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Terminello's Take on the NHL Trade Deadline 3-9-25 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Derrek.
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Speaker 2: All right, well we are ten days away from Saint Patrick. Say,
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Speaker 2: that's why I'm rocking the Irish Green. And you know,
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Speaker 2: Lou Lou Turminelo is back with us on Tormilo's take.
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Speaker 2: By the way, missed you last week. I know you've
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Speaker 2: been going through some things, but glad to have you
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Speaker 2: back for this week's take because we just passed the
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Speaker 2: Anhel deadline.
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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining me, and Alex, always a pleasure. Thanks
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Speaker 3: for having me as always.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was a crazy you know what I was
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Speaker 2: gonna say was, you know, the big song normally for
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Speaker 2: around the time is shipping up to Boston, but a
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Speaker 2: lot of people are shipping out from Boston. Let's start there,
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Speaker 2: shall we.
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Speaker 3: And they made two trades right at the deadline, literally
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Speaker 3: at three o'clock, trading their longtime captain and super Pets
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Speaker 3: and superstar Brad Marchant going to a division rival, the
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Speaker 3: Florida Panthers. So, uh, he's an unrestricted free agent, so
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Speaker 3: I assume that Pantas aren't going to assigned to a
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Speaker 3: long term contract. But the Panthers are trying to win
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Speaker 3: the Cup again.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're going to get to like a tale of
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Speaker 2: two defending teams defending champions. You've got, uh, the Panthers,
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Speaker 2: who are bolstering, and you have Yukon, who's who's not
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Speaker 2: there at the top of the Big East, and they're depending.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, it's interesting to watch the dynamic of
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Speaker 2: the two. But this Marshand thing is to sport.
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Speaker 3: It's great.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're going to see in the next few days
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Speaker 2: why this fell through, because they were just doing a
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Speaker 2: contract extension with Marshand and I'm wondering what made it
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Speaker 2: fell through. I don't know. May it was Aby, it
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Speaker 2: was health. I mean, what do you think that there is.
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Speaker 3: I think it's term. I think I don't think it's
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Speaker 3: average salary. I think it's term. Because even last night,
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Speaker 3: just before the Islanders traded brock Nelson, they were trying
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Speaker 3: to resign him and uh, he probably wanted more years
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Speaker 3: than what the Islanders wanted to give him, which resulted
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Speaker 3: in the trade to the Colorado Avalanche. And apparently the
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Speaker 3: Islanders got an elite prospect cal Ritchie back in the trade.
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Speaker 3: They're trying to get younger. They were not going to
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Speaker 3: lose brock Nelson in July, you know, without getting something
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Speaker 3: in return. One of the great Islanders two hundred and
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Speaker 3: ninety five lifetime goals, fifth on the old time list
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Speaker 3: for the Islanders. He'll be in the Islanders Hall of Fame,
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Speaker 3: maybe even retire his number someday. But and he was
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Speaker 3: the Islander's best forward right to while. I mean, Barzil
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Speaker 3: has basically missed the whole year with injuries, but he
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Speaker 3: even the other the other night, he was the best
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Speaker 3: forward in his last game with the Islanders. So you know,
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Speaker 3: it's tough business.
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Speaker 2: Likers get traded here, right. We thought the Bruins were
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Speaker 2: going to make their capitainal lifer. We thought Nelson was
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Speaker 2: gonna be a lifer.
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Speaker 3: But what's it.
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Speaker 2: Showing you, lou, because I mean, you've seen the sport forever.
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Speaker 2: Are they just looking to get the draft picks or
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Speaker 2: is it? Is it more so we need to look
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Speaker 2: at the future instead of holding on to what we
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Speaker 2: have for a lifetime. Is that what's going on here? Well?
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Speaker 3: I think it's what the latter. You know, we can't
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Speaker 3: hold on what we have for a lifetime. I also
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Speaker 3: think because the NHL cap is so stringent, and let's
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Speaker 3: face it, the Islanders have some long term deals. Pierre Angel,
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Speaker 3: they signed him to seven years at three you know,
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Speaker 3: at three point one million plus. Scott Mayfield another seven
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Speaker 3: year deal. And Scott Mayfield once I mean very good player,
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Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong. He may not be as good
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Speaker 3: as he used to be. I think the term kills
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Speaker 3: these teams. And you know the Islanders will call up
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Speaker 3: says we know a couple of years ago. They're not
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Speaker 3: close now and they're only four points out of a
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Speaker 3: playoff spot, and they still might get in. I don't
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Speaker 3: think they will because if you look at the East,
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Speaker 3: there's five points. Excuse me, there's ten points separating team
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Speaker 3: number five, the New Jersey Devils, from team number fourteen,
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Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Flyers, now ten points has a lot to
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Speaker 3: make up with twenty games to go, but justos to
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Speaker 3: show you how bunched up you know, these standings are.
