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Sam Malinski from the Point: Young Guns Firing, Ducks Soaring and the B's are Buzzing. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
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Speaker 1: Coming up on NHL Unscripted, how about the emotion that
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Speaker 1: a mont Rocadia's goaltenders showed after a regular season loss
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Speaker 1: and he's been outstanding this season. We'll talk about yak
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Speaker 1: abdobush Sin the file and sixty the buzzy new film
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Speaker 1: from that Bad Boys cinema, Yorgos Lanthemos' new film. It's
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Speaker 1: called Pogonia. It's starring Emmastone and now he's very skinny.
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Speaker 1: Jesse Plemons. Our special guest is Sam Malinsky of the
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Speaker 1: Colorado Avalanche. As we are chopping at the bit here unscripted,
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Speaker 1: JD back from the course, getting little notion. What do
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Speaker 1: we got?
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Speaker 2: Ketchup chips, avocado oil, potato cut I'm not Pinehurst boys
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Speaker 2: with no contract waiting to be signed.
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Speaker 1: That was what to say. You know what it's like
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Speaker 1: being a guy who played at the highest level, but
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Speaker 1: also what it's like when you're waiting for a new deal,
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Speaker 1: not sure if things are gonna go. So you can
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Speaker 1: relate to the situation right now, playing without a contract
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Speaker 1: since Halloween.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, trying to be trying to deal with this Wi
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Speaker 2: Fi here as well. But we're gonna make it work.
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen. We've just we're just trying. We me
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Speaker 2: and you come to work every day. That's all we do.
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Speaker 2: We put on our work boots, we work eighty hours
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Speaker 2: a week, and that's all we're expecting is a little
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Speaker 2: love back.
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Speaker 1: All I want, literally, one thing is just me and JD.
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Speaker 1: NHL lework. This can't be that hard. Last Friday I
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Speaker 1: did NHL Tonight first Yip with Steve Conry. Very nice man,
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Speaker 1: but I'm like you plug JD in there. That's an
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Speaker 1: hour of goodness, easy way to kick off your weekend.
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Speaker 1: And then Saturday you were after me. How can we
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Speaker 1: not just align this great the old trade may maybe
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Speaker 1: I have the authority to do that. I'll just call
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Speaker 1: up whoever, Like I had Dave read with me Canada
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Speaker 1: USA Women's hockey puck drop but not intermissions. And then
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Speaker 1: NHL Tonight going to Rangers Islanders. You came on after me.
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Speaker 1: We're just gonna start like wife swapping. I'll just make trades.
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Speaker 1: I'll text Reader, go, hey, can you give me diverse?
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Speaker 1: We got problem? You would have worked early, would have
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Speaker 1: been great.
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Speaker 2: I would have loved to have work her. I worked
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Speaker 2: the ten or twelve shift that night. I wasn't home
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Speaker 2: till two in the morning, but I grind and I digress. Listen,
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Speaker 2: this is it's a young man's league. And uh we
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Speaker 2: work in the same building but and live in the
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Speaker 2: same state, but never see each other. So riddle me
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Speaker 2: that I got a question. Riddle me that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just got back from Edmonton. And as a
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Speaker 1: guy who's well traveled, literally, you went to Italy on
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Speaker 1: your delayed honeymoon, you played in Russia, You've been all
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Speaker 1: over your well versed in culture, et cetera. Can you
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Speaker 1: name me another place where you would do this. I
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Speaker 1: went to Deadmonton and my goal was to not go
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Speaker 1: outside at all, and I was able to pull it off.
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Speaker 1: I took a flight with Thomas Hickey Jersey to Calgary.
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Speaker 1: From Calgary to Edmonton, got hotel late Sunday night, went
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Speaker 1: right to bed. Next morning morning skate JW. Mariott as
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Speaker 1: you know which, you didn't stay at that hotel for
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Speaker 1: some reason near in the Cup final, but the JW.
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Speaker 1: Marriott is connected. Yeah, went to morning skate with Pronger
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Speaker 1: and Jodi salidrst. The crew came back, watched a movie
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Speaker 1: on my phone. Not great, but hey, screener season. I
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Speaker 1: got on the phone, gonna watch it. Pogonia Great, we'll
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Speaker 1: get into that later, went back to the game, took
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Speaker 1: a REDI right after the game twelve fifteen am, as
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Speaker 1: you know, that airport's a good thirty minutes away, and
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Speaker 1: then went home. Can you think of me a place
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Speaker 1: where there's a greater disparity between this. The rink is awesome, awesome,
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Speaker 1: there's not a bad seat, as you know at Rogers Place.
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Speaker 1: The fans are electric. It was a great game. They
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Speaker 1: were down three one after forty McDavid scores twice, puts
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Speaker 1: the team on his back. They went in overtime. Can
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Speaker 1: you think of another place where the hockey is so
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Speaker 1: good but the city is so eah.
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Speaker 2: Winnipeg, that's a good one.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome in the worl. I'm like, I try it
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Speaker 1: to go outside Candialife Center. But the game is awesome,
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Speaker 1: the fans are into it. I love it.
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Speaker 2: Winnipeg's up there. I mean, honestly, let's let me throw
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Speaker 2: you into a little segue, into the quack quack segue Anaheim.
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Speaker 2: I mean that part of town of Anaheim isn't the
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Speaker 2: best by the Honda Center. It's not great, but they're
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Speaker 2: playing some fantastic hockey. And when you they get that
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Speaker 2: horn goaling that gold horn. Nice the fucking fog horn.
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Speaker 2: I tell you what. That's a hell of a place
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Speaker 2: to play when it's rocking.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I love the segment. We'll dive into a second.
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Speaker 1: I just want Tally to confirmed because I've never actually
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Speaker 1: been to a game to go see the Ducks. Can
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Speaker 1: you see the Ducks. I've never seen the Ducks game.
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Speaker 1: I always want to go to the Ducks game.
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Speaker 2: It's a good building. I like the building.
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Speaker 3: There's a train that goes right there that literally spits
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Speaker 3: you out right in front of the building. I think
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Speaker 3: the energy, especially when the team is winning, is great.
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Speaker 3: It's I've actually always said it's a very underrated fan base.
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Speaker 3: When the team's good, as they have been for most
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Speaker 3: of the time that they've been in the NHL, the
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Speaker 3: building is pretty rocking.
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Speaker 2: And when you.
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Speaker 3: Get like a nice Kings Ducks rivalry game there where
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Speaker 3: you know all all the Kings fans took the freeway
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Speaker 3: down to cheer on their boys, it can get pretty
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Speaker 3: Rowdy's it's a fun place, not a ton of do.
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Speaker 3: Once the game's over, you just get back on the train, basically,
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Speaker 3: but you run home, solid building, especially when the Ducks
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Speaker 3: as they are now are absolutely balling out.
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Speaker 1: Oh I love it. Roach to Hana Center. That's a
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Speaker 1: great segue. Leo Carlson has taken over the NHL cutter coach,
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Speaker 1: what a trade? Doesn't want to play for the Flyers, Fine,
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Speaker 1: you can play for the Ducks. We'll get Jamie Drysdale
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Speaker 1: goa to among the league leaders and goals. Jacob Truba
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Speaker 1: leads a league and plus minus anaheim best offense in
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Speaker 1: the league. Joel Quinnville is gonna be a finals for
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Speaker 1: the jack Adams. It could be the fourth time they'll
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Speaker 1: have done so. He one in two thousand with Saint
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Speaker 1: Louis was a finalans for Chicago and Florida the late
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Speaker 1: Pat Burns when they were three times with three different teams. No,
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Speaker 1: Schue de Murz is back. You said watch up for
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Speaker 1: the Ducks. You said they'd be a playoff team. They're
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Speaker 1: on fire right now.
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Speaker 2: I'm hard as the rock.
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Speaker 4: Guys.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you what because I'm right again. I
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Speaker 2: you know, they they drop one last night, which is,
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Speaker 2: you know, against the team that is the team to
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Speaker 2: beat in the NHL right now, the Colorado Avalanche and
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Speaker 2: Nathan McKinnon is on a fuck another level. And Cale
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Speaker 2: mccarr as well. This might be the biggest lopsided Norris
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Speaker 2: win of all time with Cale mccarr this year, he
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Speaker 2: is If he does not get one of the votes,
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Speaker 2: if he stays on this trajectory, I would be shocked.
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Speaker 2: This would be the biggest landslides. It is Nick Lindstrom
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Speaker 2: in the seven years he wanted to row. This is unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: It's a bold statement how much people love Quinn Hughes,
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Speaker 1: what a great player he is. And you're saying that's.
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Speaker 2: Quinn's been hurt. If Kile mccarr stays on this, Quin
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Speaker 2: whu has already missed some games. There's nobody after Quinn.
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Speaker 2: You got Lane Hudson, There's nobody mcar but Leo Carlson
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Speaker 2: and Carter go to both of eleven goals. This ducks team. Man,
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Speaker 2: oh man, this is fun. One of the quickest turnarounds
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Speaker 2: I've seen from a perennial bottom feeder to a I mean,
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Speaker 2: I said playoff like that. I was seeing him in
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Speaker 2: the playoffs. This is a cup contender. This is a
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Speaker 2: cup contender. This team. Jacob Trueba leading the league in
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Speaker 2: plus mind. This team has put together. They're one piece
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Speaker 2: away from like really really making it a very a
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Speaker 2: very strong case to beat the team to beat. You know,
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Speaker 2: you look at some of those contracts, Frank Fatronto kind
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Speaker 2: of on the fourth line. He's a goal scorer. You
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Speaker 2: could see a lot of teams wanting somebody like him.
