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Sweden Preview feat. Filip Forsberg · Predators Official Podcast

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  Welcome back to another edition of the Predators Official
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  Podcast here on ESPN1O25, The game streaming on YouTube and
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  wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
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  I'm Brooks Bratton alongside my friends Max Hers and Cara
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  Hammer, who are, by the way, rocking some of the coolest
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  attire I think that exists in the history of the Predators
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  franchise. Before we get into this, do you
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  both mind telling the folks what you're sporting today?
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  Sure, I'll let Max go first. I am in one of the podcast
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  recording studios here at Bridgestone Arena.
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  So can I turn my camera around? Will that ruin the podcast?
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  This is groundbreaking. Terrace, please hold.
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  Let's see if this works. Look at this.
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  Wow, suddenly tootsies. Wow, what a view.
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  Yeah, but as you can see, I'm in the Spire, the Predator's
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  original shoulder logo, the cell tower at Bridgestone Arena.
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  But there are a lot of sun panels in here, so it's quite
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  warm. So I had to take my cred
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  sweatshirt off and I'm representing Mr. Factor Ryan
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  O'Reilly 1000 games, the first ever one thousandth game I was
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  ever on the call for in the NHL and a great Pred so had to wrap.
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  All right. Max and I had no communication
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  on this this morning when we got dressed.
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  But I woke up this morning and I was thinking about Steven Samkos
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  last night, how amazing that was to pick up a point.
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  But I also thought, how about this, let's bring the passion.
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  That's what Terry Crisp would say.
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  That's what the press did also. We're coming off a big week.
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  Terry Crisp, our Crisp, excuse me, our good friend Pete Weber
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  inducted into the Predators Golden Hall.
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  So I woke up this morning and I was, guys, I was feeling, I'm
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  bummed about the two points. I'm going to let you guys break
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  it down since you were both in attendance.
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  But I don't know, man, at the end of the game I was going
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  crazy. Well, we were just talking about
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  it before we came on the air, talking about how many people
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  are watching on YouTube. So as if you didn't have
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  incentive enough to watch on YouTube, if you're missing Kara
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  and Max, what they're sporting today, then you're really
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  missing out. So jump on, watch it in person.
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  Their attire is amazing. I am incredibly boring today,
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  but that's beside the point as Kara alluded to a lot to get to.
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  Matthew Woods finding the back of the net.
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  Ozzie Wiseblatts becoming annoying, which is great.
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  An interview with Philip Forsberg ahead of the big Sweden
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  trip next week. Of course, our biggie awesome
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  person of the week as well, but I'm sure we can all guess where
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  we're going to start as we record on Wednesday, November
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  5th in the afternoon. So the Predators started the
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  week with a back-to-back set a 54 overtime loss to Vancouver.
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  On Monday in Nashville, the Preds battle back to get a point
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  score twice in the third before losing with just two seconds
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  left in OT. One heartbreaker there.
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  Then on Tuesday night in Minnesota, one of the more
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  dramatic, strange, weird, crazy endings to a game and franchise
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  history. So the Predators are down 2 to
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  one late in regulation with .3 seconds remaining on the clock.
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  Nick Blankenberg finds Steven Stamkos for A1 Timer just barely
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  beats the buzzer. Take a look at that.
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  Taken there by Eriksenack. It's kept in two seconds.
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  Stamkos one timer, He's gone. Steven Stamkos ties in.
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  That's going to. Count.
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  They're going to double check. What a shot.
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  We just talking about Stamkos and there's this patented
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  stammer hammer right in the back.
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  I don't know how much time it went in.
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  Before it expired, but they kept that puck alive.
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  They kept it in and thought the game was over.
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  And Blankenberg from the board, this is a good shot.
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  Get it to the net, bouncing around everywhere.
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  It gets out there trying to ice it.
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  Blankenberg keeps it in and goes all the way across the ice and.
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  Stammer rips it top corner. What a shot.
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  There it is. That's vintage Ski Damn coast
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  right there. Just a laser top shelf.
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  OK, so Stammer ties the game incredibly late, breaks out of a
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  slump, so we're going overtime again, and then in the extra
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  session controversy. To the trailer, back to Caprice
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  off the net, got knocked off. But they're gonna go.
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  They're gonna call a goal. They're gonna call a goal.
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  Wow, I don't know if you can do that.
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  That's. A horse hasn't sounded.
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  It wasn't intentional. They're going to huddle up here.
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  I I. Burnett has thrown his hands up.
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  He has you. You have I think.
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  You have to deem that was intentional.
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  They're going to look at it. They're going to look at it,
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  mate. They're going right to the
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  headset. Like that has happened before in
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  the game, he's coming across hard to make sure that that
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  shot, he's covered that. He's trying to push when you're
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  goalie, that's. It he's trying.
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  To squeeze to the post, right? You try to squeeze the post and
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  he's trying to push off. He's pushed his arm out so that
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  it, it does look a little like he might, might have meant to do
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  that. But you're trying to use the
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  post if it's in its moorings, If it's in there properly, you're
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  using the post to push off against, to try to get back to
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  the back door. And then that just went off.
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  He didn't lift it. And not to mention he missed the
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  shot that was not going in, you can see.
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  OK, so there you see those clips.
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  So what happened? And I'm sure everybody has had a
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  chance to at least see it in some form or digested a little
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  bit. Stamkos tied the game with the
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  extra attacker. The Predators go to overtime.
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  In the extra session, the Wild were awarded the winning goal
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  after Predators goaltender Eustis honored him.
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  He pushed from side to side, knocked the net off the moorings
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  and it's process at that point. Wild forward Marcus Johansson,
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  as you saw, eventually shot the puck over the goal line where
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  the net would have been in that moment.
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  It was awarded a goal by Trevor Hanson, the referee on the ice
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  by the the net there that the Preds were defending.
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  So then following the review, the goal was allowed to stand,
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  sending the Preds home with a single point instead of two.
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  And Steven Stamkos, former captain in the NHL, he's done
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  the media thing a bunch. Obviously in his career.
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  He had a really great explanation on what he heard
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  from the officials and just in the moment being on the ice here
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  was what he had to say post game and his interpretation of the
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  play. See a weird, weird play.
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  I mean, I, I can see the confusion, but the confusing
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  part for us was why it was so emphatically called the light.
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  I, I get it. Listen, the net came off, you
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  know, but if the puck goes in right away, no problem If the
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  net's off. But he missed the net and the
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  puck actually bounced back to him because the net was sideways
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  and then he hit the back and then it and it popped back.
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  So. My interpretation of the rule is
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  that, you know, if the net wasn't off, that puck wouldn't
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  have came back to him to have an open that would have went behind
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  the net and then the play would have been blown dead because the
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  net was off. I understand the net came off.
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  I don't think there was any intent from our goaltender to
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  knock it off. It came off twice today.
