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Between The Pipes: Adrian Denny on the Utah Mammoth, Taking 2 of 3 on their east coast road trip, Tonight vs Ottawa + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: Another. You were listening to the Sean O'Connell Show, your
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  Speaker 1: source for the best Youtes football coverage. Here's oc from
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  Speaker 1: the Murdoch Hyundai Studio of ESPN seven hundred at ninety
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  Speaker 1: two to one a half am.
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  Speaker 2: Between the Pipes is brought to you by our friends
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  Speaker 2: at Aladdin Industries, your Utah V Lucks dealer and the
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  Speaker 2: truck with the duck over at Valley Plumbing for the
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  Speaker 2: first time in twenty twenty six, Adrian Denny between the
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  Speaker 2: Pipes on the Shan O'Connell Show.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome into the studio, sir. How are you? What's up? Sean?
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  Speaker 3: How's it going?
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  Speaker 4: Man? You're ready to open a seven game homestand I
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  Speaker 4: will be there tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic, very excited about it, not as a media member,
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  Speaker 2: but just as a mammoth fan. So I'll get to
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  Speaker 2: wear the sweater and hang out and embarrass my wife
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  Speaker 2: with the tusk.
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  Speaker 4: Face paint. No, I don't go quite that. Why how
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  Speaker 4: are you? I'm doing awesome. I'm happy the team's home, right.
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  Speaker 4: I obviously don't travel, so I'm in the Mountain Blue
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  Speaker 4: Studios in the Delta Center for all of our games.
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  Speaker 4: But when the team is home, means they got to
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  Speaker 4: have my Santorini's for dinner right outside of section seven
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  Speaker 4: and eight. It's my goal to yeah yeah, the braised
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  Speaker 4: beef bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, dude, you and I were on the same wavelength.
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  Speaker 2: The puffy pete is one of the great things to
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  Speaker 2: do as a sports fan. When you're attending with relative
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  Speaker 2: regularity at a particular arena, stadium, whatever is, you find
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  Speaker 2: your delectable treat in that stadium, you get to look
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  Speaker 2: forward to that, and that Santorini's at the Delta Center
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  Speaker 2: has been that for me, not only last.
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  Speaker 3: Year, but this year as well.
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  Speaker 4: They've got a new item that you know, it's Santorini's,
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  Speaker 4: so it has to be healthy, right, Everything they have
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  Speaker 4: is healthy. So this these these crunch rolls they have
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  Speaker 4: you can get four of them for twenty bucks, two
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  Speaker 4: for ten. But I'm probably certain that they're you know,
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  Speaker 4: not healthy at all really because they're deep fried. But
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  Speaker 4: they come from Santa Rini, So I tell myself, oh,
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  Speaker 4: they have to be they have to be healthy. They
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  Speaker 4: are loaded with euro meat, that is the only thing
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  Speaker 4: in these crunch rolls, so like egg rolls with euro meat,
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  Speaker 4: and I have not tried those. Give those a try
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  Speaker 4: some some evening. I'm gonna have to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, we're not here to talk about Mediterranean food.
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  Speaker 2: We're here to talk about mammoth hockey. They start this
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  Speaker 2: homestand with the Ottawa Senators. I want to get to
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  Speaker 2: that here in a second. Utah's favorites in this game.
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  Speaker 2: We're expecting of some goal scoring in this game, but
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  Speaker 2: there is a there's a special press conference happening today
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  Speaker 2: at four pm at Rice Cycle Stadium. NHL Commissioner Gary
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  Speaker 2: Bettman Ryan Smith. I think a lot of people I
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  Speaker 2: think this means an announcement of some kind is coming
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  Speaker 2: to Salt Lake City. Could be something pertaining to the
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  Speaker 2: upcoming Olympics and NHL participation there, I suppose.
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  Speaker 3: But Betman's in town. What's it gonna be.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've got my I've got my mammoth jacket here.
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  Speaker 4: I also, as you see, i've got my overcoat here. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: because the press conference is going to be outside, so
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  Speaker 4: I am going to be bundled up. I stopped off
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  Speaker 4: after morning skate and picked up my overcoat because I'm like, gosh,
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of getting cold. There's there's a storm rolling in.
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  Speaker 4: We've got first alert weather on every station.
