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11-6 H4: Joey Daccord Joins, What's Up Sando & One Last Thing · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: On a breakaway, Fairby shot.
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  Speaker 2: Big save by.
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  Speaker 3: Joey Decord on the blocker side.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that is who is talking to us today, this
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  Speaker 4: morning at 9 o'clock. A cracking huge victory last night
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  Speaker 4: versus the Calgary Flames, 2-1 in overtime. One of the
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  Speaker 4: big reasons for that victory was the man between the pipes, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Joey Decord, who multiple times either kept the game close
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  Speaker 4: when Calgary went ahead, kept the game tied when it
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  Speaker 4: was 1-1, and then... At the very end, ended up
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  Speaker 4: keeping the Kraken in the game to get to overtime
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  Speaker 4: where Matty Beneers would get the overtime winner. Joey Decor
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  Speaker 4: joins us, Kraken goaltender after a massive win. Joey, thanks
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  Speaker 4: so much for joining us here on Chuck in the Morning.
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  Speaker 2: How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Good morning. Yeah, thanks for having me. Super excited to
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  Speaker 5: be here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: We really appreciate you spending a little time with the
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  Speaker 4: morning crew here. A huge win last night. What's the
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  Speaker 4: vibe in the locker room after that one and playing
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  Speaker 4: Calgary after losing to them earlier last week?
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  Speaker 5: It was an awesome win.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was just great for our group to
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  Speaker 1: bounce back after a loss to them last week.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, we played it. We played an awesome game.
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  Speaker 1: It was obviously a low scoring tight checking game, but
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  Speaker 1: the guys played great, played really solid defensively and. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Berkeley scored a great goal in the second
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  Speaker 1: there to get us back in it. And then Maddie, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: a great goal to win in overtime. And, yeah, boys
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  Speaker 1: are feeling good. I feel like we've got good vibes
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  Speaker 1: in the locker room right now, so we just need
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  Speaker 1: to keep this thing rolling.
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  Speaker 2: That's great to hear.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, some extra stuff popped up last night, including a
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  Speaker 4: couple of goaltender interference calls, which is... you know, pretty
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  Speaker 4: rare to see two of them in one game. Is
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  Speaker 4: that just a division rival thing? Or is there an
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  Speaker 4: element to, you know, we've played this team four times
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  Speaker 4: already in the early season. It's like, it's, we're starting
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  Speaker 4: to get some, some extra chippy stuff going on here.
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  Speaker 5: You know what? I honestly, I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 5: think I've ever seen that.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, usually only get a couple of those a season
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  Speaker 1: to get two in one game.
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  Speaker 5: This was a little nuts.
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  Speaker 1: Um, but yeah, I, I don't really know if it
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  Speaker 1: was any of those things necessarily. It might just be
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  Speaker 1: a matter of circumstance or just the way the plays
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  Speaker 1: worked out. But I appreciated, you know, Monty being there
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  Speaker 1: to step up for me. And, you know, it's... yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of those things as a goalie, you want
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  Speaker 1: to feel protected by your team. So it was great
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  Speaker 1: to see the guys have my back.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Do you notice an extra little bit of that kind
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  Speaker 4: of team toughness sort of mentality with this group this year?
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  Speaker 4: It seems like there has definitely been an uptick in
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  Speaker 4: that kind of response to those kinds of plays.
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  Speaker 2: Do you notice that as well?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely. Yeah. I really feel like we have such a
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  Speaker 5: tight knit group this year.
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  Speaker 1: Um, we've always had good groups here, but for, for
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  Speaker 1: some reason this year, uh, in particular, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we just have a very close, uh, close team. And, um,
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  Speaker 1: I definitely think that translates from off the ice onto
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  Speaker 1: the ice in those types of situations where we support
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  Speaker 1: each other incredibly well. We always have each other's backs.
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  Speaker 1: In situations like that, there's no hesitation for the guys
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  Speaker 1: to step up for each other. I know for myself personally. um,
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  Speaker 1: me and Monty are very close and, and, uh, to
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  Speaker 1: have him step up for me like that was, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I really appreciated that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it makes it really easy to root for
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  Speaker 4: his fans as well.
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  Speaker 2: So we love to see that.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, how would you evaluate where you guys are as
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  Speaker 4: a team right now through 15 games, uh, in this
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  Speaker 4: early season?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think we're doing great.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, we, uh, we obviously added Mackie and, um,
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  Speaker 1: you know, lost a couple of players and I think maybe, uh,
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  Speaker 1: expectations weren't the biggest for us this.
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  Speaker 5: Year, but I think internally we, we really liked our team.
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  Speaker 1: And I think as long as we continue to focus on,
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  Speaker 1: on our team inside the room and continue to keep
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  Speaker 1: building our game, like we, we knew it wasn't going
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  Speaker 1: to be perfect right off the start of the season, right?
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  Speaker 5: It takes a while to build your game throughout a season.
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  Speaker 1: And I think so far we've, we've exceeded expectations and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we can continue to.
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  Speaker 5: Do that and, I think a big, a big reason
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  Speaker 5: for that is.
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  Speaker 1: Just focusing on our game and ourselves and how we
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  Speaker 1: can keep improving and getting better.
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  Speaker 5: And also at the same time, just taking our game
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  Speaker 5: to other people, right?
