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No More Pretenders as We're Down to Four - The OHL in 60 Podcast · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to the Armchair GM Sports Network.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome into another edition of the Ohl and sixty podcast
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  Speaker 2: with Colin Ward.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Reice Domani.
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  Speaker 2: We've got BC behind the clouds running the show technically,
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  Speaker 2: and it's an underwhelming Round Number two is in the books.
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  Speaker 2: It was not what I expected, and not what Colin expected,
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  Speaker 2: and not what BC expected, and not what a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people expected.
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  Speaker 3: That was the least.
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  Speaker 2: Competitive second round I have, at least I can remember.
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  Speaker 2: And that's not a knock at anyone like That's not
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  Speaker 2: to say they weren't close games, but five games is
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  Speaker 2: the longest series in Round two. Yeah, that that kind
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  Speaker 2: of came out of left field. That was, okay, did
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  Speaker 2: not expect that when wardy.
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  Speaker 4: No, No, that was that was something that I mean,
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  Speaker 4: especially with FLYNT going I AM against No. One sound
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  Speaker 4: and round one and then laying a goose egg against
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  Speaker 4: windsor getting sweat four straight. I mean, I didn't expect that,
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  Speaker 4: to be honest, when they were down three to zero
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  Speaker 4: and I watched that game four great having John Paul
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  Speaker 4: Morosi on the call by that was pretty cool in Flint. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's doing great work with the US Hockey there and
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  Speaker 4: whatever he does in the state of Michigan. He's done
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  Speaker 4: a great job in hockey with the USA program and
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  Speaker 4: now with the Ohl two in the States. But I
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  Speaker 4: thought that we were gonna have like the reverse sweep
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  Speaker 4: situations when it was three to zero, because how good
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  Speaker 4: Flint kind of looked at times in that first period
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  Speaker 4: in the elimination game against Windsor. I thought they looked
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  Speaker 4: really good and then obviously not enough. But I thought, well,
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  Speaker 4: we might get some reverse sweeps here. Obviously not Sue
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  Speaker 4: over Kitchener. Kitchener's gonna out coach to Saint Marie any
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  Speaker 4: day of the week. Any day it ends with why
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  Speaker 4: Kitchener's gonna out coach Sue. I don't know why I
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  Speaker 4: picked picked Sue, so Josh Brown our town. I apologize.
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  Speaker 4: I know, Bannon, I've been hearing it from Josh Brown
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  Speaker 4: about my pick class round, but I apologize. But uh,
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  Speaker 4: I was dumb on me. But you know the coaching
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  Speaker 4: thing was gonna happen Sue.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I've got a few thoughts on Sue and
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  Speaker 2: why they lost the way they did that was not
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  Speaker 2: good whatsoever?
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  Speaker 4: Then, I mean Ottawa like they got out classed, like
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  Speaker 4: to be fair, to be fair.
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  Speaker 2: First period of game three, we texted back and forth
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  Speaker 2: to each other like, wow, this one might be quick.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't expand then they came back and won that game.
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  Speaker 2: But the way game three started, we're like, okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: Parry's going up three nothing.
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  Speaker 4: And then game four, how close were they to overtime?
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  Speaker 4: I literally fu away an empty net. Spencer bows on
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  Speaker 4: the back door. I don't know that Nathan McKinnon did.
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  Speaker 4: And that might have been worse than Nathan McKinnon because
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  Speaker 4: he literally shout it out the far side. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 4: thinking man herrabics so far out of position to where
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  Speaker 4: if that even hits him, he has no chance. On
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  Speaker 4: top of the park, the angle's going right in the net.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how he missed the net on that.
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  Speaker 4: And obviously it's easy for me to say I probably
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  Speaker 4: would have whiffed on the shot at tenth and fell
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  Speaker 4: right on my face and all six thousand fans there
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  Speaker 4: would have laughed at me. But I just think that
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  Speaker 4: it's it was very I you're very close, Like if
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  Speaker 4: you're a Ottawa you're thinking, well, the way end that game,
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  Speaker 4: Barry takes a couple of penalties late we're talking about
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  Speaker 4: a game six back in Ottawa easily if a couple,
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  Speaker 4: if it's a game of inches, So maybe Ottawa was
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  Speaker 4: a little closer North Bay. North Bay never really got
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  Speaker 4: a jump. I don't know if it's the Bulldogs playing
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  Speaker 4: good or if it's And the Bulldogs did look better
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  Speaker 4: in that round than they did in round one, which
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  Speaker 4: is a good thing for Branford, but I think the
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  Speaker 4: North Bay I thought with them, I didn't I didn't
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  Speaker 4: see the adjustments. Game one, they got locked and then
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  Speaker 4: each game got a little better. We talked about it
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  Speaker 4: after Game Tweries said they had to make the change
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  Speaker 4: to MacIver. Mackiver was great, not that Listen wasn't, but
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  Speaker 4: mckiv was great in the series. And to be honest,
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  Speaker 4: North Bay, you look at their playoff run. You have
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  Speaker 4: to have a lot of luck to be good. But
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  Speaker 4: I just think that when you look at the when
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  Speaker 4: you look at the luck they got, right, macaivre takes
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  Speaker 4: a dumb penalty in overtime against Peterborough. You could kind
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  Speaker 4: of see that coming in a way what they got
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  Speaker 4: in the second round. But crazy, crazy second round. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know, like like you say, I don't remember a
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  Speaker 4: time where it was like that, Like, like I said,
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  Speaker 4: I was getting ready for the twenty nineteen Reverse Weeks
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  Speaker 4: or twenty eighteen No nineteen Reverse sweeteen. Yep, I was
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  Speaker 4: waiting for the reverse suites. Yeah, in the series, I
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  Speaker 4: was just waiting for something to happen. I was still
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  Speaker 4: excited about it. And yeah, just a dud.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well we'll get to everything a little bit
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit more detail as the as the
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  Speaker 2: show rolls on in segment number two. But we've got
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  Speaker 2: we've got some headlines to get to from this, from
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  Speaker 2: this last round, and that's outside of the postseason for
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  Speaker 2: the most part, or for all part, I should say, so,
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  Speaker 2: of course we're gonna run through those headlines. It includes
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  Speaker 2: the goaltender of the Year was crowned, the coach of
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  Speaker 2: the Year was crowned, Rookie of the Year was crowned.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're gonna get into the players selected for
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  Speaker 2: the U eight teams. Ausha has got a new assistant coach.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to that NHL Central Scouting release the final
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  Speaker 2: rankings and uh and we'll touch on that as well
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  Speaker 2: before we do get to round number two, and and
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  Speaker 2: the teams that were eliminated and off to ken kon
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  Speaker 2: to uh to join the round one.
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  Speaker 3: Losers.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds really bad losers, but I mean they lost,
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  Speaker 2: so there's no better way to put it. Colin Ward's
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  Speaker 2: already got the bucket hat on, he's got the mug going.
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  Speaker 2: I love it, love it. And then of course we
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  Speaker 2: look ahead to the conference finals, which the press conferences
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  Speaker 2: were held for the Branford Bulldogs and Barry Colts on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: so Colin word will sort of recap everything and by
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  Speaker 2: the time you are listening to this, you can watch
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  Speaker 2: those press conferences on the arm Chair GM Sports Networks
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  Speaker 2: YouTube page, which which if you're watching us on that.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you and I'm sorry for looking really bad.
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  Speaker 4: My playoff beard's getting along getting long.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I had to shave. I couldn't keep going so long. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like I could not survive as a player. Like my beard,
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  Speaker 2: the way it grows, like some dudes said I looked
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  Speaker 2: amish when I was in school because it keeps growing down.
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  Speaker 3: I hope I don't get suspended.
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  Speaker 2: It like grows down my neck and it just it
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  Speaker 2: looks bad and it's itchy and like, yeah, the hockey
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  Speaker 2: helmet strap rubs on it.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's not good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I was telling Liza, I want to get the
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  Speaker 4: gesture men and touch it up because the patches on
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  Speaker 4: this you got coming through. No, No, I want to
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  Speaker 4: get like the like. I want to accelerate it, so
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  Speaker 4: yours a little stronger. Oh, I got you beard beard oil.
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  Speaker 4: I guess like beard accelerator. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my luck is.
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  Speaker 4: My luck is I'll go on Amazon and buy one
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  Speaker 4: and it'll turn it like pink and purple or something crazy,
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  Speaker 4: look like a peacock. But uh, that's my lock. That'd
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  Speaker 4: be unbelievable. Shot up to the arena and I got like.
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  Speaker 2: By like Captain Terry's beard grower or something, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: something like that. Shout out to two and a half men.
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  Speaker 2: Starting with the headlines, this isn't new. The n are
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  Speaker 2: Ice Dogs and general manager Frank Evla have mutually agreed
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  Speaker 2: to part ways, effective immediately, so the searches on for
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  Speaker 2: a new UH general manager in Saint Catharine's. The news
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  Speaker 2: comes following Evela's desire to pursue other professional opportunities. Both
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  Speaker 2: both parties agreed that stepping away was the best course
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  Speaker 2: of action. Again, if you're watching this on YouTube, you
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  Speaker 2: can you can see the full statement. If you want
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  Speaker 2: to read the very brief article on the Ice Dog's website,
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  Speaker 2: you can go and do that as well. Transition has
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  Speaker 2: been made with the full awareness of the Ontario Hockey League,
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  Speaker 2: which I'm not surprised with that kind of the way
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  Speaker 2: things were handled last off season. So the search is
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  Speaker 2: on for a new general manager. Excuse me, yeah, Colin,
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  Speaker 2: we're down the same road as we were a year ago.
