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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny on the Utah Mammoth's 6-2 win over Vancouver, Tonight vs Detroit, Olympic break + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: You tune to the Shan O'Connell Show from the Murdoch
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  Speaker 1: Chevrolet Studio of ESPN seven one a half a m.
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  Speaker 1: We were just talking about the Summer Olympics soccer venues
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  Speaker 1: that are only relevant two years from now.
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  Speaker 2: We got the Winter Olympics coming like this week.
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  Speaker 1: People are Nordic skiing experts for The Sean O'Connell Show,
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  Speaker 1: and Utah Mammoth insider Adrian Denny joins us for some
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  Speaker 1: between the pipes and whatever the cool phrase is for
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  Speaker 1: Nordic skiing out on.
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  Speaker 2: The tracks of snow. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Sean O'Connell Show and Adrian Denny's brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by our good friends over at Aladdin.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, how are you? What's up? Man?
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to step on anybody's toes, but I
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  Speaker 3: did hear that curling has already started in the Olympics
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  Speaker 3: and it's underway right now. But cross country skiing Sunday
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  Speaker 3: before the super Bowl. We'll get in some cross country skiing.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and you know what, maybe gonna skip the super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl just to watch the cross country skiing.
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  Speaker 2: That's how into it we are.
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  Speaker 3: I might because I've got I've got to bring you
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  Speaker 3: a full report. I've got to cover this like like
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  Speaker 3: we cover everything else. I take my beat seriously.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, So you tell Mammoth and Action again tonight
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  Speaker 1: at the Delta Center and they're taking on the Detroit
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  Speaker 1: Red Wings team after the demolition of a team that
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to see them demolish.
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  Speaker 2: Right. We talked about this with the Vancouver Canucks being
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  Speaker 2: one of those.
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  Speaker 1: Squads where if you're a good team, what do you
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  Speaker 1: do with bad teams? You smash them, and you smash
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  Speaker 1: them schmaltzy with a hat trick on the way, everybody
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  Speaker 1: gets a discount on the headwear at the team store
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  Speaker 1: after that. Gotta be feeling good heading into this game.
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  Speaker 1: But before we get to the Red Wings, let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the things you liked best about that game against
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  Speaker 1: the Canucks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I like the final score. It's a game that I
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  Speaker 3: called an implied win for Utah.
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  Speaker 1: I actually really just like that principle, that phrase in
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  Speaker 1: general and implied win.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna start using that. You can Yeah, I'd
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  Speaker 3: love you too. We've got scheduled wins, scheduled losses, implied wins,
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  Speaker 3: implied losses. Is we use our Mammoth Daily Dictionary, and
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  Speaker 3: those are those are some of our big terms.
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  Speaker 2: But that was an implied win. Sean.
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  Speaker 3: You had a Monday night home game, two games left
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  Speaker 3: before the break. You'd lost too in a row, two
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  Speaker 3: one goal games to two top five NHL teams, worst
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  Speaker 3: team coming in Vancouver Canucks two wins during the entire
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  Speaker 3: month of January, and you just needed to to do that.