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Speaker 3: And the Devils have suffered a devastating injury. They weren't
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Speaker 3: playing well before Jack Hughes wrecked his shoulder and is
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Speaker 3: out for the year. In their last twenty five games,
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Speaker 3: out of a possible fifty points, they only had twenty
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Speaker 3: one points, third worst in the NHL. Now again, they
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Speaker 3: still have a five point cushion they still have. They
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Speaker 3: play a lot of games, so they don't have any
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Speaker 3: games in hand on anybody. But losing Jack ughes On
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Speaker 3: at the end of that Dallas game the other night
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Speaker 3: was devastating. He's irreplaceable and he's a pointed game scorer,
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Speaker 3: and losing Doug Hamilton week to week they're best defenseman.
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Speaker 3: Uh hers.
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Speaker 2: But you know, Lou we talk about Nico Horner and
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Speaker 2: I absolutely love what he's been doing. That that infusion
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Speaker 2: of Nico into that Devil lineup and all that.
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Speaker 3: But it can't fall on his shoulder.
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Speaker 2: So what do you think the next plan is for them?
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Speaker 3: Some guys are gonna have to step up. You know
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Speaker 3: what the old saying is next man in, and Nicohesha
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Speaker 3: has been great for them. He's a great two way hot.
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Speaker 3: It keeps saying Nico Herner, that's the that's the second
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Speaker 3: for the Cubs. But that's okay, You're on the right
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Speaker 3: path and uh again, unless something comes down with the
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Speaker 3: trade deadline, you know, in the next couple of minutes,
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Speaker 3: because there's some trades that made at the eleventh where
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Speaker 3: that aren't announced. They have to go to the league.
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Speaker 3: We get lead permission. They it's gonna be very tough
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Speaker 3: for them. I mean, you can't lose a player of
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Speaker 3: Jack Hughs's caliber at the stage of the season.
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Speaker 2: And his brother's still still up in the in the
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Speaker 2: in the maje with them, right, so yes, yes, And.
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Speaker 3: Ironically on the play that he got hurt, it was
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Speaker 3: a two on one. It was his brother and him.
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Speaker 3: It was Luke and Jack coming down on Jack Eichel,
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Speaker 3: three American players and Ichle kind of tripped them up.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't a dirty play. It just happened. And uh,
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Speaker 3: we'll see or the general manager, Tom Fitzgerald, tough for Sheldon,
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Speaker 3: keep the head coach, but we'll see. Now somebody has
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Speaker 3: to step up, so uh, I see if they can
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Speaker 3: hold onto that playoff spot, which I think is going
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Speaker 3: to beat him stepping up.
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Speaker 2: Everybody everybody today is saying how Drury's been sleeping and
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Speaker 2: it's it's a funny joke, but in reality, he's actually
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Speaker 2: been bolstering this team throughout the week and throughout the season.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look at all the trades is made already,
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Speaker 2: so for them not to act on the deadline day
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Speaker 2: was not entirely surprising to me. I think they're what
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Speaker 2: the team they got right now, you're.
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Speaker 3: On your one thousand, correct, Alex. I mean, obviously getting JT.
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Speaker 3: Miller was the gem that they've gotten. They filled in
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Speaker 3: in some other places, and uh, I mean, I don't
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Speaker 3: think you can knock what what Drury's done. And I
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Speaker 3: think they're still going to squeeze in. I think they're
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Speaker 3: still going to squeeze into that seventh or eighth spot.
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Speaker 3: And what they've done too in the last the last
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Speaker 3: couple of months. And remember since January first, they have
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Speaker 3: the fifth most points in the NHL. So they recovered
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Speaker 3: from that four and fifteen debacle in the in the
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Speaker 3: second quarter of the season, they're they're playing better defense.
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Speaker 3: There's less high level shots against the Stirkin, so that
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Speaker 3: that helps him out. Obviously he doesn't have to stand
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Speaker 3: on his head every night. So I think they're in
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Speaker 3: pretty good shape. I know, you know, you lose a
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Speaker 3: couple of games and you could be out of it,
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Speaker 3: you know, Like we said, the difference between the New
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Speaker 3: Jersey Devils at number five in the East down to
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Speaker 3: even a fourteenth place Philadelphia Flyers is only ten points. Yes,
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Speaker 3: the Flyers aren't going to make the playoffs, since we
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Speaker 3: know that Montreal's probably gonna make the playoffs, the Islanders
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Speaker 3: probably aren't gonna make the playoffs. But it just shows
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Speaker 3: you how bunched up these teams are. I think the
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Speaker 3: Rangers are going to sneak in. I don't know if
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Speaker 3: Detroit's going to fall back, if Odawa is going to
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Speaker 3: fall back. I mean, these are teams that are inexperienced.
