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Preds Polar Express & Christmastime in Smashville! · Predators Official Podcast

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Arsenal left side to. The middle What a move by Philip
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Forsberg, one of the best from Scoresberg.
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It's the podcast that loves the hockey team you love.
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This is The Predator's official podcast with Cara Hammer and Max
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hers for. The empty net and hits it on
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about on. 102.5 and 106.3 the game at nashvillepredators.com.
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This is the Predators official podcast on the road in Ottawa,
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where the Predators finish up a three-game road trip against the
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Senators this weekend. My name is Max, hers coming to
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you from Ottawa. Cara Hammer back home from
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Predators TV is here. Hello Hammer.
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Hello from Canada. Hello Max, I, I, I want you to
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take me through how you got to Ottawa because you were, you're
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telling me that a different route.
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Normally you guys always take an airplane to get from point A to
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point B, but last night things were a little bit different for
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you. Yeah, we hopped a train, A-Team
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train after the game in Montreal last night.
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It was a pretty fun ride, two hours.
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As always. The Prince broadcasters were the
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life of the party. Kara with Hal Gill pulling out
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the deck of cards, Lindsay Rowley keeping Hal in line, and
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Willie and Mace as always having the time of their lives.
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So it was a fun little switch up.
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Would have been much more fun after a win, but certainly a
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cool experience and honestly pretty efficient travel too.
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We got moving the moment our butts hit the seats of that
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train and ended up in Ottawa, where the Preds have a much
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needed day off after back-to-back Rd. games and road
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losses in Toronto and Montreal to start this road trip.
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They'll take on the Senators on Saturday night to finish it up.
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But yeah, it was definitely a fun little switch up.
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Much appreciated. Did it all feel like you were on
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The Polar Express? I think I asked Lindsay at one
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point. Excuse me, ma'am, is this The
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Polar Express? And she made a face at me, so my
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joke was not appreciated, but it was snowing.
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Well, I appreciate it. And obviously The Polar Express
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is all about magic. And like you just said, Max, the
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Preds, they need a little bit a little bit of that magic right
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now. Yeah, so magic would certainly
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help. Predators have lost six games in
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a row. They are O2 and O to start this
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road trip in Eastern Canada this week.
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Wednesday night they lost three to two to the Toronto Maple
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Leafs in a game that they led after two periods on an early
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goal by Jonathan Marshasow. A little bit of magic on the
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bounce that created this goal as Marshasow dumped it in from the
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red line. The puck hit I guess the top of
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the Dashers or somewhere on the backboards and went straight up
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in the air and landed in the where Joseph Wall didn't see it
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Marcia so saw it first put it in.
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Predators were able to play a good Rd. game through the 1st 2
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periods and LED 1 nothing and then the Leafs big names came
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back with a vengeance in the 1st 5 minutes of the third period.
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Mitch Marner to Austin Matthews twice over, then a five on three
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power play goal made it 3-1. Leafs early on in the third and
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then the Predators had the puck really the entire final 7
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minutes of the game but didn't have a ton of scoring chances.
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Mark Jankowski got on the board with his first goal of the
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season. Predators had it cut to one.
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They had a chance in this game. Kara could not execute.
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Six on five. Lost three to two to the Leafs.
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Yeah, after that game, that's exactly what Jonathan Marshiso
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said, He said, I think this is the story of the year.
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It's the year a little bit to sum it up, he said.
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I think we just let teams linger when we're in the lead and we're
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just satisfied to be one up and we just hold on and stop
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creating chances. And obviously they let Toronto
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come back into that game. And five games in a row, Max.
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The Preds lose 3:00 to 2:00. Yeah, pretty crazy to have that
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store score line coming over and over and over.
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The Predators still have not won a game this season in which
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they've scored two or fewer goals.
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And it has happened now in 18 of 27 games this season they are O
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and 18 when they don't score three goals or more.
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They got shut out for the fifth time this season on Thursday
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night in Montreal against the Canadiens, losing that game
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three to nothing. They gave up a short handed goal
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in the first period, another five on three goal in the third
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period and an empty net goal. So nothing against them and even
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strength, but a three nothing loss for the predators.
