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Hockey's Biggest Stories · Sports Exchange

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  Speaker 1: Good eating everybody. Welcome to another edition of The Sports Exchange.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Scott Morgan, rock Over City, mad Mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Please be joined by my co host Rob Peterson. Tonight
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  Speaker 1: Biggest Hockey, Biggest Stories. We got five of them and
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  Speaker 1: it was on Rod Peterson Show today. What a great
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  Speaker 1: time with Rod. Thanks for having me on.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming down, Scott. Always good to see your
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  Speaker 2: smiling face.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it was great being there with you. I always
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  Speaker 1: enjoy coming on. I really one thing I've been able
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  Speaker 1: to notice all year is we work well in tandem.
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  Speaker 1: And here's another classic opportunity to do it tonight. We've
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  Speaker 1: got five things to get to tonight, just so you know,
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the hour we'll have one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighth such as baseball as well. First line of
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  Speaker 1: business we're going to get to is Alex o'bechkan suffering
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  Speaker 1: an injury and he is at fracture who was left
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  Speaker 1: fibula and will miss four to six weeks. Let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about the impact on his injury with the Washington Capitols.
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  Speaker 1: Fibula injuries are nothing write home about. It's not something
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  Speaker 1: you want, Scott, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: But did you know I know it's in the scott
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  Speaker 2: the South Florida Tribune, and I caught him last week.
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  Speaker 2: The Capitals and Minnesota were the only teams in the
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  Speaker 2: NHL with double digit wins in the month of November,
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  Speaker 2: and the Capitol was the ten I believe in The
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  Speaker 2: Capitals did it without the services of Alexobechkin. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he started the season fifteen goals in eighteen games before
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  Speaker 2: breaking his leg in Utah. It's probably been close to
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  Speaker 2: a month now. He's back skating, though, he's back skating
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  Speaker 2: far ahead of what they thought that he would.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's an incredible player, he really is. I know
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  Speaker 1: he's chasing a bunch of scoring records. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: elaborate on that. Do you think he has a chance
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  Speaker 1: to get that goal mark at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I listen. I didn't think that he what a
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  Speaker 2: year ago, maybe a year and a half ago, we
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  Speaker 2: had Poles. We did the math, and it didn't look
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  Speaker 2: like he was going to come anywhere close to Wayne
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  Speaker 2: Gretzky based on what Ovechkin has been doing statistically the
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  Speaker 2: last couple of years. But something happened. I talked with
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  Speaker 2: the capitalist people over the summer. He got in shape physically.
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  Speaker 2: He was dealing with the death of his father, so
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  Speaker 2: he was grieving his father's death. Last year when he
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  Speaker 2: came through here through Sunrise, he didn't look interested. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't look like any type of player that was going
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  Speaker 2: to challenge for any record. He's come back this season,
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  Speaker 2: turned back the clock at least a decade, and now
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  Speaker 2: he's twenty six goals away. Could very well do it
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  Speaker 2: this year. And it looks like he's not going to
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  Speaker 2: retire until he does tie or break the record, Scott,
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  Speaker 2: So if he doesn't do it this year, next year
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Good. Thank you very much for the update. All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about Jacob Truwell was traded guts and he's
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  Speaker 1: making his debut to night against Montreal. Hey, is, what
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  Speaker 1: are your thoughts about the way that trade came down?
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  Speaker 1: And I know the New York Rangers have traded with
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  Speaker 1: their third straight Cappain in three years.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would be just as interested to get your take.
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  Speaker 2: Like that New York MSG conglomerate that owns the Knicks
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  Speaker 2: and the Rangers and I'm not sure who all else
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  Speaker 2: doesn't look like the best culture Scott in sports. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: they made all the way to the Eastern Conference Final.
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  Speaker 2: The Rangers last year lost to the Panthers in six games,
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  Speaker 2: So who would think that they were a dysfunctional organization?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 2: Yet they keep blowing coaches out of there, David Quinn,
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  Speaker 2: Gerard Gallant. Now, from what I understand, they trade this captain,
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Truba. The reason, and I just heard it this
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  Speaker 2: morning on NHL Radio, was because Jacob Truba was not
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  Speaker 2: a fit for the new coach, Peter Laviolet. He wants
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  Speaker 2: to play a certain style. Truba couldn't or wouldn't play it.
