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JD POV: We all agree that Landeskog is coming back soon. · 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: It's interesting, do you think Landeskog?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, is he coming back to the playoffs or what?
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  Speaker 2: I man, You're not. You're not. There's no way you're
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  Speaker 2: creating a documentary about yourself, selling it per teal and
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  Speaker 2: then having it be released this season where you're coming
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  Speaker 2: back to skate with the team. I've heard from a
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  Speaker 2: couple inside sources that he had some setbacks, but he's
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  Speaker 2: he is trending in a direction and I foresee him
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  Speaker 2: coming back into the playoffs. I think, I just why
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  Speaker 2: would you do it? And I watched a couple of
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  Speaker 2: those practices that they aired. You know there, he looks
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  Speaker 2: very good, He looks very fast, he looks very explosive
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  Speaker 2: and now tal like we're kind of talking about this,
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  Speaker 2: especially with in terms of rights and everything like that.
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  Speaker 2: This is probably a long process for him to sell this.
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  Speaker 2: So he's already known for a while that he's coming back,
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  Speaker 2: and these are all pre recorded, so it's kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: I think, it's just there's a crescendo coming, there's a
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  Speaker 2: climax coming, and it's gonna be him playing in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean we were just talking about it too before, Like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't see a world in which just having Landeskog
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  Speaker 2: on the bench can't benefit your team, even if he's
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  Speaker 2: playing four or five minutes a night and just being physical.
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  Speaker 2: He's a leader, he's he knows what he's doing. He's
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  Speaker 2: a he's a there's guys that can do it. I
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  Speaker 2: know everybody says two years off, there's guys that can't
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  Speaker 2: do it. Like I probably couldn't come back and just
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  Speaker 2: play and be super effective. I could probably be somewhat effective.
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  Speaker 2: But guys like him that have a pedigree, winning pedigree,
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  Speaker 2: they know how to play the game. They're special players.
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  Speaker 2: Like we forget because it's been a while since he's
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  Speaker 2: been back in the league, but he is very good
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  Speaker 2: and he understands how to play the game. He's got
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  Speaker 2: a very high hockey IQ. Plays penalty kill, plays power play,
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  Speaker 2: and I just don't see a world in which he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't come back and doesn't be impactful for this team
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  Speaker 2: to well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just like you said, even if he's getting a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes a game on the fourth line, think about
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  Speaker 1: the lift that they're getting from having their captain back
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  Speaker 1: and just a guy who plays like Landeskog, so physical,
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  Speaker 1: so assertive on the ice, and last time he played,
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  Speaker 1: he lifted the Stanley Cup. I mean, it all feels
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  Speaker 1: to me like it's ready to culminate in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned the doc. I've watched a bit of it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's clearly a media strategy here from Landscog
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  Speaker 1: and his team. Whether it's his agent, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if he has like a media team that he works with,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, oh well, he clearly does on this doc.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know if they were working on stuff
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  Speaker 1: before this happened. But and I mentioned when we were
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  Speaker 1: talking about it's not like the NHL approached him and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: are you interested in producing a doc about your rehab
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  Speaker 1: and we'll produce it with you, Like this was something
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  Speaker 1: that was clearly produced internally. His team got together, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even last summer. Who knows when this all started,
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  Speaker 1: but they got together and said, Okay, let's start getting
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  Speaker 1: some footage, let's start filming the rehab. Let's start sitting
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  Speaker 1: you know, Landskog down for some interviews and walking us
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  Speaker 1: through the whole process this there's clearly a very specific
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  Speaker 1: media strategy in mind, and it's hard to imagine that
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  Speaker 1: they would do that and put all this together and
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  Speaker 1: make the deal with with Turner and Amazon and make
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  Speaker 1: sure that the whole world is seeing this without an
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  Speaker 1: idea that he it culminates with the big finale, the
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  Speaker 1: big third act, you know, the big reveal at the
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  Speaker 1: end where he's back on the ice. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a great script. Whoever's writing the script with
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  Speaker 1: team Landeskog is doing a pretty good job.
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  Speaker 2: Adam, what do you think, like, why would you you know,
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  Speaker 2: why would they have this documentary come out if not
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  Speaker 2: for the to what tow's point? Beautifully beautifully put point.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's so very charismatic in the words that he
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  Speaker 2: wow and and says burying him earlier and now you're
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  Speaker 2: giving him his flowers. But yeah, but I'd like to
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  Speaker 2: break him down to build them up. That's the way
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  Speaker 2: we get him in the that's where we get it.
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  Speaker 2: We've we've established our method, adn of how we do it.
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  Speaker 2: We are hammer and nails, Baby, hammer and nails, right, yeah, nails, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: hammered to thumbnails No, but what do you think I
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  Speaker 2: don't think you're creating a documentary without you hoping or knowing,
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  Speaker 2: because a lot of this is pre recorded, that you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna come back one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: I mean you're practicing right now in late March, in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs for a few weeks away.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't imagine Planetstuck does not come back it.
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  Speaker 1: As Toal said, it feels that script is being written
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  Speaker 1: and it could be fasting how this goes again. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be there in Denver on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: I'll ask him. I'll go up to him. Okay, is
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  Speaker 2: lantuskog around like I'm gonna just a few minutes to.
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