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- 1:44Speaker 3: Windsor Spitfires media that was a lot more fun than
- 1:48Speaker 3: what the outcome was for the Spitfires tonight in Game
- 1:51Speaker 3: four of the Western Conference Championship Series against the Kitchener Rangers,
- 1:56Speaker 3: falling by a six' to three score here at THE Wfcu.
- 2:00Speaker 3: Center now falling three to one series lead for The
- 2:04Speaker 3: Kitchener rangers in their quest for The Wayne Gretzky trophy
- 2:08Speaker 3: and one went away from advancing to The Ohl Championship.
- 2:11Speaker 3: Series Brandon cakpudo here with you please to welcome On Manny,
- 2:15Speaker 3: peva the color commentator for The Windsor spitfires ON am eight. Hundred,
- 2:19Speaker 3: manny really appreciate you taking the time to stick with
- 2:22Speaker 3: us after calling the game With Steve bell, tonight and
- 2:25Speaker 3: obviously it's always great to catch up with you When
- 2:27Speaker 3: i'm in this. Area and got Some windsor pizza this,
- 2:29Speaker 3: week So i'm all, Stuffed BUT i appreciate you always
- 2:34Speaker 3: willing to come on and always love TALKING ohl with.
- 2:37Speaker 4: You, YEAH i always appreciate our. Conversations, brandon thanks for.
- 2:40Speaker 4: ASKING i really enjoyed the program and NOW i get
- 2:43Speaker 4: to be a part of it.
- 2:43Speaker 5: Again.
- 2:44Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely we had you on in the playoffs last
- 2:46Speaker 3: couple of years as, well but this time covering The
- 2:48Speaker 3: spits on this you, know hopeful run that they've, had you,
- 2:52Speaker 3: know with With Bill bowler and the acquisitions that he
- 2:54Speaker 3: made at the deadline and things like, that and how
- 2:57Speaker 3: much promise and high hopes there were for The spitfires coming.
- 3:00Speaker 3: In we know it was going to be a tough
- 3:02Speaker 3: series with the top two teams in The west this,
- 3:04Speaker 3: season both division winners and The windsor and then obviously
- 3:08Speaker 3: on the other side With kitchener And kitchener having home
- 3:11Speaker 3: ice in the. Series windsor was undefeated on home ice
- 3:15Speaker 3: up until. Tonight they were five and, zero getting through
- 3:18Speaker 3: obviously the first two opponents that they played In saginaw
- 3:21Speaker 3: and then sweeping a very Good Flint firebirds team in round.
- 3:24Speaker 3: Two so here we are After game four and they're
- 3:27Speaker 3: down three to one in the. Series, now JUST i
- 3:29Speaker 3: guess general synopsis of what we've seen so far in.
- 3:33Speaker 4: This, SERIES i would say that the first three games
- 3:36Speaker 4: could have been anyone's game really if you think about.
- 3:39Speaker 4: It an overtime loss In game one Where kitchener scored
- 3:43Speaker 4: on the power play to tie it and scored on
- 3:45Speaker 4: the power play to win. It you, know one shot
- 3:48Speaker 4: wins the hockey game in an overtime. Contest In game,
- 3:52Speaker 4: TWO i Thought windsor was the better team five on,
- 3:55Speaker 4: five but lost on a power play and short handed
- 3:58Speaker 4: goal in a two minute span in the second period
- 4:00Speaker 4: and just couldn't get a goal In game. Two they
- 4:03Speaker 4: obviously Won game, three But kitchener was just as good
- 4:08Speaker 4: in that. Game In game, three and THEN i Think
- 4:13Speaker 4: game four, TONIGHT i think was more lopsided of the
- 4:18Speaker 4: four hockey games in the, series And kitchener was full
- 4:22Speaker 4: marks for the win. Tonight, yeah they. Were and we'll
- 4:24Speaker 4: get into the game, stats the scoring. Summary we'll also
- 4:27Speaker 4: hear From Windsor spitfires head Coach Greg walters as well
- 4:30Speaker 4: As Nathan villeneuve on The windsor, side and then on
- 4:32Speaker 4: The kitchener, side we'll hear From Ucia hokus as well
- 4:35Speaker 4: As Luca, romano who scored a short handed goal in
- 4:38Speaker 4: this game, Tonight, Manny so let's let's quickly go over
- 4:41Speaker 4: the scoring or the game.
- 4:43Speaker 3: Stats excuse. Me, first it's again the shots were twenty
- 4:46Speaker 3: eight twenty, eight but through two Periods windsor only had
- 4:50Speaker 3: twelve shots on THAT i. Know Greg walters talks about
- 4:52Speaker 3: it in the post game That windsor did or excuse,
- 4:55Speaker 3: Me kitchener did a good job of blocking. Shots and
- 4:58Speaker 3: the shot attempts For, windsor he fol were a lot
- 5:00Speaker 3: more than the twelve shots on net that he had
- 5:02Speaker 3: through two. Periods then they got sixteen in the third
- 5:05Speaker 3: when they were trying to press down four nothing at that,
- 5:07Speaker 3: point did anything stick out to you about the shots?
- 5:11Speaker 4: Tonight, YEAH i will say that the one thing THAT
- 5:15Speaker 4: i have, noticed not just in tonight's, game but in
- 5:19Speaker 4: the four games in the, Series kitchener does a great.
- 5:21Speaker 5: Job of blocking.
- 5:22Speaker 4: Shots SO i Thought winsor was, good But kitchener is.
- 5:26Speaker 4: Outstanding especially their. Defensemen they do a great job of blocking.
- 5:29Speaker 4: Shots AND i think one thing THAT i did notice
- 5:33Speaker 4: in tonight's game That windsor passed up some shooting opportunities
- 5:37Speaker 4: to make the extra, pass to look for somebody to
- 5:39Speaker 4: get a better shooting, opportunity and in the end it
- 5:42Speaker 4: just didn't. Work they were passing up shot ATTEMPTS i
- 5:45Speaker 4: thought because of how Good kitchener was blocking, shots.
- 5:49Speaker 3: And speaking of those block, shots that obviously equated to
- 5:53Speaker 3: The rangers being seven for seven on the penalty Kill
- 5:55Speaker 3: tonight windsor zero for seven on the power, Play kitchener
- 5:59Speaker 3: was two for three well as two short handed. Goals
- 6:02Speaker 3: so to, me when you look at the two teams
- 6:04Speaker 3: and what separates them right now in the, Series, MANNY
- 6:06Speaker 3: i would, say five on, five we've seen pretty much
- 6:09Speaker 3: some stabilizing play. HERE i Know winsor got that power
- 6:13Speaker 3: play goal In game three that they desperately needed with
- 6:15Speaker 3: the five on three early in the game When kitchener
- 6:18Speaker 3: took two back to back high sticking penalties and they
- 6:20Speaker 3: really needed. That But tonight zero for seven and they
- 6:22Speaker 3: gave up two short handed goals as, well And kitchener
- 6:25Speaker 3: got two power play goals of their. Own to, me
- 6:28Speaker 3: that was the difference in the. Game quite, frankly.
- 6:31Speaker 4: It's actually been the difference in the series if you
- 6:33Speaker 4: think about. It, yeah AS i just, mentioned In game,
- 6:36Speaker 4: One kitchener scored the game time goal in the game
- 6:39Speaker 4: winning goal in a power. Play In game, two they
- 6:42Speaker 4: scored a power play goal in a short handed. Goal
- 6:45Speaker 4: it was their only two goals in the hockey. Game
- 6:47Speaker 4: in game two and the game that wins are. Won
- 6:52Speaker 4: in game, three they got a power play goal that
- 6:55Speaker 4: propelled them to. Victory so the team that has success
- 6:58Speaker 4: on the power play this certainly pulled out the W
- 7:02Speaker 4: it's been held true for the first four.