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  Speaker 2: See you later. His days on Broadway are over, but
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  Speaker 2: he did make an interesting quote on his way out
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  Speaker 2: of town Scott. He made an interesting statement. Jacob Truba said,
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  Speaker 2: it's a right of passage to be fired by Mesgi
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  Speaker 2: literally on his way out of the rink. Why would
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  Speaker 2: you say that if there wasn't something to it, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about that. I mean the reality of
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  Speaker 1: the situation. And Mark, the last Stanley Cup that they
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  Speaker 1: won was when Mark Messier was a ninety four or
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  Speaker 1: four nineteen Yeah, Mark Messier. And they haven't done anything since,
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  Speaker 1: and yet they have an incredible goaltender who we're going
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  Speaker 1: to go ahead and segue to now, and that's Igor Shustrika,
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  Speaker 1: who signed an eight year, ninety two million dollar deal.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way that the Rangers are going to get
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  Speaker 1: out bid for this guy. And I understand on that
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  Speaker 1: Troupa deal that the Rangers are not eating any of
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  Speaker 1: that money, right. I believe that's all on Anaheim. Is
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  Speaker 1: that correct?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was another reason why they wanted to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of him too. They felt that he was on
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  Speaker 2: the decline statistically. They obviously have the numbers to Morton.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just the eye test anymore. The numbers showed
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  Speaker 2: them that he wasn't worth the money that he was getting.
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  Speaker 2: Anaheim was only too excited I did to welcome him
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  Speaker 2: to their dressing room. But the Rangers, again were just
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  Speaker 2: ready to move on from Jacob Truba. It was you
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  Speaker 2: write a money thing, but that freed up a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money to sign Igor Shasterkin to this deal. And
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  Speaker 2: it was an interesting timing of it. I believe Friday
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  Speaker 2: was the day of the trade, and late Friday afternoon
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  Speaker 2: they made the announcement that they'd signed Igor Shasterk into
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  Speaker 2: this eight year extension. They'll hold up on that, and
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  Speaker 2: I've been writing about that in myself Florida tribute NHL
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  Speaker 2: Call Them All Year, was that Shasterkin wanted to be
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  Speaker 2: not just the highest paid goalie in the NHL Scott,
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to be the highest paid player period, and
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  Speaker 2: that would have put him in the fourteen point five
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  Speaker 2: to fifteen million dollars season range. Just wasn't gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: Like the Rangers would have liked to have had this
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  Speaker 2: done in the summertime, didn't happen extends into December. I
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  Speaker 2: think what more than anything, they wanted to get some
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  Speaker 2: good news out there because they've been taking a pr
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  Speaker 2: beating across the NHL and in New York City.
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  Speaker 1: Great points all the way around. You know, when you
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  Speaker 1: don't want to play for a coach like Peter Lobolette,
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  Speaker 1: it's a player's job to adapt to their style. As
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  Speaker 1: much as you can ever heard of that thing called
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  Speaker 1: management in your labor right, evidently take him true. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel that way. Hi, Joshua, glad to have you on.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Jennifer, glad to have you on as well. Rod
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  Speaker 1: Peterson renowned out in Canada, and I'm glad to have
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  Speaker 1: him as my partner here on the Sports Exchange in
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  Speaker 1: my top hockey analyst of those people that you don't know. Ron,
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  Speaker 1: we started working together earlier this year and he's done
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  Speaker 1: an incredible job filling the void that we had with hockey.
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  Speaker 1: So but back to the Stork and you know, anytime
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  Speaker 1: you have a major move like that and you know
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  Speaker 1: you're freeing up money, it's not surprising that these deals
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  Speaker 1: take place inside of twenty four hours, which it appears
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  Speaker 1: as though this one got done fairly quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna see what kind of changes this does
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  Speaker 2: for the Rangers. They've been languishing around the seven to
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  Speaker 2: eighth playoff spots. Scott, we all had them predicted. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I did, anyways to win the Vision the Metropolitan Division
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  Speaker 2: going away, but the Rangers are ahead of them. They're
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  Speaker 2: middling along with the Islanders. And I'm going to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: look at the rosters of the New York Rangers of
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  Speaker 2: the New York Islanders. They're not comparable, but statistically points wise,
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  Speaker 2: they are. So we'll find out what kind of a
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  Speaker 2: difference does this make. Shasterkin got his money. I would
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  Speaker 2: think that if he's anything like Sir Gabrabrowski. He wants
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  Speaker 2: to go out and prove that he's earned it or
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  Speaker 2: is earning it. So I'll be interested to see if
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  Speaker 2: the Rangers get a boost. They beat the Chicago Blackhawks
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday, but or is that tonight? That's tonight. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's a plenty of time to turn their season around
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  Speaker 2: and that's what they're looking to do.
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  Speaker 1: So do you think that Shashkin's actually worth that money?
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  Speaker 2: He's pretty good. He won the Vesno Trophy two years
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  Speaker 2: ago as the top goalie in the NHL, took the Rangers,
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  Speaker 2: as I said, to these Conference final last year before
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  Speaker 2: bowing out to Lebrovski in the Florida Panthers. He's very good.
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  Speaker 2: I've watched him here. I'd still take Sar Gabrabrovski over him,
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  Speaker 2: But it's just it's interesting. Scott, and I know you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned you wanted to bring up the Four Nations face Off.
