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Hitman Talks to Coach Kevin and Joey Erickson of the Corpus Christi IceRays · Classic Hitz with Hitman

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  Speaker 1: Corpus Christy's Classic Kids Big ninety three to nine with
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  Speaker 1: a hitman, and I'm in the studios today. Of course
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  Speaker 1: Corpus Christy Ice Rays are going to be in action,
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  Speaker 1: actually literally starting Saturday with the Big Red Black Game.
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  Speaker 2: And I've got with me the voice I got.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know that's how I changed my the voice
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  Speaker 1: of Corpus Christy Ice Raise. Joey Erickson, how you doing,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. Oh my voice lives up to that intro.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it is it is. And then one of my
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  Speaker 1: new favorite friends, now he's the coach of the Corpus
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  Speaker 1: Christy Ice Raise. It's coach Jacques.
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  Speaker 2: But the you go by Jacko, I go by Jocko.
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  Speaker 3: Coach Kevin.
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  Speaker 1: Coach Kevin Jocko. Now, don't call me late to dinner,
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  Speaker 1: So tell me. Tell me a little bit about what's
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  Speaker 1: happening with the Red and Black game.
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  Speaker 2: That's happening.
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  Speaker 1: It's a meaning behind this game.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, there's a chance for these guys to make
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  Speaker 4: the roster. Right, they're battling to win positions for this
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  Speaker 4: upcoming season. So Coach Jacko over there is going to
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  Speaker 4: have a tough time making some key decisions for this
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  Speaker 4: up coming season, but it's going to be good, which
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  Speaker 4: I think we'll bring the atmosphere in the building hopefully
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  Speaker 4: to the guys having some tension between them.
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  Speaker 1: So from some of the players that you've seen so far,
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  Speaker 1: is there any that kind of stand out or do
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  Speaker 1: you not want to give out that information right now?
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  Speaker 3: No, there's obviously some guys that you know are playing well.
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  Speaker 3: But again it's it's when everything's on the line, you
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  Speaker 3: see who brings it, you know what I mean. So
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  Speaker 3: it's like, well, we want some guys to be physical
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  Speaker 3: during the year, So the guys that need to do that,
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  Speaker 3: they'll do that. So you who knows, there might be
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  Speaker 3: a tussle or two or three.
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  Speaker 1: And these people are not just from Texas. They're from everywhere, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yesterday we did a little video. It's on
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  Speaker 1: social media. There were some people there from Cleveland, Ohio, Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: The one that surprised me was from Sweden, Norway, Norway. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so you've got people from Europe and from all over
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  Speaker 1: the United States that are actually competing to be on
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  Speaker 1: this team, right.
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  Speaker 3: Good old Canadians too, don't forget.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Canadians there here too.
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  Speaker 2: The good boys.
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  Speaker 1: So of course, besides that, besides the game, you've got
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  Speaker 1: other stuff that's gonna be happening on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it's a big open house event.
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  Speaker 4: We're under new ownership, so it's kind of our first
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  Speaker 4: little hourah to together, just to show ourselves. You get
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  Speaker 4: a look at the new ice as well. We got
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  Speaker 4: a new logo at Center Ice. You can actually pick
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  Speaker 4: your seat for the upcoming season. For those season ticket holders,
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  Speaker 4: of course you get to watch the game, but we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have prizes. There's gonna be little games that the
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  Speaker 4: kids can play. I mean it's free, by the way, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's free.
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  Speaker 1: That is the one thing around I was gonna bring
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  Speaker 1: up to you is like Saturday, it's entirely free right.
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  Speaker 4: Eleven am to two pm. The doors open at ten actually,
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  Speaker 4: so come a little bit early. You can interact with
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  Speaker 4: me and some of the other staff. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 4: just a blast watching the watching the game, and hopefully
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  Speaker 4: we get a lot of people there and have a
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  Speaker 4: fun atmosphere.
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  Speaker 1: Now, after the Red Black Game, your first official game,
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  Speaker 1: now that's on September nineteenth, there's a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be happening on that day too, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that that.
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  Speaker 4: Whole weekend actually is going to be jam packed with
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  Speaker 4: a lot of fun stuff. But Friday is a dollar
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  Speaker 4: beer night, so that's that's the most important night.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll have to keep We'll have to keep Jocko
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  Speaker 2: on the bench. Not a beer guy, have to.
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  Speaker 4: We'll have to keep him settled down. But yeah, dollar
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  Speaker 4: beer on that Friday. But Saturday, which is a part
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  Speaker 4: of this big opening weekend celebration, we have a pregame
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  Speaker 4: block party. So we're going to shut down the street
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  Speaker 4: in front of the American Bank Center and we're going
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  Speaker 4: to have food, beer trucks.
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  Speaker 2: There's gonna be live music.
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  Speaker 1: The chain Links yeah, the Corpus is based a local
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  Speaker 1: favorite around here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're gonna be there.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to be jamming out, and we just want
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  Speaker 4: people to come, like, enjoy the party. We know there's
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  Speaker 4: some people in South Texas that may have never been
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  Speaker 4: to a hockey game, or maybe I never even watched hockey.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we just want to get you there. We'll have tickets,
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  Speaker 2: low's five dollars. We just want to get you there.
