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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny on game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, Vegas finding ways to win, Postseason awards + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: You're tuned to the Sean O'Connell Show from the Murdoch
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  Speaker 1: Chevrolet Studio of ESPN seven hundred and nine. Half to
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  Speaker 1: Go Between the Pipes with Adrian Denny are Utah Mammoth
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  Speaker 1: every single week.
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  Speaker 2: Here he is in studio with us. Hello, Hey, Sean,
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  Speaker 2: how's it going? After a Game one that kind of
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  Speaker 2: went all over the map?
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  Speaker 3: It was a wild one. Vegas takes it five to four.
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  Speaker 2: Very entertaining Game one, and a in some ways a
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  Speaker 2: microcosm of what we have seen from Vegas in these playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: where everyone's pulling on the same rope, even the big
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  Speaker 2: star players, doing the nitty gritty, the dirty work type stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And in the case of the final shot, the final attempt,
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  Speaker 2: the final opportunity for Carolina to equalize.
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  Speaker 3: They've emptied their own net.
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  Speaker 1: They're up a man because of it, and that final drive,
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  Speaker 1: a nice big shot and Mitch Marner's trying to get
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  Speaker 1: out of the way so that Heart can get a
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  Speaker 1: good look at it, and he still ends up blocking
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  Speaker 1: the shot. So even though he was trying to get
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  Speaker 1: out of the way, the right play happened for Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: They have been fortunate with some of those breaks on
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  Speaker 1: their run to the Stanley Cup Final.
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  Speaker 2: As Mitch Martner continues to be the story the off
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  Speaker 2: season acquisition, Yeah, leaving his hometown of Toronto, and then
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  Speaker 2: he's the story right there on a quote unquote defensive
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  Speaker 2: play to help Vegas jump up one to zero in
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  Speaker 2: the series. Marner twenty two points in seventeen games so
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  Speaker 2: far in the playoffs. It's his best ever playoff season
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  Speaker 2: that the he's had. And Vegas, as we've seen so
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  Speaker 2: many times in this plass especially, seven of their thirteen
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  Speaker 2: wins in the postseason have been come from behind wins.
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  Speaker 2: Two of their last three wins have been multi goal
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  Speaker 2: comeback wins against teams that you just don't expect to
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  Speaker 2: come from behind. You're down two nothing in Carolina, granted
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  Speaker 2: it was early down three nothing against Colorado, so they've
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  Speaker 2: how they won.
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  Speaker 3: You just can't shake them. You can't shake them.
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  Speaker 1: They're victorious in Game one, even though they went they
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  Speaker 1: went down early in this game, and Tamash Hurdle was
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  Speaker 1: asked about a post game and just like, hey, was
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  Speaker 1: there any nerves?
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  Speaker 3: Was there anything?
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  Speaker 1: And he kind of laughed it off, which, of course,
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  Speaker 1: all these NHL guys are, you know, nfl appable.
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  Speaker 3: That's how they get to where they're at.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, when you're when you're down in a game
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  Speaker 1: one up a Stanley Cup final in the first twelve minutes,
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  Speaker 1: you're down by two goals, that that could be a
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  Speaker 1: pretty nerve wracking situation. They handled it with a total
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  Speaker 1: poise and ended up battling it out over a back
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  Speaker 1: and forth game. As you already mentioned to four to
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  Speaker 1: four up until that those final couple of minutes when
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  Speaker 1: you saw them go down to zero, did you think
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  Speaker 1: this game at the end would be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: different than what we saw.
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  Speaker 2: I got a couple of texts okay from friends watching,
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  Speaker 2: and I've got a mutual friend who works for the Hurricanes,
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  Speaker 2: and another one of our mutual friends texted me, and
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  Speaker 2: then another one.