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  Speaker 2: It's a four country tournament coming up in February between Canada, USA, Finland,
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  Speaker 2: and Sweden. Russia doesn't have a team. They haven't been
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  Speaker 2: invited to the tournament, but that hasn't stopped the pundits
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  Speaker 2: from looking at what Russia's roster would be and they've
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  Speaker 2: got Schusterkin as the starting goalie. Sir Gaba Robskizz is
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  Speaker 2: back up, No kidding, So he's not the best on
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  Speaker 2: the NHL, he's top three for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we have a trade that took place here, Rod,
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  Speaker 1: so let's get right to it. The Colorado Rondo Avalanche
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  Speaker 1: traded goaltender Alexander Georgiev to the San Jose Sharks, the
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  Speaker 1: team's announced Monday. San Jose also added forward Nikolai Covalentco,
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  Speaker 1: a twenty twenty six second round pick and a twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five additional fifth round pick from the Avalanche, shipping
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  Speaker 1: netminder Mackenzie Blackwood, forward Giovanni Smith, which we all know
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  Speaker 1: too well, and a twenty twenty seven fifth rounder to Colorado.
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  Speaker 1: In the deal, the fifth round pick becomes avalanche worst
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  Speaker 1: fourth round selection if if at least two of the
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  Speaker 1: following are met Colorado makes the Western Conference Final. Blackwood
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  Speaker 1: wins twenty five regular season games. After the trade, Blackwood
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  Speaker 1: plays thirty regular season games with the Avalanche. Colorado also
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  Speaker 1: get this rod okay. They retain fourteen seventy six thousand
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  Speaker 1: of Georgiev's salary. According to sports Nasal, Elliott Freedman reports
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  Speaker 1: he's in the final year of his contract and is
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  Speaker 1: set to become an unrestricted free agent next summer. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Georgiev is twenty eight okay. He has an eight seventy
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  Speaker 1: four save percentage in eighteen games this season and has
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  Speaker 1: allowed four more goals in seven contests. Only You Sorrows
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  Speaker 1: and Conter Hallibeck have started more games than Georgiev since
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  Speaker 1: he was traded to Colorado in twenty twenty two. The
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  Speaker 1: Bulgarian born Russian posted at nine to nineteen save percentage
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  Speaker 1: in his first season with the Avalanche of twenty two
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  Speaker 1: to twenty three and fell to an eight ninety seven
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  Speaker 1: save percentage last year. Meanwhile, well, a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: information okay on Black with black would have been much
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  Speaker 1: better than Georgiaev on a worst Sharks team. He sports
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  Speaker 1: a nine to nine save percentage in seventeen starts, and
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  Speaker 1: as a six, nine to three record, forty nine says
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  Speaker 1: and three to one loss against the Florida Panthers on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Blackwood hasn't had a safe percentage above nine hundred over
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  Speaker 1: a season since twenty twenty one or twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 1: with the New Jersey Devils. The twenty eight year old
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  Speaker 1: is set to become an unrestricted free agent after this season.
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  Speaker 1: It costs two point three five million against the salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the gist. Event. I'll go over a couple
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  Speaker 1: of the other players really quickly because it's all important information. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Cobalenko has four goals in eight points in twenty eight games.
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  Speaker 1: The Russian winger joined Colorado and the spring after six
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  Speaker 1: seasons in the KHL. He was drafted by the Avalanche
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  Speaker 1: one hundred seventy first overall in twenty eighteen. It will
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  Speaker 1: be a restricted free agent in the summer. Smith meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: has zero points in ten penalty minutes and six contests
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  Speaker 1: with the Sharks. He cleared waivers on Monday and is
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  Speaker 1: eligible to be a side rod. Okay to the HL
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  Speaker 1: buy Colorado. Any thoughts about that trade?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, quite a few, actually, I just shared the show
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  Speaker 2: on Twitter by the Way guys, So hello and everybody
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  Speaker 2: that was just tuned in on X from the Rod
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  Speaker 2: Peterson channel. It was a late afternoon trade, or at
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  Speaker 2: least that's when I learned of at Scott. It's an
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  Speaker 2: interesting trade. A lot of pieces in the trade, goalie
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  Speaker 2: for goalie largely, but Sergey Sorry, Alexander Gorgiev, if you
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  Speaker 2: followed the history, was the backup to Igor Schusterkin in
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  Speaker 2: New York. Rangers obviously felt if they're going to keep
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  Speaker 2: a rushing goaltender, it was going to be Shasterkin. They
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  Speaker 2: got rid of Gorgiev. He's been in Colorado. He played
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  Speaker 2: here in Sunrise a couple of weeks ago when Colorado
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  Speaker 2: came into town and was awful. Allowed one of the
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  Speaker 2: worst goals I've seen in a very long time against
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  Speaker 2: Carter Verhegy. So all the hockey people are saying, is
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  Speaker 2: the Colorado Avalanche. All they were missing was a goaltender
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  Speaker 2: and their head coach, Jared Bednar, who won a Stanley Cup,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, as recently as twenty twenty two, did
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  Speaker 2: a remarkable job of keeping the Avalanche a float with
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  Speaker 2: terrible goaltending. Georgiev was not going to be the guy,
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  Speaker 2: so they made the trade with San Jose. To be honest,
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  Speaker 2: I'm quite excited with the moves that the Sharks general
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  Speaker 2: manager Mike Greer's making. He's the brother of Dolphins general
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  Speaker 2: manager Chris Greer. I'm sure you're aware of that. And
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  Speaker 2: a shakeup in both dressing rooms and a shakeup in
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  Speaker 2: both crees. All Colorado was missing was a goalie. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to find out if this newcomer is the missing
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  Speaker 2: piece for them.
