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5-26-26 Hour 2 - How will the Avs respond?/RIP Ezio Lombardi, Will MacKinnon be back?/Oh, By the Way... · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 2: Do you guys think they go to Blackwood tonight? Do
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  Speaker 2: you make that change just to see.
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  Speaker 3: Risk? I don't Yeah, I don't know, dude. I'm up
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  Speaker 3: for anything at this point, though. I mean, when you're
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  Speaker 3: down three to zero, pull out every stop you possibly can.
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  Speaker 3: I'm more worried about Look, as far as the goaltending
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  Speaker 3: is concerned, I'm more worried as to why they why
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  Speaker 3: they got on their heels for nine minutes when they
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  Speaker 3: gave up one silly power play goal to make it
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  Speaker 3: three to one. I'm much more concerned about that. I'm
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  Speaker 3: much more concerned about Nate's leg and about Val and
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  Speaker 3: about Kale and whatever else.
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  Speaker 4: You can't admit. Carter Hart's just been better.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he made that pretty good.
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  Speaker 5: He's been He's made some saves that are like okay,
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  Speaker 5: that could have changed the game.
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  Speaker 4: At the same rate.
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  Speaker 5: Man, I can you whittle this down to goaltending?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think you.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think that Wedgwood's been bad. Wedgwood's meant
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  Speaker 2: is this accurate motion? Has he had maybe one goal
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  Speaker 2: a game that it's like, I wish we could have
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  Speaker 2: that one back, but the other ones?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah probs, but yeah, probs. And the problem with that
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  Speaker 3: is that it's time and place when that puck goes in. Look,
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  Speaker 3: I can't look back the other night on the three
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  Speaker 3: goals that they scored before and say, oh, oh, Wedge
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  Speaker 3: should have had that or oh my goodness. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if he makes some unbelievable read and save, then you know,
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  Speaker 3: you keep it this and then maybe the team is booyed.
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  Speaker 3: But he's just one cog the whole thing. He's just
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  Speaker 3: one piece in the whole difficult puzzle right now. You know.
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  Speaker 6: It's funny.
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  Speaker 2: Bednar was asked this after the game and look, you
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  Speaker 2: you're emotional. This is the post game after Game three,
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  Speaker 2: But he gave an answer, and I do think that
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  Speaker 2: you know, Bednar has been and been part of his DNA.
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  Speaker 2: As far as the hockey world, one of the more
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  Speaker 2: honest coaches you're gonna come across a lot of these guys.
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  Speaker 2: They will not give you really any information, especially at
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  Speaker 2: this time of the year. But between his comments surrounding
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  Speaker 2: Kale after Game two, and he got called out for
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  Speaker 2: those and then this one after game three, it was,
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  Speaker 2: how do you think your team's gonna respond going into
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  Speaker 2: game four?
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  Speaker 6: This is the ultimate crucible? How do you expect your
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  Speaker 6: team to respond?
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  Speaker 7: Like it's we're not there yet, I don't know. Everyone's
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  Speaker 7: down and in the dumps right now, and we, like
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  Speaker 7: I said, that's the next thirty six hours or for
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  Speaker 7: to get our team back to where our focus is
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  Speaker 7: in the right place. And seems like a tough hill
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  Speaker 7: to climb, clearly, obviously, especially against a team like Vegas.
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  Speaker 7: But I mean, you just got to break it down,
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  Speaker 7: you know, shift at a time, five at a time,
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  Speaker 7: period of time, game at a time. It's kind of
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  Speaker 7: what we've been talking about for the last couple because
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  Speaker 7: of those stretches that we're having that are hurting us,
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  Speaker 7: and then just answering like if they have a push
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  Speaker 7: that we have to be able to push back, you know,
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  Speaker 7: and you just got to break it down now, you
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  Speaker 7: gotta chip away at it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many coaches would say that, how
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  Speaker 2: do you expect your team to respond going into Game four?
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  Speaker 2: I think most would tell you, oh, we're going to respond.
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  Speaker 2: Do you trust me? And can he just goes I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, what can you know as a coach
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  Speaker 5: you just blew a three nothing lead.
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  Speaker 4: I think he was in shock. The team was in shock.
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  Speaker 4: What what? What do you know?
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  Speaker 3: The team? You know?
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  Speaker 4: It's almost like Kevin A.
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  Speaker 5: I know my wife so well and then all of
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  Speaker 5: a sudden, out of the blue, something crazy happens.
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  Speaker 4: What she was with?
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  Speaker 3: Nelly?
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  Speaker 5: Where did this come from?
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  Speaker 3: You what?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a crazy like he didn't know how to react.
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  Speaker 4: That's not the team he knows. It's not the team
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  Speaker 4: he loves.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the team, right. The guy who builds a
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  Speaker 3: rock in his backyard tries to go to space and
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  Speaker 3: blows himself up. And they talked to the neighbor. I know,
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  Speaker 3: he just seemed like a really good dude, you know,
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  Speaker 3: normal dude. I didn't even know he's building the rocket
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  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, you know, yesterday he got about
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  Speaker 3: eight hundred feet in the air and it exploded and
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  Speaker 3: I got some shrap on my roof. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: He was you know, we talked about mowing the lawn.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we had a barbecue last week. He was great,
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  Speaker 3: He's your normal guy.
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  Speaker 6: We just talked about paying taxes. The other day he
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  Speaker 6: was barbecuing.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's this old Brett You're way too young
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  Speaker 3: for this, but the old Saturday Night Live with Uh.
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  Speaker 6: He did. He did the most.
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  Speaker 2: He did have this weird obsession with Elon Musk being
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  Speaker 2: overrated or something.