- 7:03Speaker 3: Games and then the FACEOFF dot forty three thirty five
- 7:08Speaker 3: in favor of winsor. Tonight BUT i was listening in
- 7:11Speaker 3: to yourself And Steve bell on the call, tonight and
- 7:14Speaker 3: every time you guys would laugh When sam O'Reilly would
- 7:16Speaker 3: come out to take a, DRAW i did write it
- 7:19Speaker 3: down here after the first period that you had talked About,
- 7:22Speaker 3: manny he had taken sixteen faceoffs in the first, alone
- 7:25Speaker 3: so he number twenty three was out there a ton
- 7:28Speaker 3: and the final total here For sam O'Reilly on the
- 7:32Speaker 3: faceoff dot tonight was sixteen of thirty. Four he took
- 7:36Speaker 3: thirty four draws in this. Game Jack nesbit also took
- 7:39Speaker 3: thirty four, draws going up against him more times than,
- 7:41Speaker 3: that And nesbit was actually eighteen of thirty four O'Reilly
- 7:45Speaker 3: sixteen to thirty. Four Luca romano didn't have a great
- 7:48Speaker 3: night in THE dot eight for twenty, Five Nathan villeneuve
- 7:51Speaker 3: was The spitfire second best at ten for.
- 7:53Speaker 4: Sixteen, yeah so the one thing THAT i did notice
- 7:56Speaker 4: is every Time asbitt was, out O'Reilly was, out and
- 8:01Speaker 4: every time o'reiley was out And nesbit would try to
- 8:04Speaker 4: go out And, nesbit if you remember when O'Reilly took
- 8:10Speaker 4: that two minute minor penalty in the third, Period nesbit
- 8:13Speaker 4: was three for three in draws on that power.
- 8:17Speaker 5: Play so that's a huge.
- 8:19Speaker 4: Factor because anytime you can get the puck and start
- 8:23Speaker 4: with the puck on.
- 8:24Speaker 5: A face off and gain, possession it's a.
- 8:27Speaker 4: Factor look at the two if you look at the
- 8:30Speaker 4: video of the two power play goals For kitchener in
- 8:32Speaker 4: the first period off of face off wins By sam
- 8:36Speaker 4: O'Reilly gaining, possession setting up your power, play and it
- 8:40Speaker 4: led to those two.
- 8:41Speaker 3: Goals and even The Carson campbell goal as well was
- 8:46Speaker 3: off The Luca romano face off, win which we'll get
- 8:48Speaker 3: into with the scoring summary. Here The rangers jumped out
- 8:52Speaker 3: to a four to nothing lead in this, Game, manny
- 8:54Speaker 3: how we got there was two power play, markers one
- 8:56Speaker 3: From Dylan edwards to start things, off and then shortly
- 8:59Speaker 3: after on another power play Was sam O'Reilly on the
- 9:03Speaker 3: on the five on, three or excuse, me after the
- 9:06Speaker 3: five on three had, ended they scored on the secondary
- 9:09Speaker 3: penalty After windsor had taken back to back penalty sort
- 9:12Speaker 3: of Like kitchener did in the opening. Game that Allowed
- 9:14Speaker 3: windsor to score in the man. Advantage So edwards and
- 9:17Speaker 3: O'Reilly go back to back in just over a minute
- 9:19Speaker 3: into that about the twelve twelve ish minute mark of
- 9:22Speaker 3: that opening. Period and that's big for the road team
- 9:26Speaker 3: to be able to get two quick ones when you
- 9:28Speaker 3: know that THE Wscu center crowd came out in full
- 9:30Speaker 3: force tonight wanting to explode for their.
- 9:32Speaker 4: Team, yeah and they came basically within a minute thirteen
- 9:36Speaker 4: seconds of each other at twelve thirty four and thirteen forty,
- 9:41Speaker 4: Seven so you, know the first ten minutes or, so,
- 9:46Speaker 4: fairly Even Ben winsor gets into penalty trouble and that's
- 9:51Speaker 4: what they didn't want to. Do one of the keys
- 9:54Speaker 4: for the game for both teams tonight was being disciplined,
- 9:56Speaker 4: hockey and the first penalty was a high, stick the
- 10:02Speaker 4: second penalty was a hook and When Cameron reid had
- 10:06Speaker 4: his glove sucked referee's going to call that all the.
- 10:09Speaker 4: TIME i think when you if you get your stick
- 10:11Speaker 4: and you're trying to hook, them it depends where you hook.
- 10:15Speaker 4: Them if you hook them right in the in the,
- 10:16Speaker 4: hands referee is going to call that ninety nine percent
- 10:20Speaker 4: of the. Time and that's what. Happened they Gave kitchener
- 10:22Speaker 4: the two man. Advantage and you can't let a team
- 10:26Speaker 4: that good have a two man advantage because they'll make you,
- 10:29Speaker 4: pay and they did.
- 10:29Speaker 5: Tonight.
- 10:30Speaker 3: Yeah, Absolutely and quick note about the lineup. Tonight Luke
- 10:34Speaker 3: ellenis did take the warm ups For. Kitchener he's been
- 10:36Speaker 3: out since Late november for. Them didn't end up playing
- 10:39Speaker 3: in the, game but that was encouraging on The kitchener.
- 10:41Speaker 3: Side and still Know Ethan belchetz for The Winter, spitfires
- 10:45Speaker 3: obviously a big piece there who was still out of
- 10:47Speaker 3: the lineup. There whether we see him by the end
- 10:49Speaker 3: of the, series who, knows but obviously they would love
- 10:53Speaker 3: to have him in the lineup For Greg, walters.
- 10:55Speaker 5: Boy would they?
- 10:56Speaker 4: Ever thirty thirty one thirty four, goals excuse, me fifty seven,
- 11:00Speaker 4: games that's that's a. Factor and when you look At
- 11:03Speaker 4: windsor they've had trouble scoring in this, series especially on
- 11:07Speaker 4: the power.
- 11:07Speaker 3: Play wouldn't you love to have a big body like
- 11:09Speaker 3: sixty one out there Right he's got a pro.
- 11:11Speaker 4: Shot he's got already a pro. Shot let you, know
- 11:15Speaker 4: let him take those. Shots he would be he would
- 11:18Speaker 4: be a huge advantage For.
- 11:19Speaker 3: Windsor there's a reason why he wears number sixty one
- 11:22Speaker 3: and plays a lot Like Rick, nash you know WHAT i.
- 11:24Speaker 3: Mean so then it was two nothing after the first.
- 11:27Speaker 3: Period arquette gets the. Goal Jared Woolley Carson campbell get
- 11:30Speaker 3: the assist on that one to make it three to
- 11:32Speaker 3: nothing on that. Goal in the second. Period windsor started
- 11:36Speaker 3: off the second, though with a minute and fifty six
- 11:38Speaker 3: seconds of power play time after a very late penalty
- 11:42Speaker 3: By Tanner lamb with only four seconds left in the.
- 11:44Speaker 3: Period i'm sure you See hokus did not like that
- 11:46Speaker 3: at all when you're coming out on fresh ice and
- 11:49Speaker 3: have to kill off a penalty to start the. Second
- 11:50Speaker 3: but they were able to kill that, off and Even
- 11:54Speaker 3: Jack pridham had a breakaway shorthanded That Joey costanzo had
- 11:58Speaker 3: to come up with a big. Saver would have been three.
- 12:00Speaker 3: Nothing in that sense.
- 12:01Speaker 5: That probably was the best scoring chance on That windsor power.
- 12:04Speaker 3: Play, yeah was shorthanded By kitchener and Then arquette makes
- 12:07Speaker 3: it three. NOTHING i don't know if you have any
- 12:08Speaker 3: thoughts on that. Goal.
- 12:10Speaker 4: YEAH i Think Greg walter sort of mentioned it in
- 12:12Speaker 4: the post game he said three goals were deflections of
- 12:15Speaker 4: three of the first four goals were. DEFLECTIONS i only counted,
- 12:18Speaker 4: two But Cameron arquet's goal was one of them where
- 12:22Speaker 4: he was able to get a stick in the low
- 12:24Speaker 4: point shot By woolley and redirect it Past. Costanzo and
- 12:29Speaker 4: that was something That kitchener was able to do tonight
- 12:31Speaker 4: That windsor was. Not they were not able to get
- 12:33Speaker 4: in shooting lanes and get sticks on pucks to redirect.
- 12:37Speaker 4: Them and in, fact not only were they not able
- 12:40Speaker 4: to get in shooting, lanes but most of the point
- 12:43Speaker 4: shots were blocked tonight by, rangers forwards or.
- 12:46Speaker 3: Defenseman and there was a lot of penalties like there.