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  Speaker 3: I ready, yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little speechless because I'm out of things to
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  Speaker 2: say about this whole kerfuffle and bleep show that's at
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  Speaker 2: the Meridian Center, So go ahead, calling.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Ice Dogs fans, you ready, it's us Teres
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  Speaker 4: myself BC in the clouds. We're with you right now.
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  Speaker 4: It's that time of the year again. It's that time
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  Speaker 4: of the year again. Get your popcorn ready? Yeah, I Brandon,
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  Speaker 4: I hope you clean that up. By the way, I
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  Speaker 4: hope you got that cleaned up last week or last episode.
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  Speaker 4: I hope you got that cleaned up with the popcorn. Incredible, incredible, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that was unbelievable talent. But I are we surprised every year.
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  Speaker 4: It's a new thing. Every year. It's a new thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's nice that the league signed off on it. It's
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  Speaker 4: nice that London signed off on it as well. I
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  Speaker 4: can't believe it. No pun intended, but stop making trades
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  Speaker 4: with London and I'll stop making the jokes. But I
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  Speaker 4: I can't believe it. I honestly, I can believe it.
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  Speaker 4: But every time, you know what they are. The Niagara
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  Speaker 4: Ice Dogs are like in the office when you see
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  Speaker 4: that gift where they have the zero days without crap,
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  Speaker 4: that's the Ice Dog, zero days without failure. We got
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  Speaker 4: back to zero. Like we all know who the future
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  Speaker 4: GM is gonna be. We all know who it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 4: It's the first name starts with an E. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's crazy. I honestly, I think it's absolutely crazy. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think Evola's moves and all of his moves he
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  Speaker 4: made were great moves this last season. But when you
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  Speaker 4: see a move like this, it's hey, we see who's
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  Speaker 4: around the organization throughout this season. Yeah, I can't see
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  Speaker 4: this move coming in the capacity of the who the
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  Speaker 4: future is. The rumors about the scouting staff, like if
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  Speaker 4: oh my, if that's true too, if that's true too?
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  Speaker 4: About the emails man like that, like put them in
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  Speaker 4: a game in Cornwall. Like, at least Brampton, like everyone
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  Speaker 4: picks on Brampton, at least Brampton has no crap in
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  Speaker 4: the front office. Like I cannot believe. I cannot believe.
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  Speaker 4: Every single season, every single season. And this is the
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  Speaker 4: pattern how it goes. This is the pattern, how the
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  Speaker 4: crap goes. Ready, one, we're gonna fire your GM. We're
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  Speaker 4: gonna fire a coach. Obviously, if anyone thinks Bart is
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  Speaker 4: gonna be around, like, come.
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  Speaker 2: On, he got hired from and again, from our understanding,
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  Speaker 2: it was a one year deal for Chris Bart, so
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  Speaker 2: he has to sign a new contract with the Ice Dogs.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of convincing there. He's got all the
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  Speaker 4: leverage in the game. Hey, I thought he had a
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  Speaker 4: decent year other than playing the same system and dumping
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  Speaker 4: Chase all the time. But other than that, other than that,
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  Speaker 4: he wasn't horrible. At least he was competitive with him,
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  Speaker 4: like he let the guys play. But it's this pattern
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  Speaker 4: every single time. It's a pattern of crap. We're gonna
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  Speaker 4: hire a new GM. Hey, we fired the GM. Here
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  Speaker 4: comes a new GM. Hey, this guy's got a plan.
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  Speaker 4: This guy's got a plan. We're gonna hire a new coach. Yep,
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  Speaker 4: you'll be gone at Christmas time. Next thing, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna go trade eleven draft picks this offseason, like
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  Speaker 4: we've saw how many offseasons ago. We're gonna do that. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: we're not gonna rebuild. We think we have a quality
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  Speaker 4: hockey team here. What then end of the season of
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  Speaker 4: next year, you lose ten games in a row, you
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  Speaker 4: have your ten game losing streak after Christmas, we know
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  Speaker 4: how January collapse goes in Niagress story. Ice Dogs fans,
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to speak for you guys right now. I'm
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  Speaker 4: speaking for the fans, and I think that it's a joke.
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  Speaker 4: Like for ten game losing streak, trade your captain, trade
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  Speaker 4: your captain in November, yep, get the ten messages out,
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  Speaker 4: and then yep, then you have the ten game losing streak.
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  Speaker 4: And then you complain that there's no leadership in the room.
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  Speaker 4: But you trade your captain for a for a bucket
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  Speaker 4: of bucks and you have no leaders Now, then you
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  Speaker 4: get in, you have your ten game losing streak, You
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  Speaker 4: somehow are in fourth place at Christmas time. Then you
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  Speaker 4: end up finishing seventh or eighth place in the Eastern Conference.
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  Speaker 4: Does anyone see this pattern? You get bounced four or
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  Speaker 4: five games in the first round, Fire a GM, fire
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  Speaker 4: the coach, it's all back again, the same pattern. But
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  Speaker 4: there's zero accountability and it's a problem. It's never gonna change.
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  Speaker 4: It's not gonna change. And like I say, Frankie Vola's
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  Speaker 4: moves weren't the greatest moves, but he made quality moves.
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  Speaker 4: At the same time, as a general manager, you're not
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  Speaker 4: gonna be one hundred percent on every single trade you make.
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  Speaker 4: It's not gonna happen. And how do we even know
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  Speaker 4: how his draft was? It's only one year. I thought
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  Speaker 4: Ryer Sedgar had a really good season. I thought getting
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  Speaker 4: your Malenko here with all the stuff you had to
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  Speaker 4: go through, you know, like I think, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Who knew if Charlie Robertson was gonna be back. He
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  Speaker 2: had a hell of a year. Charlie Robertson here man.
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  Speaker 4: And honestly keeping Patterson the way he did at the
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  Speaker 4: deadline when it sounded like he was gone, like Patterson
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  Speaker 4: was their best player in the playoffs. Like I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how it can get better at this
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  Speaker 4: rate with a GM change. That's all my opinion because
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  Speaker 4: I think that, like I say, if you're changing the
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  Speaker 4: general manager, you're changing the coach of the one year
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  Speaker 4: left man. This is an interesting They better not, They
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  Speaker 4: better not, They better announce a coaching extension because if
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  Speaker 4: so man. Other than being the London Knights farm team,
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  Speaker 4: there's nothing, there's nothing like I. I cannot believe it.
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  Speaker 4: I cannot believe it. It's such a good fan base.
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  Speaker 4: It's such a good fan base. And every single year,
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  Speaker 4: every single year, it's the same crap. Trade a player
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  Speaker 4: to London, trade to captain, fire a GM, fire a coach,
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  Speaker 4: bring them all back. It's all gonna be good. Another thing,
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  Speaker 4: like every year, it's the same thing. They gotta pick
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  Speaker 4: a plan here. They gotta pick a plan in place
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  Speaker 4: and stick with it. If it's fifty feet a crap
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  Speaker 4: or if it somehow goes up to forty feet of crap,
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  Speaker 4: because that's how below they are right now, we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: But they gotta they gotta make a decision here and
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  Speaker 4: stick with it. There is no rebuild there, There is
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  Speaker 4: no rebuild with the amount of picks they give up.
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  Speaker 4: Like yeah, we're gonna rebuild. Then a year later we're
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  Speaker 4: a contender. What Like I'm at a loss their words.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, the only things I can get out
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  Speaker 4: of my mouth is when's the next trade to London.
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  Speaker 4: Other than that, I don't have a like I can't
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  Speaker 4: even talk about it. Man. It bugs me. Like I
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  Speaker 4: feel bad for the fans. It's such a good fan base,
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  Speaker 4: but hey, you gotta give them something to cheer about.
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  Speaker 4: When you see that building with two thousand people in
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  Speaker 4: the arena every game, it looks empty, Like you gotta
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  Speaker 4: give them some to cheer about. Like, it's not the
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  Speaker 4: fans' faults. I don't blame them at all. Like, I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure the league. You can say it's in the it's
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  Speaker 4: in collaboration with the league. I'm sure they can say
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  Speaker 4: all that in their press release, whatever they have going
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  Speaker 4: on there in the office. Congratulations. I don't know, make
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  Speaker 4: a TikTok about it. I don't care. But at the
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  Speaker 4: same time, at the same time, I you gotta be
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  Speaker 4: there for the fans. You got to actually give a
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  Speaker 4: crap for the fans, actually show it for the fans,
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  Speaker 4: because I'm tired of this crap. This is all individually.
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  Speaker 4: People are paying their hard earned money right now a
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  Speaker 4: gas at a dollar sixty to go watch them play,
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  Speaker 4: and they're not giving them any hope. So you got
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  Speaker 4: to You gotta be there for the fans. Gotta be
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  Speaker 4: there for the fans. And I hope that they have
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  Speaker 4: accountability with this, not just a press release that they
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  Speaker 4: did in five minutes. Whatever, post it on TikTok, whatever,
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  Speaker 4: posting on your social media. Feel good about yourself, Go
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  Speaker 4: to bed at night, have a plan, come out, say
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  Speaker 4: the plan, be vocal about it, be positive about it.
