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Stammer's Return & Points In The Bank! · Predators Official Podcast

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Parson left side to the middle. What a move by Philip Forsberg,
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one of the best from Scoresberg. It's the podcast that loves the
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hockey team you love. Sorrow stops him with the
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blocker. This is the Predators official
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podcast with Cara Hammer and Max hers for.
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The empty net and hits it on about.
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On 102.5 and 106.3. The game at
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nashvillepredators.com. The Predators are on a four-game
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point streak and we are on the Predators official podcast.
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You're on your exclusive radio home for Preds hockey, ESPN one
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O 2 five and one O 6 three. The game.
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The date of recording is Tuesday, October 29th.
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Some of you are also hearing this episode on One O 25 The
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Game on Wednesday night, October 30th as part of the hockey block
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here on your Home of Preds Radio.
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My name is Max Hers from Fred's radio along with Kara Hammer
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from Fred's TV. Hello Hammer.
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The standings points are starting that up for the Fred's
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who have gone from O5 and O to three, five and one with five
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points in four nights. Yeah, I think it was a big turn
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around for this team. Obviously, they're on this trend
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of starting, outgoing, down by two goals and finding a way to
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come back. But a big comeback last night in
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Tampa Bay for them and obviously a very, very emotional return to
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Tampa for one Steven Stamkos. Yeah, it was a big night and
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there were many, many sweet, fun, funny things said
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throughout the day. We're going to play a lot of
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them for you here as the Predators went to Tampa on
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Monday night, ended up losing 3, two in overtime.
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Stamkos had assists on both Preds goals his first multi
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point game as a Pred after just one point in his first eight
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games with the Preds, two big assists in his return to Tampa
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and a special night league wide and for Steven Stamkos and the
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way I want to introduce all this Kara is was something that
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Fred's coach Andrew Brunette said in response to R Robbie
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Stanley from one O 25 the game and nhl.com.
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Robbie Robbie knew he was he'd be writing an article about
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Stamkos's return in advance and there will be no more interviews
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between after the game on Saturday and arrival in Tampa on
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Monday. So he asked Andrew Brunette to
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look ahead to that right after the win against the Blue
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Jackets. And Bruno, in prime form right
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after the game, says with a smile.
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I think it's going to be a good thing to get it over with for
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all parties. But it was a weight on a lot of
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people's shoulders. He's not wrong.
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It was, I mean, during the Gladiator shoot, when we talked
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to the players before the season even starts, I specifically
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asked Steven Samkos, do you have this date marked on your
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calendar? And he said I'm aware of it.
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I know, I know it's coming. Yeah, the schedule's no secret,
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and I think it was good that it could be done early, and I think
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now it'll be business a little bit more as usual going forward.
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For Steven Stamkos, who is on the Nashville Predators and had
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two assists in his return to Tampa on Monday night.
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He did a lot of interviews throughout the day, a big press
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conference before the game, a big press conference after the
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game. One thing he said, Kara, that I
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think defines his early tenure with the Preds was in response
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to a question about the adjustment of changing teams for
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the first time ever in Year 17 as an NHL are here's Steven
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Stamkos. Certainly it's been an
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adjustment period, not only for me, for, for my family, for for
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your friends, everything. It's this is all I had had known
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my, my whole life as a professional athlete.
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So it's, it's certainly difficult in, in, in terms of
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that, but you know, certainly landed in, in a very good place
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in terms of, you know, a place that that is now home for, for
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my family. And, and that transition is, has
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been great. I think they've they've probably
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handled it a lot better than than I have personally.
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And in terms of, you know, obviously we didn't get off to
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the greatest start and in myself either.
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So you, you put that pressure on on yourself.
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So, you know, we, we've turned the page a little bit, but I
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think, you know, I probably thought that the family
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transition was going to be more difficult than than the hockey
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one. And it's kind of been the
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opposite. So but that, but that's, you
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know, I'd rather have it that way where my, my wife and and
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kids are are making the transition and then I can figure
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it out my myself. That's Stephen Stamkos.
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Kara. First of all, very selfless
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there to say, hey, I'd rather be the one who's struggling with my
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part of the deal. Then my wife and three kids are
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happy. That's what's most important to
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me. Yeah, I mean, it's a huge
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adjustment for these players. We experienced it last season
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when Ryan McDonough left Tampa, right, and came to Nashville.
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And he talked about his daughter writing him a letter saying
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like, hey, daddy, like, good luck in Tennessee.
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We're excited to move with you because these players are and
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their families are so accustomed to being in one spot and then
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everything in your world changes.
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Stamkos was asked if his kids, who are famous in Tampa, would
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be at the game. No kids.
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Yes family. Here's why, with a guest
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appearance by everybody's favorite cat.
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No, the kids aren't here to tonight.
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You know, they got school. So that's, that's, that's
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important. But you know, it's, it's funny,
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you know, you, you play here for so long and you have all those
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amazing memories and, you know, your kids being young, I mean,
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they might not remember that that aspect of it, like their
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new normal is being a Nashville Predator.
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And, you know, the mascot came over, I think the second day we
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came over and, and they flipped pretty quick.
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So it's, it's funny how that works.
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But you know, they're, they're enjoying it.
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They, they love coming to the rink.
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I mean, that's the, the beauty of, you know, unconditional
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love, right? You come home.
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It doesn't matter what kind of mood I'm in, they're happy to
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see dad and and they're, they're proud and and that's what helps
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you kind of sleep at night. The one the only Nash easing the
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transition for the Stamkos kiddos.
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There you go. And, you know, you have to
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assume that they were also watching on TV.
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So I'd be interested to see how the kids handled it, you know,
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seeing their dad go back to Tampa.
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Yeah, and it was an emotional moment and everybody knew that
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the tribute video would be at the first TV time out that would
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it would be an extended stoppage and a large moment of
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acknowledgement. Stamkos was asked in the morning
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how he thought he would handle it emotionally.