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  Speaker 1: Like you don't always want to, you know, definitely you
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  Speaker 1: want to prepare for other teams and, and understand their
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  Speaker 1: tendencies and what they like to do. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, we want to impose our will on other teams.
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  Speaker 1: We're so fast. We play really quick and, When we're
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  Speaker 1: at the top of our game, we can play with
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  Speaker 1: any team in this league.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think externally, from fans' perspective, analysts' perspective,
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  Speaker 4: the good start for the Kraken has come as a
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  Speaker 4: pleasant surprise, but is it just as surprising to you
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  Speaker 4: guys how well you've started, or is this what you
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  Speaker 4: expected coming into the year?
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  Speaker 5: No, I don't think we're surprised.
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  Speaker 1: I think, like I said, we have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: belief and confidence in the group in our locker room,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously you never know how it's going to go,
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  Speaker 1: but we just wanted to put our foot down right
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  Speaker 1: away and play fast and play quick and be on,
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  Speaker 1: be on top of teams, be all over teams. And
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  Speaker 1: I think you've kind of seen that so far we
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  Speaker 1: have had teams, um, you know, we've, we've, we've beaten
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  Speaker 1: good teams and we've played really, really well at times.
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  Speaker 5: So, um, it's an 84 game season.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be ups and downs, but it feels
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  Speaker 1: really good to start, start well and start strong.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what about how you would evaluate you as a
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  Speaker 4: player through these first for you? Seven starts, eight appearances
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  Speaker 4: in this early season. How do you feel like, where
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  Speaker 4: do you feel like you're at as a goaltender in
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  Speaker 4: helping your team win at this point?
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, I feel really good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a couple of results didn't go my way
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  Speaker 1: and that's just the nature of the game right now. It's,
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  Speaker 1: the NHL is a really, uh, really tough league to
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  Speaker 1: be a goalie in at the moment.
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  Speaker 5: And, uh, I'm just trying to compete and give the
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  Speaker 5: team a chance to win every night.
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  Speaker 1: And, um, I think I've been here long enough in
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  Speaker 1: Seattle now for, for the fans and the people to
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  Speaker 1: know that, um, you know, it may not always go
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  Speaker 1: my way, but I'm going to leave everything I have
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  Speaker 1: on the ice and compete, uh, and fight as hard
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  Speaker 1: as I can. And, um, yeah, I'm really happy with, uh,
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  Speaker 1: with my compete level, my effort level, honestly, even though,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, some, some results haven't gone my way. I,
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  Speaker 1: look back at those games and i've done lots of
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  Speaker 1: good so just trying to keep continue building and building
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  Speaker 1: my game here um as the season goes on and
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  Speaker 1: and uh trying to give the team the best chance
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  Speaker 1: to win i can every night that i'm in.
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  Speaker 4: There yeah we love to hear that especially seeing you
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  Speaker 4: have the success you had last night and uh really
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  Speaker 4: keeping the kraken in that game for the the entirety
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  Speaker 4: of it so uh a trade made the headlines uh
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  Speaker 4: last week or i guess earlier this week i should
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  Speaker 4: say with uh Matthew Wood coming in, Shane Wright going out.
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  Speaker 4: What were your impressions of the kind of first game
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  Speaker 4: that Matthew Wood played last night and what's he like
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  Speaker 4: as a teammate?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Woody's awesome. He's a really nice kid.
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  Speaker 1: You could tell right away that he's very dialed in
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  Speaker 1: and he's a very good pro, like takes care of
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  Speaker 1: his body, you know, wants to work hard, wants to
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  Speaker 1: do the right things.
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  Speaker 5: For the team and himself.
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  Speaker 1: And Um, obviously like Shane was a big part of
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  Speaker 1: our team and going to miss him.
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  Speaker 5: He was a great guy and a great player and
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  Speaker 5: one of my close friends.
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  Speaker 1: So going to miss him and wish him all the
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  Speaker 1: best in Nashville.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, we're really excited to have Woody. Um, it
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  Speaker 5: seems like a really great kid and, uh, yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: thought he was good last night.
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  Speaker 1: It's, it's always a little tough coming into a new team, uh,
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  Speaker 1: new systems, you know, and, and trying to learn everybody
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  Speaker 1: and everything.
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  Speaker 6: And, um, It was.
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  Speaker 1: Great to see him settle in throughout the game. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he played really well, made some great wall plays,
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  Speaker 1: showed some skill, too, in the offensive end. I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to see him grow into our team here as the
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  Speaker 1: season moves forward.
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  Speaker 4: What about the emergence of Brickley Catton? It seems like
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  Speaker 4: he's been one of the big storylines here in the
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  Speaker 4: early part of the season for the Seattle Kraken. What
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  Speaker 4: have you noticed that's different in his game this year?
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  Speaker 4: compared to the previous year in his rookie year, where
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  Speaker 4: he's just taken this massive step forward, at least so far.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's taken a huge jump.
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  Speaker 1: Honestly, I could tell as soon as we got back
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  Speaker 1: for training camp this year, before the season started, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, wow, he's made a big jump.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you got to remember, he's still so young.
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  Speaker 1: Like, when you're that young, a full off-season of training
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  Speaker 1: in the gym, on the ice, like, when you're later
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  Speaker 1: in your career, it's hard to make those big changes.