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  Speaker 3: In town here.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, gosh, if I'm gonna be outside, I need
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  Speaker 4: my overcoat too. This, you know, sleek, fancy, fashionable mammoth
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  Speaker 4: jacket might not keep me as warm as I need
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  Speaker 4: to be. So we'll be outside. Gary Batman, Ryan Smith,
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  Speaker 4: Ashley Smith, Logan Cooley, who's currently injured for the Mammoth
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  Speaker 4: not playing, He's gonna be up at the presser four
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  Speaker 4: o'clock excited to see what they have for us.
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  Speaker 2: So look, Rice Cycle Stadium has been talked about as
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  Speaker 2: a potential site for outdoor games Winter Classic type games,
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  Speaker 2: outdoor games, and Ryan Smith is not one to go
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  Speaker 2: to Rice Cycle Stadium just for fun. So whether smoke,
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  Speaker 2: there's usually fire.
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  Speaker 3: What give me this?
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  Speaker 2: What is the timeline that the NHL usually announces something
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  Speaker 2: like that when we hear about Winter Classic sights? Do
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  Speaker 2: we hear about it a year ahead of time? Five
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  Speaker 2: years ahead of time? How far ahead do they plan it?
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't it seemed to be as far out as say
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  Speaker 4: an Olympic Games, right. It usually seems that the next
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  Speaker 4: year's announced right around the current years. Okay, so we
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  Speaker 4: had the current year Winter Classic in Sunrise or not
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  Speaker 4: Sunrise Florida, Miami, Florida went all the way to Miami,
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  Speaker 4: all the way to Miami, which is like it's like
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  Speaker 4: an hour from Sunrise. It is so far seems like
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  Speaker 4: a different state. Sunrise is on the outskirts of the
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  Speaker 4: Miami Dade Fort Lauderdale area and it is on the
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  Speaker 4: border of the Everglades out there where the Florida Panthers play.
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  Speaker 4: So they played the Winter Classic on Friday down at
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  Speaker 4: Loan Shark Stadium where the Miami Marlins play, where the
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  Speaker 4: Orange Bowl used to be, and it is it's deep
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  Speaker 4: into Miami. I've made that drive from Sunrise to Little
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  Speaker 4: Havana before.
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  Speaker 2: If we are getting a Winter Classic game, what kind
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  Speaker 2: of showcases this for not only a franchise, but for
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  Speaker 2: the host city, the host state. I mean, it's a
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  Speaker 2: it's a big thing that NHL really pours a lot
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  Speaker 2: of marketing and time and redesign uniform and stuff into
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  Speaker 2: these Winter Classics.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big event.
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  Speaker 4: It always feels like kind of the signature event of
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  Speaker 4: you know that the NHL season gets going right, like
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  Speaker 4: Christmas Day and the NBA right that seems like there's
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  Speaker 4: five games it's you know, you've been playing for a
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  Speaker 4: couple months, but you hit Christmas Day, you got Kenny
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  Speaker 4: and EJ and Charles Barkley and Shack. They're in studio.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't seen a lot of them in October November. I
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  Speaker 4: think for the NHL, the Winter Classic is kind of
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  Speaker 4: we've been playing for a couple couple months here and
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  Speaker 4: New Year's comes around. Now you're going to start seeing
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  Speaker 4: hockey starting with the Winter Classic, the outdoor game and
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  Speaker 4: just the way that the hockey's dressed around the networks
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  Speaker 4: and you're seeing it in prime time. So I've always
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  Speaker 4: looked at those games. It's just kind of the signature.
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  Speaker 4: All right, this is we're getting into the heat of
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  Speaker 4: the season here.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a while since we've talked, but little East
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  Speaker 2: Coast Swing, little New York, New Jersey Swing for the
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  Speaker 2: Utah Mammoth, and they were able to grab a couple
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  Speaker 2: of wins, got the points there. They beat the Islanders,
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  Speaker 2: they beat the Rangers. In between they lost for one
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  Speaker 2: to the Devils. What'd you see in that East Coast
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  Speaker 2: Swing that you liked and that you didn't didn't like?
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  Speaker 4: The game in New Jersey on Saturday we can get
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  Speaker 4: that out of the way.
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  Speaker 3: Right off of the top.