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  Speaker 6: He said, a lot, right, right, right.
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  Speaker 3: But but they had it was it was so contrasting
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  Speaker 3: to normal life. And you talk about I don't know
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  Speaker 3: hell to respond. Uh, they had. So he played this
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  Speaker 3: character Buckwheat from like Little Rascals, right, that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 3: and the Buckwheat gets shot. It's like, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: when Reagan got shot. It's a long story, but they're
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  Speaker 3: interviewing his neighbors. Could you believe that this guy did
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  Speaker 3: this and shot Buckwet? He said, oh yeah, absolutely talked
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  Speaker 3: about it every single day of his life. Yep, every
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  Speaker 3: single day. Well can you can you believe that he
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  Speaker 3: actually pulled a gun out and shot Buckwheat? Totally? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He told me last week he was gonna do it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's I don't know, man. Look, he
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  Speaker 3: knows his team.
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  Speaker 2: That is funny though you'll never hear that when when
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  Speaker 2: the local news is interviewing somebody over something that happened.
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  Speaker 2: They never say yeah, I had a sneaky suspicion about
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  Speaker 2: that for years, that this guy was you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean that that never goes down.
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  Speaker 3: Your your teacher, the neighbor, you're you know that a
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  Speaker 3: teacher just got busted for sleeping with like five students.
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  Speaker 3: Can you believe that? Yeah? Absolutely, she was a total slut. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, but you know what, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 3: It's like, that's not the way it goes down.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, good if I had told you, if I
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  Speaker 5: had told you in this series that the Avs would
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  Speaker 5: be up three nothing and a chance to sweep tonight,
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  Speaker 5: like there's a chance to see a sweep tonight. I
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  Speaker 5: think most of the universe would have expected the Abs
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  Speaker 5: to be in that position, not.
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  Speaker 4: The other way around. It's just it's just slashed in
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  Speaker 4: the face, man.
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  Speaker 3: And I apologize because I'm sitting here in Vegas. It's
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  Speaker 3: what seven in the morning, and I just I thought
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  Speaker 3: about it all day yesterday, all night the night before.
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  Speaker 3: I'm listening to Josh Manson and Brought Nelson talk about it,
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  Speaker 3: and I realized, dude, the margins are so thin between
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  Speaker 3: winning and losing, and and you know, being up two
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  Speaker 3: games to Honor down three to Zho. It's it's just silly.
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  Speaker 3: And sometimes again I can point to each game and
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  Speaker 3: give you reasons why this happened and so on, but
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  Speaker 3: overall it's it's really hard to explain, boys, it really is.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what else to say. Very rarely do
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  Speaker 3: I sit here and just look at this camera and go, oh, man,
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  Speaker 3: I just don't even know. But I'm flum mixed. I
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  Speaker 3: really am, because I am completely flumbing.
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  Speaker 2: Just to throw this out there, I'm not saying I
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  Speaker 2: believe in this, but just for argument's sake, the Avs
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  Speaker 2: all year, from the start of the season to just
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  Speaker 2: about I don't know, four or five days ago, they
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  Speaker 2: hadn't faced adversity.
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  Speaker 6: They hadn't been tested.
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  Speaker 2: Did really They had one rough patch in the year
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  Speaker 2: when Lekking and Lantiskagaut where they kind of squad it
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  Speaker 2: away towards Taves or sorry Taves in correct, Yep, it
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  Speaker 2: was it was heading into the Olympic break, and that
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  Speaker 2: just kind of felt like, you know, you had a
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  Speaker 2: little bit you saw the break come in, so you
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  Speaker 2: take your foot off the gas, a couple of guys
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  Speaker 2: were hurt.
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  Speaker 6: That's not adversity.
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  Speaker 2: It's just they still stayed in first place despite sort
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  Speaker 2: of sputtering.
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  Speaker 6: At that time.
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  Speaker 2: They hadn't faced adversity, and maybe they just haven't handled
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  Speaker 2: it well. And maybe that's where you saw the panic
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  Speaker 2: after they gave up that power play goalmotion when they
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  Speaker 2: were still up three to one. It's maybe they just
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  Speaker 2: hadn't had enough of sort of a grind.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just I'm throwing it out there. Do you think
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  Speaker 6: there's anything to that. If the answer is no, then
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  Speaker 6: it's not.
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  Speaker 3: So I guess. I mean, should they have gone down,
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  Speaker 3: you know, three games to one against LA one three
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  Speaker 3: straight and come back and walk I mean, I don't.
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  Speaker 6: No, or maybe a two to two battle or maybe
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I I just I did not see where we're sitting today.
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  Speaker 3: The scenario. I did not see it. I didn't. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I thought this was the least likely scenario.
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  Speaker 4: Here's what I noticed about the specific team.
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  Speaker 3: And again you.
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  Speaker 5: Would have to do psychological experiments with the players to
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  Speaker 5: figure this out. But they're so dominant when they're working
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  Speaker 5: from a position of confidence, when they're a head when
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  Speaker 5: they're front running.
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  Speaker 4: When they lead a series, they're dominant, right.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, look at the run in the Stanley Cup
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  Speaker 5: when they won in twenty twenty two. They never trailed
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  Speaker 5: a series in that run, never trailed. But when they're
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  Speaker 5: in a position of desperation as they are right now,
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  Speaker 5: when they were down one in this series, they lost
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  Speaker 5: the first game of this series, that's unfamiliar.
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  Speaker 4: Territory for them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, correct, and they've responded with an unfin familiar product.