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The highlights of this one we got to start with the new man
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and goal, the big juice juice junior.
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We got two juices. We still don't know what we're
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going to do about it, but Eustis on and in the 24 year old Finn,
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the Preds new backup goalie traded for from the Avalanche
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this past weekend and a backup goalie swap played really well.
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None of the goals were on hit. Gave up two goals.
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Made 27 saves in his Preds debut in Montreal.
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It's a team debut. It's a tough situation for a
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young goalie who got traded still wearing his Avalanche
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pads. This is not an easy situation.
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And as has been the case in most of the games this season, the
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Preds goalie gave them a chance. This time it was on.
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And then? Yeah, I mean, he came out Max.
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He was playing strong. You know, Mace was talking about
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on the broadcast, he was standing in the top of the
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crease. He was exactly what you would
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want to see out of a net minder, especially in his debut where
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obviously maybe a little bit of nerves making your debut.
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You come in with a team that's struggling.
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But he had a strong showing and I think everybody was highly
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impressed with his game. Yeah, it was just Anandan's 30th
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NHL appearance. He's still very young in the
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NHL. Predators got a goalie they see
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some major upside in, and you saw it last night.
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He had some massive saves early on, shuffling left to right
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against Cole Caulfield. He made some breakaway saves and
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as you pointed out, that May said, he was aggressive.
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He's playing the Predator style here.
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He's already conforming to the coaching and the strategy of Ben
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Vanderklok in the Predators goalie department.
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And I talked about this actually with Scott Wedgwood before he
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got traded. And it was a very informative
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conversation. He was talking to me about how
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the Preds coached their goalies. And it's not that the Predators
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want all of their goalies to be like you see Soros, It's that
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Soros is the star pupil of the Predators goalie program and he
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does everything they want them to do so well.
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So when you see a new goalie come in, it's not a coincidence
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that he starts to look like Soros, because those are the
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things that they are taught. Yeah, that's interesting.
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And he's a big body too, and that, so for him to have a
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little bit of, you know, he's larger.
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So you would think maybe he would sit back a little bit
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more, take up more space, but he wasn't playing that way, right?
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He was getting out in front. Yeah, 6 foot four, 210 lbs.
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He's a growing boy. Big juice.
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Junior Juice from Kempole, Finland, Eustis on and in the
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same hometown as Peckerine and we got to see the mobility a
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little bit when he lost a skate blade and had to crab walk all
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the way back to the bench. These are always my favorite.
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I love the crab walk back to the bench.
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I have to go back to last season when I watched the Factor come
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all the way across and systems was was rooting for him the
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whole time. But always interesting when you
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see guys have to get off the ice that way.
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Yeah, it was quite enjoyable and that is not the official term
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for it, but that's just what I always think of when you lose a
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skate plate. So big shout out to Eustace On
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and for a strong performance. Another positive in this game,
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Zach LaRue playing in his hometown for the first time.
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He grew up just outside Of Montreal, Mercier, Quebec.
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His 22nd NHL game was his first in his hometown rink against his
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hometown team that he grew up cheering for and he had over 100
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people there supporting him and he got a massive group photo
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after the game, which the NHL tweeted.
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I saw that. I definitely had to like the
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tweet. I mean, 100 people, did they
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take up half the building? I mean, I know on the broadcast
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that we're talking about how awesome it was to to be in
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Montreal, play a game there. They were talking about the live
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DJ during the intermissions. But was I saw a lot of press
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fans. There was a lot of gold sticking
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out. So were they all the roof fans?
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They very well may have been a lot of Marsha so fans in the
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building as well, but some people have some questions about
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the LaRue ticket block and I've got a couple of answers for them
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here to shed some light on it. The two big questions were did
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LaRue pay for all those tickets? He said no.
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He just got his immediate family covered, had a very strict cut
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off line even for close friends, saying sorry, guys, it's
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Montreal, you're on your own, you got to buy it yourself,
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which I think it was a good policy to make sure his wallet
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stays where it needs to be in his third month as an NHL
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player. And the other one is, how did
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all these people get tickets? He actually said that many of
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them bought the tickets before the season, before he was even
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called up, hoping that he would be in the NHL by now.
