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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny on Utah Mammoth and NHL, Recent contract extensions, The playoff push + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 2: Here's oc from the Murdoch Hyundai Studio of ESPN seven hundred.
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  Speaker 3: At ninety two to one.
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  Speaker 2: Alf Am, All right, welcome back to the Shaan O'Connell show.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in our Utah Mammoth insider Adrian Denny between the pipes,
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  Speaker 1: Adrian Adrian's bracket is looking pretty good. Just in the
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  Speaker 1: the official ESPN Hosts and Regular Guest category. You're right
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  Speaker 1: now tied for second, but you've got Florida going out
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  Speaker 1: in the next round. The only two people above you
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  Speaker 1: have Florida heading to the final four, So I think
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  Speaker 1: you're looking pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: That was one high seed that I had exiting before.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they were scheduled. And I get a lot of
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  Speaker 4: flak at this time of year because my brackets usually
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  Speaker 4: do pretty well and I'm pretty chalky, and it's I
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  Speaker 4: play the percentages in life, and you know, I don't
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  Speaker 4: go out and have ten upsets. In the first two days,
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  Speaker 4: I picked some spots. I had Utah State beating George Washington.
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  Speaker 4: I thought BYU would be an early exit. The funny
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  Speaker 4: thing is, of see, when I filled out the bracket
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  Speaker 4: last week, I did it before the first four games,
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  Speaker 4: and I thought North Carolina State would beat Texas. So
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  Speaker 4: it's NC State slash Texas that I had advancing. But
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  Speaker 4: I thought it'd be n C State and Sean Miller
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  Speaker 4: and the Longhorns took care of BYU in the first game,
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  Speaker 4: and I thought that that might be that might be
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  Speaker 4: a matchup that the team that beat b YU could
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  Speaker 4: could go a little further there. But I thought it'd
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  Speaker 4: be NC State and not Texas. I thought Texas and
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  Speaker 4: m would beat Saint Mary's. Just we're looking at you know,
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  Speaker 4: we're looking at rosters here, and SEC roster is going
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  Speaker 4: to beat a West Coast Conference roster, especially with the
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  Speaker 4: new program the Eggies have.
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  Speaker 3: So that's uh, it's kind of my thought process.
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  Speaker 4: I love college basketball, just with hockey this year and
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  Speaker 4: the playoff front the Mammoth have been on. I've been
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  Speaker 4: watching a lot of hockey on nights, I tipped would
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  Speaker 4: watch a lot of college basketball, especially late, so I
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  Speaker 4: didn't feel as connected. I didn't feel as great about it.
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  Speaker 4: But I had some I had some inklings, and those, uh,
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  Speaker 4: those came came true early in the first first round
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  Speaker 4: or two.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's focus to let's focus on hockey, because obviously
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  Speaker 1: that's where your greatest area of expertise lies. I've been look,
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  Speaker 1: I've been gone for a while, and I thank you
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  Speaker 1: to the Utah Mammoth for kind of keeping it right
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  Speaker 1: down the middle four four and two over their last ten.
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  Speaker 1: I would have been really bothered if I missed like
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  Speaker 1: an incredible nine game run, or if I on the
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  Speaker 1: flip side, I guess it would have been glad if
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  Speaker 1: I'd missed some kind of tragic downfall. But they're in
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  Speaker 1: a really healthy spot right now with the upcoming playoff
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  Speaker 1: push that you just referenced. Last night not their best
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  Speaker 1: five to two loss to a relatively short handed Oilers team.
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  Speaker 3: What went wrong last night?
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  Speaker 4: Three minutes and forty seconds of a game that was
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  Speaker 4: one to one, and the Mammoth threw the first power
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  Speaker 4: play and Edmonton immediately comes back twenty four seconds in
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  Speaker 4: the Utah power play and scores shorthanded. Mammoth came back
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  Speaker 4: and tied it, but then eight seconds later you got
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  Speaker 4: Connor McDavid who made it three to two. In less
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  Speaker 4: than three minutes after that, Edmonton made it four too,
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  Speaker 4: So kind of a rocky three minutes and forty seconds
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  Speaker 4: for Utah that took a game that they had taken
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  Speaker 4: a lead in Edmonton tied it. Carl la Melca probably
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  Speaker 4: had a couple pucks in that game that he usually saves.
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  Speaker 4: V Tech Mantachick came in and played the third period.