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  Speaker 5: They're not very good the makeup of this team for
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  Speaker 5: what is they're not very good at digging themselves out
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  Speaker 5: of problems.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what I was asking, like, is that really
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  Speaker 2: what we're seeing when we say it's not explainable? Is
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  Speaker 2: it something as easy as that that they just they
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  Speaker 2: haven't been tested.
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  Speaker 6: In a way of.
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  Speaker 2: Dealing with a whole bunch of challenges and having to
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  Speaker 2: overcome things because they've been so good. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to make it sound like you know, there
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  Speaker 2: was some to make a bad analogy. Are they just
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  Speaker 2: kind of a trust fund kid? And now you're like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you've got to live your life on a budget and
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  Speaker 2: they're struggling to do so.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe you know, I go back, let's
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  Speaker 3: go back to twenty two and they win. They had
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  Speaker 3: some adversity in that postseason run, but they never they
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  Speaker 3: were never trailing yet in a series ever, right ever,
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  Speaker 3: But in twenty three and twenty four, they weren't going
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  Speaker 3: to win. They would tell you that to your face.
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  Speaker 3: They weren't. They did not have the team. Landy's gone,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and he's gonna be gone for another couple
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  Speaker 3: of years. At the time, you don't know it, but
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  Speaker 3: they weren't going to win. They just did not have that.
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  Speaker 3: They did not have enough horses to run in the
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  Speaker 3: Derby last year, they had enough horses. And again, if
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  Speaker 3: you win that Game seven against Dallas, damn man. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think they would have run all the way to
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  Speaker 3: the final. I think they would have. I don't if
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  Speaker 3: they would have won, but I think they would have
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  Speaker 3: gone there. But this team has never really had to
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  Speaker 3: dig its way out. It's never had to clawed its
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  Speaker 3: way out of the ditch and get back on top.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they they've because they've been so good when
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  Speaker 3: they have been when they have been good, they've been
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  Speaker 3: really good. So it's no they're really not right, not
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  Speaker 3: right now, Vick.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what smacks me in the face right now
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  Speaker 5: is as I look at both franchises that share that arena.
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  Speaker 5: On paper, we said it. The Nuggets had perhaps their
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  Speaker 5: best roster ever assembled on paper on paper. The Avs
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  Speaker 5: roster was an embarrassment of Riches for crying out loud
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  Speaker 5: on paper. Well, go ahead and we'll have that paper
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  Speaker 5: up and throw it in the bucket because it doesn't
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  Speaker 5: mean anything. The papers don't mean crap. The grit means everything,
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  Speaker 5: and they're not showing enough grit.
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  Speaker 2: Now why now it's extra, says shut up. Game five
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  Speaker 2: against Many, there down three to oh, they won four
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  Speaker 2: to three. That's not But when I talk about diversity, man,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's a game.
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  Speaker 6: That's that's not It's not like the Aves felt at
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  Speaker 6: that moment.
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  Speaker 2: If we don't execute properly our seasons on the breaker,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's not the same feeling. Okay, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: different when you are feeling the actual pressure of your
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  Speaker 2: season's mortality, not a game's mortality. You can jump back
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  Speaker 2: from that. And they've done that multiple times. They did
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  Speaker 2: in Game one against Many, and then they did it
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  Speaker 2: when they were down three to nothing. But when you
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  Speaker 2: feel like, if we don't do this, it's time to
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  Speaker 2: go to Kankne, that's a different level of pressure.
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  Speaker 5: So true, you know, the texture doesn't understand that if
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  Speaker 5: you lose that game, you still lead the series.
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps comprehension hasn't hit that texture.
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  Speaker 2: But well no, if you you would be tied, right, No, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: no there whah, yeah, you're right right, you.
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  Speaker 4: Had a cushion. Yep, it's a little different.
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking about playing without a cushion. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 5: playing without a parachute.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: It's a different deal, completely different deal.
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  Speaker 5: Some some teams can deal with that for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 5: this team cannot.
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  Speaker 3: But VIC it was basically a nine minute span in
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  Speaker 3: game two. I mean the rest of the game that
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  Speaker 3: I mean they didn't give up, you know, twelve goals
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  Speaker 3: and completely fall apart. It's it's just these little stretches
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  Speaker 3: where they lose their mode. Joe, and you're like, number one,
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  Speaker 3: why why can't you get it back faster? I don't Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have the interest.
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  Speaker 6: For that motion.
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  Speaker 2: Game two, you're up one to nothing, going you know,
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  Speaker 2: halfway through the third period, and you can't find one
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  Speaker 2: more goal in the meantime, like, you can't find one
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  Speaker 2: more way to give yourself a little bit more of
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  Speaker 2: a breather.
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  Speaker 3: And and maybe that's the difference right now, is that, man,
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  Speaker 3: if you have that second goal, it's not even an issue.
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  Speaker 3: But and it's also the games themselves. You're down Vicior
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  Speaker 3: down two, oh okay, and listen, you lost game one
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  Speaker 3: of the home ice. In game two, you're like, we
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  Speaker 3: can't lose both games on the home ice. You have
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  Speaker 3: a one nothing lead, you make a bad play, it's
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  Speaker 3: one one, and now that that scrambling starts, then it's
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  Speaker 3: two one. The rest is history. Okay, but you're you're
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  Speaker 3: you We're down two games to none, and you give
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  Speaker 3: up that one power play goal in game three and
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  Speaker 3: you're like, which is not their DNA? It just is not.
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  Speaker 3: And it is now, I guess because they gave they
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  Speaker 3: gave up the lead.
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  Speaker 5: And here we said, we uh, you know, we sat
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  Speaker 5: there in my mom and dad's living room watching the
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  Speaker 5: Avs game, a bunch of us just talking about why
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  Speaker 5: are they doing this?