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Speaker 2: With that contract, you can go out and get another
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Speaker 2: depth piece there, maybe another depth defenseman. They're missing Radco Gutis,
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Speaker 2: but Drew Helison has stepped up. They got a great
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Speaker 2: goaltending group. We keep talking about him every week, but
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Speaker 2: they keep just It's just amazing to watch. And Leo
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Speaker 2: Carlson is a budding star in the making like he is.
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Speaker 2: You got Maclin Celebrini, you got Connor Bdard, and you
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Speaker 2: got Lio Carlson. Those three, the league is in great
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Speaker 2: hands moving forward for the next ten to fifteen years
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Speaker 2: with these three guys. And you know you had thrown
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Speaker 2: Matthew Schaeffer. This is a very We're entering the golden
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Speaker 2: age of the NHL. I think when you see that
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Speaker 2: change of the guard. You know, you got those top guys,
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Speaker 2: the Crosby's, the Ov's, the co Paitars, the Dowdies, they're
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Speaker 2: kind of all leaving. And then now you have Connor
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Speaker 2: and McKinnon that are the tops of the top. But
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Speaker 2: then just below that you got this young guard coming
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Speaker 2: through and they are just they are just they look
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Speaker 2: so good. They are they are all types of skilled offensively,
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Speaker 2: can play both sides of the puck. And it's gonna be.
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Speaker 2: The NHL is in a really good place right now.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing. I think Anaheim saw twenty one point improvement
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Speaker 1: in the standings year over year. That was only good
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Speaker 1: enough for twelfth place in the Western Conference. So Greg
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Speaker 1: Cronin gets let go Q comes in sixty seven years
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Speaker 1: of age, had not coached in the NHL since twenty
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Speaker 1: and twenty one, and you Cryder from the Lorax.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, Flora looks like the Lorax.
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Speaker 1: I want to listen. True, but great Cryder's friend and
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Speaker 1: teammate with the Rangers. But also I mean Alex Klorne
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Speaker 1: radco gutis, you know, getting part of a veteran corrier
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Speaker 1: that Paperdick liked. I mean, overall through fifteen games. I
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Speaker 1: can't reiterate this is enough. Four point one to three
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Speaker 1: goals per game. They put up seven goals and wins
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Speaker 1: against the Sharks, the Bruins, the Panthers and the Stars,
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Speaker 1: and said Verbeek, we're playing fast. We certainly have speed.
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Speaker 1: Five on five. Under Quinvill, they've been fantastic. They've got
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Speaker 1: from two point three six goals a game jed to
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Speaker 1: three point two to one. That's that's demonstrative improvement.
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Speaker 2: Joe Quenville, the Lorax opens it up. He looks like
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Speaker 2: the Lorax. Tell me, how about Lucas do Stell. They
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Speaker 2: were twenty third in the NHL. Why do you think
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Speaker 2: it's per game? Why do you think they traded John
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Speaker 2: Gibson because they had Lucas do stal That's why they
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Speaker 2: got rid of him. Why did you trade him? They
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Speaker 2: brought in They have just the perfect mix of veterans
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Speaker 2: and young guys. And Chris Kraded coming from New York.
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Speaker 2: He's a perennial twenty goal scorer. He's great for that
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Speaker 2: power play. You got Truba, you got Goudas kil Rn,
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Speaker 2: you got Ryan Strom. That's not even playing. He's still injured.
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Speaker 2: Troy Terry who is one of the more underrated players
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Speaker 2: in the NHL skill wise, just he's just doing some
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Speaker 2: phenomenal things for that line with Leo and Cutter and
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Speaker 2: you know, Mason McTavish, you got be Beckett, Seneke, these guys.
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Speaker 2: This is a great, great hockey team and they're gonna
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Speaker 2: be good for years to come.
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Speaker 1: Love the photo conference for the Ducks last on in
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Speaker 1: just third of the NHL, and goals set were expected.
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Speaker 1: Nine O eight's ay percentage. It's a great movie, the
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Speaker 1: low Rex and definitely Quinbole's mustache. It's a good Halloween
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Speaker 1: look as well. Nine goals in twelve games for Crider
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Speaker 1: that segues us to youth is served you talk about
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Speaker 1: the you as you kind of just alluded to JD
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Speaker 1: of the fact that the league is in kid hands, all
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Speaker 1: these great young players. So McKinnon, as you said, different level. McDavid,
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Speaker 1: obviously I saw at first hand Monday with Wage just
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Speaker 1: took over the gameless. Two goals laid against the Blue Jackets,
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Speaker 1: Willie Neilander, Jack Eichel. But as of Wednesday, three youngsters Carlson, Connor,
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Speaker 1: Bdard and Maclin celebraty your boy all ranking in the
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Speaker 1: top five in NHL scoring, but Darren Carlson named second
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Speaker 1: and third Star of the Weeks by the fact they
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Speaker 1: can't drink alcohol yet. In the US, we the Spin
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Speaker 1: and check Lich segment we had an Amazon Prime was
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Speaker 1: who wins a cup first, McDavid or Badard in Prongress
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Speaker 1: and I'll raise you one better. I think it'll be Macklin, Celebrini,
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Speaker 1: Sharks al win a cup. Let's go before McDavid and Baard.
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Speaker 2: I was like, Wow, I can't even get on Amazon Prime. Man,
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Speaker 2: They're bringing Chris prong Ground. It's just crazy. How much
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Speaker 2: good work too. You just you think you put good
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Speaker 2: workout there and they reward you what they don't costa coast.
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Speaker 1: You can do it. But Amazon Prime, we can't get you.
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Speaker 2: Apparently, no, I can't. Apparently Monday nights is a day
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Speaker 2: I don't work. It's a sabbath for me. Yeah, listen,
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Speaker 2: Connor bdard Is, I think a lot of people need
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Speaker 2: to give him his flowers because from where he was
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Speaker 2: last year, and there's a lot of rumblings and mumblings
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Speaker 2: about his attitude and how he was developing in his game,
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Speaker 2: and he wasn't playing a tin for game. He looks
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Speaker 2: great right now. He's playing, he wants the puck, he's
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Speaker 2: playing hard on the puck. He's elevating this team. The
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Speaker 2: Chicago team is doing way better than I think anybody
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Speaker 2: could have predicted. And anybody that's saying that they knew
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Speaker 2: this was going to happen as lying through their teeth.
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Speaker 2: And then the same thing goes for Macklin and San Jose.
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Speaker 2: You know San Jose to be seven to six and
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Speaker 2: a couple of what three seven six and three right
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Speaker 2: now I think is so positive for this franchise. They're
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Speaker 2: playing some great hockey. It's exciting, it's fun, they're playing,
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Speaker 2: they're playing good defensively, they're getting good goaltending. But they're
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Speaker 2: also just I mean Macklin, Leo and Connor, these three guys.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be fun to watch them in the next,
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Speaker 2: like I said, the next ten to fifteen years, and
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Speaker 2: youth is serving. They are serving absolute, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful
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Speaker 2: shit right now. And like I said, I can't keep
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Speaker 2: reiterating that the league is in good hands. I don't
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Speaker 2: know how long they'll keep this up because I think
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Speaker 2: it will be tough for Macklin and Connor based on
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Speaker 2: just their team. But you know Leo, I didn't expect
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Speaker 2: Leo to have this big of a jump. He looked
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Speaker 2: like he put on ten to fifteen pounds this offseason.
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Speaker 2: He looks fantastic. It's just a good overall team top
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Speaker 2: to bottom. This team is just sorry, not this team.
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Speaker 2: These young guys are just fantastic. And I mean Macklin
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Speaker 2: with that overtime pass to cal Him Graft last night,
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Speaker 2: just amazing. That's set up he had to Will Smith.
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Speaker 2: It's just a good changing of the guard right now.
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Speaker 2: And I don't think anybody could expect this to happen
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Speaker 2: as quickly as it's happening right now.
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Speaker 1: So the young stars right now looking great in the NHL.
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Speaker 1: It's good news for the league. Our latest installment now
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Speaker 1: of imposter syndrome are the Bees for real? Don't look now.
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Speaker 1: After losing six in or zero last month, the Boston
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Speaker 1: Bruins have now won eight of nine games. They've rocked
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Speaker 1: it up the Atlanta Division standings. David Pashanak gets a
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Speaker 1: milestone last night. He's rocking it up as far as
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Speaker 1: being a point per game kind of guy. And Morgan
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Speaker 1: freaky deeky geeky shut up to taw among the league
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Speaker 1: leaders with eleven jad. I saw them against the Senators.
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Speaker 1: They had no offensive gym, they couldn't get the puck
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Speaker 1: for the neutral zone, and all of a sudden they
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Speaker 1: went on a tear. I would have told you this
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Speaker 1: team stinks, not gonna make the playoffs. Well now they're
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Speaker 1: listening to Marco Sturm. I mean, look fantastic out there.
