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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny on the Utah Mammoth offseason priorities, Stanley Cup Playoffs + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: That's me and Connor's listen to the Sean O'Connell's show,
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  Speaker 2: Light out number three.
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  Speaker 3: Here on a Wednesday, on the Sean O'Connell Show, and
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  Speaker 3: we're lucky enough to welcome in our good friend, Mammoth
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  Speaker 3: Insider NHL Insider host of Mammoth Daily, Adrian Denny.
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  Speaker 2: Adrian Denny, welcome back to the show. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Sean love our weekly visits. How I know a
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  Speaker 4: week it's just perfect Wednesday at one, like it is
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  Speaker 4: there a better, better part of the week to get to,
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  Speaker 4: and then you're kind of kind of on the downhill
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  Speaker 4: swing after we talk, headed towards the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Literally and metaphorically, Adrian, it's like, after I'm done talking
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  Speaker 3: to you for the week, the whole week is downhill
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  Speaker 3: from there.
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  Speaker 5: It so for me too.
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  Speaker 3: You're the peak and then slide on down into the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So look, the Utah Mammoth are Unfortunately they're out there
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  Speaker 3: watching the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs with the rest of us.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, for players, and I think.
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  Speaker 3: More importantly for management, for coaches, what is the lens
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  Speaker 3: you think they are watching the rest of this Stanley
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  Speaker 3: Cup tournament through because obviously they want to get back
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  Speaker 3: to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: That's been stated in exit interviews. They want to be.
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  Speaker 3: Part of the second round and the third round moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: So when you're watching as a fan, these are great playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: When you're watching through the organizational lens, what do you
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  Speaker 3: think is coloring that lens most right now?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're definitely watching intently. I know head coach Andre
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  Speaker 4: Turney usually gets out and about during the playoffs. Right now,
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  Speaker 4: the Mammoth aren't aren't in him obviously, so i'd expect
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  Speaker 4: him to be, you know, in a couple of spots
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  Speaker 4: watching watching some games. I know our assistant general manager
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  Speaker 4: John Ferguson was headed to the Minnesota Colorado game one
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  Speaker 4: the last we saw him last week after after exit interviews.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, they're getting out and they're they're watching games
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  Speaker 4: in person, and I think, you know, just just taking
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  Speaker 4: down little notes, just just watching these games intently and saying, hmm,
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  Speaker 4: there's one thing, for instance, you know, the power play
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  Speaker 4: that that one thing that we always talk about that
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  Speaker 4: Buffalo Montreal game last night, finishes.
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  Speaker 5: Three to two.
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  Speaker 4: Three of the four goals came on the power play
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  Speaker 4: eleven powerplay situations in that game is Buffalo gets the
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  Speaker 4: the series tied up at two after Montreal had just
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  Speaker 4: won a pair of games by four goals. So you
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  Speaker 4: just you look at, you know what what can tilt
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  Speaker 4: a series? Buffalo changed goaltenders and it and it turned
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  Speaker 4: out turned out well for him.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, Utah's diet chet sting all of this.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you look at some some stuff on social
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  Speaker 4: media and you see some some players out on on
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  Speaker 4: some golf trips and and taking it all in and
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  Speaker 4: and maybe some some last few days together before they
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  Speaker 4: go their separate ways. And we saw Connor McDavid here
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  Speaker 4: here in Utah vacationing on on Instagram. But but for
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  Speaker 4: the management, it's it's going all in watching these playoffs
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  Speaker 4: every night, and and a lot of DVR time too
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  Speaker 4: because because it's it's going to be something that that
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  Speaker 4: they'll watch live if they're in person, watch on TV.
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  Speaker 4: But but definitely going back and diving into them.
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  Speaker 3: Should we start up a conspiracy of sorts with Connor
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  Speaker 3: McDavid coming to Utah immediately after a disappointing end to
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  Speaker 3: his Edmonton season and some ideas that maybe he'll eventually
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  Speaker 3: want to force his way out of Edmonton. Should we
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  Speaker 3: start that rumor?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Should we like, should we let a little little fire
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  Speaker 3: and start blowing on the sparks there?
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you, Oh see, two years ago at this time,
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we're open and up Instagram and seeing
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  Speaker 4: NHL players vacationing in in Utah right in April.
