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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny on the Utah Mammoth and NHL, The playoff push, Vegas firing their coach + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 3: C from the Murdoch Chevrolet Studio. OH ESPN seven nine,
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  Speaker 3: Welcome back to the Seawan O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in Adrian Denny for Between the Pipes, brought to
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  Speaker 2: Adrian Denny, Mammoth Insider. How are you, sir? What's up? Sean?
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  Speaker 2: How's it going?
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  Speaker 4: Man? It's going well. Good to see you, Great to
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  Speaker 4: see you. Thanks for having me. Always look forward to this.
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  Speaker 4: You get to Wednesday, it's I gotta go see Sean,
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  Speaker 4: have my piece of pizza before over at So Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: got a nice little routine as just a great day.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody loves Wednesdays more than me.
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  Speaker 2: I love it, uh, Mammoth.
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  Speaker 1: Coming off a big win over the Kings on the road,
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  Speaker 1: they're headed to a Pacific Northwest wing. Right here, we'll
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  Speaker 1: focus on the six to two victory against the La Kings.
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  Speaker 2: What you like a lot to like? Obviously in that.
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  Speaker 4: Game, it was just the way that they hit the
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  Speaker 4: reset button and got going again, like they've done so
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  Speaker 4: many times this year. After a disappointing loss, they've they've
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  Speaker 4: gone onto the road and play a good game. Nothing's
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  Speaker 4: lingered with them, which is why they've they've been able
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  Speaker 4: to maintain the playoff spot that they've been in since
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  Speaker 4: early January really and consecutively since February second. Is just
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  Speaker 4: that their ability to be, you know, consistent, especially after
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  Speaker 4: a loss. So saw a game against LA that they
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  Speaker 4: liked how they just kind of shut the Kings down
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  Speaker 4: and took it to them. Obviously, in the NHL, when
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  Speaker 4: you win a game six to two, something something is
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  Speaker 4: off because games are engineered to be one goal games.
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  Speaker 4: So if you beat a team six to two, you're
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  Speaker 4: taking it to them. They're kind of stuck in the mud,
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  Speaker 4: maybe not getting the save or two, but to go
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  Speaker 4: out and do it and finish it off was impressive,
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  Speaker 4: regardless of LA having an off night, as they have
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  Speaker 4: so many times this year at home.
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  Speaker 2: Last year they had the best home.
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  Speaker 4: Record they've ever had, and this year they're going to
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  Speaker 4: have the worst home record they've ever had. Sometimes you
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  Speaker 4: just can't figure stuff out. So LA was starting a
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  Speaker 4: big seven game homestand trying to get above the playoff line,
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  Speaker 4: the Mammoth went in and took it to him, went
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  Speaker 4: for the final fifty seven plus minutes taped to tape.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think there was a lot of like
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  Speaker 1: handwringing or worry about how complete the recovery would be
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  Speaker 1: for Logan Cooley or how significant he would be when
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  Speaker 1: he came back. But a couple of goals in this game,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, it feels like he's back in full swing.
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  Speaker 1: But would you say that none the worse for the
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  Speaker 1: wear after the misstime, for the injury.
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  Speaker 4: It was great to see Saturday with the two goals
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  Speaker 4: getting him up to twenty on the year for his
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  Speaker 4: third straight season in the NHL, and the power play
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  Speaker 4: goal that he got on on Thursday night against the
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  Speaker 4: Caps kind of got things ticking. So great to see that.
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  Speaker 4: And how about this SoC There are four active players
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  Speaker 4: in the NHL who have had twenty plus goal seasons
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  Speaker 4: their first three years and be American Cooley, Austin Matthews,
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  Speaker 4: Jack Eichel, Patrick Kane. So that's the company that Cooley's in.
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  Speaker 4: And he missed, as you said, twenty eight straight games,
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  Speaker 4: and I think I think for him it's been an
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  Speaker 4: adjustment coming back, and you know head coach Andre Turney's
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  Speaker 4: been looking for that perfect ambination with Gunther and Cooley.