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  Speaker 4: What's happening? And it was it was brought.
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  Speaker 5: Up coaching in hockey, like I know what a basketball
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  Speaker 5: coach does then the lineups, the play calling. But during
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  Speaker 5: a game in hockey, outside of rotating the lines, there
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  Speaker 5: are no plays called, well there are there are, you know,
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  Speaker 5: face off plays called. What whatever control does a coach
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  Speaker 5: have during the course of a game?
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  Speaker 3: Most during the game, I mean he's got Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: line combinations, it's matchups, it's you know, who do you
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  Speaker 3: want on the ice against whom you know you're always
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: trying to think ahead. It's yes, it's sort of managing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, all the guys on that bench, and and
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  Speaker 3: so on. There's gotta be a certain degree of self
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  Speaker 3: management and self you know what, promotion. I guess as
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  Speaker 3: far as the player is concerned, I mean, they can
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  Speaker 3: affect a lot of different things, and it's just it's
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  Speaker 3: but can they effect I don't think he's pushed a
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  Speaker 3: lot of wrong buttons at all.
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  Speaker 4: Can they affect this?
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  Speaker 5: And this is where I wonder how much is coaching
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  Speaker 5: and how much is just panic? They got a two
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  Speaker 5: on none, two on none, And who was with Nachus
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  Speaker 5: on that run?
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  Speaker 4: Kelly?
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  Speaker 3: And it was a it was a two on one.
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  Speaker 3: A defenseman got back into the play, but but he was.
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  Speaker 2: Sacking, he was sagging way off of Parker Kelly and
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  Speaker 2: you can't get a shot off.
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  Speaker 3: How is that part of it?
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: And I guess I guess I'm saying, how is that
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: possibly coaching?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: It's not part of it, too, is. I mean, if
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: that's McKinnon, what what he may pass it, there's probably
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: gonna be a shot on goal. But that was that
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm gonna set you up, But I no,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: but I thought you were going to take the shot.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: It's just that, Uh, it's little things and that's not coaching.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: It's not We'll get back to it in just a second.
• 17:12
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• 17:13
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• 17:22
  Speaker 6: Three two two two two two two two go ahead, Vic.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Just I want to thank everybody for the outpour.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Of of love after my dad's passing. Over the weekend,
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: I got the news. I was at my my.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Daughter's engagement party. This is a thing.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: Now didn't have that thing, but now it's a thing.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: And I was awaken and we knew it was coming.
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: My brothers and I had rotated spending the.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Night next to my dad.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: He uh.
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: You know, I feel guilty because we're at that point
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: where we wondered if we should put him in a home,
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: and my mom would never allow it, so we actually
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: slept next to him in that final week. And that
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: night I was in California and I got the call and.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: Clearly flooded with emotion.
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: But the expression of sympathy and empathy from all of you,
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: it's humbling and somewhat guilt ridden because I know everybody
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: has their own problems. You know, I'm not the only
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: one that's lost a loved one clearly, so everybody's gone
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: through it.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: You will go through it.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: It's never easy to prepare for it. But I want
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: to thank you from the bottom of my heart, my
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: family's heart. It means more than you know, just to understand.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: I can't believe how many people have reached out. I
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: just can't believe it. And it goes to show you
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: the reach that my dad, who was a very humble,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: modest dude and really quick. Let me brag on him
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: and we'll get back to sports, moved to this country
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: when he was twenty one.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Years old, sixth grade education.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: Learned how to speak English on his own, never went
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: to school for it, learned how to speak Spanish, learned
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: three languages. Built a pretty good little empire by hard work,
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: blue collar work, grit grime. I remember when he worked
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: for the railroad. I went to work with him one
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: day and I said, you're not doing much, dad, What
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: do you do here? He goes, I'll never forget, he said.
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: I get paid for what I know, not for what
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: I do, and I'll never forget that term. He would
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: work overtime every time he would At times, I got
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: introduced to sports and love the sports because I wanted
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: to go to Nuggets games and my dad would take
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: me and my brother to a Nuggets game. We'd sit
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: up in the upper deck and he was so tired
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: he would fall asleep literally at the game. It's the
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: only time he had a chance to sleep. I was
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: at football practice in the eighth grade once and he
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: was such a work ethnic kind of guy. He pulled
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: up to the park and told the coach, got to
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: got to take my kid. And coach was like, we're
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: playing Saint Catherine's tomorrow. Sorry, he's got to go cut
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: the grass at Otis and so that's how it went
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: for me.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: My dad just he instilled work ethic and.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: He was the kind of guy that you would never know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: you would never know who he is or what he's
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: about out by his look. I think he's the smartest
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: man I've ever known with a sixth grade education.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: So thank you.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Can I say something though, I want to say something
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Vic your your videos of him over the years and
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: and kind of showing him off to the public. I mean,
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I I don't know he was the real star followers
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: what not. Yeah, there's no doubt. I mean, I don't
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: know how many people would look at those and not
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: just think, God, this is the coolest dude he's he's
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: such a good dude, and he's such a charming son
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: of a gun. And it funny and I know you
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: had you know, you had fun with him. And he
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: was very modest. He didn't want to be a star
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: of any damn thing, but but he just took the cake. Man.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: It was just really good stuff. And I no longer
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: have to lie either. I don't even know what I
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: don't even know what this.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Is, never know I in front of him.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: His Yeah, his beloved car wash. I mean the stories
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: of his beloved car washing. Dude. It's just he owned
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: this car wall actually wrenched on it all the time.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, just it's such great stuff, dude.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Just one thing real quick, VIC, to brag about you,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: about your dad. I'm sure you said you were listening yesterday,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: so you probably heard some of this. And I mean
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: this sincerely. When when I first got here, you don't
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: know how long into it was you told me though
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: the story come about your parents moving over here and everything,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: and it.