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Speaker 2: A nice stem, give me a nice stam. Listen. Do
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Speaker 2: I think they'll keep it up? I'm still adamant that
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Speaker 2: they won't keep this up. I think Jeremy Swiman has
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Speaker 2: been playing some great hockey as well, but they've just
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Speaker 2: been keeping games tight, relying on these one goal games.
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Speaker 2: I think they're They're one of the top teams playing
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Speaker 2: one goal games. They're just to hang in there. Carried
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Speaker 2: by Posternok twenty two points. I know it's not, you know,
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Speaker 2: anything to scoff at in terms of the league, but
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Speaker 2: they're just playing a right They're playing a good brand
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Speaker 2: of hockey, and I just think that if I'm in Boston,
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Speaker 2: this is about as happy as you can be for
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Speaker 2: the group of guys that you have. I don't think
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Speaker 2: they'll keep it up. I think eventually it's going to
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Speaker 2: revert to the mean. But they're just winning the games
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Speaker 2: and you need to win them, and they're coming up
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Speaker 2: with some great clutch moments early in the season. Morgan geeky.
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Speaker 2: You know, I love to quote by Posternoch there a
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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago he said talked about Morgan geeky
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Speaker 2: and how he wants him to be more of a
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Speaker 2: shooter because he thinks he has one of the better
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Speaker 2: shots in the league and is kind of pushing Morgan
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Speaker 2: and telling him, hey, man, like, when you have the opportunity,
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Speaker 2: don't look to pass, just shoot fire the biscuit. And
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Speaker 2: you're seeing that, you're seeing the fruits of that, and
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Speaker 2: that's great from your captain and Pasta and the guy
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Speaker 2: that you want leading your franchise is to be uplifting
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Speaker 2: guys and uplifting guys in your line and other think
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Speaker 2: he's doing a great job. And yeah, it's a fun story.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of fun stories early in the season.
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Speaker 2: I don't think the Bruins make the playoffs this year,
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Speaker 2: and if they do, it's the last wild card spot.
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Speaker 2: But early on it's exciting to watch.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I still think that a lack of offensive talent. They're
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Speaker 1: kind of a team in transition in terms of identity.
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Speaker 1: But I'm with you right now, they're rolling a good
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Speaker 1: news for Storm, who's a great guy. I thought on
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Speaker 1: Nikito's a door off. Speaking of the Bruins drilling Austin Matthews,
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Speaker 1: he left for a lower body injury in the second part,
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Speaker 1: did not return. He still needs to be evaluated. But
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Speaker 1: Craig Burubi, obviously chief not a guy who isn't afraid
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Speaker 1: of a little tough stuff back in his playing career,
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Speaker 1: said to him, I said to the media should say
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Speaker 1: after I think it's a penalty. Personally, I'm not the referee.
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Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't like to hit. Matthews
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Speaker 1: is in a vulnerable position, so whatever, nothing I can
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Speaker 1: do about it. Do you think JD should have been
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Speaker 1: penalized in the plays the door for the bright by
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Speaker 1: Way said, it was a normal play. I didn't really
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Speaker 1: hit him. I hit my right shoulder ninety nine percent
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Speaker 1: of my hits at NHL or with my right shoulder.
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Speaker 1: There was really no intention to hurt him.
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Speaker 2: It was a clean him. It wasn't It wasn't much
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Speaker 2: to it it's just the way he fell into the boards.
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Speaker 2: He was in that weird spot where you're like two
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Speaker 2: three feet from the boards and backing up into the defenseman,
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Speaker 2: and I just didn't think he thought he would get
16:57
Speaker 2: kind of rolled up like that. Tudorus a big boy,
17:02
Speaker 2: so I just think it was one of those things
17:04
Speaker 2: that he wasn't coming like from one hundred miles away.
17:09
Speaker 2: He kind of slowed up a bit, he just used
17:11
Speaker 2: his body and I think just Matthews fell awkwardly and
17:13
Speaker 2: that Breuvey is going to be mad, of course, he's
17:15
Speaker 2: they're fishing for something in Toronto and fishing for a
17:18
Speaker 2: way to rally the troops. But I don't think it
17:21
Speaker 2: was anything that was super malicious from Zadoroff. I think
17:24
Speaker 2: that's the way he plays all the time, and that's
17:27
Speaker 2: what we get. I know, Toronto fans are gonna be pissed,
17:30
Speaker 2: but we saw Domie try to go after him as well.
17:33
Speaker 2: But I just think Matthew's big guy too. He's you know,
17:37
Speaker 2: over six to two and strong kid, and Matthew Zadorff
17:42
Speaker 2: just leaned on him a bit. But it's just Matthews
17:45
Speaker 2: just seemed like he's been banged up last year a
17:47
Speaker 2: little bit. He's fighting through some stuff. He seemed healthy.
17:50
Speaker 2: I hope it's nothing that was from last year, lingering
17:52
Speaker 2: that he hurt or it's nothing like a shoulder. But
17:55
Speaker 2: time will tell. But I don't think zadoroff as much
17:58
Speaker 2: as I want to be on that page of he's
18:01
Speaker 2: a you know, it was being a shit and was
18:04
Speaker 2: was trying to cause some havoc. I think he just
18:08
Speaker 2: was was finishing his check and unfortunately these things happen
18:13
Speaker 2: in the NHL. It's a quick game. Things happened in
18:15
Speaker 2: the moment, and I just hope Matthews isn't out for
18:18
Speaker 2: long and he's he's he's gonna be okay.
18:20
Speaker 1: And that's what least fans are hoping for as well.
18:22
Speaker 1: In the meantime, not some Condrey scoring a goal in
18:24
Speaker 1: this one thousandth game for last place Calgary. A great
18:28
Speaker 1: night for nas. He saw his parents there, He saw
18:29
Speaker 1: at one point all the Flames wearing the Cadrew jerseys.
18:31
Speaker 1: Was very cool. A nice moment there. He could be
18:34
Speaker 1: on the move though, because everyone knows the Flames right
18:35
Speaker 1: now stink. In the meantime, speaking of struggling, the Blues
18:38
Speaker 1: are at the bottom of the Central and they made
18:40
Speaker 1: Jordan Tyro a healthy scratch. How about what Ryan O'Reilly said.
18:43
Speaker 5: JD can't guess six what pass to save my life?
18:46
Speaker 5: So as you're not gonna have much successive you know,
18:50
Speaker 5: I'm playing pathetic like that, So it's it's stupid. I
18:53
Speaker 5: don't know the answer. I've had one good year in
18:57
Speaker 5: my career and I don't have an answer.
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Speaker 1: As far as Cairo is concerned, specifically, this guy's got
19:03
Speaker 1: a hefty contrey, like six seasons remaining eight point one
19:07
Speaker 1: two five million dollar capit on his contract, and the
19:09
Speaker 1: contract includes a full note trade clause which kicked into
19:12
Speaker 1: effect this summers. The Blues would need his approval before
19:14
Speaker 1: treating him anywhere. The NHL Toronto native over the past
19:17
Speaker 1: four seasons, he's been very productive, particularly five on five,
19:20
Speaker 1: three times seventy point winger. He's only twenty seven, but
19:23
Speaker 1: a healthy scratch. Clearly Montgomery was sending a message to Kyrou.
19:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know how you can move that Cayro
19:30
Speaker 2: deal yet again. You know, you look at the Zegres
19:36
Speaker 2: deal and that's kind of probably what the framework is.
19:39
Speaker 2: You sign these kids young nowadays because you understand that
19:42
Speaker 2: if it doesn't pan out, somebody's still gonna be willing
19:45
Speaker 2: to take that contract. On versus, if you're giving you know,
19:48
Speaker 2: Cayrou's twenty eight, twenty nine, you're give him a seven
19:51
Speaker 2: year deal, It's hard to offload that. So, you know,
19:55
Speaker 2: can I see a Toronto looking I think Toronto desperately
19:58
Speaker 2: needs some speed. I think it's gonna be interesting. The
20:01
Speaker 2: trades is here. If somebody can pull it off, It's
20:03
Speaker 2: gonna be very difficult pull it off because you know,
20:07
Speaker 2: depending on what the precedent is for what is the return.
20:11
Speaker 2: You know, you look at the Nick Schmaltz, the Nods
20:13
Speaker 2: and Cadre's Jordan Cayrou. You know, there's Ryan O'Reilly. I
20:17
Speaker 2: think you know you look at Ryan O'Reilly and Jonathan
20:20
Speaker 2: marshas so on Nashville. These are two guys that I
20:22
Speaker 2: think are are primed to be traded if it keeps
20:27
Speaker 2: going the way it's going for Nashville because they can't
20:29
Speaker 2: wait around too long with those contracts. But yeah, Jordan
20:33
Speaker 2: Cayrou Man Saint Louis is a fucking mess, Like it's I.
20:38
Speaker 1: Don't understand it because last year they were disappointed and
20:40
Speaker 1: they make a push towards the playoffs, you go, they've
20:42
Speaker 1: turned the corner. Now they've progressed again.
20:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's caustic. Saint Louis. They do this kind of
20:47
Speaker 2: every year, and I just don't know when when's the
20:50
Speaker 2: year when you can't just kind of call your way back.
