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Chuck & Buck 2-23 Hour 3: Joey Daccord, Spring Training takeaways pt 2 and is Cooper just bittter or does he have a point? · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: Hey, good Monday morning. It is the eight o'clock hour.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Pallin, Ashley Ryan with you, and we do have
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Speaker 1: hockey on the brain Cracking. I'm going to return to
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Speaker 1: ice Wednesday in Dallas against the Stars, and of course
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Speaker 1: it'll be the first time they've played in three weeks
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Speaker 1: because of the Winter Olympics, which concluded yesterday and in
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Speaker 1: spectacular fashion if you are a hockey observer, the US
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Speaker 1: winning over Canada in overtime two to one in the
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Speaker 1: gold medal game yesterday, and so the US takes gold
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Speaker 1: for the first time since the Miracle on ice. And
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Speaker 1: joining us now on the radio program is Crack and
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Speaker 1: goaltender Joey Decord is with us here on the radio show.
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Speaker 1: Hi Joey, Hey, what's going on are you? I'm all right.
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Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing pretty good.
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Speaker 3: I'm pretty happy after watching that game yesterday.
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Speaker 1: What did you think of that? Huh?
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just so much fun to watch the
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Speaker 3: two best.
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Speaker 2: Teams in the world, the best players in the world
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Speaker 2: going at it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's one of the most amazing hockey games
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Speaker 3: I watched. And yeah, I mean just seeing it to
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Speaker 3: go to overtime was what everyone wanted. And yeah, just
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Speaker 3: just a really special game to watch.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you have an expert I it felt to
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Speaker 1: the viewer and also to the broadcasters yesterday that this
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Speaker 1: is the fastest paced, most intense thing that they'd ever seen.
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Speaker 1: I mean, could you from your perspective from your seat,
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Speaker 1: how how intense did it feel to you?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 3: I think so much that goes into it, right. I
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Speaker 3: think the four Nations happening last year kind of helped
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Speaker 3: with the build up the whole tournament. Like it was
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Speaker 3: interesting because I don't think the team necessarily played their
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Speaker 3: absolute throughout the whole tournament, but.
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Speaker 2: They just kept.
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Speaker 3: Building and finding a way, and I think everyone was
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Speaker 3: kind of hoping that it was going to be US
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Speaker 3: and Canada when it came to the end, and it
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Speaker 3: just built up over those two weeks, right, And.
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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, it was just incredible hockey.
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Speaker 3: In that third period, there were like six different times
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Speaker 3: I had no idea how the tucks didn't go in
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Speaker 3: the net, but somehow it stayed out, and you know,
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Speaker 3: it was just so much fun to watch, Like I
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Speaker 3: I wish, you know, you almost wish you could have
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Speaker 3: that all the time. But it's like That's why those
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Speaker 3: moments are so special, is because they're.
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Speaker 1: So rare, right right. And and I'm curious from your perspective,
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Speaker 1: because I'm sure you're sitting there and you're watching it
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Speaker 1: and you can't help but think, Man, I would love
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Speaker 1: to be in goal right now for the US team,
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Speaker 1: and yet Connor Halibek's playing so well I would even
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Speaker 1: think that an American goaltender was like, Yeah, that's the
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Speaker 1: right guy for the job right there. He's killing it
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Speaker 1: out there right now.
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Speaker 2: He was incredible. Well, yeah he was. He was the
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Speaker 2: start of the game, he was the MVP. He he stole.
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Speaker 3: That game for sure.
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Speaker 2: He was.
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Speaker 3: He was lights out, And yeah, I mean, of course
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Speaker 3: I would have loved to be there. But you know,
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Speaker 3: he was MVP of the league last year for a reason.