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And they were very much right. So their early purchases were
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rewarded. I love that it paid off.
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They had a lot of faith in him. Yeah, how could you not?
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He was one of the few guys bringing the energy last night,
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trying as best as he could to mix it up and get in the hard
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areas, the things that the Preds have not done this season.
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And Andrew Burnett said after the game, asked by a horde Of
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Montreal media the same questions he's had to answer all
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year about the Predators lack of offense, Bruno said this is the
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story of the season and a new chapter was written tonight.
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So they continue to find ways to not get the goals going.
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And last night an injury was part of the reason why Ryan
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O'Reilly was injured in the game against the Maple Leafs.
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The game against Montreal was the first game that O'Reilly has
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missed in his two year tenure as a Predator after playing in 114
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straight to start his Preds career, including the playoffs
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last season. Yeah, it's definitely a big loss
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for the Preds to have the veteran out and Max.
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Just just frustration. You could see it on the bench.
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You could see it it from the players on the ice.
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I mean, going back to to start the 3rd when they had the five
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on three and it looks like the penalty kills going to step up
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again. They're going to find a way to
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kill it off. But then 10 seconds left,
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carrier loses the stick, it breaks and then he's defenseless
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against line aim. And there's nothing you can do
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in that situation. And it puts Montreal on the
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board and it just it it, as Mace would say, at best, it's head
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scratching that this seems to be the story of every game.
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Yep, over and over and over again.
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Preds give one up five on three after a lengthy kill that, as
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you said, nearly got to the finish line.
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And then later in the period, the Preds had 3 1/2 minutes of
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consecutive power play time that included 36 seconds of five on
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three. They were unable to score.
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The power play has just one goal in the last five games.
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Preds have been losing the special teams battles throughout
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this six game losing streak and that has been deciding games in
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the wrong direction for the Preds, who's now on the season
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through 27 games are 714 and six trying to salvage the finale of
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this road trip Saturday against the Ottawa Senators, who like
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Montreal, are towards the bottom of the Eastern Conference.
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The ABS and Senators are the bottom two teams in the East, so
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the Preds will have a shot at them on Saturday night.
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And let's give an injury update because I, if I'm correct, I
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believe Michael Mccarran was moved day-to-day in the
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Lausanne, was added to IR. Yes, and that was really just a
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roster availability move. So Mccarran was injured prior to
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Lausanne, so he was on injured reserve and Lausanne was not.
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But in order for Mccarran to return, someone had to come off
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the roster since they're carrying the maximum number of
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skaters now. But Lausanne unfortunately had
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to miss the game in his home province of Quebec.
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He's not from Montreal. He's from way up north and
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Valdor, Quebec. But he always loves going back
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to Montreal. That's where he got married this
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summer and where he spends a lot of time.
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So sad Jeremy had to miss that one.
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But we will get an injury update from him when the Predators
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return home next week for one home game on Tuesday against the
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Flames. But yeah, good to see McCarron
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back out there going against his former team in Montreal.
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Thought he was impactful last night getting his groove back on
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the fourth line. Yeah, I think, I think if they
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can get these guys back healthy and then, you know, I, I don't
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know what it's going to take, Max.
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If they need a spark, they're going to need, they're going to
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need the magic. And maybe it will happen after
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riding The Polar Express to Ottawa.
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But I mean, if you could come back with a win, I think that's
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what it's going to take, right? Just get one win, build it one
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game at a time. Yep, there's your Cara Hammer
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motivational speech right there on the Predators official
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podcast. Cara, we did have some good news
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this week. The Four Nations face off
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rosters are out. We already knew that UC Soros
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would be the goalie for Team Finland and that Forsberg would
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be the sharpshooter for Team Sweden.
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We did have one additional Pred that we were hoping for and it
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happened. Dust Nyquist will be joining
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Philip Forsberg on Team Sweden for the Four Nations face off in
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February. Ah, I'm so excited.
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So how? I think I asked you this before,
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Max, but are we only rooting for our guys?
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Are you going to root for Team America?
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I mean, where do you go here? I mean, the USA is stacked.
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They are absolutely stacked. So you can't go wrong in this
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one. And I got me thinking about it
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last night in Montreal, which will be the venue for the first
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half of the Four Nations face off.