20:52
Speaker 2: And I just think they might be too far out
20:55
Speaker 2: to do that. And you know, you got Robert Thomas
20:58
Speaker 2: still in the holloway kind of. Kyrou's the expendable one.
21:02
Speaker 2: They got a lot of guys signed to long term deals.
21:04
Speaker 2: But I could see somebody taking that contract, and I
21:07
Speaker 2: could see in Toronto they can make it work. But yeah,
21:11
Speaker 2: it's it's it's going to be very interesting because if
21:15
Speaker 2: I'm making a trade and I'm a team right now,
21:17
Speaker 2: you want to do it right now versus waiting closer
21:19
Speaker 2: to the Olympics deadline, because for the sole reason that
21:24
Speaker 2: you want, you want the guy that you're trading for
21:26
Speaker 2: to have some opportunity to kind of get comfortable and
21:28
Speaker 2: get comfortable in the system. And if they can't, you know,
21:33
Speaker 2: you do you don't you want a little bit more runway.
21:36
Speaker 2: So doing the deal earlier versus later, I think it's
21:38
Speaker 2: a lot more beneficial this year, especially with the Olympics,
21:40
Speaker 2: So I expect to see something the next three weeks, if, if,
21:44
Speaker 2: if anything, I can't see somebody waiting till after Christmas
21:47
Speaker 2: to make a trade. I just I wouldn't understand it
21:50
Speaker 2: as a as a organization. I think you kind of
21:53
Speaker 2: got to be a little bit running gun as a
21:57
Speaker 2: GM and if you think you need to make a move,
21:59
Speaker 2: you got to make a move now.
22:02
Speaker 1: And tal Jad has given you. Jordan Benington's Now we're
22:04
Speaker 1: speaking the Blues. What's the latest? What are we getting
22:06
Speaker 1: bitter on the show?
22:08
Speaker 2: I've reached out to him.
22:10
Speaker 3: I think, uh the whole uh hulla blue over him
22:13
Speaker 3: trying to steal the OVI puck maybe uh sentiment to
22:17
Speaker 3: hiding a little bit.
22:18
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. I haven't heard back working on it.
22:21
Speaker 2: Come on, Tom, for Fox's sakes, get that get that bitch,
22:27
Speaker 2: get up.
22:28
Speaker 1: We gotta get better on here. At some point we
22:30
Speaker 1: come back. We do have Sam Malensky, Yes, talk a
22:32
Speaker 1: little talking with a guy who played collegiately for Cornell Universe.
22:36
Speaker 1: That means he's smart, right, talk about what it's like
22:38
Speaker 1: right now, player based team the coloriadlines. They've looked great
22:41
Speaker 1: so far. I we'll talk about Milnsky, the pride of
22:43
Speaker 1: Lakeville South High School. Well, Nathan McKinnon stories for us,
22:47
Speaker 1: maybe some stories with the Cronkeys, all that more. Next
22:49
Speaker 1: to Sam Malensky on NHL and Scripted after this, our
23:06
Speaker 1: next guest played collegiately for Cornell Universities.
23:09
Speaker 2: You know he's smart.
23:10
Speaker 1: He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the
23:12
Speaker 1: Colorado Avalanche in twenty twenty three has since become a
23:15
Speaker 1: fixture on the blue line for the NHL's most exciting teams.
23:19
Speaker 1: It is the pride of Lakeville South High School. That's right,
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Speaker 1: Sam Malinsky, Sam, Welcome to NHL and SCRIPTO.
23:24
Speaker 6: Great to see him, man, Yeah, you guys too, Thanks
23:27
Speaker 6: for having me on.
23:28
Speaker 1: So the Avalanche have looked great so far this season.
23:31
Speaker 1: I mean, there was a tough first round defeat against Dallas.
23:33
Speaker 1: What was the message conveyed by either coach Bednar or
23:36
Speaker 1: just by your teammates of how you were going to
23:38
Speaker 1: approach this season?
23:40
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I don't think we needed a change
23:42
Speaker 7: too much, just kind of a revenge revenge tour for us.
23:47
Speaker 7: I thought we had a really good team last year
23:50
Speaker 7: and a similar team this year. So we just kind
23:51
Speaker 7: of wanted to learn from that and make sure we
23:54
Speaker 7: can get it done this year.
23:57
Speaker 2: Sam just talk a little bit about being a young
23:59
Speaker 2: guy coming on to a team that is expected to
24:03
Speaker 2: compete for Stanley Up year after year.
24:06
Speaker 4: Uh.
24:06
Speaker 2: You know, when I started in San Jose, it was
24:09
Speaker 2: like I felt it was such a beneficial moment for
24:12
Speaker 2: me to come into the NHL when I had a
24:14
Speaker 2: team that was that was trying to make the Stanley
24:16
Speaker 2: Cup finals every year. And and how has that helped
24:18
Speaker 2: you as a player.
24:20
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's just it's exciting for me to
24:22
Speaker 7: be able to be on a team that really does
24:25
Speaker 7: contend for the Stanley Cup every year. I think it
24:29
Speaker 7: kind of holds each of us to a different standard
24:32
Speaker 7: and for me as a young young guy, kind of
24:34
Speaker 7: throws me into the fire jumping into playoffs last year
24:38
Speaker 7: and getting that whole experience and just wanted to keep building.
24:43
Speaker 7: I guess with we only got one round in last year,
24:46
Speaker 7: and I know I'm it's only my second year in
24:50
Speaker 7: the league now, but I'd like to make a run here.
24:53
Speaker 6: I'm excited for it certainly.
24:55
Speaker 1: I mean, you have that confidence about you, which is important.
24:57
Speaker 1: Every young player needs that you know when you look
25:01
Speaker 1: at some of these players a year around, obviously same
25:03
Speaker 1: your game speaks for itself, But what is it like
25:05
Speaker 1: playing with the likes of McKinnon, mccarr and so much
25:07
Speaker 1: other great talent around you.
25:09
Speaker 6: It's pretty special.
25:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think about that all the time, Like that
25:12
Speaker 7: other guys when they first signed, they go to teams
25:15
Speaker 7: where they maybe don't have players obviously like Nate and Kale,
25:19
Speaker 7: like they're two of the best.
25:20
Speaker 2: In the world, and teams that stink.
25:25
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean for.
25:28
Speaker 7: Just to be able to play with those guys right away,
25:30
Speaker 7: Like I just remember being in a bit of shock
25:33
Speaker 7: my first training camp and they're just such great people too.
25:37
Speaker 7: So like being able to be on the back end
25:41
Speaker 7: with Kale and talk to him about some stuff that
25:45
Speaker 7: he does in his game and his the way he
25:47
Speaker 7: prepares and yeah, just everything about being around those guys
25:52
Speaker 7: I think has helped me a ton.
25:54
Speaker 2: You know, I heard John Michael Ales compared to Kill
25:58
Speaker 2: mccarr recently. I initially when I watched you, you know,
26:01
Speaker 2: ten to fifteen games, I kind of said, you have
26:03
Speaker 2: a lot of the same movement, say body language is
26:05
Speaker 2: Kale a lot of the Schames, A lot of the
26:08
Speaker 2: same skill set, Like, how surreal is that to hear that?
26:11
Speaker 2: And like, what have you learned? What's the greatest thing
26:13
Speaker 2: you've learned from playing behind cal mccarr.
26:18
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, it's obviously pretty surreal hearing that. Like
26:23
Speaker 7: I think it's for me in my head, I'm like, Okay,
26:26
Speaker 7: that's probably just because we're about the same size, both
26:28
Speaker 7: have white tape, both righties.
26:30
Speaker 6: Like simple stuff like that.
26:32
Speaker 7: But yeah, it's pretty cool to see, like people even
26:37
Speaker 7: just saying that, And I know I'm a long ways
26:40
Speaker 7: from Kale. He's obviously the best defenseman in the world
26:45
Speaker 7: in my opinion, but yeah, just learning from him, like
26:48
Speaker 7: watching what he does at the blue line, and he'll
26:51
Speaker 7: grab me during practice and we'll just kind of take
26:56
Speaker 7: turns walking the blue shooting through tires, and he teaches
27:01
Speaker 7: me different stuff, whether it's looking through the tire at
27:04
Speaker 7: the net as if it's a shot blocker and whatever,
27:06
Speaker 7: and just helps you pick your corners a little easier.
27:09
Speaker 6: So there's there's a.
27:11
Speaker 7: Ton that I could say, and it's kind of hard
27:13
Speaker 7: to pinpoint one thing that he specifically helped me on.
27:16
Speaker 2: So explain that tire thing, just for the people listening.
27:19
Speaker 2: Because I know, you know a lot of fans, you know,
27:23
Speaker 2: wonder how do d man work on their shot? And
27:25
Speaker 2: you know when I played, it was you know, you'd
27:27
Speaker 2: shoot through a chair. We'd pull like a desk chair,
27:29
Speaker 2: and you got to get it around and you also
27:30
Speaker 2: have now you have tires of getting through. Explain just
27:32
Speaker 2: that sequence of how you set that drill up and
27:36
Speaker 2: how helpful it is for you to kind of pick
27:38
Speaker 2: those shots when you're when you're you know, practicing and
27:41
Speaker 2: then in a new game.