- 12:49Speaker 3: Was it was hard to get a flow in this,
- 12:51Speaker 3: game Right, manny because when you got so many penalties
- 12:53Speaker 3: going back and. FORTH i Know spelacy laid a big,
- 12:57Speaker 3: hit got called for a boarding. Penalty we had a
- 12:59Speaker 3: fan and throw a beer can onto the, ice and
- 13:02Speaker 3: they even had to come over THE pa system and
- 13:04Speaker 3: say if anything gets thrown on the, ice it'll be
- 13:06Speaker 3: a windsor delay of game. Penalty so obviously that was
- 13:09Speaker 3: the end of, that but you never like to see
- 13:11Speaker 3: that as. Well but the fans were very animated, TONIGHT
- 13:14Speaker 3: i felt like on The windsor, side and they did
- 13:16Speaker 3: have seven power. Plays so, again when you look at
- 13:19Speaker 3: it in the grand scheme of, things obviously the officiating
- 13:22Speaker 3: isn't going to be perfect on both. Sides BUT i
- 13:25Speaker 3: guess those are the things you kind of got to
- 13:26Speaker 3: go through and you're you're you're an official in a,
- 13:28Speaker 3: high high, profile high intensity.
- 13:30Speaker 4: Matchup, Yeah, LIKE i don't think this game was on
- 13:33Speaker 4: the officials, tonight BUT i, LISTEN i don't mind the
- 13:38Speaker 4: fans getting on the. Officials they do it In, kitchener
- 13:40Speaker 4: they do it In, windsor they do it In, ottawa
- 13:43Speaker 4: they do it In North, bay they do it everywhere
- 13:47Speaker 4: the fans get into the. Game DO i think the
- 13:50Speaker 4: officiating was a factor, Tonight, No AND.
- 13:54Speaker 3: I know the fans really got upset, there The christaforo
- 13:57Speaker 3: and The. DAVIS i Think christophoro was hooked and Then
- 14:00Speaker 3: davis was interfered with not both of them not, called
- 14:04Speaker 3: and that really set the fans off because it was
- 14:06Speaker 3: it was in the same, shift almost signing it. Simultaneously
- 14:09Speaker 3: and then we get the The Carson campbell goal THAT
- 14:12Speaker 3: i mentioned off the top on the face off play
- 14:14Speaker 3: uh perfectly won By Luca romano right To Carson campbell
- 14:18Speaker 3: and he Beats Joey castanzo to make it for. Nothing
- 14:20Speaker 3: and that one really felt like the, Backbreaker, manny because you,
- 14:23Speaker 3: know when you're you're down, three you can, say, okay you,
- 14:26Speaker 3: know if we have a, good good final, frame which
- 14:29Speaker 3: winsor started. Off you, know they scored two, goals but
- 14:32Speaker 3: when you get down the fourth one midway through the,
- 14:34Speaker 3: second you're in tough sletting.
- 14:36Speaker 4: Yeah and it WAS i think that goal was typical
- 14:39Speaker 4: of what we saw. Tonight kitchener was better at the
- 14:42Speaker 4: little details. Tonight and on that goal By Carson, campbell
- 14:48Speaker 4: it was a low point shot seeing eyeshot that got
- 14:51Speaker 4: through some, legs but the forward did not go out
- 14:55Speaker 4: to challenge the defenseman after the face off was won By,
- 14:59Speaker 4: romano a clean face off, win by the, way and
- 15:02Speaker 4: we talked about that earlier about gaining, possession but a
- 15:05Speaker 4: clean face off win and nobody seemed to cover that
- 15:08Speaker 4: point man that Allowed campbell to get the shot and
- 15:11Speaker 4: through the bodies and into the.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Net and then a big crosscrease saved By Christian kirsch
- 15:16Speaker 3: keeping it at four nothing spellacy To. Davis that was
- 15:19Speaker 3: big for him going left to. Right that Kept windsor
- 15:22Speaker 3: off the score. Sheet AND i Know Christian kirsch isn't
- 15:24Speaker 3: going to be talked about a lot in the series
- 15:26Speaker 3: because he's given up some early goals and things like,
- 15:28Speaker 3: that BUT i felt like at times That windsor was really.
- 15:31Speaker 3: Pressing so far in the, Series kersh has come up
- 15:33Speaker 3: with some big, saves AND i feel like he's sort
- 15:35Speaker 3: of been underrated with some of the timely. SAVES i
- 15:38Speaker 3: guess that, again his stats aren't gonna pop off on
- 15:41Speaker 3: the page if you just look at the box, score
- 15:43Speaker 3: but some of the timely saves he's made in the
- 15:45Speaker 3: series have really Lifted.
- 15:46Speaker 4: Kitchener, yeah In game, TWO i thought he was excellent
- 15:49Speaker 4: in the third period When windsor was pouring it. On
- 15:53Speaker 4: he has some struggles at the beginning of hockey. Games
- 15:56Speaker 4: in the first three, games for that, MATTER i Thought
- 15:59Speaker 4: windsor had a couple of good chances early on in
- 16:01Speaker 4: this game where he made some saves and did not
- 16:04Speaker 4: give up. REBOUNDS i thought that was huge For kitchener
- 16:10Speaker 4: Because windsor, AGAIN i think they had four shots in
- 16:13Speaker 4: the first three minutes of the hockey game because they
- 16:16Speaker 4: were pressing there looking for some traffic in front of
- 16:18Speaker 4: Kersh BUT i thought he made some really good saves
- 16:20Speaker 4: and for most of the. Night this was probably his
- 16:23Speaker 4: best hockey game or best sixty minutes of this.
- 16:26Speaker 3: Series, yeah And kitchener only had like one shot through
- 16:29Speaker 3: the first five minutes of this, game So winsor definitely
- 16:32Speaker 3: came out with a, start but they just couldn't couldn't
- 16:33Speaker 3: solve him early on. THERE i Know Liam greentree had
- 16:36Speaker 3: a few chances in that second period as well on
- 16:38Speaker 3: the man, advantage just skied a couple of. Them was you,
- 16:42Speaker 3: know looked skyward on a couple of those as, well
- 16:44Speaker 3: because we know sixty six can put the puck in
- 16:46Speaker 3: the back of the net and you, know wearing that
- 16:48Speaker 3: see how much it means to him in these high pressure,
- 16:51Speaker 3: situations just wasn't able to bury it.
- 16:53Speaker 4: Tonight, YEAH i think there Is windsor's been shooting high
- 16:57Speaker 4: a lot On, kersh but Green tree tonight went too
- 17:01Speaker 4: high on a couple of. CHANCES i think about one
- 17:05Speaker 4: in that second period in, particular where he had a
- 17:07Speaker 4: great CHANCE i think at the tail end of a
- 17:10Speaker 4: power play where the puck just sort of came to
- 17:12Speaker 4: him in the, slot but he fired it too.
- 17:14Speaker 3: High and then we get into the third period and
- 17:17Speaker 3: The spitfires were able to get some momentum and finally
- 17:20Speaker 3: Solve christian curse. There Nathan, villeneuve after a big save
- 17:24Speaker 3: on the other end By Joey, costanzo just sort of
- 17:27Speaker 3: gets the loose puck and fires a snapshot over top
- 17:30Speaker 3: of the Goaltender Christian kersh to get them a goal
- 17:34Speaker 3: there that they really desperately needed at that. Point and
- 17:37Speaker 3: a few minutes, Later Anthony christoforo tips in The john
- 17:40Speaker 3: McLaughlin shot there in the slot and right, away. Boom
- 17:44Speaker 3: winsor's got two goals in the first five minutes of
- 17:46Speaker 3: this third, period and it's a four to two hockey,
- 17:48Speaker 3: game and THE wfcu crowd is into, it and we
- 17:52Speaker 3: look like we might be in for possibly a third period.
- 17:55Speaker 5: Comeback, yeah you, KNOW i think.
- 18:00Speaker 4: What we saw in the third period was more windsor spitfires,
- 18:03Speaker 4: hockey AND i don't think we saw that in the
- 18:06Speaker 4: first forty. Minutes they obviously got more shots on, net
- 18:10Speaker 4: AND i think that's a huge key to, success especially
- 18:13Speaker 4: against This Kitchener rangers. Team they block a lot of,
- 18:16Speaker 4: shots so getting more bodies to the front of the
- 18:18Speaker 4: net and getting more pucks to the net is key
- 18:21Speaker 4: to try to beat This Kitchener rangers. Stream look at
- 18:25Speaker 4: that first goal By. Villeneuve they missed the long breakaway,
- 18:29Speaker 4: pass but he's the first win down the ice and
- 18:32Speaker 4: instead of dancing with the puck as it comes off
- 18:34Speaker 4: the end, boards he just fires it and it.