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  Speaker 3: Did and it was like, I don't know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: If you know, we should be planning what Walt does
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  Speaker 2: on his day with the Cup and you know, Hurdle,
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  Speaker 2: a guy that Vegas got from San Ju a couple
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  Speaker 2: of years ago, parted with a first round draft pick
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  Speaker 2: for their first I shouldn't say it right after they'd
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  Speaker 2: won the Stanley Cup. They they got him during the
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  Speaker 2: twenty three to twenty four season. And and he's a guy,
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  Speaker 2: oh see that that's got lots of playoff experience. Ninety
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  Speaker 2: seven games, so he hadn't scored in twenty nine straight
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  Speaker 2: games until you know that the Anaheim series. Now he
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  Speaker 2: has four goals in eight games, gets the the go
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  Speaker 2: ahead game winner last night. They just they just have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of lot of pieces like that. And one
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  Speaker 2: thing we talked about during the first round series with
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  Speaker 2: the Mammoth is, you know, playoff experience, and that's that's
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  Speaker 2: what we're talking about. When they they fall behind, they
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  Speaker 2: have a lead, they give up a lead, they have
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  Speaker 2: a lead, they give up another lead. They're just just
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  Speaker 2: kind of unshakable. And they've played so many games over
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  Speaker 2: the last nine year, and they've got guys that have
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  Speaker 2: been involved in every playoff run that they've made that
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  Speaker 2: they're just they're just kind of there. And there was
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  Speaker 2: it was a game where I don't I don't. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think we'll see many more five four games. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: we will, because both teams are so loaded offensively, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not what you'd expect because going into the game,
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  Speaker 2: you had the two best defensive teams, you had the
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  Speaker 2: two best goaltenders in the Stanley Cup playoffs going at it,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, so we'll see what adjustments we get
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  Speaker 2: from game one to game two. Carolina was a team that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they came out and fell apart against Montreal,
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  Speaker 2: losing six to two in that first game in the
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Conference Finals, and then they came back and won
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  Speaker 2: four straight. So we'll see if we get that. Carolina
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  Speaker 2: is also a team, oh see, that has has mode
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  Speaker 2: through the playoffs before and then they kind of hit
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  Speaker 2: a roadblock. It's been on the Conference finals against the
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  Speaker 2: Florida Panthers and and the wheels kind of come off,
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  Speaker 2: but have come off. But for me, what I've seen
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  Speaker 2: from from Carolina is kind of that team that you know,
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  Speaker 2: they lose that first game against Montreal, and their backup
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  Speaker 2: kind of unflappable, like.
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  Speaker 3: Like Vegas resetting and getting back going.
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  Speaker 1: A lot is being made of the struggles of that
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  Speaker 1: top line for Carolina. No points last night, and their
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  Speaker 1: coach said, look, you got to get the best, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta get your best guys producing everyone knows that. How
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  Speaker 1: big a concern is that if you're Brenda Moore.
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  Speaker 2: For me, it is because not only have they struggled
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs as a whole, but now they're playing Vegas,
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  Speaker 2: who has shut down every top line.
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  Speaker 3: That they've seen in the playoffs so far.
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  Speaker 2: It was quiet from McKinnon, Nahus Atlanti Scott in that
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  Speaker 2: conference final where Colorado entered, you know, top scoring team
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  Speaker 2: in the regular season, and that they've done the same
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs against Dallas Minnesota and all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden they score seven goals in four games, largely in
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  Speaker 2: part because there was there was nothing coming from the
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  Speaker 2: top line. So Vegas has just done a done a
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  Speaker 2: good job. Like they're they're they're big, they're physical, they
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  Speaker 2: they take they just take stuff away.
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  Speaker 3: To the point that the yet shots.
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  Speaker 2: Blocked like like Marner blocked last night is that looked
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  Speaker 2: like it was it was ticketed to the back of
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  Speaker 2: the net. So bigger concern there because you're playing Vegas
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  Speaker 2: and they've got the track record of pretty much shutting
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  Speaker 2: everything down so far here in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Adrian Denny is our guest here on the Sean O'Connell show,
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  Speaker 1: we go between the pipes once a week, we talk
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  Speaker 1: about all things NHL. Right now, Stanley Cup Final Game
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  Speaker 1: one Vegas victory is front of mind. And look, we've
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  Speaker 1: been talking about this in the weeks leading up to it,
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  Speaker 1: about Vegas and its sustainability, and about Carter Hart and
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  Speaker 1: the way that he has played in gold Now giving
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  Speaker 1: up four goals in a game, I mean, he's that's
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  Speaker 1: above his playoff average for what we've seen in the
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  Speaker 1: series that have got them here, and that's without Carolina's
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  Speaker 1: top line producing any points. Was there's a little shakiness
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  Speaker 1: in goal for you for Vegas last night or was
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  Speaker 1: this a product of just both teams battling it out
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  Speaker 1: and with relative parody between them.
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  Speaker 2: There was, and for the first time against an opponent
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  Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup playoffs since they played Utah in the
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  Speaker 2: first three games, and we're going into game four and
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  Speaker 2: then Utah falls behind three nothing in game four and
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, they've got a four to three lead, right,
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  Speaker 2: And that looked like an area for Vegas that was
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  Speaker 2: a weakness until all of a sudden he gets on
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  Speaker 2: fire and now Vegas has won twelve or fourteen, But
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  Speaker 2: there were some some offties on both ends. I thought
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  Speaker 2: last night with both Freddy Anderson and Carter Hart, two
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  Speaker 2: guys that entered the evening and the conversation for best
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  Speaker 2: player in the playoffs so far. But that's a great
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  Speaker 2: point about like they have four goals and nothing from
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  Speaker 2: from their top line.