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  Speaker 1: And a little bit more information too on that. As
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned, Smith twenty six and zero points, ten penalty
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  Speaker 1: minutes and sick contest at the Sharks and cleared waivers Monday,
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  Speaker 1: and is actually eligible to be assigned to the AHL
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  Speaker 1: by Colorado. Blackwood is a second goaltender, Okay. The Avalanche
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  Speaker 1: have recently acquired Colorado and at Scott Wedgewood from National
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  Speaker 1: Predators of December first, completely reforming the team's goaltending. In
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  Speaker 1: the span of nine days. Wedgewood recorded a twenty five
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  Speaker 1: stamet shutout Sunday against the New Jersey Devils. And one
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  Speaker 1: last thing I should point out, the Avalanche with this
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  Speaker 1: move clear one point four to seven million in trade.
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  Speaker 1: Should Smith be a signed to the miners. Colorado has
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  Speaker 1: three million in cash base with the newly acquired forward
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  Speaker 1: still on their rotter, So obviously you know there are
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  Speaker 1: monetary there are monetary benefits for Colorado to make this move.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and monetary considerations. That was a huge part of it.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody looks at these things and thinks it's a hockey trade.
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  Speaker 2: In a way, it is, but that's wherever you got
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  Speaker 2: that article was right. They've completely retooled their crease in
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  Speaker 2: Colorado and they've been languishing around the playoff line. So
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  Speaker 2: maybe they'd take off from here. I'm not sure, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's been interesting. You don't usually see trades this big,
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  Speaker 2: this early in the season prior to Christmas. So it's
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  Speaker 2: been great news, great news week in the National Hockey League.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Katy, let's go over to the chat room comments.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we went with Jennifer. Now we have Joshua
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  Speaker 1: and we'll keep it rolling. Black. We should have a
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  Speaker 1: better roll with Colorado. Covalinco has some issues and it
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  Speaker 1: might be to the avalanche me to move room. Good point. Mark,
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  Speaker 1: He'll be on tonight. He'll be myself, Mark, Eric Katz
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  Speaker 1: and Trent Clark on Tonight's edition of one hundred and eighth.
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  Speaker 1: ST's his baseball time. We're gonna have four people tonight.
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  Speaker 1: D Low's good evening. Good to have you on here
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  Speaker 1: as well, and d Lo's. I'm doing baby stuff so
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  Speaker 1: I can't watch, but I'm gonna try to catch baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a plan, keep it rolling, candy hockey show
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  Speaker 1: hits like a gossip slapshot. All right, well I'll take that.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see it.
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  Speaker 1: George, yep, Georgieve is not the key to his this trait,
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  Speaker 1: all right, keep it going. What's going on? George? All right?
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  Speaker 1: To the chat room, Scott Ronner or a great team
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  Speaker 1: to watch. Make you very much short. We had a
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  Speaker 1: great time earlier. We're doing it again. They're trying to
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  Speaker 1: catch lightning about with these two goalies. Otherwise with the
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  Speaker 1: extra money, they can't get someone on later down the road.