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: Literally stuck with me forever.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: And I've told this story to multiple people because I
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: do think it is a shining example of somebody who
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: came over for the American dream that, through hard work
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: and everything else, accomplished everything that you could possibly accomplish.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: I think it is one of the coolest stories that
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: you could tell people.
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: I appreciate that, and that's why I believe, and I
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: will always believe, this is the greatest country in the world.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: My dad knew that. My dad lived by that. There's
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: a reason he wanted to come here, and the immigrant
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: story will always be close to my heart. I always
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: have a soft spot for it. And he was the
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: epitome of that. And again for anybody out there, school
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: is just school. You don't measure intelligence through school. I
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: made the most of school, he sent me. I'm the
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: first to graduate from college in the family. The first
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: didn't mean a thing. There is nothing I will ever
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: do in my life that will match the success of
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: my father, nothing, you know.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: A less thing, though his legacy is going to live
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: on through through you and your siblings, and your children
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: and your nieces and nephews. Yesterday I had sold so
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: many emotions just racing around my head, and I thought
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: to myself, why in the world did I drive an
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: hour and a half outside of Rome to get my
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: ass up into the Italian mountains to go to this
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: village that get got nailed by a landslide? Why did
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: I crawl crawl through the front door of his house
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: right with the trees growing through through the What was
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: it about easy in Bambina that that just drew me
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: there and made my ass crawl around with snakes and
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: vermin and whatever else in the old village. I don't know, dude.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: He just had a poll, he had he had a
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: poll about him, you know, and through him, as you know.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: Vic I've met so many people over there. I mean,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: I made so many friends. Ferdnando has been your whole
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: family's been so kind to me. But why It's all
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: because of Easy. It's because of who he was as
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: a person. It just drew me that interest to do that.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: And these are awesome memories all have for the rest
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: of my life, all because of Easy and Bambina, you
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: know what I mean. So it's it's just you never
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: you never realize how a person can affect your life
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: and the memories you'll carry with you for the rest
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: of your life. An amazing dude.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: Most I don't have to lie anymore. So my dad
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: paid cash for everything, everything, including OAR or college. I'll
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: never forget my first year Notre Dame. He walks up
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: to the admissions office.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: With a briefcase of cash, trying.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: To get the cash discount on college tuition.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: So good.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: I never told my dad I leased a car, because
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: if he knew I leased a car, he'd be so upset.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: I didn't dare he showed.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Up at the club once Rolling Hills. He showed up
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: there and he goes, what is this. I go, oh,
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: it's the community pool in the golf course it's all free.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Dad.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: I never told him I paid for that stuff ever, ever, ever, ever.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: He would lose his mind.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: So thanks for that.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Victim, you know you're welcome. But but through
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: you easy saying awesome impact on a lot of people.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: So let's talk.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Sports, all right.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: So tonight Game four, seven o'clock right here Altitude Sports
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Radio ninety two five. Kind of going back to a
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: common theme at least for me, and how you evaluate this?
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: And I don't know, I don't know what the response
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: is gonna be from the Avs.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: I don't even know.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Who's gonna play.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: It sounds like, now, moje, take this for what it's worth.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've heard something different this from
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Ryan O'Hara. Nathan McKinnon should be good for Game four,
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: is what that says.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: But what is good? Does good mean sixty percent? And
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: he's just gonna try and go out there and do something?
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: Does that mean?
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: I mean?
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't know.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: But when your backs are already sort of against the
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: wall like this, you already have a hobbled kale.
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: Kale's not one hundred percent.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: You're got val now with a problem, and now you
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: have McKinnon with a problem.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I can't imagine he would be my experience
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: in this game for thirty years. I mean, dude, I
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: don't know how he walks if that puck hits any
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: of us, especially Nelly, but any of us. We're not
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: We're not walking well for about three not even you
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: know what I mean. We're not. We're I mean, nothing's broken,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: but you are in such pain. The hematoma on your
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: leg is you know, it's probably you ever see a
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: calico cat, all the different colors, right, everybody's had a
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: calico hematoma. I'm guessing. I mean, I haven't seen his leg,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: but I'm guessing that's what it is. I mean, it's
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: just it's somebody painful. And for that guy to go
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: down vic and not be able to be himself, it's
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: got to be really bad because he is tough as nails.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: In a regular season game, is even in that position,
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: you're not standing in the way that puck in a
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: regular season game, right, Oh?
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I think he would, but would be put it this way.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: In a regular season game, there's no way he'd play tonight.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: But this is the Stanley Cup playoffs. And you do
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: things that normal humans wouldn't do. I mean, this guy
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: is tougher than a three dollars steak, and for him
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: to not be able to be able to push off
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: or to do anything, it's I mean, I'm hoping that
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: whatever treatment he had the last forty eight hours before
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: the game or whatever forty hours, I hope that it
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: pays off. I do.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: This is what Wedgwood said after the game about McKinnon.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, obviously, you know, I might have to kill him
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: to get him off the ice. So just kind of
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: the person he is in the competitor he is, so
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: you know, obviously proves that every.
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: Time he's on the ice he wants to win more
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: than anybody.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: And just another example.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: I think that's probably true.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: You're going to have to take a sickle and chop
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: his head off if you do not want him to
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: play in a playoff game.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: But what let me ask you this, because I read
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: coach Bednar's comments about, hey, you know, we'll take him
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: at whatever level he's at tonight, what does.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: That say about the other guys?