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  So, but just, I mean from our vantage point obviously going to
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  differ from theirs, but we thought.
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  The puck came back to him on the second attempt because the net
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  was off. If not, the puck goes behind the
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  net and we live to fight another day.
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  So that's where we didn't agree with the call.
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  You have to be just happy with the way that you guys play it
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  and and to at least. Get the point there?
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  I mean, we deserved a lot, a lot better for sure.
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  One of our better games of the season for sure.
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  Tough building to play and I thought we dictated the play for
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  most of the night. Had the offensive zone pressure,
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  you know, so obviously nice to get a point, but certainly
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  deserve better I think. What did you see at the?
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  Final seconds of your trying goal there.
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  Well, I mean, I, I took a peek at the clock with about 8
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  seconds left. So I knew any, you know,
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  opportunity we're going to have, we have to get the puck off
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  quick and we did a great job again of controlling the puck.
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  We had some looks, some retrieval, some battles and just
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  tried to get a shot off. Got a nice pass from Blankie and
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  obviously nice to see that going.
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  Even that final overtime beside it, it does feel like you guys
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  dominated. The play just help.
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  I know there's no moral victory in that, but it has to feel.
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  Pretty good with the way you. Guys perform.
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  Yeah. I mean, like I said, I thought
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  that was one of our better efforts of the year in terms of
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  offensive zone pressure, you know, having pucks, putting them
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  in the right areas, creating scoring chances.
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  So, you know, hopefully it's just a matter of time before we
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  start getting some, some bounces ourselves.
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  So Max and Cara, First off, an excellent, well thought out
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  answer from Steven Stamkos there.
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  I think we were all pretty impressed with that.
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  Just simply after the fact, how he was able to articulate the
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  way that things played out and how the Predators were viewing
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  things. But we want to present the facts
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  here. So the explanation that the NHL
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  put out last night, and I want to read this, the NHL says the
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  video review supported the referee's call on the ice that
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  the actions of Nashville's Eustis on and then caused the
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  net to be displaced prior to the puck crossing the goal line.
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  Therefore, the referees awarded Minnesota's Marcus Johansson
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  with a goal. The decision was made in
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  accordance with Rule 63.7, which states in the event that the
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  goal post is displaced either deliberately or accidentally.
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  I think that's a key point. A lot of folks on social media
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  going back and forth did on and then do it deliberately,
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  accidentally, it doesn't matter either deliberately or
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  accidentally by a defending player.
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  Prior to the puck crossing the goal line between the normal
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  position of the goal posts, the referee may award a goal.
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  In order to award a goal in this situation, the goal posts must
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  have been displaced by the actions of a defending player.
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  The attacking player must have an imminent scoring opportunity
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  prior to the goal posts being displaced, and it must be
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  determined that the puck would have entered the net between the
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  normal position of the goal posts.
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  Obviously, this is not a super simple rule.
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  There's a lot that comes into play here.
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  Was the net knocked off? Yes.
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  Whether deliberate or accidental doesn't matter.
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  An imminent scoring opportunity, Yes, absolutely.
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  The determination of the puck would have entered the net
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  between the goal posts. I think that's where it gets a
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  little hairy. That's where the officials on
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  the ice in the NHL saw one thing.
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  The Predators are obviously going to view it differently.
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  Therein lies the confusion. And Max, that's what we were
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  dealing with postgame as Steven Stamkos gave his explanation.
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  And at the end of the night, the Predators only come away with
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  one point. Yeah, they they made an
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  assumption that that was going to be a goal, and I think the
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  Predators have a case against that.
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  The thing that really bothered me about this, Brooks, other
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  than the result of the game, is that at no point in this process
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  did either referee get on the microphone to explain to the
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  fans, the teams and us, the media who relay these things to
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  the fans, what the call was. And it was obvious.
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  They pointed that it was a goal. They went to review.
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  They said it was still a goal. I understand that's what the
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  review was, but you got to tell us what's going on.
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  It's a game deciding review. So that was what really bothered
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  me. We did not hear from Eustace on
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  in an interview post game. I look forward to speaking to
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  him on Thursday to get his point of view of the play.
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  And he's pushing off the post. I don't think he's trying to
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  push the net off, but he's trying to come across to make a
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  last ditch game saving save. So it's it's a tough way to
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  lose. And the puck really never went
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  in the net. It took Johansson two tries to
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  put it in. So it's frustrating for a lot of
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  reasons and the the Preds deserve better in that game.
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  They played well enough to win that game.
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  They had some great scoring chances, especially in the first
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  period, and it's a tough one to lose playing really well on the
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  back end of the back-to-back against a well rested division
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  opponent. That's your rival.
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  I think the one thing about it is the way the game ended,
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  because now this is what we're talking about.
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  Had Minnesota come out and scored and the Preds would have
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  lost anyway. We would be talking about Steven
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  Stamkos last second goal to to push this game into overtime to
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  pick up the point and we would be focused on that and we would
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  be excited That's that Stammer was able to find the back of the
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  net. I mean, that was a Hall of Fame
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  play. That's the guy you want in that
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  situation who was able to execute, but now here we are
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  talking about the overtime because of the controversy
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  surrounding the goal. Yeah, there's a lot to digest
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  there. And you know, I I always go back
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  to something that friend of the show Elliot Friedman says in
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  moments like this and a goal review that is a bit
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  complicated. Would you be OK with the Stanley
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  Cup being awarded on a goal like this?
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  Because that could be the case one day.
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  I don't know. I don't know what the answer is
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  there. Would you be OK with that?
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  I don't know. So think regardless Max is you
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  said that it is what it is and and that's what Andrew Brunette
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  said post game. The Predator saw it one way, the
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  official saw it another way. You've got to move on.
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  I something else that Willie Donnick, I think did a great job
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  of pointing out on the Predators broadcast.
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  As we saw at the very end of the game, the decision has been
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  made. Steven Stamkos has gotten an
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  explanation. Andrew Brunette has gotten an
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  explanation. Neither one of them are
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  satisfied, but Willie pointed out that Andrew Brunette looked
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  right at Steven Stamkos as they were headed off the ice and said
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  hey, big goal. Let's not overlook that.
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  As you said Kara, that's a big deal that Steven Stamkos to get
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  off the schneid. Tie the game with .3 seconds to
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  go. You wanted two points.
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  You feel like you deserve 2 points, but you still got one.
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  And that was a big Rd. game to go into Minnesota against
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  arrested team, get a point and then come back home.
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  Now going. Off of Elliott's point where we
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  all feeling that just recently in game seven of the World
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  Series, when you're looking at the play at the plate and you're
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  wondering if they're going to review it and call him safe,
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  we've all been there. Karen and I were watching that
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  game together with our boy Willie and our best friend Nick
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  Barnowski at Ziggy's Pub at the bar, and it was at the point
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  where it's just like, I'd rather the team I'm not rooting for win
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  then have game seven end on a video review.