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  Speaker 4: The Mammoth were pretty good defensively, but they felt like
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  Speaker 4: they were playing too much defense in the game, especially
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  Speaker 4: in the third period, which kept them from possessing the
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  Speaker 4: puck and getting some some scoring chances. So it was
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  Speaker 4: an okay game. And I think in the NHL, you
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  Speaker 4: win a game and you know, the consensus is you're
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  Speaker 4: the best team in the league. You lose a game,
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  Speaker 4: you're the worst team in the league. I think I
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  Speaker 4: think maybe Utah's game they played last week was Anaheim
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  Speaker 4: the one game they lost, and I think in hockey
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  Speaker 4: it's fifty one, forty nine fifty two forty eight, fifty
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  Speaker 4: to fifty. I think the matchups are that close, especially
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  Speaker 4: when you have twenty four of thirty two teams in
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  Speaker 4: the NHL right now either in a playoff spot or
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  Speaker 4: within striking distance. So it's an okay game. It was,
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  Speaker 4: it was just okay. They're never happy when when they lose,
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  Speaker 4: and and Edmonton played pretty good. They're they're not where
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  Speaker 4: they are record wise at this point in the season. Generally,
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  Speaker 4: they're they're in second place in the Pacific Division, which
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  Speaker 4: has gotten a lot of flak for being the worst
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  Speaker 4: division in hockey in the last decade. But they've still
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  Speaker 4: got Connor McDavid, and they've still got that Stanley Cup
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  Speaker 4: Final DNA from the last two seasons. And they could
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  Speaker 4: not have gotten out of Edmonton fast enough after a
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  Speaker 4: home stand that saw him close it out by getting
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  Speaker 4: out score nine to two by Florida and Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 4: getting shut out by the Panthers getting beaten five to
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  Speaker 4: two by Tampa Bay. And there's just a lot of
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  Speaker 4: noise there. And Connor McDavid had some comments, you know,
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  Speaker 4: basically said ask the coaching staff to a response to
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  Speaker 4: a couple of questions. He was salty their coach, Chris
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  Speaker 4: na block was salty. I think they were just happy
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  Speaker 4: to get out of Edmonton. And you know, they've still
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  Speaker 4: got that that championship pedigree that they can put together
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  Speaker 4: and played pretty well. They had a good game plan
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  Speaker 4: last night. Their game plan was to keep the Mammoth
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  Speaker 4: away from their goalie. Their goalies have struggled, so they
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  Speaker 4: did a good job of that. Mammoth were held in
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  Speaker 4: the teens on shots, which isn't entirely portrayal of what
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  Speaker 4: happened because they missed a lot of nets and Edmonton
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  Speaker 4: blocked upwards of twenty five shots. So good defensive effort
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  Speaker 4: by Edmonton. Of course, Mammoth weren't weren't happy because they
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  Speaker 4: didn't didn't win. The game was just okay. But game
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  Speaker 4: goal four.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred been four to all one in that game for
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  Speaker 1: Connor McDavid in his career, and he downplays everything when
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  Speaker 1: he's talking talking about his individual accolades and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: and look, he's he's gonna when it's all finished, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna go down as one of the all time greats,
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  Speaker 1: So we probably don't need to celebrate every little milestone
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  Speaker 1: along the way for him. But still a big milestone.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and goals thirty nine and forty and they have
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  Speaker 4: big goals right eight seconds after you tie the game up,
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  Speaker 4: like just momentum, Like that's that's that's one thing that
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  Speaker 4: the Mammoth are battling right now. But to have Conor
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  Speaker 4: McDavid on a Tuesday and Alexandro Veshkin coming in tomorrow,
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  Speaker 4: that's a fun week for hockey fans. And I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, everybody can appreciate watching number ninety seven and
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  Speaker 4: in the grade eight. But gosh, like I think Andre
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  Speaker 4: Turney said a number of times, like best player in
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  Speaker 4: the world referring to McDavid, And he can put a
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  Speaker 4: team on his back and take over and he's just
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  Speaker 4: does everything so well.
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  Speaker 3: He's so fast.
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  Speaker 4: Him and Logan Cooley two of the fastest three skaters
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  Speaker 4: in the NHL this season. We saw last night and
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  Speaker 4: Edmonton was missing Leon dry Sidle who's out for the
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  Speaker 4: rest of the regular season. Their second leading scorer, who's
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  Speaker 4: well over a point a game. They hadn't been playing great,
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  Speaker 4: but you're you're always kind of worried about him. They
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  Speaker 4: always seem to put together a good stretch during the
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  Speaker 4: year that just kind of pushes him over the top.