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Here's what he said before the game.
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Yeah, I mean, I, I not usually a, a very emotional guy in terms
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of letting people see the emotions.
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But you know, like I said, I don't, I don't know how it's
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going to be till that moment comes.
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I mean, you, you have an idea of what it is, but you can't
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replicate that, that feeling. It's, it's like anything, you
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know, the best feelings in your life, the worst feelings in your
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life, you, you don't know how you're going to react till you
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go through it. So certainly, you know, went
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through some of that in, in, in the summer with everything that
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went on. But I think this will be a a
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little different and, you know, we'll see how it plays out.
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We'll see how it plays out and I think it played out perfectly.
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It played out very emotionally. Of course, I was very fortunate
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to be at the game and announcing the game on Preds radio and I'll
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never take an opportunity like that for granted to announce any
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game, but let alone a moment of great hockey significance like
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last night was. And the tribute video was
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exceptional. It was unbelievably well done.
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I don't know if the Lightning made it, I would assume they did
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unless the NHL has a hand in something bigger like that.
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But it was incredibly well done. And and it wasn't all sunshine
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and roses. It wasn't all Stanley Cups.
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First at portrayed Stamkos's childhood.
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It portrayed his injury in the 2020 bubble playoffs in his
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return. It portrayed low moments.
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It portrayed high moments and the crowd was going nuts and
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Stamkos came off the bench to do a pretty full lap around the
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entire rink, which he said after the game.
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Care. I did not realize this was the
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same thing that Marty Saint Louis and Vinnie Le Cavalier did
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and their returns to Tampa. And he said he wanted to
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continue the precedent that they had set before him, his two
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former team mates. Wow, that's magical.
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From our point of view, watching it on the TV broadcast, we
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didn't see the full video. A lot more shots just of
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close-ups of of stammer on the bench.
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But one thing that really stood out to me was how many times
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they went to John Cooper, the bench boss for Tampa Bay, and he
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was mouthing the words. Wow, wow.
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Like just looking back, reminiscing what it was like to
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have Sam close on his team. But for you to be there, Max, I
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mean it, it, it felt loud watching from my couch.
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How loud was it to be there in person?
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Oh it was unbelievable. And and then as soon as the game
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got back going, Stamkos wasn't even on the ice on the 1st shift
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after that, which I think was a nice move by Andrew Brunette to
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to let him catch his breath there after getting real high
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heartbeat. I would imagine in a moment like
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that. But it was big chance you heard
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it from the crowd. They were chanting Stephen
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Stamkos lightning threatening as a Stephen Stamkos chant breaks
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out. The man's not even on the ice.
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He's not on their team. He's not on the ice, and they
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love him more than anybody. And when the PA announcer, Paul
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Porter, who's a friend of our Paul McCann's and I think is an
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exceptional PA announcer, when he announced the two Preds goals
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and announced Stamkos as an assistor on both, the crowd
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cheered as if a Lightning goal had just been announced.
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So it was incessant, the love and support for Steven Stamkos.
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And two other things I would like to say about the video.
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I didn't realize they didn't show the whole thing on TV.
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I, I guess they want to show the faces and that makes sense.
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But I'm sad you guys didn't get to see it.
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But the Lightning did tweet it. If anybody wants to see it.
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They tweeted it right after it played on the scoreboard.
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First, I want to say a couple more things about John Cooper
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since you brought him up, and I'm glad you did.
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So Cooper is the longest tenured NHL head coach by far in a sport
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where the coaches don't last too long.
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Andrew Brunette, by the way, it is in the first month of his
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second season as the Preds head coach, is already in the top
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half of longest tenured NHL head coaches currently.
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Is that not insane? He's 15th out of 32 based on the
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date he was hired. Yeah, yeah, ridiculous.
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But anyway, John Cooper became the Bolts head coach in March of
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2013. This is his 11th full season as
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the Tampa Bay Lightning head coach, and looking back at
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Stamkos's early career in preparation for this game, he
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had four head coaches in his first five seasons.
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And the one thing that I I remembered in the back of my
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mind, but it didn't really stick with me fully, how insane.
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It was the summer when Stamkos was drafted 2008 and debuted
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immediately as the number one overall pick.
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The Lightning pulled Barry Melrose off of ESPN after a
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decade and a half out of coaching to come be the big name
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head coach, to be Steven Stamkos's first NHL head coach,
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and he left after 16 games. Rick Talkett became the interim
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coached the rest of that season, coached one more full season.
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Then they had Guy Boucher for 2 1/2 seasons.
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And then Cooper came in. He played for four head coaches
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in his first five seasons, and Cooper is the 9th head coach in
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Lightning history, dating back to their first head coach, the
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great Terry Crisp, for the first six seasons starting in 1992.
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But yeah, the turmoil Stamco's face at the beginning of his
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career, like he was playing under 5 minutes in a vice time
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some games in that first month under Melrose.
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Crazy start. He didn't score a goal until his
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9th game. He barely played.
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Can I, can I tell you a little story that happened to me over
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the weekend, please? Do I my brother in
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And I said, yeah, he goes, I got a pack of cards back then and I
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was having a conversation with my friend and we decided, let's
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keep this card. This guy might be a star.
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And I, I said, well, you know, maybe I could get the sign for
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you. He goes, oh, no, we have it in
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glass now. It doesn't come out of the
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plastic case. So shout out to to my stepfather
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in law for knowing back then Steven Samkos was going to be a
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star. Wow, Yeah, that's a valuable
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piece of cardboard right there. It is and a valuable moment that
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you got to experience in person. Yeah, watching him make his
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return to Tampa. One more thing about the video,
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if I may, as we as we turn back the clock to early Stamkos.
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So they showed a couple moments of his childhood playing hockey,
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which is awesome, and then they showed the moments of the
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Stanley Cup final in 2020 and 2021 when the Lightning won.