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  So yeah, it's a November regular season game, but it's an
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  overtime goal. It's a game deciding goal.
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  And did the Wild deserve a goal? Were they going to score anyway?
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  Possibly. Probably.
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  But that's not how you want to see a game end.
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  Absolutely. We may never know.
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  So we got on the plane with one point, came back to Nashville
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  and and we talked about it at the top to the Predators have
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  come back in the third period in two straight games.
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  You love that fight. You'll always take one point as
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  opposed to no points. Obviously you'll want to win,
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  but again, Steven Stamkos with a big goal to tie it up.
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  How does he respond from that? Does that get him going?
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  We know it's been a long time since Stammer put the puck in
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  the net. The Predators need more from
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  him. We all know that he wants more
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  from himself. He's not used to going through
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  stretches like this. But really eager to see how he
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  responds to get that big goal moving forward.
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  Will that get him going? Someone else Who's going Matthew
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  Wood. He scored his first NHL goal
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  last Thursday in Philadelphia, got his second a game later
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  against Calgary and then another Tuesday night in Minnesota.
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  Max Cara, How good has he been and and why has he been so
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  effective here in the early going coming back up from
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  Milwaukee after he was injured during training camp?
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  How about your first three NHL goals in six days?
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  That's a pretty good way to get your first three in a busy
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  schedule. 2 Three goals, four games over the last week for
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  Wood and he just looks so comfortable.
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  He looks so much older, more mature, better in every aspect
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  than he was at the end of last season.
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  And last season he was a pleasant surprise of how NHL
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  ready he was. The Preds thought they weren't
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  going to play him in every game down the stretch.
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  He ended up playing in the mall and he looked pretty good.
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  And now this year, he's doing everything.
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  I love that goal in Minnesota. He just hangs out at the end of
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  the power play shift. He's going to the bench.
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  He's pretty close to the bench, but he sees his fourth line as
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  winning the puck and it never left the offensive zone, so he
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  just parks it in. That front, sets up A2 on O down
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  low, which Mike Mccarran executes perfectly.
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  And Kara, we just see these moments with Wood.
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  It's hockey IQ and that physical skill coming together for a guy
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  who's just 20 years old and is still growing into his body.
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  Yeah, I think we have to give a lot of credit to his dad.
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  His his dad is a coach. So he's grown up around the game
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  in this lifestyle. He's travelled all over, played
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  all over. But I think you you hit on it,
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  Max. He looks comfortable on the ice
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  and we know that the the coaches were high on him at training
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  camp. It was frustrating for him to
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  get injured and have to start Milwaukee.
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  Would really he should have been here on opening night and it's
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  it's proving why what everybody was seeing this offseason. 100%
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  and you guys mentioned the comfortability.
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  He's got so much more confidence too.
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  That's the one thing that stood out for me, especially after he
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  got his first finally in Philadelphia, because he's had
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  so many chances. He's had only played a handful
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  of games to that point, but he could have had at least 2-3,
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  four goals already. It was clearly evident to me
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  once he got the first one in Philly, the confidence boost
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  that has come with that. He's shooting the puck basically
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  any chance he gets now. I don't think that was
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  necessarily the case before that first one came so good for Matt
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  Wood. He's a great kid and he's really
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  coming into his own here in the early stages of his career,
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  showing that, yes, all that work that he's put in in the
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  offseason, all the work he put in in training camp, showing
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  that he was essentially ready to make the team on opening night,
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  it's coming to fruition now. Good for him.
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  The Predators are going to need more of it moving forward.
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  And someone else, another rookie who's making an impact, hasn't
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  scored his official first goal yet, although he did score in a
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  shootout. The rare distinction of having
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  counted? I agree.
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  The rare distinction of having your first shootout goal before
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  your first NHL goal. Ozzie Wiseblatt.
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  He hit the post on Tuesday night shorthanded in Minnesota, But he
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  has certainly been effective last Saturday against Calgary,
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  hitting everything that moved. And his line mate, Michael
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  McCarron was asked recently what it's like to play with
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  Nashville's newest pest. Here's what #47 had to say on
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  his line, mate. Doing it then.
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  Than you do, yeah, I mean. He's effective, guys.
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  Seems like every game someone's coming up to me saying what's
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  wrong with this kid, Like, what's he doing?
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  But yeah. He's effective, he's a little
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  rat, he's good player, he's good with a puck, he can make plays
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  and he's sneaky. Physical like he gets he knows
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  when to catch guys, knows how to catch guys like it's a skill to
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  be able to to hit guys like that, like the way he does.
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  So kudos to him yeah, he's he's playing really good.
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  He's playing hard and he's not really change the way he plays
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  for anybody, which is great to see for a young kid And yeah,
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  hopefully he can keep going and create some more ruckus out
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  there. So there you hear Mike McCarron
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  say, Ozzy, he's a little bit of a rat and some guys are like,
• 19:19
  hey, what is up with this dude? Does anybody really know?
• 19:23
  Who knows? But it's working out for the
• 19:25
  Preds. I'm still.
• 19:26
  Trying to figure it out, too. Brooks and I get to see Ozzy
• 19:29
  play every single game. I've been there for all 17 games
• 19:32
  he's played in the NHL now. And there's still a little
• 19:35
  moments where I'm like, oh, like short fuse, like here we go.
• 19:39
  Ozzy's about to change the game. And I loved everything Mccarran
• 19:42
  said about Wiseblatt, and he's well qualified to speak about
• 19:45
  him, too. He doesn't talk a lot.
• 19:48
  He just goes out there. He bumps you.
• 19:50
  He bumps you after a whistle. He'll run you even if you're 10
• 19:53
  inches taller than him, which has happened a couple times
• 19:56
  already this season. And my favorite part of that
• 19:59
  Flames game? He got matching minors with
• 20:02
  Braden Pahal. Good old scrap between two
• 20:04
  Western League boys. Jay Moore was absolutely loving
• 20:07
  it on Preds Radio. And they go off together and
• 20:10
  Pahal was yelling at the ref, so he got a 10 on top of the
• 20:13
  matching twos. Pahal didn't come back until
• 20:16
  early in the third period. First shift for Pahal, Ozzy is
• 20:19
  right there on him, dead puck, just pushing him and shooting
• 20:23
  the puck at him. It's so great.
• 20:25
  I mean, that there is an art to this.
• 20:27
  And Ozzie Weisblatt is so comfortable in his own skin.
• 20:30
  He just gets it and he makes an impact on the game with it.
• 20:34
  I, I feel like I heard somebody say this Ozzy Osblat, and I feel
• 20:38
  like he's on a crazy train right now.
• 20:42
  Yes, All right. I love that.
• 20:44
  No, I love that. Yeah, that's a great point, Max,
• 20:47
  that you made too, about he doesn't talk right.
• 20:49
  Like basically everybody out there, if you're running around,
• 20:52
  you're then yapping after the fact.
