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The First Four · Predators Official Podcast

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Welcome to another edition of the Predators Official Podcast
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here on ESPN1O25, The Game and Preds YouTube.
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Excited to be back with you all for another episode.
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I'm Brooks Bratton of Nashville, predators.com, joined by my
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friends Kara Hammer of Preds TV and Max Hers from Predators
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Radio. Max and I are with the team in
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Montreal. Kara is elsewhere in North
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America, but we're all together here in spirit to talk to you
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about the Nashville Predators in Week 1 of the season is
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underway. We're four games in the Preds in
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the midst of an Eastern Canada road trip.
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UC Soros is playing out of his mind.
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We'll touch more on juice as we go along.
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The Preds are feeling connected as well as we hit the road for
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the first time. And we'll give you a little bit
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of insight into what it's like to be on the road with the
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Nashville Predators. Also, the biggie, Awesome person
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of the week and a couple of questions and tidbits to get to
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later on in the show, But Max and Cara, 21 and one are the
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Nashville Predators thus far. 5 hole points.
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It took them a lot longer last year to get to 5 points, so we
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are certainly thankful for that. And not too shabby of a start
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here overall, guys. Yeah, 21 and 1 is a whole lot
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better than O4 and O, which is what the Predators were through
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four games last season. Brooks and playing on Tuesday
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night, they actually had a chance to match the second best
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four-game start in franchise history if they had beaten the
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Maple Leafs. They didn't.
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First regulation loss of the season after two wins in an
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overtime loss to start the year. But you can tell with the team
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everything is in a better place this year.
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There are no expectations on them.
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That has allowed them to go out and just play better at the
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start of the year after everything that could go wrong
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at the start of last season did. I think a lot of things have
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gone right this year and they have not played perfect hockey
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by any means. I think you could actually make
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the case that the two losses may have been the games where the
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Preds played the best opening night might have something to
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say about that. But I think Saturday was
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definitely their best game. The overtime loss against the
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Mammoth Toronto, they played well enough to win in a lot of
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regards of that game and ended up giving up seven goals,
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including two empty netters to a good team.
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So that's how hockey goes, especially at the start of the
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season. But I I think the record is
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pretty fair in terms of judging the way the Preds have played so
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far. Kara.
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I would agree with that, Max. I think, you know, I know nobody
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wants to talk about last season. It's been evident.
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No talk about last season. But one thing that has stood out
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to start this season, going back to last season is used to see
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the Preds give up a goal and you kind of would see the entire
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bench deflate. It was almost like, OK, we've
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given up a goal. What happens now?
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It was it was just like what they've said that Groundhog Day,
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that expectation, that expectation that the same thing
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was going to happen over and over.
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But you look at how they've played to start this season,
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specifically last night in that Toronto game, they give up a few
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fluky goals. They find themselves, you know,
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falling behind. But then you see Michael
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McCarron still in front of the net, getting gritty, still
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trying to play it with only two minutes left in the game.
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They were still battling. And Brooks, I, I, I think you've
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seen it. It's almost like there's more of
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a will to win now. No, there is that.
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That's a good point. Kara and Andrew Burnett
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mentioned as much after the game on Tuesday night in Toronto that
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he was really proud that the Preds didn't give up.
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It was one of those games where, you know, they did tie the game
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in the second period, two goals in a span of 44 seconds.
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But Toronto was up five to two midway through the third period
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all of a sudden and the Preds could have said, all right,
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whatever, second-half of a back-to-back a good Toronto
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team, let's forget about it and move on to Montreal.
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They scored two more goals down the stretch.
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They didn't give up. And yeah, Toronto tacked on 2
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empty netters. And you know, you don't want to
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sit here and make excuses and look at it and say, oh, well,
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they really only scored five goals.
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But that's, that's kind of how you look at it in a way.
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Michael McCarron mentioned that we'll get to his audio in a
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moment, but saying yeah, the score was kind of wonky because
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of the empty netters, because of the way things played out.
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It was back and forth. Toronto's a really good team.
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We know that they're going to win a lot of games this year.
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And for the Predators that you mentioned at Max too, like I
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think maybe you could argue that their two best games of the
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season so far are the 2 losses. And, and that's just the funny
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way that hockey goes about it. But I think as we sit here and
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record this on Wednesday morning, October the 15th,
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there's a lot to like in Nashville's game.
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And it hasn't been perfect and it never is in the early going.
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You're never going to expect to be shelling out perfect efforts
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this early in the season. But yeah, compared to this time
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last year. And again, they're not talking
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about it, but we will just to the the dynamic shift that we've
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seen. I think early on, it was so huge
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to get that first win on opening night.
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What that just does for the psyche and the confidence in the
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room. And I liked one more thing that
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Andrew Burnett said yesterday morning is that when guys come
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back to the bench and they're feeling good about themselves
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and they're talking and there's communication and there's
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encouragement with one another, like that's contagious.
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And it we've talked about the Hall of Martial Soap, bunting
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line, the loud line, the guys that talk, no matter who's in
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front of them, they're going to say something.
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But when you have that element as well, I think too, as
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Brunette mentioned, it's contagious.
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And it's I think it's been really evident for the Predators
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already just threw four games. You know, a classic example the
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the times last year when things wouldn't go well and you said it
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care, they would deflate and have not seen that at all so far
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this season. And there's a lot to like, I
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think, in Nashville's game right now, and they're really going.
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Brooks That's one thing that Brady Martin talked about after
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his debut. He said what he learned on the
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bench was that when he's not playing, he's learning, Hey, I I
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still need to stick up for my teammates.
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I need to be cheering. I need to be talking.
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I am learning how to be a good teammate when I'm not in the
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game. And he said that's just learning
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how to also be a role player, and he's developing that from
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some of the veterans. Absolutely.
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And and that's just something that you know, as an 18 year
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old, you come in and you're going to learn and that's a
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really good lesson. And we'll talk more about Brady
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as as the show goes on. But just one of those things
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that again, it's it's just a different vibe, a different
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energy around the group right now.
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And, and it's really great to see.