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  Speaker 1: I'm of the opinion that you know, winning ugly means
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  Speaker 1: you're a better team, right Almost winning doesn't matter in
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  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup finals.
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  Speaker 3: There's no moral victories here. But if you play.
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  Speaker 1: Close to a team when you're not getting anything from
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  Speaker 1: I would trust, I would expect that at some point
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  Speaker 1: before this series is over, Sebastianajo and company are gonna
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  Speaker 1: give you something.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So if the margin is that close, if the if
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  Speaker 2: the split between these two teams is.
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  Speaker 1: So narrow that you need that late goal from Tamash
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  Speaker 1: Hurtle to pull it out for Vegas, what happens when
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  Speaker 1: that top line for Carolina gets going, because I assume
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  Speaker 1: at least in one of these games they should.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And for Carolina, up until this season, one of
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  Speaker 2: the knocks against them is they don't have a game
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  Speaker 2: breaking forward. They've got some good talent, some good skill,
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  Speaker 2: and then they get Nikolay Eelers last year drug him
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  Speaker 2: away from Winnipeg, signed him to do an eight year contract,
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  Speaker 2: and you're thinking, Okay, it's this the game breaker. And
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  Speaker 2: then last night against Vegas puts up two goals in
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  Speaker 2: the first period. So you do have guys like like
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  Speaker 2: Eelers over eight hundred games in the NHL that they
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  Speaker 2: can take over game and make you kind of think
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  Speaker 2: it's not a concern right now because it doesn't have
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 1: What are you expecting game two? I know we're already
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  Speaker 1: looking ahead, but it's it's just tomorrow night. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think the rebound looks like or the momentum capture
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  Speaker 1: from Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked about Vegas really, if if you want to
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  Speaker 2: zero in on their game twos, it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: been their only weakness so far here in the playoffs. Granted,
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  Speaker 2: they did go up to against Colorado, they trailed that
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  Speaker 2: game for almost all of it. Carolina rebounded after losing
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  Speaker 2: six to two to Montreal, but it was it was
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  Speaker 2: kind of a process there, ramping up two straight games.
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  Speaker 2: They wanted overtime to go up to one in that
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  Speaker 2: series before they they took it for to one, hockey
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  Speaker 2: is just a sport where it loves to tell you, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, you don't know anything about this sport. You
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  Speaker 2: don't know anything about it. Are we going to see
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  Speaker 2: another five four game? You wouldn't think so, but it
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  Speaker 2: honestly wouldn't surprise me. Vegas is high pressure, Carolina is
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  Speaker 2: high pressure. After game one, I wouldn't be surprised. I'd
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  Speaker 2: say we're headed towards another five to four game more
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  Speaker 2: than we're headed towards a two to one or three
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  Speaker 2: to two game, just from the pressure, the skill, and
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  Speaker 2: the way that those teams are able to create and
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  Speaker 2: force stuff from the defensive end.
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  Speaker 3: So I'd say.
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily normally think after a five to four
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  Speaker 2: game one that that's going to continue. But as we
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  Speaker 2: keep talking and keep breaking things down, I think we
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  Speaker 2: might be in store for a couple more of these,
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  Speaker 2: especially if c as you mentioned, the goaltending two guys
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  Speaker 2: that you look at him from NHL standards, I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say it's just okay, but you know, their
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  Speaker 2: regular seasons, their their track records pretty average. Carter Hart
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  Speaker 2: has been really good the one playoff run that he
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  Speaker 2: did make, but I'd say probably some some more high
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  Speaker 2: scoring close games and as a hockey fan, just rooting
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  Speaker 2: for whatever it takes to make this a seven game series.
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  Speaker 2: Pavel Dorofiev is a restricted free agent coming up, and
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  Speaker 2: he has been incredible for Vegas in these playoffs. How
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  Speaker 2: much has he increased his value potentially in the market
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  Speaker 2: for his services just with this playoff? The funny thing
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  Speaker 2: is is, you know, we talked about Carolina's top line.
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  Speaker 2: His first two three games against Utah were like, where
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  Speaker 2: the heck is Pavel Doorrifiev. They're twenty five year old
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  Speaker 2: home grown forward. Ah value is gonna be how high
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  Speaker 2: Vegas goes to pay him because they're that they're they're
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  Speaker 2: we we know Vegas, oh see, and they are so.