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  Speaker 1: So there you have it, Mark Meer and I is
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  Speaker 1: the barber. You got it, So all right, we've got that.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's move over to the Four Nations tournament. I
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  Speaker 1: want you to break down the nature of why they're
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  Speaker 1: doing this tournament and give me your thoughts about whether
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  Speaker 1: it's a better replacement for the actual NHL All Star Game.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's a load. I'm glad that you prepped me
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  Speaker 2: this morning when you're on my show that we were
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  Speaker 2: going to talk about this. Why they're doing it. I
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  Speaker 2: think this is a few reasons. It's a bit of
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: a precursor for the Olympics. Even though they're saying it's
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: not twenty twenty six Winter Olympics. The NHL is going
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: to be returning with rosters to the Olympics. This could
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: be viewed as a showcase for that going in. But again,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: it's the four Nations face off. A lot of people
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: don't know about it. It's a little like that NBA Cup.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: If you're not really closely following the NHL, you're not
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: even going to really understand what this is. But it's Canada, USA, Sweden,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: and Finland. Each team named six plays way back in
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: the summertime. Last Wednesday they named the rest of their rosters.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: So it's like the old if you remember Scott if
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you were following nineteen eighty seven Canada Cup, this was
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Gretzky Lemieux and all them. They played in Hamilton and
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Southern Ontario, actually Calgary as well. They did it in
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: ninety six with the World Cup and the USA won it.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: Jeremy Ronan, Mike Medano, Chris Chellio's, Mike Richter. They did
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: it in twenty sixteen. So this is a fairly rare tournament.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: It's the first time it's been called the four Nations
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: face off. And I'm going to say those countries again, Canada, USA,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Sweden and Finland. You don't hear a lot about it
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: in Canada, but last week, Scott, they're almost fighting in
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: the streets in Canada over who's got the better roster?
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Is it Canada, is it the US? Oh? They're going
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: nuts up like too much, actually too much. I've been
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: trying to tell people to be civil and they can't.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: What I can tell you is I'm now on the
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: NCAA Hockey Newsletter list of the usas twenty three players named.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Eighteen of them are NCAA grads, only three from Team Canada,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: including Cal mccarr of the Colorado Avalanche. Sounds like we
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: have an Avalanche viewer here that's tuned in. So there's
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: more than anything, Scott. It's bragging rights, period, That's about it.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: John Cooper of the Lightning, Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Well, what I like about what the NHL does is
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: they're not afraid to be different with a lot of
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: their All Star Games. They really are. Whether it's like
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: you alluded to the Canada Cup North of North America
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: against the World, and now this so what the All
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Star Game is? An exhibition? It really really is. So
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: if you're gonna take her with it, that's where you
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: do it. The NFL had to get rid of THEIRS
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: because the guys weren't trying hard, they were playing badly.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: So now it's relegated to an event. So more kudos
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to the National Hockey League for this, really, because you
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: know what, if you're going to go to this concept
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: trying out what's the worst case that happened, you don't
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: do it again. But if it works, then you bring
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: it back about popularity about what works and work doesn't.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: It's all about featuring the best players anyways in the league,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: in showcasing and marketing them. Yeah.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Sure, and there's another way. I mean, listen, I only
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: want to look at things from a pure sports perspective,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: But there are those that are saying it's some money
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: grab and if that's the case, welcome to pro sports.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: In twenty twenty four, you were talking about on my
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: show earlier today Detroit Red Wings fans being upset at
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: the Red Wings sucking eight nine years in a row
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: with the ticket prices that they're paying. Montreal and Boston
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: are the host cities for the Four Nations face off,
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: by the way, and the cheapest ticket I'm told two
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars for nosebleeds. Cheapest ticket two hundred dollars for
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: nose bleeds. So again it's a money maker. I also
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: don't have a problem with that, but I'd like to think,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: you know, for INDs, I've got a lot of hockey
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: analysts that I parade through my show daily, the Rod
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Peterson Show. Rich Sutter was on last week of the
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: famous hockey playing Sutter Brothers, and he said, these countries
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: want to win. This is not to market the National
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Hockey League. This was a day before the rosters were named.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: The next day. There was no Connor Bdari playing for
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Team Canada, the number one pick from two years ago.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: There was no Maclin Celebrini of the San Jose Sharks
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: picked the number one overall pick from last year. They
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: announced the best players possible for each country. This is
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: not a marketing vehicle. It will by proxy become that,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: but it's going to be tremendous hockey and bragging rights
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: on the line for which nation stands supreme on this
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: globe for hockey minus Russia, because if they had a team,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: they probably walk all over everybody.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: That's true too. Well, you know, this almost reminded me
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: a little bit of the World Baseball Classic too. You know,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: you go in there, everybody's are not united by their
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: country gets World Baseball Class.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: It's very much like that season but in the season.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: But in season the World Baseball Classic is not right well.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Right now, it's certain spring training. You're exactly right, you
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: really are, and it is you know, the World Baseball
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Classic is before. The Russian situation is just unfortunate because
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: The've always had a lot of bet players. But we
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: all know all the unrest going on out there, and
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get in any political jargon or
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: any of that stuff going on. It's really not necessary.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: But this as have World Baseball Classic written all over it,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: for sure. So one other topic I want to get
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: to tonight. We're doing really well tonight here as a
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: New York Islanders defenseman Mike Riley Mike Riley, excuse me,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: discovers completely unrelated heart condition that requires a procedure. He's
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: out indefinitely, just discovering that he had a pre existing
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: heart condition which he may have been bored with, that
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: requires a procedure and was discovered as part of his
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: post concussion testing. GM Lou Lamarillo calls it that is