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So again, as we record this Wednesday morning, coming off
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for the loss on Tuesday night in Toronto, the Predators, they
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played pretty well. And you know, again, the score I
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don't think is indicative of what we actually saw on the ice.
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Roman Yosi scored his first goal since January 21st after he
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returns from the Potts diagnosis and his back healthy this
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season. Nick Perbix his first two points
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as a member of the Preds including his first goal late in
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the game. He's been awesome by the way.
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Nick Perbix has alongside Brady Shea and Ozzy Weisblatt his
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first game of the season. Had a couple of assists and
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including a beautiful dish to Eric Holla for Nashville second
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goal. And here's what Michael McCarron
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had to say about a high scoring game that didn't go Nashville's
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way. But there was certainly still
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plenty to like and Nashville's effort probably gave up a little
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bit more than we wanted to. I think they had a couple of
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really good bounces like their first goal just to seeing IPOC
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another one great defensive play by Shazy and it bounces right
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back to their guy for an open net.
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Couple weird bounces for them, but in saying that, we maybe
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shot ourselves in the foot a little bit.
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We we gave up too many, too many chances against from the same
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time. We scored four goals.
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Could be Ki mean, Hey, you're going to you're going to run
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into some good teams here. And I thought we played well for
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the most part. We stuck to our game plan, but
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we played a solid, solid game there.
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Like I just said, there was a couple breakdowns that obviously
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you would want back, but still early in the year.
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We're learning and we can take a lot from this game positively
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early in the year, You know, Herbs was just saying it's
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making one of those where maybe, you know, maybe a couple empty
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netters, the score might look a little wonky.
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Well, yeah, of course the score looks wonky with two empty
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netters. I think we were very much so in
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that game, the whole game. It was a tough game.
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They played well, We played well.
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I thought, like I just said, we stuck to our game plan.
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We put pucks in, we had good four checks.
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We had a lot of really good Ozone time.
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I think we can find a way to get a little bit more inside.
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We had some inside goals tonight, but if we can find find
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a way to get a little bit more inside consistently and more
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shots at the net, maybe not looking for that perfect play.
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I think our game's in a really good spot.
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We just continue to to roll line after line.
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And yeah, it's just one of those games where you don't come up
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with the two points, but you can take a lot away from.
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The game that that was good. Yeah, I'm with Mccarran on this
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one. Brooks, they got this to a two
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goal deficit with four minutes to go on Yosi's goal.
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You get used to signing out of the game.
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You get the net empty, you have the puck on your caps and stick
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and he fumbles it. Easy empty netter from there.
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And look, if you get set up in the zone, you got 3 minutes to
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try and get one and try and get another.
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I think that game was within grasp.
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Let's talk about Ozzy Wiseblatt. In that Toronto game he came
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out, he was like a one man wrecking crew.
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I actually watched part of this game of listening to the Toronto
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broadcast and they kept talking about Wise Black questioning who
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is this young kid? What skill is he bringing?
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But it looked like he was bringing the skill of a player
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who was vying for a spot to get back in the lineup.
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This keeps happening every time Ozzy Wasblatt plays in the NHL.
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He's played six NHL games. Only two of them have been
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consecutive, which were his first two.
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Other than that, it's been all one off call UPS or in the
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lineup, including last night, and we'll see if that changes
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Thursday in Montreal if he plays again.
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But every time he comes in, he is trying to make the cut.
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He is flying around, he is launching himself into guys.
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He is making huge hits. He is flipping the game on his
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head. He's starting scrums before his
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shift even begins. Last night.
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He did all those things on Tuesday and he had two assists,
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including one which Brooks said was a really nice primary assist
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on a really nice goal. Yeah, there's a reason he made
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the team out of camp and again was a healthy scratch for the
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first few he gets in in Toronto. And I asked Andrew Brunette post
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came about him says maybe a little bit rusty at first, which
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is to be expected. He hasn't played a real game in
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a very long time. But once the second period going
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hard in on the forecheck, that beautiful dish to Eric Holla.
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And then he starts throwing his weight around and gets in the
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middle of things, bringing the energy that you want to see the
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reason he is in the lineup, what he does bring to this group.
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And you saw it first hand for Ozzie Weisblood to take a
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penalty as well. But that's, you know, that's a
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line you're going to walk for a player like that.
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Well, we we also Brooks talking on the radio during the game how
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Gill was pretty adamant that he did not think that was a
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penalty. There you go, the skills, He
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says it then. Look, I mean, Easton Cowan made
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himself white as a feather and went flying into the post and he
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did it. But I guess being off the puck,
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you can call that interference. But look, nothing's going to
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stop Ozzy. You know, he did that in the
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preseason game he played, too. He might take a penalty, but the
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things he does seem to cancel it out in the eyes of the coaching
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staff. Yeah.
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And, and for guys like that, you want to kill their penalties.
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If they're out there giving you energy and giving you boosts, I
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think those are instances where you're like, all right, we'll
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kill the penalty, we'll figure it out, and then we'll go from
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there. So really great to see Ozzy
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Wiseblatt back in there. Of course we talked to you after
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the victory on opening night, but A21 win against Columbus,
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A32 overtime loss to Utah on Saturday, but then starting the
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road trip in Ottawa Monday afternoon, a four one victory, a
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couple of goals from Jonathan Marshall.
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Ryan O'Reilly scored what proved to be the game winner on a pass
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he was not expecting to receive from Stephen Stamkos.
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I don't think anybody in the building was thinking that
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Stamkos was going to pass it back.
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Muse Cyrus makes 31 saves, but here's a clip from O'Reilly
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talking to Lindsay Rally in the post game about what he saw on
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Monday afternoon in Ottawa. Thanks.
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Willie Ryan got the goal off the pass from Stephen Stamkos.
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I think everyone in this building thought Stamkos was
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going to shoot. What did you see on that play?
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Yeah, I did too. You know, obviously Phil makes a
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really nice play. Obviously wins that battle at
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the at the red there slides over the stammer and I think I just
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got a following up hoping there, you know, there might be a
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rebound there. And luck for me just came to me
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just whacked and got lucky went in.