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  Speaker 4: Show that you have confidence in yourself, because right now
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  Speaker 4: they have zero confidence in the world it themselves. And
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  Speaker 4: we'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think anything pauses is gonna happen under this, I really don't.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's just another pattern. We talk in September
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  Speaker 4: and they'll be like, hey, you know, they're gonna make
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs this year, They're gonna finish, They're gonna have
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  Speaker 4: a chance in the division. No they're not. No, they're not.
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  Speaker 4: They never will, and they're they remind me. They remind
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  Speaker 4: me a lot right now. The Toronto Mapleifs of the
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  Speaker 4: Ohl every year it's their year and it never is.
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  Speaker 4: Have a plan, show us, show us a plan. More importantly,
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  Speaker 4: show the fans a plan. Go to war for the fans.
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  Speaker 4: The fans are the ones that support you every single night.
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  Speaker 4: Give an effort for them. Man.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you just hope AI doesn't creep into the
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  Speaker 2: end of the front office like the Toronto Maple leafs.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well that's what it's gonna be. That's what
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be. Now, like, oh, oh gosh, here we go.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I you know what, not clean up every single thing
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: in that place. They gotta clean up everything. Bring a
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: big vacuum industrial let's clean it up.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Get the shot back out.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, iist dogs. You got our numbers again.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Frank Evila no longer the general manager of the Niagera
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: Ice Dogs, as he was only there for one season.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to some awards, a little bit
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: more positive news out of the Ontario Hockey League this week,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: and we're gonna start in the nation's capital with the
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Goaltender of the Year. It is Writer feder Off taking
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: that honor home as he was just spectacular, which makes
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: your question why he wasn't a nominee for Rookie of
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: the Year. If he's Goaltender of the Year but not
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year nominated, then okay, yeah, Caleberhult, your
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Klipoff for sure deserving to be nominated. Kind of think
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: feder Off should have been in that conversation too, but
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: which he was. But yeah, why do we have two?
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: Though? I can't even like four. Coach of the year
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: they had like six and the guy that won it
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: got second place on the season. But I can't. But
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year we only we're not going there.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year we only got Like it's crazy,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: like GM, we only have two of the year, Like
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: I can't believe there's only Yeah, I agree, one hundred percent.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Rookie of the Year we only got two, but GM,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: there's only two coaches like six.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Like I can't believe that.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: So is the Jim Rutherford Trophy winner as voted upon
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: by the league's general managers. He was twenty nine to
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: nine to two and one, setting a new franchise record
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: with a two oh seven goals against average and then
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: a league best nine to twenty three save percentage six shutouts,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: is a new Ohl record most by a rookie goaltender
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: in a single season as well. So and you can
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: read the article, it's on the Ohl website. But he
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: gives a lot of credit to the to the coaching staff,
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: especially Andrew Mercer, the goaltending coach for the Ottawa sixty sevens.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: And you know what, give credit where credit's due. Andrew
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Mercer had had Ryder Federoff, who had never played in
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: this league. We didn't really know what he was going
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: to be in the Ontario Hockey League as a seventeen
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: year old. Usually expect those guys to grow into being
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: a number one.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Over the years.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: But he came in and immediately had an impact on
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: the sixty sevens.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: You look at Jaden Nelson and we knew that he
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: was gonna have an opportunity to be opportunity to be
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the number one, but we didn't really know if he
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: was going to be. And we know they split time
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: in the crease this season. But feder Off really really good. Yeah,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: just to watch him play, he was he was one
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: of the best. Actually, he was the best, I should
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: say this year in the Ontario Hockey League.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, he was incredible. I'm looking at the numbers right
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: now on the Media Access site for seventeen year old
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: goaltenders in the OHL. Obviously first in shutouts to top
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: fifteen games, which is incredible if you go in the
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: top fifteen games, to play forty one games like that
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: at seventeen years old is incredible for his age to
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: be able to have the resume he had throughout the
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: season speaks for itself. He was great and honestly, you
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: look at their postseason, he kept them in a lot
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: of games. I know I mentioned they were that close
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: to playing in a game six, but let's be honest.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: The only reason why they were that close in those
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: situations you got to ride a feder Off making saves
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: on his head. He was incredible. What a season, What
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: a season he had. I mean, he got better throughout
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: the season, and I think the biggest thing is kept
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: thinking like, hey, seventeen years old, can this last? Can
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: can this keep going? Can the train keep moving here?
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: And it and always did, it always did keep moving.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: And I think that's the one thing about Ryder Federoff,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: which incredible. I think he's gonna be a high drafted
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: goaltender in the in the national hockey they get this
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: upcoming draft for how good he's been, without a doubt.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: I mean six foot, he moves a lot like Dustin Wolf,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: which is a great camp which is a great comp
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: for him, because I think that's kind of you know, hey,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: six foot goaltenders can still be legit in national hockey
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: and be really good players in the NHL when you
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: look at guys like Dustin Wolf, Right, So I think
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: think that, right I feder Off has absolutely every opportunity
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: to play pro and be a National Hockey leaguer with
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: how Giddy's luck this season.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: He is the second sixty sevens goaltender to earn this award,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: and for the first time since Craig Hillier did it
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: thirty years ago in ninety five and ninety six, also
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: the first American born goaltender to win it since twenty
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: thirteen to fourteen when Alex Nadelkovich of the Plymouth Whalers
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: took home that award. So congratulations to him, and we're
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: going to stay in the nation's capital because his bench
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: boss was named Coach of the Year, Dave Cameron, taking
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: home that honor. The yeah again, voted by the league's
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: general managers. You know, look into the power rankings what
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: you will. I will say that I had the sixty
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: sevens on the outside not being a part of the postseason.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I was proven wrong. I am very pleased to admit it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: You don't like to predict the team is going to
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: be really bad, that they're going to not make the
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: playoffs immediately out of the hop out of ten teams,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: two teams aren't gonna make it in each conference, and
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I had picked Outawa and I was clearly wrong. So
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Dave Cameron obviously a lot of coaches are this way,
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: but the recognition is a reflection of the group we have.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: And that's a quote from Dave Cameron in the article
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: on the Ohl website one hundred point season forty seven,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: fifteen three and three. They did flirt with the division
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: title for a little bit throughout Christmas in January before
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: the Bulldogs did eventually pull away. But Dave Cameron gets
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: his team to the second round in the postseason after
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: a sweep of the of the Kingston Frontenacs and then
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: falling in five games to the Barry Colts in the
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: second round. But again for a team that was predicted
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: to miss the playoffs and make the second round and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: get one hundred point season, I would say it's still
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: pretty impressive. And again I was wrong and I will
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: I'll take that. So Rookie of the Year. Now we
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: are going to Saganaw and I know we had the
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: discussion a little bit of go Caleb Mount ultra Nikita Klepov,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: where the uh the two nominees kind of felt like
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: writer Federoff should have been a part of this conversation
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: as well, But it really is hard to argue with
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: with Nikita Klepov's season with the with the Saganaw Spirit
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: again another league voted on by the league's general managers.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: And I think what's.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Pretty sweet is that for the first time since two
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: thousand and seven when Patrick Kine claimed the honor the
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: OHO Rookie of the Year, it's also the league's top scorer.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: And that's that's a pretty pretty big name to be
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: associated with if you're in Nikita Klepov and ninety seven points,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: thirty seven of those were goals. And again this and
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: this is no knocket at the Saganaw Spirit whatsoever. That's
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: an eighth place hockey club, right, you might not expect
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: the league's leading score to be on the eighth place team.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: But you know, he just found a way to sit
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: out himself or a Banoff had a had a hell of
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: a year. But Klepoff sort of stood on his own
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: in Saganaw. And you look at some of the young
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: talented players that Saganaw has had over the years, Clepoffs
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: now in that conversation with the mesays with the profeties, Yeah,
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: just what what a season? That was really really fun
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: to watch this this young man play.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know he's got that wow factor, that's for sure.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Nikia Kleppoff does. I mean he when you watch him play,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: he has that ability to take over a game. That's
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: why I was shocked he never that they never got
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: a game against the Rangers. I thought for sure in
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: the first would steal a game just because of the
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: ability of him. Man, it felt like you saw that
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: raspe there and clip off with that. He has that pop.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: You know, Like there's some guys that you watch in
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: warm ups it's like, oh, they can dangle around and
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: warm up so like really getting in the game, it's
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: like who is that? You don't notice them? Nikida Klepoff