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  Speaker 4: You're coming off a seven to win against the Islanders
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  Speaker 4: on New Year's Day, and you know, pucks were going in.
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  Speaker 4: Oh see, it's funny how how hockey goes. The Islanders
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  Speaker 4: beat the New Jersey Devils last night by account of
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  Speaker 4: nine to nothing. When you score seven, eight, nine goals
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  Speaker 4: in hockey, you know, getting some bounces, some bucks that
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  Speaker 4: are usually saved. That was kind of the case for
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  Speaker 4: the Mammoth on Thursday. It's just kind of a compilation
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  Speaker 4: of all right, we deserved a few bounces here. They
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  Speaker 4: put up seven on the Islanders, who then turned around
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  Speaker 4: two games later and beat the Devils by account of
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  Speaker 4: nine to nothing. After the Devils beat Utah for one.
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  Speaker 3: So like that game.
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  Speaker 4: It probably wasn't a seven to two game, but the
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  Speaker 4: Mammoth played well. It was a great way to start
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  Speaker 4: the trip for me. It wasn't you know. You look
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  Speaker 4: at the schedule and you're like, okay, that's an implied win.
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  Speaker 4: That's a scheduled win, that's a scheduled loss. That's probably
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  Speaker 4: going to be an implied loss when you look at
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  Speaker 4: what's happening. That was a must win for me to
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  Speaker 4: start the trip out on New Year's Day. Going out,
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  Speaker 4: you got three games on the then you're home for
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  Speaker 4: seven straight and eleven in the next fifteen. Go make
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  Speaker 4: the initial statement to open twenty twenty six on the road.
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  Speaker 4: So they did that. Curl and Milka played a great game.
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  Speaker 4: Was really hoping that they'd be able to take it
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  Speaker 4: into New Jersey forty eight hours later without having to
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  Speaker 4: get on another flight.
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  Speaker 3: They were in the New York area for.
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  Speaker 4: The entire trip, without really changing hotels after every game,
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  Speaker 4: without having to get on the flight, fly four hours
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  Speaker 4: in the middle of the night somewhere. So I had
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  Speaker 4: high expectations for that Saturday game. Okay, all right, guys,
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  Speaker 4: it's not a back to back. You're not at the
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  Speaker 4: end of a six game trip where you've been all
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  Speaker 4: over North America. Should be rested, had a good practice
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  Speaker 4: day on Friday, go in and take the game. And
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  Speaker 4: they just they just they didn't quite have that level of,
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  Speaker 4: you know, being able to win a hockey game in
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  Speaker 4: ways you have to do and can rolling momentum situations
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  Speaker 4: and building off of good offensive shifts, and so they
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  Speaker 4: lost that game. And then you go into Madison Square
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  Speaker 4: Garden on Monday. It's like, Okay, well, if we win
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  Speaker 4: this game, everything's fine. You take two or three on
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  Speaker 4: the trip, that's perfect. That's a perfect trip. And I
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  Speaker 4: kind of put that game into a category of it
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  Speaker 4: was an imperfect game, but not because of how they played.
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  Speaker 3: I liked how they played.
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  Speaker 4: They came from behind twice, they killed a penalty late,
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  Speaker 4: and they won the game three too. But there were
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  Speaker 4: just kind of a lot of situational percentage areas in
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  Speaker 4: that hockey game that you don't usually win on the road,
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  Speaker 4: even if you do play pretty good. So I was
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  Speaker 4: happy that they were able to keep pushing back and
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  Speaker 4: find a way to win that game and make it
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  Speaker 4: to a three. Because you make the trip, you take
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  Speaker 4: four to six points. That's great. One of three doesn't
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  Speaker 4: quite have the same ring to it. Coming back home.
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  Speaker 2: Rangers game, it was wild because, look, I know that
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  Speaker 2: every team in any physical sport, and especially in the NHL,
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  Speaker 2: and we've heard this Mammoth management and coaching staff say
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  Speaker 2: we want to be a physical team. We want you
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  Speaker 2: got to know that you're playing us. They got out
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  Speaker 2: physical against the Rangers pretty significantly. I mean they got
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  Speaker 2: out hit thirty eight to eighteen in that game and
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  Speaker 2: still found a way to win it in overtime. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I've always been of the opinion that if you can
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  Speaker 2: win games that you play great, everyone does that. If
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  Speaker 2: you can win games that's kind of ugly, and you
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  Speaker 2: win games when you leave a lot left to be desired,
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  Speaker 2: it's an indication of like, that's a character building type thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's a finding ways to win in less than ideal scenarios,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes those are just as impressive or even more
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  Speaker 2: impressive than the dominant wins are the perfect performance type wins.