• 20:54
  He doesn't. And that is a skill on its own
• 20:57
  to be able to play like that. But then be like, yeah, do what
• 21:00
  you want. Yell at me, scream at me, give
• 21:02
  me a dirty look, whatever. I don't care.
• 21:04
  So Ozzie Wiseblatt making it fun.
• 21:06
  We're trying to keep it fun out here, and I'm trying to keep it
• 21:09
  fun. Let's.
• 21:09
  Talk about Phil Forsberg. I saw Max do it.
• 21:13
  Let's talk about the goal celebration that we saw.
• 21:18
  I interviewed Phil after the first period goal on Monday
• 21:21
  night. I said, hey, that's a goal
• 21:22
  celebration. We haven't seen that one yet.
• 21:24
  He told me that his friend Michael texted him in the
• 21:26
  morning and said go gorilla mode, but think about the
• 21:30
  mindset of #9 to come out, score the goal and think I'm going
• 21:34
  gorilla. So good.
• 21:37
  And that was his best game of the season for sure against the
• 21:40
  Canucks at Bridgestone Arena on Monday night.
• 21:43
  And he took that game over. He does what the leading goal
• 21:46
  scorer in Nashville Predators history should be doing.
• 21:48
  And it was so great to see Forsberg play in space, play
• 21:51
  with the puck, take that game over.
• 21:54
  And it was really funny, Kara, because you and I do our first
• 21:56
  intermission interviews at the same time at the home games.
• 21:59
  And we start in historic Studio H, which you call home, and then
• 22:03
  we split up. You go to the Lexus Lounge for
• 22:04
  yours. My player comes to me.
• 22:06
  Nice little room service in Studio H.
• 22:09
  And I had Brady Shea, who had the assist on the goal for my
• 22:11
  interview, and I asked him, what was that celebration from Phil
• 22:16
  King Kong? And Brady goes, I have no idea.
• 22:19
  I'm going to have to ask him after the game.
• 22:21
  And Phil's just like, yeah, went gorilla mode.
• 22:24
  Come on everybody. What the everybody knows that.
• 22:28
  So no, there's there's some bright spots and I think for the
• 22:31
  Predators, you're a month into the season now and at some point
• 22:34
  you're going to have to start stringing some more wins
• 22:36
  together. But they're finding ways to get
• 22:38
  points. They're not giving up in games.
• 22:41
  You can feel that difference in that regard from last season.
• 22:44
  And again, the winds are what matter most.
• 22:48
  You need more points in the standings.
• 22:50
  But there are signs and Andrew Burnett keeps saying this
• 22:54
  stretch is especially It's a really compact, tight stretch.
• 22:58
  Sometimes things aren't always going to go well, but Brunette
• 23:01
  has said you can see the other end of it.
• 23:04
  If you can make it through this and not get too far down the
• 23:07
  standings, you're in a decent spot.
• 23:10
  So the Predators will continue to try to gain points.
• 23:13
  Thursday at home against Philadelphia, Saturday afternoon
• 23:17
  at home against Dallas, the send off to Sweden.
• 23:20
  And as Max is alluding to Philip Forsberg, mustache, bobblehead
• 23:24
  day, bobble mustache. Yes, the mustache itself moves
• 23:30
  Monday at New York, the Rangers and then the Preds are jetting
• 23:34
  off to Sweden two games against Pittsburgh next Friday and
• 23:37
  Sunday. So looking forward to talking
• 23:39
  more about that. But guys, the games just keep
• 23:42
  coming and the Preds got to find a way to get a few wins here.
• 23:45
  Well, I. I think the fight they showed in
• 23:48
  these last two games, yeah, overtime losses, you want to
• 23:52
  win, but those are the 8th and 9th games in 15 days for the
• 23:57
  Preds. They've had back to backs double
• 24:00
  over with no back-to-back days off at any point for over 2
• 24:04
  weeks. So I think that fight means
• 24:06
  something and the condensed games are worth it because
• 24:08
  Sweden is going to be so amazing.
• 24:10
  Coming up next, our Swedish ambassador Philip Forsberg.
• 24:13
  We'll talk with Brooks Bratton about the trip to Sweden, what
• 24:16
  to expect, and what he's looking forward to here on the Predators
• 24:19
  Official Podcast on ESPN1O25 The Game and Nashville Predators
• 24:23
  YouTube. Welcome back to the Predators
• 24:26
  Official Podcast here on ESPN 102.5, The Game in YouTube.
• 24:30
  I'm Brooks Bratton of Nashville, predators.com, and it's always a
• 24:33
  pleasure to have our next guest in conversation, Predators
• 24:37
  forward Philip Forsberg. And Phil, First off, welcome
• 24:40
  back to The POP. It's been a minute since we've
• 24:42
  done one of these, but it's good to have you back again.
• 24:44
  Yeah, thank. You thank you for having me
• 24:45
  back. It's it's good to good to be on
• 24:47
  of. Course, and the reason we wanted
• 24:50
  to have you on, especially at this time of year, we know
• 24:52
  there's a lot of anticipation as we get set to head back to your
• 24:55
  home country of Sweden to play a couple of NHL hockey games,
• 24:59
  something that not a lot of people get to do.
• 25:01
  We're usually here in North America, obviously, but the
• 25:04
  chance to get to do it in Europe is something very exciting and
• 25:08
  of course in your home. Where is your anticipation, your
• 25:11
  excitement level to play NHL games in your home country?
• 25:16
  Yeah, it's it's through the roof, obviously.
• 25:17
  It's it's one of these things that you've always been dreaming
• 25:20
  about really since NHL started coming to to Europe and to
• 25:23
  Sweden specifically and fortunate enough to to go to
• 25:26
  Prague couple years ago, which was great.
• 25:28
  But at the time we didn't have any Czech players.
• 25:31
  So it was it was cool. But this is going to be a lot
• 25:33
  more lot more special personally, obviously.
• 25:35
  And I can't wait to bring the guys over there.
• 25:38
  What? Was your reaction your first
• 25:39
  reaction when you initially heard that, hey, the Preds are
• 25:42
  going to Stockholm? I mean, obviously a very, very
• 25:47
  happy, very excited. It's one of these, like I said,
• 25:50
  it's, it's just, I didn't think we'd get the chance to go to
• 25:52
  Europe again just because we were there fairly recently.
• 25:55
  So I guess it was a door that was pretty much closed And but
• 25:59
  yeah, it was once it was slammed open, obviously that was it was
• 26:01
  a great feeling and I'm really excited.
• 26:04
  So take me. Back to growing up in Sweden and
• 26:08
  specifically the hockey culture, like what is what does Swedes
• 26:11
  think of hockey? What is it like to grow up and
• 26:13
  and kind of being involved in the game?