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I gotta say, Stephen Stamkos when he was 12 looks way more
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like his current self than Stephen Stamkos when he was 30
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and had a massive beard and long hair for the playoffs.
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His child self looked more like his actual self than his Stanley
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Cup adult self. It's the playoff beard.
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It gets you every time. But he looks exactly the same as
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a kid. One of the pictures was from he
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may have been 15 or an early teenager or maybe even a preteen
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playing for the Markham Waxers in his hometown of Markham ON
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Canada. He looks literally exactly the
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same as he does right now. I thought that one time before
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about Nick Benigno, not to go back to to when the press didn't
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win the Stanley Cup. Obviously he was on the on the
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winning side of things. But when he came to Nashville
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the next season and lost his beard, I felt like he had shaved
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off 10 years of his life. I felt the same way about Ryan
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O'Reilly at his introductory press conference 2 summers ago.
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Cuz like all the Ryan O'Reilly in my head I've never met him
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before. Obviously is from the Blues
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2019. Beard grizzle everything and
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it's the summer. So he he's wearing a plain white
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tee and shorts and as is as shaved down as I've ever seen
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him. It's like, Oh my God, like this
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is just like a normal guy. And it's not the the playoff
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beast that is emblazoned in my brain.
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Yeah. But I just thought that was so
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funny, so, Stamko said before the game.
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He's not too emotional outwardly.
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If there were ever a night to show it, it would be in that
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moment. And he said he was happy he got
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back to the bench when he did because there were some tears
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that were about to come that he was able to breathe and I think
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hold in, maybe a couple slip down, who knows.
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But Stamkos had a very touching quote after the game on what all
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of this meant and how he internalized the reaction from
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Tampa. Yeah, for sure.
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I mean, I don't think it's goodbye.
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I think it's more of a, you know, thank you, see you later
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type type of thing. But like I said, pretty, pretty
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emotional, you know, you see where it all began as an 18 year
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old kid is, is right here where I grew up, as you know, from a
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boy to a man and you know, a Stanley Cup champion husband,
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the father, you know, son. I mean, it's just, you know,
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most of my life has been here. So it, it's definitely
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emotional, but at the same time it's, it's a fun place for me
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to, to play hockey. You almost feel at ease being,
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being here. So I thought that was cool as
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well. It's a cool night, Kara, when
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everybody in the building grabs the same sweater with the same
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name on the back and I I think at least 50% of the crowd was
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wearing a Stamkos jersey, either Nashville or Tampa.
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Yeah, it's so special. And, and you know, Max, even
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before the game, PK Subban put out a a post about how emotional
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it is to be a player to return. You know, he talked about when
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he was in Nashville and going back to Montreal.
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And in his video, it showed him crying upon his return.
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But it felt like everybody across the league was waiting to
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watch last night. And also it it was special for
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the guys on the ice with him, too.
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Yeah, we got some reactions from Fred's players throughout the
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day. We'll go in chronological order.
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This is Tommy Novak, pregame on Preds radio, who was playing on
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a line with Stamkos in the game, talking about what he was
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expecting. Yeah, it'll be cool to see him.
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I already see a legend of the game and come back to, you know,
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where he spent so many years. It's it's going to be like a
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movie, like probably seen there. And Tommy Novak was cast in that
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movie as his everyman line mate playing with the big dog.
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It's special and when we get into talking about the game, I
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mean, imagine being Tommy Novak on the ice for the overtime with
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Stephen Stamkos in his return to Tampa.
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Yeah, at the first intermission, Jeremy Lozan was with Hal and I
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on Preds radio, and we started right off asking him about the
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tribute in the ceremony as a teammate.
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Preds defenseman Jeremy Lozan is our first intermission guest.
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Jeremy, what was it like being down there for that moment for
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Stephen Stamkos? I think it was.
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I had chills. Obviously, yeah.
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Steven was was in Tampa for 17 years, so it's special moment
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for him and I'm glad that he was able to enjoy it.
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That's Jeremy Lauzon and then after the game, an equally
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beloved veteran who has done something similar before.
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Change teams, come back to where he won a Cup, to where he was
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the captain. Not quite on the same scale, but
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Ryan O'Reilly knows what all of this is like.
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Yeah, that was, that was obviously, I think, you know,
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emotional, you know, for everyone.
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I like seeing that, yeah, just such a impactful player for
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hockey. And you just see it there, all
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he's done and just, yeah, it was very emotional.
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And again, it would have been it would have been nice to get him
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that way. But, and O'Reilly very
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complimentary of Stamko saying this was his best by far as a
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pred. I think he had assists on both
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Preds goals, including a massive game tying goal that he was
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right in the middle of to tie the game late in the second
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period and icing waved off as Shay retreats.
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Puck did not go far enough, stretch past the Stamkos open on
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the right in front for Nyquist and a scores Gus Nyquist from
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Steven Stamkos. Predators tie the game with 1:20
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left in the second. It's a 2 point night for Stamkos
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in his return to Tampa. Nice play all around.
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Kara Shay to Stamkos to Nyquist, the game tying goal late in the
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second that would eventually get the game to Oti.
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Think we could talk about Samco's, we could talk about
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what the offense said, getting the team back into it.
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But Max, when I look back at last night, that third period,
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for me it was all UC sorrows. Insane.
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The Lightning were buzzing that top line with Jake Genzel taking
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Stamco's place this season on a new big contract with Point and
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Kucharov. They were everywhere.
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Soros was up for the task again and again and again.
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There was a left pad flash on Anthony Sorelli late in that
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game that spellbound Hal Gill here on Preds radio Pass Open
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Sorelli rod by UC Soros. Soros with the left pad.
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Sorelli was right there and the net was staring him in the face
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until it wasn't. Holy.
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Juice. You've heard of holy water?
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Now there's holy juice Cara. Holy juice that I mean numerous
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times last night I think I said holy juice.