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But that was obviously a huge goal for us to kind of, you
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know, give us that conference going in the last little bit.
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But All in all, it's a great win.
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It's big two points for us coming out their their home
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opener. So it was a huge one for us.
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Jonathan Marshasow has two goals tonight.
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That line has had three goals in three games plus the empty net
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goal. What what have you thought
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watching them? Gosh, they've been awesome for
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us. You know, not just, you know,
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getting the big goals like that, but we're just they're hard,
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hard line to play against. You know, all the guys out there
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that way, how they work, they for check, they hound.
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It's just impressive. It's nice to see them get
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rewarded for it. But obviously very effective
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line. You knew this road trip was
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going to be a big challenge. How does this win to kick it off
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sort of impact the attitude moving forward?
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Yeah, it should should give us confidence.
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You know, I think, you know, we didn't give up a lot and when we
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did and there's little breakdowns, we kind of stuck
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with it. You know, everyone kept working,
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staying together. And it's a good lesson for us,
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you know, you know, we want to play a good tough Rd. game and
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be hard to play against. So we got to just keep building
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on this. We got a tough challenge
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tomorrow, but we're looking forward to it.
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Thanks, Ryan. Anytime.
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Thank you. So you hear from O'Reilly there
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again. We we've talked about a lot to
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like in Nashville's game and you saw elements of that on Monday
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afternoon as well. And great to see Jonathan
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Marshall still get a couple on the score sheet there.
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A pair of empty netters for the Predators.
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And what a start to the season as well for Ryan O'Reilly, who
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ends up getting that game-winning goal.
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And I, I, we were kind of laughing about it in the press
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box. Again, I don't think anybody
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expected that Steven Samco's pass, but he found Ryan O'Reilly
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and it worked out. Yeah, I think he fooled
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everybody in the entire building.
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But Brooks that game and that was an early start game.
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And, you know, one of our favorite lines, of course, going
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back to to Peter Lava, Peter Laviolette was wake up, eat your
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eggs and punch somebody. And I think Roman Yossi had that
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in the back of his mind because it's a it's I've seen it all
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over my social media was evident in the game.
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But it looked like Yossi and Brady could Chuck had a little
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bit of history going on. Any word of what the chirping
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was? I know there's a clip out of of
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of Brady chirpy McCarron back on the bench, but it seemed kind of
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feisty. It was, yeah, it was chippy from
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the start. I mean that that hit Roman was
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penalized for that hit on Brady Kachuk there.
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Kachuk, you know, as again as we record this at the timing on
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Wednesday, sounds like he's injured from that hit, which you
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never want to see that. But yeah, definitely it got
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things going early on in the game there.
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And there were there were some some scrums for sure and some
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back and forth. And I think especially in an
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early game like that, you know, that gets everybody involved
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when you're maybe you're not that you're not awake, but it's,
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it's early. You might be a little bit
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sluggish start of a road trip, but boy, that sure gets
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everybody going on the bench when, when the 2 captains are
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involved like that. And again, that's, that's not a
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bad thing. And, and it was a good effort in
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Ottawa, but again, highlighted by UC Soros making 31 saves.
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I loved Willy's call, especially on that save with about 5
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minutes left in regulation, Soros diving to his left, a
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beautiful glove save and you get the call from Willie the Golden
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Glove. I thought that was that was
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fantastic. But what a what an impressive
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performance from UC Soros as well there.
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I thought this was a a really gritty Rd. win for the Preds and
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from a neutral perspective this was not an entertaining game.
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This was a three hour long NHL game.
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Every face off took 10 friggin minutes to drop.
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Please drop the puck faster. Oh my God.
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We were at the point where Sen's fans were booing after a Preds
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player got kicked out of the face off.
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That's how bad it was. But the Preds found a way to win
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it. And if you're the road team in
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this game, you just ride that grind.
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And the Preds did what they had to.
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They led 1 nothing for long enough.
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They went down 1 nothing. They challenged it, They won the
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challenge, LED 1 nothing. Doubled it to two.
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Thought UC Soros was going to get that shut out.
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He ends up giving up a six on four goal.
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But two empty netters for the Preds.
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They survive it at the end. Two goals for Jonathan Marshall.
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So his third multi goal game as a Pred he led the way was one of
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his better games with the Preds and now a season and a week.
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You love when you can use the adjectives gritty and greasy on
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your first Rd. win of the season, and that's exactly what
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that was, gritty and greasy. You just grind it out and you
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find a way to get it done. Kara.
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Yeah, and going back to what Max says, a lot of things took a lot
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of time in that game, especially the sense had a a goal over
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called Ryan O'Reilly was questioned afterwards.
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Hey, did they take too long looking at that play?
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So I don't know, Brooks, we might see Max here at the NHL
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meetings next next year pitching a a pitch clock for a for a face
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off clock. How long does it take to drop
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the puck? Yeah, it was, it was tough.
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We were through 2 periods in two hours that I I don't really
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recall the last time a regular season game.
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We were moving along that slowly, but they got it done and
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Toronto was much quicker. That was that was an average
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amount of time despite, despite the fact that there were how
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many combined goals, 11, Yeah, like we had a lot going on in
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the Toronto game too and still got it done.
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So kudos to the referees and lines persons on Tuesday night
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in Toronto. You don't get kudos for being
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acceptable. Come on.
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Maybe a little Max has way. Thanksgiving hangover?
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We don't know. Yeah, Max has way less tolerance
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for the officials than I do, but that's OK.
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So guys, as we've mentioned, we're four games in the opening
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week of the season, as I suppose unofficially concluded.
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But what do you think about what we've seen?
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I mean, the the buzzword being connected has been used a lot by
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players, by coaches. The Preds feel like they're
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playing connected. They're on the same page,
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They're all paddled in the same way.
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But Max and Cara, what have stuck out to you guys over the
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last little bit here? What what's been impressive
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about Nashville's effort as they sit 21 and 1 here through four
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games? I'll start in for me, it just
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has to be UC Soros. I mean you, you look at how is a
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team going to win? How is a team going to win down
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the stretch? It starts with your net minder.