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The first game of the tournament is Gus Nyquist, Philip Forsberg
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and Sweden against Canada in Canada at the Bell Center on
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February 12th. That's going to be nuts.
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It's going to be crazy. And talking about Team USA, were
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you? We were.
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We were secretly hoping, right, Ryan McDonald would get picked,
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but obviously not still. But still Team USA, it's going
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to be stacked. So.
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We'll have to talk to our resident American Chris Mason
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about that one, who's the resident of every country in the
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world and every area in the world.
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But so happy for Gus. He deserves it.
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These guys have kind of have the window skip them, guys who would
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have been in the Olympics certainly once and at least
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twice if the NHL had been going. So Gus absolutely deserves this
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chance here in his mid 30s. He and Philip Forsberg have been
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international teammates once before, at the 2018 World
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Championships in Copenhagen when Sweden won the gold medal in a
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tournament that is massive for all the European countries at
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the end of the NHL season. So, so happy for those guys.
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UC Soros all but assured to be the starting goalie for Team
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Finland. He will be backed up by former
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Pred Kevin Lankinen and also Uko Pekka Lukinen of the Buffalo
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Sabres will be in the house for Team Finland.
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And the Finland versus Sweden game.
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The massive rivalry which will feature all three of our Preds,
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it's on February 15th in Montreal.
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It'll be a four team round Robin and then a single elimination
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semifinals and finals bracket for the Four Nations face off as
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the NHL. We'll take a two week break for
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international play in February. We are very excited, Cara.
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We we are very excited. It's.
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Going to be a lot of fun. So glad that three Preds will be
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in there. Congrats to Gus Nyquist on
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getting the nod with Team Sweden.
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All those games will be televised nationally in the US
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on ESPN and TNT, so this will be a big, big deal as the NHL gets
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ready to return to the Olympics in February 2026, wetting your
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appetite with USA, Canada, Finland and Sweden.
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I do feel bad for the guys like Roman Yosi who would absolutely
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be representing their country, but their country is not one of
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the four that gets to go. So no, No Team Europe this time
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like there was at the World Cup for Yost to be a part of with No
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Team Switzerland. Yeah, Can I just read this, this
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line that I that I was looking at while you were mentioning
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that Team USA was stacked, Did you know the roster includes 4
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NHL captains and 10 NHL alternate captains?
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Yeah, who's going to be the captain of these teams?
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Those will be some fun announcements.
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I hadn't even thought about that.
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Yeah, I was, I was thinking about that, you know, because
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obviously we know that Phil wears the A.
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So is he going to come in at to Team Sweden and and be a captain
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on on Team Sweden? I mean, where do they go here?
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Yeah, a lot of options to be sure, and especially for these
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two European countries, a lot of guys reuniting with coaches who
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have coached them in the past. UC Soros's goalie coach for Team
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Finland is a long time friend of Pecorines who he's looking
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forward to working with for those couple weeks.
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So it's going to be a whole lot of fun.
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It's going to be something that we've never really felt before
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from the NHL, an in season international tournament with
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only NHL players taking place on NHL ice.
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It's going to be a whole lot of fun.
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We'll take a break, come back, tell you about some holiday
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goings on coming your way at Bridgestone Arena as the
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Predators return home for one game on Tuesday night, December
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10th against the Calgary Flames. A whole lot of holiday
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festivities going on surrounding that game and in Smashville for
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the rest of the month. So we'll tell you about that and
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have some fun as well to finish up the POP.
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She's Kara Hammer from Predators TV.
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I'm Max Herz from Predators radio.
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You're listening to the Predators Official Podcast here
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There's a little bit of the magic that Karen Hammers looking
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for. Does the 24 karat magic work for
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you, Karen? Is that Polar Express magic?
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I'm in it. I'm in it.
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I'm here for the magic. I'm also here for the Jack
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Daniels Barrel Tree lighting at 4:45 on Tuesday with my favorite
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people, Pete Weber and Terry Crisp.
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You going to be there, Max? Is that, is that, is that your
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thing? Because we know Crispy's all
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about this Jack Daniels Barrel House lighting.