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That was he was standing on his head keeping the preds in that
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game. I was one of those moments Max
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where you on the I start looking back and you have to think we
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have to win this game based off of how Soros is playing.
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Obviously the feds weren't able to pull it out in overtime, but
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a big night for them to pick up the point and put themselves, as
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we mentioned, at 3, five and one.
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Yeah, 4 game points streak here after an O and five start,
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including five standings points in three games in four nights.
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We will recap wins over the Chicago Blackhawks and Columbus
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Blue Jackets over the weekend. Coming up next year on the
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Predators official podcast, she's Kara Hammer from Preds TV.
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I'm Max Sirs from Predators radio.
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You were listening to the POP on your exclusive radio home for
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Preds hockey, ESPN. One O 2 five and one O 6 three
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the game. Welcome back to Steven Samkos in
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Tampa and also welcome back to the Predators official podcast
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here on 102.5 and 106.3 The Game.
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My name is Max, Hers from Preds Radio along with Kara Hammer of
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Preds TV. Kara, that's a classic old
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school hip hop there. Welcome back by Mace.
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Not sure if Chris Mason is also the musical artist Mace, but
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they're both American and we've never seen both maces in the
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same places so maybe they are the same.
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OK, now we're rhyming. Well, since we're on the subject
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of music, if you have not yet seen the video of the rapper
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with a song titled Roman Yossi, I highly suggest you go on to
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social media right now and please watch that.
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Yeah, this is like the Swiss version of Gangnam Style.
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I guess this is how you get your name out there.
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You rap about Roman Yossi. I love it though because in the
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music video that I watch, the rapper who's rapping that's not
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even wearing a Yossi jersey. It's just like the hype man in
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the background. Yeah, I think he's just like, I
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live my life like Roman Yossi. I dominate life.
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I'm the captain. I'm.
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I never come off the ice. I think it's a mentality kind of
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thing. Not that I understand any of the
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lyrics, but. I I was very confused by it all.
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I did see like a Google like translate for it.
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Who knows if it's correct or not because it is the Internet, but
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it it was like hyphen. Yeah, Yossi up.
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He's the guy. Well, our German translator is
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Pete Weber. He doesn't quite speak Swiss
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German. He gets most of it, but it is a
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little different. Pete has warned us.
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So yeah, maybe we'll get Pete on that one.
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But I was thinking about it last night.
23:34
I didn't get to mention it during the game on the radio,
23:36
'cause there was a lot of good in the game to talk about.
23:39
But it was it was a rap rivalry. Roman Yossi against the great
23:44
Zemgus Gergensen's who has a Latvian rap song written about
23:47
him from when the entire country of Latvia stuffed the ballot box
23:52
to get him into the NHL All Star game like 10 years ago when he
23:55
was on the Sabres. So yeah, not the same artist,
23:59
but same hustle for two players from underrepresented European
24:04
hockey countries who produce some great players. 9 Swiss guys
24:07
in the NHL now including JJ Moser.
24:10
So a top pair defenseman on each team last night was from Roman
24:14
Yossi's home country. Predators are on a four-game
24:17
point streak, including five out of a possible 6 standings points
24:21
in a back-to-back this past weekend, and they went down to
24:25
nothing in all three of those games.
24:28
We'll go back to Friday night in Chicago to start the weekend
24:31
back-to-back against the Blackhawks.
24:33
Predators were not good at the start of this game, Went down to
24:36
nothing, and as they did in two of the three games, we're going
24:40
to go down 3 nothing, but had a successful offside challenge to
24:43
get the game back to two. Nothing, then scored late in the
24:46
second to get the game back within reach.
24:48
Ended up tying it up at the end of two and took the lead in the
24:52
third. Philip Forsberg had a massive
24:54
goal in this game. Care to get the scoring started?
24:57
Took a handoff from Gus Nyquist just inside the offensive blue
25:00
line and zipped right in on goal.
25:03
Goal of the season so far for the Preds for Philip Forsberg on
25:05
Friday in Chicago. Yeah, it's a huge comeback.
25:09
I I didn't like the start of that game.
25:10
I I didn't like seeing Craig Smith in a Blackhawks jersey
25:14
scoring against Nashville. That really just ticked me off
25:17
to start. But, you know, going down to
25:20
nothing, They, they just looked slow.
25:22
They looked discombobulated. Then, you know, Phil kind of got
25:26
him back into it. But I think that Brady Shay
25:29
getting the the getting the game-winning goal, that's this
25:32
is a guy who's still been struggling to acclimate a little
25:35
bit and still trying to find his rhythm within the team.
25:38
And anytime you watch the puck go in the back of the net, it's
25:41
a huge confidence boost. And I think that it really kind
25:44
of got him going and it was a big moment for for Shay.
25:48
Yeah, I thought he was good in the back-to-back this weekend.
25:51
Here's the goal. It was scored by the second
25:53
power play unit with under 7 minutes left in the game.
25:57
Trying to get the puck out high, Shay couldn't get there.
26:00
Now Shay on the left half wall to the blue line, Novak Shay
26:04
with a shot to score and the Predators tally on the power
26:09
play to take a 3-2 lead. Mark Jankowski with the screen.
26:15
Brady Shay gave him all the credit, forgetting in Peter
26:18
Mrazak's eyes, Tommy Novak and Luke Evangelista with the
26:22
assists, Brady Shea with the game winner as the Preds beat
26:25
the Blackhawks 3:00 to 2:00 on Saturday night or Friday night.
26:28
Excuse me? I think special teams has really
26:31
been clicking. It was nice to watch the power
26:32
play come together. I asked about Special Teams with
26:36
Brady Shea in the skate up before the Columbus game,
26:40
specifically about the penalty kill unit.
26:42
Max, 'cause they have been, they've been great.
26:44
It's probably been the best part of Preds hockey that we've seen
26:47
so far to start. And he said that that really
26:50
seems to be working amongst them.