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  Speaker 4: That a sixteen game winning streak a couple of years ago.
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  Speaker 4: Then won more than three in a row this year,
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  Speaker 4: but they hadn't lost more than three in a row
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  Speaker 4: more than more than two times. So sawid game from
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  Speaker 4: Edmonton and Connor McDavid. You know he comes to town.
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  Speaker 4: You know he's gonna do something big because he does
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  Speaker 4: something big every night. We saw Sidney Crosby scoregle one
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  Speaker 4: overtime last year when he came in and Alexandrovitchkin got hurt.
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  Speaker 4: Last time he was here November eighteenth of last year.
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  Speaker 4: So see him tomorrow with the CAFs. But another special
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  Speaker 4: player who could be coming to Salt Lake for the
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  Speaker 4: last time. Some retirement speculation about the Grade eight.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, when you're a Utah Mammoth fan and
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  Speaker 1: the other great players in the league, in the NHL
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  Speaker 1: are playing against your team, they're they're gonna play, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see them. That's not always the case at the
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  Speaker 1: Delta Center when the Jazz are playing. So another reason
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  Speaker 1: why being a hockey fan is a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: You and I haven't had a chance to really dive
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  Speaker 1: into the Weiger acquisition and the effect that he's had
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  Speaker 1: in his first impression games in that Mammoth uniform. So
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  Speaker 1: I want to throw that at you a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, the decision to make make the trade
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  Speaker 1: and acquire him and then of course fit so far, easiest.
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  Speaker 4: Trade I think Bill Armstrong has ever made. He had
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  Speaker 4: draft picks stockpiled, three second rounders that he had acquired
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  Speaker 4: from from other spots over the course of years, making
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  Speaker 4: trade aides a kid playing college hockey, Jonathan Constanya, who
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  Speaker 4: had quite a quite a road to uh ultimately make
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  Speaker 4: it to the NHL and play for the Mammoth. Probably
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  Speaker 4: not gonna happen for for him, uh Beach being a
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  Speaker 4: third round pick. There's a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 4: bodies to get through in addition to the current.
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  Speaker 3: Roster that Utah has. So Calgary liked him.
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  Speaker 4: They're they're looking to grow from within with with young talent.
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  Speaker 4: It just made sense for everybody and for Utah to
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  Speaker 4: get Wiger, who's in year three of an eight year contract.
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  Speaker 4: He wasn't having a great year in Calgary and nobody was.
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  Speaker 4: But really, since he's gotten to the Mammoth, his analytical
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  Speaker 4: numbers have gone through the roof and so have Mikhale
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  Speaker 4: Sergachevs who's playing with him. Sergachev's numbers looking the best
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  Speaker 4: that they have all year, and and wigers like you,
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  Speaker 4: it's good deep but solid offensively too. He's joined the
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  Speaker 4: second power play unit but top five in the NHL
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  Speaker 4: and blockshot and hits. So it's it's the player that's
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  Speaker 4: also a heart and soul guy in the locker room.
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  Speaker 4: And we heard from him after the game last night.
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  Speaker 4: You're like, yeah, this is why everybody loves this guy
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  Speaker 4: because he's you know, he delivered the message honestly, but
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  Speaker 4: in a point like yeah, but it's it's nothing to
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  Speaker 4: panic about. It's it's one game and we'll we'll move on.
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  Speaker 4: So he's a great story. Seventh round draft pick and
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  Speaker 4: Florida didn't have a seventh rounder when they drafted him
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  Speaker 4: in twenty thirteen, and one of their scouts went to
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  Speaker 4: their GM Dale Twon, who was ready to pack up
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  Speaker 4: for the day and get out of Dodge because the
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  Speaker 4: draft was ending and they didn't have a seventh rounder.
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  Speaker 4: He's like the leaguer kid, the weier kid, and they
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  Speaker 4: drafted him, and you know, here he is, tenth year
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  Speaker 4: in the NHL, one of two players from that draft
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  Speaker 4: from from Florida, Alexander Barkoff, their captain the other one.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a good, good seventh round pick.