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Speaker 3: They've tried to get into the playoffs before. Last year
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Speaker 3: Detroit lost on a tiebreak. I think the Rangers are
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Speaker 3: going to sneak in. I really do. But you know,
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Speaker 3: Alex to be.
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Speaker 2: Trad you know, you get that, you certainly get that
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Speaker 2: feeling you mentioned a while ago Miller empowering Mica and
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Speaker 2: then some saying that Miller is empowering Calendar. I mean,
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Speaker 2: there are so many things that have been really impacted
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Speaker 2: by Miller's.
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Speaker 3: Has played better. I mean, he was playing just downright awful,
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Speaker 3: and he's been playing better in these last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 3: Even Hey, even though I don't I don't like his game,
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Speaker 3: it seems like Rempy the last couple of weeks has
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Speaker 3: picked up his game where he looks like he knows
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Speaker 3: what the heck he's doing out there now. I think
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Speaker 3: he should have got suspended on Sunday night when you
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Speaker 3: got with an elbow, considering his past history, but the
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Speaker 3: league decided that it was okay. But I mean, I
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Speaker 3: think the Rangers are playing, they're playing well. Their power
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Speaker 3: plays as good as it was last year. Maybe he'll
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Speaker 3: get better. That's all I have to do is get
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Speaker 3: better for the last twenty games of the season. And
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Speaker 3: the penalty killer is still up there. I think it's
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Speaker 3: third or fourth in the league. And but Alex the East,
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Speaker 3: the East. After this deadline, you got Tampa going for
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Speaker 3: it again. They made trade. They got Yonnie gord back
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Speaker 3: and they got Oliver Walks from you know, another former
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Speaker 3: All Star. They're coached by a great a great coach
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Speaker 3: in Cooper. Uh. They play a win. Florida is going
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Speaker 3: for it again. Toronto with their trades they with uh
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Speaker 3: with getting that they want to get a center and
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Speaker 3: uh and they did in Laughlin from Philly, and they
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Speaker 3: got Brandon Carlo right at the three o'clock deadline from Boston,
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Speaker 3: the defensive defenseman, a right handed defenseman that they need.
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Speaker 3: I think they're in good shape now. Of course for
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Speaker 3: the maple leafs. They have to have a successful postseason,
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Speaker 3: you know, of course, that's that's where they are in
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Speaker 3: their development. They gotta they got to get to the final,
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Speaker 3: if not win it. So we'll see.
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Speaker 2: You know, that medium there is very, very tough. But
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Speaker 2: I gotta ask you this, or gotta say this, Louis
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Speaker 2: at least both the Rangers, the Devils, the Islanders, if
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Speaker 2: you looking at the East, got a reprieve because Renton
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Speaker 2: is no longer in the Eastern Conference as he gets
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Speaker 2: straight to the stars. I thought that was the other.
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Speaker 3: Big movie of the day when she said that was
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Speaker 3: the biggest movie of to day. Alex and you know,
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Speaker 3: Ranton in was traded from Colorado to Carolina on January
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Speaker 3: twenty fourth, which was a shocker. And five weeks later,
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Speaker 3: after turning down what I heard was even more money
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Speaker 3: than Dallas actually gave him. At two o'clock in the morning,
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Speaker 3: he signed with Dallas for eight years at twelve and
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Speaker 3: change a year. I heard that Carolina actually offered him
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Speaker 3: a little bit more. I guess he didn't want to
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Speaker 3: play in Carolina or doesn't like Carolina style of play.
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Speaker 3: But you know they're a chip and chase team. Once
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Speaker 3: they get the lead, it's all about protecting their lead.
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Speaker 3: He's going to another team, Dallas, who plays a little
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Speaker 3: bit that way, but it's definitely more offensive minded and
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Speaker 3: is a better team. Uh you know, they're just a
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Speaker 3: deep team in every stretch the word. They have terrific
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Speaker 3: goaltending and Jake Ant and you're leading away and they
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Speaker 3: got and they signed them for eight years, so you
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Speaker 3: got Dallas is a real, real real going to be
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Speaker 3: a real paying come playoff time. I don't know, and
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Speaker 3: I had to see how this all plays out, because
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Speaker 3: even though he's straight, we don't know how these guys
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Speaker 3: are going to play with just a quarter of the
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Speaker 3: season left. But uh, you know, we didn't. We didn't
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Speaker 3: talk about this.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about Calvin de Haank because obviously he was
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Speaker 2: a former Islander, another guy that went from Colorado now
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Speaker 2: to the Rangers. What's your scouting report on him?