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  Speaker 3: Vegas in everything that they do. They are old school Vegas. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: They'll they'll always take their time and make a calculated
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  Speaker 2: decision on their salary. Cap is a challenge. They'll they'll
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  Speaker 2: find a way to pay him whatever whatever it takes.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, especially now that you've seen him play really
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  Speaker 2: in his his first full run of the playoffs, you're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now this guy's a playoff gamer. Plus how about Brett
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  Speaker 2: Howden We talked about him in the first round, like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this Brett Howden, who got twelve goals in the regular season,
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden pops in four He leads the
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  Speaker 2: NHL in playoffs scoring with eleven goals. Just the the
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  Speaker 2: third liner who goes out and mind his own business
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  Speaker 2: killing penalties.
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  Speaker 1: Postseason awards starting to be announced. Norris Trophy for the
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  Speaker 1: top defenseman in the league goes to Morensky of the
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Blue Jackets.
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  Speaker 2: Is that the right call in your mind? He plays
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  Speaker 2: so many minutes. We've watched MIKHAILI Sergachev play so many
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  Speaker 2: minutes for Utah and this year wasn't what it was
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  Speaker 2: in year number one. So he plays lots of minutes.
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  Speaker 2: He plays in every situation. He really came into his
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  Speaker 2: own last year. It was a career year for him.
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  Speaker 2: It really put him on the map. Hasn't made the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs in either year, but eighty one points in seventy
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  Speaker 2: five games. It's it's always interesting, oc because you get
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  Speaker 2: the Norse Award for the best defenseman and it sometimes
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  Speaker 2: seems like the best defenseman who plays offense.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, he sawid?
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  Speaker 2: Is he the best defenseman in the NHL? There's there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of good ones, and sometimes it's just your
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  Speaker 2: turn to win. Remember all those years the Mailman never
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  Speaker 2: won MVP and then all of a sudden wins to it.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's just your turn to win. The voters, the
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  Speaker 2: voters come to your side. He does play a lot
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  Speaker 2: of minutes. Team's just been okay. They looked like they're
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  Speaker 2: going to make the playoffs this year, and that big
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  Speaker 2: run when they made that coaching change, when they finished
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  Speaker 2: two eight and one down the stretch.
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  Speaker 3: So what I voted for him, I can't tell you
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  Speaker 3: that I would have other finalists for the award.
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  Speaker 1: Where Cal mccarr of the Colorado Avalanche seventy nine points
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  Speaker 1: this year, and.
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  Speaker 2: He saw when he wasn't the action, how Colorado was
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  Speaker 2: affected by it in the first two games of the
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  Speaker 2: conference finals.
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  Speaker 3: Mccarr played this year twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: Almost twenty five minutes a game, whereas Wrensky was about
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven minutes a game. Just under twenty seven minutes
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  Speaker 1: a game. If that matters to the people out there.
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  Speaker 1: Rasmus Dahalin, who is the other final seventy four points
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  Speaker 1: on the season, see.
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  Speaker 2: That is probably a surprise that Wrensky wins it over Tolleen,
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  Speaker 2: whose team came out of nowhere wins the division. He
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  Speaker 2: had some personal matters that he went back home to
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  Speaker 2: Sweden to attend to with his fiance and her health.
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  Speaker 3: That probably would have been my vote, and I'm surprised
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  Speaker 3: didn't win.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the con smythe coming up will probably
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  Speaker 1: go to Marner if he could used to play the
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  Speaker 1: way he's been playing right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely, And much to the chagrin of Toronto, they
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  Speaker 2: just they just can't get over it that that h
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  Speaker 2: that he goes to to Vegas and his regular season
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  Speaker 2: numbers were down, was his worst number since his first
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  Speaker 2: two years. But you know, just the the story I
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  Speaker 2: can't take my eyes off of Toronto watching Mitch Marner,
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  Speaker 2: but the the play he made last night, Like at
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  Speaker 2: the end, I think, I think it's just just kind
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  Speaker 2: of a you know, just another another story in in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs for for Vegas and in this run that
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  Speaker 2: that they've been on. And I've always felt like, don't
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  Speaker 2: don't discount elite athletes, elite teams, because they're eventually going
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  Speaker 2: to push it over the top and and take it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think Mitch Marner's a guy like that, right,
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  Speaker 2: we had it for years with Tampa Bay, with Colorado
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  Speaker 2: in the NHL.
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  Speaker 3: Are they ever going to push this over?
