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5-05-26 Hour 3 - The Avs are adaptable/Nugs lack accountability, NBA players underpaid?/Keys to Game 2 · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 2: for Game two.
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  Speaker 3: This you pop, Pop.
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  Speaker 2: I really think that I want to see, more than
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  Speaker 2: anything else, a bounce back game for Wedgwood. Wedgwood, who
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  Speaker 2: is playing at such a high level towards the end
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  Speaker 2: of the season, then obviously in the first series. I
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of people don't blame him for what happened.
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  Speaker 2: I at least solely blame him for what happened in
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  Speaker 2: Game one, But you do want to see him bounce
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  Speaker 2: back for a game where he gives up maybe two,
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  Speaker 2: and you start to get that confidence in your goaltending
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  Speaker 2: and defense again because It's something that was missing in
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  Speaker 2: that first game, and you were able to withstand it.
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  Speaker 2: But I still wonder if that game went five to
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  Speaker 2: four in the Minnesota put another one on you and
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  Speaker 2: they ended up winning game one, would there be a
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  Speaker 2: different level of panic surrounding that performance.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, which is why my only expectation tonight is
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  Speaker 3: to win. I'm really not. I don't have a care
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  Speaker 3: in the world how they go about doing it. I'm
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  Speaker 3: not looking for substance here. Just give me a win.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you look at the way that the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty two run went, they did have a series like that.
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  Speaker 2: Remember Edmonton the first game that they played against the
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  Speaker 2: Oilers in the conference finals, that was an eight to
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  Speaker 2: six game one that you won. Very similar. Now that's
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  Speaker 2: when Frankie was playing in place for Darcy Kemper.
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  Speaker 3: But still and the beauty of this team, much like
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  Speaker 3: the Stanley Cup team of twenty two, it is the
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  Speaker 3: ability to adapt, the ability to change style, the ability
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  Speaker 3: to do whatever your opponent wants to do. You want to, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you want to slow dance, I can do that. What
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  Speaker 3: do you want to do?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Do some DM? Okay, how about disco? You got some
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  Speaker 3: of that in.
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  Speaker 2: You well, in that con role in that conference final,
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  Speaker 2: they won eight to six in game one, then they
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  Speaker 2: bounced back and they won four to nothing in game two,
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  Speaker 2: and I think there is going to be a pretty
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  Speaker 2: big adjustment here. I mean, if you remember what mccarr
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  Speaker 2: said after the game, it was this just a weird game.
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  Speaker 5: Obviously coming from the last few games we played. It
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  Speaker 5: was really tight out there. It felt like it did
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  Speaker 5: not work generating a lot, and today it just felt
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  Speaker 5: a little bit more open. And sometimes that can be
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  Speaker 5: a tendency to kind of lack a little bit on
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  Speaker 5: the defensive side, and I feel like on both sides
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  Speaker 5: of the teams it happened a little bit tonight, and
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  Speaker 5: I don't think we're going to see that again. I
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  Speaker 5: think it's just probably the one off. I like that
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  Speaker 5: we were able to stick with it and find a
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  Speaker 5: way to win, obviously in a unique way.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's right. I think it is a one off.
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  Speaker 2: That game was weird and you aren't going to have Look,
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  Speaker 2: nine to six is gonna be virtually impossible to redo anyway,
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  Speaker 2: but just having a high scoring game, I don't expect
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  Speaker 2: that tonight.
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  Speaker 3: For me, I'm curious to see what Minnesota does if
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  Speaker 3: it is indeed high scoring again, or if again, what
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  Speaker 3: if the Avs in three minutes score three goals again? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what do they do with their goaltender? Did they ride
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  Speaker 3: with them? Do they replace that guy? Where do they
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  Speaker 3: go on both sides?
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  Speaker 2: If it is more high scoring, if it's another like
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  Speaker 2: four to three game after two, I wonder if either
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  Speaker 2: team makes it a switch between the pipes. I wonder
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  Speaker 2: because look, be Benner's been telling us for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: He told us leading into the playoffs that they wanted
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  Speaker 2: to go with two goalies anyway, and then Wedgwood was
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  Speaker 2: playing so well there was no point in taking him out.
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  Speaker 2: Plus you had this long extended break. You know you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get that again after this game. You're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: waiting until Saturday to play again. I just want you
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  Speaker 2: sitting on a two zero lead for that stretch, because
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  Speaker 2: if it's one to one, they get to go back home,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's like you gotta win one in their barn.
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  Speaker 2: It gets squirrely in a hurry.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I love games you win in which you
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  Speaker 3: learn something, and we learned one thing about Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 3: No lead is safe and that's wonderful knowledge to have. Like,
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  Speaker 3: if you're up to nothing tonight, are you gonna feel safe?
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  Speaker 2: No, of course not.
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  Speaker 3: You've seen them respond.
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  Speaker 2: They're insanely talented, Like they're a really talented team.
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  Speaker 3: Do nothing against the LA Kings felt like, Okay, pack
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  Speaker 3: it in, let's go home. Not against this team, dude.