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: If if it's only half of Nathan McKinnon tonight, is
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: half of Nathan McKinnon is that gonna help the team
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: or hurt the team.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: So do you take that as as he's talking about
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: other dudes, or like if Andy Reid said, I'll take
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: fifty percent of Patrick Mahomes over anybody else.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: I mean, is that just a compliment to his own guy?
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: That's a great questions. That's the riddle here. What is
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: the answer to this riddle? Is that a is that
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: a shot at the bow for the teammates or is
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: that this guy's so good that half.
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: Of him is still better than anybody else.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's the latter. I just think that
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: he he has such an influence on the game overall,
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: his threat as a shooter, even if he's just a
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: power play guy, his influence on the game in that
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: regard is something you can't replace. So you'll take any
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: bit of that that you can possibly get, you know,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: any bit of it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Going back to this, and again this is just speculation,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: but when you saw the comments and heard the comments
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: about Bednar after Game two regarding Cale not being in
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the lineup, did that feel like that was a push
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: to get him back on the ice or do you
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: feel like that was Bednar just saying, hey, Cale's gonna
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: make the decision.
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: When Cale makes the decision sort of thing.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, Brett, you know, truly, I don't know.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: I guess it probably helped motivate I mean, if that's
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: what the intent was, I guess I'm just speculating, trying
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: to be honest here. But he's but Ben Norm's asked
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: about it every single day, multiple times, every day, every day,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: every day, every day. I mean, he's trying to give
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: the best answer he possibly can, you know, I but
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know when if you're up two zero or
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: it's one to one series, maybe it's a totally different answer.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Brett, But desperate times call for desperate measures,
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: and something is more desperate than being down three to
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: zero and at Western Conference Final.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: I've got a quick exercise here, and I want you
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: to tell me, as I read this list, who has
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: the advantage in this series? Okay, I'm gonna read you
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: list and just break down both teams. Which team's star
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: players are playing better in this series?
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: There's no question that's Vegas.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Okay, check Vegas. Which team's goalie is playing better?
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: Vegas?
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Which team's role players playing better?
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I actually think that's the ass you're talking depth. I
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: think the depth has been better.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I mean Drew, Yeah, the short handed goal by Drury
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: the other night. Uh, the way that the Kelly and
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Drury and lo oc have kind of been flying around.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: How about special teams Vegas all right? And then the
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: last one, which everybody wants to talk about, coaching.
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: It's Vegas. Yeah, Tortilla has it?
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, again, how do you explain they're up
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: three again? You're you're right, you're right, But how do
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: you explain he hasn't sniffed a Stanley Cup in nineteen years? Okay, okay,
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: as you look so so so, but you see what
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: I'm getting it right. It's like, what are the what
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: are the secret ingredients into the into the soup?
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: But as you look that up.
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: The reason I started with the two categories I did
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: star players and goalies that they represent the bag said
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: this pyramid, and if you if that base is broken,
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: you're done.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: If your star players and your goalies forget everything else,
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: role players, special teams, coaching, those are all on. Those
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: are along for the ride. But if you're star players
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: and your goalie are being outplayed by the opposition.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: At this juncture of the season. You're done. Am I wrong?
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: There no wrong, No, You're It's as clear as it
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: can be wrong.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Like again, if you want to make this as simple
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: as possible, I think a lot of people go to
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: the well of coaching because that seems to be like
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: the easiest fix that people kind of go to.
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: And and fine.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I think that there's a legitimate discussion to be had
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: with that. Why are you losing this series? And I
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: think the absolute biggest piece of the pie bar none.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Number one answer is your top six has not played
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: to the level that they have to. Because I'll tell
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: you who has most. We kind of went through the
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: list the other day. If you got the if you
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: got the top six of the Avs playing at the
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: level that they should be playing at, along with what
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: you've gotten out of Logan O'Connor and Jack Durry and
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: those kind of guys, you you could be up three
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: to zero in this series. You probably would be a
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: three to zero in this series. But you know, sure,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: McKinnon and I'm not I'm just going through names. McKinnon
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: does not have a goal in this series. He had
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: a goal in each game against Minnesota, Marty Natchez does
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: not have a goal in this series. He's got won
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: the entire postseason.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: When you look at Brock Nelson, he does not have
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: a goal in this series. He's had to the entire series.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Both of those empty netters does. Arteria Lekinen has no
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: goals in this series. These are guys in your top
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: six that need to produce.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not happening, dude.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: And look no further.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: I mean if if you were blind of these games
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: and you didn't watch, and you didn't understand just the
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: momentum turns, and I.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Told you that.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: I said, Carter Hart is out playing Weggie, and sometimes
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: the intricacies of those stats can be.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: That's one thing.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: But the star players are getting thoroughly out pointed and outplayed.
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah it's over, yep, So it's over.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Get back to this in a bit. Three oh three, five,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: four nine two five. Oh by the way, next, Oh,
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: by the way.
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: Stories around sports and the world we feel like you
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: should be aware of.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: In Rockies news, they lose to the Dodgers yesterday a bumber.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: They take a lead on a tow Var home run,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: only to give that up. In I believe it was
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: the seventh inning last night. But in bigger news, hopefully
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: it's nothing too too bad. DJ Rumfield has had a
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: really good start to the year, has been a bright
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: spot for the Rockies within that lineup.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: Gets hit by a pitch last night in the hand.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: He leaves immediately, So no update that I've seen yet
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: on that, but he does leave. Also in baseball, do
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: you care about things like combined no hitters?
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: Does that do anything for you?
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: No?
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: No, No, it's one thing. But the Astros just had
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: a combined no hitter yesterday.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: I've always wondered if they should be in the same category.