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  Speaker 4: He put Kylieyamamoto up with him to see if they
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  Speaker 4: could get some stuff cranking, and it did.
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  Speaker 2: Putting J. J.
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  Speaker 4: Petterka back on the on the third line with with
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  Speaker 4: McBain and Carconi. So definitely just to see Cooley popping
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  Speaker 4: the puck in the net as he was before he
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  Speaker 4: got hurt. He was leading the team in goals in
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  Speaker 4: December before he got hurt, So to have three in
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  Speaker 4: the last last two games is a good sign. Mammoth
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  Speaker 4: up to six twenty goal scores that leads the the NHL.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we're we're looking at a situation with this
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  Speaker 1: Mammoth team where you're number one in the wild card
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  Speaker 1: spot right now, you got some hockey left to play.
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  Speaker 1: How likely that they stay there, that they flirt with
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  Speaker 1: something better or potential was not the worst.
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  Speaker 4: I think they're one of a handful of teams in
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  Speaker 4: the NHL right now that realistically probably are setting their
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  Speaker 4: spot in the first wild card. With the five point
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  Speaker 4: lead on Nashville and the six point lead on the
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  Speaker 4: field of chasers, UH you know, they've got a pretty
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  Speaker 4: favorable schedule. That game against Las they they've called it
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  Speaker 4: kind of the blueprint game. That's the game they want
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  Speaker 4: to play every single night. So I think they're They're
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  Speaker 4: comfortable in their spot to a point that I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, with just over two weeks left in the season,
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  Speaker 4: they're going to be able to manage the lineup a
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  Speaker 4: little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Give give some.
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  Speaker 4: Guys some some rest, potentially that game in Calgary on Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: April twelfth, which is a back to back after playing
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  Speaker 4: at home the night before, give some guys some some
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  Speaker 4: best managed cral Vimalca a little bit. But but I
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  Speaker 4: think they're I think they're pretty solid. I think we
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  Speaker 4: saw them kind of go up and down in March
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  Speaker 4: because they were kind of solidified in that first spot.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody was really threatening. Nobody, nobody in the West was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, rolled off a string of wins that that
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  Speaker 4: put him, you know, really into a threatening spot against Utah,
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  Speaker 4: which you know, you you see that it's springtime, it's sunny.
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  Speaker 4: Playoffs are on the horizon less than a month away,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, they they led in fourteen to the
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  Speaker 4: fifteen games in March, but only won seven of them. So, uh,
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  Speaker 4: just kind of that urgency that that kind of kind
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  Speaker 4: of the jam of you know, playing the complete game
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  Speaker 4: and putting teams away was was wasn't as detailed as
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  Speaker 4: it as it has been, because going into March, Utah
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  Speaker 4: won double digit wins in a row, had double digit
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  Speaker 4: wins in a row when scoring the first goal. They
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  Speaker 4: they'd scored first, never looked back, and in March kind
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  Speaker 4: of went up and down as you know, they played
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  Speaker 4: some teams that were battling for playoff position, trying to
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  Speaker 4: get above the line, and Utah was, you know, solidified
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  Speaker 4: in that first spot with nobody really chasing them down.
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  Speaker 4: So maybe I think there was a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: just kind of an exhale once the Mammoth got into
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  Speaker 4: March and started looking at looking at the standings a
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  Speaker 4: little bit, and you know, now with eight games left
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  Speaker 4: in April, going in, you know, you've got you've got
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  Speaker 4: some games that I think you can use his tune
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  Speaker 4: ups win them and also manage manage your lineup a
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  Speaker 4: little bit as you get.
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  Speaker 2: Into the last week or so.