26:52
And obviously you know, it it, it almost felt like Deja vu,
26:55
right going into the Columbus game and all of a sudden the
26:58
Preds go down to to nothing again and you're thinking, do
27:01
they have another comeback in them?
27:02
Like what's happening? Why is it two goals again to
27:05
start? And then it was a four on four
27:08
goal for Philip Forsberg on a little rush with Ryan O'Reilly.
27:12
And Phil's a big soccer guy, so we'll use the soccer term to
27:15
describe that goal and overlapping run four on four.
27:19
O'Reilly with a little drop pass pushes the defender back and
27:23
Philip Forsberg sent the Neil Terrace of the Blue Jacket
27:27
goalie into another stratosphere with that one.
27:29
He had no idea where to go to try and block that.
27:32
Fuck. That's what a Philip Forsberg
27:34
shot will do to an unproven goalie.
27:36
Back out the Preds on the board 2 to one.
27:38
They end up tying it up in the 1st shift of the third period.
27:42
First of two goals in the third period from the fourth line.
27:46
This one may have been doubly accidental.
27:49
Kara Michael McCarron, I think, was trying to throw the puck in
27:52
front. He ended up sweeping it back to
27:54
Cole Smith in the left circle. Smith couldn't even see the net
27:58
and he shot it and it went in. Zach LaRue with the screen and a
28:02
whole lot of traffic along the way.
28:04
First of two big game tying goals in the third period for
28:08
the fourth line on their first two shifts of the period.
28:11
In fact, Alex Carrier defenceman scored the second one.
28:14
Zach LaRue had the screen again there for his first NHL point.
28:19
He was pretty close to tipping both of those.
28:21
LaRue said for what would have been his first NHL goal on
28:25
either occurrence. But great job by the 4th line.
28:28
You spoke with Cole Smith after what would be a four three
28:31
overtime win. Talking about how the 4th do you
28:34
actually do you want to and one of those 4th liners in on two
28:37
goals. Scorer of one of them, Cole
28:39
Smith, was with you Hammer after the game on Fred's TV.
28:43
Guys were down 2 to one to start the third, but your line came
28:46
out firing. Kind of take us through the
28:48
start of that period. Yeah, I mean, a focus for us was
28:51
just getting the puck in deep and just stabbing herself.
28:54
And you know, Macker and the Z there had a very good four check
28:59
and I was lucky enough to be sitting right there in the dot
29:00
and they hit me and shot found its way in on ice.
29:03
So I'll take that any day. Zach LaRue picks up his first
29:06
point in the National Hockey League on Carrie A's goal.
29:09
What has he brought to your line?
29:11
I mean, he's, he's a fast straight line player.
29:13
He's got a lot of energy and you can see it the way he plays.
29:15
He's he fits us very well. You know, we're, we're a
29:18
straight line kind of line and he gets in the fore check.
29:21
He's hard, he's physical and he can make those little plays too.
29:23
So he's been a huge addition to us in the last few games.
29:26
And talk about Wedgewood, I mean, he was able to really keep
29:28
you guys in this one. Yeah, You know, it's coming in
29:31
on a game like that and you know, as a backup he had a heck
29:34
of a game. You know, we have full
29:36
confidence in him back there and he's made some saves that I
29:38
don't know how he made them. And you know, he's then today we
29:41
got to have a goalie and make some big saves like that and he
29:44
got US1 tonight, that's for sure.
29:45
That's Cole Smith with you, Kara.
29:47
And I think the three big stories of this game, the fourth
29:51
line, the backup goalie Scott Wedgwood, and then a beautiful
29:56
overtime goal from new Pred Jonathan Marsha.
29:59
So those are the three reasons the Preds were able to come back
30:02
and beat the Blue Jackets on Saturday.
30:05
Yeah, that third period, Scott Wedgwood had had big time saves
30:08
help them get into overtime. Then overtime started Max and
30:13
you know, the the first players to go out were Yossi, O'Reilly
30:17
and Forsberg. And you're kind of thinking, all
30:19
right, that they're going to do what they always do.
30:21
Then when they come over the boards, you're wondering, well,
30:24
well, what's Bruno going to do here?
30:25
Because now you have Stamkos, now you have Marcia.
30:27
So you know, you still have players like Novak, you know,
30:30
who's going to be the next line that rolls out.
30:33
And it was Jonathan Marcia. So, and as the kids would say,
30:37
he broke ankles on the ice. Right circle the shot, that one
30:42
goes off Tarasov. Marcia so picks up the rebound,
30:46
coming back with it now Marcia so but he's far Predators
30:52
winning over 5. Jonathan Marciseau, it's 4/3.
30:58
Jonathan Marciseau playing the role of host or sommelier.
31:02
He took Damon Severson right to his table on the back wall of
31:06
the establishment and showed him his seat.
31:09
Lower body injuries. Kara 2 broken ankles for Damon
31:13
Severson. I mean, it was a beautiful goal.
31:17
It was so fun that Smashville just erupted.
31:20
I mean, Max, I was one of the prettiest goals that I have ever
31:24
probably seen. And it it really showed the
31:27
skill set of Jonathan Marshall. So and so then when the press
31:30
went into overtime against Tampa Bay, weren't you kind of
31:32
wondering, well, who's Bruno going to put out there now after
31:35
what we just saw Saturday night against Columbus?
31:37
Yeah, and he moved Stamkos up in the order a little bit after he
31:40
was not part of the 1st 2 trios on Saturday.
31:43
And I like that. Give him a little hometown
31:46
flavor. He let him play a full power
31:47
play in that game as well. Stayed out there with the second
31:50
unit. So yeah, you get a lot of cards
31:53
in the deck all of a sudden for three on three.
31:55
And the Preds have been exceptional on both, four on
31:58
four and three on three this season, 5 on five.
32:01
They've still got a laundry list of things to sort out, but in
32:04
those open, nice situations, they've been a whole lot of fun.