- 18:37Speaker 5: Goes into the.
- 18:38Speaker 4: Net for a team that only had twelve shots in
- 18:41Speaker 4: the first forty, minutes it was nice to see them
- 18:45Speaker 4: get pucks to the. Net McLachlan on a beautiful feed
- 18:49Speaker 4: from Green. Tree when he was skating down the, ice
- 18:52Speaker 4: he Saw andonofski caught him cut him.
- 18:54Speaker 5: Off McLaughlin a.
- 18:56Speaker 4: ROOKIE i thought it was great that he had the
- 18:59Speaker 4: present of mine to stop and set up for a
- 19:05Speaker 4: shot that was redirected By Christa. Foro so, again getting
- 19:10Speaker 4: shots to the net led to success For.
- 19:12Speaker 3: Windsor AND i think you had mentioned on the broadcast, Tonight,
- 19:15Speaker 3: manny is that it felt Like windsor was passing up
- 19:18Speaker 3: some shooting opportunities because of how Well kitchener was blocking
- 19:22Speaker 3: and clogging the middle of the, ice where Or windsor
- 19:25Speaker 3: almost knew that shots that they were going to be
- 19:27Speaker 3: taking from the perimeter were going to get blocked, Anyway
- 19:29Speaker 3: so they were passing up some more times than. Not
- 19:33Speaker 3: they'd they'd be shooting those, pucks but they were trying
- 19:36Speaker 3: to maybe try to find a better lane and a
- 19:38Speaker 3: better way through Because kitchener had done such a great
- 19:41Speaker 3: job of.
- 19:41Speaker 4: That, YEAH i had mentioned that in the. BROADCAST i
- 19:44Speaker 4: mentioned that here tonight as, Well AND i think what
- 19:47Speaker 4: happened is in the end they never really got a,
- 19:49Speaker 4: shot or if they if they passed that shooting attempt
- 19:53Speaker 4: to somebody, else that shot was getting blocked. Anyways LIKE i,
- 19:56Speaker 4: think if you've got a shooting, lane you've got to take.
- 20:00Speaker 4: Advantage AND i don't want to say play scared or
- 20:03Speaker 4: play a freight or. Anything you just have, to you,
- 20:06Speaker 4: know keep the game simple and get put pucks towards the.
- 20:11Speaker 3: Goal, Yeah and you said one shift at a. TIME
- 20:13Speaker 3: i think at one point when they were down for,
- 20:15Speaker 3: nothing they just need to kind of settle things. Down
- 20:17Speaker 3: Greg walters didn't call his time out, there used it
- 20:19Speaker 3: later in the. Game and again this experienced Windsor spitfighters.
- 20:23Speaker 3: Team you, know when you get to these, high high
- 20:25Speaker 3: stakes opportunities, here, manny like we know how great both
- 20:27Speaker 3: these teams. Are you, know when you're you're playing at
- 20:29Speaker 3: this time of the, year the mistakes are magnified in
- 20:32Speaker 3: the final, four and even when you get to the,
- 20:34Speaker 3: finals the best two, teams these are the these are
- 20:36Speaker 3: the final teams in The west for a, reason and
- 20:39Speaker 3: any sort of you, know when you look at if
- 20:42Speaker 3: winsor didn't play their best, game it's it's because they're
- 20:45Speaker 3: playing the other best team in The west this, year Right,
- 20:48Speaker 3: like like they they've made it through all the way
- 20:51Speaker 3: through those some of those pretender teams that you know
- 20:54Speaker 3: have their deficiencies and things like, that AND i know
- 20:56Speaker 3: this power play For Greg walters has to get figured
- 20:59Speaker 3: out if they want to be able to come back
- 21:00Speaker 3: in the. Series but you saw glimpses of why both
- 21:03Speaker 3: these teams are championship caliber teams.
- 21:05Speaker 4: Tonight, oh without a, doubt LIKE i think you, know
- 21:10Speaker 4: these are the best two teams in The west for a.
- 21:12Speaker 4: Reason and that's a great, Point. Brandon you make a
- 21:15Speaker 4: mistake against a really good, team chances are they're going
- 21:19Speaker 4: to make you. Pay AND i think we saw that
- 21:22Speaker 4: on the two short handed goals By romano And sharrot
- 21:25Speaker 4: in the third. Period winsor had the puck along the
- 21:31Speaker 4: boards and tried to play it. Back to the, point
- 21:34Speaker 4: a good team's going to know that play is. Coming
- 21:36Speaker 4: they've done their, homework they've looked at the. Video So
- 21:40Speaker 4: sharat And romano were both in positions to make a.
- 21:43Speaker 4: Play they had active sticks. Tonight if you were listening
- 21:46Speaker 4: to me on the, BROADCAST i talked about how Active
- 21:48Speaker 4: kitchener's sticks. Were they both got their sticks on the,
- 21:51Speaker 4: puck won that, battle And romano had a. Breakaway sharat
- 21:56Speaker 4: had a long empty net. Goal those were huge, plays
- 22:01Speaker 4: two short handed goals that really ended any hope of
- 22:05Speaker 4: a comeback For winsor.
- 22:06Speaker 3: Tonight, yeah That romano goal to me was the. Backbreaker
- 22:09Speaker 3: When windsor had cut it to four to, Two they've
- 22:11Speaker 3: got a power play, opportunity and, yeah just some miscommunication
- 22:15Speaker 3: there With nesbit And christoforo at the blue light Or
- 22:17Speaker 3: woodall at the blue line there And Luca romonod just
- 22:20Speaker 3: cuts down that right wing with speed and goes far
- 22:22Speaker 3: side top shelf On Joey costanzo, There and that one
- 22:26Speaker 3: just felt like it took the sales out of the
- 22:28Speaker 3: crowd here AT Wscu. Center and then you mentioned the
- 22:31Speaker 3: empty net shorthanded goal By. Sharrot windsor did end up
- 22:35Speaker 3: getting a late goal with under two minutes left in that,
- 22:37Speaker 3: game but at that point it's a six to three hockey.
- 22:39Speaker 4: Game, Yeah and that goal came with ninety seconds left
- 22:42Speaker 4: in the hockey game and you're down by four, goals,
- 22:46Speaker 4: right so it wasn't really a. Factor you're, right That
- 22:49Speaker 4: ramana goal was the backbreaker in my mind Because windsor
- 22:54Speaker 4: had a chance on the power play to make it
- 22:56Speaker 4: a one goal. Game instead of making it for, Three
- 23:00Speaker 4: kitchener makes it five to, two and really that's the ball.
- 23:03Speaker 5: Game.
- 23:04Speaker 3: Absolutely so we're gonna go now to postgame comments from both.
- 23:08Speaker 3: Teams will start off with The Kitchener rangers on the winning.
- 23:10Speaker 3: Side It's Uca hokus And Luca romano following following their
- 23:14Speaker 3: six to three win on the road and looking to
- 23:16Speaker 3: close it out on home ice In game. Five here's
- 23:19Speaker 3: what they had to say after tonight's. Performance well doude
- 23:22Speaker 3: both game.
- 23:22Speaker 6: Coverage Of game four of The Western Conference championships series
- 23:25Speaker 6: presented By nissan The Kitchen rangers sixty three winners to
- 23:28Speaker 6: take a three to one series, lead joined By rangers
- 23:31Speaker 6: head Coach Juicio.
- 23:32Speaker 5: Hocus along with Forward Luca.
- 23:33Speaker 6: Romano coach hot to think that was your best start
- 23:36Speaker 6: of the, series getting ahead for the first. Time wins
- 23:39Speaker 6: are pushed back there a little in the, third but
- 23:40Speaker 6: happy with how your group held them.
- 23:42Speaker 7: Off, OH i thought the boys played. Hard we battled.