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  Speaker 5: And he made a huge stride this summer.
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  Speaker 1: He's making plays at an incredibly high level.
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  Speaker 5: His shot's gotten way better. Every time I see him,
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, keep shooting, keep shooting, keep shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Because his shot, I mean, that goal he scored tonight
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  Speaker 1: was an absolute laser beam. And yeah, he needs to
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  Speaker 1: utilize that shot because he's got it. And his passing
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  Speaker 1: is incredible. And he's obviously fast, can make make great plays.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, he's yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if he keeps taking strides forward like this,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to be a big problem for other teams
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  Speaker 1: to deal with.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It just seems like he, the game is slowed down
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  Speaker 4: for him. He's just, it's everything is just kind of
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  Speaker 4: coming into play with his elite playmaking skills. Does he
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  Speaker 4: seem bigger to you? Cause he's dealt with physicality. I
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  Speaker 4: think a lot better this year as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's put weight on.
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  Speaker 2: Great.
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  Speaker 1: He looks, he looks more jacked. Don't tell him I
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  Speaker 1: said that, but he looks more jacked. But, yeah, he
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  Speaker 1: definitely put weight on.
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  Speaker 5: He's definitely more physical. He's faster. Like I said, his
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  Speaker 5: shots weigh harder and way more accurate. And he has
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  Speaker 5: elite vision. He can make plays that not a lot
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  Speaker 5: of people can make.
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  Speaker 1: So when I talk to him, I just keep encouraging
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  Speaker 1: him to be aggressive, keep taking the play to the
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  Speaker 1: other team.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, we're seeing it. I think he's on
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  Speaker 5: a seven-game point streak, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty impressive for a player of his age.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully he can keep making strides forward and keep
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  Speaker 1: being dominant for us.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty dang cool. All right, you got one more game
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  Speaker 4: before you guys go to Finland. A little bit of
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  Speaker 4: a light schedule, I think, with the traveling and all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff. uh what are you excited for to head
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  Speaker 4: as to be a part of the nhl global series
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  Speaker 4: next week in finland.
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  Speaker 1: I'm super excited yeah i've i've never gotten to play
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  Speaker 1: in a global series like this i played in world
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  Speaker 1: championships a few years ago in denmark and sweden which
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  Speaker 1: was really cool but uh first time in finland for
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  Speaker 1: me and first time playing in the nhl overseas so
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  Speaker 1: Going to be a super cool experience. I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to try to take it all in and enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have a bunch of family and friends there.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a super cool experience.
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  Speaker 5: So really looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: And hopefully we can come back with a couple wins,
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  Speaker 1: put the sherry on top.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and by the way, you're facing the defending Stanley
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  Speaker 4: Cup champions for two straight games.
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  Speaker 2: So that should be fun, huh?
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  Speaker 5: Good test. It'll be a good test for us.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, have fun on the trip, Joey. Appreciate you hopping
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  Speaker 4: on the show this morning and keep going with the
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  Speaker 4: amazing start to the season. It's been super exciting to
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  Speaker 4: watch as a Kraken fan. So best wishes.
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  Speaker 5: All right. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Joey Decor joining us. Yeah, it's great to hear from him.
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  Speaker 4: And you could tell the vibes are high right now
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  Speaker 4: in Kraken land. That was just a big win last
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  Speaker 4: night because I think after kind of getting boat raced
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  Speaker 4: a little bit earlier last week against the Flames 6-2,
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  Speaker 4: there were some question marks on whether the early season
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  Speaker 4: success story of the Kraken was starting to wane a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. Being able to answer those last night with
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  Speaker 4: a 2-1 overtime victory was And let's face it, a
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  Speaker 4: game where for a large portion of the game, the
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  Speaker 4: Kraken were outplayed. Joey, perfect guy to join us this morning,
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  Speaker 4: stood on his head, kept the Kraken in the game,
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  Speaker 4: and they were able to find their footing late in
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  Speaker 4: that third period and overtime in order to get the
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  Speaker 4: overtime winner. I mean, as he mentioned there with Berkeley
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  Speaker 4: Cat and if this guy is going to be a true,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to put point per game expectations on
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  Speaker 4: him just yet. But if he's going to be a
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  Speaker 4: true offensive carrier that the Kraken have needed, have have
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  Speaker 4: desperately needed for a long time, that makes everyone else
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  Speaker 4: around him.
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  Speaker 2: The team better.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be great to watch them continue to
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  Speaker 4: have success if they keep doing what has gotten them
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  Speaker 4: to this point. And as Joey said there, it's not
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  Speaker 4: like they're just beating bad teams, right? The Flames just
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  Speaker 4: last night, I know their record may not seem super impressive.
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  Speaker 4: They were 7-3 in their previous 10 games going into
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  Speaker 4: last night. They started the season pretty poorly, but they
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  Speaker 4: had really come on as of late going into last night.
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  Speaker 4: So to get that victory was a huge one. They
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  Speaker 4: beat the Maple Leafs, who had had renewed expectations this year.
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  Speaker 4: They beat the Utah Mammoth, the Red Wings. All those
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  Speaker 4: teams have been playing really good hockey as of late.