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Speaker 3: Well, when he came into the league, when the Islands
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Speaker 3: drift them number twelve overall, he was considered a great
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Speaker 3: puck rushing defenseman, which he isn't great. He is an
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Speaker 3: outstanding punck mover. Uh, he never was the offensive force
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Speaker 3: in his NHL career. That he was. But for the Rangers,
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Speaker 3: it makes sense with you know, Adam Fox being injured
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Speaker 3: and we don't know how badly injuredy he is if
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Speaker 3: he's out for the regular season and be back for
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Speaker 3: the playoffs or because or before that, because as you know,
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Speaker 3: in the NHL, injuries are kept hit hidden, so we
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Speaker 3: don't really we don't really know. But I think it
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Speaker 3: was a good I think that was a positive move
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Speaker 3: for the Rangers. It was a positive move. And you know, uh,
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Speaker 3: he'll probably play on the on the power play and
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Speaker 3: he'll uh and he'll help help him there. He I mean,
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Speaker 3: he's I think he scored a point that he was
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Speaker 3: doing well the other night when I was watching him.
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Speaker 3: You know, he didn't look out the plays, so he's
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Speaker 3: a professional. That was a good move by the Rangers.
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Speaker 3: Another good move by the Rangers. They got that h
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Speaker 3: Carson SOURCEI the six foot five defensemen and uh he
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Speaker 3: well he's another guy who'll be a front of the
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Speaker 3: net clearing presence. I mean, I think the Rangers are
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Speaker 3: a good shape.
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Speaker 2: They may miss, you know, no matter what they did,
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Speaker 2: at least they did what I like to call keep cryder.
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Speaker 2: I think they had to keep Chris Kreyder the core
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Speaker 2: of that team. Really, the If you're not going to
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Speaker 2: make him captain, he's at least the captain in nature
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Speaker 2: because he just seems to lead that team every which
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Speaker 2: way and all the rumors, at least he's still on
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Speaker 2: the team.
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Speaker 3: I'm happy they kept Cryder. Well, he's got two years
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Speaker 3: left on his deal, so he was making about six
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Speaker 3: and a half million, so it would have been hard
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Speaker 3: to trade him. But really what was hard to trade
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Speaker 3: him was the fact that he was injured. And for
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Speaker 3: all Ranger fans who wanted to cry to stay on
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Speaker 3: a team, his injury might have been the saving grace.
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Speaker 3: But he's a player who could play in every situation,
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Speaker 3: kill penalties, power play five on five. He's fast, he's physical,
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Speaker 3: and yeah, I don't think it's bad that the Rangers
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Speaker 3: still have him on their roster. And it all depends
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Speaker 3: on how quickly he gets back from the injury.
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Speaker 2: All right, now, let's stay stick around to the other
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Speaker 2: Let's go to the other team in the garden. Because
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Speaker 2: everybody says it was a playoff matchup possibly last night,
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Speaker 2: or finals matchup last night, possibly between the Lakers and
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Speaker 2: the Knicks. Definitely build lived up to his billing. But
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Speaker 2: I just I don't know. The Knicks don't look like
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Speaker 2: their finals material yet, so I would I wouldn't go
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Speaker 2: far to say that. However, it was a fun game
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Speaker 2: to watch. I wish the Knicks won, But at the
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Speaker 2: other hand, I don't think they're ready for that finals yet.
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Speaker 2: They've got some tuning to do, especially when I see
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Speaker 2: they're one of the dead last and allowing three pointers.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just there's some defensive mechanics. I'd be
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Speaker 2: fixed up, am I right?
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Speaker 3: Well, yes, you're right. They're not as good a defensive
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Speaker 3: team as they were last year. Their chemistry doesn't seem
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Speaker 3: to be as good as it was last year. Karl
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Speaker 3: Anthony Towns and Jalen Brunson, superstar offensive players in the metrics,
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Speaker 3: are down at the bottom of the defensive metrics. And
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Speaker 3: that's not going to get you a championship. You know,
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Speaker 3: those tight games, but I mean, you cannot You still
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Speaker 3: have to put the ball in the basket. And Jalen
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Speaker 3: brunt It scored thirty nine points last night and he's
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Speaker 3: a great clutch offensive player. Now he got hurt in
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Speaker 3: the last minute and ten and minute fifteen seconds of overtime.
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Speaker 3: I haven't heard unless something has just come out on
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Speaker 3: the status of his injury. But they're gonna need him.
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Speaker 3: He's their go to guy. But I don't know if
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Speaker 3: I got to agree with you, I'm not sure barring
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Speaker 3: injury to their competition, like Cleveland suffering an injury major injury,
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Speaker 3: the Celtics suffering a major injury if the Knicks can
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Speaker 3: get get to a conference final or obviously the NBA Final.