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: isn't one of those guys. He's one of those guys.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: He comes out on the ice and warm up, you
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: notice them. You notice in three out of full sixty.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: And that's against good teams too. Like, that's as quality
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: teams too.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Like.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: The fact of the matter is he had he had
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: a heck of a postseason. Still five points in four
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: games against a red hot Rangers team. I think that
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: it just speaks for itself for how good his postseason was.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: Out of that regular season. I mean, Nikkia Kluppoff was
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: incredible throughout the whole season. His ability with the pack
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: without the puk, no matter where he plays in the game,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: he's always good. You know what you're gonna get from
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Nikita Clapoff, He's great.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: To the U eighteens, eight Oitcelers will be a part
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: of the U eighteen Men's World Championship squad taking place
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: in Slovakia from April twenty second to May second. Obviously
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: there can be additions as as the playoffs go along
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: and continue, the fact that the tournament's starting this week,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I doubt that will happen.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: It could yead of like that, but.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Very very slim chance, I would say. But representing the
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Ontario Hockey League goal to under Gavin Betts. Heck of
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: a year for him on defense. Yeah, yeah, I'm really
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: pumped for that. Yeah, Gavin Betts earned that for sure
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: for sure. Lucas Ambrosio, the Ariatters, Carter Hicks of the
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Brampton Steelheads, Caleb Mitchell from the London Knights, and then
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: up front Alessandro Diorio or the Sarnia Sting.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: J c.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Lemieux from the Sudbury Wolves, who despite only playing four
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: games in this postseason, I thought Lemiu was really really good.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Yea Yakawaisika the Guelf Storm and then Dima Jilkin, teammate
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: of Nikita Klepov's And you know again, it's kind of
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: like the World Championships call. And and not to say it
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: gets swept under the rug by any means, but World
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Championships on the NHL playoffs are going on. There's a
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: lot of people more focused on the NHL playoffs, whereas
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: you might run into the situation here with the U
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: eight teams at the same time as the OHL Conference
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Finals and and OHL Championship series. But if your team's
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: not in it, I encourage you to watch this hockey
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: and and especially if you are a fan of any
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: of the teams that I just mentioned players from, it's
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: definitely worth it to watch that and sort of see
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: obviously you got to look at the guys this year,
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: but to see them on the international stage is sort
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: of another level of talent for these guys.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, without doubt. I mean, I'm excited to see Gavin
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Betts playing that. I thought he had a really good
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: year in Kingston when he got opportunity. I thought they
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: had a really good They had a really underrated duo
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: there in Kingston. Uh the Ooro and uh Lemieu jac
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Lemieu are two guys and I'm excited to watch play.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I think the Oorio it's an opportunity to get out
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: of the crap that Sarnia was. And wow, I am
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: moody today. I am moody today, But I think that
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: it's an opportunity to get out of what Sarnia was. Right,
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: they didn't really help them. So I think that in
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: this opportunity here you get to play with on a
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: talented team represent your country. I think that's really cool.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: And for Ja c Lemieux, I mean, like you mentioned Hees,
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: he went over to Sudbury and he was incredible from
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: the winterspid fires. I thought that that deal is gonna
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: work out just great for both sides. I think, honestly,
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: you make difference final for the moves that wins. You're made.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: You make the conference final, Okay, that's a success. You
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: give yourself a chance in the final four. It's tough
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: to make the final four. It's tough to get eliade
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: eight when you look at the when you look at
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: what the playoffs have been this year. Right, So I
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: think that for those two guys j c Lemieux Diorio,
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: I think they're gonna have massive tournaments. I'm really excited
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: to see what they can do. I mean, jac Lemu
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: is probably gonna play that checking role, but I think
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: he's gonna be really getting that role because that's what
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: he did. Pretty good at it. Yeah, it'd be pretty
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: good at it. The first round he went out against Jelachenko,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Jacob Bryant, Marik Vanacker, all first round picks in the NHL.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, pre day good.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: So I think that's exciting for him. I think that's
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: a really good opportunity for him at the U eighteens.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: I agree absolutely.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: And then finally before we hit the breake and look
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: at the Ohl postseason seventy six. OHL is included on
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: the NHL Central Scoutings Final Draft rankings for the twenty
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: twenty six NHL Entry Draft. Of course, those big names
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: right near the top, Chase Reid at number two, Killbuhultra
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: number six, ni kid to Klepov at number eight, in
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Belchez at nine.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Those are your.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Four guys in the top ten belchez Nevotney Ragowski, rider
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Cali a part of this Ryan roebrick at twenty eight,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Vladravetsky at forty seven. You look at Pierce Bowie at
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: fifty six.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Colin.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: We can talk all we want about guys right at
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the top. Chase Reid gonna be a top five pick, Malhultra,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be a top five pick. I
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: don't think he's at six clip off top ten. Belchez
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: is on the fence. I think we'll see, depending on
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: who picks there, what they where they want to go.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: If there's somebody outside of let's say the top twenty five,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: CALLI being the twenty fifth Rankskate Ragowski's twenty one, Novotny
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: is fourteen. I can't wait to see that guy.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: At the next level.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Adam Navotney, Oh my god, if there's a little bit
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: of a sleeper pick for you, call and and and
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: for anyone out there looking to see who potentially their
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: team could draft, who would be someone that you would
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: make the case for.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: I really like Thomas Vandenberg and Audiball, but I want
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: to go at twenty five with Ryder Cally. I think
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Ryder Cally is going to be an incredible hockey player.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: I think Ryder Calli is going to be a pro
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: hockey player. And it's one of those guys in North
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Bay when you see when you saw Brazo there back
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: in the day, and when you see some of these
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: guys there, they get points and they transition into the
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: pro game and they become really good pros. Obviously, Calli
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: doesn't have the size of Brazoh but when you look
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: at Cali, you look at the most underrated point streak
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: in the nh or in the Entil Hockey League this year, right,
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: he had a multi game point streak to wind out
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: the regular season. Like he did everything that he does.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's so good with the precision there. Like
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: I really think writer Calli the game he plays under
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: the system, under the Ryan Hulahan system. It's amazing what
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: happens when you have a system and what they do
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: there in North Bay. They do incredible work. And I
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: think that Ryder Calli is going to be a really
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: good pro hockey player for years to come. I'm really
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: excited to see what he can do.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: Of course, I've totally forgot to mention the goaltenders listed
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: on this On this list right a feeder Off Ohl
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: goaltender of the Year.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: He's listed at eleven.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Zach Jovanovsky expected to be the guy in Gwelph next
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: year for the Memorial Cup, unless of trade takes place.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: We'll see what George Burnett is cooking up. Step On
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: Shurigin from the saganaw Spirit number thirteen, Minshak fifteen, Vladyslavia
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Malanko from the Ice Dogs at number seventeen, and then
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: you can look at Gavin Betts, who we just talked
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: about at number twenty four, Ben Herebik at thirty one,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: and Jason Schabel at thirty six. Shovel backup in kitchener
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: to Christian Kersh. But that is a ton of talent
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: right there, and I can't wait. I think that's I
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: think it's I've seen a lot of people like I
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: shouldn't say complaining because that's not it at all. But
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: there's a been a few people like, oh, you know,
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: it'd be awesome if the OHL Draft was around. You know,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: there's four teams in the play playoff still goal and
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: be nice to have the draft going on right now
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: to have something to talk about and look forward to.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: But I think again, moving it to June, moving it
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: in person, that's in June. Yeah, it's it's draft season,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: it's in person.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just gonna lead into the uh, the
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: NHL Draft in Buffalo, which make the trip if you can.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: I went to the last one that was in Buffalo,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: that was the Austin Matthews Draft. It has not led
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: to a Stanley Cup. Are we surprised? Not really Matthews
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: hell of a player, but weird organization run by ai
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: H it didn't work.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you know what's nice about the June draft.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: Come June, Come June. Everything's like, oh I miss HL hockey. Well, hey,
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: here's an actually great point.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: Come to point.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: Another Another thing I wanted to add was do you
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: think Ryder Federoff gets a draft bump with the goaltender
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: of the year. I think, like because sometimes you see it,
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: sometimes you don't like, like, you know, like McNiven getting it,
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Like how like, I.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Think so again it does.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: It's the sixth it's the six foot factor. He's not
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: that thing for six three that that's the only thing.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: And and again it shouldn't hold him back. I really
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: don't expect him to. However, that's where you drop a
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: few picks, is guy. GMS are not fans of drafting
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: goaltenders who are six feet tall, which is weird. But
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know what happened to the Darren Pangs of
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: the world, Like come on that good?