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  Speaker 1: So even as you're trying to manage that lineup right
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  Speaker 1: and get a little rest here or there, like I imagine
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  Speaker 1: you're preparing yourself mentally in some ways physically for a
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  Speaker 1: playoff run here and and you got to take a
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  Speaker 1: series by series, but hopefully you're not just Hey, we're
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  Speaker 1: happy to be here in the playoffs. There's a team
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  Speaker 1: that could go out, they could win a series. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if we're going to talk about them making
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  Speaker 1: a Stanley Cup run in this first four ring into
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, but what is the thing that you know
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  Speaker 1: when you look at the big picture that you need
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  Speaker 1: this team to improve upon so they get closer to
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  Speaker 1: the real Stanley Cup contenders as we head into that
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  Speaker 1: playoff era.
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  Speaker 4: I think the longer that they can stay in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: the better, which is why I think you want to
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  Speaker 4: play Anaheim in the first round. Right now is the
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  Speaker 4: first wild card, the Pacific Division champion is who they
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  Speaker 4: would play. Anaheim leads Edmonton by two points, with Anaheim
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  Speaker 4: having played one fewer game than the Oilers. But Edmonton
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  Speaker 4: kind of got things back on track when they were
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  Speaker 4: here last week. They've now won four in a row,
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  Speaker 4: so I think that's one thing to watch for Edmonton
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  Speaker 4: is a team that the Mammoth have never beaten. They're
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  Speaker 4: gonna see him again on Tuesday, April seventh, uh, less
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  Speaker 4: than a week when they return home. So so a
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  Speaker 4: chance there to you know, give it another crack against Edmonton.
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  Speaker 2: They've led in four of the five games that they've played.
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  Speaker 4: The Oilers just haven't been able to to put them away.
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  Speaker 4: And Edmondson's kind of a team, as we've talked about,
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  Speaker 4: that kind of goes up and down. So if I
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  Speaker 4: think you really want the Anaheim matchup a team that
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  Speaker 4: you've lost to in regulation once in two seasons, uh,
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  Speaker 4: kind of kind of cut out of the same mold
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  Speaker 4: as Utah. Some young stars, but some guys that have
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  Speaker 4: made the playoffs before. And then you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: the longer you could you can stretch that series, potentially
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  Speaker 4: win it, get to the second round, play the winner
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  Speaker 4: of two three in the Pacific.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: That That's what I think O see for for the
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  Speaker 4: Mammoth success. Long term plan is stay in the playoffs
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  Speaker 4: for for as long as you can. I think you'll
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  Speaker 4: you'll pick up some stuff that you can take as
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  Speaker 4: you start to make this move into contending status.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's nothing for it right now if there
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  Speaker 1: are still issues here, but when you look at your lines,
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  Speaker 1: and you look at your line up, do they have
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  Speaker 1: now the blue line they need in playoff hockey. Is
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  Speaker 1: the goaltending where it needs to be in playoff hockey.
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  Speaker 1: Scoring is going to be the main driver for everyone
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  Speaker 1: as they try to advance. And again this is a
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  Speaker 1: little premature because you got eight regular season games left.
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  Speaker 1: But if you are going to make tunes and tweaks
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  Speaker 1: and maybe switch up some of the lines, I would
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  Speaker 1: imagine coach Bear does that before you get into that
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  Speaker 1: matchup against the Anaheim.
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  Speaker 4: But you tell me, yeah, defense, I think is exactly
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  Speaker 4: where you want it to be. And why general manager
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  Speaker 4: Bill Armstrong has made the moves that he's had. All
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  Speaker 4: six defensemen have playoff experience. Dersey is the player with
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  Speaker 4: the least amount of payoff experience that he's qualified for
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  Speaker 4: the postseason in two seasons both with l A. You
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  Speaker 4: got Mackenzie Wiegers is a guy that that's you know,
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  Speaker 4: got half a dozen trips to the Stanley Cup playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: You've got Nate Schmidt, you got John Marino, who's you know,
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  Speaker 4: got four seasons of playoff experience. So the defense, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's all there. It's you couldn't want anything more. You've
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  Speaker 4: got it. Goaltending. It's gonna be carell Ma Malcas first uh,
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  Speaker 4: first soiree into the into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's gonna be something to watch for.