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Speaker 3: On the other hand, the Lakers, who I thought were
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Speaker 3: going nowhere, and even when they got Luka Dantag, I
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Speaker 3: was not sure how that was going to play this year,
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Speaker 3: maybe next year, But it seems like right away Dantag
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Speaker 3: and the Lakers have clicked. And you know, you have
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Speaker 3: two guys who need the basketball, and Lebron James has
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Speaker 3: been playing fabulous basketball really the last two months, and
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Speaker 3: Dantage you just got there. And it seems like, I
17:37
Speaker 3: guess because their talents are so great that they're meshing
17:42
Speaker 3: together right off the bat. And the Lakers are forty
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Speaker 3: and twenty one. Nobody figured that Alex nobody so And
17:50
Speaker 3: you got to credit JJ Reddick. He's done a nice job.
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Speaker 3: He has him thinking of playing both ends of the
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Speaker 3: court now, so you know, we'll see what's gonna happen there.
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Speaker 3: That's a very interesting team right now.
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Speaker 2: We uh you know, I think of this as like
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Speaker 2: the Giants letting Saquon go in a sense, because look
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Speaker 2: at the difference that these guys have had on a
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Speaker 2: different team. And everyone's making fun of Nico Harrison. I
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Speaker 2: don't even know why the Maps did well. The difference thing.
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Speaker 3: The difference, Alex, I'm sorry, I mean to cut you off.
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Speaker 3: The difference between the Giants letting Barkley go and this
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Speaker 3: Dantage trade. Remember Dallas was in the NBA Finals last year.
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Speaker 3: They weren't. They weren't a non playoff team like the
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Speaker 3: Giants have been. So that's the big difference. And you know,
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Speaker 3: now Barkley has the the highest uh uh contract for
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Speaker 3: a running back in NFL history. I wonder how that's
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Speaker 3: going to affect other teams as they try to sign
18:52
Speaker 3: their running backs because running backs for a long time,
18:55
Speaker 3: the last six seven years were not getting getting that
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Speaker 3: big money. But now the Eagles have set a precedent
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Speaker 3: by giving a great player, no question, Barkley a lot
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Speaker 3: of money for running back. So that's a very interesting
19:12
Speaker 3: extension of a contract.
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Speaker 2: It is landmark. And you know what, as I said
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Speaker 2: in the when they won the World the Super Bowl,
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Speaker 2: good for him, Good for him. But with Duncics and Lebron,
19:22
Speaker 2: by the way, no one really highlighted this, or maybe
19:25
Speaker 2: a lot of people did. Lebron's up to fifty thousand career.
19:28
Speaker 2: I mean, guy is an energizer buddy on the court,
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Speaker 2: no matter how old he is.
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, he's, he's, he's. I mean, every adjective
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Speaker 3: you want to add to his brilliance that you need
19:43
Speaker 3: to add another one. The guy is just a tremendous
19:45
Speaker 3: basketball player. We always knew that. Still being able to
19:48
Speaker 3: do it after twenty one years at the age of
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Speaker 3: forty is remarkable. And he's as basically besides Jordan, he's
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Speaker 3: as good as just by anybody who's ever played.
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Speaker 2: All right, let me ask you this then, because obviously
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Speaker 2: we made a big deal about Brede in his forties
20:06
Speaker 2: playing and maybe someone say, what do you mean It's
20:10
Speaker 2: a more physical sport football, But you know basketball can
20:14
Speaker 2: take your toll too, running up and down the court.
20:16
Speaker 2: So how do you think he's been doing the longevity?
20:20
Speaker 3: Well, I think he paid he pays his He pays
20:27
Speaker 3: over two million dollars a year to these elite personal trainers,
20:35
Speaker 3: so he's kept his body in shape in tune. I
20:40
Speaker 3: don't think he drinks. I think I am sure he
20:44
Speaker 3: eats well, just like Brady you know did. And yeah,
20:51
Speaker 3: the NBA is a tough league. You're running up and
20:55
Speaker 3: down for eighty two games and the playoffs are even
20:59
Speaker 3: tall for mentally and physically. But Lebron has has fine
21:03
Speaker 3: tuned a physical body which is fantastic to begin with,
21:09
Speaker 3: and he's made even better. Like I said, he spends
21:12
Speaker 3: millions of dollars on on physical fitness. And I don't
21:15
Speaker 3: mean physical fitness like going to going to the gym
21:19
Speaker 3: for an hour a day. I mean he's he's really
21:21
Speaker 3: focused on and it's it's paid off him. If more
21:25
Speaker 3: NBA players will like him, more athletes will like him,
21:27
Speaker 3: they would be more successful.