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah right? I yeah, I like. Well that's why I
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: like watching Wolf in Calgary reminds me so much a
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: fedter Off. I mean, the way they move, they're athletic
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: in the net. They really don't have a style. They're
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: kind of just in position, very athletic move as well,
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Like I I really think that there's an opportunity here,
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: Like I hope that there's a bump in the draft
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: rankings due to that too as well with the hopefully
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: teams have him higher on the board because it'd be
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: cool to see fed Off go in the top three rounds,
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: because he's deserving of that.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: All right, let's hit the brake. When we come back,
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: we will take a look at round number two the
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: teams who are eliminated, and then round number three the
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: conference finals get underway this week. We'll chat about that
• 35:13
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• 37:20
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Ohl and sixty podcast with Colin Ward.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: I'm Reice Domani. Of course, BC is always behind the
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: scenes for us on the show. Thank you so much
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: for tuning in, whether you're watching us on the Armchair
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: GM Sports Networks YouTube page or if you're listening on
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: your favorite podcast platform. We hope you've liked the playoffs
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: to this point. Unfortunately a lot of the matchups have
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: ended very quickly. But if the conference finals are the same,
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: well then I'm going to be speechless. I don't expect
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: them to be, but I would be pretty speechless if
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: they were. So we're going to get into looking back
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: at round number two first before we preview the conference finals,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: and we are going to start in the West Conference.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: It was a five game series between the Kitchen Rangers
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: and the Sue Saint Marie Greyhounds, number one seed going
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: up against the number five seed, Kitchener winning the series
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: four games to one. They win Game one three to one.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: They win Game two eight five, They win Game three
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: in Sue Saint Marie four to three. They lose Game four.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Sue Saint Marie takes that one four to two thanks
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: to four third period goals by the Greyhounds, and then
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: it was a dominant five to one victory for the
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Kitchen Arrangers in game number five to close it out.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: And you know, I'll bring up this point first. If
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: there was a delay in the schedule because Sue Saint
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Marie didn't agree with back to backs on home ice,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: and they were the only series with a back to back, Yeah,
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: let's do a back to back and with travel, Like, really,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: come on, that's dumb. But I mean, kitchen really wasn't
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: kitchener wasn't shivering. That was weird, weird comment. I know
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: they get that one, but they won five, won the
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: next game, so that quote did in age. Well, should
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: send it to like that? What's that ex account that
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: is like images that precede the actual outcome or something
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: that I don't know, something like that. I mean, maybe
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: we'll bring up Otto's tweet from December. But for me,
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: for me, in this one, I thought Sue was terrible
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: in their own end. I did not think there was
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: as much support for Carter George's as there should have been.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: And that's not to say Carter George needs extra support
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: from his club he's a very very good goaltender.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: Can't you can't have.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Invisible defenseman in your own zone, like I thought, he
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: got hung out to dry way too often in this series.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: And this is not on him by any means. This
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: is not on Carter George. I thought the defensive zone
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: coverage was terrible for the Suit Saint Mary Greyhounds in
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: this in this series, and Kitchener took full advantage of it,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: specifically in in games two and five, with an eight
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: five winning Game two and then a five to one
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: winning Game three.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: And back in game two.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Oh god, what a debacle that was. You've got thoughts
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: on that. But uh and and again we're gonna do
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: it like we did last last episode. We're gonna focus
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: more on the sus Saint Marie Greyhounds in this one
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: than the Kitchener Rangers because we are going to look
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: ahead to Kitchener and and uh and wins are coming up.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Colin Ward's got the bucket hat on because the Greyhounds
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: are headed to can Kuhn. Hey, the flight was already.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: Won warm from the Kitchener and like home Kitchener, so
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: why not head south?
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I guess kitchen was already South but uh yeah, they're
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: They're headed to can Kun now, Colin, And I mean,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: what what do you take away from the Greyhounds this season?
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: They spent a fair amount to uh to go all
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: in and it ends in five games and round number two.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, I I know I took I
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: know I took Sue last round night. And I mentioned
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: this in my message to Josh Brown beat ready for
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: the Rangers, and my brain was telling me logically speaking
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: was saying Kitchener's gonna win this, but my heart was
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: telling me Sue. And my heart was way wrong because
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: you know what, they like you mentioned, give up. They
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: made it too hard on Carter George. Defensively, they weren't
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: good enough for sure, and it's all hands on decks,
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: but they just got out class in the series. They
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: weren't deep enough. I mean, the Ranger defense had the
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: answer for everything. Dylan Edwards literally owns the Sue Greyhounds
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: right now. He was so good. That might be the
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: best trade. Don't even get me started with the GMS
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: of the year, but that might be the best trade
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: of the of the Interial Hockey League season. That might
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: be the best trade of the Ohl season. Just when
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: you see that that deal for the Rangers, I mean,
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: how good he's been for them, like incredible. I mean,
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: can't play Mike McKenzie not in the Coach of the
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: Year candidate or GM of the Year candidate. I think
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: that is crazy to me. So yeah, I think that.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: I think the Rangers though, like, yeah, they outclassed the Greyhounds.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: I think, hey, pick a plan for next year, and
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: I think that they definitely need a lot of a
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: lot of change ups in ensue with the Greyhounds.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Are they in a are they in a similar spot
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: his own sound in Sarnia?
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: What's pretty Martin? What's pretty Martin status? I think that
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: that tells me if they are or not. But I'm
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: telling you right now if I.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Don't know, I mean, I mean coaching in front office wise,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: not necessarily player personally.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: Well, they're coaching communications horrible. They don't they don't feel
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: comfortable in their system clearly. I mean, if you gotta
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: yelling screen throughout the whole game in Game five of
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: the playoffs, so the second round, you obviously don't have
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: confidence in your players in playing in the system. I've
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: never I've never saw a coach in hockey. I've never
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: saw a coach in hockey in game five in a
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: playoff run have least amount of confidence in his players
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: in the system. Clearly there's no confidence. If you have
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: to yell in direct orders at every single second, every
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: single shift, you clearly don't have confidence in your system.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: And you speak to a lot of good coaches around
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: the OHL, that's number one, that's number one, right. You
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: put your systems in place in training camp. You have
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: confidence in your systems. Why would you have to yell?
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: Why would you have to panic like that on the bench?
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: Game two made me upset because there's a time out late.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Why put the goalie at the blue line? Just pull
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: them for the ozone draw? You clearly don't have confidence
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: in your best player, your captain taking the face off
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: and Brady Martin help him out with the winger win
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: get the puck back to the point. How many times
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: do we see that happen? And literally Game two was
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: the same day as with as Branford won in double
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: overtime against North Bay and it was a load of
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: high play your check O'Brien to banak tie game to
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: force overtime for the Bulldogs. It literally, it's common sense
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: when you pull the goaltender. And I watched that. I
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: watched that time out, and I'm thinking, this is the
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: superrad Hounds to a tee, this is what we've saw
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: for the last how many years. Like they call a timeout,
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: assistant coach is drying up a face off play I
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: would imagine runs the power play. Okay, he has the
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: instruction board for the timeout. Ten seconds left on the clock.
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: In the time out, you see head coach there all
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: of a sudden barking orders out. That's in one year
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: out the other. Like I say, there's only one coach
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: I watched in the league like that who I don't
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: think has intro I don't think has confidence in their system,
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: in the way they play the game. And that's them
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: and I could be wrong, but they never win. So
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: it's easy to say from can Kun but tough one
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: for the Greyhounds. But they have a lot of they
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: have a lot of improvements to make in house in
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: order to make their roster a better quality roster. And
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: like I said, they were a good team. They got
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: a lot of luck this year for sure, but this
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: is what they were. This is what the Greyhounds were
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: a second round, second round team. They beat the London Knights. Aye. Congratulations,
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: that's your Jay Ross this year. The rest is history.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: I wish I wouldn't have picked him. Sorry, Kitchener, can't
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: wait for my next round pick.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Sue Greyhounds next victim off to can Kun.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: I guess you're not really a victim if you're going
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: to Mexico. It's pretty pretty awesome, but uh Sussaint Marie
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: headed south for the summer. Next up in the Western
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Conference in All West Division matchup between the Windsor Spitfires
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: and Flint Firebirds. It was a clean sweep for the
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Windsor spit Fires. They win game one four to two,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: they win Game two six to five, they win Game
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: three two to one, and then they win it in
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: game four by a score of five to three. A
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: lot of theories out there colling on Flint. Was it
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: too easy against No One? Sound that they got into
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: bad habits? Was Windsor just a mile better once the
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: playoffs started compared to the regular season where it was
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: a fight to the finish for that division. You know,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: did like I said, did they run into a hot
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: spit Fire team?
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: What?
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: What happened to the to the Flint fibers. Now, there
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: was no Kevin heet game three and at all in
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: Game four, but by that point Winsor was in full
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: control of that series.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: So what do you make of this for Flint?
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: You know what, you look at the scores, right, four
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: to two, Game one, close, game six to five, Game two,
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: close as they can get two to one, Game three,
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: close as they can get, five to three, Game four.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: Every game was close. I mean, you look, if you're
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: a Flint you look back at this. It's like in
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: well man, it's not really I know it's a sweet
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: but it's the closest sweep we could imagine. You know,
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: you have two one goal games. One goal games can
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: be huge in the playoffs, right, the Marginian pe air
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: is so slim when you get in the postseason. I
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: think for the Firebirds it's one of those things where
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: you peaked very high. They had a lot of high
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: stroughout this season. You peaked throughout the year in that
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: Owen Sound series. He looks really good. Obviously, you can't
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: get much lower than that, and then all of a
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: sudden you meet Winsor, who, let's be honest, had a
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: good series as well against gwelf Right and they were
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: just ready to go. I think this Windsor team was
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: a team that they had a better scouting report on Flynn.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: And when you get into these situations about coaching having
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: guys ready right, we saw it last year in the
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: conference final in the East Right Barry wasn't ready. They
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: weren't prepared enough to beat the Oshawa Generals. That's why
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: they didn't show up in the series. And I think
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: that this is one of those for Flint where maybe
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: they just weren't ready enough. I thought their start in
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: Game four of their first period was really good. But
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: for Windsor to be able to stand tall and to
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: overcome adversity like that in playoff games speaks for itself.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: And I mean I think it was Game two as well,
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: when they were down Windsor and they had that, Yeah,
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: they had the wild comeback. Like for Windsor to overcome
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: leads like that and to be able to come back
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: in games makes it. I mean, that's huge to overcome
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: the test of adversity like that in the postseason because
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: we all know, like this round against Kitchen, for them,
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: they're gonna be down, They're gonna be down in the series,
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: They're gonna be down in games. They're gonna have to
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: have an opportunity. They're gonna have to come back. And
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: I think that that's something for Windsor that is gonna
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: bode well with them for having this round against Flint.
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: And for Flint, I think you had your chance. I
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: think they had a really good team. Like you say,
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: you read the scores, Windsor was just better. Sometimes you
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: gotta tip your cap and I think that it's a
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: tough one for Flint for sure. But at the end
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: of the day, Windsor was just better. And I think
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: for Flint it's hard to it's a hard pill to swallow, right,
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: because what's your team next year? Right? Vacari played incredible
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: for them this year. He had the best year of hockey.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: He's had the loose Kevin Hea for Game four and
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: in the third period of Game three.