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  Speaker 4: But he's you know, defied expectations all the way, and
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  Speaker 4: his first couple of weeks here is you can imagine
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  Speaker 4: when you get traded and you've got a wife in
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  Speaker 4: Calgary and he newlywed and got the house like, you
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  Speaker 4: got a no trade clause like he is being credited
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  Speaker 4: with getting Calgary a new arena, like mayor of Calgary.
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  Speaker 4: So no trade clause waived it, and it's he had
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  Speaker 4: a couple hours to make the decision. But he's been
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  Speaker 4: here a couple of weeks and it sounds like that
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  Speaker 4: he's just fallen in love with Utah and loves the
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  Speaker 4: team and it's excited to be here for the foreseeable future.
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  Speaker 1: Well we when the news came down. That's something I
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  Speaker 1: heavily focused on. The new the no trade clause and
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  Speaker 1: the decision. I know it's old news now, but the
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  Speaker 1: decision to say yeah I want this waved. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that, I mean, I don't think that the Mammoth
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  Speaker 1: are the only team he would have done it for.
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  Speaker 1: But that list is incredibly short, and for the Utah
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  Speaker 1: Mammoth in the second year of the club's existence here
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  Speaker 1: in Salt City to already have that reputation in the NHL,
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  Speaker 1: I will hammer this point whenever we have an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to at That is a big deal to be a
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  Speaker 1: preferred destination for athletes who only have had a brief
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  Speaker 1: window of kind of get to know you time with
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  Speaker 1: your club, and obviously you haven't won anything significant, won
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  Speaker 1: anything big yet, But to me, that's important, especially given
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  Speaker 1: the context of professional sports in the state of Utah.
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  Speaker 4: Especially when the tone is set by the players that
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  Speaker 4: you have that have already inked long term extensions. Dylan
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  Speaker 4: Gunn their last fall eight years started this year over
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  Speaker 4: the summer Corralva Malca, Well, I shouldn't say over the summer,
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  Speaker 4: for Handy signed a five year contract last March. Jack
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  Speaker 4: McBain a long term deal last summer. You had Logan
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  Speaker 4: Cooley signing an eight year contract right after the season
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  Speaker 4: started to kick you in next year, JJ Pitturka gets
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  Speaker 4: traded to the man and part of that was him
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  Speaker 4: signing a five year contract to be part of it.
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  Speaker 4: So when you have your core under extended contracts and
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  Speaker 4: Michael Carconi just signed for two years. That's a bargain.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, that's a very team friendly deal. And
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  Speaker 4: you can equate that too another guy who's been here
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  Speaker 4: for a couple of years. Family clearly likes it. Family's
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  Speaker 4: clearly comfortable. He realizes this is this is a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: He signs. So when you're when your players you have
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  Speaker 4: on the roster are all making that commitment, and then
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  Speaker 4: you have an opportunity to to bring in a player
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  Speaker 4: like Wiger and your players have already made the sale.
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  Speaker 3: Uh that that's a that's a huge benefit while it
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  Speaker 3: was away Schmaltz also.
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  Speaker 4: Dick Smaltz, Yeah, right after we got weaker. Yeah, two
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  Speaker 4: weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, eight eight million dollars a year for eight years,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and he's obviously he's been incredible this season.
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  Speaker 1: Good your last year, incredible year this year. So like
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna make the play knock on what. I think
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  Speaker 1: this team's gonna make the playoffs this year. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that that's gonna be the expectation in the bar
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  Speaker 1: that we set moving forward. And it appears that as
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  Speaker 1: you round into that form of your team, there's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a ton of questions about, all right, well,
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  Speaker 1: who's gonna be on this roster next year? How are
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  Speaker 1: we gonna replace this person next year? Feels like the
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  Speaker 1: timing and the roster construction is kind of coming together
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  Speaker 1: nicely for Bill Armstrong and Company.
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  Speaker 4: And there's a strategy to it, right, they're signing these guys.
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  Speaker 4: But David Ludwig, the assistant general manager for the Mammoth,
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  Speaker 4: in his office, he's told us he's got slates and
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  Speaker 4: whiteboards everywhere that are forecasting next year, the year after that,
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  Speaker 4: five years from now, eight years from now. Okay, what's
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  Speaker 4: it gonna look like? How does this fit into the
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  Speaker 4: future with these guys that we're gonna need to re sign,
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  Speaker 4: which now is pretty short list ultimately, right, and prospects
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  Speaker 4: coming up first rounders that you want?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, even would you talk about the prospects
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  Speaker 1: even the guys that are like monkedon headed another great season,
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  Speaker 1: won a championship, right, and you've got Tija Ginla and company, Like,
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  Speaker 1: even the young guys, you're seeing some really nice things
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  Speaker 1: before they get to Mammoth uniforms.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Caleb Dnoye signing the three year entry level contract
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  Speaker 4: on Monday. Monkton winning the regular season in the Quebec
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  Speaker 4: Maritime Junior Hockey League fifty ten and two with two
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  Speaker 4: shootout loss and get back for them.