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Speaker 3: You know, I think it's hard art you saying he's
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Speaker 3: not the best goal in the world right now, you know,
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Speaker 3: I think yesterday proved that. And uh, you know, he
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Speaker 3: was absolutely incredible and just huge save after a huge save,
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Speaker 3: and yeah, I mean just just so fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: What was the moment that stood out most to you
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Speaker 1: in terms of his game? Which was the save that
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Speaker 1: that struck you the most because you know how difficult
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Speaker 1: that job is.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, of course it's gonna be number one
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Speaker 3: is going to be the paddle save that that moment
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Speaker 3: will go down as as probably. I mean, you could
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Speaker 3: say that's the biggest save in in the history of
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Speaker 3: United States hockey. You know, third period, one to one
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Speaker 3: Thai game. Guy's got an empty net right in front
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Speaker 3: of the slot and and he somehow finds a way
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Speaker 3: to get his paddle on it and deflect it wide.
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Speaker 3: I mean that save.
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Speaker 2: I mean that that save. I don't think you can
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Speaker 2: argue that as being the biggest.
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Speaker 3: But there were so many other good saves he made
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Speaker 3: throughout the game that the the save on Celebrini in
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Speaker 3: the third period, he had he had two saves on
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Speaker 3: Celebrity the third period. Actually he had the one on
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Speaker 3: the breakaway, good read all over it, and then he
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Speaker 3: had the one off the rebound on the power play
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Speaker 3: with a minute least two minutes left. That was I
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Speaker 3: don't I think there were so many different things happening,
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Speaker 3: and the pressure was so high it was almost hard
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Speaker 3: to understand to a non goalie person how big of
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Speaker 3: a save the one was on the rebound on Celebrini
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Speaker 3: and uh and then yeah, you gotta give credits to
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Speaker 3: McAvoy too. He had he had a huge save as
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Speaker 3: well on the goal line, so it was just a
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Speaker 3: total TV effort. But yeah, a bunch of great saves.
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Speaker 1: Well, look, I'm almost everybody listening right now is a
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Speaker 1: non goalie person, So we're gonna we're gonna rely on
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Speaker 1: you to tell us just how difficult that that was.
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Speaker 1: And I remember, what was it a couple of years
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Speaker 1: ago when we actually chatted with you in person and
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Speaker 1: you told us, and I guess I wasn't entirely aware
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Speaker 1: of this, that a lot of goaltending is just being
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Speaker 1: in the right position. That's that's the key to goltending.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes there are shots that hit you that you
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Speaker 1: didn't even see coming, but because you're in the right position,
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Speaker 1: you end up making the save. So I would ask
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Speaker 1: you that legendary, make a poster of it, will be
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Speaker 1: remembered forever. Save with the stick? Was how much was
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Speaker 1: that skill? And how much was that just being in
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Speaker 1: the right position? And then maybe a little bit lucky.
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Speaker 3: Probably like evenly all of those different things, you know,
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Speaker 3: I think for Dave like that, typically when you make
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Speaker 3: a save like that, you're probably out of position a
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Speaker 3: little bit right because you having to make a desperation dave.
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Speaker 3: But if you're looking at the whole play, like Marner
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Speaker 3: comes down kind of comes downhill down the left side
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Speaker 3: from the goalies angle down the left side, and he
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Speaker 3: throws it to the back side. So that's a really
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Speaker 3: hard save to make when that player's skating kind of
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Speaker 3: towards the left corner and then whips it to the
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Speaker 3: back side, Like that's an incredibly.
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Speaker 2: Hard read and incredibly hard save.
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Speaker 3: So he actually makes the initial save with his skate
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Speaker 3: and it's just sitting there, and that's one of those
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Speaker 3: like foot second, Oh no, I got to do something,
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Speaker 3: just try to get something there, and he reaches back
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Speaker 3: with his paddle and it just timed out perfectly and
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Speaker 3: he was able to deflect it to the corner.
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Speaker 2: You know, just like you can't. You don't think about that.