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  Speaker 5: Right, it's a great spot.
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  Speaker 4: There's there's all the National Parks and and southern Utah
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  Speaker 4: is great and up here in the mountains. But have
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  Speaker 4: we ever seen that before? I think the words gotten out,
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  Speaker 4: oh see amongst NHL are starting here with with the
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  Speaker 4: mammoth that oh this is this is a great place
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  Speaker 4: to come. You should come here on vacation. We're going
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  Speaker 4: down to to check out that the National Parks when
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  Speaker 4: the season ends, you might like it too, and like that.
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  Speaker 4: That's what it struck me, as you know, just kind
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  Speaker 4: of kind of a game of telephone guys talking about
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  Speaker 4: oh yeah, did you know you could do this here?
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  Speaker 4: Did you know we have that here? And a guy
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  Speaker 4: like Connor McDavid like, well, we've never been to Utah
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  Speaker 4: before let's go to Utah.
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  Speaker 5: I hear, I hear. It's great.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we we that live here know that that is,
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  Speaker 3: oh heck, absolutely true.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess it's nice to know that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: some NHL guys might be touching down on a vacation
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  Speaker 2: and maybe maybe if free agency is impending either immediately
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  Speaker 2: or down the line for some of them, they'll have
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  Speaker 2: a little seed planted that could grow into something for
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  Speaker 2: the Utah Mammoth as a franchise. And we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: this already, but it's clear the reputation of the organization
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  Speaker 2: has kind of, you know, permeated conversation in the league
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  Speaker 2: where every time and opposing.
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  Speaker 3: Manager and opposing coach, an opposing player is talking about
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  Speaker 3: Utah like, hey, they've got a really good thing going there. Well,
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  Speaker 3: now we're in a time where that could manifest itself
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  Speaker 3: into success in a very real way if Bill Armstrong
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  Speaker 3: and company are looking at a hot free agent market
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  Speaker 3: and maybe trying to lure someone here. Now that there's
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  Speaker 3: always cap room conversations and things like that, but there are.
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  Speaker 2: Some not like Megas stars out there available.
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  Speaker 3: There are some pretty interesting names in free agency that'll
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  Speaker 3: be testing the free agency market this offseason. How big
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  Speaker 3: a player do you think the Mammoth are going to
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  Speaker 3: be on some of those bigger names.
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  Speaker 4: You know, if you look at the last couple of years,
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  Speaker 4: they've made their moves on trades. They're big moves on trades,
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  Speaker 4: right Sergachev Paterka. You can just kind of get a
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  Speaker 4: little more creative with the cap and with your roster
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  Speaker 4: when you make trades. And they've signed the pieces, the
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  Speaker 4: incremental pieces like Kevin Stanlin, Nate Schmidt, Brandon tannev v
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  Speaker 4: Tech vanachik In in free agency, So looking at that,
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  Speaker 4: you wouldn't think that they'd go out and make a
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  Speaker 4: huge splash. And Number one that the inventory is the biggest,
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  Speaker 4: the biggest challenge that there's just not a lot. Utah
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  Speaker 4: signing Nick Schmaltz to an eight year contract, Michael Karkoni
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  Speaker 4: do a two year contract, Logan Cooley was going to
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  Speaker 4: be a restricted free agent. Utah went out they signed
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  Speaker 4: their guys before they even get to July first.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of teams have done that.
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  Speaker 4: Columbus just signed Charlie Coyle to a six year contract.
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  Speaker 4: That was gonna be a top free agent because there's
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  Speaker 4: just not a lot left. Jason Robertson from Dallas is
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  Speaker 4: a is a restricted free agent. That's that's probably the
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  Speaker 4: biggest name out there with a with a window that
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  Speaker 4: that you look at. But but oh see, it's it's
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  Speaker 4: just all sets up right, like the welcome Matt is
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  Speaker 4: out here. Like when teams are in Utah with a
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  Speaker 4: day off and a practice day, we want them down
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  Speaker 4: at the Utah Man with Ice Center practicing. We we
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  Speaker 4: want those players to see the facility and be blown
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  Speaker 4: away by it. And that's why the visiting locker room
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  Speaker 4: at the Delta Center is really really nice. I know
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  Speaker 4: you you watch around the playoffs and there there's there's
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  Speaker 4: locker rooms, Like that's seriously an NHL visiting locker room.