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  Speaker 2: One nothing against the Kings had you feel really comfortable,
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  Speaker 2: But there were so many dangerous chances. Now again, speaking
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  Speaker 2: of Wedgewood, this was Bednar post game after Game one.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it wasn't his best. That being said, on the
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  Speaker 4: defensive side of things, it was probably no one on
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  Speaker 4: our team's best. I group them in with the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the team. You know, we have to get better,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll do that for game two. Yeah, but he's
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  Speaker 4: been great for us. Give us a chance to win,
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  Speaker 4: Give us a chance to win tonight. You know, like
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  Speaker 4: their goalie played amazing in the Dallas series, and he
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  Speaker 4: led in a bunch tonight too. So it's you know,
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  Speaker 4: most of the things that we're dealing with aren't just
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  Speaker 4: exclusive to us either, it said, you know, they'll be
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  Speaker 4: going through the same things and trying to get better,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm sure both teams will be better defensively come
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  Speaker 4: Game two, and we'll keep trying to push it the
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  Speaker 4: same way we have offensively.
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  Speaker 2: There is one big difference, and this is where I
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  Speaker 2: give a lot of credit to LA in that first series.
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  Speaker 2: To beat the Avs, you need to have good goaltending.
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  Speaker 2: You need to and I don't know if the Avs
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  Speaker 2: if that applies the same to them. I mean you
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  Speaker 2: need to have some, of course, but I think the
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  Speaker 2: Avs are so good that they can get away with
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  Speaker 2: okay goaltending. Like for LA to have a remote chance
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  Speaker 2: like they did in that first round, Vick Forsburg had
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  Speaker 2: to play great, and he did, like all four games essentially.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, much easier to play great when you have
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  Speaker 3: a human shield around you too.
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  Speaker 2: Well yeah, but he still made big saves.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I you know, I think a big bounce
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  Speaker 3: back game from whomever like tonight. I look at Boldy
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  Speaker 3: caprice Soft. They didn't do much in the first game. No,
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  Speaker 3: Caprisoft was a minus two. They didn't do anything in
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  Speaker 3: the first game. I didn't hear their name much. Boldie
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  Speaker 3: assisted on that one goal early bat. Neither of those
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  Speaker 3: two players were a factor.
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  Speaker 2: If Boldie had one assist, Caprisot had won assist. He
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  Speaker 2: was a dash too. Yeah, and that's some of your
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  Speaker 2: big guns that weren't contributing to it. So I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: that they're going to get more involved in this game.
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  Speaker 2: It's to me, I think this comes down to just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more physicality and and Bednark called them.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't call him soft. He said they played a
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  Speaker 2: little soft. I think it's in the middle of this quote.
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  Speaker 4: At five to five. It's it's simple for me, like
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  Speaker 4: you got to dig in defensively. It wasn't puck decisions,
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  Speaker 4: it was you know, we had some lost battles we
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  Speaker 4: were soft and some areas and then the details of
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  Speaker 4: our game, like we were giving up scoring chances on
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  Speaker 4: things that we've been doing the same way for three, four, five,
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  Speaker 4: six years, and then just making mistakes on it, like
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  Speaker 4: we didn't know what the coverage was on the face
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  Speaker 4: offs and in all three zones and sort outs in
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  Speaker 4: the D zone. Like they make some plays on some
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  Speaker 4: difficult reads. Every team does, but we had way too
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  Speaker 4: many that were routine where we were giving up scoring chances.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think in hindsight, you take a three
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  Speaker 3: to nothing lead and it's intoxicating, right, because you're dominating
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  Speaker 3: the pace of play. The ice is tilted, you get
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  Speaker 3: every run at it, and then how quickly it can
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  Speaker 3: turn it tonight. Maybe the lesson is you get a lead.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go a little more La Kings mode with this thing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe let's slower down.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta lead, make them, make them do things that
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  Speaker 3: are out of character. But let's not play into their
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  Speaker 3: hands and keep the ice wide open.
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  Speaker 2: You can still keep your foot on the pedal, but
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't mean it needs to be on the floor
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  Speaker 2: sort of thing. But what he said, a little bit
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  Speaker 2: soft in some areas. That's something like you noticed it
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  Speaker 2: immediately in this game compared to La La was if
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  Speaker 2: you even thought about touching the puck, you were gonna
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  Speaker 2: get planted against the boards. That's just it. And it
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  Speaker 2: started that way with the hit on the car with Felino.
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  Speaker 2: But it didn't feel like that sort of physical presence
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  Speaker 2: stuck through three periods that you kind of got away
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  Speaker 2: from it. It was more about just eyes on the
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  Speaker 2: net the whole time. I just think a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of what you can do on the defensive side, you
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  Speaker 2: can get more out of the physicality part. I mean
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  Speaker 2: Moser mentioned it that you actually had more hits than
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota did in game one, that was twenty six to
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  Speaker 2: twenty four. But you go back to that that King's
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  Speaker 2: Game one, it was like, wasn't there combined ninety two
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  Speaker 2: hits or something like that?