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: You know, if one dude gets it done, it's one dude,
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: one arm one. Yeah, it's always weird to me, how
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: the combined no hitter. I get it, it's a no hitter,
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: but it feels different, doesn't it to you?
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: Totally? I don't know what category to put it in.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: It's impressive, but not the same, you know, and there's
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: different things like VIC A perfect game is something that's
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: only happened a handful of times. I think it's still
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: in the teams, maybe just eclipsed into the twenties. No
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: hitters they happen a lot more frequently, but there's different
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: sort of tiers that you put stuff in, and that
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: is somewhere below a no hitter from one guy.
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: That's why Nolan Ryan.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Having seven no hitters in his career is like the
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: most unfathomable thing that you could think of.
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: One guy had seven of them. It's nuts. You're lucky
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: to get seven guys to pitch seven complete games in
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: their careers.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Now I agree.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Hey, one more thing on the baseball subject, now, like,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: can you pull up the video Bryce Harper? I saw this,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I saw this most Have you seen this? If I
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: just say Bryce Harper in your answer is no, then no.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: That means I have not seen it. Yeah.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: I want to show you how Bryce Harper brushes his
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: teeth because it's weird he's doing. I don't know if
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: he's on Instagram Live or something like that. I want
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: you to watch the process in which he does this.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: So he lays down the towel, He's got the toothbrush
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: in his hand. Now he's getting some water on it
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: before the toothpaste whatever to each their own, takes the
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: cap off the toothpaste and then squeezes some out goes
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: directly in the mouth with the toothpaste and then puts
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: the toothbrush in his mouth.
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: Never seen that one before, So God, you know what
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: I have.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: What you do?
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: So you squeeze.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: It's actually quite efficient because it eliminates a step. You
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: don't drop the faste. How many times you drop the
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: toothpaste in the sink and you're like, so you don't
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: drop anything.
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: I put the toothpaste on the toothbrush, and I set
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: my toothbrush down and then it flops to the side,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: and it comes.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: All the time.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: It's always fallen everywhere.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: So you let me announce my own culpability in this,
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: and let me defend Bryce Harper a little bit. I
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: have a routine with my toothbrush.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: This would have to get it right away toothpaste. If
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: you actually subsist it off toothpaste, well, if it tastes
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: like Copenhagen, I probably munched the hell out of it,
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: all right. So I I gotta wet my toothbrush, then
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: I gotta put the toothpaste on. Then I have to
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: stick the tooth paste and the toothbrush under the water
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: before I brush.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Now weird, I go dry toothbrush, toothpaste, then both of them.
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: Under the water, and then I go.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: I gotta get it wet first, and then toothpaste, then
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: wet again. It's a double wetness, right there, Brett, double wetness. Yeah, anyway,
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: that's I've never Okay, I have a cousin. She uh.
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: When she eats bread, she eats like a monkey. So
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: I guess to eat to eat their own. Let's say
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: she let's say you have a let's say you have
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: a bun or a you know, dinner roll, right, and
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: she picks off little pieces off the roll and.
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: Oh, that's ridiculous. Just take a bite, okay, rather than
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: an adult okay.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: And she when she has French rice, I mean things
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: to stick with you, she opens a ketchup packet and
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: dips the fry into the Ketchup packet and eat.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, unacceptable.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna say she went Tommy boy
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: where she put the fry in her mouth and then
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: squirted the packet into her mouth.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: No, no, she know, she puts the in the corner
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: where it's put in there, and.
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: Gul, I go one, he Vic.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: When you're talking, we're talking about complete games and all this. Vic,
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: You're you're you're so involved with genetics, Why is it
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: that fifty years ago guys could go you know, eight complete?
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: Or what if genetics are advancing the way you say
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: they are, why is everyone on a pitch count? Why
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: can't you guys? Why can't Why can't guys throw two
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: hundred innings?
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: What are we doing, like throw complete games at fifty
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: three years old anymore?
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Or what's the name of the guy that threw back
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: to back no hitters for the Cincinnati Reds. I believe
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: vander something Vander I don't. I can't remember his name.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Look it up.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: Look it up.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: It's the only time it's ever happened in the history
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: of base But if.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: If, if genetics are advancing, why can't these guys, why
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: can't these guys go seven plus? I'll tell you, I
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: don't know. I'll tell you what.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Well, of course, Vick, you're talking about Johnny Vandermere in
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: nineteen thirty eight.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: Red's right, Yes, good friend of mine, A good friend
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: of him in.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: That shooter in the nineteen twenty Olympics.
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: Hey, hey, hey, bro, goodness, let me tell you some
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: mot I'm gonna tell you why, all right, Johnny Vandermere's
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: fastball probably.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Topped out at sixty eight. You got a beast.
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: For uh Milwaukee last night who was hitting one hundred
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: and three.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, his arm was about the ball off.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: So you wonder why they can't go one hundred, one
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: hundred pitches, Well you tried throwing the.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: Ball one hundred times at one hundred miles an hour.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: Well, hang on, what was that? What's that? Freak's name.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: Starts with an m Oh, hang on, I'm gonna find
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: it because that is one of the most Oh, here
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: we go.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: Uh Misowski.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Yes Key hit moj.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: In one single game one hundred dollars an hour on
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: the radar gun fifty seven times in his start.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, now throw that again. That's one pitches a night
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: and he will be in a hospital in two weeks.
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: And a house.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: Oh dude, put this on a T shirt. They asked
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: him about his performance twelve strikeouts.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: Here's a quote. He's Kenny Powers. Listen to this. That's
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: what I do. I throw hard. That's what he said.