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  Speaker 4: You hear things about the Carolina visiting visiting room, but
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  Speaker 4: but you know it's you. You talk about the guys
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  Speaker 4: coming here on vacations and word of mouth is out
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  Speaker 4: and you know when you when you're talking to a
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  Speaker 4: place to go work, you're definitely going to talk to
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  Speaker 4: your friends that that work there, like is this this good?
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  Speaker 5: This this good move? Like yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta come,
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  Speaker 5: you gotta come.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta con versus yeah, I've got an interview somewhere
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  Speaker 4: else at two o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: I'll call you back.
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  Speaker 3: The Delta Center immediately after the season ended. You know,
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  Speaker 3: the construction crews get in there. And if you're following
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Smith on social media, you're seeing how fast some
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  Speaker 3: of those changes are already happening. You've seen the drafts,
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  Speaker 3: the mock ups, the gondola seating. I mean, this, this
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  Speaker 3: arena for basketball and for hockey, is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a totally unique and totally different experience than what we
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  Speaker 3: have seen. And there was some kind of joking conversation
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  Speaker 3: about like, if you make a deep playoff run that
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  Speaker 3: affects the timeline on the reconstructed et cetera. But how
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  Speaker 3: much I mean, have you thrown on a hard hat
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  Speaker 3: and walked in there and take it a look at
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  Speaker 3: the renovations.
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  Speaker 5: No, I haven't.
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  Speaker 4: It's uh, it's it's we we moved our offices back
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  Speaker 4: to the Zions Bank, back to Basketball campus. Uh the
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  Speaker 4: saturday after the season ended. Oh see, it is a
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  Speaker 4: construction zone. Team store is open every day.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: But but the broadcasting department is is one you know,
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  Speaker 4: one department that is in the Delta Center for the
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  Speaker 4: offices is you know, a lot of a lot of
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  Speaker 4: space has been relocated to the Mammoth I Center and
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  Speaker 4: and you know we've we've got several campuses around, but
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  Speaker 4: broadcasting is back back of the De Sience Bank Basketball campus,
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  Speaker 4: so we are not in the building. And last year
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  Speaker 4: I left after the last game April fifteenth, and I
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  Speaker 4: wasn't back in until the first preseason game and was
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  Speaker 4: in the was in ppe and a hard hat until
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  Speaker 4: opening night. So it it is a it is a
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  Speaker 4: full construction zone. Our radio engineer, Jeremy Potter did call
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  Speaker 4: me on Monday, which I thought was really cool because
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  Speaker 4: our radio studios are undergoing a renovation as well that
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  Speaker 4: we also have a lot of space with the Jazz
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  Speaker 4: Radio and production and and Mammoth Radio, and he wanted
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  Speaker 4: my input, he wanted he wanted to hear what I thought.
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  Speaker 5: And I just thought, gosh, that's that's really cool.
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  Speaker 4: He's he's calling me, uh to just to make sure
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  Speaker 4: his plans for the radio studio are are going to
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  Speaker 4: work for me, which I thought was really nice. But
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  Speaker 4: oh see, you you look at what they're doing there
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  Speaker 4: this summer. They're starting with with the north the north end,
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  Speaker 4: the upper Bowl and you know it's it's it's being
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  Speaker 4: described as terrace style ledges on on that north side.
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  Speaker 4: Ryan Smith described it as this is double black diamond
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  Speaker 4: level on on the north side in the upper bowl.
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  Speaker 5: And it is.
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  Speaker 4: It is steep, and everybody's gonna have a unique view
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  Speaker 4: for for both basketball and hockey. The one goal seats
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  Speaker 4: are gonna be completely gone by the end of next
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  Speaker 4: summer when the south side is completed. But but they've
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  Speaker 4: added a couple of gondolas, one on each side that
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  Speaker 4: will add a couple hundred uh extra extra seats for
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  Speaker 4: for fans to watch the game, just high a top
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  Speaker 4: looking straight down on on the action. So it's it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be awesome. I looking at these pictures and and
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  Speaker 4: the video that the Ryan Smith put out, it just
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  Speaker 4: never never fails to to blow your mind away. And
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  Speaker 4: then on the south side next summer, they're they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: connect the lower bowl and the Upper Bowl and that's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be another you know, dynamic slope design that that
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  Speaker 4: brings everything together, but a totally unique view. And so
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  Speaker 4: we thought the atmosphere was was good first season two
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  Speaker 4: and and season one, but when when you you add
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  Speaker 4: you know the experience of the views that that all
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  Speaker 4: the fans are and a half from every single seat.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to be out of this world.