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  Speaker 3: And it was a little surprised. And this just shows that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you're a last place team in the NHL
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  Speaker 3: and you're just kind of getting through it. Vancouver had
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  Speaker 3: started one of their AHL goalies in their previous two games,
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  Speaker 3: Nikita Tolapilo, and they shut out the Ducks to nothing,
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  Speaker 3: and they lost in a shootout Toronto. So they came
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  Speaker 3: into that game on Monday with you know, a one
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  Speaker 3: to oh to one record in their last two three
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  Speaker 3: of a possible four points. And then they go with
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Lankin and whose numbers are just atrocious, and I thought,
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  Speaker 3: I thought, why what are you doing? And and and
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  Speaker 3: the Mammoth were able to take advantage of it and
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  Speaker 3: just pop in six goals on twenty shots and dominate
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  Speaker 3: the game. But I really liked how they finished the game,
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  Speaker 3: because you're up five to one. On the second, you're
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  Speaker 3: up six to two, and the third, all right, let's
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  Speaker 3: let's get through this, right. We keep to your habits,
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  Speaker 3: keep to your identity and the way that you want
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  Speaker 3: to play, even though this is a pond hockey game
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  Speaker 3: against an NHL team that is the worst the league
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  Speaker 3: has to offer right now. And I thought the Mammoth
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  Speaker 3: did a good job of just staying focused, staying organized
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  Speaker 3: after the game. It wasn't like they'd won the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 3: It's like we checked a box here. We won a
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  Speaker 3: game that we knew we needed to win like this,
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  Speaker 3: and now one big one with Detroit, who, while Utah
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  Speaker 3: was taking care of Vancouver, was in Denver and they
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  Speaker 3: shut out the Avs by account of two to nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Plus Utah beat them in Detroit, so you know that
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna remember that and come into tonight and want
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  Speaker 3: to finish off going into break strong as well.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: Finishing a game like that strong particularly important given that
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  Speaker 1: it came a couple contests after what happened against Carolina
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  Speaker 1: where you should have won that game, right, you had
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  Speaker 1: the lead in that game. Now it wasn't five to
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  Speaker 1: two or six two, but you allowed Carolina to come
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  Speaker 1: back a couple of goals and surge late in it
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  Speaker 1: like a much more meaningful contest in my opinion, because
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  Speaker 1: of like you eloquently stated the status of the Canucks
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  Speaker 1: right now, but you don't want to see a mistake
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  Speaker 1: like that potentially even repeated, especially against a bad team,
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  Speaker 1: and keeping the foot on the gas pedal was encouraging
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  Speaker 1: to see.
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  Speaker 3: And Utah had to kill a penalty in the third
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  Speaker 3: period when it was five two, and if it becomes
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  Speaker 3: five to three, who knows where we are right We're
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  Speaker 3: back in that same spot as as Carolina. But I
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  Speaker 3: was talking to Nate Schmidt this morning after morning skate
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  Speaker 3: and he said, it's just the killer mentality, just just
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  Speaker 3: keeping the pedal to the metal. And we also heard
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  Speaker 3: from head coach Andre Turney as he was talking to
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  Speaker 3: the broadcast team as we meet with Bear every every
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  Speaker 3: time we're together in the Southtown practicing training facility, and
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  Speaker 3: he said, you know what, we got up one, we
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  Speaker 3: got up six to two, and we were kind of
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  Speaker 3: just okay. It wasn't great. We did what we needed
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  Speaker 3: to do and then we were just kind of okay.
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  Speaker 3: But it's it's not easy to play against a team
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  Speaker 3: like that and you say, ah, we're shreking the league.
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  Speaker 3: But you just don't know what you're gonna get from
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  Speaker 3: shift to shift, like who's engaged, who's going to be
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  Speaker 3: playing what, Like what are they going to do beyond
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  Speaker 3: a structure of a system that gets you off your
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  Speaker 3: a game because you're you're chasing. So I thought in
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  Speaker 3: the first period it was kind of helter skelter. I
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  Speaker 3: thought the Mamma saw a lot of opportunity and you know, like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: this is going to be everybody gets a gold Knight.
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  Speaker 2: And there was a lot of pace.
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  Speaker 3: And then in the second period kind of got back
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  Speaker 3: to that structure and then the third period got a
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  Speaker 3: way to push through. It was it perfect, No, but
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  Speaker 3: they were as business like because I think they could
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  Speaker 3: have been against the Canucks.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about tonight's game.