• 40:20
  Speaker 6: That's pretty bad as.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: But that's dude, that is so god clowns. I can't
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: believe it.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: He hit one hundred and one forty times on ninety
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: six pitches he hit one hundred and two twenty two times,
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: and nine times he had one hundred and three.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: That Brett, that's I cannot tell you how he and
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: sane that is. It's insane, Bret.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: You've played the game at the highest level outside of pro,
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: higher than any of our level. I mean, ish, could
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: you would you be able to see the difference between
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: one hundred and one and one hundred and three just
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: two miles an hour?
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: Not well, probably two miles an hour.
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: Now, what's the difference between one hundred and three and
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: ninety three?
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: Everything a lot?
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Okay now, no, no, it's ten miles an hour difference from
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: sixty feet away.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: That's a ton.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, Now let me bring you the difference
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: of my perspective. What would be the difference between seeing
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: one hundred and three and sixty three?
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: It would be like you're playing slow pitch softball, like
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: legitimately is what it would feel like.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: I mean, you're basically starting your swing before you enter
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: the batter's box.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, insane.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Can I give you guys a story from the police
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Blotterer and Nebraska. Oh god, this is in Scott's bluff.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Scott's buff police were called to a shortstop gas station.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: That's what's called following reports is somebody being shot with
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: a BB gun. However, before they arrived, they received information
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: that in fact, it was a real shotgun that had
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: been used.
• 42:00
  Speaker 6: How the officer uh.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: The officers arrived to find a truck with a camper
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: attached the passenger side of the door. The vehicle had
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: sustained damage similar to that of a shotgun blast. After investigation,
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: they found out the owner of the truck had parked
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: to go purchase goods from the convenience store and they
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: had a dog in the backseat. The dog walked from
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: one side of the car to the other side of
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: the car. There was a loaded shotgun in the back.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Somehow walked on it, clawed, clipped the trigger, and it
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: shot somebody who was at a stoplight and their arm
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: was outside the window, just chilling.
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: Got hit with pellets.
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: So a dog shot shot somebody across the street waiting
• 42:41
  Speaker 8: at a stoplight. Correct, Yeah, do you have Why do
• 42:47
  Speaker 8: you have a loaded shotgun with a safety off and
• 42:50
  Speaker 8: a live shell in there?
• 42:51
  Speaker 6: I don't know, I don't know, mo, how do you have?
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah? How do you have a shell in the chamber
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: with a safety off in the back of your truck.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Great questions like how do you how do you even
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: get to a hey?
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Most answer answer is this Welcome to Scott's Bluff, Nebraska.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: You guys are trading your dogs to shoot.
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: No, but but don't get your arm out the window
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: if you don't want to get you here.
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: He's driving around his property and if he sees, like,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: you know whatever, I mean, maybe he sees, you know,
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: something run and he's gonna take a blast at it.
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: Maybe he sees a barmit, he's gonna take a blast
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: at it. That's what it is, because I mean, it's
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: hillbilly stuff.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, real quick, on the subject of animals. One more story.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: Oh by the way, and I'm I'm obsessed with this
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: because I'm obsessed with anything.
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: Pablo Escobar Narcos got me into it. And now I
• 43:39
  Speaker 6: know way too much about Pablo Escobar.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: So when Pablo Escobar turned himself into Colombian police way
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: back in the day, they came to an agreement he
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: needs to go to prison. But he said, I'm gonna
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: build my own and it's just gonna be me and
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: my Buddy's drinking and gambling and smoking weed.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: And that's what we're gonna do.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: And on this private prison that I've built for myself,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: which is more just like a that I can't leave,
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna get animals here.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna make my own zoo. So he brought in hippos.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: Correct.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: The issue now is that Pablo Escobar's hippos have gotten
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: out of control in Columbia. They're too populated, they're destroying
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: the environment. And so now Colombian officials have to kill
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: eighty of these hippos.
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: Because they're ruining the environment.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: And it's all due to Poplo West Bar getting popped
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: for selling coke.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: That's exactly it. He imported hippos from the other side
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: of the world and they just started getting it on
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: a lot and they have made a bunch more hippos
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: and now they're they're ruining Columbia.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: What's the fascination for hippos?
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: Like, if I had to bring in an animal that
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: is not part of my environment, hippo probably wouldn't be
• 44:53
  Speaker 5: my first choice.
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you something, Vicky, if I had more
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: money than God, you're gonna see giraffes in my backyard.
• 44:58
  Speaker 6: Okay, I don't care.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: The hell out of me before we get okay, but
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: I know we gotta go google real quick. How many
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: people hippos kill? Pre I think it's more.
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: Super dangerous hippos kill.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: Hippos kill wait people per year.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: What's the difference between the rhino and a hippo.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Rhinos get the horns kind of like, so, a rhino
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: is a hippo with the horn.
• 45:23
  Speaker 6: A rhino is a hippo with with a weapon.
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: You're gonna dude, you're giving me an aneurysm.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Hippos are responsible for an estimated five hundred deaths a year.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: So wait a minute.
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: You're telling me that they're.
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: One of the deadliest large land animals in the world.
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: You tell me that a rhino is a fully weaponized hippo.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: It's a it's a hippo with a shotgun. Yeah.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: So hippos often view small boats in canoes as threats
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: and flip them over, causing passengers to drown.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Dude, and a hippo, Dude, I'm telling you right now, man,
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: they can run fast and they have that they are mean. Dude.
• 46:04
  Speaker 3: A hippo will jack you up. There's look at the
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: videos online like the watering hole in Africa. Nothing messes
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: with a hippo bro.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Nothing So the realistic total is five hundred, but some
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: circulator reports suggest the death toll could be as high
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: as three thousand a year from hippos.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: Man oh, by the way, my guard, hippo. This is
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