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When these things always happen, I'm very worried that they're
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going to be during the radio pregame show.
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But it's nice and early. It'll be getting started at
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4:45. So I got to get out there.
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You know, I'm in the Jack Daniels Barrel House, so right
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by there inside the arena. That's my spot for the radio
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show. So I will be seeing you there,
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Hammer, on Tuesday outside of Pete and Terry's Tavern, which
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we have terrible news. Kara, did you hear the bad news?
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Is this, is it really bad news? I don't know if it's bad news.
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Pete and Terry's Tavern is gone. It's a snow globe.
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It's magic. But it's for a good reason.
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It's a magical snow globe now, right?
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Pete and Terry's Tavern has transformed into the Smashville
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snow globe. So this is a festive holiday pop
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up and it's filled with holiday cheer.
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I mean, what? Why could why could that be bad
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news? Well, we're going to miss Pete
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and Terry, but Santa Nash has us covered.
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The Smashville Snow Globe is open now and will stay open in
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Pete and Terry's Tavern through December 23rd.
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It's open from 3:00 to 11:00 on weekdays and 11:00 to 6:00 on
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Sundays. Plus, as always, open around
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Predators games and Bridgestone Arena events before and after to
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get your drinks before and after.
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There's a lot of fun stuff in there, Kara.
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A lot of Christmas festivities, special food and beverages.
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Yeah, a lot of exciting things. You can also go and they have
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fun filled activities like holiday crafts and we talked
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about taking the photos with Santa and Dash.
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But you can go make a DIY sugar cookie.
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You can have a hot Tennessee toddy a holiday honey.
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Is it is it time time? I think it's time a holiday,
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honey. Time and a holiday party.
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Punch a. Lot of good stuff in there in
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this Nashville snow globe and it is also every Sunday.
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Ugly sweater Sunday on Sunday, December 8th, next Sunday,
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December 15th and the last Sunday is December 22nd.
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Wear your ugly Christmas sweater and you can win a Predators
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prize at the Smashville Snow Globe and Pete and Terry's
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Tavern. And wear your ugly sweater to to
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the game on Tuesday because that will be, as we said, the Jack
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Daniels Barrel Tree lighting before the game on Tuesday night
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Against the Flames. So we know there are a lot of
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Christmas bars that pop up in downtown Nashville.
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Now you've got one with the Pete and Crispy Seal of Approval.
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I kind of love these big snow globes.
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Do you recall the snow globe that they had when we were
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promoting the Winter Classic? Did you ever were you April?
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I think maybe this was only in Dallas.
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They had it outside, but I was inside of a snow globe with Sean
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Henry and a hundred of his family members and their family
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photo in this magical snow globe.
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That's awesome. Well, now we've brought it to
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Smashville. So if you're coming to one of
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the five home games between now and Christmas, make sure to get
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your Christmas drink on at Pete and Terry's Tavern, AKA the
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Smashville Snow Globe on the Demumbrian side of the arena in
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between 5th and 6th Ave. You guys know where Pete and
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Terry's Tavern is. If you haven't been there, come
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on, you're listening to the wrong podcast.
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We'll see you there when you come down to Smashville this
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month. And also, Kara, that game on
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Tuesday where we will light the barrel tree is also Jewish
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Community Night, which I've been promoting on the podcast for a
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couple weeks now. It is the early Hanukkah
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celebration. Hanukkah is still going to be a
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few weeks away. It's a very late Hanukkah.
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It's a Christmika this year, which is Kara's new favorite
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holiday, which means Hanukkah during Christmas.
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Nashville predators.com/jewish Community Night If you already
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have tickets for the game, you can sign up to join us for the
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pregame menorah lighting, which is at 5:30.
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If you don't have tickets for the game, you can purchase a
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ticket package through the Nashville Jewish Federation in
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partnership with the Preds. I'll be there from 5:30 to 6:00
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before the radio show before the game at 7:00 on Tuesday night.
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And the T-shirts are in Kara. I tweeted the picture of the
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T-shirts at Max Hers Talks. If you haven't seen it, it is a
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hockey stick menorah in Preds colors on AT shirt.
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If you sign up and join us, there are 300 shirts up for
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grabs and I'm told some are still available.