32:07
And Jonathan Marshall so was a whole lot of fun for that
32:10
game-winning goal. He gave Brady Shea a lot of the
32:12
credit for it in his post game interview with you as he was
32:15
announced as the number one star headlining a Quebec qua trio of
32:19
stars in Smashville. You asked Marcia so some great
32:22
questions on the bench. A lot of folks heard this in the
32:24
arena and on TV on Saturday night after a big dub in
32:28
Smashville. Jonathan Saturday night in
32:31
Smashville and you guys get the overtime win.
32:33
Take us through that shift. I mean, it was just a good zone
32:37
entry by Shay there. I think he he used his speed and
32:39
his talent there and he just made a good play and just trying
32:43
to move my feet there and he was open on the back door and I was
32:46
just able to to bring it to the net.
32:48
Talk about how big the fourth line was for this group tonight.
32:52
I mean, it's all them. I think they're the, they're the
32:55
first start at night. I think they're they're the one
32:57
that brought us back in that game and they were unbelievable,
33:01
to be honest. It was just nice and simple
33:03
hockey and we need more more of that in our in our on our team.
33:08
You guys get the back-to-back. You're now in a three-game win
33:11
streak. Are things trending in the right
33:13
direction? Well, after a tough start like
33:17
we had we we had to battle back here in their season and
33:20
obviously we're really early in the season, but winning it
33:23
back-to-back and especially Saturday night than the had
33:25
Bridgestone. I think it's it's a good feeling
33:27
for sure all. Right.
33:28
Congrats. Thank you.
33:30
Great interview Kara with Jonathan Marshall so.
33:33
It's a good feeling. Just feels right to be picking
33:39
up Dubs and getting some points going.
33:40
And I was not perfect in this 3:00 and 4:00 but they played
33:44
three and four. They got great goaltending
33:46
throughout. 2 from UC Soros, one from Scott Wedgwood to make sure
33:51
those points go in the Preds pockets.
33:53
And they are three, five and one after an O5 and O start.
33:57
The worst five game start in franchise history.
34:00
First time ever the Preds lost the first five games of a
34:03
season. Well, they've come out of it
34:05
with points and four straight games and they begin a
34:07
three-game home stand on Thursday night, Halloween night
34:12
against the Edmonton Oilers, Saturday night in Smashville
34:15
against the Avalanche and then Monday night against the Kings.
34:19
So three home games in five days before the Predators begin a
34:22
road heavy stretch where they will be on the road for seven of
34:26
the next eight and eight of the next 10 games starting in the
34:29
second week of November up through the week of Thanksgiving
34:32
when they will be back home for home games on Thanksgiving Eve
34:36
and Black Friday afternoon. But there been a lot of home
34:39
games early, which means you got to have a lot of Rd. games to
34:41
make up for it. And the Preds did not bank as
34:44
many points as they would have hoped, starting with nine of the
34:46
1st 12 games at home. But they've still got some
34:49
chances to make up for it and make up for it they have here in
34:52
this last week. And I think the way that was
34:54
illustrated, Kara, Jonathan Marshall said they were the
34:57
number one star. The fourth line dug themselves
35:00
out of a hole. It had been a really bad start
35:03
to the season and even strength for the fourth line for the
35:05
Predators. Michael Mcgarran and Cole Smith
35:08
were pushing -10 early on in this season.
35:12
They were great with Zach LaRue throughout this week, especially
35:15
on Saturday night against the Blue Jackets, generating a
35:18
couple goals. And after the game on Preds
35:20
Radio, Michael Mccarran, the center of that fourth line,
35:23
acknowledged that this was the turn around that the fourth line
35:26
needed to show so that they can carry the team like they're
35:29
counted to in their own way. It's good to play with him.
35:32
Yeah, he played the same way as Smitty and I.
35:33
We just hound box and it was nice for him to get rewarded.
35:36
I think we've had three, three pretty good games together as a
35:38
group, as a line. And it was nice, nice for for
35:43
our line to to step up in a big way and and help the team get a
35:46
win because, you know, a few other games earlier in the year,
35:50
we've been, we've been, you know, taking a few minuses and
35:53
turning our team a little bit. So it was good to good to help
35:56
our team win, win a game tonight.
35:57
And we'll continue continue to go.
36:00
As the hockey people say, a lot of dashes were piling up for the
36:04
fourth line and that changed in a big way on Saturday and they
36:09
weren't quite as impactful on Monday.
36:11
But they had a lot of shifts on the road, out of TV timeouts,
36:16
starting periods, defensive zone, and I think they did their
36:22
thing. And Zach LaRue has been a big
36:23
reason why the Preds have standings points in all four
36:26
games since he was called up to join McCarron and Smith there.
36:30
I expect that we're going to see more Zach LaRue and Max I I
36:33
think that it's getting close to this line.
36:35
They're going to need a name. You know, when they lost Kiefer
36:37
Sherwood, you could no longer call them the Americans.
36:40
And now, now we have a, a Canadian on the fourth line.
36:44
So maybe we'll put it out to the podcast listeners to tweet us.
36:47
What do you want to call the this this trio that comes out?
36:51
Because obviously, you know, they're so dominant to start.
36:54
It's Bruno's. Got to love them.
36:56
Yeah, and there are auxiliary members of the line who I don't
36:59
think are ever leaving, Zach Larue's parents who have been at
37:02
all four games this week, including the road game.
37:05
So hopefully they stick around forever.
37:07
They might need some donations to make that happen, but they.
37:11
Yeah, hopeful. Hopefully Robert and Siobhan
37:14
LaRue never leave. Well, I heard from Siobhan said
37:18
when I interviewed her that it's expensive to get to Nashville
37:20
from Montreal. So it probably is a little bit
37:22
more cost beneficial to just stay in America.
37:26
Do a few, do a few of the road games.
37:28
Now they're back at home, so you get a few more games at
37:30
Bridgestone Arena versus having to travel back and forth.