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  Speaker 3: Is that right? Yep? Yep.
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  Speaker 4: So Dnoye was the MVP of their playoffs last year,
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  Speaker 4: so he played his best hockey in the playoffs, averaging
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  Speaker 4: one point seventy four points per game. The Mammoth have
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  Speaker 4: another point of game prospect there. Gave Smith a fourth
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  Speaker 4: rounder from twenty twenty four, so Dnoye signing that deal
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  Speaker 4: got a Ginla well over a point of game Colbo Dwaine.
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  Speaker 4: The Mammotus signed Michael Robble, their goaltender of the future.
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  Speaker 4: He's six foot seven and there's there's some some stories
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  Speaker 4: out there today is he signs thesentially level contract and
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna start in Tucson in the American Hockey League
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  Speaker 4: right now. He just finished college that he might be
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  Speaker 4: the best goalie in the world that's.
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  Speaker 3: Not in the NHL.
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  Speaker 4: So well, you got you got him, And we talked
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  Speaker 4: to him last week on our podcast, Mammoth Daily, and
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  Speaker 4: uh yeah, fun, fun kid. But another check in. It's
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  Speaker 4: where we get our goalies. Gravel Melka v tech mana
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  Speaker 4: check and Michael Robble second round pick in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 4: So we talk about all the first rounders drafting a
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  Speaker 4: goalie in the second round. High that's that's uh, that's
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  Speaker 4: a choice draft pick. That's that's higher than you usually
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  Speaker 4: draft goalies. So excited about him too, coming.
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  Speaker 1: Up, getting down to crunch time here, fifth in the
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  Speaker 1: West right now for this Utah Mammoth team in the
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  Speaker 1: playoff picture. And I don't want to say comfortably, but
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  Speaker 1: as close to comfortable as you can be for now,
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  Speaker 1: got a big road trip coming up, like you already referenced.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Ovechkin and Washington coming in on Thursday. If
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  Speaker 1: I keep it to that home game and then the
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  Speaker 1: three Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver on the road. Opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: points here, yeah, and for Utah being in that first
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  Speaker 1: wild card spot. They've got a three point lead on Nashville,
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  Speaker 1: they have a six point lead on LA who's the
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  Speaker 1: first team out. Just need to keep banking points here, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the percentages right now from various websites, moneypuck
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: dot Com, the Athletic ninety five percent that they make
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. They want to stand the first wild card
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: so they can play the Pacific Division champion, which looks
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: like it is going to be Anaheim. They've got a
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: five point lead on Edmonton and not have to play
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the the Colorado Avalanche. Plus if you play Anaheim and
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: you beat them, then you get the two three team
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: in the Pacific in Vegas, Edmonton versus two top five teams,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the winner of Minnesota and Dallas. So tough and obviously
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: you got to get past the abs and if you
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: wanted to make it there, so wanna I want to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: stand in the first wild card.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: But as long as they're banking points, they're really the
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: only team in the NHL right now that's you know,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: kind of solidified into their spot, unless you know, they
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: just stop winning all together, which you know is going
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: to be a positive. And the fact that they can,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: you know, manage the lineup going into the final week
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: or two of the year a little bit. Give the
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Malcha some rest. Vanitecks played pretty good too, so I
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: think they're they're in a good spot and I think
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: they're comfortable.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: They're confident.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: They weren't happy with last night, but they've been great
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: at responding and bouncing back all season long after after
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: game they don't they don't win, just as you heard
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: from Mackenzie Wieger last night, just pretty level headed, even keeled.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: But it's done a good job.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: They took advantage of January with that seven game homestand
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: they've been really really solid on the road too, And
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: I think they're confident and ready.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: To make this move.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: But gosh, it's sure nice not having to watch the
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: scoreboard every single night and thinking, oh no, if LA
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: ties this game and get a point, that's tough, and
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: now you're really worrying about yourself. Just kind of seed
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: the banks of points here and stay in that.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Spot outside of the mammoth world. The Rangers were held
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: to nine shots on goal last night.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: That is bad. That's low.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like historically low.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: They have had some moments, another disappointing year for them.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: They had one four in a row at at one point,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: but yeah, that's uh. And it was like four through
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: thirty eight minutes of the game, like they had a
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: big third period of seed to get five shots and
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: get to nine's that's one thing, you know, teams that
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: aren't in the playoffs, you don't really know what you're