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  Speaker 3: Almost like a different sport.
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  Speaker 2: Felt that way, And I think you can do. Look,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't have to be to that level, but you
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  Speaker 2: can certainly shore show more of that in game one
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  Speaker 2: and if you can come away with a two nothing
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  Speaker 2: lead with three days to sit on that as you
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  Speaker 2: head into Minnesota, you put them in a bind because
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  Speaker 2: then it becomes if they drop one game going back home.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like the series is pretty much all of it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, one thing I've learned about players when you
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  Speaker 3: watch them closely, right, you watch some games, but watching
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  Speaker 3: Quinn Hughes closely. Cal mccarr is such a unique talent
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  Speaker 3: and there's nobody better at what he does. But Quinn
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  Speaker 3: Hughes is up there. He's a close second. Yes, And
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  Speaker 3: you know they're different style, Like if I were to
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  Speaker 3: compare the two with these be fair. Hughes is more deceptive,
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  Speaker 3: mccarr is elegant.
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  Speaker 2: Mccar's got sort of a.
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  Speaker 3: Like he's an elegant skater, he's a he's you know,
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  Speaker 3: hughe This is like choppy of boom boom, boom and
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  Speaker 3: just back and forth.
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  Speaker 2: There's an inevitability to mccarr, like, if he has his
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  Speaker 2: sight set on getting a shot off, he will dance
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  Speaker 2: on the blue line until he finds an open lane
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  Speaker 2: and he'll do it. But yeah, I think that's pretty
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  Speaker 2: good description of both. But they're so they're both so
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  Speaker 2: insanely talented. It's amazing to see in this matchup that
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  Speaker 2: you have a trio of players that I don't think
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  Speaker 2: are as good as yours, because I don't think anybody is.
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  Speaker 2: But it's pretty close to as good as you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get as far as where they're located to a defenseman
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  Speaker 2: with two Fords that are really really good players, because
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  Speaker 2: that's what the Avs have. It's McKinnon, it's Natures, it's
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  Speaker 2: the car, and then it's Boldy, it's Caprice Off and
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  Speaker 2: it's Hues. For Minnesota, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Gotta man, it's got to kill the Minnesota fans to
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  Speaker 3: watch one of their own Minnesota native Brock Nelson, who,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, they wanted him before he re signed
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  Speaker 3: with the Apps. Yes, they wanted him, yep. And you
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  Speaker 3: know he's here and he's making the right decisions while
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  Speaker 3: he's here, and that's an area where right now they're struggling.
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  Speaker 2: There was a thought that brock Nelson was going to
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota in the offseason before he resigned with the Abs,
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  Speaker 2: that he was just gonna go home or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: He chose a three year deal here simply because he
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  Speaker 3: felt that the time gave him the best opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: win a Cup.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I hate. I hate that they
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  Speaker 2: have this extended break after today because it negates what
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  Speaker 2: I thought you earned, which was to be the more
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  Speaker 2: rested team because you took care of business in the
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  Speaker 2: first round.
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  Speaker 3: One thing, you know what's funny about the NHL the
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  Speaker 3: Stanley Cup playoffs. I don't know what momentum is, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if momentum applies because these games can
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  Speaker 3: turn so quickly. Yeah, it can change so fast.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't necessarily buy the momentum thing. But
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  Speaker 2: it's when you when you you earned the right to
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  Speaker 2: be the more rested team going into another series because
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  Speaker 2: you took care of your business, and then you give
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  Speaker 2: the opposing team who is at the disadvantage three days
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  Speaker 2: off in the middle of a series. I don't like
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  Speaker 2: that at all.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it also helps you in the Josh Manson category.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, but it helps in with Eric Sinatkin guys
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  Speaker 2: that they have heard too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, are you the better team or not?
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  Speaker 2: I get it, but it's just weird. I just think
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  Speaker 2: it's dumb. I've never seen the NHL do it before.
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  Speaker 2: The NBA has done that because they want their specific
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  Speaker 2: TV windows and whatever. But still, this thing's stupid. H
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  Speaker 3: What's the theme here? These are all movies.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, Rings, Punter, Rocky, Shrek. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what this.
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  Speaker 3: I know what this is. I know what this is.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone's favorite movies on this show of all time. Mine's
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  Speaker 3: obviously Rocky. One of you cartoonish guys is Shrek?
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  Speaker 6: Nope, is Moser Harry Potter, Then.
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  Speaker 3: That's what this is.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, Well, I've never seen I've and before anybody yells
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  Speaker 2: at me, save it all, get around to it. I've
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  Speaker 2: never seen any of the Lord of the Rings, so
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  Speaker 2: that's not my favorite. Harry Potter's fine, it's a kid's movie. Shrek,
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  Speaker 2: good movie. But I can't be a thirty six year
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  Speaker 2: old man who says Shrek is my favorite movie. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what this is. I mean, look, it's fine,
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  Speaker 2: like Toy Story is a great movie, it's not my favorite,
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  Speaker 2: you know what.