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  Speaker 4: So to see the Kraken continue to have success against
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  Speaker 4: some of the best teams in the NHL, if that
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  Speaker 4: can continue, this can be I think a really good
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  Speaker 4: team moving forward throughout the rest of the season. Christopher,
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  Speaker 4: I know you're not a huge hockey fan, but what
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  Speaker 4: were your impressions of Joey Decor joining us there?
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  Speaker 2: Fun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He knows how to have a good time. Yeah, he does.
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  Speaker 6: So if I'm throwing a party, Joey, please slide on through, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Give me some excitement. He's a really cool dude.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And that was a great interview. So, yeah, he seems cool.
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  Speaker 5: It's fun.
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  Speaker 4: It's interesting because I think goaltenders get put into this category,
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  Speaker 4: into this cubby sometimes as like kind of the really
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  Speaker 4: they're the pitchers of baseball right in hockey where they're
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  Speaker 4: kind of superstitious. They are very separate from the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the skaters. I don't get that impression with Joey Decord.
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  Speaker 4: He's very much one of the guys. even just an
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  Speaker 4: optical thing as of, uh, when they do the national.
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  Speaker 2: Anthems, right?
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  Speaker 4: A lot of the times the goalies will stay in
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  Speaker 4: their crease when the national anthem is going, just cause
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  Speaker 4: they like to get in the zone.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what, that's what Philip Grubauer likes to do. And,
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  Speaker 4: and a lot of goalies have had success doing that
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  Speaker 4: as well, but having Joey step up onto the blue
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  Speaker 4: line with the rest of the team kind of shows, uh,
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  Speaker 4: He's one of the guys, so to speak, and he
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  Speaker 4: likes to play the puck just like those guys. He
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  Speaker 4: likes to take a couple shots, too, when there's an
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  Speaker 4: empty net. So we're still waiting for that goalie goal
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  Speaker 4: for Joey Decord. But I can't tell you how impressed
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  Speaker 4: I have been with this early start for the Kraken season.
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  Speaker 4: Let's look at their next couple games here. They got
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  Speaker 4: the Rangers, who I think are in a slight bit
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  Speaker 4: of a rebuild. So that should be a winnable game
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  Speaker 4: at home on Saturday before you go to Finland next.
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  Speaker 4: and faced the Carolina Hurricanes twice. Now, we all know
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  Speaker 4: the Hurricanes are the defending Stanley Cup champions, and they've
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  Speaker 4: started this season really strong as well. They look just
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  Speaker 4: as good, if not maybe even a little bit better
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  Speaker 4: this year than they were last year. So that's going
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: to be a tough little two-game test there. But if
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: you can get one of those two games, I'd even
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: be happy with one point. Out of those two games,
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: if you were to take one game to at least overtime,
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: if you get two points out of those possible four,
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: that would be fantastic. Then you come home and play
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: the Canucks, a definite rebuilding team, a Sharks team that
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: had some expectations coming into the season, but have really
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: struggled in the early part of the season. Same thing
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: with the Ducks as well. The Blackhawks, the schedule really
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: softens up for those four games after you take that
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: trip to Finland, plus the fact that you're not playing three,
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: four times a week. The next two weeks, the Kraken
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: only play twice. Again, you're still traveling over to Europe,
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: so that adds to everything. But if they're able to
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: kind of continue this hot stretch before they face a
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: little home-and-home against the Oilers on November 27th and 28th,
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: that is the big kind of.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Point in the season where I think you can really
• 15:31
  Speaker 4: start to have higher expectations for the Seattle Kraken. Christopher,
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: were you able to catch any of the Kraken game
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: last night? Berkeley Caton scoring a goal for the seventh
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: consecutive game where he got a point. Just it seems
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: like they're in a good spot right now if they're
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: able to kind of keep this momentum going. I tried
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: to stay up.
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: But I was like, okay, do I finish this game
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: or do I try to get some rest and then
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: I can read on it and see what happens at
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: the end. So I stayed up until about mid-third and.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Was like, yeah, I got to go. But overall, good game.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: This team is far better than they were last year.