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Like those are eligible next year too.
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Like it's tough to see where Flint's gonna go.
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: I would imagine it's a rebuild, and that's the toughest
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: pill to swallow for them, right, to not get to
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: the conference final when I felt when it felt like
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: personally like I thought this was the year that you know,
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: they get the conference final, they get the chance to
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: be the team right got the ball in a round two.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I mean last time they were really in
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: conversation twenty twenty two, it was the same team that
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: took them out, albeit a win seven games in twenty
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: twenty two. But there they're nemesis, the Windsor spit Fires.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: There's always gonna be the rivalry between the Spirit and Firebirds.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, but the Spitfires and Firebirds are
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: something to watch, you know, down down the road. Because
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: this is twice down the playoffs that Windsor has taken
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: out the Firebirds in years where it felt like Flint
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: could go to the to the finals. So Flint also
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: headed to can Kun. After getting swept by the Windsor
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: spit Fires four games to none, we head to the
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: Eastern Conference for the other sweep in round number two.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Game one to the Bulldogs eight to one, Game two
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: to the Bulldogs for to one, Game three to the
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Bulldogs three to two in double overtime, and then a
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: five to three Bulldogs win in Game four thanks to
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: the flood flooding five to three, the Bulldogs win that
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: one to sweep the series. You know in Brantford and
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: and the Bulldogs obviously they're undefeated in the playoffs overall,
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: but they're the best team at home, uh in the
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: Ontario Hockey League. You know, in no parts of games
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: one and two did I think the Battalion had a chance.
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: I thought, that's how dominant Brantford was. And you can
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: look back at round number one against Sudbury where that
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: series was way closer than you thought it would be. Again,
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: it was a sweep, but you look at some of
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: the scores and how Sudbury played, You're like, you know what,
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: tip your cap. Sudbury played really hard and really well.
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: And then you look at these first two games expecting
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: it to be tighter and you're like, what, but that's
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: not North Bay like and and you're right, Game three, yeah,
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: I went to double overtime, bullocks a mile.
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: It wasn't even close.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if the Bulldogs could get a save, I mean
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: yeah that so, I.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: Mean, that's the one thing I'm gonna take away, Like
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: we didn't see North Bay in this series. I'm not
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: sure what the heck happened again, whether it's just preparation
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: heading into the series or I don't. I don't know
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: if Peterborough took that much out of them, but that
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: was not a typical North Bay.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: Team.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: And yeah, they had a couple of guys banged up.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Barts didn't play Game one, no, but I it just
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: it was far from what we expected by North Bay.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know for Barts when he battled through a
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: Petrie battle through the lower body, I mean, that's tough
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: for them. I mean those are two. I mean, Bartch
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: played in the rest of the games, but he wasn't himself.
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: And when you see the article after Game three and
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: you see the quote from Ryan Lilahan, kind of makes
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: perfect sense. We know the Bulldoyers are gonna have We
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: knew they were gonna have the puck. We knew they
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: were gonna own possession. We knew they were gonna outshoot us.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: But we gotta limit their chances to the outside. Well,
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: the Bulldoye are one of those are one of the
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: only teams that you can say, Okay, we're gonna give
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: them the interior on the ice like the outside, but
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: you're gonna give Jacob Bryan open and seams than to
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: make those passes from the outside to the inside, and
• 52:04
  Speaker 4: there's nobody better than Jacobrien. The CZI is passing the
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: puck the way he does, nobody's better than the Entil
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: hockey get that, and I think that that's something there
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: where you can do that with the Bulldogs. For sure,
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: you want to take the front of the net away automatic,
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: but giving guys like Adam Bannock, Jacobrien, jet Lachenko who
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: had an excellent chance in Game four on the Jacobrien
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: goal with the deflection, Like you look at those types
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: of plays, like you can give him the outside, but
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: you look at the majority of the goals they got
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: scored on they started from the outside. It's one of
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: those things where the Bulldogs had had to answer for
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: everything North Bay did, and I thought North Bay maybe
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: they were. They got banged up in that Peterborough series
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: for sure, But Mike mckiver came in and played great.
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's the only reason why it wasn't a
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: blowout in game In Game three in the overtime, the
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: Bulldogs were that good and I thought North Bay gave
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: it They're all in Game four that just didn't. They
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: just couldn't match up with the Bulldogs. In my opinion,
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: this couldn't match up. And that's what it came down
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: to in the four game sweep.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Well, and it was a three it was a three
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: goal deficit. In Game four as well, Bulldogs went up
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: three nothing. You're think, okay, they're going to cruise to victory,
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden they comes back to
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: tie it. Bulldogs obviously got the got the next two,
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: including an empty netter, but yeah, that's another sweep. In
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: round number two, the Bulldogs take out the Battalion, who
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: head to ken Kuhn and for North Bay weather.
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, give me some Mexico, give me some nice margarita's.
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that nice heat can get rid of the flood.
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: Flood.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: That's not to say there wasn't a flood. I saw
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: the photos, but there's an inside story to that that
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: we're not going to share. And finally, in round number two,
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: the Barry. Round number two concluded with the Barry Colts
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: taking down the Ottawa sixty seven's in five games, bear
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: winning game one four to two, winning Game two five
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: to three, Ottawa coming back in Game three to take
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: that one five to make the series two to one.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: Game four.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: Felt like it was going over time and then a
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: wide open four by six was missed and Barry hung
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: on for a three to win, and then was the
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: Colts with a four to one win. Yeah, that that
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: kind of felt like the nail in the coffin a
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: little bit there calling where and again, you can't go
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: down three nothing and expect to win every single time.
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: I think that's a bad recipe. To start down three
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: nothing and then try to start playing. Sounds like the
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: Detroit Red Wings in March. You get down there.
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, there's that.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But but to get down three nothing, I mean,
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: it was a tall hill to climb, regardless whether you're
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: tied it or not, if you're the sixty sevens in
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: game number four, But again, I just thought Barry was better.
• 54:57
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: The best way to put it is, I thought the
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: took a huge bite out of the Ottawa sixty sevens
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: in this one.
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 55:05
  Speaker 2: I've got a few thoughts on some other things. I'm
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: not gonna not gonna get into that now. But the
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Barry Colts were clearly the better team. I thought Autaw
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: was actually better in game number five in terms of
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: chances in possession, But yeah, the Colts overall were in
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: control of most of this series and that's what counts,
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: and that's what got Buried to a four games to
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: one series win.
• 55:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know they were desperate autolat for sure in
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: Game five. I mean they had to be. I thought
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: the Game four was kind of and I know in
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: Ottawa you heard talks after the game about, well, the
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: way the end of the game, there's confidence, but at
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: the end of the day, you're going down to Barry
• 55:42
  Speaker 4: three to one with your backs up against the wall
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: on the road, that's a tough ask. And I think
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: that that honest, And like I said, it felt like
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: and I don't want to put pressure on the poor kid,
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: but it feels like when the net wide open like
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: that and you miss it. It's like we saw that
• 55:57
  Speaker 4: at the Olympics, and you know, something's just not meant
• 56:01
  Speaker 4: to be. And it's tough. Ottawa had a heck of
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: a season. It's really not a can kun shot for
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: Ottawa for what they've overcome this year, the fact that
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: they were in the division, they were first placed in
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: the East in December, Like, you know, like I thought that, like,
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: for what they've overcome, it just felt like that Game four,
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: if that felt like the series, you know, that felt
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: like the moment where if you score there and you're successful,
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: this is gonna be a series. You know, this is
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: going six to seven games. You got a chance. Yeah,
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: But then when it feels like if they score there,
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: they're winning and overtime, they can make that comeback like
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: that in Game four, they're winning and overtime and it
• 56:41
  Speaker 4: just wasn't meant to be And it sucks. It's a
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: tough one, but for Ottawa. But if any of these
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: teams that got eliminated in the second round, for Ottawa,
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: it's like, well, hey, this team's gonna be back next season.
• 56:50
  Speaker 4: I know right now there's no certainties and it's hard
• 56:52
  Speaker 4: to say, hey, this team's gonna be back next season,
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: but really there's no there's no certainty at all, Like
• 56:59
  Speaker 4: at this rate with the new landscape, I mean, golf
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: can host the Them Cup and finish seventh place next
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: year like there, I wouldn't be surprised by that.
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Like it's hard as out of the playoffs now Cup hosts.
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: They just lost in round two. Yeah, like it's hard
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: to do so, Like at the.
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: End of the day, I think that like with Ottawa,
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: like you can you can hold your head high, thinking
• 57:21
  Speaker 4: about you overachieved this year, which they did, but there's
• 57:25
  Speaker 4: no guarantees going into next year, you know, like there's
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: no guarantees going the next season. I hope that they
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: can be competitive and I hope they can take a
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: step forward, but in all honesty and the new landscape
• 57:37
  Speaker 4: in the unknown, it's scary, like I don't know what
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: they could be. Like I feel like, yeah, I want
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: to give them the benefit of the doubt. They can
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: be really good. But what happens right at federovs committed
• 57:46
  Speaker 4: to Penn State, you know, they lose them.