- 23:46Speaker 7: Hard all in, all these all these games are, hard
- 23:52Speaker 7: like you have to, compete, compete AND i thought our
- 23:55Speaker 7: guys are a, good great. Job all in, all special
- 23:58Speaker 7: teams were really good to power play goals and penalties seven,
- 24:02Speaker 7: three so seven three spits have the power play. Advantage
- 24:09Speaker 7: but OUR pk was doing a great. Job and but
- 24:14Speaker 7: still we were out. Shooting we were out shooting at
- 24:17Speaker 7: that time and still seven three. Penalties but it's that's
- 24:20Speaker 7: how it, goes and you need to fight through. It
- 24:23Speaker 7: and our boys were blocking shots and doing great job
- 24:27Speaker 7: and all in all, happy. Happy we scored six. Goals
- 24:31Speaker 7: that's that's big in, playoffs and but big And curchy
- 24:35Speaker 7: in the, Net mad made some big. Saves so it's we're,
- 24:41Speaker 7: happy happy on this. Game but now again fifteen minutes
- 24:44Speaker 7: you feel good and after that we move on for
- 24:48Speaker 7: The friday.
- 24:48Speaker 5: Game look at a shorthanded. Goal i'm assist in your,
- 24:52Speaker 5: goal a timely.
- 24:53Speaker 6: One felt like winsor started depressed there and then your
- 24:55Speaker 6: goal kind of took the air out of the.
- 24:56Speaker 5: Building that would feel.
- 24:57Speaker 8: Good, YEAH i mean it felt. Good like like you,
- 25:00Speaker 8: said we gave up a couple being the, period but
- 25:03Speaker 8: we got right back to work and then obviously got
- 25:05Speaker 8: to get a little bounced there and ended up scoring
- 25:07Speaker 8: which helped out the. Boys BUT i think we did
- 25:09Speaker 8: a good job after that of just shutting them down
- 25:11Speaker 8: and playing our. Game good.
- 25:12Speaker 9: Questions you see you said after the last game that
- 25:16Speaker 9: the series wise of a cat and mouse, thing one
- 25:20Speaker 9: team reacting with another. Team does what did you do
- 25:23Speaker 9: differently after coming up probably the worst team series to
- 25:26Speaker 9: come out.
- 25:27Speaker 7: And, really, well it's always if you get a first,
- 25:31Speaker 7: goal first, goal that. Changes BUT i thought we played
- 25:34Speaker 7: our game or like how we always how we HOW i.
- 25:39Speaker 7: Want we haven't really had to change. Anything we just
- 25:43Speaker 7: have to know what the winsor, spitfires how they how
- 25:46Speaker 7: they play against. Us so but we haven't really changed.
- 25:50Speaker 7: Anything you just have to know what the other other
- 25:52Speaker 7: team does and then you can react to.
- 25:54Speaker 5: That did you see what this was one of your best?
- 25:57Speaker 7: YEAR i don't. Know it's. Uh we, scored for, sure we.
- 26:03Speaker 7: Scored we had a lot of, uh we had a
- 26:05Speaker 7: lot of a second, period we played, Well we had
- 26:08Speaker 7: a lot of chances. There but these are tough games
- 26:11Speaker 7: all all, all every one of them been. Tough SO
- 26:15Speaker 7: i think we. Can we still have.
- 26:17Speaker 3: More we.
- 26:19Speaker 9: Can what's it mean to you and the guys to
- 26:21Speaker 9: be able to go back home.
- 26:22Speaker 5: And Potentially, yeah it's.
- 26:25Speaker 8: Exciting obviously this is a big win, tonight and like
- 26:29Speaker 8: you you, said be happy for fifteen minutes and then
- 26:31Speaker 8: we got to focus on For. Friday, YEAH i, mean
- 26:34Speaker 8: try to end it, there but we're ready to play
- 26:35Speaker 8: seven games if.
- 26:36Speaker 3: Needed Right, coach when you talk what would happened last?
- 26:42Speaker 6: Game how were you guys able to?
- 26:44Speaker 3: Respond and you know you're not going to sleep every single,
- 26:46Speaker 3: Series so how response? Tonight and what maybe did you
- 26:48Speaker 3: change from last game to be able to have success.
- 26:51Speaker 10: TONIGHT i think.
- 26:55Speaker 7: We didn't really change we we just executed a few
- 26:58Speaker 7: things a little bit. BETTER i, thought we've got bucks
- 27:01Speaker 7: in the. Net we had a little bit more guys
- 27:04Speaker 7: in the net front huge tip two actually huge typical
- 27:08Speaker 7: our kit And campbell, great great shot from blue line
- 27:13Speaker 7: from the face off when great screen. There but on,
- 27:18Speaker 7: all we want to play our game and then it's
- 27:21Speaker 7: just the small details you execute execute them just. Better
- 27:24Speaker 7: and on ALL i thought we defended, defended, well.
- 27:29Speaker 5: It's Cam rin.
- 27:30Speaker 3: Okay and we locked that shot and went down the
- 27:32Speaker 3: tunnel for a little, bit was able to.
- 27:34Speaker 5: Come back that just a. Stinger it's just a.
- 27:36Speaker 7: Stinger he's, good.
- 27:37Speaker 3: Okay lukout for you not only to be seven for
- 27:40Speaker 3: seven on the penalty kill, tonight but just score two
- 27:42Speaker 3: short handed. Goals talk about what that does for the
- 27:45Speaker 3: guys on the bench and be able to change momentum
- 27:47Speaker 3: in that way and, really you, know just take the
- 27:49Speaker 3: air out of the spitfires tonight with a perfect P
- 27:51Speaker 3: k and then two short handed.
- 27:53Speaker 6: Goals to go along with.
- 27:54Speaker 8: It, YEAH i think it builds a lot of confidence
- 27:57Speaker 8: in our group and drives momentum for the guys watching
- 28:01Speaker 8: how we did a good job. Tonight obviously they got
- 28:03Speaker 8: a good power, play so we've been focused on. That but,
- 28:06Speaker 8: yeah we did a good job, tonight and yeah we're
- 28:08Speaker 8: happy with.
- 28:09Speaker 3: It there Were Luca romano and you see A hokus
- 28:12Speaker 3: from The Winter Side Kitchener rangers on the post, Game,
- 28:16Speaker 3: manny you see a hocus is always an interesting SoundBite
- 28:20Speaker 3: with his stoic. Approach but what did you take away
- 28:24Speaker 3: from what The ranger said postgame?
- 28:26Speaker 4: TONIGHT i think The rangers are very good at saying,
- 28:31Speaker 4: nothing saying a bunch of, words but not saying anything
- 28:36Speaker 4: or giving anything.
- 28:37Speaker 5: Away AND i, think.
- 28:39Speaker 4: You, KNOW i think he's right in the fact that
- 28:42Speaker 4: they did a great job of really not giving winsor many,
- 28:46Speaker 4: opportunities and they blocked a lot of. Shots we talked
- 28:49Speaker 4: about that, Already brandon on the. Postgame they blocked a
- 28:52Speaker 4: lot of, shots and they did a really good job
- 28:55Speaker 4: on THE pk that. WAY i think he's trying to
- 28:58Speaker 4: work the officials a little bit more ahead Of game,
- 29:00Speaker 4: five because if you listen to the postgame, show in game,
- 29:04Speaker 4: three he was complaining about the penalty, disparity and he
- 29:08Speaker 4: complained about the penalty disparity. Again Josh brown Of The
- 29:13Speaker 4: Kitchener record asked about the cat and mouse that he
- 29:16Speaker 4: referred to In game, three and you, know he really
- 29:19Speaker 4: didn't answer the question at all and, said, no we
- 29:22Speaker 4: just sort of watched what they, did and you, know
- 29:25Speaker 4: we tried to. RESPOND i think This kitchener coaching staff
- 29:28Speaker 4: is really. GOOD i think they will watch a lot
- 29:31Speaker 4: of video and they know what the windsor spitfires are,
- 29:34Speaker 4: doing especially when windsor is going on the power.
- 29:36Speaker 3: Plant and that was a big goal For romano Because
- 29:39Speaker 3: i've watched this team now through two rounds and he
- 29:42Speaker 3: only had one goal coming in as a second line
- 29:44Speaker 3: center on this, team BUT i feel like he's played
- 29:46Speaker 3: a very valuable role in its center in a defensive. Role,
- 29:50Speaker 3: obviously you want him to have a little bit more.