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: probably a blessing in disguise. What are your thoughts about
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: this is an interesting story When I saw it, it
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: really was an interesting story that I don't think positive
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: has to come out of all.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: This in terms of that he went in for one
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: thing and was found out to be another.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I don't think there's any doubt about it.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: I don't obviously. I think we're long past getting past
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: any COVID discussions or how this is related to young people,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: and I will call him a young person as a
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: pro athlete dealing with hard issues.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: I guess it is good news. It saved a life.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I'm with Lou Lambillo on that. I want to By
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: the way, Scott, since I shared this show on Twitter,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: our viewership has skyrocketed, so it's a lot of my followers.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I want to introduce them to you. The wonderful Scott,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: the wonderful Scott Morgan Roth everybody, this is the MotorCity
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: mad muff. I'm calling him the American John Frenzy. Fil'll
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: mean a lot to a lot of our people and
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: nothing to a lot of them as well that don't
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: know who John Frenzy was. But Scott's been good enough,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: along with his wonderful wife Candy, to bring me aboard
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: the self Florida Tribune and we do these podcasts me
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: with them once a week, but you do several. Scott
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: give tribun himself a follow at Tribute South on Twitter
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: because you guys go live almost every night.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we try to go live Monday through Thursday every
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: now and then we'll do a situational show later on.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: And Ron, I've really enjoyed what we're doing together collectively
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: because of the fact that the Rod Peterson Shows a
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: darn good show, and I'm fielding a following up there
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: as well. And that book I have Lessons from the Microphone.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Hopefully people will get their hands on it. It's a
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: good Christmas gift, you know. You can get it on
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Amazon and Kendall and Barnes and Noble. And you know,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: why don't you give some of your thoughts of what
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you've been able to get out of that book before
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: we continue on the lou lambill, because well, let me
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: finish the lou Lambarill first.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: You finish it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's this. The fact of the matter is
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: if you have a post concussion testing situation and now
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's leading to a medical situation
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: with the heart, you can't write it any better than that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: You really cannot do it.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, very very likely saved a life. So you know
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: those are you did a great job. Those are the
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: five biggest stories I think of the week in the
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: National Hockey League other than again Wednesday, it'll be published
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: in the Self Flida Tribune. My NHL col Um Matthew
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Kuchuk was named the number one Star of the week
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: in the National Hockey League. He's just been on fire.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: They get a goal and four assists the other night
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: of seventy five win in Philadelphia. He had a couple
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: of points in the three to one win on Saturday
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: over San Jose. But anyways, for the new viewers here,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Scott Scott wrote a book Say It with Me Candy
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: called Lessons from the microphone and you you gifted that
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: to me sometime ago. Scott's there you go. He's originally
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: from Detroit. He's been in the business December twenty ninth,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Scott's birthday, while Mark is thirty fifth year in the business.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Did I say thirty fifth? I've only been in this
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: business thirty five years. Forty five years for Scott and
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: that book, to be honest, it's just a great sports book.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: And I grew up reading a lot of sports books. God,
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I'm like you. I could read everything I could get
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: my hands on. And whether I knew this stuff or not,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but what I pulled away from it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Scott's dad was a season ticket holder for the Detroit
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Red Wings and the nineteen sixties and the Olympia. Was
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: he in the seventies two?
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, yeah, my dad's always been a loyal season
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: ticket holder of the Red Wings. Yeah. I've actually seen
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: a game in Olympia Stadium. I'm glad you brought that up.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Joe Louis Arena and Little Caesar, So I've been able
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: to enjoy three different venues in rent for Detroit.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: So that's one and then the other is the Super
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Bowl thirty nine in Jacksonville, Scott went and covered it.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: I love this story, and now that you jogged my
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: memory today, I kind of remember that they didn't have
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: enough hotels in Jacksonville for all the media and all
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: the fans. So how many cruise ships did they dock?
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Not enough, at least one, at least one obviously, so
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: they a lot.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Of cruise ships. Have you ever been to Jacksonville before?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, that's if you've ever been to Jacksonville before.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: They should have had a whole lot more than they did.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: So I shouldn't say, but I will say, because she's
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: not watching nor on the show, my wife calls Jacksonville
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: a hole. I don't want to say it's Florida.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: But they didn't have enough hotels everybody, So listen up.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: This is in Scott's book, and I think I might
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: have remembered it at the time. It was twenty years ago.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: They've docked a bunch of cruise ships and said, everybody
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: book a room on the cruise ships.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: So they did.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: It must have been a disaster because, as you pointed out,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: they have not brought the Super Bowl back since Scott
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: went and slept in his car because you didn't want
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: to stay in the cruise ship.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I could get on when you talk about I ended
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: up staying in my jeep Cherokee Laredo out in the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: rest area and it was able to take showers in
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the wee hours of the morning. But the guy that
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: was want to start handling the rest area, I gave
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: him some memorabilia is what I ended up doing. It
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: worked out really well and made it work. It was
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: a fun super Bowl, it really really was. But let's
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: face reality. Jacksonville is a great place and I have
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: done a lot up there. It's just one of those
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: situations where you know, the NFL had an open mind
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: about this, okay, and was willing to try it, but
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: it didn't really quite work out. But I can I
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: give credit with the old college try so, you know.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: All right. So while we have a little time here, Rod, Okay,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: do you have any Florida Panthers updates that you feel
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: are worthwhile?