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And I think UC Soros has been playing lights out.
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I think the guys are playing better in front of him.
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I think he's kept them in in in games to this point.
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I think he's going to continue to do that.
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I think when the season started he looked like he came out in
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mid season form. So for me the highlight is is UC
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Sorrows Max. I think we're all in agreement
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that that he's had a stellar start, but what else stands out
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for you? I think just looking at the
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lineup, it's been the middle groups that have gotten it done
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for the Preds and I'm going to shout out to guys who are new to
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the Preds this season. 1 of them was here before.
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But he's back after a four year absence.
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I think Eric Holla and Nick Purbeck's have been massive
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under the radar Difference makers and reasons why the Preds
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have five points in their first three games.
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I think without those guys the Preds record is totally
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different. Holla has a point in all four
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games. He's done a massive job in all
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facets as the third line center in between Jonathan Marshall so
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and Michael Bunting and he's allowed those guys to play their
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best and that's been the Predators best line this season.
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They've played their role, they've scored goals, they've
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dictated possession time, they've played in the offensive
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zone, they've had D zone starts. They've done everything well and
20:49
I think Holla has been the key and the stabilizer with Bunting
20:53
getting his first real chance at establishing himself as a Pred
20:57
after a tough time to come into late last year.
21:00
Trade deadline edition onto a team that had nothing to play
21:02
for. And I think Bunting has shown
21:04
his worth already through the 1st week of this season.
21:07
And on the back end, I think Nick Perfect has been
21:09
exceptional and we've seen Brady Shay through the 1st week play
21:15
maybe four games that were the would have been his four best
21:17
games of last year. And that's to me because of a
21:20
stable partner who Brady Shea told us reminds him of Brett
21:24
Pesci, who was his partner for other Hurricanes for Four
21:27
Seasons when Shea was playing his best hockey, the hockey that
21:30
earned him the big contract with the Preds.
21:33
And I think Perfects has made it so easy for Shea to play his
21:36
best game, and it's resulted in Perbex play in some big minutes
21:40
as well. Those guys have closed out the
21:42
wins. They've killed a ton of
21:43
penalties. And Perbex feels like he's
21:46
played half the minutes of some of these games, almost Roman
21:49
Yossi level, and he's doing really well.
21:51
So I think the middle of this Preds group has been great.
21:55
I'd like to see a little bit more from the top end forwards
21:58
and maybe more than a little bit more.
22:00
But it's a tough situation too when you have rotating spots on
22:03
those lines. So that's something that needs
22:05
to get figured out. But they've won these tight, low
22:07
scores, scoring games with their reliable veteran players playing
22:11
their roles and UC Soros being great.
22:13
That's what stood out to me. Yeah, I could not agree more
22:16
with you guys and Max, especially on Nick Purvis.
22:18
I love a player like Nick Purvis because it's almost as if when
22:22
you don't notice him, that's a good thing.
22:25
That means he's doing his job and you're not going to notice
22:28
him every shift. If you go to a game and you
22:30
really watch him, you'll see those fine little nuances of why
22:34
he's able to be successful in his in his own end and allow a
22:38
guy like Brady Shea to maybe jump up in the rush a little bit
22:41
more, have a little bit more offensive freedom.
22:43
But yeah, I I love a player like Nick perfect because if he's
22:46
doing his job, you're probably not going to notice him.
22:49
And that's a good thing. And he's been excellent unless
22:51
he's putting the puck in the net like he did in Toronto, which
22:53
he's certainly capable of doing that as well.
22:56
I wanted to touch on, and you mentioned Max, the kind of the
22:59
back and forth between some of the forward lines.
23:01
We saw Ozzie, Wise, Black get in there for the first time.
23:04
We've seen Joachim Kimmel in a couple times.
23:06
Of course, Luke Evangelista is back in the lineup.
23:09
It was Tyson Jost on Tuesday that actually started on the
23:12
line with Philip Forsberg and Ryan O'Reilly and the second
23:16
straight scratch for Brady Martin, the rookie after getting
23:19
in to two games in Nashville. And both Andrew Brunette and
23:24
Barry Trotz over the past couple of days have been asked about
23:27
it. They've just simply said that
23:29
this is the plan for Martin. They do have a plan in place for
23:31
him him to help his development and in the best sort of way that
23:35
they feel is right for an 18 year old kid and Andrew Brunette
23:40
saying after Tuesday's game, they want to put him in
23:43
positions to feel comfortable to get better.
23:46
There's a continued opportunity to keep learning from veteran
23:49
guys and practice and you'll see where it goes.
23:52
They've been very complimentary of Martin, how he's handled
23:55
every step so far, and they just want to see him continue growing
23:58
as a player. So I know a lot of people
24:00
weren't thrilled with the fact that he wasn't in the lineup in
24:03
Toronto, sort of about as closest to his hometown you can
24:07
get can get had some family and friends in the lineup.
24:11
But you know, the Predators are trying to win hockey games or
24:13
they're putting the best in the line, but they feel gives them
24:16
the best chance to win. If that includes Brady Martin,
24:20
great. If it doesn't at this point in
24:21
time, again, they have a plan. They're not just throwing darts
24:25
at the board and trying to figure out, all right, who's
24:27
going in and who's going out. So four games in, Martin's
24:30
played two. We know that he can go up to
24:33
playing nine games. And we'll get to that question
24:35
later in the show. I don't want to hit too hard on
24:37
that right now. But yeah, for Brady Martin, it
24:40
is what it is. I I imagine they told him coming
24:42
in that, hey, you're probably not going to play every game
24:45
right away, that the Predators did the same thing with Sam
24:48
Gerard, the defenseman back in 2017.
24:51
They only, he only played five games with Nashville that season
24:56
to start before he was ultimately part of the trade
24:58
that brought Kyle tourists to Nashville.