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  Speaker 2: Enjoy the party, Enjoy the dollar hot dog night.
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  Speaker 4: You'll fall in love with hockey, because hockey is the
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  Speaker 4: best sport in the world to watch live and in person,
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  Speaker 4: and you get a little taste of that if you
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  Speaker 4: come on Saturday as well. You can see the speed,
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  Speaker 4: the pace that they play with. There's nothing better. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: and you get to have a great time as well.
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  Speaker 1: So more besides people hitting the glass, fighting and of
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  Speaker 1: course making the goals. That's that's that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: highlights that you could see in hockey and stuff like that. Coach,
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  Speaker 1: give me a little bit of history of where you've been,
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  Speaker 1: what you've been doing before coming here to the ice race,
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  Speaker 1: because you're your brand new coach too, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is my first year. Lucky enough, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to get the job. Obviously, didn't know them a lot
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  Speaker 3: about Corpus CHRISTI played in the Central back in my day,
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  Speaker 3: you know, played major junior, so I've done what they're
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  Speaker 3: doing these kids. I was in Spokane as a Canadian
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  Speaker 3: way back when, and then turned pro and played sixteen
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  Speaker 3: years a pro and didn't really want to continue with hockey,
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  Speaker 3: but then I got asked to coach VCU university team
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  Speaker 3: and then kind of next thing, you know, I'm coaching
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  Speaker 3: youth hockey and you know, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: Here Yeah, yeah, reeled me in.
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  Speaker 3: And now now I've been doing it and I love it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I love the level because there are some
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  Speaker 3: great players and I you know, and I think I
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of experience and knowledge to help these
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  Speaker 3: kids to be good hockey players, but more to be
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  Speaker 3: good people in the community. And I think that's what
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  Speaker 3: our organizations doing. George and Steve, the owners, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they've they're making it a community drive, right, We're trying
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  Speaker 3: to get into into the community, you know, be a
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  Speaker 3: part of the community and and you know, hope the
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  Speaker 3: community rallies behind us.
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  Speaker 1: So have you seen the schedule so far for the
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  Speaker 1: for the season? What do you think is going to
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  Speaker 1: be one of your toughest opponents? Do you know so far?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, have you seen what the other what the
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  Speaker 1: other teams are.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and obviously I have a couple, you know, guys
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  Speaker 3: that are returning. So obviously Lone Star Opening night is
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  Speaker 3: their number one. They beat us, they knocked us out
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  Speaker 3: last year, so they're already a hated rivalry. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: we'll just we'll prepare and get ready and you know,
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  Speaker 3: and then we're going to see them eight times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The first five games of the season are going to
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  Speaker 2: be interesting.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we play I think the first five games are
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  Speaker 4: against teams that actually.
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  Speaker 2: Finished in the final four.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 2: So's it's going to be a good opening stretch.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna see what the boys are made of here
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  Speaker 4: of it early, but it'll be exciting right off the hot.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So at first though, let's get ready for Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: The Big Red Black Game starts at about doors open
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  Speaker 1: about ten ten, correct, and it is free to the public.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, anybody can come out, absolutely, Yes, we sun you there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so make sure you make it one out.
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  Speaker 2: It's free for the public. Now.
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  Speaker 1: If people want to find out more about the corpus
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  Speaker 1: Chrissy Ice Raise, where can they go to find out
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  Speaker 1: about the ice raises schedule? Where they can get tickets everything?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go to visits.
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  Speaker 4: We'll visit go ice rays dot com so www dot
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  Speaker 4: go ice rays dot com that we have all the
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  Speaker 4: information there where you can get your tickets. You can
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  Speaker 4: go to Ticketmaster as well. We'll have our schedule up there.
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  Speaker 4: Eventually we'll have the rosters when that's all finalized and
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  Speaker 4: all the information you can need. There's information there on
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  Speaker 4: the select a Seed event for Saturday and of course
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  Speaker 4: home opening weekends. So it's got you covered there on
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  Speaker 4: the website.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that we need to look
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  Speaker 1: forward to on Saturday is meeting Nick, the hockey player
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  Speaker 1: that was on one of my videos just recently on
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  Speaker 1: social media who actually said, I cannot believe this water
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  Speaker 1: Burger was mid.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't speak for the organization. Okay, yeah, exactly. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not backing him on this one.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, make sure when you get there look for
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  Speaker 1: Nick because you're gonna want to talk to him about Waterburger.
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  Speaker 1: So I appreciate you guys coming in today. Thanks a lot,
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  Speaker 1: and of course, like I said, it's happening Saturday, the
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  Speaker 1: Big Red Black Game. Doors open at ten, game starts
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  Speaker 1: at about eleven, free to the public. Free to the public,
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  Speaker 1: So if you're looking for something to do Saturday during
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  Speaker 1: the midday, you know, come out there and see some
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  Speaker 1: great hockey.
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  Speaker 2: Any last words, guys, I don't think so. I'm just good.
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  Speaker 3: Come out and race, raise and again thanks