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So go to nashvillepredators.com/jewish
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Community Night. We'll get you a shirt.
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I love it, I love it and this is not this will not be my ugly
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Christmas shirt. I will.
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I would proudly wear this. Yeah, well, there are some ugly
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Hanukkah sweaters out there for sure, but this is not one of
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them. Do you own one?
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No, I do not. I think you're going to need to
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invest in one Max to wear out to the Pete and Terry's Jack
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Daniels Barrel House tree lighting on Tuesday night.
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Yeah, it will be quite a gathering for Chris Maka on
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Tuesday night, 2 weeks early and then the Prince will be back
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home for a four-game homestead in the week leading up to
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Christmas where we can really get our Christmas on in earnest.
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One of the games during that week is the first of our Music
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City Bobblehead Series games. That is Saturday, December 21st
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when the Predators host the LA Kings and it is Tim Mcgraw's
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Bobblehead night. I like it, I love it.
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The man who sings the goal song from day one.
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The first 10,000 fans in attendance will get those Tim
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McGraw bobbleheads on Saturday, December 21st, so make sure you
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get there early. Go to
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nashvillepredators.com/bobblehead series to see all of the
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bobbleheads. Keith Urban is January 18th,
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Vince Gill and Amy Grant together on Sunday, February
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23rd, and the last one Jelly Roll on Thursday, March 27th.
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All of those going to the 1st 10,000 fans in attendance.
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So get down to the rink early and make sure you get your Tim
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McGraw bobblehead the Saturday before Christmas.
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I'll be there, I will be there. I'm all about getting.
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I'm all about getting the bobblehead smacks.
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Oh yeah, the newest in a long line of Preds bobblehead
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collections coming your way in partnership with the biggest
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names in country music in Smashville this season.
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One more game on the road for the Preds, Saturday night,
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December 7th against the Senators.
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Some of you are listening to this episode on the radio on
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that day as we get you ready for that game.
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Puck drop is at six. There is also a watch party for
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that game in partnership with our friends at El Hefe Radio.
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El Hefe radio at Maria Bonita's authentic Mexican restaurant in
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Antioch. Head there Saturday night
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starting at 5 before the game at six to be a part of the
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broadcast. And the Pred Spanish language
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commentators from El Hefe will be broadcasting the game live
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from the watch party. So that's a lot of fun.
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Head to Maria Bonita's in Antioch to get some great
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Mexican food and be a part of the El Hefe broadcast on
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Saturday night. We are sad that we cannot be
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there for that one. Yeah, the the broadcasters are
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great and I love it. We'll have to pull some of the
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audio so that we can add it into the podcast so we can listen to
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one of their goal calls. Yeah, absolutely.
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They do all the home games in person, the road games.
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They don't travel with us, but they do an amazing job on LFA
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radio for the Predators, Spanish language broadcast.
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So make sure everybody in the Antioch area, Brennioch, all the
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sides of Antioch. I know there are many.
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Get out there to Maria Benitez on Saturday night for the Preds
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and the sentence. We'll take a break.
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Come back play you our interview of the week with some dispatches
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from the road coming up next. She's Kara Hammer from Preds TV.
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I'm Max Herz from Preds Radio. You are listening to the
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Predators official podcast. You're on ESPN 1025 and 1063 The
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Game, your exclusive English radio home for Preds Hockey.
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Welcome back to the Predators official Podcast here on ESPN
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102.5 and 106.3 The game. Hope everybody's going into a
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good weekend back home in Smashville.
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It's been a cold week. It's been hockey weather.
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The hockey weather in Canada has been even better.
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My name is Max Hers in Ottawa with the Predators currently.
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Cara Hammer from Predators TV back stateside Hammer.
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It's been pretty awesome getting the cold and the snow up here in
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Canada. It feels like it's supposed to
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feel going to NHL games in Toronto and Montreal this week.
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Yeah, I feel like it's just the holiday spirit.
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It's it feels like it's hockey season, right?
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That's what we talked about. And hopefully the Preds can find
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a way Max to to pick up a win before they come home.
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But I think it's also these players might just start playing
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the lottery and looking for a win that way.