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Well, Number one, Joshua Door is watching and he has
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: pointed out that your hockey shows with the South Florida
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Tribune are the most watched.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: There.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: You go, That's all that I want to say. The
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: hockey show gets the most views. So there there's for
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: all of our Canadian people that have tuned in here
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: tonight online digitally, there's a lot of hockey fans in Florida.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: That's number one, number two. I was perusing the standings
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: earlier today. Why Scott, I don't know, but the Panthers
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: are back on top in the Atlantic Division. So if
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: you I don't know, I know you don't follow it
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: as much as I do or Joshua Door. But ten
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: days ago they were on a four game losing streak
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: and people were very upset and they were writing me saying,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: did we make a mistake by letting go Oliver echmclarsen
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: and letting go Brandon montor are allowing them to leave?
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: And I said, no, no, no, this is a great team.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: They'll be back. And there they are. They're on a
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: winning streak. But they've just left on a two week
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: road trip. It begins in Seattle tomorrow night. They'll go
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: through Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton. They're gonna play a lot of
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: really good teams. These are the Panthers. And I'm probably
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: gonna lead off my column this week of the South
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: Florida Tribune with the Tampa Bay Lightning news that they
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: announced their Hall of Fame induction last week and Saturday.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: What night was it? Oh?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Was the Sato's game Day Sat Jose game. Thursday night
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: when they bombed the Sharks eight to one. Was their
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame game that night. So that'll be our
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: leadof item in the column. It's a pretty big deal
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: in Tampa for the Lightning when they announced their Hall
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: of Fame class every year.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you something. Do you have Bill
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Zito calling his shots in the front offense? Okay, and
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: then you also have Paul Maurice, who now I believe
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: is the all time winning his panther coach if I
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: understand correctly, Yes.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Not a long le are a hard less let's be honest,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: but continue.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well no, I'm just I'm just making a very
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: journalistic observation. So you've got those two to begin with
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Bill Zetel. You're never gonna go wrong with this guy
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: in your front office. You know, if you want to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: use a Detroit reference, it's like Brad Holmes with the
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Detroit Lions. You know, you get the coach what he wants.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: That's your job. If you need something out of the
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: cover or you run out, go to the store, get it.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: And that's what Bill Zeno does, and so that Paul
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Maurice can take the groceries and do it. And that's
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: what you have with Dan Campbell and Pole Stay say,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: if you compare and contract both, that's exactly what you do.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Well alight, Well, here's the thing. The Panthers have a
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Stanley Cup on the mantle now. And to be honest
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: with you, this is the fourth season that I've been
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: here following the Panthers, and the culture remains intact. It
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: actually only gets better, i e. The extensions that they've signed,
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Paul Maurice being won, Panthers are going to be good
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: for a long time. And I look at these dysfunctionals
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: i e. The New York Rangers just falling apart, trading away,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: their captain, probably going to fire a coach before long,
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: and it's just it just makes you wonder why some
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: teams can figure it out and others cannot. But it's
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: not the Panthers' problem nor their fans problem. There's your
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: update on the Florida Panthers.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Well there you go, all right, you started covering the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Panthers at the right time. Rod Well, Hey, you know
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: what timing is everything? Really? Yeah?
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: You know how many people come up to me though
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: now they recognize me on the street and they're like,
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: you weren't hearing the bad times. I'm like, I can't
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: do anything about I'm sorry, what do you want me
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: to do? Okay, I've only been here for four years.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: I feel very grateful to be covering this team. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: understand they were some bad times, though, what's the.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Difference if you weren't here during the bad one? Your fault?