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  Speaker 1: The Red Wings are coming off what you could make
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  Speaker 1: a case is the best regular season and win of
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  Speaker 1: their schedule so far on the road against the Colorado Avalanche, who,
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  Speaker 1: of course right now the best team in the league
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  Speaker 1: I think in principle and by record, and not only
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  Speaker 1: a win, but a shutout of the Avalanche. Strange quirk
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  Speaker 1: of scheduling by the way at home against the Avalanche,
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  Speaker 1: then on the road against the Avalanche on their way
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  Speaker 1: here to Utah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they lost five nothing to the Avs. On Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: went into Denver, scored a goal in the first minute,
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  Speaker 3: came on an odd man rush, and pretty much locked
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  Speaker 3: it down from there.
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  Speaker 2: They completely shut down.
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  Speaker 3: Nathan McKinnon, Marty Nachus didn't play in the game for Colorado,
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  Speaker 3: and then scored an empty netter, but.
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  Speaker 2: Held the Avs to twenty one shots.
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  Speaker 3: John Gibson, who's been really good, was acquired from Anaheim,
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  Speaker 3: played all those years with the Ducks in between the pipes.
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  Speaker 3: He's been kind of up and down this year, as
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  Speaker 3: he usually is, but he's played really well lately and
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  Speaker 3: has been a big part of detroit success. So seans
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  Speaker 3: the Mammoth go into Denver right before Christmas, lose a game, won,
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  Speaker 3: nothing could have gone either way. Detroit goes in, wins
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  Speaker 3: a game, do nothing with an empty net goal. So
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  Speaker 3: I think I think that's a fun comparison that you
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  Speaker 3: can make, and you know how things can flip in
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  Speaker 3: the NHL. Mammoth beat them for one there in December
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  Speaker 3: and now they're they're coming here, and you know what
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  Speaker 3: you talk about, strange quirks of scheduling.
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  Speaker 2: Eleventh.
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  Speaker 3: This is the twelfth, twelfth time this year a team
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  Speaker 3: plays Utah and Colorado on the same sequence in Salt Lake,
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  Speaker 3: in Denver or vice versa.
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  Speaker 2: Sean.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody has swept Utah and Colorado yet this year in
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  Speaker 3: eleven occasions, so this will be the twelfth time. And
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  Speaker 3: Detroit's gonna try and be the first team to win
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  Speaker 3: both games in the same sequence. Back to back Lake
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  Speaker 3: in Colorado. Boston, Tampa Bay, Buffalo, Islanders, Rangers, Florida, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Columbus,
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  Speaker 3: Toronto and Philly are the teams who have had the
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  Speaker 3: Aves and Mammoth on the road this year in two
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  Speaker 3: straight games. And nobody has gone two and zero. And
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna drop that today on the show Sean
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  Speaker 3: because that was my treadmill project this morning, and I
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  Speaker 3: thought I gotta make good use to this.
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  Speaker 1: So here we go the high altitude stretch for these
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  Speaker 1: NHL teams.
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  Speaker 2: They've not won both games, yep.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting and it's it's rigorous, like two good teams, two
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  Speaker 3: teams that kind of take it out at you, right,
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  Speaker 3: you win one, or are you gonna have left in
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  Speaker 3: the tank? You play the Avs. Let's say you lose. There,
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  Speaker 3: you come into Utah having just played in a high intensity,
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  Speaker 3: competitive game against a good team. You're gonna be on
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  Speaker 3: your a game, right, You're going to be at that
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  Speaker 3: level coming into this game. Whereas for Utah, the challenge
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  Speaker 3: today is going from Vancouver to a team that just
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  Speaker 3: played the Avs and is going to have that competitive
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  Speaker 3: juice going having played a high intense hockey game forty
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  Speaker 3: eight hours ago, while Utah was just trying to keep
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  Speaker 3: to their habits and feel good about a game against
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  Speaker 3: the worst team in the league.
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  Speaker 2: And again, it's not easy.
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  Speaker 3: Rarely do you, I think, feel great about beating a
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  Speaker 3: team like that because you're just not on your game
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  Speaker 3: because they're so bad.