25:01
But at that point in time, he was in the lineup a couple
25:04
times. He was out of the lineup for
25:05
multiple games. So that's a situation right now
25:08
with Brady Martin and we'll see how things move forward there as
25:12
we go along. So again, A2 one and one record
25:15
through four games for the Nashville Predators and not too
25:20
shabby at the start here guys. Again, I I think a lot to like
25:23
and Andy Brunette said it last night, there's a ladder and the
25:27
game, their game is just getting going.
25:29
We're only four games and there's 78 more to go, he said.
25:32
We can be better and we will be better.
25:35
Looking forward to seeing how that plays out over the next
25:37
little bit here. Yeah, the goal coming in, in my
25:41
head, this is now the team is talking, but it's a tough road
25:44
trip, four games in six days. Andrew Brunette was quick to
25:47
point out these are all playoff teams from last year and I think
25:52
the Canadians may be the best team of the four, which is the
25:55
next opponent on Thursday night. They could be electric this year
25:59
if you come out of this road trip with at least four out of a
26:02
possible eight points and either A2 and two record, or at this
26:06
point 11 and two with two overtime losses.
26:11
To me, splitting the road trip was the goal.
26:13
Then you get back home, you have three points banked in the home
26:17
stand to start the season, and from there you stay above water
26:21
and then some. And every point matters for
26:24
these preds. Every game is under a magnifying
26:26
glass and I think they've handled it well.
26:29
I really think they have. So props to the team for going
26:32
about this the right way. I think there are a lot of
26:34
scenarios where we're talking about not this good of a record
26:38
right now. So I think the team is
26:40
truthfully in a good place and I'm happy with the way they've
26:44
played so far and I see potential for better of course
26:46
as well. And we could definitely see
26:49
potential for better on the power play.
26:51
So we don't want to forget the elephant in the room.
26:54
But special teams definitely they've they've been excellent
26:58
on the penalty kill. We've we've seen that be great.
27:00
But I think we all know collectively the man advantage
27:04
could be better. Well the the PK has been amazing
27:09
right off the drop this year. Same as last season, which is
27:12
pretty incredible this year so far. 19 minutes and 2 seconds of
27:18
four on five time killed without allowing a goal.
27:21
The only power play goal against the Preds was with the sentence,
27:24
pulling their goalie in six on four.
27:27
Not too shabby. Yeah, Kerry, you mentioned that
27:29
the power play, they need to get it going and they know that
27:31
they'll continue to work on it. The penalty kills been excellent
27:34
so far, and so has the play of goaltender UC Soros.
27:38
And we will touch more on #74IN gold when we come back.
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You were listening to the Predators official podcast on
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ESPN1O25, The Game and YouTube. Welcome back to the Predators
27:49
Official Podcast on ESPN1O25, The game, Nashville Predators
27:53
YouTube, and your favorite podcast platform.
27:57
My name is Max Herz from Predators Radio, joined by Cara
28:00
Hammer from Predators TV and Brooks Bratton from
28:03
nashvillepredators.com. The Preds are in Montreal as we
28:07
record here on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025.
28:11
Halfway through four games in Canada in six days and four
28:15
games into the season with two wins, one regulation loss and
28:20
one overtime loss so far those first three games of the season.
28:24
The three-game point streak to start the year for the Preds,
28:27
all with the franchise and goal UC sorrows and boy has he been
28:31
exceptional. A201 record, a 164 goals against
28:35
average and just five goals against him with a 947 save
28:40
percentage to start the year. Last year, things snowballed
28:44
away from the Preds in every way.
28:46
Everybody was out of it by the end of the season and UC Soros
28:50
had poor play in front of him. He wasn't as engaged as he could
28:53
be at the end of the year as everybody on the team was, and
28:57
right from day one. This year, he snaps right back
29:00
into franchise goalie form and it's been so fun to watch.
29:05
It really has been, and you mentioned those numbers.
29:07
Max that 1.64 goals against average through his three games,
29:11
11th in the NHL overall. However, he's one of only two
29:16
goaltenders in that top 11 with a number that good who has
29:20
appeared in at least three games.
29:21
Igor Shasturkin is the other, and it's the same in the save
29:25
percentage category, 7th in the NHL, But again, one of just two
29:28
goal tenders in that top seven who has played at least three
29:32
games. When you get at this point in
29:34
the season, when you get a goalie who's played one game and
29:36
he had a good game and he's got a 970 save percentage, you might
29:39
think, wow, look at him, he's doing great.
29:41
But once you start getting into some more action, things tend to
29:45
level out. So in the early going, I think
29:47
you could make the argument that UC Soros has been more important
29:52
to the Predators than maybe any other goaltender on their
29:55
respective teams. And again, Igor Shasturkins, the
29:58
guy for the Rangers who has those great numbers, but the
30:00
Rangers have been shut out three times at home.
30:02
So he's plan to play lights out to even give them a chance in
30:05
those games. So yeah, UC Soros has been
30:08
excellent. And I was talking to Chase
30:11
McCabe on one O 25, the pregame show before the game in Toronto.
30:15
And just the way I mean that, yeah, Max loves that.
30:17
And just the way that Soros has played.
30:21
And I I said the chase, you know, it's great to see.
30:23
But maybe we shouldn't be surprised necessarily because we
30:27
know that he's capable of that, right?
30:28
It's not like we've never seen UC Soros play at a Vesna caliber
30:33
level before. But it's obviously great to see.
30:36
We know that he just started his new contract this season.
30:40
There are maybe some questions. Can he regain that form?
30:43
And of course, again, it is early, but the fact that he has
30:46
come out to start the season like this and he's kind of been
30:49
a notoriously slow starter in the past as well.
30:52
So the fact that he has started the season like this, really
30:55
great to see. Let you guys know something that
30:59
that Mike Kelly told us. Obviously he's with sport logic.
31:02
We've had him on the broadcast. So I was pulling up this this
31:04
text that he sent our group chat about the first game and he said
31:08
he wanted to highlight UC Soros. He said one thing that makes him
31:11
so great as a smaller goalie is how good his feet are.
31:15
He's getting square to the shots.
31:17
He said if he wasn't, he'd be in trouble.