• 26:16
  It's great. Obviously, I think it's, it's a
• 26:19
  little bit depending on where you're from, same as as in the
• 26:21
  USI guess. But you know, where I'm from,
• 26:24
  the hockey's everything. It's it runs the whole city
• 26:25
  pretty much the little town of Lexan where I'm from is, is, you
• 26:29
  know, a town of 10,000 ish people and has a rank that's
• 26:32
  almost 8000. And they sell it out pretty
• 26:35
  regularly. And it's just a history, you
• 26:37
  know, goes back to, to the early, early 1900s when when the
• 26:41
  team started. And it's, it's, it's a great
• 26:44
  place for, you know, kids to, to grow up to start playing hockey.
• 26:48
  And, and I think that goes for for a lot of the country as
• 26:51
  well. It's, you know, even up to this
• 26:53
  day, it's still probably our one of the favorite sports in in the
• 26:55
  country. And, you know, obviously we've
• 26:58
  had some good success. So on all levels in and actually
• 27:00
  and that that hopefully will continue so for you.
• 27:03
  What do you remember specifically about growing up
• 27:06
  and playing? What are some of your earliest
• 27:07
  memories of being on the ice there?
• 27:10
  I mean, a lot of them are just going on tournaments with with
• 27:13
  your youth team. You know, I played for for Lexan
• 27:15
  pretty much from, you know, I mean from, I don't know, when
• 27:18
  you start like first team, it's like PV or six, six years old,
• 27:21
  something like that all the way up to the pro team before I came
• 27:23
  here. And it's obviously a really cool
• 27:26
  way you can do it over there is that you can, it's basically
• 27:29
  like you played for the junior Preds and then you, you know,
• 27:31
  just when you're good enough, you've got to play for for us,
• 27:33
  you know, and I think that's it's obviously a little
• 27:35
  different than than what's going on here with the draft and
• 27:38
  everything. But those early memories are
• 27:40
  going on the bus, going to tournaments, you know, playing
• 27:43
  our regular season, so to speak. We had probably 20 teams in in
• 27:47
  our state that were all within an hour about which is very
• 27:51
  different from Nashville, Nashville hockey.
• 27:53
  But it's it's something that that you can't really take for
• 27:57
  granted. And it was such a such a cool
• 27:58
  experience when you look back on so I'm always.
• 28:01
  Curious, like for me, I'm American, I grew up watching the
• 28:04
  NHL, going to NHL games for someone who's from Europe and
• 28:08
  specifically Sweden, like is the NHL the goal?
• 28:11
  When you're young, do you dream about the NHL or is it more
• 28:14
  about playing for your hometown team?
• 28:16
  And then maybe we'll see what happens.
• 28:19
  Yeah, I think that's that was definitely the case for me.
• 28:21
  I mean, the first, the first, first dream is, is like you said
• 28:24
  that and obviously the Swedish national team, you know, growing
• 28:27
  up watching them in, in the Olympics and, and the, the World
• 28:30
  Championships, which is a really big deal over there every year.
• 28:33
  And that's kind of where, where your dream started.
• 28:35
  But growing up in Lexan and just seeing, you know, going to the,
• 28:39
  the fan meet and greets and things like that when you're a
• 28:41
  kid with, with my brother and getting autographs from, from
• 28:44
  guys there. That's, that's obviously the
• 28:46
  first dream that that you want, you want to be able to play for
• 28:49
  the pro team. And I was fortunate to get to do
• 28:51
  that for 2 1/2 years before I came here.
• 28:53
  And, and like I said, even I think NHL is, is something that
• 28:58
  at least at that point now it's a little different because the
• 29:00
  access is a lot better to, to kids to the NHL now, obviously,
• 29:03
  which is a great thing with your, you know, European games
• 29:06
  being early and stuff like that. Guys, kids can watch it back
• 29:09
  home. But we didn't really have that
• 29:12
  as much when I grew up. So NHL wasn't really necessarily
• 29:15
  available until you got older and you started, started
• 29:19
  realizing what it was. And at that point, obviously
• 29:21
  the, the dream kind of shifted over to, to that.
• 29:23
  And yeah, fortunately been able to to fulfill a few of those
• 29:27
  dreams, at least so far. Yeah, Yeah.
• 29:29
  When, when do you remember when that was specifically when you
• 29:32
  were like, hey, this might actually happen, this NHL dream,
• 29:35
  this may be in my future. Probably my draft year, I would
• 29:40
  say like maybe, maybe I've been getting drafted was obviously
• 29:42
  the the big, big step, I guess. But even that year of leading up
• 29:47
  to it, having meetings with, with scouts and, and things like
• 29:50
  that and kind of see in some of those rankings where it was, you
• 29:53
  know, expected to to be drafted fairly high.
• 29:55
  And so I think at that point, it's kind of when it started to
• 29:59
  become more real in a way. And obviously get drafted was a
• 30:03
  step up. And then I guess at that point
• 30:05
  you the plan wasn't to be here. Obviously, as we all know, a
• 30:08
  plan was to be in another team. And from from the moment I got
• 30:12
  traded, obviously there was very quick, quick turn around from
• 30:14
  getting traded to actually playing.
• 30:16
  And it's the best thing that's ever happened.
• 30:18
  So you've been here for over a decade now in Nashville.
• 30:21
  How many Preds fans are there back in your hometown now?
• 30:24
  A. Ton, which is great.
• 30:27
  You see kids obviously in the summer with with preds hats and
• 30:31
  the odd jersey and then T-shirts and things like that, which is
• 30:33
  awesome. So at least we've we've put put
• 30:36
  Nashville on the map for for for my hometown.
• 30:39
  But even the state, you know, it's like I said, it's a very,
• 30:42
  very passionate hockey state and they all love like sand.
• 30:45
  And this is like came out of there.
• 30:46
  They're, you know, loyal by default almost to the press as
• 30:50
  well. And that that means a lot,
• 30:51
  obviously, when you see that well and it's.
• 30:53
  Easy, at least from a nationalist perspective with the
• 30:55
  colors too, right? Preds in Sweden, very similar
• 30:57
  colors. That's kind of an easy
• 30:59
  transition there, I guess. Yeah, yeah.
• 31:01
  Exactly. It's great for whenever I play
• 31:03
  with national team, I don't have to change my change my running
• 31:05
  shoes too much at all and the tape and stuff so it's easy.
• 31:09
  Nice. OK.
• 31:09
  So what's the plan for when we do go over how many family
• 31:12
  friends? What are you expecting in that
• 31:14
  regard? Nothing too crazy This is one of
• 31:18
  those opportunities when and you obviously want to make sure that
• 31:21
  everybody gets gets a chance to experience it.
• 31:23
  But the good thing, I guess in situation like this is my family
• 31:26
  is not the biggest, you know, it's don't have like I'm the
• 31:31
  oldest. My brother just had his first
• 31:32
  baby, but he's, you know, a couple weeks old.