27:43
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, when you're practicing it, obviously nobody wants
27:46
Speaker 7: to stand in front of you and pretend to be
27:48
Speaker 7: a shot balker.
27:49
Speaker 2: It's case to hit him.
27:50
Speaker 7: So we stick a tire out there, and yeah, the
27:54
Speaker 7: whole goal is to shoot through the tire and hit
27:56
Speaker 7: the net, specifically if you can hit a corner, hit
28:00
Speaker 7: a corner. And I think my habit as I always
28:04
Speaker 7: look at the tire to make sure I'm not hitting
28:06
Speaker 7: it or whatever, and Cale would always tell me, you know,
28:09
Speaker 7: look at the net, and so that way you hit
28:12
Speaker 7: to tire your corner and eventually you just naturally avoid
28:17
Speaker 7: the tire with your peripheral vision. So yeah, that's pretty cool.
28:22
Speaker 1: Interesting going to use all different tricks when it comes
28:24
Speaker 1: to playing as good.
28:26
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, exactly, He's he's got that one. Mastered that drill,
28:30
Speaker 6: So yeah, the tire drill.
28:32
Speaker 1: You were part of a dominant Cornell team Sam twenty
28:35
Speaker 1: nineteen twenty twenty top ranked team in the country, only
28:38
Speaker 1: have COVID force the season to be canceled. How tough
28:41
Speaker 1: was it to not get a chance to take your
28:43
Speaker 1: team the Frozen four.
28:46
Speaker 6: Yeah, that was really tough.
28:47
Speaker 7: I mean it was I was a freshman and we
28:50
Speaker 7: were just pretty dominant, and I didn't really I think
28:54
Speaker 7: at the time, I didn't realize how special that group
28:56
Speaker 7: really was. Like we were just running through teams like
29:01
Speaker 7: no problem, and I was pretty unfortunate that we weren't
29:07
Speaker 7: able to play that one out. I think we're all
29:10
Speaker 7: looking at a chance to make a run there, and
29:14
Speaker 7: then I guess going into the next season too. Not
29:17
Speaker 7: being able to play that whole year was definitely a
29:19
Speaker 7: little weird, but gave me some time to focus on
29:22
Speaker 7: some different specific skills and my skating and put on
29:29
Speaker 7: a little weight and muscle as well.
29:31
Speaker 2: What was the toughest thing about that development wise for you?
29:37
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it was just not playing games for
29:39
Speaker 7: so long was really hard, and it was kind of
29:45
Speaker 7: it was tough, like mentally, like I didn't know at
29:47
Speaker 7: that point whether I didn't know what my future held,
29:51
Speaker 7: you know, Like my freshman year I started to hear
29:53
Speaker 7: that maybe I could end up playing pro and then
29:57
Speaker 7: not playing a whole year, I was like, well, now
29:59
Speaker 7: is that still going to be a thing, Like, so, yeah,
30:03
Speaker 7: it's not like I felt I didn't feel great on
30:05
Speaker 7: the ice that whole sophomore year just without playing games
30:08
Speaker 7: and getting that experience. But yeah, I was still love
30:12
Speaker 7: to work on different like shooting and just kind of
30:16
Speaker 7: some of that basic stuff. But yeah, that whole COVID
30:19
Speaker 7: situation was very weird.
30:21
Speaker 1: Certainly was tough for everybody. The good news is not
30:23
Speaker 1: only did you play at Cornell, but also playing in
30:26
Speaker 1: the state of hockey. I mean playing in Minnesota State
30:29
Speaker 1: High School Hockey Tournament with Lake build South High School
30:32
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen. It's the only place I can think of,
30:34
Speaker 1: Sam if you ask somebody, hey, it's the only place
30:36
Speaker 1: where high school hockey is the biggest thing. It's bigger
30:39
Speaker 1: than North hockey, it's better than college but everything it's
30:42
Speaker 1: high school high I guess maybe you could say football.
30:44
Speaker 1: I guess high school football is so huge, a fada,
30:46
Speaker 1: night lights and everything, but what is the experience, Like,
30:48
Speaker 1: can you convey to somebody what that is like? High
30:50
Speaker 1: school hockey?
30:52
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's pretty incredible. I mean I didn't really realize
30:57
Speaker 7: it at the time. Again, but like hearing now from
30:59
Speaker 7: all my buddies who you know from Canada, they left
31:04
Speaker 7: home sixteen to go play junior hockey, and for us
31:07
Speaker 7: to be able to stay at home and play hockey
31:11
Speaker 7: and go to school with you know, the people we
31:13
Speaker 7: grew up with is pretty special.
31:14
Speaker 6: And be able to live at home with your.
31:16
Speaker 7: Family, and you know, that's something we all dreamed of too,
31:20
Speaker 7: is playing in the Excel and be able to play
31:24
Speaker 7: in the state tournament, a chance for the state championship.
31:29
Speaker 7: And yeah, I guess we were able to finally make
31:32
Speaker 7: that tournament my senior year, which worked out perfectly for us,
31:36
Speaker 7: and I guess we ended up losing in the semi finals,
31:39
Speaker 7: but still just such a cool memory to be able
31:42
Speaker 7: to play in front of eighteen thousand people at that
31:45
Speaker 7: rink and in front of all your friends and family.
31:48
Speaker 2: Did did you watch your brother Jack when he took
31:50
Speaker 2: him to the finals, and is there bragging rights in
31:53
Speaker 2: the house a little bit because he got just a
31:55
Speaker 2: touch further than you.
31:57
Speaker 7: Yeah. No, I followed all of those pretty close to
32:00
Speaker 7: He had some crazy matchups. One he lost in triple
32:04
Speaker 7: over to so yeah, he did make it further than
32:07
Speaker 7: me in that one. And he actually ended up winning
32:10
Speaker 7: the state championship with his football team too. So he's
32:12
Speaker 7: got I know, I got no rings.
32:20
Speaker 1: I love it.
32:22
Speaker 2: I mean, speaking of older brothers, you know, and and
32:25
Speaker 2: I played with Brent Burns early in my career, and
32:30
Speaker 2: you know, I considered him just an amazing specimen. You know,
32:34
Speaker 2: not only to watch this guy day day by day
32:37
Speaker 2: how he carries himself, but also just how big of
32:41
Speaker 2: an absolute crazy individual caveman this guy is. Like I
32:46
Speaker 2: know you've been just a little bit with Brent Burns,
32:48
Speaker 2: but like, give me just a little bit of an
32:50
Speaker 2: inside view of the things that I already know but
32:52
Speaker 2: the fans don't know about about Brett Burns and how
32:55
Speaker 2: crazy this son of a bitch is.
32:58
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think he explained it pretty good.
33:01
Speaker 7: Like Burns, He's he's one of a kind. Like I
33:05
Speaker 7: heard stories about him and with Jack Drewy being here
33:09
Speaker 7: last year, he kind of told told me about him,
33:11
Speaker 7: like sort of what to expect with him, and.
33:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's just.
33:17
Speaker 7: Like, first of all, he's just like the best person ever,
33:20
Speaker 7: Like he's really good role model and so good for
33:24
Speaker 7: our locker room, ton of fun to be around always.
33:27
Speaker 7: And then he's got that side of him too where
33:29
Speaker 7: he's like almost it almost reminds me of juniors, like
33:33
Speaker 7: playing hockey back when we were eighteen nineteen. Some of
33:39
Speaker 7: the stuff that he does, and you think, like, man,
33:41
Speaker 7: this guy's forty, Like he's got.
33:42
Speaker 6: He's going he's going home to his kids.
33:44
Speaker 7: And then you see him like on FaceTime on the
33:46
Speaker 7: plane with his with his kids, and he's in dad
33:49
Speaker 7: mode and it's like this is not the same guy
33:51
Speaker 7: who's just talking to but it's it's pretty funny.
33:54
Speaker 6: He's all time.
33:55
Speaker 2: What's what's the like, what's the craziest just wacky thing
33:58
Speaker 2: that you could tell that's obviously within reason that that
34:01
Speaker 2: birds he does like people would that you're just kind
34:04
Speaker 2: of like because when I played with him, he had
34:07
Speaker 2: like these like Yu gi oh toys on the plane
34:10
Speaker 2: and he was eight years older than me at that
34:12
Speaker 2: point and I was like this guy's like the handsome brother,
34:14
Speaker 2: Like he's playing with his fucking toys right now. Like
34:17
Speaker 2: this guy's like a Nora's Trophy defense and he's playing
34:20
Speaker 2: with his toys. Like is there anything crazy you've seen
34:21
Speaker 2: where you're like, wow, that's that's wild.
34:25
Speaker 7: I mean there for sure is I can't think of
34:28
Speaker 7: anything that's too crazy right now. But like just you
34:32
Speaker 7: see him getting on the plane and he's got like
34:34
Speaker 7: it'll be like a two day trip, Like I have
34:37
Speaker 7: a duffel bag in my backpack, and then he has
34:40
Speaker 7: two suitcases that could fit a person inside of them.
34:44
Speaker 7: And then he's got his huge camel backpack on top
34:47
Speaker 7: of that, and it's like, what do you possibly have
34:50
Speaker 7: in there? Like it's pretty crazy, Like you really think
34:53
Speaker 7: we haven't got the full show and tell ye out
34:56
Speaker 7: of the backpack yet, But I know he's got like
35:00
Speaker 7: I thought I heard like some switchblades in there. I
35:03
Speaker 7: don't know he's got.