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  Speaker 2: This one, I couldn't really figure out how I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to process it because it was like, you never want
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  Speaker 2: to call a win lucky because in pro sports they're
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  Speaker 2: just too hard to attribute much to luck.
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  Speaker 3: But it's like, man, did you really do we really outplay.
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  Speaker 2: The Rangers in that game and get a win or
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  Speaker 2: was that one of those things that you kind of
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  Speaker 2: won despite in spite of.
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  Speaker 4: It? Was it was a game where the Mammoth when
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  Speaker 4: it was even strength five on five, totally dominated and
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  Speaker 4: as you said, the Rangers was thirty eight hits. That's
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  Speaker 4: a team that Utah typically struggles against. They found a
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  Speaker 4: way to beat them both times on the season series,
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  Speaker 4: both by three two scores. But I liked how they
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  Speaker 4: took control in the first period. They had sixteen scoring
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  Speaker 4: chances within ten to twenty feet of the net and
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  Speaker 4: right out on top. It's like, Okay, that's the game
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  Speaker 4: you want to play. And then you get to the
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  Speaker 4: second period you take four penalties, and that's kind of
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  Speaker 4: where we've seen games slip away from Utah this year.
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  Speaker 4: You play good first period, you come out in the second,
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  Speaker 4: a couple of things happen and that's what costs you
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  Speaker 4: the game. And it didn't cost him the game here,
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  Speaker 4: and I kind of felt at the second intermission like,
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  Speaker 4: I think they're gonna win this game because they're just
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  Speaker 4: not They don't look shaken like they're they're taking there.
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  Speaker 4: They're taking the lumps, they're taking the hits, literally, but
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  Speaker 4: they they look okay, they're still playing okay when they're
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  Speaker 4: five on five. They just took way too many penalties
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  Speaker 4: in that second period. Then they came out in the
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  Speaker 4: third period, We're able to tie it up, and boy,
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  Speaker 4: killing that penalty in the final three minutes and fourteen
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  Speaker 4: seconds to force the game to overtime. That was a real,
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  Speaker 4: big situational penalty kill. There After, the Rangers scored their
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  Speaker 4: first two goals of the game on various power plays.
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  Speaker 2: Between the pipes with Adrian Denny are Utah Mammoth Insider,
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  Speaker 2: Duck Valley Plumbing and HVAC. So now let's get into
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  Speaker 2: what's coming for this Utah Mammoth team. Aside from a
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  Speaker 2: big announcement that's happening right around four pm today at
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  Speaker 2: rece Cycle Stadium, You've got this immediate future with a
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  Speaker 2: seven game homestand as you already talked about, and you
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  Speaker 2: should be able to pile up some points here the
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  Speaker 2: way this schedule lays out. Starting with Ottawa. What should
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  Speaker 2: we expect tonight?
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  Speaker 4: A team that is pretty similar to Utah And I'd
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  Speaker 4: love to hear the feedback from the fans and from
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  Speaker 4: you watching the game tonight. Do you feel like Ottawa
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  Speaker 4: is kind of Utah? I think that's kind of how
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  Speaker 4: they match up. The Senators might have a little more physicality,
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  Speaker 4: but it's a team that Utah has never beaten.
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  Speaker 3: They know that.
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  Speaker 4: I think They've looked at the games they haven't beaten Ottawa,
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  Speaker 4: especially the first one of this season that they played
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  Speaker 4: in November. There it's like, oh, they do some stuff
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  Speaker 4: really well that we didn't necessarily handle the best just
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  Speaker 4: playing a team for the first time. I think they've
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  Speaker 4: made some adjustments just watching Morning Skate today on things
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  Speaker 4: like getting through the neutral zone on Ottawa if you
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  Speaker 4: want to watch that during the game. So I think
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  Speaker 4: that's one thing to check out. But I think they're
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  Speaker 4: going to be juice to get back home, and you
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  Speaker 4: know how it is, oc you get back from a trip.
