there's no money.
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  Speaker 3: The viewership is what drives money, drives brand deals, it
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  Speaker 3: drives ratings, it drives TV deals. It's the fans that
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  Speaker 3: show up, So you have to this is something for them,
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  Speaker 3: for your country. You have to show up and show out,
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  Speaker 3: and it just hasn't been the case. So, like I
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  Speaker 3: said before, it's pathetic to.
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