21:29
Speaker 2: By the way, we have some breaking news here. The
21:31
Speaker 2: Rangers are acquiring forward Nicholas ob Kubel, known for dating
21:36
Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup, from the Buffalo Sabers, for Eric Branstrom.
21:40
Speaker 2: So the Rangers do make a trade today, yep, and hey,
21:45
Speaker 2: you have a Stanley Cup winner on their team. Not bad,
21:47
Speaker 2: not a bad idea, and he's got that experience. So
21:50
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. But there's a little breaking news now, Lou.
21:54
Speaker 2: I don't know what else is on your mind this
21:55
Speaker 2: week as we roll into now, oh my god, March madness.
21:59
Speaker 2: And by by the way, a little plug for Saint John's.
22:03
Speaker 2: They're having a big get together at Applebean's for free
22:06
Speaker 2: for fans, by the way, Monday night, So I'll let
22:09
Speaker 2: you know if I get there. How cool would that
22:10
Speaker 2: be to meet the seven to sixth?
22:11
Speaker 3: Right?
22:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, the sixth rngth Saint John's Red Storm.
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Speaker 3: I mean, come on, that'd be awesome. Yeah. Absolutely, And
22:20
Speaker 3: they're in good shape. I know they they're banged up
22:22
Speaker 3: a little bit, but that hasn't stopped them from from
22:25
Speaker 3: winning games. Uh. Right now, they might get they might
22:29
Speaker 3: get on a three line in the uh uh in
22:33
Speaker 3: the NCAA tournament, they might be a three seed. I
22:36
Speaker 3: still think we I mean, hey, Alex, we pegged this
22:38
Speaker 3: one right. Last year. We said they were going to
22:41
Speaker 3: be on the bubble the first year of the Patino regime.
22:44
Speaker 3: The second year, they were going to be in it
22:46
Speaker 3: and get to at least the second weekend I think
22:49
Speaker 3: that's gonna happen, and maybe past that, and uh, they
22:55
Speaker 3: don't shoot the ball well and that could hurt them
22:57
Speaker 3: come come tournament time. But they play first class there.
23:03
Speaker 3: I think they're mentally tough, and uh, their veteran team
23:07
Speaker 3: and they got a brilliant coach. All the only thing
23:11
Speaker 3: that you gotta do is shoot the ball a little
23:13
Speaker 3: bit better. But besides that, their tournament ready. It's gonna
23:20
Speaker 3: be interesting to see how far they go.
23:30
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you know it's fun because I watched them
23:33
Speaker 2: basically topple the Yukon Huskies from at least Big East play.
23:37
Speaker 2: But as we've said off air, hey the Huskies are
23:41
Speaker 2: still pesky. And just like you wouldn't bet against Mahomes,
23:43
Speaker 2: none of us are gonna bet against Hurly in the
23:46
Speaker 2: big big lights, right.
23:48
Speaker 3: I'm not betting against I'm not getting betting against Stanny Early,
23:51
Speaker 3: that's for sure. Yes, this team's not as good as
23:53
Speaker 3: it was last year for whatever reason, maybe they haven't
23:57
Speaker 3: meshed together. But I wouldn't want to play them, that's
24:00
Speaker 3: for sure. Again, if they're an eight nine seed and
24:03
Speaker 3: they got to play the one seed in the second round,
24:06
Speaker 3: I would be a very scared one seed, so it's
24:12
Speaker 3: gonna be interesting and it makes March madness. Now that's
24:17
Speaker 3: why we love it.
24:19
Speaker 2: And by the way, the women's side starts, and I
24:21
Speaker 2: gotta give kudos to Page Bookers who got her number retired,
24:25
Speaker 2: I believe earlier this week or as a Bucker's She's
24:29
Speaker 2: just a machine. She's unbelievable for Yukon and she is
24:33
Speaker 2: definitely someone to watch on the women's side this tournament.
24:36
Speaker 3: Well, no doubt about it. Obviously if Yukon women have
24:40
Speaker 3: or even more successful than Yukon men have been, and
24:44
Speaker 3: they always have a chance to get to the final
24:46
Speaker 3: four and win it. But yeah, it'll be interesting. South
24:50
Speaker 3: Carolina obviously going to be up there. A notre game
24:52
Speaker 3: will be up there, even though I know they've lost
24:54
Speaker 3: a couple of games last week. So yeah, the women's
24:57
Speaker 3: tournament of the men's tournament will be uh will be
25:02
Speaker 3: very interesting.
25:03
Speaker 2: It's why I feel like, I mean, football is a
25:05
Speaker 2: lot up and down, but I feel like basketball it
25:08
Speaker 2: was sort of like someone was at the top every week.
25:11
Speaker 2: It wasn't as consistent, Am I right? Maybe I didn't
25:14
Speaker 2: follow us closely.