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be surprised if they finished ninth, you know,
• 57:53
  Speaker 4: Like it's very interesting where Ottawa where they go from
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: this young team, young core for sure, to build with
• 58:01
  Speaker 4: and hopefully they can stick together for next season and
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: be a team that's to compete for an OHL championship,
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: because they had a heck of a season and they
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: were that close. They were an inch away from going
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: six games, and I truly believe possibly winning in six
• 58:14
  Speaker 4: seven games. No, no pun intended. If if the if
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: that goes in the net, and I hate to do that.
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: I hate to do that on the poor kid that's
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: so I'm not mentioning the name. I hate that for
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: them because I know all season you're gonna feel like crap.
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: Like I you know, it's it's like going up to
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: the plate and striking out on three pitches. It doesn't
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: keep you up all night because you sucked. You know,
• 58:36
  Speaker 4: like this is you know, you're sorry, Sorry, I had
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: to get something in the playoffs. It just feels like,
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: you know, I just for Ottawa, I I hope, and
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: I'm thinking about the person like I don't want to
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: make it sound like I'm blaming that's the series. Obviously
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: it wasn't the case. I mean, they took penalties late
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: in Game five, which was the end all be all
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: four of them. It was just too much to overcome.
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: But I feel like with Ottawa, I mean, out of
• 59:05
  Speaker 4: any of these teams, you gotta have you gotta keep
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: your head high because you're gonna have an opportunity next year.
• 59:09
  Speaker 4: You can keep the gang together.
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: Brandon just texted our group saying neat for my cough there.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know what was neat. I
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: just did a cough. I'm not watching the.
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: Blue Jays this year. I'm just watching the Blue Jays
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: versus Yankees last season. He's in Triple A talking about
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: bad social media teams. Who whatever? The Triple A team
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: of the Yankees. Wow, I mean you open up a
• 59:40
  Speaker 4: can of wear and still talking about Volpi's home. Yeah,
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: he's home. Jeter Juniors in Triple A makes sense.
• 59:50
  Speaker 3: Domingz, That's worked out well.
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: He was the next Alex Rodriguez.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: Oh wait, hey, rod fell off to the Western Cam
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: Difference Finals. The two teams that will fight for the
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: Wayne Gretzky Trophy, the winsor spit Fires against the Kitchener Rangers.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: I think one thing that's awesome about this final four
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: is we've got all four division winners for the for
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: the conference finals. But Kitchener, of course, having home ice,
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: they will host Games one and two. They take place
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: April twenty fourth and April twenty six at the Kitchener
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: Memorial Auditorium. Game three and four at the Waftku Center
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: in Windsor. That is April twenty seventh. So, as we
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: mentioned earlier, Game two and three are a back to back,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: and then the twenty ninth will be Game four, and
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: then if necessary, May first is Game five. May third
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: is game six and May fourth Star Wars Day is
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: game number seven, and then Colin Ward's gonna be busy
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: the next day on Cinco de Mayo.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 6: So but this week's yeah, I'm getting old. We were
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 6: getting all that you're getting old.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: We were gonna get to that.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: Getting old. I'm getting old.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: But yeah, you're kind of old.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 4: That's why I'm getting all emotional. That's why I'm getting
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: all moody today. I've been I've been pissy today, I've
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: been snarly. I'm doing the least Leon Dreich title there.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 4: Why why you you know what? Though this series wins
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 4: your kitchener, it's gonna be a battle, but there's a
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: battle off the ice in BC. You better have that
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: mic ready in the clouds because I hear you are
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: going to Windsor and you're trying some pizza. We better
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 4: get a pizza review on the next episode. Here better
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 4: we have to where is he? We need, have to
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: need like we need.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 7: We'll have some sort of pizza content coming for sure.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 7: By the way, our clip with Joey Costanzo about his
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 7: pizza is still getting comments on TikTok about people commenting
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 7: their face.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: Reach out, reach out to Joey, Hey, I know it's
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: the playoffs. I know it's hard in the schedule. But
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 4: if here's time, if he's got a half hour out
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 4: of his day, get a pizza review with him, get
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: a pizza review with him. That's the quality. It's a
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: it's a content.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: Carpool do carpool pizza.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 4: Hey, that's the content the pizza want, the people want,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: the pizza people want, and not the content where we're
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: asking people behind the camera questions. No one cares about that.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 4: We want to know about the pizza reviews and windsor PC.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: You got potential there to really this could be the
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: control and effect. This could be to control and effect VCA,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 4: the balls in your court.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 7: I'll be on the scene for games three and four
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 7: in Windsor so I'll do my best.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: All right, all right, there we go, all right, there
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: we go out of this one calling.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: There's playoff history here between the Kitchen Rangers and Windsor
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: spit Fires, and that even goes back to the nine
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: ten Memorial Cups for the Windsor spit Fires. There was
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: a time that the Rangers were up three games to
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: none on their way to an OHL championship, and then
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: Winsor had other ideas because they pulled off the reverse
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: sweep and won that series in seven games. But but
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: what are you looking forward to most out of out
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: of this series? Is it Costanzo and Kursh Is it
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: O'Reilly versus Green Tree?
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 5: What?
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 3: What are you? What are you looking for out of
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: this one?
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: I think Windsor's playing a complete game. I think everyone
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 4: in the East talks about Branford, but I don't think
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 4: they talk about Windsor enough in the West. I mean,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 4: I think with Windsor, they haven't lost a game yet.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 3: I don't think in the playoffs and nope, well yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: They swept twelth, so you know, you haven't lost a
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 4: game in the postseason yet you start off on the
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 4: road in Kitchener, which is crazy to think, right, Like,
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 4: you haven't lost a game in the playoffs and you
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 4: start off the conference final on the road, like, I
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: don't know how often that has happened, but not too often.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: I think for the Windsor spit Fires to be able
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: to to have momentum coming into this series, I feel
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 4: like they would have it over Kitchener. And I know
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 4: that's crazy to say to me, think, well, why because
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: the way the Spitfires are playing right now, they're coming
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: over a team with Flint where Flinn. Let's be honest,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: they were the favorites coming into that round. After what
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 4: they did Owen Sound. We got our answer on Owen Sound.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: They were just that bad. They quit and you look
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: at Windsor now when they go into Flint, they play
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: like the way they have they were a force. I mean,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: Villaam's playing really good hockey right now, Barron's playing good hockey.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: Look at their additions. They made it the trade deadline.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 4: I mean, they're playing good hockey. But the Kitchener Rangers,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 4: you know, the one thing about the Rangers that, in
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: my opinion, is if they are not successful in achieving
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 4: their dream of the j Ross mem Cup everything along
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 4: those lines. The one thing that I believe will haunt
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 4: the Kitchener Rangers is that ten minute laps they have
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: in a game. There's ten minutes in a game where
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: they just give up a couple of goals and it's like, well,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: now we got a game.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: So what we saw in Game four in the third period, yes, essentially, yeah,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: I mean yeah.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 4: Like there's always parts of games where it's like there's
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 4: a ten minute stretch where they give up goals. Game two,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: they had that. Game two, they had that where soon
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 4: didn't look great and then they get a few goals
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 4: and it's like Brady Martin didn't even really do much
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: in the in the game, like, but they still found
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: a way sue That ability, in my opinion, is going
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: to be one of the most interesting spots for Kitchener
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 4: in the series. I think with Winsor, you take ten
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: minutes off in a game you're in trouble, you're in trouble,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: and the balance scoring that Winsor has right now, you know,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: I think you look at their three lines and then
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: four lines. I'll say you look at all four lines
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: right now in the matchup. I don't know who it favors.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: I like Kitchener's D and I and that bit me
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: last round, So now I obviously got to stick with it.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: But this is going to be This is gonna be
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: a seven game series, And I know I have been
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: wrong with the series so far, with how blowouts these
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: series have been, but I think this series has to
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  Speaker 4: be one of those games where it has to go seven.
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  Speaker 4: It has to be one of those series where you
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  Speaker 4: go seven for the league, and I think it will.
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  Speaker 4: I think that Winsor is gonna find a way to
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  Speaker 4: win games, and they're gonna lose games in this series.
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  Speaker 4: I think Kitchener is gonna lose games in this series.
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  Speaker 4: I think this These are the two best teams and
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  Speaker 4: it's too tight of hockey to see a sweep in
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  Speaker 4: this series. I do not see a world where this
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  Speaker 4: is a sweep by any means. So for HL fans
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  Speaker 4: listening to this, this isn't gonna be a sweep. This
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  Speaker 4: is gonna be a series. I'm gonna take Kitchener. I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna take Kitchener in seven. Josh, I'm back Kitchener in
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  Speaker 4: the sea. We need it, we need it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know what it's The playoffs have been
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  Speaker 2: a letdown and and don't get me wrong, we've seen
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  Speaker 2: some dominant performances Flint and Round one. You know, Branford
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: winsor undefeated. Kitchener has been on a roll. Despite losing
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Game four to Sue Saint Marie, they're still, you know,
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  Speaker 2: eight and one, so tough to look at that as
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  Speaker 2: a bad thing. So no, I'm really excited for this one. Again,
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  Speaker 2: there's history there in the playoffs between the Spitfires and Rangers,
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  Speaker 2: so expect both buildings to be packed. I believe both
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  Speaker 2: hold about seven thousand kitcheners just over. I think Windsor's
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: just under. I could be wrong, but they're hovering around
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  Speaker 2: that seven thousand marks. So I'm excited to see both
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  Speaker 2: buildings fired up, and especially before the third period in Windsor.