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  Speaker 1: And they're gonna ride him to the wheels fall off
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  Speaker 1: in in whatever playoff series.
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  Speaker 2: However many playoffs series they can.
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  Speaker 4: Right, yeah, yeah, you go with your guy and uh,
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  Speaker 4: he's starting every single game an occasion. Uh, in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: you'll unfortunately see you know, you give up six to
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  Speaker 4: seven goals, you put in the backup.
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  Speaker 3: In the middle.
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  Speaker 2: Of the game.
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  Speaker 4: He starts the next game, right, But but the plan
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  Speaker 4: would be for your starter to go out there and
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  Speaker 4: ride for the forwards. It's gonna be you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: guys like Alexander Kerfoot who you know, have made the
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  Speaker 4: playoffs half a dozen times. Kylieyamamoto was there with Edmonton,
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  Speaker 4: Connor McDavid and Leon dry Sidel, Brandon tannev has made
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs in six of eight seasons. But for your
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  Speaker 4: you know, the core of your offense, Gunther Cooley, Turka,
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna be their first trip. Keller, Schmaltz, Krause, Hayton,
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  Speaker 4: participated in the playoffs in the bubbles, the Bubble season
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  Speaker 4: of nineteen twenty where COVID suspended the season in March
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  Speaker 4: and it resumed in July in Edmonton in the bubble,
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  Speaker 4: so there wasn't really that stretch run going down the
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  Speaker 4: stretch of Keller, Krause, Hayton and Schmaltz, you know, having
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  Speaker 4: to play that grind out hockey to qualify. Because twenty
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  Speaker 4: four of the thirty two teams in the league made
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, they wouldn't have been in it in a
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  Speaker 4: normal year. And then they played in the playoffs, they
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  Speaker 4: won a series, they beat Nashville. But it was in
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  Speaker 4: the bubble, there were no fans, they didn't have a
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  Speaker 4: general manager. It was right before Bill Armstrong got hired.
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  Speaker 4: So they won a series and they played in that
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  Speaker 4: one year. But you know, that's that's different than Stanley
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  Speaker 4: Cup playoffs as we know them.
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  Speaker 1: I remember, I mean several months ago we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Florida Panthers and being like, ah, they'll figure
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  Speaker 1: it out av No, huh. And they haven't figured it
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  Speaker 1: out eventually. Is it as simple as they played too
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  Speaker 1: much extra hockey these last three years?
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  Speaker 4: I think so, And that the injuries and the injuries
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  Speaker 4: for them just keep piling up, like it seems like
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  Speaker 4: every year they have two more guys get hurt, and
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  Speaker 4: now they've got six guys, uh seven, eight, maybe more
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  Speaker 4: that are just done for the season, to the point
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  Speaker 4: that I think they're out of emergency situation to call
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  Speaker 4: people up with roster space and salary space. It's it's
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  Speaker 4: interesting because you have had Edmonton who struggled. They're in
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  Speaker 4: a playoff spot. They've never been out of it. This
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  Speaker 4: year it's it's Edmonton, it's Canada. There's drama. But but
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  Speaker 4: for Florida, they won those two Cups and they thought
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  Speaker 4: they'd make the playoffs this year. They thought they'd be fine.
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  Speaker 4: Keep in mind when they made the playoffs three years
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  Speaker 4: ago and went to the final against Vegas, they didn't
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  Speaker 4: qualify to the last last game of the year, that
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  Speaker 4: some stuff had to happen on the scoreboard for them
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  Speaker 4: to even make it. So probably probably probably trying to
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  Speaker 4: do it again this year without Matthew Kichuk for the
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  Speaker 4: first half, their captain Alexander Barkoff. But yeah, man, the
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  Speaker 4: wheels have just kind of kind of fallen off. Sir
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  Speaker 4: Gabrab Rovsky hasn't had a great year, but I think
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  Speaker 4: you look at it, Yeah, they played played a lot
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  Speaker 4: of hockey. But the interesting thing is since they won
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  Speaker 4: the two Cups, they kind of get the free pass.