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  Speaker 3: I promised to be less judgmental about cartoons because I
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  Speaker 3: know there's value to them. There was once a time
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  Speaker 3: when I watched cartoons. The Flintstones, Uh huh, we're big
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  Speaker 3: in my life. I was in love with Betty Rubble.
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  Speaker 3: It just was, and things change.
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  Speaker 2: What was it about Betty that you thought was hotter
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  Speaker 2: than Wilma.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Just the way she carried hers.
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  Speaker 2: She was nice to Barney, you know, you know, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: Vic I thought.
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  Speaker 2: Lola Bunny was super hot in Space Jam. So we
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  Speaker 2: all got a things. I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Look how he is.
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  Speaker 2: Again. Game two is tonight. I am sort of still
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  Speaker 2: in disbelief that Minnesota beat San Antonio in that first game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm even more in disbelief that Anthony Edwards is playing basketball.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny. When I was watching the game and watching
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  Speaker 3: it unfold, I'm like, okay, it's only a matter of
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  Speaker 3: time before San Antonio just goes off here. Minnesota's probably
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  Speaker 3: a little tired after all the injuries and all the
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  Speaker 3: bodies that to go through that first round series, but
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  Speaker 3: it never happened because Minnesota has something that I cherish
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  Speaker 3: and something that I envy and something that, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna respect. I may not like that Minnesota won.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted San Antonio to win by one hundred, but
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  Speaker 3: the more I watch that game, the more the reality
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  Speaker 3: hit me. Minnesota's got it and they may not win
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  Speaker 3: it all. They may lose to Okac, but they've got
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  Speaker 3: They've got something that is not quantifiable necessarily, but it's grit,
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  Speaker 3: it's resiliency. It's what you want out of your team,
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  Speaker 3: and they got it, and they got it in mass
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  Speaker 3: and I love it.
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  Speaker 2: You know. There's Here's what's crazy is that Minnesota, I think,
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  Speaker 2: in the last series and this one, especially with injuries,
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  Speaker 2: less talented on paper than their opponent. And it doesn't
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: matter because of what you're talking about.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: You know, and I'm not even less talented. I'm not
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: sure they're less talented. I think we've underrated them based
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: on their regular season record. In reality against the really
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: good team, they've done really well. And this is a
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: team again going into these playoffs They've been to the
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: Western Conference Finals two years in a row. That's a
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: good team. A talented team, yeah, makes a deep team.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: And the more we watch them play, the more they've
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: got talent beyond what we even understood. They've got depth,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: more depth than I understood. I mean, they got a
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: guy that has been rested on their bench and we
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: barely saw until the last couple of games and Shannon
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: and he might, he might, they might be better with him.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: That's crazy to me that they just had a dude
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: who didn't really play all year.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: He played toward the end of the season. He had
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: some great games at the end of the season. He
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: did that just explodes to the rim. And it's honestly
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: something that the Nuggets don't have an element that Minnesota.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: If you look at what the makeup of their team,
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: they're tough, already got that, they're physical, they're long, they
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: got mid range scores, very competent three point shooters. He
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: gives them something they don't have, and that's Steed.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of the things like you're gonna do
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: with the comparison shopping, like all playoffs long now, about
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: what they have versus what you didn't have, and I
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: think a lot of it just stems from you didn't
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: have explosiveness at all. A lot of your stuff was
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: very all right, get to have court run your sets,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: see if you can get an open look somewhere. There
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: just wasn't There was no element of surprise within the Nuggets.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: The other thing I noticed last night San Antonio, being
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: their first foray with this group into the playoffs, they
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: made some youthful mistakes. Yeah, just young and hungry. And
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: I just at the end of the game they had
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: a chance. Mike got that an open look to steal
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: that game. Open look. If you missed it last night,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: I say did Champagne had a shot at the buzzer
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: from three, and that dude's a great three point shooter.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: He set the franchise record in threes. He's a great
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: three point shooter. He had a wide open look and
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: miss badly.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I still maybe Minnesota just is gonna go on
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: this magical run. I have no idea. And it's weird
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: to say that, because you're right, Vic, it's they've been
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: to the conference finals two years in a row. But
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: given what they were dealing with. But I guess if
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: you get aunt back and Ant didn't look no worse
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: for wear. He was eight to thirteen from the floor
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: last night, but he had like eighteen and twenty five
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: minutes or something.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: He made clutch shots, so he clutched up. He clutched
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: up that three over Wimby. Hey. By the way, Wemby
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: is as dominant as he was on the defensive end.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: What do you have twelve blocks?
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. If you saw a bunch of those,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: seemed like they were goaltends to me.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Well whatever, he was dominant on the defensive end. He
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: did nothing offensive li No, so Joker caught all kinds
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: of heat. If Joker was held to eleven points, the
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: world would stop spinning. Wemby was held to eleven point
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: last night. Yeah, he was not good offensively. He was
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: zero for from three.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Can I give you two pieces of audio? I want
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: to start with this one. So Boogie Cousins is on
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: that running back show and they were talking about the Nuggets,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: and he said this.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: A lot of things have changed within the Denver Nuggets
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: organization as far as even down to how they hold
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: the guys accountable. I had the luxury of being there
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: when the Mike Malone was there when they won a
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: title with a Mike Malone. I wasn't a part of
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: the title team, but under that standard, it was just
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: a whole different you know, accountability. When it came to
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: the guys on the floor, it was a different urgency
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: with the.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Guys on the floor.