35:06
Speaker 2: And it's like and then it's like this backpack it's
35:09
Speaker 2: like folklore, like you don't know, no one knows truly
35:12
Speaker 2: what's in it.
35:13
Speaker 1: It's like seeing some things.
35:15
Speaker 2: It's seen some things.
35:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it looks heavy, I know that.
35:21
Speaker 1: I can only imagine what's in the back. Play that
35:22
Speaker 1: game with Brent Burns next time. Trying to guess you
35:25
Speaker 1: mentioned McKinnon earlier a little bit, Sam, He's an absolute
35:28
Speaker 1: monch from when it comes to fitness and nutrition as
35:30
Speaker 1: a guy who likes an occasional chocolate bar, Like, how
35:32
Speaker 1: much does he chastise you if you if he sees
35:35
Speaker 1: somebody have a little junk food?
35:37
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, he he for sure does. I mean I
35:42
Speaker 7: found that out pretty quickly my first year.
35:45
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, being the young guy.
35:47
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I think any young guy coming to
35:50
Speaker 7: the team sort of finds that out quickly. But just
35:54
Speaker 7: like I would always eat peanut butter and jelly before
35:58
Speaker 7: the games and just a quick sandwich. And he told
36:03
Speaker 7: me pretty quickly that he did like that very much,
36:07
Speaker 7: so so he cleaned up my diet pretty good. And
36:13
Speaker 7: you know, like looking back now, it's like if I
36:15
Speaker 7: do feel a lot better just with.
36:18
Speaker 6: The way I eat.
36:18
Speaker 7: And I mean I watched the way like he treats
36:22
Speaker 7: himself as far as saunas and cold tubs and taking
36:26
Speaker 7: care of his body too, And I think it definitely
36:28
Speaker 7: makes a difference.
36:29
Speaker 1: I know it's a tough spot to be in samy
36:31
Speaker 1: shit said, listen a minute. It worked for almost. Come on,
36:33
Speaker 1: a little peanut butter and jelly.
36:34
Speaker 2: Let's go.
36:35
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, don't even don't even think about cookies or
36:38
Speaker 7: anything like that.
36:40
Speaker 2: What's the what's like your your pregame meal that you
36:43
Speaker 2: were having? Did he make Did you kind of change
36:45
Speaker 2: your pregame meal from when you came into the league
36:47
Speaker 2: since being with Nate, like anything specific that changed, like
36:50
Speaker 2: going from fish to steak or pasta or rice or
36:53
Speaker 2: something like that.
36:55
Speaker 7: You know what I he did. He didn't like that
36:58
Speaker 7: that I ate pasta. He always does sweet potatoes, and
37:03
Speaker 7: so I switched to that for a little bit.
37:08
Speaker 6: And honestly, I think this is probably a mental thing
37:10
Speaker 6: for me.
37:11
Speaker 7: But last year I started not I wasn't playing very well,
37:13
Speaker 7: and so I went back to my pasta and then
37:15
Speaker 7: I started playing good again and said, no, I'm just
37:18
Speaker 7: kind of enrolling with that and telling myself, you know,
37:20
Speaker 7: everybody's different, like you need to do what works for you.
37:24
Speaker 2: So, hey, Nate, take a step back. I got this.
37:28
Speaker 2: I'm going pasta.
37:29
Speaker 1: Yeah.
37:30
Speaker 7: Now that it's my second year, he leaves me alone
37:32
Speaker 7: a little more and lets me do it.
37:33
Speaker 4: That's gonnay.
37:34
Speaker 1: Sound like it's peanut M and M's here at midnight
37:36
Speaker 1: like a pasta. It's okay. You know you got some
37:37
Speaker 1: good coaches in.
37:38
Speaker 2: There, right.
37:39
Speaker 1: I want your head coach likes to Jared Bedna, one
37:41
Speaker 1: of the coolest guys, especially with that salad. Can you
37:43
Speaker 1: confirm Sam, like, how much head and shoulders is he
37:45
Speaker 1: putting in that hair?
37:47
Speaker 7: I gotta think a good amount. It sure seems like
37:50
Speaker 7: he's got it, got a good head of hair.
37:51
Speaker 6: For his age.
37:55
Speaker 2: I want to know one thing. So when I was
37:57
Speaker 2: in San Jose to start, I had a video coach
38:00
Speaker 2: named Brett Heimlich and I think he might be stowing car.
38:04
Speaker 2: He's around there. How greats Brett? And you got any
38:09
Speaker 2: funny Brett stories for the fans at home? Because he
38:11
Speaker 2: was He's one of Joe Thornton's like favorite guys, and
38:15
Speaker 2: Burnsey for a little bit as well in San Jose.
38:18
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, Brett's here, He's great.
38:21
Speaker 7: I think you'd probably want to bring on one of
38:23
Speaker 7: our equipment guys to get a good story from him.
38:26
Speaker 7: They got to have some good stories from going out
38:28
Speaker 7: in Nashville and wherever that over else they've they've had
38:32
Speaker 7: some good times. But yeah, I know, Brett's great. He's
38:36
Speaker 7: great to have her in the locker room and a
38:37
Speaker 7: ton of fun.
38:39
Speaker 2: Jumbo gave him the nickname Clitti and geez he used
38:44
Speaker 2: to call he used to call him the clit Brett
38:47
Speaker 2: high like the best best nickname of all time for
38:50
Speaker 2: a video coach. Unbelievable him next time you see him,
38:55
Speaker 2: to say, hey Clitty, see what he says. He's going
38:58
Speaker 2: lab to jumpo Oh.
39:02
Speaker 1: I don't feel like a list gut any nicknames, but
39:04
Speaker 1: when it comes to the owner, the Cronkies also owned
39:07
Speaker 1: two other exciting teams right now, Sam and the Nuggets
39:09
Speaker 1: and the Rams. Have you been able to enjoy any
39:11
Speaker 1: of the perks associated with either of those teams. You're
39:14
Speaker 1: busy right now playing, but maybe some swag or maybe
39:17
Speaker 1: beating some of those players.
39:19
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, we got a really cool experience right
39:23
Speaker 7: before the season started. We played preseason game I think
39:26
Speaker 7: it was in Vegas, and right after we just flew
39:31
Speaker 7: over to LA and we got to go like on
39:34
Speaker 7: the field and watch the Rams nice do their warm
39:38
Speaker 7: ups and watch the game from the suite and they
39:41
Speaker 7: kind of decked us out with some hats and some
39:44
Speaker 7: custom jerseys. So that was a really cool experience and
39:48
Speaker 7: I don't think any of us realized what we were
39:50
Speaker 7: getting there, but it was.
39:51
Speaker 6: It was pretty sick.
39:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, just like talk about the you know, Colorado being
39:57
Speaker 2: a hockey destination, I feel like now and you know,
40:01
Speaker 2: when I started, it wasn't necessarily like a place where
40:03
Speaker 2: guys were pining for, but now it's just it's such
40:05
Speaker 2: an amazing city and atmosphere. Just talk a little bit
40:07
Speaker 2: about the arena and just the atmosphere and being in
40:11
Speaker 2: those playoff games in Colorado.
40:15
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's a pretty cool rink, really good fans,
40:19
Speaker 7: great atmosphere, and as far as playoffs, like, I think
40:24
Speaker 7: back to my first playoff game last year and I
40:27
Speaker 7: knew it was gonna be nuts, but I came out
40:29
Speaker 7: from the tunnel and it was like nothing I've ever
40:31
Speaker 7: seen before.
40:32
Speaker 4: Heard.
40:34
Speaker 7: Pretty incredible experience there, And I think part of the
40:39
Speaker 7: reason everyone wants to come here is just like the
40:41
Speaker 7: culture that we built and being on a winning team
40:44
Speaker 7: and a true Stanley Cup contender, I think is what
40:48
Speaker 7: people definitely look for. And on top of that, I
40:51
Speaker 7: think Denver is just a great place to live too, Like, yeah,
40:55
Speaker 7: it's like sunny almost every day. The winters are very
40:59
Speaker 7: mild in my opinion, being from Minnesota.
41:02
Speaker 2: Were you I just want to but your your first
41:05
Speaker 2: playoffs was was your first game? Was Landeskog in that
41:10
Speaker 2: game where he'd already played a game Landy? Was that
41:12
Speaker 2: your first game as well? In the playoffs?
41:14
Speaker 7: That was my first playoff game too, Which made it
41:16
Speaker 7: even crazier.
41:17
Speaker 2: To take us through that, man, because like I was
41:20
Speaker 2: just thinking of that because I remember watching that game,
41:23
Speaker 2: and I remember during the game, They're like, it was
41:24
Speaker 2: your first playoff game as well, Like talk about that,
41:27
Speaker 2: because that is just that is incredible, Like I played
41:30
Speaker 2: against Landy, uh followed his story. Just take us through
41:36
Speaker 2: that whole day, the whole you know, the whole week
41:38
Speaker 2: leading up to it, you learning you're going to play,
41:41
Speaker 2: and then being in that situation there.
41:44
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was unbelievable.