25:15
Speaker 3: Well, you know, you're you're you're basically all right. I mean,
25:18
Speaker 3: there might be thirteen teams from the SEC getting into
25:22
Speaker 3: the tournament for the first time in history. SEC basketball
25:27
Speaker 3: had a better year and it's better than SEC football.
25:31
Speaker 3: They might be thirteen teams from the SEC that make
25:34
Speaker 3: the tournament, which is just absolutely nuts. The Big Ten
25:38
Speaker 3: is very tough. This was the first year where they
25:42
Speaker 3: incorporated the four Pac ten teams. And you know, I
25:49
Speaker 3: the jury still out on having such geographical different You know,
25:58
Speaker 3: you have to fly three thousand miles to play a
26:01
Speaker 3: couple of games, where the past more conferences were more
26:04
Speaker 3: geographically close by.
26:06
Speaker 2: You know, Syracuse just flew down to SMU this week.
26:10
Speaker 2: I mean, this is wild how it's different.
26:12
Speaker 3: It's why.
26:14
Speaker 2: And I mean when I see Stanford versus cal as
26:16
Speaker 2: an Acc, I want to rip my hair out. Louis.
26:19
Speaker 3: I just I.
26:21
Speaker 2: It doesn't make any sense. But we'll have to see.
26:24
Speaker 2: And now the a SEC is so big you don't
26:26
Speaker 2: even know if you're qualifying for the tournament if you're
26:28
Speaker 2: losing so much. I mean, it's not like the old
26:30
Speaker 2: tournament where everybody made it.
26:32
Speaker 3: Same thing in that same thing. In the Big Ten,
26:34
Speaker 3: I think the last three teams of the Big ten
26:37
Speaker 3: don't go to the conference tournament.
26:41
Speaker 2: Well, we'll have to see how it all shakes out. Now,
26:44
Speaker 2: there's one other story I wanted to cover because Kevin Kierton,
26:47
Speaker 2: who has written for the Post, I don't know if
26:48
Speaker 2: he's there anymore. He wrote this uh to me earlier
26:53
Speaker 2: today because he wrote the story about there's now going
26:57
Speaker 2: to be a rule, a new rules for the Hall
27:00
Speaker 2: of Fame. Have you heard about this yet? I have not.
27:02
Speaker 3: Gone very interested because you know how much of a
27:05
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame guy I am, and I don't like
27:07
Speaker 3: the fact that you know, they've put some guys who
27:09
Speaker 3: may not be really Hall of Fame or if you
27:11
Speaker 3: but what is it, Alex? What is the new rules?
27:14
Speaker 2: Well, anyone who gets on Veterans ballot Veterans committee ballots
27:17
Speaker 2: and does not receive five votes are off. Then the
27:21
Speaker 2: mayor may not get one more shot, and if they
27:23
Speaker 2: don't get five again, they're completely off. So there are
27:26
Speaker 2: some historic figures, some big players that may never get
27:29
Speaker 2: in if they don't get five votes or more. I mean,
27:34
Speaker 2: it seems like I think they're thinking is that it's
27:38
Speaker 2: going to be it's a big tent already and they've
27:41
Speaker 2: been letting in almost everybody. You know, no disrespect who's
27:44
Speaker 2: in there, but it is not narrowed down anymore. Maybe
27:47
Speaker 2: they want to try and change that. What do you think, Well,
27:50
Speaker 2: they'll tell you.
27:51
Speaker 3: The Hall of Fame people will tell you. They'll give
27:53
Speaker 3: some minuscule number of everybody who's played Major League Baseball
27:57
Speaker 3: is in the Hall of Fame. But again, when I
28:01
Speaker 3: look at the Hall of Fame, you have to be
28:05
Speaker 3: a very Obviously you're on the field. Accomplishments are first
28:11
Speaker 3: and foremost. Your stacks. You win three hundred and twenty games,
28:14
Speaker 3: you win, you hit four hundred and seventy five home runs. Absolutely,
28:20
Speaker 3: but there's also some unique players who need to be in.
28:24
Speaker 3: Intangible players and I'm gonna always bring us up. Keith
28:27
Speaker 3: Hernandez should be in the Hall of Fame. In my opinion,
28:30
Speaker 3: he should have been a first or second Battles Hall
28:32
Speaker 3: of Famer. You know, Roger Maris, you can make a
28:36
Speaker 3: really good argument. Here's a guy who went back to
28:38
Speaker 3: back MVPs. He played on five Pennant winning teams with
28:42
Speaker 3: the Yankees. He played on two Pennant winning teams with
28:44
Speaker 3: the Cardinals. A great right fielder, back to back MVPs
28:50
Speaker 3: he hit sixty one home runs.