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Speaker 3: That just happened. That's pure instinct and just reacting and
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Speaker 3: pure desperation. So you know, those don't happen very often,
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Speaker 3: and when they do, you know, you love them and
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Speaker 3: you take them. And to have one in such a
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Speaker 3: pivotal moment like that, like you said, that's that's a poster.
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Speaker 3: That's yeah, you know that's gonna be a save and
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Speaker 3: a picture that's going to be played in USA hockey
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Speaker 3: history for.
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Speaker 1: Every Yeah, you got two posters to choose from that,
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Speaker 1: Joey to court. Do you take that one? Or do
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Speaker 1: you take Jack Hughes's game winner, broken teeth and bloody mouth,
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Speaker 1: I mean dried blood plus fresh blood still coming out
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Speaker 1: of the mouth and then smiling as he knows he's
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Speaker 1: taken the US to gold. So you can have one
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Speaker 1: of the two posters of on your wall, Joey, which
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Speaker 1: one you take it?
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Speaker 3: Well? I mean that one's so good, right, Like I
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Speaker 3: think in the Olympics, you get a lot of non
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Speaker 3: hockey people watching the game, and when you think of hockey,
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Speaker 3: you think missing teeth, right, So it's just like so perfect,
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Speaker 3: the huge smile, the flag draped over his shoulders, the
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Speaker 3: blood all over his mouth, the teeth missing, like it
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Speaker 3: was just such a good hockey picture and I think
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Speaker 3: encapsulated our game so well. But for me, I'm gonna
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Speaker 3: go with the goalie because I'm a goalie, so I'm
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Speaker 3: a little bit by it.
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Speaker 2: But I mean, yeah, I think I.
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Speaker 3: Think you can't go wrong either way, right, Like the
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Speaker 3: the photo of Jack is incredible.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Joey to Cord is with us here on Chuck
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Speaker 1: and Buck in the morning talking about that, talking about
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Speaker 1: the Kraken here in a moment, And then I mean,
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Speaker 1: you were born in Massachusetts, and then you played your
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Speaker 1: college hockey in Arizona at Arizona State, and then you're
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Speaker 1: professional hockey up here with us in Seattle. But don't
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Speaker 1: if I remember correctly, don't you have some Canadian ties
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Speaker 1: from your pastor Am I making that up?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 3: No, you're right my entire My dad's from Montreal, and
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Speaker 3: I played two.
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Speaker 2: Years in Ottawa and with Ottawa's farm team.
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Speaker 3: So technically before I played World Championships for the United
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Speaker 3: States last year, I could have technically played for a
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Speaker 3: team Canada.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to, all right, So where did that leave
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Speaker 1: the Decord family and their rooting interest? Yesterday?
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Speaker 3: Then it was funny. I was my dad's actually in
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Speaker 3: town in Seattle, and we were watching the game together
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Speaker 3: and he was like, I just want both teams to win,
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Speaker 3: Like I don't know, like I wish both teams could win.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, he's lived in America for thirty years, now,
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Speaker 3: so I think he feels I think he feels a
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Speaker 3: bit American as well.
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Speaker 1: I would think at this point you wouldn't have to
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Speaker 1: tell your dad the lesson that not both teams can win.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, Joey.
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Speaker 1: To court our guests here on chucking back. All right,
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Speaker 1: So Wednesday you get back to Krack and hockey in Dallas.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's felt like forever. I mean we've watched
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Speaker 1: a super Bowl here and everything else since the Krack
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Speaker 1: and have played a regular season game. Has it felt
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Speaker 1: like an eternity for you since you last put on
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Speaker 1: the pads?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I mean throughout the season we've been playing almost
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Speaker 3: every other day, so then to just go two and
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Speaker 3: a half plus weeks of just no games has felt
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Speaker 3: so odd. And then even like so the break was nice,
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Speaker 3: like it was nice to kind of unplug a little bit, rest, relax, recharge.