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: I don't I don't quite see that in the past
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: years and and as of this year, I don't see
• 20:40
  Speaker 7: the same urgent.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: It's the leadership.
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: It's the leadership has changed. A lot has changed within
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: the group, you know, it's different pieces amongst the core
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: group now. So I'm at the point where I feel
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: like it's still time for Yochis to maximize these years
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: and in his career, but.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: It's also top up. It's time. It's time to update
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: the system.
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's trying to figure out the right piece
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: is going around this guy.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: What do you think of that?
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: I don't disagree with them. I think change is necessary,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: and if it means coming off the system that you've
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: run over the last a few years, so be it.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: It's easier said than done, though, You're not going to
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: just change for the sake of it. If you're not
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: going to get a return. You can't do that. You've
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: got to get some sort of return. You have to
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: have a plan. And I'm eager to know obviously that
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: coaching staff, the executive branch, they've been meeting. I know
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: they are. They're doing that right now. They've been meeting,
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: they've been sitting down. What do we do from here?
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I would love to know that web of plans. If
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: we do this, then we do that, Like, what do
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: you think their plan is? Because it's not run it back.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: It can't be running back. You cannot run it back. However,
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: if you do, indeed want to deal players and trade
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: key players, what if the trade market's not there.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Then what.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Because we assume you can, you know, the easy thing
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: for fans for us to say, just trade this guy. Okay,
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: you gotta have a partner.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. There's two guys in particular, really
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: one And I think a lot of this stems from
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: what do you do here? Aaron Gordon has been as
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: good of a professional as you could ever hope for
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: on this team. He plays his ass off. He gives
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: you one hundred effort at all times. He will play
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: through injuries to the detriment of himself. But when you
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: can't trust him to be on the floor, and he's
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: a hugely important piece to your success. I don't I
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: don't think you can keep going with that, as much
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: as I hate to say it, but the question now becomes, well,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: then who would want that? And I don't know the
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: answer to it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: You know, there's always a team out there that believes
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: it can do different with what you have.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there always is.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: It's just the way it is. You know, Aaron had
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: some injury issues when he played for Orlando too, but
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: he came here and he was rock solid. Nothing quite
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: like this, though, No, but he's had some I mean,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: players have gone through this before. I will say this,
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I don't remember last time, and I'd have to go
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: back to two thousand, you know, maybe even pre Joker
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: or the first couple of years a Joker. Help me out,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Nuggets fans, When is the last time this franchise has
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: had this many moving pieces to deal with in the offseason?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Because last year the goal was quite a bit.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Oh, last year, the goal was clear, let's let's fortify
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: the bench the depth, right which they did. They did.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: They We signed off on it. We can't be hypocritical.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: We signed off on what they did last year. We
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: called it vastly successful, huge, best roster in Nugget's history.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: We said all of that, we all did. It didn't work.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Well, then it wasn't used.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: It didn't but for whatever reason, fifty four wins in
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: the regular season a huge success given the injuries. But
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: when it came time, it didn't work. So the moving
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: pieces that they're dealing with this season, they're I mean,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: so many different things to go through your mind. How
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: word to even begin?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, to be fair when you talk about moving pieces.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Last year was a ton that was a total flip
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: of the roster. It was brand new people in charge.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: From the front office standpoint, it was Look, I know
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: David Adaman wasn't new to the franchise, but he was
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: new in his role. I don't know, there's gosh. I
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: just want to know if there's gonna be one big
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: thing that happens, if there's one big move that opens
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: it up, because that's going to tell you everything you
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: need to know about their approach moving forward.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the first domino of the fall, that's the thing.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Who who would be the first domino?
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Like is it a Zeke trade? Because that would be
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: kind of, I mean, really small or is it like,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: are you going to hear rumors that Jamal Murray is
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: out there? I have no idea, but there's gonna be something.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: One other thing here real quick. This is Steph Curry.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: What was this on Nelly? This piece of audio here.
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: I think it was courtesy of Complex. I'm not sure
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: the exact show though.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Steph Curry talking about NBA players and equity.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: The idea that we can't participate in equity while we're
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: playing is a part of why I would say, yes,
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: we are underpaid, because you want to be able to
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: participate in that and that rise. I know we're blessed
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: to be in a position where we're playing basketball for
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: a living and these are the type of checks that
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: people are earning. And I think it's all deserved because
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: it's a special commodity. It's a special industry that probably
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: won't go anywhere because that entertainment value is there. Hopefully
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: sooner than later those rules change a little bit so
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: that players can participate more in the upside of team equity,
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: the league evaluations and all that type stuff, just because
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: I think we deserve.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Is he talking about ownerships?