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  Speaker 1: Schmaltz with the hat trick, and I just want to
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  Speaker 1: make sure we take every opportunity to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: year that he is having and in important stretches for
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  Speaker 1: this team, he has really been awesome. Hopefully that was
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of what will be a great stretch and
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  Speaker 1: important stretch for Mammoth Hockey because, as I mentioned before
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  Speaker 1: the Breakdore they're kind of they're flirting with this bubble
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  Speaker 1: area a little bit too much for people to be
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  Speaker 1: truly comfortable. We saw what happened last year where Saint
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  Speaker 1: Louis went on that crazy run. Hopefully it'll be the
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  Speaker 1: mammoth they go on to run like that. But if
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  Speaker 1: they do, it'll be partially on the efforts of Nick Schmaltz,
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  Speaker 1: who's just been awesome in this twenty twenty five twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixth season.
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  Speaker 2: Three goals the other.
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  Speaker 3: Night fourteen and one is the record this year for
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  Speaker 3: Utah when he scores a goal. So I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 3: some math on the air here when he doesn't score
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  Speaker 3: a goal fifteen twenty two and four. Wow, So there's
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  Speaker 3: your Nick Smaltz value.
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  Speaker 1: That's a that's a significant swing.
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  Speaker 2: The other.
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  Speaker 3: Note there, because you when your stars are your stars,
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  Speaker 3: you win, right, peterka Gunther Schmaltz. If the three of
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  Speaker 3: those guys don't score in a single game, one win
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  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 1: So so, by the way, something that undoubtedly other teams
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  Speaker 1: are paying attention to. If we could take away that
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  Speaker 1: trio of scorers, this team does not overcome that difficulty,
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  Speaker 1: but once so far this year, so massive importance, so
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  Speaker 1: on those three players.
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  Speaker 3: So the challenge for the opposition. Those guys are now
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  Speaker 3: on three different lines, and you've seen JJ pit Turk
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  Speaker 3: and Kyler Yamamoto become kind of a kind of a
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  Speaker 3: duo with Barrett Hayton and the last couple games great
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  Speaker 3: to get Schmaltz going because him and Keller and Kraus
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  Speaker 3: had been quiet for a rare time really, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the first time since they've been together. Krause ended a
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  Speaker 3: four game scoreless drought on Monday. Keller had a couple
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  Speaker 3: of assists. So yeah, if those three can can have
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  Speaker 3: another big game tonight against Detroit, that's that's gonna be big.
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  Speaker 3: Gunther hasn't scored in two games since coming back from
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  Speaker 3: missing two games, So that's a guy that you feel
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  Speaker 3: like anytime he's on the ice, he can find a
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  Speaker 3: way to manufacture a goal or two.
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  Speaker 1: I know we've talked about it already, but now that
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  Speaker 1: it's a reality, the Olympic break is coming and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see Clayton Keller for skating skating for teams.
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  Speaker 2: Is it five mammoth total?
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  Speaker 1: The total four total, four different countries or total for
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  Speaker 1: four different countries for the Utah Mammoth. And you know
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  Speaker 1: the rest of these guys, I assume are going to
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  Speaker 1: be watching a lot of Olympic hockey, but hopefully staying
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  Speaker 1: in reasonable shape and getting right.
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  Speaker 2: Getting that rest.
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  Speaker 1: It effectively serves as kind of an all star break
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  Speaker 1: for this Olympic cycle.
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  Speaker 2: Not for your captain though, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And and head coach Andre Turney wanted nothing to do
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  Speaker 3: with the topic today. Interesting he said, it's all about Detroit.
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  Speaker 3: We've got one game left, then we can talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about it for the last month and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight we're talking about Detroit, Sean. I will not do
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  Speaker 3: that to you.
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  Speaker 1: I how coaches go one game at a time.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to.
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  Speaker 3: I would not do that to Valley Plumbing and Aladdin Industries.
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  Speaker 3: I have picked Keller to have a big, big game tonight.