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Speaker 3: But then we've been back for a while now too,
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Speaker 3: so we haven't had this much practice since training camp,
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Speaker 3: and it's just felt odd. But we're shopping at the bit,
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Speaker 3: we're excited. We can't wait to start playing games again.
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Speaker 1: What could be the benefits because everybody got the same break,
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Speaker 1: so how can the Kraken use this time off, this
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Speaker 1: unusual period of rest in the middle of the season,
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Speaker 1: to charge up for the rest of the year.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think, like hockey is such a physical game
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Speaker 3: and so physically demanding, and you know it, it is
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Speaker 3: very mentally and emotionally demanding and challenging as well. But
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Speaker 3: just from a physical standpoint, when you're playing a game
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Speaker 3: every other day for as long as we have, like,
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Speaker 3: it's inevitable, guys are banged up, guys of all these
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Speaker 3: different little things bothering them.
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Speaker 2: And I I think, you know, just.
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Speaker 3: Using these two weeks to try to get healthy, get
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Speaker 3: some rests, try to regain some energy, and just you know,
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Speaker 3: kind of gear up for this last final push here
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Speaker 3: to the playoffs. I think that's something we can we
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Speaker 3: can use for sure to our advantage.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and man, I don't know if I've ever seen
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Speaker 1: a team that goes through such hot streaks, such cold streaks.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever experienced a season like this? I mean
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Speaker 1: it feels like you win nine and then you lose
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Speaker 1: nine and then you win nine. It is. It has
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Speaker 1: been an odd thing for the fan to watch. Tell
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Speaker 1: us why this team's gonna be more consistent? The rest
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Speaker 1: of the way.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, honestly, we we just try to take
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Speaker 3: a one game at a time and and try to
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Speaker 3: you know, win the game that's in front of us.
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Speaker 3: It has been a little crazy there with some of
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Speaker 3: the streaks both ways, but I think it's it's biaks
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Speaker 3: to the resilience of our group that we can, you know,
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Speaker 3: go through a cold streak like the one we had
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Speaker 3: early on in the year and then bounce it right
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Speaker 3: back with a big winning streak, can keep ourselves in
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Speaker 3: playoffs contention. And no, we're just gonna take it one
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Speaker 3: game at a time and we're gonna push as hard
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Speaker 3: as we can to make playoffs. That's been our goal
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Speaker 3: from day one, and that's where we want to be.
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Speaker 1: How do you feel about where the team is right now?
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Speaker 1: And how do we How do you feel about where
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Speaker 1: Joey Decord's game is right now?
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Speaker 2: I feel really good with the team.
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Speaker 3: I think everyone would would say that, you know, I
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Speaker 3: think we are a team that has a specific game
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Speaker 3: plan and blueprint for how we need to play it
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Speaker 3: be successful. And the last twenty five or thirty games,
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Speaker 3: I think we've done that very well, and we've just
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Speaker 3: been building throughout the year.
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Speaker 2: I think we're in a good.
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Speaker 3: Spot right now. We've had a good break, we've had
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Speaker 3: a good you know, a little mini training camp here
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Speaker 3: to regroup for the second second half, I guess. But
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Speaker 3: the playoff push, and you know, I think we're excited,
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Speaker 3: we're ready to go. And then for me personally, I think,
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Speaker 3: you know, kind of the same thing has been building
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Speaker 3: my game throughout the year and fine tuning thing here
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Speaker 3: and there, and I feel feel.
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Speaker 2: Good to go.
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Speaker 3: If already I feel excited, you know, I think I
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Speaker 3: think myself and the whole team were locked in for
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Speaker 3: this push.
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Speaker 1: What do you think the Olympics will do for the
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Speaker 1: league the rest of the way. What kind of boost
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Speaker 1: do you anticipate receiving from people being hockey mad right
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Speaker 1: now in America and in Canada.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think hopefully just so many more people got
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Speaker 3: exposed to such an awesome game, right Like, if you've
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Speaker 3: seen a high level hockey game like the NHL, like
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Speaker 3: the Olympics, like you know how fun it is to watch,
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Speaker 3: you know how incredible the sport is. I think it's
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Speaker 3: the most fun sport to watch.