• 16:12
  Speaker 6: And as Joey mentioned. can we do it for the
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: whole season? Let's stay consistent and doing those, doing the
• 16:17
  Speaker 6: right things that we've already been doing. We believe that
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: this is our time to be who we are capable
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: of being and they have all the right pieces. So
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: let's just enjoy the ride.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: For me, this, that, that, and that's a good point
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: that Joey brought up there because, you know, they did
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: have a similarly hot start last year and they took
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: it up until basically the trade deadline or not even
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: the trade deadline, excuse me, the, the Olympic break and,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: where they were in a playoff spot at that point.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: In fact, I think they were close to even being
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: in one of the division spots, not even a wildcard spot.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: So that being the case, uh, We're still tempering the
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: expectations here. But to me, this year feels different. I
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: think last year there were some smoke and mirrors into
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: what was making them successful last year. We always were
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: kind of expecting some regression. I don't see those same
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: signs with this year's Kraken team. I see a team
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: that actually, if anything, they're... underperforming compared to what their
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: expected stats are at this point. Yes, I know their
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: shooting percentage is pretty high, which is usually the kind
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: of the stat that everyone draws into the luck side
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: of things. If you have a higher shooting percentage, that
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: means you're getting lucky. I don't make that same conclusion.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: If you look at the highest shooting percentage teams in
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: the NHL, it's all the best teams in the NHL.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: So I don't think that means that you're getting lucky.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: I think that just means you're picking out your shots well. However,
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: I would think that some shot volume would come at
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: a welcomed site, so to say. I think there are
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: a couple guys that are snakebitten right now. One of
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: them scored a goal last night, Matty Beneers. Hopefully he
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: can kind of get going offensively after that big overtime winner. Now,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: everyone likes to look at point totals as how players
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: are doing offensively. you have to look at what Matty
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Beneers does on the defensive side as well. He does
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: so much work there that even if he's not necessarily
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: performing to the level that we saw him at his
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: rookie year, or even last year from a point total
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: sort of thing, if he's able to consistently be a
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: shutdown center in today's game, that's a huge ask, especially,
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: or a huge role, I should say, especially with a
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: lot of other players stepping up. I think Bobby McMahon
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: has been snake bitten. He has been, Had really bad
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: luck in terms of, you know, hitting the post a
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: couple times, getting a couple big opportunities that we usually
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: see him score. I think if he's able to get going,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: that's just going to get even more offense. I actually
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: think the goaltending, as Joey pointed out, even though if
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: you look at his stats, it's not doesn't jump off
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: the page. They don't have right now a goaltender that
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: has an above 900 safe percentage, which is really a
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: baseline in today's NHL. But I actually think for the
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: most part, for the most part, those both of those
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: two guys have actually played pretty well. So if all
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: of those things kind of have some positive regression there,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: that's that's kind of that would lead to even more
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: positive play from the Kraken. So I think they're doing
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: the right things. The process is playing out right now.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: And again, I think a huge part of that is
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: the emergence of Berkeley Cat and having a guy that
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: you can rely on consistently. to create offense every single
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: time he's out on the ice and not just create
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: for others, but score himself like he did last night.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: That's just such a good thing to be able to
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: rely on for an NHL team throughout an 84 game season.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: Let's get back to some NFL talk. Let's talk to
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Mike Sando of The Athletic. coming up next year on
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: Chuck in the morning sports radio, 93.3 KJR FM.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: It's time for our Thursday visit with Mike Sando of
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: the athletic and brought to you by hunt services. Get
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: on the horn and call hunts. Now with Mike, here's
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Chuck in the morning.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Welcome back, Chuck, in the morning.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM, Anderson Hurst and Christopher Kidd
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: filling in while Chuck is on vacation.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: He'll be back most likely tomorrow.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: And I'm joined, as we always are, at 930 on
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: a Thursday morning. Mike Sando joins the show. I get
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: to talk to this guy. You know, I've talked to
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: him for a while when I was back on Ian's show.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: And now I get to talk to him in the morning.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike. How are you?
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: I'm doing well, thanks.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Appreciate you hopping on with us today. I want to
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: start with an important update and more of a kind
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: of a life thing, less than a football thing. What
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: can you tell us about the latest about the Jack
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: Campbell situation?
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: Well, I mean, I think that, you know, they've been
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: so slow in the details that we've been worried that,
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: you know, it was going to be something long-term. And
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: I think we got, the news we've gotten is somewhere
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: in between that he, uh, has the movement in his
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: lower extremities and it's coming back in the upper, which
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: tells you this was serious. I mean, he maybe got
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: really close to something that could have paralyzed him, but
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: it sounds like he's going to regain his, uh, uh,
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: use of his, you know, all of his extremities. And
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: then who knows what that means for playing football. And
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: I have no idea, but I think, you know, it's, uh,
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: just a reminder that, uh, You know, in sports, terrible
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: accidents can happen, and we've seen it. There's been a
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: soccer player was killed in the last week. We had
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: a 24-year-old die during the New York Marathon, you know?
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: And then this. It's just, you know, we love these
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: sports so much, but, you know, crazy, terrible things can happen.
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: And when they do, you just sort of reassess, you know?
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, I think we're all glad that it wasn't something
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: more serious, but it is kind of a moment to
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: kind of step back and be like, well, these guys
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: are humans as well.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Oh, no doubt.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Great to see that he's hopefully... hopefully able to, you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: get back to making a, I guess, full recovery. I
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: don't know what full recovery would look like. It just
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: depends on what you mean by that. But all right,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: let's talk about some trades that have gone down. Jacoby
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Brissett traded to the Ravens. What can you tell us
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: about this deal?
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, you know, for teams like the Ravens,
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: you're kind of, it's too early in the season to
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: give up on it, but you probably know you're not
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: a contender to win it all, right? I mean, you
• 22:26
  Speaker 7: just sort of do what you can do. I think
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: they're in such a weird situation with, losing your top
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: two quarterbacks and then playing a Thursday night game. I
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: think you have to do something for your coaching staff.
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: You have to give them some kind of a chance. So,
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: you know, this probably makes sense for them to get
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: a Jacoby Brissett.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, and I may have missed something. Does
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: this mean that Lamar Jackson's out for the year?
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Do we know that?
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I do. Yeah.
• 22:52
  Speaker 7: I don't know that we know that for sure, but
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: I think we're proceeding on the fact that that could happen.