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  Speaker 3: The first game back is.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of a trap game usually because you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: we're home the relief exhale. Sixty five percent of the
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  Speaker 4: rest of the games going to be at home. So
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  Speaker 4: head coach Andre Turney always pointing out like you got
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  Speaker 4: to be on your toes, especially in this first game
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  Speaker 4: and the matchup against Ottawa. They're they're not in the
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  Speaker 4: top three in their division, but they're they're a team
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  Speaker 4: that throughout the course of the season, they haven't won
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  Speaker 4: more than four in a row. They've had a four
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  Speaker 4: game winning streak, but outside of that, they haven't won
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  Speaker 4: more than two in a row, and they really haven't
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  Speaker 4: lost more than two in a row. They've had one, two, three, four,
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  Speaker 4: three game winless kids, but they're they're pretty steady. And
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  Speaker 4: they've been without their captain, Brady Kachuck for most of
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  Speaker 4: the first half.
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  Speaker 3: He's now back.
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  Speaker 4: They're without their starting goaltender Linis Olmark, so they've had
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  Speaker 4: some goaltending challenges. And you look at this game for
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  Speaker 4: the Mammoth, I think I think they're ready to beat
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  Speaker 4: Odowa for the first time. And the Senators are starting
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  Speaker 4: a tough back to back here tonight. They're here in
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  Speaker 4: Salt Lake City tonight and they're in Colorado tomorrow, so
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  Speaker 4: we'll see how they manage that in terms of their
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  Speaker 4: embattled goaltending that they've got.
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  Speaker 2: So at this point in the season, you kind of
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  Speaker 2: you probably are who you are, right And in terms
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  Speaker 2: of I guess player contribution, I wouldn't expect anyone to
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  Speaker 2: have some totally different surge of production or anything like that,
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  Speaker 2: but it's been nice to see I think Gunther kind
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  Speaker 2: of rounding into I mean quite literally mid season form
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  Speaker 2: at least.
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  Speaker 3: Is there any.
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  Speaker 2: Meat left on the bone for you with any particular
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  Speaker 2: player or maybe one of the particular lines that you
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  Speaker 2: think is just ready to break out again. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that you're gonna get some addition or somebody's gonna
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  Speaker 2: magically get healthier and do something that we didn't think
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  Speaker 2: they were even capable of to this point in the season.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're going to make a playoff run, and
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to use these next seven home games
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  Speaker 2: to your advantage and pile up the points necessary, is
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  Speaker 2: their meat left on the bone somewhere?
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  Speaker 4: I would start with the third line osee of Michael Carconi,
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  Speaker 4: Jack McBain and Daniel Boot. Carconi is a guy that
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  Speaker 4: has surpassed his goal toll from last year.
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  Speaker 3: It was seven.
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  Speaker 4: He's got eight, but he had twenty one goals two
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  Speaker 4: years ago. And he has really started to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: get back to where he was two years ago, and
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  Speaker 4: that is by just being a maniac. Like watch him
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  Speaker 4: at the Della Center tonight when he's on the ice
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  Speaker 4: and he's got the scoring touch, but he's also going
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  Speaker 4: to go in and rip the puck away from a
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  Speaker 4: guy who looks like he has a clean exit out
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  Speaker 4: of the Utah offensive zone and then turn that into
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  Speaker 4: a play that creates offense. So watch for Michael Carconi.
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  Speaker 4: He's he worked so hard, he's he's a little guy.