- 29:52Speaker 3: Points he's A New York islanders. Prospect everybody wants to
- 29:55Speaker 3: see the high point, totals especially when you're a second line,
- 29:58Speaker 3: player you're expected to. Produce but for him to come
- 30:01Speaker 3: through with a big goal in that point in the game,
- 30:03Speaker 3: Shorthanded i've really liked the sort of the underrated play
- 30:07Speaker 3: of a guy Like Luca. Romano we know that the
- 30:09Speaker 3: top line is putting up the massive points right, now
- 30:11Speaker 3: and they're really the key. Contributors but for a guy Like,
- 30:14Speaker 3: ROMANO i think that's that's gonna be big for him going.
- 30:16Speaker 5: Forward.
- 30:17Speaker 4: YEAH i think any key to success for any, team
- 30:19Speaker 4: especially this late in the, postseason you need to get
- 30:22Speaker 4: some depth. Scoring look At game three for winsor they
- 30:25Speaker 4: got goals from different players Like faran for, example And
- 30:29Speaker 4: fibiger in the first period Of game three for. Example
- 30:33Speaker 4: look at Tonight kitchener got goals from Our, Quette, Campbell
- 30:37Speaker 4: romano and sharrat. Right great depth scoring for The, rangers
- 30:43Speaker 4: AND i Like romano's. EFFORTS i think he obviously played
- 30:47Speaker 4: a role in the face off circle tonight and he
- 30:50Speaker 4: was called upon to kill, penalties play second power play,
- 30:55Speaker 4: unit and play five on five and he certainly was
- 30:57Speaker 4: deserving of the First.
- 30:58Speaker 3: Star so let's go to the under spitfires side of
- 31:01Speaker 3: things here From Greg walters as well as veteran forward
- 31:04Speaker 3: and acquisition from The Sudbury wolves And Nathan, villeeneuve what
- 31:07Speaker 3: they had to say following this loss and how they're
- 31:10Speaker 3: gonna hopefully bounce back game Five friday In, Kitchener.
- 31:16Speaker 6: Game four of The Western Conference championship, series joined by
- 31:20Speaker 6: Coach Greg walters along the four of coach took your
- 31:24Speaker 6: team a little while to get going, tonight to maybe
- 31:26Speaker 6: just provide.
- 31:26Speaker 10: Us your thoughts After, yeah our our inability to to
- 31:35Speaker 10: to block. Shots they scored three three point shots that were.
- 31:41Speaker 10: TIPPED i thought they did a lot better job than,
- 31:44Speaker 10: us uh with the shot. Blocking their first two goals
- 31:50Speaker 10: came off one of our players not being faced off. Ready,
- 31:53Speaker 10: uh five and five got the puck in our zone
- 31:56Speaker 10: and end up scoring two goals and on the power.
- 31:58Speaker 10: Play so those, Things, uh the margin is is so
- 32:02Speaker 10: uh narrow when you get to this stage of the,
- 32:07Speaker 10: game and, uh just obviously our power play.
- 32:13Speaker 6: Is a.
- 32:13Speaker 10: Struggle it's it's tough to say right now we roll for.
- 32:16Speaker 10: SEVEN i scored too, shorty but it's the best it's.
- 32:19Speaker 10: Looked we, had our, looks just our execution four years goal.
- 32:25Speaker 6: Tonight you've seen a lot of scenarios where you encouraged by.
- 32:28Speaker 7: Some of the.
- 32:30Speaker 11: H, YEAH i mean it's nice to see that we
- 32:32Speaker 11: never gave up on on a game. Here so but
- 32:35Speaker 11: at the end of the, day we still lost the
- 32:37Speaker 11: game and wet to work on our backs against the,
- 32:40Speaker 11: wall so we have to figure it out.
- 32:42Speaker 6: Here, sure, no, BREAD i know you talk about the
- 32:45Speaker 6: power play the penalty killed, too, right you just way
- 32:48Speaker 6: you're sort of struggling.
- 32:49Speaker 4: On both of.
- 32:49Speaker 10: Those, WELL i think you can't give a team like
- 32:56Speaker 10: that five on, three, Right so how many have on
- 33:00Speaker 10: three or four and? Three so they scored and then
- 33:03Speaker 10: again it's it comes down to their their other goal
- 33:07Speaker 10: power play goal was a shot that we didn't block
- 33:09Speaker 10: and they tipped them, Right so they're going to get their.
- 33:13Speaker 10: Looks we got our looks.
- 33:16Speaker 5: And thurs winning.
- 33:17Speaker 8: Switch what are you?
- 33:22Speaker 7: Trying what are You.
- 33:25Speaker 10: I'm not Gonna i'm not going to go into, that,
- 33:28Speaker 10: uh the the details of, it But gardens are smartest
- 33:33Speaker 10: player and works extremely hard and and supports the. PUCK
- 33:38Speaker 10: i mean games.
- 33:42Speaker 6: The first, games BUT i mean, WHY.
- 33:50Speaker 11: I, mean like WELL i, said, uh they're blocking more
- 33:52Speaker 11: shots than they were AND i mean special teams was
- 33:55Speaker 11: the biggest difference in the game. Today so LIKE i said,
- 33:58Speaker 11: before we still got stuff we got work. ON i,
- 34:00Speaker 11: mean it's not over until the last buzzor of the last.
- 34:03Speaker 11: Game so we're gonna be good next game and we're
- 34:05Speaker 11: gonna come back here with a.
- 34:06Speaker 5: Win by the first the first four.
- 34:11Speaker 9: Minutes.
- 34:13Speaker 10: Effort, Yeah, NO i don't. KNOW i don't know if
- 34:18Speaker 10: people say effort because of the. Scorer, uh it's it's two,
- 34:23Speaker 10: good really good teams going at. It they scored Two,
- 34:27Speaker 10: uh they scored two power play, goals they scored three
- 34:31Speaker 10: point shot goals that were, tipped and it's for. Nothing
- 34:37Speaker 10: so it's definitely not from a lack of of. Work,
- 34:42Speaker 10: obviously our execution has to be better to to create
- 34:45Speaker 10: more offense and we've got to block.
- 34:47Speaker 5: Shots what do you think needs to be said in
- 34:52Speaker 5: preparation for being?
- 34:53Speaker 11: Five everybody, knows, uh, men we have a lot of
- 34:57Speaker 11: graduating players this, year so, UH i think we all
- 35:00Speaker 11: know what's in front of, us and to lose a
- 35:03Speaker 11: game or careers are. Over so there's a lot of
- 35:05Speaker 11: new line here AND i don't think anyone's going to
- 35:07Speaker 11: take it.
- 35:07Speaker 3: Lately, coach he had sixteen shots in the, third but
- 35:12Speaker 3: the first two periods only twelve shots on that with
- 35:14Speaker 3: all those power, plays what sort of has to change?
- 35:16Speaker 5: There and what maybe did you not like for some of.
- 35:19Speaker 3: The looks that you had to only generate twelve shots
- 35:21Speaker 3: on that for two.
- 35:21Speaker 10: Periods, YEAH i don't. Know what they, had but it's
- 35:27Speaker 10: FROM i want to see the shot attempts on that
- 35:31Speaker 10: they've done an unbelievable job of blocking shots and that's
- 35:35Speaker 10: where the shot. Differentials so now you know, that you
- 35:38Speaker 10: know you have to win the next.
- 35:40Speaker 3: Three so what is the message for the guys in
- 35:41Speaker 3: that room to make sure their spirits are up and
- 35:44Speaker 3: knowing that they have to go in a hostile, environment
- 35:46Speaker 3: win two road games and win a home game as
- 35:47Speaker 3: well here to keep it.
- 35:48Speaker 10: Going, yeah, yeah it's, listen it's one game at a.
- 35:50Speaker 10: Time it's it's happened a lot and uh and we
- 35:56Speaker 10: had to win one in In. Kitchener we knew that
- 35:59Speaker 10: from the start of the, series and now it has to.