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  Speaker 3: Adrian Denny are Mammoth Insider, our NHL insider is here
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  Speaker 3: Lux dealer as well. One thing that's been interesting about
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  Speaker 3: these Stanley Cup playoffs for me is and I talked
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  Speaker 3: with Tom Callahan about this earlier in the week, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't seem like there is as of yet a goaltender
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  Speaker 3: who is kind of taking over, which sometimes you see
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  Speaker 3: in Stanley Cup hockey where a guy will just start
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  Speaker 3: to stand on his head, become an absolute wall and
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  Speaker 3: the offense gets a little bit of a break for
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  Speaker 3: whatever team that is because nobody can get past your goaltender.
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  Speaker 3: It hasn't happened yet, Is it going to happen or
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  Speaker 3: do we not have that level of goaltender remaining With
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  Speaker 3: the teams that are still chasing the cuff.
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  Speaker 4: The one team that's had it is probably the team
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  Speaker 4: that you would least expect it from. And that's the
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  Speaker 4: Carolina Hurricanes and Frederick Anderson, right, he wasn't you know
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  Speaker 4: there their plans starting goalie. They they signed Brandon Bussey
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  Speaker 4: to a to a contract mid season after claiming him
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  Speaker 4: off of waivers from Florida right after training camp, and
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  Speaker 4: and he's gone eight to no. Jacob Dobish from Montreal
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  Speaker 4: might be might be the kid to watch, the twenty
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  Speaker 4: four year old. He's he's put in some some good
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  Speaker 4: action and he's he's a he's a fun kid.
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  Speaker 5: And in the media too. You know.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's interesting, oh see, because Colorado's gone back and
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  Speaker 4: forth on goalies in this series. So his Minnesota, Vegas
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  Speaker 4: and Anaheim haven't but neither's been really spectacular. And lucashto
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  Speaker 4: staal And and Carter Hart and then you've got Buffalo.
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  Speaker 4: They they alternated goalies last night. So I think I
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  Speaker 4: think you look at the Eastern Conference, Jacob Dobish and
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  Speaker 4: Freddy Anderson is the two for Colorado. It's it's always interesting,
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  Speaker 4: oh see, because they'd never really have come out and
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  Speaker 4: named a starter. Scott Wedgwood started the first what was
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  Speaker 4: it for Colorado the first seven games, and then Mackenzie
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  Speaker 4: Blackwood came in for Game number four in in Minnesota
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  Speaker 4: on Monday night. But those two guys combined for the
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  Speaker 4: most wins in the NHL by a goaltending duo this year.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I.
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  Speaker 4: Gosh, if if Freddy Anderson could could carry Carolina, that'd
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  Speaker 4: be that'd be big for him. But that would be
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  Speaker 4: something that you're like, oh boy, how how long can
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  Speaker 4: he keep doing this? In the conference finals in the
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  Speaker 4: finals against Colorado.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: But but those would be the two that that I'd
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  Speaker 4: watch for As long as.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking about goalies, what's the market in free agency
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  Speaker 3: going to be for Sergi Bobrovski. He's not a spring
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  Speaker 3: chicken anymore. He's up there in age. Stuart Skinner, I believe,
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  Speaker 3: also is out there, yeah, on the free agent market.
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  Speaker 3: He's in his late twenties. So what's the market going
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  Speaker 3: to be like for those guys?