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: He wants part ownership of teams as he's playing. This
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: is an age old. I mean, I doctor j didn't
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: deserve equity, Michael Jordan equity we can go.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I mean, wasn't this Lway was part of that discussion too, right.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: I love Steph Curry, I love them, but you're asking
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: for part ownership of a team when you say equity. Right, Yeah,
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: he means more to go in state than anybody he was.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I could say two things, and they both can be true.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: You can make the argument that Steph Curry has been
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: vastly underpaid given what he means to that franchise, just
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: like you can make the argument jokers underpaid for what
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: he means to this franchise. Yeah, but at the end
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: of the day, asking for part ownership of the franchise
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: is a very slippery slope.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Well, it's also this. I don't think anybody wants to
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: hear Steph Curry, who probably makes with endorsements one hundred
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: million dollars a year, saying anything about underpaid. And he
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: might have some sort of I don't even know if
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: it's legitimate. I don't know. I don't have an opinion
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: really on players having ownership stakes in teams that they
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: play for. But if you're somebody making a hundred million
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: dollars a year and you're saying, yeah, I think we
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: should probably get more, that's just not going to sit well,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: especially in a league. I don't know if any league
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: has more of a problem, maybe Baseball than this. There's
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: a real discussion in question about how much are got
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: how much effort are you really putting into the sport
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: you're participating in when you're making that kind of money,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Like the NBA probably is the most of any sport
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: questions about that unless you're Anthony Rendon. But it's like
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: you're getting huge checks and you guys are deciding every
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: fifth game I don't want to play, or I don't
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: want to play on a back to back or something
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: like that.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I just think he's a little tone deaf making those comments.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you think nobody wants to hear it. Bezos is like, hey,
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: you know, it's good money I make, but let's be
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: honest here.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: I'm more of a sports out there where you know,
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: financial ramification basketball first and foremost, there should be no
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: complaints none. There should be no complaints about the financial
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: pull of basket. That's that's ridiculous. That's true. I mean
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: especially when you compare it. And I know revenue is
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: an impact, right, basketball makes more than hockey does for example. Sure,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: but when Nathan McKinnon and you look at his salary
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: compared to what nugget salaries are, what would he be
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: like the eighth highest paid nugget?
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: What is he at twelve? I think it's twelve. Maybe
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I'm a little bit off, but yeah, that would make
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: him It's less than Joker, less than Jamal, less than ag,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: less than Cam Johnson.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: Less than what CB's gonna make, less than what.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: CB is gonna make. So yeah, it would be sixth probably. Yeah, yeah,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Like he's right around vowel territory. It's crazy.
• 29:37
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• 29:37
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• 29:48
  Speaker 3: By the way, if you do become a part owner,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: as he's suggesting their equity, how do you run a franchise?
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Like what if you want to trade him?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah? What if you want what if he wants to leave?
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just not viable.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: It's just not it. Maybe you could do a deal
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: for after my career is done. We can do something,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: but you can't do it in the middle of it. Like,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I think it's already weird enough that Lebron has essentially
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: played GM for this second half of his career on
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: every team that he's been on, but that he has
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: an ensemble of agents, that he has agents that are
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: working other guy's contracts, but he's business partners with this guy. Like,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: I think that's already weird enough. But I'll be honest,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: if Joker said, if you don't give me part ownership
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: of the Nuggets, I'm leaving, I'd be like, well, maybe
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: you should give him a couple percentage points. Maybe you should.
• 30:47
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• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Early word from Avalanche skate Because certainly we're not getting
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: it from Mos who's a member of our show, and
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: he's not helping us here, we have to get it
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: from Twitter. Josh Manson. According to Jared Bednar, he is
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: not revealing whether or not he will play tonight.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the update on Manson is that there is no update.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Thanks for all the updates, Moje nailed it.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: But this from Evan Rawall. Scott Wedgwood is in the
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: starter's net this morning, so you take that indication for
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: whatever you want, But he's not. Bednar would not say
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: whether or not Josh man is a go. You know,
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: it's all hands on deck if you're healthy enough to
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: play them playing. I wonder if they're just seeing this
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: as can we wait one more game, give them three
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: days off. Maybe he can come back for game three,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: But we don't really I don't know the severity of
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: his injury. You know, when it first happened, as Moser said,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: what do you call it? Bent over the dasher or
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: something on the insides.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got something going on on the insides.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: So I don't know how long that's going to take
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: to recover from. But still uh, no update on Manson,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: but Wedgwood is in the starter's net during morning skate.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: I have a feeling in a lot of these injuries
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: you hear about this time, You're including Manson's. These are
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: injuries that otherwise you would tend to right now, like
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: let's have a procedure. Yeah, but you sort of deal
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: with it until the Stanley Cup run is over.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Well, it's kind of like mccars, mccar going back in