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  Speaker 4: I'd say he's our size, Sean, but you're you know,
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  Speaker 4: you're the size of a regular person. But he's my size. Okay.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: I think I'm taller than him too. I've done a
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: number of interviews with Mike and I've always sized him
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: like I think I'm taller than you. So you got
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Carcone who plays with Jack mcpain, who's fifth in the
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: NHL and hits. But I also think he's due for
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: some more goals too, because his shooting percentage is lower
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: than his expected goals. Interesting and Daniel Boot, I've made
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: this promise. I've made this promise on Hockey Night in Utah.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: I'm going to make it to the fans and the
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: listeners here on ESPN seven hundred. I think Daniel Boots
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: in store for five goals in a five game stretch
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: before this season's done. He creates so much offense. He's
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: always in front of the net. He's got one goal
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: this season on thirty three shots. He just he scored
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: that lone goal like two weeks ago. Now you're saying
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: five and five, Yeah, I watch out for that. I
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: think it's coming. I have thirty nine games for this
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: to happen, oh see. But I think we're going to
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: have a five game stretch this year where boot gets
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: five goals in five games and the offense starts converting
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: for him that he's creating.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: All right, So.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I'll I'll let you revise your answer next week, but
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: for these games will already be in the books when
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: that happens. So Ottawa, Saint Louis, Columbus, Toronto, Dallas, Seattle,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Philly before you head back out on the road against Nashville, Tampa, Florida,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: and Carolina. Focusing on those home games seven in a
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: row on home ice at the Delta Center. A crowd
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: that hasn't seen you in a while, is its excited
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: to get you back, probably juiced up by a certain
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: announcement that happens today. How many points do they need
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: to come away with on this homestand I'd like ten,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: five out of seven, right, that seems doable. That's a
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: seven to fourteen points percentage of seven fourteen winning percentage.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: I'd like five of seven.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Four to two and one is nine points, three two
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: and two is eight points.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: But I'd like five to seven.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: It's never as easy as it sounds to do that
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: on a on a home stretch. You tied a seven
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: game or last January, that would have been close to
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: taken four or five out of seven. They just lost
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: a couple of games in overtime. And it was a
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: pretty similar schedule to this in terms of five of
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: the seven teams you're playing not currently being above the
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: playoff line. So I'd like five to seven, six and
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: seven as a possible I think this team's ready to
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: to go on a run.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Fingers crossed for that non hockey question for you. Morgan
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: Scalley had his introductory press conference yesterday. He's already want
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: to know as a head coach, so there's it was
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: anti climactic in that sense, but it was great to
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: hear Morgan from Morgan and he was unfettered, unfiltered. It
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: was great, very emotional in that your thoughts on Morgan
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Scalley's first words as the head coach.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: For me, it started in the Las Vegas Bowl. Like
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: the identity that Utah football is was what they were
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: in the Las Vegas Bowl, and I just I love
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: that game, and I thought that's that's mister football from
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Highland High in nineteen ninety six ninety seven ish Ye
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: who played for Ron McBride, who then transitioned to Urban Meyer,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: who has then worked the last twenty plus seasons with
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Kyle Whittingham. And I thought, that's a Utah man, and
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: that's Utah football right there.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Feel the same.
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: You remember mister football and late nineties at high and High.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I was a middle schooler when he was mister football.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: And he was also an incredible junior level rugby player.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: That's right.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: If you if you look at like the top one
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: hundred tries ever scored, they have all these like YouTube
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: lists or whatever, and one of his from like an
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: invitational tournament in South Africa is is on that list.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: You can still find it on the internet.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: He is. Yeah, Morgan's the man.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Maybe maybe he's the defensive coordinator, maybe as an assistant
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: coach for me at least right because I'm not up
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: at every practice and in person at every game, I'm thinking, man,
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: we had this, We knew we had this, but haven't
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: seen him front and center the way we did as
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: a player in the Fiesta Bowl and when he was
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: front and center as a star at Utah. He's been
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: a part of the program. The day to day are
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: like me just hasn't seen him every day. So seeing
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: that Vegas bull just gave me like, ah, this is
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: this is Utah football, this is this is gonna be great.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: And people are very upset to me right now because
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I sent out one of those vague eyeball emoji tweets.
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: Again, some good things are coming Utah's way.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I'll just leave it alone until until announcements are official
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: and until things are.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Completely figured out.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: There's some good stuff happening for Utah, and I know
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: that the folks want us to be realistic about it,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: and I I think that's important because it would be
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: unfair to Morgan to be like, yeah, it's just gonna
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: be Kyle Whittingham two point zero and we're just going
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: to continue on this road and ten wins is the
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: floor and things like that, like he's a first time
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: head coach. Coach people, so I'm going to be realistic
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: about my expectations. But all signs pointing to the fact
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: that Morgan is going to have some really good support
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: and some really good players. So fingers crossed here for it.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Thanks for coming in It's always great talking to you.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Thanks Socie, appreciate it. Man. We'll see at the game tonight,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Yes you will.
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