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: And certainly we've, You know, we've seen before there's been whispers,
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: you know, when he's had contract situations, he's had injuries
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: late in the year that people have wondered, could he
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: have played on them or what? So I don't think
• 23:07
  Speaker 7: you can just bank on anything. You don't really know
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: what the situation is there. And I think, you know,
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: ideally for the, I think the ideal thing for the
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: Ravens would have been, hey, get Tyson Bajent from Chicago
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: and maybe there's some upside and you can see, but
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: that may not have been available to them. So you
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: get Brissett, which to me is obviously he's not going
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: to be there in a year. but he can get
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: you through the year. And they have a lot of
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: things that are, I think, going to be interesting, to
• 23:34
  Speaker 7: say the least, in that position, because I think Lamar
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: Jackson is going to have some agency here in terms
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: of what he does next for the contract, where he plays.
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: He has things in his contract now where he has
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: some control.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: The Chargers are 0-7, Mike.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: At this point, I am fully confident they will be
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: 0-9 before they take on the Jets November 22nd. Is
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: there anyone on the hot seat there or are they just,
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: you know, this is the situation they're in and they
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: plan on bringing people back next season and figuring things
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: out and trying to be better?
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: If they go to 0-8 and don't make a trade
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: at the deadline, I mean, that just seems like malpractice
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: to me. So definitely there should be, hey, is this
• 24:16
  Speaker 7: the end for Jim Harbaugh? You know, certainly the situation
• 24:20
  Speaker 7: according to what goes on in your mind there, though,
• 24:22
  Speaker 7: is you know, the owners haven't been as, number one,
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: they're not as wealthy as like the Penners, right? And
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: they don't throw money around. They're known as being one
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: of the tighter organizations. So are they going to, they
• 24:35
  Speaker 7: probably had to pay more than their comfort zone just
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: to get Jim Harbaugh. So are they going to fire
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: Jim Harbaugh and then hire another coach and be paying
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: two at the same time? That's something that you have
• 24:45
  Speaker 7: to consider with them at a time when even the
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: richest owner in sports in terms of team revenue, Jerry
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: Jones doesn't want to pay head coach. So keep the
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: money part in mind. You know, you and I would
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: make a move because it's not our money. And if
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: we had that kind of money, we think we'd probably
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: be willing to spend more. But a lot of these
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: owners aren't. And so they may make financial decisions.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: What does Mike McDaniel fit in all that?
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: Well, the interesting thing about Mike McDaniel is, okay, who
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: wanted to hire him? Because was that just Jim Harbaugh saying,
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: you know what, I'd like to get Mike McDaniel who
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: doesn't seem in anything like Jim Harbaugh? Well, was that,
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: let's just say, John Spanos, who's in ownership of the team,
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: and he wanted to do it because he was somebody
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: they considered hiring for head coach. Those are the types
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: of things you don't know, because I think typically by
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: now there would have been a move at the coordinator position.
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: Do something, right? Give it to Shane Day, who's been
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: there and was there when Herbert had success. People would
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: laugh if they gave it to Adam Gaze, but he's
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: at least called plays, right? Don't you have to change something?
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: and over, and it just isn't looking a lot better.
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: So I think that's a place where things obviously don't
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: always get done for the right reasons.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: Anderson and I had this discussion a little earlier on
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: in the show, and I'm curious your thoughts. I put
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: the Buffalo Bills as the best team in the NFL.
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: They seem to be a team that is– Bad defensively,
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: but offensively, they light it up just like no other else.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: Who do you see as the favorite to be the
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: best in the NFL right now?
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: Yes, I think that's a safe bet for sort of
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: like the long term of it. I think right now,
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: are the Bears playing better than anybody right now? It
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: feels like a who's the best team right now league.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: And if you want to make the contention of the Bills,
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: you're relatively certain of what they're going to be. And
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: any given one week, Josh Allen can beat anybody. So
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: I understand where you're going with it, and I think
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: it's a smart way to look at it for the
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: longer term. Because I think the Bears have had some
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: nice games, but they just haven't done it as long,
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: and we'll see if they're able to keep doing it.
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: I think they're a team with some upside and some
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: intrigue to them that... probably has their fan base more
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: excited than Buffalo's is.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Somewhat related.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: Do we expect Micah Parsons and Miles Garrett to play
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: this week? And does that change kind of the hierarchy
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: in that aspect, in the NFC at least?
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: I think we need to wait and look. I don't
• 27:16
  Speaker 7: know if they're going to play. It feels like they've
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: been slow playing those guys back. So I'm not going
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: to bet on those guys playing, but I think that
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: they do make a big difference. And I'm really intrigued
• 27:26
  Speaker 7: for the Packers because they've kind of, hung in there
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: a little bit, you know, and I think that offensively
• 27:32
  Speaker 7: the quarterback Jordan loves played really well. They do have
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: Josh Jacobs back, make a, make of that what you
• 27:37
  Speaker 7: will in terms of the morality of it. But I
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: think he gives them a physical presence that over time
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: can help them in the run game, even though he
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: hasn't had a good results in the defense with Jonathan
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: Gannon has been really good even without Micah Parsons. So
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: I'm definitely think that Parsons coming back to them really
• 27:55
  Speaker 7: could help them. I think with Myles Garrett, we'll just see.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: It feels like their issues are a little bit more
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: existential throughout the whole program right now. And some of
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: them are on offense too. And, and he, he's definitely
• 28:05
  Speaker 7: going to help though, when he comes back and just,
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: we just haven't seen it yet. Uh, to really even
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: know what they're missing, right? What that's going to look like.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, let's go locally here. It has just
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: come out that the finalists for the Hall of Fame
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: have been released this morning. Mike Holmgren, again, once again,
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: very local ties, obviously. With Bill Belichick missing out last
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: year and everything changing with the voting system, so to speak,
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: does that mean that we expect him him to probably
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: miss out once again because they have to get Belichick in?