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: the game, you know, in game one. If this is
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: a regular season game, I don't know, maybe maybe not,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: but he's certainly good enough to come back in and
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: score two goals before the game was done. So that's
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: one thing I wonder.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: I wonder if the pace of that game and there was,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: you know, they're up three to nothing, take your time,
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: just you know, take your time. Oh it's three to two.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: Maybe you might want to warm up a little bit.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Who knows if that played a role.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure. I would say, you know, for
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: the Avs, you know, let's just get to this whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, drink, but don't drink too fast? All right? You
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  Speaker 3: wouldjust you You set the tone in the pace of
• 33:55
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• 33:58
  Speaker 3: the tone was set early. We're gonna make this wide open,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: maybe a little too wide open to have their own tastes.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: If you get a lead, feel free to lay off
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: the accelerator and just defend.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. I just think it's being
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: more physical finish checks, make sure that if somebody touches
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: the puck, they feel you. That's all. And I think
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: doing that will lead to a much lower scoring game,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: first of all. But a game that has the proper
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: amount of pace to it, that's how it feels.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: At the same rate. I don't care how you win.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: I don't care if the final score is one nothing
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: or twenty one to twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Also, I can't tell you you know this respect the
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: wild dude, because they've come back. They did it in
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: the middle of that game. They did it in that
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: Dallas series they were down two to one to Dallas
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: in one to three in a row.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have an ability to kind of never say
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: die if you will, and they are talented enough to
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: come back in a hurry. That's one of those things,
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: you know. You look back at Game one, there were
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: fifteen goals scored in that game by fourteen different players.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: None of them were named capriceof for Boldy. So I
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: do think that it's the same thing we kind of
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: talked about at the beginning of the La series. The
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Avs won games one and two two to one, and
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: still you didn't get a lot of production on the
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: score sheet anyway from guys like mccarr and McKinnon and Nachius,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: and you knew at some point that was going to
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: have to turn and eventually did same thing. I think
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: with Boldy and Capriceoft and everybody else's that's really talented
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: and talented on that team, they are going to find
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: a way to produce at some point in this series.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: So it's just about being mindful of your discipline in
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: the defensive zone, making sure you don't give up. You
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: know you don't. Who's a guy who was all alone
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: at the far post taking a tap in? It's helping
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: out your goalie. And I think when you're facing a
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: team as talented as this one, you're gonna have to
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: help out Wedgwood a little bit. Not that I don't
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: trust Wedgwood. I think he's gonna have a bounce back
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: sort of night from from game one. But still, this
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: has a lot of the feelings that like Edmonton did
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, Game one of the Edmonton series
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: in the Conference finals eight to six. The following game
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: was four to nothing, and I do think that you
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: could get some of that tonight with the Avs. So
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: we'll keep it right here. You keep it right here
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: ninety two to five all day as that game puck
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: drop is around six o'clock. But three game.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: My favorite part of the game. It's it's not gonna
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: keep us up past midnight.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank god. You know, it's gonna be one of
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: those you're done, hopefully by nine o'clock at night and
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: you can just kind of chill out a little bit.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: You know what's funny though, Vic people who have normal
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: jobs and not what we do. There's a lot of
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: complaining from people about these eight thirty eight point fifty
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: start times. Now. I got people complaining that six o'clock
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: is too early, that they can't get off work in
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: time to get to the arena or whatever. Like, I
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: don't know, I don't work in your world. I'd prefer
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: this over eight fifty lot easier on my life anyway,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: and I am nothing but selfish, so I do enjoy it. Now.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: As far as guys that you need to play, well,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: it's your your sort of same old, same old. There's
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: one interesting aspect of this series though, and Bennar touched
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: on it a little bit after game one. We've mentioned
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: the Boldies and Caprice sofs and Quinn Hughes's and McKinnon's
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: and mccars and NHS's. Well, how about this.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: They play four lines.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: Hey on, hey on, they'll bump it up here we go.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Well, they play four lines, and they're all heavily involved,
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: and they all have a slightly different makeup on what
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: makes them dangerous and what makes them effective and wear
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: the same way. So I mean, if you're are fourth
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: lines important because you know it's if they're playing four
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: and you're playing three, you're not going to win.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: They will run four lines out there, and they did.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Every single player get at least ten minutes of ice
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: time for Minnesota in that first game. In fact, all
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: of them but one, which was Marcus Felino got at
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: least eleven minutes. The abs got to be able to
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: match it. And it's one of the things that I
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: think benefits them is I, oh.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Think you have to worry about the abs matching the
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: depth of the line.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. If you have that ability
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: now between when you got Nick Wah and Ross Colton
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: and Jack Drury's and Parker Kelly's down, you're fine.