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  Speaker 3: We do Lock of the Night on our radio and
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  Speaker 3: TV broadcast on Hockey Night in Utah, and tonight's lock
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  Speaker 3: of the night is who is going to get the
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  Speaker 3: big hat in the locker room after the game. And
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  Speaker 3: I took Keller because I think in front of the
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  Speaker 3: fans at the Delta Center last game for three weeks
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  Speaker 3: before he goes to the Olympics, he's been a little quiet.
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  Speaker 3: I think the captain is in for a big game
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  Speaker 3: for the Mammoth Veggie, heading off his last game at home,
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  Speaker 3: so he'll be for for team check you, Jj Petka
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  Speaker 3: for for Team Germany.
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think we'll see our Olympians have a big game
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  Speaker 3: tonight and Bear we'll want to talk about it after
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  Speaker 3: the game.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of the Olympics, a couple of NHL guys have
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  Speaker 1: been dubbed the flag bearers, named flag bears for their country.
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  Speaker 1: We saw this Leon dry Sidle got voted in to
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  Speaker 1: help the Parade of Nations. He's carrying one of the
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  Speaker 1: flag bears for Germany, right yep. And then is it
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  Speaker 1: Pasternak believe believe so for check yet check Yeah? Yeah, interesting,
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  Speaker 1: that's what an honor, What a cool.
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  Speaker 2: Thing for these guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, JJ will be on Team Germany with uh dry Siddle.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be fun to see those guys on on the
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  Speaker 3: same team. They've never never really played before. Here's here's
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  Speaker 3: a nugget for you. Oh see talking about Petka and
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  Speaker 3: dry Siddle. Paturca on Saturday night became the fifth fastest
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  Speaker 3: German in the NHL to get to one hundred assists
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  Speaker 3: and you know the company you have up there with
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  Speaker 3: Leon Drysidel setting the standard. So yeah, excited to watch
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  Speaker 3: Team Germany, my nephew, his favorite players, JJ Peterka, so
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  Speaker 3: we will not be missing a German game with dry Sidle.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're listening, by the way, and you're going like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you're telling me that Canada is not having any hockey players.
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  Speaker 1: Canada's flag bears are skiers Michael Kingsbury and Mary L. Thompson,
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  Speaker 1: who are obviously very famous and we're big fans of
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  Speaker 1: both of those people. Yes, my goodness, way more famous
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  Speaker 1: than Connor McDavid or any of the assorted all star
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  Speaker 1: caliber NHL players that could have been named flag bear.
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  Speaker 1: Is Canada getting bored of hockey? Is that what we're
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  Speaker 1: finding out with those votes?
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  Speaker 2: That is a shift in mindset.
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  Speaker 1: Team USA's flag bears are a speed skater Aaron Jackson,
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  Speaker 1: and Bob's letter Frank del Duca, which is a phenomenal name.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to talk more about him with Jeff Schwartz,
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  Speaker 1: who is our Bob sledding insider and a consultant here
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  Speaker 1: for this Olympic cycle.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: So focusing back in on what we should be talking
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  Speaker 1: about here cross country skiing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there is that, but.
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  Speaker 1: Red wings at home and then you know, an Olympic
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  Speaker 1: break and then you've got kind of a home stretch
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  Speaker 1: that you need to see this Utah Mammoth team.
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  Speaker 2: Get.
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  Speaker 1: For me, at least, you need to see this Utah
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  Speaker 1: Mamma team get away from the flirtation with mediocrity in
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  Speaker 1: the standings. There are too many teams Nashville, Anaheim, You're
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  Speaker 1: you're crowded in that spot where a game or two
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  Speaker 1: is going to potentially be the swing on that bubble.
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  Speaker 2: How do they get off of it?
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  Speaker 3: Plus with La literally in the last fifteen minutes reportedly
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  Speaker 3: acquiring our Temi Panarin right in that mix from the
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: from the New York Rangers. Well, if you if you
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: look at the schedule, you know I'm big on schedules
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  Speaker 3: and scheduling wins and.