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: Or how do you kind of categorize where we are
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: at this stage in the process?
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: So in the end, there's going to be 15 candidates
• 28:48
  Speaker 7: and there's going to be no categories for them in
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: the end. There's not going to be a coach category,
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: a contributor category. There's not even a senior one doesn't
• 28:55
  Speaker 7: even exist. So there's going to be 15 people on
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: equal footing. One of them is going to be a coach.
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: So of those five coaches, Reeve, Shanahan, Holmgren, Belichick.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Just one or at least one?
• 29:06
  Speaker 7: One just one okay so the most likely thing would
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: be for probably belichick to be that one right that
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: goes into the 15 i would think probably robert craft
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: would be you know the contributor and there'll be 13
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: players some of them could be what we used to
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: call seniors retired at least 25 years and some of
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: them will be more recently retired and remember there's going
• 29:28
  Speaker 7: to be uh Some really good ones like Rob Gronkowski
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: is coming in, that type of thing. Adrian Peterson, those
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: guys are probably going to make it. And in the end,
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: three to seven total will make it out of the 15.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: So I would think that Belichick will make it. And
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: then Belichick, you would think, would be one of the
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: three to seven. But as we've learned.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Who knows?
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: The last couple of years, who knows what's going to
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: happen when... people have to make choices.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate your insight with, with that process as
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: you know, we've always kind of leaned on you for
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: that one. So I appreciate you and we'll talk again
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: next week. You'll be back with Chuck.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks so much for joining us, Mike.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Appreciate it. All right.
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  Speaker 4: That's Mike Sando of the athletic. Always appreciate his conversations.
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  Speaker 4: We'll close out the show with one last thing coming
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  Speaker 4: up next year on sports radio, 93.3 KJR FM. All right,
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  Speaker 4: welcome in Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM to Chuck in
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  Speaker 4: the morning. Anderson Hurst and Christopher Kidd filling in for
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  Speaker 4: one more segment as Chuck is finishing up his vacation.
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  Speaker 2: He should be back with us tomorrow. Christopher Kidd, what
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  Speaker 2: do you got for one last thing? All right, well....
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  Speaker 6: I am one of those people that partakes in fantasy basketball.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. And I'm enjoying it. I'm 2-0.
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  Speaker 6: Off to a great start. Who cares what my record is?
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  Speaker 6: But I don't know if you guys saw last night.
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  Speaker 6: Wimby had 50-plus points and 24 rebounds. Not to mention,
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  Speaker 6: he also had eight freaking blocks. With that being said, Anderson,
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  Speaker 6: I want to play a game.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, let's play a game. I like this. Can you
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  Speaker 2: guess how many people.
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  Speaker 6: Fantasy points, Wimbinyama had with the stat line of 52 points,
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  Speaker 6: 24 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals, 8 blocks. How's the scoring?
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  Speaker 6: You get 1 point for each point? Half a point
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  Speaker 6: for each point. 1 point for a 3. 2 points
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  Speaker 6: for blocks, 2 points for steals.
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  Speaker 2: There you have it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to say 73.
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  Speaker 6: You, sir, are not even close. He finished with 126
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  Speaker 6: fantasy points.
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  Speaker 2: What? What's like a good average score for like a
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  Speaker 2: good player? For him, it's 51.
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  Speaker 6: He averages 51. He averages 50 fantasy points. Was this
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  Speaker 6: before last night? Well, it averages. He's going to have
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  Speaker 6: a few games where.
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  Speaker 2: This is happening. When you hit 100 and what?
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  Speaker 5: 126.
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  Speaker 4: When you hit 126 in one game, that's going to
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  Speaker 4: bump up the average quite a dang bit.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's a 75-plus game sample size, so not that much.
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  Speaker 6: But he averages around 50 points. So 50 points is
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  Speaker 6: like a really good average. And you've got to put
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  Speaker 6: into factor each team that he plays against. You're going
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  Speaker 6: to score and be a little different.
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  Speaker 2: So, for instance.
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  Speaker 6: Let's see. His next game is against the Sacramento Kings.
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  Speaker 6: He is projected 51. The following game, it's at 51.09
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  Speaker 6: against the Portland Trailblazers. So he's roughly in the 50s.
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  Speaker 6: So I'll just say he doubled his point total. After
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  Speaker 6: previously playing the Utah Jazz, he only had 32 points.
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  Speaker 6: So he went from 32, going up against the Mavs
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  Speaker 6: to play in overtime, too.
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  Speaker 2: But he had 52 points, 24 rebounds, 2 assists.
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  Speaker 5: You get it.