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Yeah, I got to try your luck in other ways.
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And the Predators social media team, in light of the large
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lottery jackpot coming your way from the Powerball, who's the
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sponsor of the Preds Power play on Preds radio, ask some of the
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players what they would do if they won the lottery.
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So hear from Zach LaRue, Adam Willsby, Fedor Svechkov, Mark
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Jankowski and Alex Carrier's wild ambitions in our interview
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of the week here on The POP. If you won the lottery, what
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three things would you buy? I would buy a Ferrari private
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jet and probably a nice lake house.
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A nice car, a nice a nice trip somewhere and a good a good
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dinner somewhere probably. I want big dog like labradorfi
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and the boat and fishing stuff. If I won the lottery, I would
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buy myself a nice house, maybe a yacht, and I'd give my parents a
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bunch of money for all they've done to.
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Go with a vacation home somewhere like somewhere like
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Australia far away, something like that.
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And then I'd probably like give a lot of money to my family,
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make sure everybody's rich. And with the third one, I buy a
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big boat. Big, big, Yeah.
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All right, good answers from the Preds on what three things they
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would buy if they won the 500 + 1,000,000 Powerball jackpot.
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Did you have a favorite in there, Kara?
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I like the the, the home and the family.
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I love that. Just taking care of other people
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giving and you know, it's the season of giving.
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I love that. Yeah, those were sweet answers
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from Mark Jankowski and Alex Carrier.
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I'm going to pick Fedor Svechkov as my winner because I don't
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know why you have to win the lottery in order to get a
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Labrador Retriever, but that seems logical to me.
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But, you know, they're kind. They're, they're sometimes
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they're expensive, right? If you have to buy a new dog and
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you, you shop, you don't adopt. Sometimes they're a pretty
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penny. Maybe they are, I don't know.
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I'm I'm not in the Labrador market clearly, but Fedor
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Svechkov is visiting some high end breeders I guess.
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So I have to know Max $579 million, what are your, what are
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your three things? Oh man, that's a good question.
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I would like to buy a sports team.
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I think that would be a fun one. OK.
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Can I say that? Sure, Michael Jordan.
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Yeah, yeah, I'm turning into MJ now.
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I think I'll buy a sports team. Nothing too crazy, but yeah, I
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think I'd buy a sports team. I'd buy a house and maybe a
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boat. I the two guys saying a yacht
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kind of got me on the boat kick. I like a boat, but have you ever
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heard the boat saying? But people that own boats always
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say the best day to buy a boat was the day you bought it and
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the day you sold it. It's a lot of work.
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It is a lot of work. I don't know, I think I'd have
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to go with buying a house. I think my second would be I
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would buy a suite for the, for the Broncos.
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I've had season tickets with the Broncos and my family since the
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1960s. But I think I would like, I
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would splurge where we can all sit inside in the warmth and
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have food delivered to us. And my third would, I don't
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know, probably put put all the money in a in a savings account
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for Remy. Oh yeah, I'd buy Remy whatever
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she wants. Can I change my answer for that
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for your? Little girl?
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Yeah, she's 2 and she's already asking for a white Jeep and a
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white dog to sit on her lap. Hey, well, at least she hasn't
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asked for a yacht and a sports team.
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She kind of did ask for a Labrador retriever, but
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different kind of dog. She kind of did.
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Remy and Fedor Sveshkov do have a lot in common.
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I think we could get them in a room and talk some things out
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and make some progress on World Peace.
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She'll make a deal. Yeah, yeah.
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He drives a hard market. That's all the time we got for
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today. She's Kara Hammer from Fred's
31:35
TV. I'm Max Hearns from Fred's
31:37
Radio. Big thank you to Jake Lyman for
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producing this episode back in Nashville while we were out on
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the road. Predators facing the Ottawa
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Senators Saturday night at six in Ottawa.
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That game on normal Fred's TV and Fred's radio, but also on
31:51
Hockey Night in Canada up here north of the border.
31:54
And the Fred's are back home Tuesday to take on the Calgary
31:57
Flames at 7:00. Thanks so much for listening to
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the Predators official podcast. You're on ESPN 102.5 and 106.3
32:04
the game.