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Speaker 2: Live out there.
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Speaker 3: And I mean again, I'm a member of the bias,
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Speaker 3: but that's just my opinion. And I yeah, I hope
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Speaker 3: that people, just you know, people that maybe aren't as
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Speaker 3: big into it or haven't gotten into it take the
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Speaker 3: time to come watch us and watch the NHL and
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Speaker 3: any incredible players there are.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, I mean this time of year, like.
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Speaker 3: The end of the year, of the playoff push and
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Speaker 3: then into playoffs is the best time to watch hockey.
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Speaker 3: So hopefully, Yeah, the snowball just keep keeps building and
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Speaker 3: hockey just keeps growing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And speaking of the growth, I mean, you
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Speaker 1: played college hockey at Arizona State. For goodness sake, I
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Speaker 1: lived in Arizona and it was not even a thing,
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Speaker 1: and then you you get there and you actually were
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Speaker 1: part of a pretty quick rebuilding building process there. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Austin Matthews is from Arizona. I mean, if hockey can
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Speaker 1: sink its teeth into the desert in Arizona and turn
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Speaker 1: into a hotbed, I mean, what do you think about
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Speaker 1: a game like this, an event like this, how many
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Speaker 1: areas of the country that hockey might just sink its
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Speaker 1: teeth into.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean I find myself super fortunate that I
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Speaker 3: was able to go to ASU and play there. It
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Speaker 3: was such an incredib little experience. But yeah, I mean
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Speaker 3: before I even got like the phone call initially from
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Speaker 3: from coach Powers DOTURDAYSU, Like that wasn't even really on
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Speaker 3: my radar because just growing up in Boston in Massachusetts,
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Speaker 3: like college hockey has such a big presence in New
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Speaker 3: England in the Northeast that you know, I never even
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Speaker 3: really thought about it.
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Speaker 2: And now it just seems like, you know, you.
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Speaker 3: Got like you said, you got kids from Arizona, you
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Speaker 3: got kids from Florida, you get kids from California, Like
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Speaker 3: non traditional hockey markets are seeing kids make it to
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Speaker 3: the highest level, and I think you're just going to
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Speaker 3: keep seeing that continue to grow. Like USA hockey is
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Speaker 3: doing a really good job of promoting the game and
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Speaker 3: trying to get as many kids to play as possible.
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Speaker 3: And it's, in my opinion, the best sport in the world.
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Speaker 3: So you know, we want to see as many kids
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Speaker 3: as we can, you know, out there trying hockey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Joey decorda our guests, and I'll let you go
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Speaker 1: here in a little bit. I do want to ask
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Speaker 1: you two other things. Number One, the Kachuck Brothers made
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Speaker 1: it pretty clear that there is a hatred between US
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Speaker 1: and Canada, and I'm curious if that is something that
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Speaker 1: will well affect a locker room for goodness sake, or
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Speaker 1: if he is he just saying that from an international
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Speaker 1: competition standpoint.
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Speaker 3: I I think that yes, yes, and no, I mean
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Speaker 3: he is right, like when when you're on the ice
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Speaker 3: and you're playing forsa, like you're playing for the flag,
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Speaker 3: you're playing for the country. And when you're playing against
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Speaker 3: other nations, especially Canadas.
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Speaker 2: Them, you know, being you know, the other other.
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Speaker 3: Best country in the world, because now we're the best, uh,
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Speaker 3: you know, like that's that's the biggest game out there.