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  Speaker 6: So 126 points in fantasy. I am pretty sure the
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  Speaker 6: opponent he's playing just lost.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing. Have you looked at your league? Who that is?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's my guy, Team Just Say G. He has,
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  Speaker 6: it's a wrap. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: It's a wrap.
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  Speaker 6: He has Jalen Brown on his team who just put
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  Speaker 6: up 55.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 6: Like having one player give you 126 points, you kind of,
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  Speaker 6: you won. And people can go below average. Because he, again,
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  Speaker 6: he doubled his point total.
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  Speaker 2: That's just insane.
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  Speaker 6: So that's my one last thing. That is just insane.
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  Speaker 6: Fantasy hoops. I don't know what else to say. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: my goodness. Victor Wimbinyama. Shout out to getting him. I
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  Speaker 6: think he got him first overall, too. So I'm not
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  Speaker 6: knocking him. It was either Jokic or him. And I
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  Speaker 6: would probably go Wimby because of nights like this. Where
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  Speaker 6: he can put up 50 and 20. Plus, like, there's
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  Speaker 6: the element of he's younger. So he's going to, you know,
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  Speaker 6: eventually kind of.
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  Speaker 4: start to continue to ascend versus joker like i'm not
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  Speaker 4: saying he will fall off a cliff but there's more
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  Speaker 4: of a likelihood that joker his toes maybe exactly right
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  Speaker 4: versus wimby's continuing the.
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  Speaker 6: As long as we can stay healthy that'd be my
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  Speaker 6: only fear yeah because he's a little thin and all
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  Speaker 6: it takes is one little little bump and maybe he
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  Speaker 6: rolls his ankle or something he's just.
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  Speaker 4: He's built different literally you did mention earlier i think
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  Speaker 4: was you that Wemby could turn into a villain in
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  Speaker 4: the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: That was Chuck. That was Chuck. And I agree with Chuck. Yeah. Well, yes,
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  Speaker 2: he definitely can.
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  Speaker 6: Doing this every night, averaging 50 and 20, they're going
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  Speaker 6: to hate to play this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Because he really could. All he has to do is
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  Speaker 2: turn around, keep the ball above his head. He can
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  Speaker 2: shoot it.
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  Speaker 6: He can pass it. He does not need to bring
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  Speaker 6: the ball down. He's already taller than everybody. Imagine if
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  Speaker 6: he catches it, puts it over his head. He can
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  Speaker 6: see the entire court. He can shoot from that position.
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  Speaker 6: This is what Gilwood Arenas was talking about. If you
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  Speaker 6: just do that, you're unstoppable. When you bring the ball
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  Speaker 6: down low to your knees, people can swipe and reach
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  Speaker 6: at it.
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  Speaker 2: Now you're not a threat anymore.
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  Speaker 6: But if you keep it up high, you literally are
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  Speaker 6: winning every time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying he did that in the game previously.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, sure.
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  Speaker 6: But, my goodness, I think if he really wanted to,
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  Speaker 6: he could probably average 40 and 20. Like, let's realistically
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  Speaker 6: think about that for a second. Oh, my God. He
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  Speaker 6: could average 40 and 20. You haven't seen that since
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  Speaker 6: Bill Russell and Will.
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  Speaker 2: Especially in today's game, right? Bill Russell and Will were
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  Speaker 2: the last people to do that.
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  Speaker 6: I think Bill Russell was averaging like 16 and 22,
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  Speaker 6: which is absurd. You're averaging 16 points and 22 rebounds?
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  Speaker 6: And then Will was like, no problem, 30 and 20.
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  Speaker 6: Not a problem. Doing it against everyone in the league.
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  Speaker 6: Bill Russell got a good 40 points and 20 rebounds
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  Speaker 6: on him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's insane.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But that was my one last thing. Thank you. Yeah. Wemby,
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  Speaker 2: if you have him in your fantasy league, you won.
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  Speaker 7: You won.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations.
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  Speaker 3: Literally.
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  Speaker 2: The week's not even over yet. You won. There you go.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to use my one last thing as a
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  Speaker 4: thank you. First of all, to Christopher Kidd. These five
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  Speaker 4: days of filling in for Chuck Powell have been a
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  Speaker 4: ton of fun. I wanted to also thank the listeners.
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  Speaker 4: Not that I'm going anywhere. I'm still going to be here, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: But I'll be stepping back into the co-host chair as
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: Chuck Powell comes back from his vacation. He'll be back
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: on the host chair. Hosting a four hour show is
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: not easy.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher, you make it.
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  Speaker 4: You've made it a lot easier on me and, you know,
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  Speaker 4: your help with production, your help with being kind of
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: stepping into the co-host slash producer role. I know how
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: many hats that you have to be put on in
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  Speaker 4: that sort of situation. So a huge thank you to you.
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  Speaker 4: Huge thank you to Hugh Millen, who co-hosted with me.
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  Speaker 4: for the Monday and Tuesday leading into the Seahawks game
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  Speaker 4: on Monday. And then, of course, our Monday morning quarterback
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: on a Tuesday. So much has gone down. I feel
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: like it's just been an absolute sprint to the finish line.
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  Speaker 4: But Chuck Powell will be back with you guys tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: But coming up next, Greg Bell and Travis Moger on
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  Speaker 4: Sports Radio 93.3 KJR FM.