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  Speaker 2: For don't stop believing, because that is awesome. I love
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  Speaker 2: that they kept that all right to the Eastern Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 2: The two teams fighting for the Bobby Or Trophy, Barry
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: Colts and the Branford Bulldogs. Again, these are the two
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: division winners from the Eastern Conference. Game one April twenty
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  Speaker 2: second in Brantford, Game two April twenty fourth in Brantford.
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  Speaker 2: Then the series will shift to Barry April twenty six.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: This game three, April twenty eighth, is game four. I
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 2: look at games five, six, and seven. Game five is
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: April thirtieth, Game six is May second, and Game seven
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: would be on May fourth in Brantford, Colin we saw
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: these two teams meet in the past, albeit different groups.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: In the twenty twenty three playoffs, Brant Clark was a
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: was a Barry cult at the time. Nick Lartis was
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: into his first season as a as a Bulldog. Different
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: stars now so Heil Panwar? Oh yeah, so Heel Panwar.
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  Speaker 4: Played for London, Flint, Peterborough and.
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  Speaker 3: Hamilton history with Colin Ward. Hey, I am.
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  Speaker 2: You were a part of the media availability on on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: I had to work.
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  Speaker 2: What did you get out of that? And we're gonna start.
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  Speaker 2: We'll start with the Bulldogs. What did you get out
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  Speaker 2: of that? J McKee, Jcobrien, We're a part of that.
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  Speaker 2: And again, if you would like to go watch that
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: media availability, you can watch it right here on the
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: Armchair GM Sports Networks YouTube page. But we'll start with
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  Speaker 2: Branford and jmicke and Jacobrien.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what this in Branford's case, they've had
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 4: a lot of energy in the postseason so far. You
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 4: really see that vibe switch here. Regular season, you saw
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 4: a lot of ups and downs. In the postseason. You
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: saw some dominant play so far to the Bulldogs and
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 4: you see something there, You see something I see something there,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: like I see something there for the Rangers. You know,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: it's just it's meant to be for those teams. And
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 4: when you see a team on the run, on a
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 4: run that's you get that vibe, you see it before
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 4: it comes. And I think that those two teams in
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  Speaker 4: the league right now really stand out to me throughout
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 4: the season. And Branford, you really saw the energy at
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 4: the press conference. You really get I thought that maybe
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 4: there's nerves, but maybe just dialed in. I think Barry
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  Speaker 4: had a lot of nerves as well. I mean bode
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  Speaker 4: Way and h just and they're they're quiet, you know,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 4: like not a lot to say, and and to be fair,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 4: there isn't really a lot to say. It's a touchy subject.
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  Speaker 4: I find the pre series these press conferences to be
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 4: quite dry because coaches aren't tipping their cap, players aren't
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 4: tipping their cap. You get what you get and you
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  Speaker 4: move on. You're not gonna pry for answers in the
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  Speaker 4: press conference beforehand. You're just not gonna get them. And
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  Speaker 4: I think that for both sides it was like that.
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  Speaker 4: But I think for Branford there's been a lot of
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  Speaker 4: energy throughout this is the playoffs so far. The depth
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  Speaker 4: of the team. I mean, they have a third line
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 4: right now, Charlie Piquett, Gabe Farasca, youar pick on the
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: dogcast reached to be one of those valuable players in
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 4: the postseason for the Bulldogs, Gabe Forrasca and Luca Tesla,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 4: who I think is playing the best hockey he's played
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: in the OHL so far in his career. And I
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: think that you look at a line like that is
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: your third line, it's hard to match up against. It's
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 4: hard to get three lines where your third line can
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: match up with that. The Parry Colts are two lines deep.
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  Speaker 4: That's what's gonna be the challenge for the Colts, the
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: two verse four lines there. But I feel, I feel
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  Speaker 4: this is gonna be a series. I have Branford in
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  Speaker 4: six games. I think it's gonna be a good series.
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  Speaker 4: And I think for the Bulldogs they trust the depth,
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  Speaker 4: they trust the system, and they showcase that in the
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 4: press conference for Parry. For Parry, I mean their big
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 4: thing is penalties, and I mean on the flip side
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 4: for the Bulldogs it should be as well. But for Barry,
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  Speaker 4: penalties penalties are a big thing for the Bowl. For Barry,
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  Speaker 4: Let's be honest, their achilles heel is taking dumb penalties
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  Speaker 4: they do. They do that too many times and it
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  Speaker 4: starts up top. It starts with their leadership. Boduin. No,
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  Speaker 4: but Ah just said, let's be honest. Yeah, you hear
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  Speaker 4: Josh Sweetland, director of OHL Communications, say the question, he's
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: no story to spending time in the box. He's no,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 4: he's no stranger like let like. It's no secret. It's
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 4: no secret. But the Barry Colts and their coaching staff,
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 4: from what I get from the press conference and essentially said, Okay,
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: we know we're gonna take penalties in the series. We
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 4: can't take dumb ones. Logically speaking, yet you would hope that.
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  Speaker 4: But the way they play the game, the way Barry
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 4: plays the game, they're one of there. They're two different teams.
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 4: You know, they're when they're winning, they're really hard to
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: play against. It's all about the start of their game.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 4: It's all about how their first period goes, their first game,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 4: their first game, and they're if they score the first
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 4: goal and they're feeling good, hey there they go, right.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 4: But they're the team in the third period that if
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 4: they're down a couple of goals late, they're gonna run around,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 4: they're gonna look for stuff. And it's no secret. It's
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 4: been no secret. It Honestly, I didn't think that Barry
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 4: Colts looked great against the Niger Ice Dogs in the
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 4: first round. I mean, let's not forget when they were
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 4: up like that and then they almost blew it then almost,
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 4: but it was closer than it should have been. There's
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 4: been games.
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  Speaker 3: An eight one game at one point finished nine to six.
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  Speaker 4: Big time. Yeah, like you know, there's been games that
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 4: you know, you gotta have that step. And I think
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  Speaker 4: for Barry, they're a heck of a team. It's gonna
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: be a really good series. They got every chance, they
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 4: got every chance to win the series. It's gonna be
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: a good series they got. I can see them winning
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: the series for sure. But it's gonna be And like
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 4: you say, we know Ben Wilma, we know Emil Heming,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 4: we know Brad Gardner, colebod Went, and we know they're
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 4: gonna get the goals. We know they're gonna have chances.
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 4: Everyone in the ohl knows that those guys are superstars.
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  Speaker 4: They're really get We know Agison has a shot on
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  Speaker 4: the power play. What a match up that's gonna be
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 4: Ben Danford on the penalty kill side with Kayshawn Agison
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  Speaker 4: in the flank. What a matchup that is? On the
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 4: penalty kill for the Bulldogs, power play for the Colts.
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  Speaker 3: But I feel like I.
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  Speaker 4: Feel like at the end of the day, it comes
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 4: between the years for the Barry Colts, Elias and Aitchison.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 4: That's what it comes down to. Sebeski as well. Can
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 4: you keep your head on your shoulders. If you play composed,
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 4: you're gonna have a chance to win the series. If
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 4: you don't, you run around Hey kayshawn Ahius and trade
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 4: off for Ryder Bolton. That's a huge win for the Bulldogs.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 4: Jay McKee's taking that matchup all day. So if you're
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: the Barry Colts, you gotta keep the head on your shoulders.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 4: You gotta stay composed through a seven game series. You're
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: gonna have to win a late one. If the Barry
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: Colts are gonna win the series, you're gonna have to
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: win in six seven games. You're gonna have to go
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 4: a long ways to have a chance. So the way
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 4: you do that is you keep your head on your shoulders.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: You gotta play with composure and uh, if they can
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: do that, they'll be successful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Bulldogs throughout the playoffs so far eleven for
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: twenty five on the man advantage and that was including
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: it being nine for eighteen against the Sudbury Wolves. So
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: it'll be good. It'll be good. I'm really looking forward
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: to it. The final four are set. In the West,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: it is Kitchener against Windsor. In the East it is
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: Brantford against Barry. Again, we will break for the entire
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: third round of the postseason and then we'll be back
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: to t up THEHL Championship series. Who's it gonna be Well,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: we'll find out over the next couple of weeks. Colin Ward.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be fun. I'm really looking forward to this.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 2: And again, to this point a big game's been competitive. Sure,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: but we got to see your series here. We gotta
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: see some length.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 4: Six stixer and a seven would be pretty cool.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: That'd be huge.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 4: I also, I don't I don't like I don't like
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 4: how the series you're gonna have games on the same day.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 4: I don't like that. I wish it was every other day.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 4: Let's get every night, every night for two weeks, we
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 4: get OHL hockey. Let's do it that way.
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: Let's do it that way.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 4: That'd be so much better than having games at the
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 4: same time, because now you're not gonna get the full
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: potential viewing experience of watching every team play. It's gonna
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 4: be every other I wish it was every other night
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 4: and said that at the same time. But Wednesday night,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: all eyes on the Eastern Conference in Branford. What a
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: showdown that's gonna be.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: What a show TD Civic Center, seven o'clock, Barry Colts
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  Speaker 2: and Branford Bulldogs. Everyone, Thank you so much for tuning
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• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: BC and the Clouds, for Colin mord I'm Reese Domini.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy the conference finals and we will chat again ahead
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: of the OHL Championship Series.
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