- 36:03Speaker 3: Be On, friday there Was spitfire's head Coach Greg walters
- 36:07Speaker 3: and veteran Forward Nathan villeneuve on the post. Game many obviously,
- 36:13Speaker 3: coaches you, know he knows what his team has to
- 36:15Speaker 3: do in the uphill battle that they're. Climbing now have
- 36:19Speaker 3: to win the next three in a row here to
- 36:21Speaker 3: to be able to advance to The Ohl. Championship you've
- 36:24Speaker 3: talked To greg a lot of times this, season you,
- 36:27Speaker 3: know being around them every single game was any did
- 36:30Speaker 3: anything change in your mind about his approach to things
- 36:33Speaker 3: or is that just how How wally goes about.
- 36:35Speaker 5: It, NO i think what you saw is what you
- 36:39Speaker 5: get From Greg.
- 36:39Speaker 4: Walters he's Not he's not really going to carve his
- 36:43Speaker 4: team or anything like that in, public even THOUGH i
- 36:47Speaker 4: don't Think windsor was at their best and, there especially
- 36:50Speaker 4: in the first forty minutes of this hockey. Game you
- 36:53Speaker 4: heard me ask the question about, effort and he didn't
- 36:56Speaker 4: think effort was a problem. Tonight you, KNOW i could
- 37:01Speaker 4: have asked about. Play did he like their team's play
- 37:04Speaker 4: in the first forty? MINUTES i think the two are interchangeable.
- 37:07Speaker 4: There BUT i thought the question was fair BECAUSE i
- 37:10Speaker 4: didn't Think windsor played their best in the first forty.
- 37:13Speaker 4: MINUTES i think he knows that deep down in his,
- 37:16Speaker 4: already just didn't want to say, it but he is,
- 37:19Speaker 4: Right AND i said it on the broadcast here on
- 37:22Speaker 4: The windsor broadcast. Tonight is they knew they always had
- 37:25Speaker 4: to get one In. Kitchener this puts a little bit
- 37:28Speaker 4: more pressure on them to get that one In game
- 37:32Speaker 4: five or else the series is. Over but what you're
- 37:35Speaker 4: hoping as a coach and what you're hoping as a,
- 37:37Speaker 4: team is that not only do you Win game, five
- 37:41Speaker 4: but that creates some momentum because you're heading back home
- 37:44Speaker 4: and maybe it becomes a snowball and an avalanche of
- 37:48Speaker 4: progression in this. Series but they have to play their
- 37:51Speaker 4: best game of the series On, friday And Nathan VILLANEUVE
- 37:55Speaker 4: i got the answer THAT i was looking for WHEN
- 37:57Speaker 4: i asked him the. Question not much needs to be,
- 38:00Speaker 4: set like every single player knows exactly what they need to.
- 38:04Speaker 4: Do because this is an older team and a lot
- 38:07Speaker 4: of people these players will not be back In winster next.
- 38:09Speaker 3: Year they were five and zero on home ice in
- 38:12Speaker 3: the playoffs coming into this. Game now they're gonna have
- 38:15Speaker 3: to be perfect on the road in the next two
- 38:17Speaker 3: to be able to keep this thing going.
- 38:19Speaker 4: Against a really Good kitchener, Team like you, know let's
- 38:23Speaker 4: give The rangers a lot of credit. Here they were,
- 38:25Speaker 4: fantastic capitalized on the power, play took advantage of mistakes
- 38:31Speaker 4: and scored short handed, goals blocked a ton of, shots
- 38:35Speaker 4: got good, goaltending and really won a lot of battles.
- 38:39Speaker 4: TONIGHT i, thought if if you looked at battles and
- 38:42Speaker 4: you kept track of, battles throughout the hockey. Game in my,
- 38:47Speaker 4: Mind kitchener won more battles than they lost, Tonight and.
- 38:50Speaker 3: Even Greg walter, said you can't give a team like
- 38:52Speaker 3: that a five on. Three it's almost automatic in clockwork
- 38:54Speaker 3: With O'Reilly edwards and the types of guys that they
- 38:58Speaker 3: can put out There, pridham it's a lethal team and
- 39:01Speaker 3: it's fun to watch them at their. Best and as you,
- 39:05Speaker 3: Mentioned friday nights at the odd are tough, enough but
- 39:09Speaker 3: let alone when The rangers have a chance to move
- 39:11Speaker 3: on to The Ohl Championship series and raise The Wayne Gretzky,
- 39:15Speaker 3: trophy it's going to be even tougher for winsor AND
- 39:17Speaker 3: i Think Greg walters is going to have to make
- 39:19Speaker 3: sure his team is extra ready to go for that.
- 39:22Speaker 3: GAME i don't think they'll need any. Motivation they all
- 39:24Speaker 3: know what the stakes, are and even Ville ne who,
- 39:26Speaker 3: said you know this is the last game OF rhl,
- 39:28Speaker 3: Career we're done if we don't win this. Game so
- 39:31Speaker 3: it sounds like they have the right approach in that
- 39:33Speaker 3: room and they just got to go and do it On.
- 39:34Speaker 4: Friday, yeah without a, DEBT i think it's going to
- 39:36Speaker 4: be must CE tv or if you can go to the.
- 39:38Speaker 4: Game if there's still tickets, available get to the, game
- 39:41Speaker 4: or even must listen to whether It's beller On am
- 39:45Speaker 4: eight hundred Or firewell on five seventy In. KITCHENER i
- 39:50Speaker 4: think this is setting up to be a fantastic, game
- 39:53Speaker 4: and it's, funny isn't, It, Brandon like the game fours
- 39:57Speaker 4: in this series haven't been as says the other three.
- 40:01Speaker 4: Games When i'm talking about the two conference, Finals branford
- 40:05Speaker 4: won six to one last night And barry and Then
- 40:09Speaker 4: kitchener wins six to three tonight and winsor when the
- 40:12Speaker 4: previous games were very very, tight.
- 40:15Speaker 3: Very important swing. Games, right you have three to one
- 40:18Speaker 3: or two to, two big difference in that. End so
- 40:21Speaker 3: before we get out of, here we're gonna put many
- 40:23Speaker 3: on the spot with his player the game, man you
- 40:25Speaker 3: got a lot of options tonight in the. Building the
- 40:28Speaker 3: three stars Were romano first, star goal and assists plus,
- 40:31Speaker 3: four second star With Samuel Riley golan assists plus two
- 40:34Speaker 3: And john McLaughlin from The windsor side one assist was plus.
- 40:38Speaker 3: One got the third star in the. Building but who
- 40:40Speaker 3: is your player of the game?
- 40:41Speaker 4: Tonight, Yeah i'm going off the board BECAUSE i don't
- 40:44Speaker 4: think none of these guys get a lot of. Credit
- 40:47Speaker 4: But i'm picking A kitchener, defenseman And i'm Picking Carson campbell.
- 40:52Speaker 5: Because not only did he block.
- 40:54Speaker 4: A ton of shots in this, game AND i don't
- 40:57Speaker 4: have those final block, shots but he also the game
- 41:00Speaker 4: winning goal in this, contest and he scored his first
- 41:05Speaker 4: of the, playoffs gets the game, winner blocks a ton of.
- 41:08Speaker 5: Shots what was he plus minus?
- 41:10Speaker 3: Tonight he was one, goal one, assists plus three to
- 41:12Speaker 3: two shots.
- 41:13Speaker 5: On that, right a plus three as well in the hockey.
- 41:16Speaker 5: GAME i thought he was.
- 41:18Speaker 4: Fantastic And danofsky And woolly get all the, Press Cameron
- 41:22Speaker 4: reid get all the press For, kitchener BUT i Thought
- 41:24Speaker 4: Carson campbell was, very very good for The rangers, tonight.
- 41:27Speaker 3: And he wears AN a for a. Reason right underrated
- 41:29Speaker 3: Player romano was a plus four, tonight the only plus
- 41:33Speaker 3: four on The, Rangers so shout out to. Him but
- 41:36Speaker 3: also just the presence Of Samuel'reiley. MANNY i, mean you
- 41:39Speaker 3: talked about it a lot on the, broadcast and you
- 41:40Speaker 3: And beller were joking about just him being on the
- 41:42Speaker 3: faceoff dot for every single. Draw BUT i guess THE
- 41:46Speaker 3: x factor he's brought since coming over From london in
- 41:49Speaker 3: that massive trade with eleven draft picks With Jared woolley
- 41:53Speaker 3: from a, rival a division, rival and a guy In
- 41:55Speaker 3: Samuel riley that's gone on a lot of deep playoff,
- 41:57Speaker 3: runs ONE ohl, championships plural with the with The London.