• 31:34
  So there's no nieces and nephews and things like that yet, which
• 31:37
  I'm really excited about at some point.
• 31:39
  But right now the family is fairly small, which, which makes
• 31:42
  tickets a lot easier for for the wallet, which is good.
• 31:44
  But but obviously a lot of friends and and people that that
• 31:47
  you want to be there, we're going to try to make it happen
• 31:49
  for them as well. Nice.
• 31:51
  And will your little one be making the trip?
• 31:54
  Yeah, yeah. You know, you know by now he's
• 31:56
  not missing anything, so we'll be there.
• 31:58
  I so. I I know that.
• 32:00
  I mean, at this point he's probably not going to remember
• 32:02
  it, but for you to have him there in games in your home
• 32:05
  country, how much you looking forward to that as a dad?
• 32:08
  Oh, it's going to be. Awesome.
• 32:09
  You know, I was obviously we played the world in Stockholm
• 32:12
  this, this spring and that was great seeing the same thing, you
• 32:15
  know, your percent of your country with, with your son and,
• 32:17
  and obviously your American wife in the stands.
• 32:20
  But she's, she's a Swede now. And it's going to be, you know,
• 32:23
  in a way a lot more special to playing for Preds just with
• 32:26
  everything that has happened over here in the last decade
• 32:29
  plus, like you said. And it's going to be really cool
• 32:31
  to have them in there and, and yeah, together with, like you
• 32:34
  said, Swedish family, Swedish friends and then all the team
• 32:37
  mates, obviously. OK, so let's end on this.
• 32:40
  For those of us who are going, and I know that there's a lot of
• 32:42
  Preds fans planning on making the trip, what are maybe some
• 32:46
  things people should make sure they do?
• 32:48
  Sites to see, food to eat? What should they expect headed
• 32:51
  into your home country? Meatballs, it's it's obviously
• 32:56
  the the most basic answer, but they are whatever Swedish
• 33:00
  meatballs that people have had over here, it's not the real
• 33:03
  thing. So make sure they got to make
• 33:05
  sure they check out a check out that go to a nice little
• 33:07
  restaurant and order the meatballs.
• 33:09
  And yeah, come back and talk about it after.
• 33:12
  But other than that, I think there, there's a couple cool
• 33:15
  museums, but it's kind of like even here in Nashville, like,
• 33:17
  and if I go to Stockholm, I'm not necessarily touristing too
• 33:20
  much, you know, like it's like if I'm in Nashville, I don't
• 33:22
  necessarily go to the Country Hall of Fame, which is probably
• 33:25
  unbelievable. But same thing in Stockholm.
• 33:27
  I don't know, there's the the Vasa museum with the the old
• 33:30
  ship and there's the Alba museum.
• 33:32
  There's a bunch of cool stuff like that.
• 33:33
  Like Old Town is really cool. So I can highly recommend that
• 33:36
  and but like I said, I probably not the right one else you have
• 33:40
  to ask Willie about a couple of these things.
• 33:42
  He's more, he's local born and bred down there.
• 33:44
  So he he'll know a little bit more.
• 33:45
  But I think that's yeah, meatballs.
• 33:47
  You can't go wrong with that. We will check.
• 33:49
  In with Willie before we head over there.
• 33:50
  But yes, I was going to say the meatballs are top of my list for
• 33:53
  sure. So as long as I get some Swedish
• 33:54
  meatballs for your recommendation, I think that's
• 33:57
  good to go. Hey, Phil, we're really excited
• 33:59
  for the trip and certainly looking forward to everything
• 34:02
  that will come with that and to see you and your home country,
• 34:05
  but it's always a pleasure. Thanks for doing this.
• 34:06
  We appreciate it. Oh, of course.
• 34:08
  Thank you so much and see you in Sweden.
• 34:10
  Absolutely. That's Philip Forsberg.
• 34:12
  We'll be back with more in just a moment on the Preds official
• 34:14
  Podcast. Welcome back to the Predators
• 34:16
  official podcast where we are bringing the passion as we went
• 34:23
  in to start the show, Pete Weber, Terry Crisp, both
• 34:27
  inducted into the Predators Golden Hall.
• 34:30
  As we know that came, they were announced by Pecorine, right?
• 34:35
  Informed them that that's where they were going.
• 34:37
  They talked about how special that was.
• 34:38
  But guys, we had the chance after the game where they were
• 34:41
  inducted during the first intermission for all the fans,
• 34:43
  for everybody to cheer them. We had a chance to to go to the
• 34:46
  Bet MGM lounge and celebrate them a little bit more.
• 34:49
  And what a great night for two of our favorite people.
• 34:53
  And as a Dan Kasmer, former defenseman for the Nashville
• 34:57
  Predators, told me, Crispy, he's a legend.
• 35:01
  What a legend. I mean, such a great day to have
• 35:04
  those guys, their families, their extended hockey families
• 35:07
  here. First, I got to give a big shout
• 35:10
  out to a man who I was too intimidated to introduce myself
• 35:12
  to. That's the mustache himself.
• 35:14
  Lanny McDonald, 1989 Calgary Flames Stanley Cup champion
• 35:18
  Terry Crisp, one of the most famous people in hockey.
• 35:21
  He was in the building with a tour of Flames fans that just
• 35:26
  happened to be here for Krispies big day, and he was there post
• 35:29
  game in the Bet MGM Sports lounge.
• 35:31
  He's the guy who calls you when you go into the Hockey Hall of
• 35:34
  Fame. So I guess I'll have to wait for
• 35:35
  that moment to talk to him, which is never coming for me.
• 35:38
  Obviously. I I was a little nervous to talk
• 35:41
  to Landy. I didn't get it done, but it was
• 35:43
  so great to have Pete's family there, Crispy's family there,
• 35:47
  Claudia Weber, Sheila Crisp, his son Tony Crisp in the building.
• 35:51
  So so cool to have the crew together.
• 35:53
  And and what a special day. It went so perfectly.
• 35:56
  The intermission was a great time to do it all.
• 35:58
  Part of a big Preds win. Much needed on home ice.
• 36:01
  Pete and Terry got it done for the boys and early 3.
• 36:04
  Nothing lead held up. Well, I think that post game
• 36:07
  celebration, just you, you get a sense of how important those
• 36:11
  guys are. And we've talked about it.
• 36:13
  I mean, we had the whole episode with them, obviously, and just
• 36:15
  what they mean to this franchise, how they were just as
• 36:18
  popular, if not more popular than all the players in the
• 36:21
  early days. You could still probably argue
• 36:23
  that today, but the folks who were in attendance, David Poyle,
• 36:28
  Andrew Burnett, Barry Trots, everybody from those early days
• 36:33
  and just to see everybody together and hear some of the
• 36:35
  stories and that Pete and Crispy talk about and some of their on
• 36:39
  air hijinks and shenanigans that Pete has a file for on the Tik
• 36:44
  tik for every blooper that was ever uttered on the air.