28:53
Speaker 1: And he should be in in my opinion. So Nolan Ryan, Yeah,
29:03
Speaker 1: he lost a lot of games.
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Speaker 3: He lost about two hundred and ninety games, two hundred
29:06
Speaker 3: ninety four games something like that to seventy four whatever
29:09
Speaker 3: it is. He won over three hundred. But he he
29:13
Speaker 3: was a unique player who accomplished amazing things. All the
29:17
Speaker 3: over five thousand strikeouts, seven no hitters. Yeah, they have
29:24
Speaker 3: let too many people in and we're not going to
29:26
Speaker 3: go down the list. We talked about it. You know,
29:28
Speaker 3: Stock Rowland, people like that, Harold Baines, good players, but
29:33
Speaker 3: not Hall of Fame worthy. And I don't care what
29:35
Speaker 3: the analytics say.
29:38
Speaker 2: So I know well and as I think it is
29:40
Speaker 2: also that the generation I grew up with is not
29:44
Speaker 2: really qualified now because of the Serrain era, and that's
29:46
Speaker 2: part of what's hurting this whole situation, no doubt about it.
29:50
Speaker 2: But to penalize those who did not cheat because that
29:58
Speaker 2: whole section is it doesn't make just there's just something
30:02
Speaker 2: that is not right there. So we'll have to see
30:04
Speaker 2: what happens. Louis. But I know before we go, you
30:07
Speaker 2: wanted to mention the injuries, the injuries that have been
30:13
Speaker 2: sustained at the Four Nations Cup, and you're wondering, now
30:16
Speaker 2: is it even worth playing? Is that where you're thinking,
30:18
Speaker 2: is lou.
30:19
Speaker 3: Well alex if If if it was my team and
30:23
Speaker 3: I'm not a fan, not against the Florida Panthers, but
30:25
Speaker 3: I don't root for the Florida Panthers, and I lost
30:28
Speaker 3: the heart and soul of my team for the rest
30:30
Speaker 3: of the regular season and maybe the Stanley Cup playoffs.
30:34
Speaker 2: Matthew Kuchuck, we're referring to now you.
30:35
Speaker 3: Could chuck, which I think led to them getting brad
30:39
Speaker 3: Mar Shatt at the eleventh hour. Today, I would not
30:42
Speaker 3: be happy if I was the Bruins, and the Bruins
30:45
Speaker 3: aren't going to make the playoffs obviously with the trades
30:47
Speaker 3: they make today they are. They're tearing down there, tearing
30:51
Speaker 3: down their roster, Charlie mclvoy being injured for the rest
30:57
Speaker 3: of the year, I would not be happy. And other
31:00
Speaker 3: guys have bump bumps and Brus Brady could chuk his
31:03
Speaker 3: in one, and the Ottawa Centers are trying to make
31:07
Speaker 3: the playoffs. They're right there. So again, yes, it was
31:10
Speaker 3: great hockey, It was great theater, it was great patriotism.
31:15
Speaker 3: But if they're going to be doing this every two years,
31:18
Speaker 3: oh boy. I mean, because, let's face it, oh boy,
31:21
Speaker 3: you sort of competition. These guys aren't skating around just
31:25
Speaker 3: for the heck of it. That was some intense play,
31:29
Speaker 3: and when you play intense hockey like that, that could
31:32
Speaker 3: lead to injuries.
31:34
Speaker 2: So it was almost like that that started the Washington
31:39
Speaker 2: Ranger game at the Garden a few years ago, when
31:41
Speaker 2: they dropped the gloves like two seconds after face off.
31:43
Speaker 2: So it was pretty intense. But you know, I love it.
31:47
Speaker 2: I just think you're right. There's got to be some
31:48
Speaker 2: protocols in place. But Louis, I gotta say, there's so
31:53
Speaker 2: much more to go. The Devil's just acquired Darren Sprung
31:56
Speaker 2: from the Golden Knights, so I'm sure it goes on.
32:00
Speaker 2: There'll be more trades coming out, so I know you're
32:02
Speaker 2: going to be following it, Louis.
32:03
Speaker 3: I will be following you. You have a big day
32:05
Speaker 3: in hockey, and you know, yeah, obviously the next six
32:09
Speaker 3: weeks we have all sports colliding, NBA playoffs, NHL playoffs,
32:15
Speaker 3: March Madness, the opening of the baseball season, NFL free agency,
32:20
Speaker 3: a lot going on, Alex and we'll be there to
32:23
Speaker 3: talk about it, which I love.
32:24
Speaker 2: Yes we will on Terminala's take. Louis loved our chat
32:28
Speaker 2: today about the trade deadline and getting your take on it.
32:30
Speaker 2: On Terminillo's take.
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Speaker 3: Thanks Alex