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  Speaker 2: And you have players like it with with Mitch Marner
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  Speaker 2: and and I think yeah, I'd say no question, especially
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  Speaker 2: since the two goaltenders kind of you know, blemish their
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  Speaker 2: numbers in last night's game with the nine combined goals,
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  Speaker 2: Carolina OHC gave up five goals last night, they gave
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  Speaker 2: up six goals to Montreal and in Game one. Outside
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  Speaker 2: of that, they've allowed ten goals in twelve games in playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: So All Star format change announce for twenty twenty seven,
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  Speaker 1: maybe trying to capture a little bit of that to
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  Speaker 1: four nations magic. It'll be Canada, Finland, Sweden, USA and
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  Speaker 1: a world team doing a five minute round robin tournament
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  Speaker 1: five minute games, and then the final top two teams
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  Speaker 1: on points will play in a All Star final that's ten
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  Speaker 1: minutes long.
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  Speaker 3: Do you like it? Sure?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, it's they're trying, they're they're you know, trying to
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  Speaker 2: capitalize on you know, the funnest five minutes for somebody
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  Speaker 2: flipping channels, and that's three on three hockey in the overtimes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so US Canada, Finland, Sweden and a world team.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the four.
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  Speaker 2: Nations left some guys out, which is four nations, So
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  Speaker 2: adding a world team I think will be a fun
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  Speaker 2: part of that, especially with you know, some Russian guys.
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  Speaker 2: There's so many talented Russian players in the NHL who
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  Speaker 2: have not been involved in world competition here for for
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: the last three four years. And the other fun thing
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: about that the All Star festivities. I see the skills
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  Speaker 2: competition ten players twenty five and under, which would it
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: have probably been that, Yeah, but but I think specifying
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: it that really adds some flair to it. And already
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: thinking of you know, Dylan Gunther and Logan Cooley hopefully
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: at least at least one part of that because because
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: we see how fast they are, we see see their shots.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: So maybe maybe for me, if we get a mammoth
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: player or two at the skills competition, that might mean
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: my favorite part of it.
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  Speaker 3: I also expressed earlier in the show.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's a good idea for leagues right now,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the Lusser has come off of a traditional All Star game,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: so mixing in this international flavor is the right.
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  Speaker 3: Way to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And I mean you don't want to lose to Canadians.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: We don't want to lose to them. But the Finns
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  Speaker 2: and the Swedes, oh my goodness. There was a report,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: by the way, in Czech media. I don't know if
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: you saw this, a news report that the checks, the
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Finns and the Swedes would not participate if Russian athletes
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: were allowed to participate. But the organizers were like, no,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be okay. We have not heard that from
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: the hockey federations of Chechia, Finland or Sweden, so it.
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  Speaker 3: Seems like.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: That they're trying to kind of massage things, trying to
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: smooth things over to pave the way for Russia.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Returning to that kind of.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Stuff, we'll see how it plays out. In the meantime,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: you have plenty of Stanley Cup Finals action to watch.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Next game will be tomorrow night, and we'll stay on
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: top of it with Adrian Denny and of course our
• 23:07
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• 23:11
  Speaker 1: where you can listen to the stan In the Cup
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: finals and the NBA Finals. Speaking of game one of
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals tonight, do you have a horse in
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the race.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: I don't but I'm excited.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Two teams that I think are you know, they play
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: fun basketball, they play good basketball, and you know the Spurs,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Gosh.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Always seem to get that franchise player and circle back
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the Knicks. I mean, remembering that that series back in
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: ninety nine, two thousand, the Rockets next series in ninety four,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: always seems like when they're involved. You got the Oregon
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: at Madison Square Garden feels like a feel like a
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: fun final to me, and Wemby goes without saying, I
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: know you don't bring me on for for the NBA,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: but I kind of like the guy. I just I
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: just like the competitive Yeah, the competitive juice, the edge
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: that he that he brings, the fire, not to mention
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the superhuman things he does.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I think the the love affair with Wemby league wide
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: is going to start wearing off now that he's going
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to be the guy, you know, competing for and potentially
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: winning championships. I think that here in Salt Lake City,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: because San Antonio is going to be standing in front
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: of a team that you want to see actually compete.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I think the the affection for Wemby is going to
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: wear pretty thin pretty quickly.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: But for now I can just enjoy what he is
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: as a player.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: And looking at the Sacramento Kings situation dismissing Mike Brown
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: who's now coaching in the finals, and the trade that
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: they made as.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Well, I kind of like that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: I kind of like that just for just for another
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: element of of fun.
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