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  Speaker 4: Versus Edmonton losing in the final, It's like, what the
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  Speaker 4: heck is wrong with you guys?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean it kind of like it makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: They Florida's playing in front of like an empty arena
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  Speaker 1: right now, and those fans showed up when they were winning.
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  Speaker 2: But they're just like, it was like, it's South Florida.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, fine, you have the Miami Dolphins, right, you got
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  Speaker 4: you got all that stuff down there. It's when it when,
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  Speaker 4: when the moment's there, South Florida will be there. Right
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  Speaker 4: in Edmonton, it's they're there. They're there, and there's lots
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  Speaker 4: of lots of attention to them.
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  Speaker 2: There's uh. They scored.
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  Speaker 1: The Panthers scored five goals in the first period against Sattawa,
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  Speaker 1: which was nuts.
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  Speaker 4: And that was a tough game for Ottawa to lose
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  Speaker 4: because they're in that cluster of teams separated by two
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  Speaker 4: points trying to get above the playoff line in the East,
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  Speaker 4: and Florida's up to nothing two and a half minutes
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  Speaker 4: in which for Ottawa it's been what are they going
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  Speaker 4: to get from night to night and terms of their
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  Speaker 4: goal setting, So that that was a really tough, tough
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  Speaker 4: loss for him.
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  Speaker 1: And everyone everyone around. Ottawa lost, making it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: basically an extra important game because you had those opportunities
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  Speaker 1: to grab the points and you didn't. But anyway, we're
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  Speaker 1: not here to talk about the senators of the Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: Back back to the Utah Mammoth. You know, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: more Mammoth adjacent. I suppose we were talking about it yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Mac clin Celebrini is nineteen years old and scored one
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  Speaker 1: hundred points already this year, and he's only the sixth
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  Speaker 1: guy in the NHL to do it as a teenager,
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  Speaker 1: putting him next to like Hall of Fame names. This
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  Speaker 1: is someone you're gonna have to deal with for the
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  Speaker 1: foreseeable future in the West and potentially sooner than later
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  Speaker 1: in playoff scenarios for this Utah Mammoth. And I look,
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  Speaker 1: I know you're watching a lot of hockey entering on
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  Speaker 1: the Mammoth, but I know you've seen what the Sharks
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  Speaker 1: and Macklin Celebrini have put together.
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  Speaker 2: I think a little ahead of schedule.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you look at the box score every single night,
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  Speaker 4: it's the first intermission and he has three points and
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  Speaker 4: they were in a playoff spot. I thought, honestly in January,
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  Speaker 4: watch out for the Sharks like that, that team with
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  Speaker 4: Maclin Celebrini, that's the scariest team in the West.
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  Speaker 2: And their D.
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  Speaker 4: Their D was, you know, it was just okay. Some
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't say there were holes, but just okay. Decor goaltending.
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  Speaker 4: I really like their starter Yaroslav Askaroff, and and upfront
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  Speaker 4: they made that trade. They got a key for Surewood
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  Speaker 4: from from Vancouver, which is nice and nice you know,
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  Speaker 4: goal scorer add and just consistency kind of down the
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  Speaker 4: stretch for him. I think, uh, just just caught up
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  Speaker 4: to him. The thing I look at with the Sharks,
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  Speaker 4: like Macklin Celebrenia hundred one points in seventy two games.
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  Speaker 4: Will Smith the second youngest guy they have, the twenty
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  Speaker 4: year old. He's their second leading score with fifty one
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  Speaker 4: points in fifty nine games. So I think they can
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  Speaker 4: add another d man or two just to help out
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  Speaker 4: their their goaltending, which has been a little inconsistent.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, San Jose.