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: gonna get because they don't feel any pressure. And so
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: sometimes teams like Chicago they know they're out, but they've
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: got young talent that's just out there having fun that
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: they can be you. Teams like the Rangers that I
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: don't know, bad year, but they still have talent that can,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: you know, sneak up on you and have nights where
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: they put up nine shots on goal at home to
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: drop to nine, eighteen and seven at Madison Square Garden.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: When are we going to.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: See the Utah Mammoth in one of the Global Series
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: games we get a winner classic Obviously it's been we're
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: going to get a playoff playoff team, hopefully in the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: second year of the club's existence. So I know I'm
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: being spoiled here. Yeah, but Caroline and Seattle are going
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: to be playing in Finland next season for a couple
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: of games. We see this with the NFL, we see
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: this with the NBA, we see this with Major League
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Baseball doing their kind of overseas outreach. And if you're
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a Mammoth fan and you want to see the world,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: that's a great excuse to just follow the team and
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: go play wherever they could play.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: So two things if you do that, it costs you
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: a home game or two.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: So that's one thing.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: But number two, you've seen the pride that SEG takes
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: in showcasing their their brands and their teams in Utah
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: to the world. Ah every night that that we're at
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: the Delta Center and I look down and watch the
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Mammoth in those rock black jerseys and the Mountain Blue
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: and the Salt white, I'm like, gosh, these these are beautiful.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: So I think that they would.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: Really, you know, be be admired and sell a lot
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: of merchandise overseas because it's new, and it's and it's
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: unique and and again SEG is just totally embraced, you know,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: growing the game in Utah.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: But beyond, I'll make a suggestion because I haven't been
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: there yet and I want to go. You've got a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: strong check presence, as you said, especially in the crease,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: especially in goal. So I don't know, maybe if you're
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: trying to maximize both ends at this prospect, little uh,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: little one or two games over there and check.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: You Yeah, and you've seen it with you know, like
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: the Florida Panthers going over to Finland and uh, you know, guys, guys,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: that they have on on their roster playing home games.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: You've seen it with.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Guys in in uh Sweden taking taking players home, So
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: definitely seems like it has has an angle when they're
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: scheduling the games in in those various various countries.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: I can't can't speak for anything because I don't you.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Know, I'll do the campaign as uh, since you're a
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: real professional, I'll just do the campaigning.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know how, you know, the the way
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: that this team and an organization and ownership group is embraced,
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: you know, spreading the wings and sharing.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: This coming from the text line from Ryan on the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: text line. Any update on Barrett Hayton. No, we have
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: not gotten an update on him.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: He got hurt in the first two minutes of the game.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Jack McBain went in for a hit with Edmonton's Vacili
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Pod Colson and it's kind of an awkward collision there
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: with Barrett Hayton, so he didn't play the rest of
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: the game, went immediately to the locker room. The update
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: we got was upper body injury, questionable to return. And
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: then after the game last night, Barrett told us that
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: if you evaluated further today, So no update there, but
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: the Mammoth did call up Daniel Boot from the Tucson
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: Roadrunners an hour or two ago, so I think the
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: big boys back on his way up here.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I liked that well.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I liked what we saw from Daniel, and I mean
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I know that it wasn't always pretty, but you got
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to develop and you got to let guys like that
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: get a chance on NHL ies as there expected to
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: be there soon enough. Adrian. It's always great to catch
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: up with you, especially after the long absence.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: So good to see it, my friend.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Great to be back man, Thanks for having me, and
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: see you next week. We'll be in April. Next week,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: that's the month of the playoffs beginning.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Wild and most importantly, knocking on wood that your Utah
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Mammoth should firmly be in that playoff picture. We are
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: so ridiculously lucky to have this coming together with the timing.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: You get a franchise and then the next year potentially
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: they're in the playoffs. That's it's not quite what Vegas got,
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: but it's almost there.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Ten games left, ten games to wrap it up. Probability,
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: so balls in their court.
• 26:30
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