37:33
Yeah, and as Chris Mason would say, God Bless America.
37:36
We're happy to have him here here on Preds Radio and the
37:38
Predators Official Podcast. She's Carrie Hammer from Preds
37:41
TV. I'm Max Herz from Preds Radio.
37:43
We'll be back to tell you what's coming up in Smashville during
37:46
this three-game homestand hockey, Halloween and Star Wars
37:49
night this week. This is the Predators official
37:52
podcast here on ESPN. One O 2 five and one O 6 three
37:55
the game. This is The Predator's official
38:15
podcast here on your exclusive radio home for Predators Hockey.
38:19
ESPN 102.5 and 106.3 The Game. My name is Max Hers from Preds
38:24
Radio with Kara Hammer from Preds TV.
38:27
Preds are back home for a three-game home stand starting
38:30
on Halloween night, Thursday night and I guess Kara, we
38:34
should get the Halloween tunes going.
38:35
That's my bad. But I don't know.
38:37
I haven't really been too scared recently.
38:39
I'm not in the mood. Maybe you just think the monster
38:42
mash. I feel like that's the best
38:44
Halloween song. Yeah, I think we'll put.
38:46
It for Thriller I mean right? Does does Thriller count as a
38:49
Halloween song? It does, but I don't know it's
38:51
that's an Evergreen Halloween. So I we'll go monster mash the
38:55
next segment and I will restrain myself from playing the I Think
38:59
You Should Leave Halloween song that I played last year on
39:01
Halloween that you did not get the reference.
39:06
I still don't get it. Yeah, well, it says you're a
39:08
normal person, so I'm I'm the weird one.
39:10
But you can all be weird on Halloween.
39:12
And let's get weird in Smashville.
39:14
Halloween night hockey on Thursday against the Oilers.
39:17
That is the Predators next game. The game is at 7.
39:20
We want everybody to come in costume, kids, parents, everyone
39:24
in between come in a Halloween costume to the game.
39:27
There is a costume contest. There is trick or treating on
39:31
the concourse before the game for kids.
39:33
There will be some candy at the Preds radio desk behind section
39:36
112 I believe and don't blame me if there isn't.
39:40
So come see us, come get some candy.
39:42
And you don't even have to bring your trick or treating bucket
39:45
because the 1st 5000 kids aged 12 and younger will get a Preds
39:49
Halloween candy bucket when they walk into the game on Thursday
39:53
night. And there is also a kids costume
39:56
hangout and a big group picture with Nash.
40:00
Who knows what Nash is going to be dressed as.
40:02
He's got a million costumes in his dressing room.
40:06
So we'll see what Nash is dressed as.
40:08
And there will be a kids Halloween hangout with Nash at
40:11
the first intermission on Thursday night in the brand new
40:14
Nashville Kids Zone. I know many of you have been
40:17
there already. This is a new area this season.
40:20
It's in the space that used to be the Tennessee Sports Hall of
40:23
Fame, which has moved outside of the arena, and now we've got a
40:27
massive kid zone. There You go in the fan
40:30
information entrance, right under the escalator by the main
40:34
entrance at the corner of 5th and Broadway.
40:36
You walk in the arena the normal way, go straight under those
40:39
escalators that are straight ahead of you.
40:41
Go to the right, down that hallway.
40:43
You'll see some meeting rooms. And then at the end of the
40:46
hallway on your right is the kid zone.
40:48
It's got a big hockey rink in it.
40:50
That's where the bubble hockey games have gone as well.
40:52
And there's lots of fun arcade style kid stuff in there.
40:56
That's where you need it would be Thursday night for Hockey
40:58
Halloween. First intermission with Nash and
41:03
maybe even Karen Hammer will be dressing up with Remy too when
41:06
they get back to Smashville this weekend.
41:08
We'll be there. We will be dressed up.
41:12
One other thing going on this home stand on Monday night, game
41:17
three of the three-game homestand Tanner's, you know
41:20
Kevin Fiala and the LA Kings will be here on Monday night,
41:23
November 4th and it is Star Wars night.
41:26
The Kings are the dark side. You can get a Star Wars ticket
41:29
package and get a limited edition Nashville Predators Star
41:33
Wars jersey with your ticket. Go to
41:36
nashvillepredators.com/theme nights.
41:39
You need the special ticket package to get the jersey.
41:42
I don't know enough about Star Wars.
41:44
Care to tell you what logo this is?
41:46
That's on it, but it's one of the things from Star Wars.
41:49
So clearly I'm, I'm not in the market for this, but I know many
41:52
of you are Star Wars people. In fact, everyone other than me
41:56
is and I'm the loser. So go to
41:58
nashvillepredators.com/theme Nights.
42:00
You can see the sweater there and it's different from last
42:03
year. I know many of you got the the
42:04
Baby Yoda one from last year, which was awesome.
42:07
We got a new one this year. This is the only way to get it.
42:09
Nashville predators.com/theme Nights.
42:13
And maybe next year we'll get someone better versed on Star
42:16
Wars than me to do this advertising.
42:18
But for now, you're stuck with me.
42:20
What? What can you offer here?
42:22
I have nothing. We need a special guest host to
42:24
come in for our Star Wars promos.
42:27
I mean, Harrison Ford, That's like my knowledge.
42:31
Princess Leia. I thought you meant we should
42:33
try and book Harrison Ford. I was like, yeah, I'm sure
42:35
that'll go really well. Hey, Harrison, you wanna come on
42:37
a hockey podcast? You know, when my dad was
42:40
younger, he did, he did look a little bit like Harrison Ford
42:43
and had been mistaken a few times on airplanes for people
42:46
thinking that's what it was. And that's about, that's as far
42:50
as I go with any sort of knowledge.
42:52
Did he roll with it when people would say he was Harrison Ford?
42:56
No, but I always thought it was really cool, like, oh wow,
42:58
pretty, you know that that works.