31:19
But one thing he was noticing was how many shots Soros was
31:21
taking, you know, in front, getting square to them, being
31:24
able to stop them. And I think that's credited to
31:27
just how good he's been at saving the puck so far.
31:33
Well, and we know that he is incredibly athletic, right?
31:37
I think every basically every goaltender in the NHL today is
31:40
at least 6-2 or six 3. Some of them there was a
31:43
gentleman. I'm I'm blanking on his name
31:45
right now, but for the Florida Panthers in the pre season it
31:47
was 6869 I think in that. Yes, he's growing every day.
31:53
He he was 610, the first time he ever faced us.
31:57
Yeah, it's it's insane how large some of these goal tenders are
32:00
in sizes and everything. But it is rare that there's a
32:04
goaltender of Soros's height, which is 511, who is not only
32:08
playing in the NHL, but starting and starring in the NHL.
32:12
And that has always been something that he would have had
32:16
to overcome regardless. And it's been something that
32:18
people always mentioned from time to time, but because of his
32:22
athleticism and his quickness and just his technical skills in
32:26
the goal crease, I'm not a goaltender.
32:27
One of our goaltending coaches could explain this much better.
32:30
But just the way that he's able. You mentioned it, Kara, square
32:33
to the puck in front of the pocket.
32:35
He's a guy that and all NHL goals are like this.
32:38
If they see the puck, they're going to stop it.
32:40
But not only do you need your goaltender to make the routine
32:43
saves, but you need him to steal a few every once in a while.
32:47
And Soros has definitely stolen a few.
32:51
And looking down the road at the Pred schedule after Eustace on
32:55
and then had a shaky performance in his season debut, there are
32:59
10 games until the Predators next back-to-back.
33:02
I think there's a chance. You see, Soros could start all
33:04
of those the way that he's played.
33:07
Yeah, the hot hand right now. I think maybe, you know, that's
33:10
a good point, Max. Like, we'll see how that shakes
33:12
out. They usually have a plan ahead
33:15
of time as to who's going to play win, but if you're riding
33:17
the hot hand, why not stick with Soros at least for the next
33:20
little bit? So we'll see how this plays out,
33:23
but certainly a lot to like in the goaltending department for
33:27
the Predators in the form of UC Soros and the guys left playing
33:30
in front of him. I, I loved asking Brady Martin
33:32
after opening night. Have you ever, I've played in
33:35
front of a goalie like UC Soros and he said not even close, not
33:38
in my life have I ever played in front of a goaltender like that.
33:41
And when you know you have a goaltender behind you who has
33:45
the capability to capability to bail you out, that just spreads
33:49
more confidence through the rest of the team.
33:51
When you know you've got a backbone who is capable of doing
33:54
what Soros is doing makes everybody else on the ice
33:57
better, too. UC Soros and his sled dogs
34:00
leading the Preds on the road through Canada.
34:02
This week. We'll take a break, come back,
34:05
talk about this fun road trip to start the year earlier than
34:08
usual for visits to Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal and then
34:12
always friendly Winnipeg. Coming up later this week, this
34:15
is the Predators official podcast.
34:17
I'm Max Herz with Cara Hammer and Brooks Bratton back after
34:20
this on Predators YouTube, your favorite podcast platform and
34:23
One O 25 the game. Welcome back to the Predators
34:27
Official Podcast. I'm Cara Hammer along with
34:30
Brooks Bratton and Max Hers. And if you've been a listener of
34:34
the Fred's Official podcast, you know that Brooks Bratton is a
34:38
fan of Thanksgiving, American Thanksgiving, Canadian
34:42
Thanksgiving. Brooks, you, you mentioned it in
34:46
our very first episode. You would already put this day
34:49
down. You were going to be in Canada
34:51
for their Thanksgiving. How did the day go for you?
34:56
Yeah. Never have I ever been in Canada
34:57
for Thanksgiving before, which obviously much earlier than the
35:01
American Thanksgiving that we are used to.
35:04
So we were very excited on Monday of it's kind of like a
35:08
Thanksgiving weekend, I've been told in Canada.
35:11
And so of course the Preds play in Ottawa Monday afternoon.
35:14
So then we immediately fly from Ottawa to Toronto that night,
35:19
and we had a reservation at a lovely Canadian establishment
35:24
that was offering a Canadian Thanksgiving dinner with which
35:28
is not all that dissimilar to what we experienced.
35:31
There's Turkey, there's mashed potatoes, there's stuffing, all
35:33
the fixings and whatnot. But we go to this restaurant and
35:37
we got in a little bit late. As we mentioned, the game took
35:39
12 hours in in Ottawa. So we eventually get to Toronto
35:43
or late for our reservation. No worries.
35:45
We get there and unfortunately we find out that the restaurant
35:49
has run out of their Canadian Thanksgiving dinner.
35:52
So, so kind of a bummer there. But however, they did still have
35:58
the cheesecake with a special pumpkin drizzle we immediately
36:02
put before we even got our food. We said, put aside 5 slices of
36:06
that for all of us. We'll take it when the time
36:08
comes. But then I must say too, that
36:11
once the waitress found out that we were American, she didn't
36:14
feel that bad for us because she's like, well, you still have
36:16
your Thanksgiving coming. Like, I know, we know, we know
36:19
it'll be fine. But yeah, I, I, I guess the
36:22
moral of the story, if you're trying to make it for Canadian
36:25
Thanksgiving, don't work a hockey game that takes 3 hours
36:28
ahead of time and maybe things would have gone differently, but
36:32
it's OK, it worked out. We got pumpkin cheesecake.
36:35
It's all good. Well, one thing we have gotten a
36:36
kick out of was learning about some of these rookies, the
36:41
things they're experiencing on their first Rd. trips.
36:44
Brady Martin, we know that in Toronto he got to go to a place
36:47
called Sodo Sodo, which we're learning is a very nice Italian
36:51
restaurant. On the Toronto broadcast, they
36:53
were talking about their rookie Easton Cowan, about having tuna
36:56
tartar for the first time. So I, I think let's put it into
37:00
perspective. You're 18 years old guy like
37:03
Brady Martin. You grow up on a farm.