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  Speaker 2: All that kind of and implied wins, implied wins.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, So the Mammoth coming out of the Olympic break
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  Speaker 3: will have twenty five games, and they will have fourteen
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  Speaker 3: of those games being played at the Delta Center, where
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  Speaker 3: there're seven to one and one in twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 3: and sixteen to eight and two overall, So that'll be
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  Speaker 3: that'll be big coming out of the Olympic break with
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  Speaker 3: three straight at home. I liked how we opened out
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: of the Four Nations break last year with one game
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  Speaker 3: at LA because it's it's just it's not an easy
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  Speaker 3: game to play coming out of Christmas, first game of the.
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  Speaker 2: Year, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 3: But you've got the Colorado Avalanche coming right out of
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  Speaker 3: the Olympic break three weeks from tonight. Not to wish
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  Speaker 3: away the Olympic break, but that'll be that'll be huge.
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  Speaker 3: And then you have Minnesota after that, and then you
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: have Chicago as the third game to wrap up this
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  Speaker 3: stretch of six straight games, and then you're then you're
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: on the road in March for the first time since
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  Speaker 3: since last week. So I think I think the home
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: schedule will play play into that. Logan Cooley slated to
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: be back coming back from the Olympic break, says general
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  Speaker 3: manager Bill Armstrong. Fall all continues to go smooth there,
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: which we have seen Logan practicing this week again. Alexander
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  Speaker 3: Kerfoot also was out there on the ice, so hopefully
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  Speaker 3: those guys when we come back and in three weeks
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  Speaker 3: are ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to I just want to do this.
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  Speaker 2: This is apropos of nothing.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: And I always appreciate Adrian with between the pipes brought
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: to you by a Latin Industries, your Utah V Lux dealer,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: and by Valley Plumbing, Heating and Air. So we were
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: talking about the high altitude swing for these NHL teams.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, what are the other high
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: altitude cities in the NHL. Okay, First of all, a
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: caution to all you people that are relying on AI.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: The AI answer for the highest altitude city in the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: NHL says Salt Lake City is the highest altitude city
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  Speaker 1: in the NHL, located at forty two twenty six. Other
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: high altitude teams include Colorado Avalanche at five and eighty feet.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: AI is telling you in the same paragraph Salt Lake
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: City is the highest. Also, Denver is higher. Okay, so
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: be careful with your AI people, all right? Because I
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: knew Denver was higher than Salt Lake City. I wanted
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: to see the other high altitude cities.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what the other higher altitude cities are
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: in the NHL. I'm gonna say Calgary. Yes, Calgary's one
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: three on the list.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Gosh, that is a good one. Gosh, Edmonton's more on
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: the planes and the prairie. Vancouver's on the ocean.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: So see, I'm gonna take Edmonton, and I don't see
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: any anything else in the NHL that doesn't look like
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: sea level do five hundred feet?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: It is a low man's game the NHL. They don't
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: deal with altitude. Baby, That's why Adrian Denny gives you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: that that insight.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, I can't beat.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Colorado and you can't beat Utah back to back because
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: at that point your body's just breaking down. All right,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you got the bends. Basically, you're not able to handle
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the altitude chicks.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Did I get it right? You got it right? Holy smokes?
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Did you lake Calgary? Edmonton? Did you like that?
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: As an attorney, like I gave, give you forty five
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: minutes on my answer, knowing that I am not arguing
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: a good case here, but I'm going to do my best.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: There's nothing wrong.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: With a little filibustering in order to flesh out your
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: answer or google as I often do. Oh, that's a
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: really interesting question there, James and of course I know
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: this right off the top of my head. Calgary is
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: the third highest. That's how I handle it. That's how
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you should handle it as well. Faked team, make it people.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: That's it, Adrian, You're the man. I always appreciate your time.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Yeah, thanks Sean, and looking forward to the
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Olympics hockey and of course cross country skiing, which I
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: will have covered for you right here on the Sean
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: O'Connell show.
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