41:45
Speaker 7: I mean, like like I said, coming out from warm ups,
41:49
Speaker 7: like they were the whole crowd is chanting his name
41:51
Speaker 7: the entire warm ups and I'm sitting there like trying
41:54
Speaker 7: to get ready and get rid of the nerves, and
41:56
Speaker 7: it was just like the coolest, the coolest warm ups
42:00
Speaker 7: I've ever been a part of Without a Doubt and
42:02
Speaker 7: then just the game on top of that was pretty special.
42:06
Speaker 6: But just seeing like everything Landy was able.
42:10
Speaker 7: To overcome and get to where he's at now, where
42:13
Speaker 7: he's a he's back in the lineup regularly and just incredible.
42:18
Speaker 7: Like Landy's he's like the ultimate leader, Like he just
42:22
Speaker 7: seems like the you know, the best person. He's been
42:26
Speaker 7: so good for our room this year, Like he's just
42:29
Speaker 7: brings such a calling and fun.
42:32
Speaker 6: To our locker room.
42:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like when you have those guys like and you'll
42:38
Speaker 2: you'll feel it as you get longer in the league
42:41
Speaker 2: because you get a long career ahead of you. But
42:42
Speaker 2: just like those guys that are able to it's it's
42:45
Speaker 2: like unexplainable, but they just calm down the room of
42:47
Speaker 2: the bench when they're in there, you just know they're there,
42:49
Speaker 2: and it's just such a nice feeling to have as
42:51
Speaker 2: a player.
42:53
Speaker 7: Yeah, and he just like whenever he talks, like you know,
42:56
Speaker 7: he's got something good to say, it's always purposeful.
42:59
Speaker 6: And Yeah, Landy's just he's the best.
43:04
Speaker 3: Sam you mentioned going to Sofi to see the Rams
43:06
Speaker 3: game before the season started and getting decked out in
43:09
Speaker 3: the gear some of the guys had to make a
43:11
Speaker 3: bit of a statement to the media when you got
43:13
Speaker 3: back to Broncos Nation after that, can you test a
43:16
Speaker 3: little bit like were you feeling a little bit of
43:18
Speaker 3: the heat.
43:18
Speaker 1: From the locals when you got back from so far?
43:21
Speaker 7: You know, I did not even think about that being
43:25
Speaker 7: an issue, and then my one of my friends texted
43:28
Speaker 7: me about it, saying all the Avs fans weren't too
43:32
Speaker 7: happy about it, and the Broncos fans. But then I
43:36
Speaker 7: started to think about it a little more and I
43:38
Speaker 7: was like, actually, if the Broncos went to a Dallas
43:43
Speaker 7: Stars game and they all had Dallas Stars jerseys on,
43:46
Speaker 7: I'd be like, what the heck, Like it's a little
43:48
Speaker 7: it's a little messed up, but like, yeah, no, Luckily
43:52
Speaker 7: I didn't have to do any any media with that
43:54
Speaker 7: ans or anything.
43:56
Speaker 2: Sam, you just tell him, I go where the owner
43:58
Speaker 2: pays my checks. And he told me that we're going
44:00
Speaker 2: to Sofi. I'm going to a goddamn Sofi game.
44:03
Speaker 6: That's exact out.
44:04
Speaker 2: Yeah.
44:05
Speaker 7: Yeah, they offer you that experience and some jerseys, like
44:07
Speaker 7: you're not going to turn that down.
44:10
Speaker 3: Right, And we've spoken, you know, we spoke with some
44:12
Speaker 3: guys who were high draft picks, first round picks, second
44:15
Speaker 3: round picks, and told us about the pressure of being
44:18
Speaker 3: a prospect getting picked time in the draft. But we
44:21
Speaker 3: haven't talked to too many guys about what the pressure
44:23
Speaker 3: is like as an undrafted free agent coming out of college.
44:26
Speaker 3: You know, what was it like for you losing part
44:28
Speaker 3: of your you know, collegiate career to COVID and then
44:31
Speaker 3: coming out from Cornell wondering if you'll get an offer,
44:35
Speaker 3: where where you'll get an offer?
44:36
Speaker 2: What was that like for you personally?
44:38
Speaker 3: And what was it like to then get a call saying, hey,
44:40
Speaker 3: we have an offer from one of the best teams
44:42
Speaker 3: in the league for you.
44:44
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean for me, I feel like I was
44:47
Speaker 7: pretty good about just taking everything one day at a time,
44:52
Speaker 7: Like I held myself myself to a very high standard
44:55
Speaker 7: and wanted to play a certain way. But like I wasn't.
44:59
Speaker 7: I never got ahead of myself. I never really thought
45:03
Speaker 7: I would play in the NHL. Like I was when
45:05
Speaker 7: I was in juniors. I was just trying to make college.
45:08
Speaker 7: And then once I got to college, I was like, Okay,
45:11
Speaker 7: I just got to make the lineup here, and then
45:13
Speaker 7: I gotta get better, and then NHL started to get
45:17
Speaker 7: a little bit in my head, and then signing with Colorado,
45:20
Speaker 7: I still wasn't positive. I didn't know how long it
45:24
Speaker 7: would take me to get up up to the Avalanche.
45:27
Speaker 7: But I was just kind of like, hey, I'll start
45:29
Speaker 7: with the Eagles and do my thing there and just
45:31
Speaker 7: build confidence and just kind of slowly climbed the ladder.
45:35
Speaker 2: I guess what was there a moment that you kind
45:39
Speaker 2: of realize this is the path for me? Because I
45:42
Speaker 2: had a similar you know, I got drafted when I
45:44
Speaker 2: was twenty, and I was kind of in junior being like, listen,
45:48
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna you know, I'm just gonna go play
45:50
Speaker 2: college and that's it for me. Was there a game
45:53
Speaker 2: or a moment where you were like, oh, wow, I
45:54
Speaker 2: think I could make this work.
45:59
Speaker 7: I mean, it's kind of hard to say, Like there
46:03
Speaker 7: is moments probably along the way, Like I think my
46:07
Speaker 7: junior year of college I started to that was kind
46:12
Speaker 7: of my breakout year, I guess, And actually freshman year,
46:16
Speaker 7: I remember my agent brought up that a few NHL
46:19
Speaker 7: teams were asking about me, and I was like shocked
46:22
Speaker 7: by that.
46:22
Speaker 2: I was like, sometimes that's enough.
46:24
Speaker 7: Confidence wise, Yeah, it was, That's when I really started thinking.
46:28
Speaker 7: I was like, Okay, so that can now be my goal.
46:31
Speaker 7: I guess if they are actually interested. And then my
46:36
Speaker 7: senior year, I just felt like I had a month
46:39
Speaker 7: I think it was February or something where I really
46:42
Speaker 7: started to dominate and take my game to the next level.
46:46
Speaker 7: And so I think that's sort of when my confidence
46:48
Speaker 7: really took off.
46:50
Speaker 1: Well, it's a great story. Hopeing you continue to dominate
46:53
Speaker 1: this year with the Colorado Will you will you will,
46:56
Speaker 1: We believe in you, SA NHL script gift and go
46:59
Speaker 1: Big Red. Great stories there from Cornell. Obviously she still
47:02
Speaker 1: had a great time there and best of luck. We
47:04
Speaker 1: appreciate this was fun.
47:06
Speaker 6: Yeah, a ton of fun. Thanks for having me on, guys,
47:08
Speaker 6: appreciate it.
47:17
Speaker 1: Thank you once again to Sam Lensky. Great stuff there. Meantime,
47:19
Speaker 1: cinephil and sixty buzzy new film from your ghost Lanthemos.
47:23
Speaker 1: That's right, the bad boy of cinema. The Greeks around
47:25
Speaker 1: it again JD. His new film is called Bagonia, starring
47:27
Speaker 1: Emmastone and Jesse Plemons. And listen, he's a guy polarizing
47:32
Speaker 1: with his film. There's no question about it. I thought
47:34
Speaker 1: the favorite was obviously a very good movie. He loves
47:37
Speaker 1: work with Emmastone. She basically said she'll work with them,
47:39
Speaker 1: you know, the rest of her life. Anytime that there's
47:40
Speaker 1: a project available, she'll work with Lanthemos. Butgoni is a
47:43
Speaker 1: very odd film. I't know if you ever saw Death
47:45
Speaker 1: in the Maiden Ben Kingsley movie, but it's about Guty
47:48
Speaker 1: Jesse Plemons essentially is taking revenge on Emma Stone. She's
47:51
Speaker 1: almost like a stand in if you said it, like
47:53
Speaker 1: these pharmaceutical companies and like you know, big farmer that's
47:56
Speaker 1: so to speak. So essentially he captures her and I'm
47:59
Speaker 1: not saything else about that, but things get a little dark.
48:01
Speaker 1: There's some torture here, uh Emiston. If you've seen The
48:04
Speaker 1: Shaved Head, I mean, this is a port of humanity
48:07
Speaker 1: at its worst. And one thing about Lanthemos is he
48:09
Speaker 1: does not really show humanity in the best of light.
48:11
Speaker 1: Like this movie may or may not be about aliens,
48:14
Speaker 1: but it's definitely about alienation and how it feels right
48:16
Speaker 1: now the average person against all these corporate heads. And
48:19
Speaker 1: I can just imagine being in a movie theater again.