• 36:47
  But it was a great moment to to honor those guys, as you said,
• 36:51
  and and just what they mean and thanks to them again for joining
• 36:54
  us for the entire episode last time around.
• 36:56
  It was great to to talk to them. I hope everybody really enjoyed
• 36:59
  that conversation. But yeah, I think the word
• 37:03
  legend can often be thrown around a little bit too much,
• 37:06
  but you can't say it enough about the two of them.
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  Everybody who didn't listen last week, go back and watch that
• 37:13
  episode on Pred's YouTube. Pete and Terry and Pete and
• 37:16
  Terry's Tavern going for an hour.
• 37:18
  Kara, that is priceless footage. I I have to go with with Brooks
• 37:24
  talking about people in attendance, David Boyle for
• 37:26
  David Boyle to get up and, and give one of the opening speeches
• 37:29
  about Pete and Terry and, and talked about their importance in
• 37:32
  Nashville and for hockey. And you think about this.
• 37:35
  We're, we're broadcasters. That's that's what their role
• 37:38
  has been. But for the general manager to
• 37:40
  understand what they've brought when he's the guy in charge of
• 37:44
  bringing in the players, putting the product on the ice.
• 37:47
  I I think that just showed what they mean coming from a person
• 37:51
  like David Poyle. 100% and, and you, you just get that feeling
• 37:57
  all over again. I I often say that and I might
• 38:00
  have said this last time around, but when I see old clips or hear
• 38:04
  old stories of Pete and Terry, it makes me bummed out that I
• 38:07
  didn't grow up here, that I wasn't kind of raised on them as
• 38:11
  broadcasters and learning about the game and becoming a hockey
• 38:14
  fan. Because it just seems like such
• 38:17
  a wonderful experience to learn the game from them and have them
• 38:21
  be kind of your introduction. And I think that was one of the
• 38:24
  coolest things in, you know, in getting to talk to some of our
• 38:27
  colleagues, some of the fellow Preds broadcasters about what
• 38:31
  Pete and Terry have done for them.
• 38:33
  I think that was such a big thing that, you know, Willie
• 38:35
  Donnick alluded to, like, these guys were the predators in the
• 38:39
  early days. And and they meant so much to
• 38:42
  building the game and growing the game and bringing people in
• 38:45
  that it wasn't, you know, not that you wouldn't want to watch
• 38:48
  the games on television, but there was even more incentive to
• 38:52
  say, hey, I want to hear what Pete and Terry have to say.
• 38:55
  I want to go hang out with them for three hours.
• 38:57
  Yeah, like, I'm excited to watch the hockey game too, but this is
• 39:00
  such a bonus and the way that they became ingrained in the
• 39:04
  franchise and among the fan base.
• 39:07
  I love the point that Willie made too, that you could make
• 39:09
  the argument that without the the ability of Pete and Terry to
• 39:15
  build that fan base in the early days, would you have had the fan
• 39:19
  support to keep the team here when times were tough?
• 39:21
  That may not have been the case, and I think a lot of that is
• 39:24
  owed to what those two did in the early days, and people fell
• 39:29
  in love with the game in part because of what Pete and Terry
• 39:32
  did in the early going. And it's a mutual respect.
• 39:35
  How many times did we hear Chris be talking about Cellblock 3O3
• 39:40
  and what they brought and the chance he goes?
• 39:43
  I love the chance. So good and these guys, to use
• 39:50
  an ultimate hockey cliche to put a bow on it, they set the tone
• 39:54
  in 1000 different ways for Predators hockey, for the Preds
• 39:57
  fan base, for the Preds team, and for Preds broadcasters in
• 40:01
  perpetuity as Pete and Crispy would say.
• 40:04
  So nevertheless, Congrats to those guys Pete and Terry, we
• 40:07
  love you both so much. What an awesome day.
• 40:09
  They're getting their gold jackets.
• 40:11
  They actually are still getting them touched up to make sure
• 40:14
  they are perfect and they will be rocking them.
• 40:16
  Later on this year, I feel like Pete and Crispy will just come
• 40:19
  in unannounced with them on coordinated one day knowing
• 40:23
  those two fools. So the second class of the
• 40:25
  Predators Golden Hall, the new team Hall of Fame in year 2,
• 40:29
  Pete Weber and Terry Crisp balloting is open for your
• 40:32
  number three tweet at Brooks Bratton who you want to be in
• 40:35
  the Pretz Golden Hall. It is an informal balloting
• 40:37
  process, but Brooks will be tabulating, so get ready for
• 40:40
  those. Brooksy, I would love to.
• 40:42
  See, and I would love to pass them along to the people to make
• 40:44
  those decisions honestly, like we're getting you.
• 40:47
  It's it's not me. Unfortunately, not yet not.
• 40:50
  Yet at least no. No do tweet at me because I have
• 40:53
  connections. Oh.
• 40:56
  OK, that's good, because I don't know who's in charge because I
• 40:58
  didn't get to talk to Lanny McDonald, so I have no idea.
• 41:02
  Oh, that's a different Hall of Fame.
• 41:03
  Never mind. Yeah, that is one that we need
• 41:05
  to get Pete Weber in. I will be nominating him for the
• 41:08
  Foster Hewitt Award every single year for the rest of my life
• 41:11
  until he wins it. So that's one that Pete will be
• 41:14
  getting, but Golden Hall comes first. 100% yeah.
• 41:18
  We got to get him in the in the big one up in Toronto.
• 41:20
  That'll come one day. We'll be back in just a moment
• 41:23
  to wrap things up. Pete and Terry, they're in the
• 41:25
  Golden Hall and we're excited to bring you the Preds Official
• 41:27
  Podcast here on ESPN1O25 The Game and YouTube.
• 41:30
  Back to wrap things up in just a moment. 4th and final segment
• 41:35
  here on the Predators Official Podcast, November 5th,
• 41:40
  Wednesday. As we record this episode, I'm
• 41:42
  Brooks Bratton alongside Max, hers and Kara Hammer.
• 41:44
  A pleasure to be back with you. As Max shows off the Batman
• 41:48
  building, something you can only see if you're watching on
• 41:50
  YouTube, make sure you're doing that.
• 41:52
  The biggie awesome person of the week.
• 41:54
  We love to give this out of course in honor of the late wife
• 41:58
  of Willie Donnick, Aaron Donnick, a wonderful person and
• 42:01
  we miss her dearly and it's our way of honoring her and Hammer.
• 42:05
  We have named our biggie Awesome Person of the Week.
• 42:08
  I mean. It's got to go to the stammer.