37:05
You know, we talked about how hard his family works on that
37:08
farm, and now you're kind of living the high life because we
37:10
know the team travels well. Yeah, we've been rolling this
37:16
week too. What a road trip to start on.
37:18
Also, we got to stay in downtown Ottawa, which is not always the
37:22
case. Their arena is, as I would
37:24
describe it to Preds fans in the Murfreesboro of Ottawa.
37:27
And we know we have amazing fans in Murfreesboro, but that's not
37:32
where Bridgestone Arena is. And the senators are hoping to
37:35
eventually move into downtown, which is beautiful, the Canadian
37:38
capital, all the parliamentary buildings, the water, the Canal,
37:41
Quebec, right across the river. It's a really cool spot.
37:44
So that's where we got to spend the first night on the road this
37:47
season. Chris Mason got to see all the
37:49
Canadian statues of his great Canadian heroes by the
37:53
parliamentary buildings and we had a good time out there.
37:56
Then we play the Monday afternoon game in Ottawa and
38:00
Monday night we get to the hotel in Toronto right as the Blue
38:03
Jays are getting killed in game two of the ALCS and all the fans
38:08
are just walking out. Really sad.
38:10
Our hotel was close to the Skydome, close to the CN Tower,
38:13
and Brooks's dinner experience was probably the same as mine
38:17
where the restaurant was just filled with sad jazz fans just
38:22
trying to sort things. Outgoing down O2 in the series.
38:26
And here we are in Montreal. How GAIL has already been
38:28
recognized, and Chris Mason was also recognized in tandem with
38:33
how we had a Habs fan actually give a pretty impressive guess.
38:38
He was like, you play in the NHL too, right?
38:40
And Mace goes, yeah, I did. And the guy thought about it
38:44
like really hard for probably 30 seconds.
38:47
And he goes Mason, Steve Mason, so close.
38:55
The beauty Of Montreal. And this is my first time here,
38:58
not on a back-to-back. So cool to see the city.
39:01
I personally have a lot of family history in Montreal.
39:04
That's really personal and meaningful for me.
39:06
So yeah, excited to see more of it coming in the next day and a
39:10
half and see the Preds at the Bell Center on Thursday night
39:13
against the Canadians team that as I said in the last segment, I
39:17
think that team is really good. I think they have a really high
39:19
ceiling. Really good team there.
39:22
And I've got to mention too, and I try to say this to people, but
39:25
if you ever get the chance to come to Montreal to see the
39:30
Canadiens play at the Bell Center, hopefully against the
39:32
Preds, But at any point in time, you've just got to do it.
39:37
If if you're a hockey fan and you love the game, to experience
39:41
a game at the Bell Center in Montreal, it's just different.
39:44
The crowd is electric. The hot dogs are fantastic.
39:48
I can't wait to have at least a couple on Thursday night at the
39:51
Bell Center. There's something about that
39:53
aura, right? Like just having a hot dog at
39:55
the Bell Center, watching a hockey game.
39:57
If you're a hockey person, there's just you've got to
40:00
experience it sometime if you can.
40:02
So always a pleasure to be in Montreal.
40:04
The culture is amazing, the food's fantastic and and the fan
40:08
base here is just. If you can't even describe to
40:11
you the passion, we know what it's like in Smashville, but
40:15
it's it's something here in Montreal and and it's something
40:18
that I think every hockey fan should be able to experience at
40:21
some point. Yeah, pretty cool, pretty cool
40:24
to be here. Honored to be part of it and
40:26
hope you guys are watching and listening to Preds radio and
40:29
Preds TV Thursday night at six against the Canadians.
40:32
If you are listening to this in time, there is also a watch
40:35
party, the first official Michelob Ultra watch party
40:38
hosted by the Preds this season for the game on Thursday night,
40:41
the 16th against the Canadians at Odie's in Midtown,
40:45
Nashville's new hotspot and a proud partner of the Preds, host
40:49
of the Catfish Kissing booth last month and now the host of
40:52
the Watch Party Party. 5:00 is when the party starts with Wayne
40:56
D and DJ Battle and the game starts at six.
41:00
Go on down to Odie's. Every time I've ever been there,
41:03
it's been packed to the gills, catfish, pun intended.
41:06
So yeah, get on down and get there early Thursday night at
41:09
Odie's for Preds and Halves. There you go.
41:14
That's all you need to know. We'll bring it to you here from
41:17
Montreal, and we'll come back in just a moment to wrap things up
41:19
on the Preds official podcast on the radio, the YouTube and your
41:24
favorite podcast platform. Brooks, Max and Cara back in a
41:26
moment. Welcome back to the Preds
41:29
official podcast, and as always, our favorite segment of the
41:33
week. Our Big E Awesome Person award
41:37
is going to go this week to our very own UC Sorrows.
41:41
Lindsay Riley had a great story on good guy UC Sorrows and why
41:45
he's so awesome. In fact, the Predators and the
41:50
Senators are scoreless in the first period.
41:52
I'm Lindsay rally down rinkside. Well, recently John Thompson,
41:56
who was a member of the ownership group for the
41:59
Nashville Predators, got a call but his dogs had gotten out.
42:04
Now the man on the other end of the line said he found the dogs
42:07
and was going to return them home to him.
42:09
John gave him the address, and shortly after, John and his wife
42:13
arrived home to see an individual who had kindly waited
42:16
on their front doorstep for them to return.
42:18
As they approached the front door, they saw a familiar face.
42:21
That face was using Sorrows. So if you're already a Sorrows
42:25
fan, that's a little bit of insight to the man behind the
42:27
mask. Great goaltender, better person.
42:29
All right, guys. So that's a pretty cool story.
42:31
I mean, we got to give a shout out to Hal Gill, who came across
42:35
this information. John Thompson, one of the owners
42:39
of the Nashville Predators. I mean, could you imagine your
42:42
dogs get out? You probably are a little bit
42:44
frantic and then you show up and it's UC Soros.
42:47
And as we know, Soros is like a dog person.