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Sometimes people ought to understanding our business Rode and our
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: business with journalism. Here's the thing you end up transferring.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: When you transfer, it's not a matter of well you
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: came late in the soul what who cares? I get
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: it all the time, five years, five years doesn't matter.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: I get all the time. I get it a lot too,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: because obviously, as you pointed out today in your studio,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I've moved around a bit myself between the out in Phoenix, Charlotte,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: North Carolina, Tampa, South Florida, and I'm missing of course.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Niti's right. I've been to four or five major metropolitan areas,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and my time doing this and I'll say it never
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: really gets old, for sure, But again, you know, you
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: came four years. It doesn't matter the fact that the matters.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: You go out there night and out. You try to
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: do the best you can to provide the most objective
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: coverage that you have to do, and be and be
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: very fair to your followers and your readers. That's all
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: you can really do.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: And I should point out the team's treat us so good,
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: so so so good. You know that I've said that
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: from day one, the Panthers and the Lightning. I want
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: to just stick to hockey. You allow me to do that.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: It's uh, we're just having so much fun from two
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: first class organizations.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I've had good dealings with the Tampa Bay Lightning and
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: I did work with the Panthers for a little period
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: of time. Obviously, the growth of the South Tribune has
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: not enabled me to get out to as many places
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: as I like to go, because when you're trying to
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: grow an operation from the ground up, you have to
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  Speaker 1: be in nine different places. I wish I had a
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  Speaker 1: staff big enough. You're a mousy guide, but in your situation,
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  Speaker 1: it works out so conveniently that you're able to go
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  Speaker 1: out there and be my eyes and ears out there.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a win win situation as it has been
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  Speaker 1: with you and I from the beginning. So it's unbelievable stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm really glad that you and I are able
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  Speaker 1: to continue to expand to cover it. And I have
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  Speaker 1: a lot more ambitious plans for what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four to make sure we get the important topics.
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  Speaker 1: And we're in the height of football season as we are.
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  Speaker 1: Great participation in the chat room too by everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: We really appreciate that, appreciate your audience on Twitter joining us,
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  Speaker 1: and I appreciate the fact that I had an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: If you like to listen to podcasts, you can listen
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  Speaker 3: nights we talk you never know what we're gonna talking about,
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  Speaker 3: all kinds of sports things. The same with Thursday nights,
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  Speaker 3: although this Thursday night we will be on hiatus.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to be on a show, or you
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  Speaker 1: All right, before we wrap it up, Rod, why don't
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  Speaker 1: you let everybody know how they get a hold of you.
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  Speaker 1: I'll want you to make sure you talk about every
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  Speaker 1: single show that you do and give Serena a shut out.
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  Speaker 1: You guys also spend some time in Nashville last week.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you go ahead and do that? And you've
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  Speaker 1: done the great cups, so go ahead, Rod.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be real quick. Hey, you see my name on
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  Speaker 2: the screen at Rod Peterson. Give me a follow there.
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  Speaker 2: In the bio, it talks about everything I do, the
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  Speaker 2: and our Cats and Bolts podcast, the award winning weekly
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  Speaker 2: podcast on my wife, Serena and I do talking with
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  Speaker 2: the Panthers and Lightning. That's all you need to know.
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  Speaker 2: She is a fitness and nutrition consultant and coach. We
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  Speaker 2: went up to Nashville last week for a retreat for
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  Speaker 1: Scott.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't that nice of her? I did the show live
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  Speaker 2: from there, just like I did your show live from
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  Speaker 2: Gray Cup and live from Nashville. And just you and
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  Speaker 2: Canbri are such great people. It's such a treat to
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  Speaker 2: be on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's very kindy around. All I'll say is, and
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  Speaker 1: I have zero promise saying that you're the best edition
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  Speaker 1: I am expecting and I repeat expecting big things under
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  Speaker 1: answ er bucks about it, then again we have a
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  Speaker 1: partner like you. The expecting is a no brainer. So
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  Speaker 1: if that said, we want to thank everybody once again
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  Speaker 1: for joining us on this edition of The Sports Exchange
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  Speaker 1: Hockey's Best Biggest Stories, just to give you an overview
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  Speaker 1: so you can go out there and check it out
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  Speaker 1: in the four nation tournament, and of course said inspiring
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  Speaker 1: story about Mike Riley in a heart condition that lou
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  Speaker 1: more upbeat as we approach the holidays. So we hope
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  Speaker 1: everybody had a good weekend and we look forward to
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  Speaker 1: seeing you next week with Rod Peterson and I saw
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of my partner Rod Peterson and all those
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  Speaker 1: folks in the chat room that we're kind of a contribute.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Scott Morgan Rot the Motor City Man.
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  Speaker 1: Weuth thanking you for joining us, and we will see
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  Speaker 1: you next week. It will either be Monday or Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure yet because everything gets a little dicey
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  Speaker 1: down during the holiday period with Christmas parties and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but either way, you're gonna see Rod and I one
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  Speaker 1: way or the other. So thank you very much Rod
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  Speaker 1: for being on. You are an absolute stud and we
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  Speaker 1: appreciate everything you do. But we have a lot more
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  Speaker 1: ahead of it with my friend. Goodnight, Ready Christmas, See
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  Speaker 1: you next week.