48:21
Speaker 1: I watched it on my phone, being people like screaming
48:24
Speaker 1: and cheering at the TV. You see what's happening. It's
48:26
Speaker 1: another dark movie. Again. I liked it, But this guy man,
48:30
Speaker 1: he puts you through the ringer. That's all I gotta
48:32
Speaker 1: say about. But Gonia, are you gonna see it any interest?
48:36
Speaker 2: Calling in the mothership? Calling in the mothership? He's really.
48:44
Speaker 4: No. No.
48:44
Speaker 2: But that's isn't that? That's like a scene in the movie.
48:47
Speaker 2: He this, This director really likes Jesse Pleman's and Emma
48:51
Speaker 2: Stone together. Right, they've done a couple movies together. Now
48:54
Speaker 2: go ahead, ta That's all I got.
48:57
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say, I'm a fan of Emma
48:59
Speaker 3: Stone and Yrgos.
49:01
Speaker 2: Is this a Greek thing?
49:02
Speaker 3: Is like the morbid darkness is out of Greek trait
49:06
Speaker 3: because uh kinds of kindness and.
49:09
Speaker 1: Yes, poor things obviously poor things.
49:11
Speaker 2: I agree. The Greeks are dark, little bleak, the bleak Greek.
49:15
Speaker 1: I mean the bleak dark movie. Colin Farrell in that
49:18
Speaker 1: opening scene of The Lobster, they asked him are you
49:20
Speaker 1: are you heterosexual or homosexual? And he goes, well, a
49:23
Speaker 1: little bit of both. They go, well, we've we've changed
49:25
Speaker 1: that answer. That's to be the one or the other.
49:27
Speaker 1: And he gives his twenty second part and eventually he's like,
49:31
Speaker 1: I guess I would have to say heterosexual, but but
49:33
Speaker 1: he doesn't say it convincingly. Later on, John c Riley
49:36
Speaker 1: gets his hand put in a toaster for masturbating. I
49:39
Speaker 1: was like, what the It is dark stuff these Greeks, man,
49:43
Speaker 1: but poor things in the favorite both greade. I don't
49:45
Speaker 1: think PAGONI was as good, but it was definitely dark
49:47
Speaker 1: and definitely entertaining. Let's talk about yak Abdobus j D
49:50
Speaker 1: top rookie going the NHL so far, which is why
49:52
Speaker 1: I was shocked when I saw what he said after
49:54
Speaker 1: Montreal lost four to three and overtime to New Jersey,
49:57
Speaker 1: his record of six oh one. And you look at
49:59
Speaker 1: these numbers at Montembeau's say percentage is like eight sixty
50:02
Speaker 1: to use a Jason de Burr's comment, dog water, Dobish
50:05
Speaker 1: is like nine to twenty. I'm sure both of you
50:07
Speaker 1: guys know, And LaBelle Provence you're like, hey, it's Dobish,
50:09
Speaker 1: like for the Vesident, like forget about mont too, it's
50:11
Speaker 1: a terrible contract. It happens, let's move on. But Dobish
50:14
Speaker 1: visibly upset, like emotionally shedding tears, saying it's on him.
50:18
Speaker 6: Ah, it just sucks.
50:20
Speaker 4: But you know last year that you no, no, just.
50:29
Speaker 1: It happened last year, it happened this year, you know.
50:32
Speaker 5: Loose through those guys in ot So just disappointment in
50:36
Speaker 5: myself just pretty much it.
50:38
Speaker 1: What did you make of the emotion? I was struck
50:39
Speaker 1: by just how passionate he was over loss, considering how
50:42
Speaker 1: good he's been.
50:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I dealt with a lot of performance
50:46
Speaker 2: anxiety when I played in a lot of stress and
50:49
Speaker 2: ups and downs, and you know, seeing guys that are
50:51
Speaker 2: vulnerable like this is always for me always strikes a chord. So,
50:55
Speaker 2: you know, seeing him and as much as I want
50:58
Speaker 2: to kind of give him a hug and be like
51:00
Speaker 2: if I was his teammate, be like, just take a breath,
51:02
Speaker 2: like you're it's okay, it's one game, you'll be fine,
51:05
Speaker 2: but understanding that, like these kids take this seriously, and
51:10
Speaker 2: these players take it seriously, and it's life for death,
51:12
Speaker 2: life for death at times, and we forget about that,
51:15
Speaker 2: and you know, you take out the money and these
51:18
Speaker 2: people that are just and kids that are competing to
51:21
Speaker 2: be the best, and sometimes that emotionality gets the best
51:25
Speaker 2: of you. And I think dobeesh, you know, if I
51:28
Speaker 2: were to sit with him, I just tell them, just listen,
51:31
Speaker 2: it's it's one game. You're gonna be fine. Just bounce back.
51:34
Speaker 2: But to see him kind of release all of that
51:37
Speaker 2: after the game was kind of, you know, just a
51:39
Speaker 2: little bit of a magnifying glass onto what professional sports
51:44
Speaker 2: can be at times for some of these players. And
51:46
Speaker 2: you know, I know people will listen to Scoff and
51:48
Speaker 2: I'd be like, Yeah, you're making the money and you're
51:49
Speaker 2: fine and this and that, but you know, you make
51:52
Speaker 2: the money for such a short amount of time and
51:54
Speaker 2: then you have to live the rest of your life,
51:55
Speaker 2: and you're not kind of taught how to be a
51:59
Speaker 2: human other than just being a professional athlete. So I
52:02
Speaker 2: think for a guy like Dobish, who's probably put everything
52:06
Speaker 2: he's had into becoming a professional athlete, it's kind of
52:09
Speaker 2: one of those things. Every loss feels that much worse
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Speaker 2: and that much deeper. And and I appreciated his vulnerability,
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Speaker 2: and I hope he's all right, and I hope that
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Speaker 2: somebody grabbed him after and gave him a big hug
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Speaker 2: and just said, hey, it's all good, and we got
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Speaker 2: you in next game, we're going to win it and
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Speaker 2: forget about it. Because he lost the game and still
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Speaker 2: got a point, so he stays' loss in regulation. But
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Speaker 2: I just think for him, it's it's going to be
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Speaker 2: really just bouncing back and just just keep playing your game.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And he's been playing
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Speaker 1: a game at a high level right now. It's the
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Speaker 1: Montreal Kayanes. Fans appreciate his passion, appreciate what he's doing.
52:48
Speaker 1: Let's close things off the not and Nathan McKinney you
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Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, JD with a run he's been on. As
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Speaker 1: of Wednesday, the league MVP now leads the league in goals, assists,
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Speaker 1: and points. Four goals in twelve points over his last
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Speaker 1: three games. He's actually never won the Rocket Shard or
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Speaker 1: the art Ross, so never said the most goals, never
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Speaker 1: said the most points. And the last player not named
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Speaker 1: Kuchioff who you always have stumped for is being underrated
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Speaker 1: McDavid or Drysolo. When the art Ross was twenty sixteen,
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Speaker 1: Crazy Patrick came was with Chicago. Is this the year
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Speaker 1: Nate Dogg gets the Rocket restored or the art Ross
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Speaker 1: trophies and now officially becomes the best player in the world.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been up there for a while now. I
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Speaker 2: just think he's a he's a fucking horse man. That
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Speaker 2: guy is just a he's a minuteta minuta that is.
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Speaker 2: That is Nathan McKinnon for you. He is just a dog. Great.
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Speaker 2: He is half horse, half man, horse cocking it all
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Speaker 2: over the place. Nathan McKinnon. Uh, yeah, I just think
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Speaker 2: I thought Kutchirov was robbed the last few years. But
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Speaker 2: Kutcharov hasn't really performed to the level that we thought.
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Speaker 2: But Nathan McKinnon, Man, give it to him, all right now?
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Speaker 2: Early first, what is it? Fifteen games of the season. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: normally I think what do we call this? You get
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Speaker 2: let's not Yeah, let's not give a quarter mark like
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Speaker 2: you're you're trying to horn me up too early. Let's wait,
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Speaker 2: let's wait, let's just wait. Wait five games and then
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Speaker 2: we can do you know, in the next three weeks,
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Speaker 2: and we don't have a contract, and we'll be doing
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Speaker 2: this show and I'll be I'll be my boxer's no
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Speaker 2: shirt on with Cheetah's coming down my chest. God, and
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Speaker 2: I tell you what, we'll talk about we'll talk about
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Speaker 2: Nathan McKinnon.
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Speaker 1: Then thirty two points in seventeen games. You know, right
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Speaker 1: the scott teams most teams have played around fifteen sixteen
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Speaker 1: seventy that's fourteen goals. Is particularly eye opening in today's game.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this guy is just just on a run
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Speaker 1: right now?
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Speaker 2: Am I wrong?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: Am I wrong?
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Speaker 1: Well that's right, Bob Bender likes me doing am I wrong? Segment?
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Speaker 1: So there's your am I wrong?
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Speaker 2: You don't want if we can get a sponsorship for
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Speaker 2: we could do it, but not allowed effort. Am I wrong?
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Speaker 1: Well you're not wrong on that. They're definitely not wrong
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Speaker 1: on that. We're efforting as we speak. Thanks once again
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