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This is what he does for the Foundation.
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What can't he save? That's a great one.
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The hero this city and their dogs need.
43:06
UC Soros. Truly the most perfect, coolest
43:08
person ever. So great job, Lindsay.
43:11
Great job, Hal. UC Soros, rock on with your bad
43:15
self. Why are you so awesome?
43:17
The Big E Award winner of the week in honor of Arundonic.
43:20
Great job, Juice. So Max, we had a couple of
43:25
guesses on your trivia question, your great trivia question about
43:28
which two members of the Predators have previously played
43:32
in the Olympics. Everybody got Roman Yossi, but
43:35
nobody got the second person, which after the love that we've
43:39
given him in this podcast, perhaps it's evident as to why
43:43
this second member of the Predators has been an Olympic
43:47
participant. But why don't you go ahead and
43:49
reveal the gentleman who has represented his country at the
43:53
Olympic Games before? Well, I told everybody last week
43:56
when we asked the question, it's not an obvious one.
43:59
It's not Steven Stamkos, it's not Ryan O'Reilly, it's not
44:02
Philip Forsberg, It's not UC Soros.
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The second Preds Olympian is new Nashville defenseman Nick
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Purvix, who played in the 2022 Olympics in Beijing when he was
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a senior at Saint Cloud State when NHL players were not there.
44:18
He said it was an amazing experience.
44:20
Sadly, the US did not meddle that year.
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We think they will probably have a good chance to meddle this
44:26
year when the NHL players go back in Milan this coming
44:29
February. But it was a pretty cool team
44:33
with some rising stars. Matthew Nyes who just scored
44:35
against the Burr, had assists against the Preds yesterday was
44:38
one of the best players on that team.
44:40
Brock Faber was on that team. A lot of guys who have
44:42
matriculated into the NHL like Purbeck's over the last 3-4
44:46
years since then and then a couple of veterans leading the
44:49
way like Justin Abdulkader was their biggest name.
44:52
That so a cool squad in Beijing. There were some COVID
44:56
limitations on what they could do early in 2022 and also
45:01
Perfect said he could not go to as many of the other sports as
45:04
he would like as a spectator because apparently they were
45:07
very spread out, especially the skiing and the downhill type
45:11
mountainy events were apparently 4 hours away from where the
45:15
hockey was in the actual city of Beijing.
45:18
But pretty cool. Nick Perfects, proud American
45:21
from Elk River, MN, USA, one of your two Preds Olympians and
45:26
more will be added this year. I love it.
45:30
Great question. Thanks for the the guesses from
45:32
our loyal listeners. And we did get one question as
45:36
well. Again, you can use #preds
45:37
podcast on X. You can comment on the YouTube
45:40
link below if you've got questions or things you'd like
45:43
us to address on the show. We got a question from a
45:46
gentleman who I think we all know, WK Scholl, the Twitter
45:49
name, one of our fellow Preds employees.
45:52
But asking if Brady Martin is scratched, does that count
45:55
against his nine games in the NHL before being sent back to
45:59
juniors? I think you had mentioned this
46:01
before, but it does not count. It's, it's, it's games played
46:05
in, it's not team games, right? So the fact that Brady Martin
46:09
has been up here for four games but only played in two, he's
46:12
only got 2 games counting against his nine game total
46:16
before he can either be sent back to juniors or the first
46:20
year of his entry level contract kicks in.
46:22
So just wanted to mention that, clear that up again, we touched
46:25
on it earlier in the show. The Preds have a plan for him
46:28
and we'll see how that continue, continues to plays out in the
46:31
days and weeks to come. But yeah, nine games played in
46:35
for Brady Martin until the Predators officially must make a
46:39
decision in that regard when it comes to the first year of his
46:43
ELC. And to play off of that, Brooks,
46:45
the reason they don't send him down to Milwaukee is because you
46:48
have to be 20 years old to play in the AHL.
46:51
And as we know, Brady Martin is only 18.
46:53
Therefore this is kind of a a tricky situation to be such a
46:57
young guy and you have the nine games already, send them all the
46:59
way back down to to juniors. Yeah, that's another good point.
47:03
Yeah, I've seen some people mention, well, when are they
47:05
going to send send him to Milwaukee?
47:07
Well, they can't. It's either, it's either NHL or
47:10
Ontario Hockey League. The American Hockey League will
47:13
have to wait, but they've got other good players in Milwaukee,
47:15
so I think they'll be OK. Yeah, and Matt Wood made his AHL
47:19
debut over the weekend. So great to see Wood healthy and
47:23
I think we will be seeing him in Nashville hopefully for a long
47:26
time this season with the way he proved himself in preseason
47:29
before he got hurt. So happy for Matt Wood to be
47:31
back going. 100% and guys, I think we're going to wrap it up
47:38
here, Max and I in Montreal. It's been a pleasure to bring
47:42
another episode of the Pres Official Podcast to you.
47:45
I'm Brooks Bratton. You can find me at Brooks
47:48
Bratton on X and Brooks Bites on Instagram, Max's favorite
47:51
Instagram account. If you're looking for Canadian
47:54
Thanksgiving food on Brooks bites, you're not going to find
47:56
it, which is another indictment on the dumbest account out
48:00
there. Do not follow.
48:02
You don't have to. I would encourage you to block
48:05
it, actually, which I attempted to do, but apparently that would
48:08
also block Brooks's real account, and despite the fact
48:10
that I think the food account is dumb, I'm not that mean to block
48:14
his real. Account though.
48:16
Thank you, Max. Yeah, don't follow me anywhere.
48:20
You know what? Go ahead, Kara.
48:23
I'm blocked. I'm blocked.
48:24
I've blocked both of you in this process.
48:26
Mentally, the mental block, I'm out of here.
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Have a great one. Thanks for following us today on
48:32
the Preds Official Podcast. You can find us wherever you
48:35
listen to your streaming episodes.
48:38
All right, we'll let we'll cut these two guys loose in Montreal
48:41
and we'll follow up after this Canadian road trip.
48:46
Bonjour bon voyage.