- 42:01Speaker 3: Nights it's been such a big acquisition and you saw
- 42:05Speaker 3: it in this, game but you've seen it all playoffs,
- 42:07Speaker 3: long all series, long that number twenty three has there's
- 42:12Speaker 3: a reason why he's a finalist and could possibly win
- 42:15Speaker 3: The Red tilson as the Most valuable player in this
- 42:16Speaker 3: league this.
- 42:17Speaker 4: Season, yeah like he is. Outstanding he is a complete hockey. Player,
- 42:23Speaker 4: offensively will he leads to the playoffs and goals and
- 42:27Speaker 4: he got two more points, tonight so we know he
- 42:29Speaker 4: can do. That but the way he competes defensively and
- 42:34Speaker 4: is dominant in the face off circle again fifty percent
- 42:38Speaker 4: or close to fifty percent again, tonight it is. Outstanding
- 42:41Speaker 4: and here's the one THING i like about. This And
- 42:44Speaker 4: Samuel riley was my guest on our broadcast ON am
- 42:47Speaker 4: eight hundred tonight in the. Intermission he did a great
- 42:50Speaker 4: job in the. INTERVIEW i enjoy our conversations with. Him
- 42:55Speaker 4: but the one thing THAT i think is really Good,
- 42:59Speaker 4: brandon if you follow me on, this is THAT i
- 43:02Speaker 4: think he went underappreciated In london.
- 43:06Speaker 5: And because of all the.
- 43:09Speaker 4: Stars, yes if you look at all the players that
- 43:11Speaker 4: The knights had on their TWO ohl championships and winning
- 43:17Speaker 4: The Memorial cup last, YEAR i don't know if he
- 43:19Speaker 4: got enough credit so he can go To kitchener now
- 43:23Speaker 4: and The rangers who hate The knights and their fans
- 43:27Speaker 4: hate The, knights BUT i think they now have a
- 43:30Speaker 4: greater appreciation of how tremendous a hockey Player samu O'Riley.
- 43:35Speaker 4: IS i KNOW i appreciated him WHEN i saw him In.
- 43:38Speaker 4: LONDON i appreciate him even more because of what he's
- 43:42Speaker 4: doing in the playoffs for The Kitchener.
- 43:43Speaker 3: RANGERS i think The Tampa Bay lightning have won that
- 43:46Speaker 3: trade with The Edmonton. OILERS i, know you, Know Isaac
- 43:49Speaker 3: howard still remains to be seen what his career is
- 43:51Speaker 3: going to turn out to. Be BUT i think The
- 43:53Speaker 3: Tampa Bay lightning have a perfect middle six centerman that's
- 43:58Speaker 3: going to be A lightning and a professional hockey player
- 44:00Speaker 3: for the next ten to fifteen.
- 44:01Speaker 4: Years doesn't he look like An Anthony, sarelli, right And
- 44:05Speaker 4: Tampa bay has found another player like.
- 44:07Speaker 5: THAT i Know Isaac. Howard it was A Hobe baker.
- 44:10Speaker 5: FINALIST i.
- 44:11Speaker 4: Believe we were talking about this After game three actually
- 44:14Speaker 4: with some of the scouts here in the building On monday,
- 44:17Speaker 4: night and we were talking about O'Reilly Versus howard and
- 44:22Speaker 4: that sort of. Thing and you, know O'Reilly is such
- 44:25Speaker 4: a complete, player and the fact that he's with The
- 44:27Speaker 4: Tampa bay organization now In John cooper man Oh, man
- 44:31Speaker 4: they've got.
- 44:31Speaker 3: A Stud tampa just seems to develop those, centers Right,
- 44:34Speaker 3: Sorelli Nick paul Former, ohler and then you've Got sam
- 44:38Speaker 3: O'Reilly And Ethan zada coming up through the pipeline Those
- 44:41Speaker 3: it's a great pipeline of centers at the lightning.
- 44:43Speaker 5: HALF i know what they're.
- 44:44Speaker 3: Doing, yeah absolutely, So. Manny final thoughts here going Into.
- 44:48Speaker 3: Friday hopefully the The spitfires can continue the. Series AND
- 44:53Speaker 3: i said this, game this series is gonna go seven
- 44:55Speaker 3: going into, It windsor is gonna have to win this
- 44:58Speaker 3: one to extend it to six On. Friday what do
- 45:00Speaker 3: you think they have to do? One and what do
- 45:02Speaker 3: you want to see On? FRIDAY i think they have
- 45:04Speaker 3: to play their best game of the series On. FRIDAY
- 45:08Speaker 3: i thought they were fantastic five on five in game
- 45:11Speaker 3: two And. KITCHENER i think they have to do that
- 45:14Speaker 3: not have any mental lapses that we've seen creep up
- 45:17Speaker 3: at times in different games in this. Series they have
- 45:21Speaker 3: to play their best hockey and that includes getting more
- 45:24Speaker 3: shots on, net getting more traffic to the, net looking
- 45:27Speaker 3: for second and third. Opportunities and we know they're a
- 45:31Speaker 3: good defensive. Team it didn't turn out here, tonight BUT
- 45:35Speaker 3: i think we'll see their best On friday In. KITCHENER
- 45:39Speaker 3: i hope so BECAUSE i want to see the series
- 45:42Speaker 3: go seven so that it makes my prediction look good
- 45:44Speaker 3: because the other side in the east, Side, branford could
- 45:47Speaker 3: close that out. Tonight if you're listening to this On
- 45:51Speaker 3: thursday and.
- 45:52Speaker 5: You said in, Five did you say that one in
- 45:54Speaker 5: five OR i Said.
- 45:55Speaker 3: Branford and five on the, record so AND i did
- 45:57Speaker 3: Say winsor and seven in this, series so you, know
- 46:00Speaker 3: maybe they can come back and make me look like
- 46:02Speaker 3: a genius That i'm clearly.
- 46:03Speaker 5: Not but you only Said windsor and seven because you
- 46:06Speaker 5: like the pizza down.
- 46:07Speaker 3: HERE i, do And i've had five of them And
- 46:10Speaker 3: i'm pizza it out for the next little. While but
- 46:12Speaker 3: always love the hospitality here In. Windsor love making the
- 46:15Speaker 3: trip WHEN i, can And manny really appreciate you taking
- 46:18Speaker 3: the time to join us or on tonight's show and
- 46:21Speaker 3: great catching up with you and The beller and obviously
- 46:24Speaker 3: make sure to listen to their BROADCAST am eight hundred
- 46:26Speaker 3: On friday and All spitfires games throughout the. Season you
- 46:29Speaker 3: guys have done another outstanding job all season, long and
- 46:34Speaker 3: you know it doesn't go unnoticed for the amount of
- 46:36Speaker 3: sacrifices that people like you, make not only the players
- 46:39Speaker 3: and the coaching.
- 46:40Speaker 4: Staff oh that's very, nice But, brandon kudos to you
- 46:44Speaker 4: for making the travels down here To. Windsor it's great
- 46:47Speaker 4: to see you in. Person we don't get to see
- 46:49Speaker 4: you as, OFTEN i know we text and talk a,
- 46:51Speaker 4: lot but to see you in. Person it's great to
- 46:54Speaker 4: see you down In. Windsor and the door is always,
- 46:56Speaker 4: open open invitation to come, us come see.
- 46:58Speaker 3: Us hopefully in open door To antonino's as well or
- 47:02Speaker 3: one of the other pizza.
- 47:02Speaker 5: Places i'll take you out the next time you.
- 47:04Speaker 3: Come how's that that absolutely? So that sounds great to.
- 47:07Speaker 3: Me that's gonna wrap it up for our post game,
- 47:09Speaker 3: Four game four of THE Ohl Western Conference Championship series
- 47:13Speaker 3: with The Kitchener rangers winning at sixty to three over
- 47:15Speaker 3: The Windsor spitfires with a chance to win it on
- 47:17Speaker 3: home ice come This. Friday thank it everybody tuned in
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- 47:50Speaker 3: pave OF am eight, hundred my name Is Grandon, kudo
- 47:53Speaker 3: have yourself a great rest of your. Night The rangers,
- 47:55Speaker 3: Six The spitfires three and this has been another episode
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