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  Speaker 4: Do you think Edmonton tries to go back and get
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  Speaker 4: Stuart Skinner after packaging everything to get rid of him
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  Speaker 4: and then seeing how things ended up for him. Sergei Bobrovski,
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  Speaker 4: it's it sounds like, you know, as you listen to
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  Speaker 4: insiders and experts and know, the way that Florida brings
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  Speaker 4: back their guys, you would think that he ends up
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  Speaker 4: back in Florida with the Panthers as they look to
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  Speaker 4: run it back next year after winning back to back
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  Speaker 4: Cups and missing the playoffs. You haven't heard you know
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  Speaker 4: his name, because I think I think most people think
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  Speaker 4: that he probably signs with Florida again to come back.
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  Speaker 4: You talk about Stuart Skinner. You know, Pittsburgh has all
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  Speaker 4: the cap money.
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  Speaker 5: In the world.
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  Speaker 4: With you know, an older team, but but a younger team.
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  Speaker 4: They've they got a lot of cap space. They can
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  Speaker 4: throw anything at him if they like that second half
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  Speaker 4: of the year. But they've also got a couple young
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  Speaker 4: goalies coming up as well. So, uh, you got Peter
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  Speaker 4: Marazik and Anaheim. Who's who's a backup tech Fanachik obviously
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  Speaker 4: with the Mammoth is a is an unrestricted free agent.
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  Speaker 4: There's not a lot of goalies out there. But I
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  Speaker 4: think you hit it with bub Rosky and Skinner being
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  Speaker 4: the top two. And does Pittsburgh, you know, do they
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  Speaker 4: go after Skinner, keep him long term and and keep
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  Speaker 4: trying to retool That thing is is Crosby and Malkin
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  Speaker 4: get older, I think a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of locals are watching the Anaheim versus Vegas series with
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  Speaker 3: peaked interest because, of course, Vegas was the team that
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  Speaker 3: eliminated our, our beloved Mammoth from the playoffs, and that's
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  Speaker 3: been an excellent series so far. With the overtime win,
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  Speaker 3: did Vegas seas control? We know what the numbers are
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  Speaker 3: in playoff hockey for the winner of game five? Have
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  Speaker 3: you seen anything that makes you think this this series
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  Speaker 3: could buck that trip?
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  Speaker 5: Gosh?
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  Speaker 4: You know, we kind of gave them a lot of
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  Speaker 4: flak in the regular season for all the games that
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  Speaker 4: they went past regulation in and won and overtime or
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  Speaker 4: lost in overtime. But now three of their seven wins
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  Speaker 4: and the Stanley Cup playoffs have come in overtime, and
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  Speaker 4: they've come in pivotal games. They tied the series at
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  Speaker 4: two with Utah with the with the overtime win. They
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  Speaker 4: took the three to two series lead with the double
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  Speaker 4: overtime win. Then last night against Anaheim they win another
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  Speaker 4: game and in overtime, and you just kind of keep
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  Speaker 4: feeling Vegas like there's that game five, six, potentially seven
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  Speaker 4: feel from them, and they just keep getting stronger and
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  Speaker 4: stronger as you go along and oh see, it's it's
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  Speaker 4: it's tough when you lose a game in overtime in
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs, because that's a game you had actually have
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  Speaker 4: to go win five games in a series, like Utah
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  Speaker 4: would have had essentially had to win six games, seven
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  Speaker 4: games in that series to win four games just because
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  Speaker 4: they they couldn't close those two games out and overtime.