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I mean they can go six lines if
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: they wanted to.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And for them, like, here's what I love about
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: guys like that, because if you talk about Drury and
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: you talk about Parker Kelly and like a very motivated
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Ross Colton because he was healthy, scratched multiple times in
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: that first round. Your job is to go out there
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: and literally just go a million miles an hour every
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: second year on the ice. You give full effort. And
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: those guys are all full effort guys, all of them,
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: and so I love it. If they want to do that,
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: you can do that. But it's not like that's going
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: to be some sort of disadvantage to what you want
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: to do.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: You know what the Avs are in terms of depth
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: that the ads are Oklahoma City and basketball.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can run out whoever you want. You know,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: when you got like Cadri's playing third line minutes sometimes
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: it's it's crazy the wealth of depth that you have.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: And it's I think that Minnesota is one of those teams.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: They're probably one of the better ones in the league
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: because they can throw guys out there, like we saw
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Yakov Trndin when he was here. You see guys like
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: that that are running sort of you know, your Felinos
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: and guys like that. They can do it. But you
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: match up evenly, if not better.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: You can have all the depth in the world. Man
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: if you if you don't approach the game the right way.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: And I'll give the Avs credit every game, whether it's
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: a low scoring or high scoring, approach it the right way.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Well that's what they did. I mean the game got
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: wide open, but I mean, what more can you ask
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: for is three nothing? They were dominating.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: That's one thing that if if I were to hope
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: for something, when you're running those third and fourth liners
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: out there and their job is to do exactly what
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: we said, which is go a million miles an hour.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: One thing I know that those lines for Minnesota, does
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: those guys hit? Those guys your your Trendin's and Felino
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: brothers and guys like that, they will go out there
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: and hit. I want a little bit more of that,
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: maybe out of your Parker Kelly's and Jack Druries and
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: Ross Colton's. I want those guys to be able to match. Again,
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: it's another series against the Minnesota team where I'm saying
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: match the intensity. But it's true, do that. And by
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: the way, we didn't give this enough credit. Two different
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: areas in game one PK PK yes, but that one
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: that's been number one in the league all year power
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: play was good outside of the short handed goal that
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: they allowed. I mean, power play was good. They scored
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: on both of them. They allowed one, but they did
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: score on both. But most importantly, you know, we talked
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: about this a lot against the Kings. It felt like
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: they were trying to get too cute at times, right,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: find the exact perfect play before your rifle a shot off.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: They put forty two shots on Volstead in game one.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Continue that. Just get pucks in front, hope to get
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: a rebound, bang it in, you know that sort of thing.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: That's why I loved the McKinnon goal, or sorry, the
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: the Lekenon goal that was basically set up by McKinnon.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Power play. Weave through traffic, put a puck on Volstadt,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: get the rebound, kick it back to an open Likening
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: on the other side.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Make this kid doubt himself. Yeah, how can you not
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: You give up eight in the first one. I know
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: one was a empty netter, but you give up eight.
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: How do you knock that yourself a little bit?
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: And it's not like he's some grizzled vet. This is
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: his first year really playing in Volstadt. So when you're
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: playing against the team this talented, really give him doubt.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: And I think you can do that if you play
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: well again today and they head back to Minnesota on Saturday.
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Speaking of if you want to be in the arena, Well,
• 42:14
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• 42:37
  Speaker 2: We're getting in the building tonight.
• 42:38
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• 42:40
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• 43:03
  Speaker 6: So in the very start of the show, all three
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: of you tried to come up with metaphors to describe
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: how the Avalanche played in Game one of the Wild
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: series compared to the entire King series. And so let
• 43:14
  Speaker 6: me make sure I got this straight.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Vic.
• 43:16
  Speaker 6: Your analogy was it was like somebody's spending the entire
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: winter cooped up inside, not seeing the sun. Then you
• 43:22
  Speaker 6: go on vacation, you spend every day tanning, you get
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: sunburned because you're not ready for it. Pretty much, Moser said,
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: it's like Brett working hard, you know, doing his job,
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: and then he goes down to Mexico, cuts loose, becomes
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: as red as a lobster, drinks every beer and margarita
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: insight gets way too hungover because of all the sugar.
• 43:41
  Speaker 6: And then Brett, you said, it was like you've been
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: on a really strict diet, working hard, getting that bikini body,
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: so you're just starving. Then you take the family to
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: Applebee's and you eat that hamburger that's dipping, it's.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: In that caseo cheese that comes served in the caseo,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: and you make yourself sick.
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: Okay, so from this dropoile you did on the text line,
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: I think you and Mo's were kind of neck and neck,
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: and people were not as accustomed to Vic's sun analogy.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: But you can ask people right now, won't.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: Nope, I'm satisfied with the results. I win victor in
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: last place.
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine. I mean people like to eat and drink.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: I like the sun you had, but you had an
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: overconfidence about your analogy. You said, this is so good,
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: and it will dwarf whatever you do.
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: Listen, my people like the sun. We're all of complexion.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: You're translucent. I get it. You like to sit in
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: your basement and eat. I get it. It's okay you.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Eat during every break of the show.
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: You go ahead, sit in your basement, eat and drink.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: I'll go out in the sun.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: I so want to buy the next time Vic comes
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: in the studio one of those burgers from Applebee's and
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: just see how many bites Vic can get through?
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: Which one? I don't even know which one? You're two do?
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: They slice the burger in half and they serve it
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: literally like in a bowl of melted cheese.
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: I would never even entertain that.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't either. I don't know who that's for. It's
• 44:58
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