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  Speaker 4: You don't want to say that they tanked for a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years, but the roster was pretty suspect and
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  Speaker 4: they got some good, good ping pong balls to bounce
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  Speaker 4: their way.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of the timing and the decision,
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  Speaker 1: But the timing, especially of the Golden Knights firing Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Cassidy and hiring Torts.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: There's one organization that do that. Uh it's Vegas.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: It's their fourth head coach they've had since twenty seventeen.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: They fired Gerard Gallant, you know, within a year and
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: a half of him taking them to the Stanley Cup
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Final as an expansion team. Then they replaced him with
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Pete de bor who'd been fired a couple weeks earlier
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: by San Jose. And then they got rid of him
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: and they brought in Bruce Cassidy, who had been dismissed
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: after a fifty plus wins season in Boston. And so
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: then they bring in John Tortorella. Peter de Boor was
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: the name that everybody thought was going to be the
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: plug for a team like this that makes coaching change,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: but they already fired him once, not that they could
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: have brought him back and towards kind of caught everybody
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: off guard. I think listening to the NHL insiders of
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: were they surprised, I guess not. Did they think the
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: move probably comes after the playoffs most likely, But gosh,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: that's that's a group down there that does things their
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: own way and no feelings, no emotions, just be in
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: the moment. Thanks for that Stanley Cup in twenty twenty three, Bruce.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: All right, back to the Mammoth before we turn you loose.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: It's the Pacific Northwest, Seattle, Vancouver the rest of this week,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: and then Edmonton, who you've already mentioned, and the Mammoth
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: difficulties against Edmonton, Nashville, Carolina and the little home stand
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: next week. I'll their the Calgary and you finish out
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the regular season back home Winnipeg and Saint Louis. So
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you're coming right down this home stretch. How many points
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: do you need? I think you win five of eight.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: You've got some positive momentum headed into the playoffs. That's
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: what I think it is right now, right, you don't
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: want to go into the playoffs losers of six of eight,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: seven of ten. Just it's just not a good way
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: to start things off. It's if you win five of eight,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: you're feeling good, you have some more of those blueprint games,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: you can rest some guys, you can give Veggie a
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: night off or two. I think I think you're happy
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: with it. It's for me, it's you're staying in the
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: first spot. So it's it's just.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: All about what can you do to enter the playoffs
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: in the best position with the best energy and you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: the best momentum. And one more thing about Vegas because
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I missed this again on our podcast when we were
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: talking about it, I'd be like, how did I miss this?
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: How did I not say this? When they played Utah
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago and the Mammoth beat him
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: four nothing? Something was off with Vegas, Like it was
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: just something was off and their goaltending was terrible. It's
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: been terrible, like worst in the NHL, but some was
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: off just in the way that the team was going.
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: So to come back to that, because I don't want
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: to miss it on two shows in a row, because
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: I go back and listen to our stuff to figure out, Okay,
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: what do I need to say on the next show
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: that I missed here? So I'm very awkwardly coming coming
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: back around to it. But someone's off with Vegas and
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: their energy. And you know, you've heard some folks say
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: that maybe Bruce Cassidy burns some guys out, and they
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: were they were done, and the team saw it and
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: made a change like, okay, this this isn't working. We
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: we still want to make a playoff run. So and
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: thank you, thank you for giving me that extra twenty seconds.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Because another thing, special teams are in a good, better,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: much better place than after the Olympic break. You're, yeah,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: power plays looking much better, right, Yeah, you're doing.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Power plays five for the last nine and the penalty
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: kill is the best in the NHL since March fifteenth.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: So if you can even keep those things even, you're
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: you're doing pretty decent. Plus as things tighten up in
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: the playoffs and offense is harder to generate. If you
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: can get a power play goal or two or kill
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: a big or two to keep a lead, that's this
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: is the time of year when you need your special
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: teams to to make a difference, and you can't necessarily
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: do what Utah did the first sixty five seventy games,
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: and that is just live one of your five on
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: five play special teams can can be a reason that
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: that helps you win into the playoffs. It's it's more
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: glaring because things are tighter.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: That's Adrian Denny are Utah Mammoth Insider between the pipes.
• 23:30
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• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Adrian, Thanks, thanks so see appreciate you man.