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  Speaker 4: I have always felt if you win game five, you
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  Speaker 4: probably win game six. It was a sinking feeling. And
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I didn't feel it when the Mammoth lost to Vegas
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: because I felt they were they were rolling. But you
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: saw how Vegas came out and tightened the screws down
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: and in game six, and you know, anaheim Is is
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: just kind of fearless. They're they're young, they've got some veterans.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: They they don't really get phased. I could see him
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: forcing a game seven. But I think if you win
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: a game five and overtime, you probably win a game six,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: just because you know you're you're you're that close. And
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: and there's the emotional Now we have to go win
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: two games when we had one one win to to
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: get to one win from winning a series.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Does Colorado close it out tonight.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: I think so I I kind of got the feeling
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: when it was two to oh, like, okays, Avs are
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: in control here, even though I, you know, I thought
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Minnesota would take it because I just couldn't believe what
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: they did to Dallas. They just they they just dismantled
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: the second best team in the NHL in the regular season,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: didn't allow anything to them.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: Those games didn't feel close.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Colorado had been kind of up and down in the
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: second half and they kind of went back and forth
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: with la even though they swept him. And then they
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: came out and they won the first two games, and
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: I thought, okay, this is this is a probably a
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: six game series. But they come back with the three
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: to one lead, a chance to close it out at home,
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: and oh see. I think Minnesota has had the two
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: most dominating players in the series in Crill capries Off
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: and Quinn Hughes. But Colorado's just just overpowering there. They're
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: coming at you like their their third line, their fourth line.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: They're getting like they're getting huge goals. It's it's just
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: it's not all McKinnon and Marty Natchius and Gabe Laniskog
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: and valn the shoes can know. It's like guys like
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: Ross Colton on their third line is getting big goals
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: for him. The Abs are pretty well connected. And shame
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: on me for thinking, uh, Minnesota was gonna go in
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: and do it. I mean, Minnesota was really good in
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: that Game three, and they just couldn't duplicate it in
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Game four. Because they love that Game three. They're like,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: this is how we want to play it, and they
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: just couldn't do it. They couldn't. They couldn't power pass
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Colorado into straight.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: Is Carolina's dominance in these first two series going to
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: come back to actually hurt them.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: They're getting rest, but maybe excessive rest.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: I don't think so.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I think they're the best team in the Eastern Conference.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: I think they're gonna play the winner of Montreal Buffalo,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: which is yesterday. At this time, the series is two
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: to one, and it felt like three to one because
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: they have just won two blowout games in a row.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: But I think by the time, you know, if it's Montreal,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: they're gonna potentially have back to back seven game series.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: They beat Tampa Bay and seven they this Buffalo series.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, it looks ticketed to seven right now. As
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: it's tied to to I think Carolina's got the best team.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: I think the rest is gonna help them think. I
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: think they're connected. I don't think that they'll come out
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: and be flat Carolina. I mean, gosh, they had the
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: best record in the Eastern Conference, but first fifty sixty
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: games of the year, I'm not sure they had the
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: same lineup two games in a row. They went through
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: a lot of injuries, they had to call a lot
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: of guys up and it didn't nothing phased them. And
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: then last ten games of the year, they're playing half
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: of their ahl roster to wrap up the regular season,
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: just to get it over with, to get guys rested.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: So I think Carolina is in a good spot to
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: fly into the in the Stanley Cup Final, because I
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: think the team that they're gonna play is going to
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: have have come through an emotional series too to get
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: to that point. What are they going to have emotionally left?
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: And Carolina's going to be fresh and I think they're better.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Winter Classic tickets go on sale tomorrow for season ticket
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: holders and then to the public shortly after that. Any
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: thoughts on what the demand is going to look like
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: for the Winter Classic when these things hit.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: The market, I think it's gonna be I think it's
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: gonna be one of those things where you got to
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: be in the queue, and you know, I've been in
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: the queue once or twice. Oh see, I've not, you know,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: been in this situation a lot. But for the twenty
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: twenty World Series during COVID, me and a buddy both
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: got in the queue on Ticketmaster to get tickets to
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: Game four that and I ended up getting tickets. He
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: never heard anything from the queue, But that's kind of
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: the impression I get, get in the queue and and
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: hope you're your number gets called, because I felt really
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: lucky to get those World Series tickets in twenty twenty
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: when they were selling a fourth of the tickets, a
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: quarter of the tickets, twelve thousand seats at the New
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Globe Life Stadium in in uh where the heck is
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: at Arlington?
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah that's Arlington, right, Yeah, I think I.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Think we were in the Arlington suburb of Dallas. But
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: that's that's what that reminds me of. So if you
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: can get getting the queue and go to town.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: Well it's always a great pleasure catching up with you
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: sir again, thank you for giving us some time today
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: and every week, and like we're probably just gonna have
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: to maintain this through the summer, in football season, all
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: of it. You'll just well, we'll talk to you when
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: we get there. Cadrin, Jenny, you know.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Heck, yeah, yeah, I'm I'm here. I love it, so
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: love talking to you and uh and being here on
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: ESPN seven hundred. So thanks thanks for having me as
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: always a seat's uh, it's my pleasure.
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: I'm here anytime I can be.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: That's Adrian Daddy. Are you tap? Mammoth Insider