43:00
Yeah, yeah. I thought it was cooler when it
43:03
was more of like an Indiana Jones thing.
43:06
Oh yeah, yeah. Well, it depends on how he's
43:09
dressed probably as well. Like if he's, if he's got his
43:11
lightsaber, it's one way. If he's got his satchel, it's
43:16
Indiana Jones. Or his rope?
43:18
Is that what he had? He had a rope.
43:20
I just know a satchel is what Indiana Jones has and it's
43:23
referenced in the Hangover. Again, we're we're very cultured
43:29
here on the POP. We're going to take a break,
43:31
come back. We've got an interview for the
43:32
week coming your way as the Freds get ready to start a
43:35
three-game homestand Thursday night against the Edmonds and
43:37
Oilers, who may be without Connor McDavid for that game.
43:41
He was injured in their six one loss Monday night against the
43:43
Blue Jackets in Columbus and reportedly went back to Edmonton
43:47
to get medical testing done on Tuesday.
43:50
So I would say probably unlikely.
43:52
McDavid is back for a single Rd. game before they return home
43:56
this week, so Fred's maybe catching a break there.
43:58
We have course hope Connor McDavid is OK and not going to
44:01
miss too much time, but he may not play on Thursday night in
44:04
Smashville against the Preds. That game is another ESPN Plus
44:08
exclusive. John Butcher Gross and Kevin
44:10
Weeks will be announcing it after that.
44:12
Back to normal pretty much on Preds TV for a while here.
44:17
Kara, we got one TNT game in November, but other than that,
44:21
the ESPN Plus ESPN Plus October barrage comes to an end on
44:26
Thursday. Is that right?
44:29
I believe that's it. I'm not so curious what Kevin
44:31
Weeks is going to wear to the game on Thursday night because I
44:33
felt like the suit he wore to do the Tampa broadcast is really
44:37
what he should have saved for Halloween.
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So. Yeah, let's see.
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What weeks he has. Little Addams family with the
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blackout white stripes. I did.
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I was feeling that. I thought, I feel like he was
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just maybe he was just preparing.
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He was already in the Halloween mood.
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I like it, whatever it was. So yeah, I got to get a
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Halloween tie. Actually.
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That's something I need to remember to do later today.
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I did find some great Halloween socks with Jason on them, which
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are great because it's also hockey Goldie masks, so it works
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for everything. Yeah, there you go.
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All right, more to come after this on The Predator's official
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podcast. I was working in the lab late
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one night when my eyes beheld an eerie sight for my monster from
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his lab began to rise and suddenly, to my surprise, he did
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the monster man the monster match.
45:39
It was a graveyard smash. It caught on in a.
45:44
Flag the Monster Mash is a classic he.
45:46
Did the. Monster Happy Halloween friends
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fans hockey Halloween Thursday night at 7 friends and Oilers at
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Bridgestone Arena. We had to get this one in since
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Kara won't let me play my Tim Robinson.
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It was also the night when the skeletons came to life.
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But if you do know, you do know. But the monster mash is the
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classic right down the middle. Kara gets you in the Halloween
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mood. It is.
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It's just so good. It it hits every time the
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monster mash it does, it absolutely hits.
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She's Kara Hammer from preds TV. I'm Max Herz from preds radio.
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This is the POP on one O 25 the game.
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We've heard a lot of interviews today.
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Our interview of the week comes on Preds Radio after their win
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in Chicago on Friday night. The way these interviews work
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for Rd. games on the radio, the players are outside the locker
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room, the announcers are in the press box upstairs, the player
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puts on a headset and sometimes things happen to that headset.
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And that's what happened to Gus Nyquist after his big goal in
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the win over the Blackhawks on Friday.
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Talking to Pete and Hal. Well, you did it here this
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evening and now back-to-back games for the first time this
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year. Columbus Blue Jack is tomorrow
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night. So they rested.
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They are back in Nashville and I would assume taking it easy for
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tomorrow. Sorry I missed you there.
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I had a guy banging on my headphones here.
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Really. Yeah.
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What was his name? His name is Nick Felino,
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actually. So all right, gotcha.
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An old friend of mine, I can't believe he's he's old now, so.
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How old do you think he is? He's got a chosen in on 40s here
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for sure. Go enjoy it.
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And yes, thank you. See you.
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OK. All right.
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Appreciate your visit. Bye.
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Nick Fellino breaking up the interview.
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Former teammate of Gus Nyquist in Columbus and just getting
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called old for it. It's funny, I love when stuff
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like that happens. I do too, yeah.
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And Fellino, by the way, he's kind of always 37, but like us,
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Kara, he's in his 30s and we're all the same age here.
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We are. They were talking about it last
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night on the broadcast. The Predators have the 5th
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oldest team right now in the National Hockey League.
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Obviously Romanosi's 34, Steven Sampco's coming in.
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These guys are older. Like this is the time Max this
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is the time. I actually think that that
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number has gotten younger for the preds because at the
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beginning of the year I think they were third.
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So I think Zach Larue's call up drags that number down quite a
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bit. Which is what gets for the play.
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But we'll take the, we'll take the the age, right that that's
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bringing the number down. Yeah, he was not called up to
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add age diversity to the Predators roster here, but he's
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been a lot of fun to watch. We'll see you guys back in
48:36
Smashville this weekend, Thursday night against the
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Oilers, Saturday night to Smashville against the Avalanche
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and Monday night against the Kings before going back on the
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road next week. All three of those home games
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are at 7:00. We will be there looking forward
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to seeing you. And we'll be back with a podcast
48:53
on Friday after the game against the Oil on Thursday night.
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She's Gary Hammer for Fred's TV. I'm Max Hurst, Fred's radio.
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Thank you so much for listening to the Predators official
49:03
podcast here on your radio. Home for Fred's hockey, ESPN
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102-5106. Three the game.
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The guy asked for something spooky.