• 42:10
  How about Steven Samkos? What I think what .3 seconds
• 42:14
  left, 3 seconds left to to hit the one timer, tie the game,
• 42:18
  push us into overtime. Obviously we talked about the
• 42:21
  controversy of the overtime goal, but this was a big goal
• 42:24
  for Steven Samkos. We know he's been a little quiet
• 42:26
  on the score sheet up to this point, but I thought that was
• 42:32
  awesome. So we know Aaron Donnick would
• 42:35
  have loved that. Steven Samkos, you're awesome.
• 42:38
  You're a biggie. Winner of the week.
• 42:41
  I think it's perfect that and I think Aaron is the one who could
• 42:44
  break you out of a nine game pointless streak by saying
• 42:48
  Stammer, you're doing so great, you're going to score so many
• 42:52
  goals. I love you so much.
• 42:54
  I can just smash your face in. Speaking of that, Barry Trotz
• 42:58
  told me that one time he used to look for Aaron in the building
• 43:02
  when the team wasn't doing well, when the when the when things
• 43:05
  weren't going well or, or things weren't good, he said sometimes
• 43:07
  he would scope out Aaron in the lounge because he knew she would
• 43:12
  give a pep talk. She would make him feel better.
• 43:14
  She would turn things right. So that's it, Max.
• 43:17
  That's exactly it. That's great Big E stuff right
• 43:20
  there and. One more note on Stamkos's goal.
• 43:24
  He pulled the Predators even in the game, of course, tying
• 43:27
  Mikhail Grandland who scored at 5959 on February 27th, 2020 for
• 43:33
  the latest game time goal in franchise history.
• 43:36
  So a little bit of history last night as well as Stephen Stamkos
• 43:41
  joins Mikhail Grandland in the Predators record books.
• 43:44
  Hey, you can join the conversation anytime.
• 43:46
  You can use #preds podcast on social media, or you can comment
• 43:50
  on our YouTube link in the comments section.
• 43:53
  And we did get a question from YouTube.
• 43:55
  They want to know who do we think the most under the radar
• 43:58
  prospects in the Preds system? And Max, you've got a thought
• 44:02
  here. I have an answer, you can let me
• 44:06
  know if you guys disagree or not.
• 44:08
  It's Cole O'Hara, the most under the radar prospect in the
• 44:11
  Predator system. He was the oldest player in
• 44:14
  rookie camp this year because he was a three-year college guy at
• 44:17
  UMass. He was drafted in 2022 in the
• 44:20
  fourth round. He's now 23 and he really
• 44:22
  flashed some skill at rookie camp and in training camp with
• 44:26
  the big boys and in some pre season games.
• 44:28
  So I'm going to say Cole O'Hara because he's an older guy
• 44:31
  playing his first full AHL season right now after debuting
• 44:34
  for the Admirals in the spring last year.
• 44:36
  I will say Cole O'Hara is the Predators most under the radar
• 44:40
  prospect. Love it.
• 44:42
  Excellent answer. I'll give you one that I don't
• 44:44
  know that he's under the radar, but it's worth mentioning.
• 44:47
  Igor Suran over in the KHL has ten goals already in 22 games.
• 44:51
  He's just 19, right? Not too shabby, so.
• 44:54
  Geographically under the radar, I think from a hockey
• 44:59
  perspective, he's not under the radar.
• 45:01
  But that would have been my second answer because he's a
• 45:04
  world away right now in Russia. So that was my kind of thought
• 45:08
  as well. But I like that answer, Brooks.
• 45:11
  It might be cheating a little bit, I don't know, but I like
• 45:14
  that. No, I thank you very much.
• 45:16
  I yeah, we all know that he is. He's out there and he's scoring
• 45:21
  goals. But just worth mentioning that
• 45:22
  he's off to a hot start over there in the KHL.
• 45:25
  You got to. Remember Brooks when asked about
• 45:27
  what his game is like on the ice, Sir, and said I have two
• 45:31
  years left on my contract in Russia.
• 45:33
  So that really sums up his game right there.
• 45:36
  Nice, nice. There you go, all you need to
• 45:38
  know. I wanted to mention too, Rick
• 45:40
  just left a comment that said normally I just listen to the
• 45:43
  Preds official podcast, but after listening to it, I had to
• 45:45
  watch this one. Love Crispy and Weber.
• 45:48
  That was on the Pete and Terry episode, of course.
• 45:50
  So again, another reigning endorsement for watching.
• 45:53
  If you're only listening, jump on over to YouTube and you can
• 45:55
  not only see Max and Kara's lovely attire, but all the
• 45:59
  things that Max was holding up in the prop world as we were
• 46:02
  having our discussion and the first segment.
• 46:04
  And then I wanted to mention to a gentleman who stopped me post
• 46:07
  game the other day. Dusty, I think is his name, just
• 46:10
  to say how appreciative he is of the show.
• 46:13
  So we always appreciate that. I that's one of my favorite
• 46:15
  things about what we get to do is when, you know, I love to see
• 46:19
  folks at Bridgestone Arena or just out and about Nashville.
• 46:23
  You know, we certainly appreciate it.
• 46:24
  If you're enjoying the pod or you know, enjoying Max on the
• 46:27
  radio or reading one of my stories or seeing care on TV and
• 46:32
  you know, you want to let us know we we certainly really do
• 46:34
  appreciate that. So thanks to those of you who
• 46:36
  are enjoying the podcast and feel free to get involved as
• 46:40
  well if you hate. The podcast, you can also tell
• 46:43
  us that in public, but that will not get a shout out on the show.
• 46:46
  You have to give us a compliment to give a shout out,
• 46:48
  unfortunately. Yes, one of my favorite comments
• 46:50
  in the early days when Thomas and I first started the show was
• 46:54
  somebody left a comment that said run by two guys who work
• 46:58
  for the team, not going to get real information.
• 47:01
  Well, the information is real. We're not telling lies.
• 47:05
  We we just may not be as critical as other people, but
• 47:08
  the information we assure you is real.
• 47:10
  I'll. Believe it when I see it,
• 47:15
  Thomas. Yeah, Thomas, you'll believe it
• 47:18
  when you can see this podcast. Hey, we're going to Sweden next
• 47:21
  week. I will be joining the team
• 47:22
  headed over to Stockholm for a couple of games against the
• 47:26
  Pittsburgh Penguins on Friday and Sunday.
• 47:29
  Stay tuned to Nashville predators.com in the days to
• 47:32
  come. We will have plenty of coverage
• 47:34
  leading up to the Sweden games and social media as well.
• 47:39
  Obviously there will be photos and videos, all kinds of content
• 47:42
  coming your way from the NHL Global Series in Stockholm,
• 47:46
  which should be 1 heck of a trip as the Predators continue to try
• 47:50
  to rattle off some wins, gain some more points here and the
• 47:53
  month of November continues. Max, it's always a pleasure.
• 47:57
  Quite a pleasure. Don't follow Brooks's food
• 47:59
  Instagram, but follow him for his hockey talk and we will talk
• 48:02
  to you guys next week. Thanks for listening to the
• 48:05
  Predators official podcast.