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Speaker 3: And I think, you know, it's it's more about the
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Speaker 3: the pride that that we have for playing for our
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Speaker 3: country than the hatred for others, I guess. And especially
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Speaker 3: when you get back in the locker room, like there's
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Speaker 3: so much respect between players, Like there's guys that were
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Speaker 3: playing on USA and Canada that have to go back
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Speaker 3: to the same locker room now for their NHL club
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Speaker 3: and I think there's just so much respect like for
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Speaker 3: the top players. Won't it won't be an issue moving
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Speaker 3: forward in locker rooms, right, But yeah, when you're playing
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Speaker 3: for your country. It's such an incredible opportunity. You're just
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Speaker 3: doing whatever you can to help your country win.
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Speaker 1: All right, so we won't have an anchorman you Beneer's
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Speaker 1: Lynn Grin sort of fight in the in the locker
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Speaker 1: room with all the Canadians.
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Speaker 2: Right, No, no.
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Speaker 3: But there was a friendly tricking going on after that.
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Speaker 1: Did you win any bets?
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Speaker 2: No? No, we didn't have anything like that. Okay, letting
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Speaker 2: the guys know that the US was the best in
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Speaker 2: the world though.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, I'm going to close with this. I mean,
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Speaker 1: think about yourself in goal. It goes to overtime, it's
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Speaker 1: three on three hockey and the other team has McDavid,
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Speaker 1: mccarr and McKinnon all on the ice at the exact
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Speaker 1: same time. At you, how are you feeling in that moment, Joey,
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Speaker 1: How was hallibuk hell about thinking in that moment?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 3: Man? I think you're just excited, right, It's like that's
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Speaker 3: the that's the game, that's the moment that you grew
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Speaker 3: up wanting to play in. And I think you're just saying, hey,
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Speaker 3: like it's grateful to be here, get this opportunity. I'm
18:19
Speaker 3: going to do everything I can to help my team win.
18:21
Speaker 3: And you know it's just leave it all out on
18:25
Speaker 3: the ice, that's all it is, right, just leave it
18:28
Speaker 3: all out there, battle as hard as you can and
18:30
Speaker 3: let the chips fall with it.
18:31
Speaker 1: May Joey have a great rest of the season, and
18:36
Speaker 1: hopefully we'll talk to you again really soon. Thank you
18:38
Speaker 1: so much for sharing a little time with us today.
18:42
Speaker 2: Sounds good.
18:43
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.
18:43
Speaker 1: All right, Joey to court joining us right here on
18:46
Speaker 1: Chuck and Buck in the morning, So crack and get
18:48
Speaker 1: back to action. Wednesday they will be in Dallas taking
18:52
Speaker 1: on the Stars. A lot to discuss there with Joey
18:55
Speaker 1: decord the momentum of an Olympic gold medal for the US.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they are grossly outnumbered, Ashley. There aren't about
19:03
Speaker 1: five Americans in that crack and locker room and they're
19:07
Speaker 1: about fifteen Canadians in that locker room.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is Uh, it would be interesting.
19:13
Speaker 5: I would have loved to have I kind of wish
19:15
Speaker 5: or that they would have had like a watch party.
19:17
Speaker 5: I know it was at five am, but like, yeah,
19:19
Speaker 5: I don't know, just and then let us watch them
19:22
Speaker 5: watch it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let us watch you watch the way Yeah.
19:26
Speaker 5: Because I want to hear them talk the trash and
19:28
Speaker 5: just have fun and also see their reactions because obviously
19:31
Speaker 5: they do this for a living versus us two are
19:33
Speaker 5: like everything in hockey amazes me, you know, but with them,
19:37
Speaker 5: it's like, oh, that could have done that, or you know,
19:39
Speaker 5: the trash talking would be so different.
19:41
Speaker 4: I would have loved to see it.
19:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I don't think they're gonna be doing too
19:45
Speaker 1: much celebrating because they are grossly outnumbered.
19:49
Speaker 5: So yeah, it just just even like the trash talking
19:52
Speaker 5: on both sides, I think it would have.
19:53
Speaker 1: Been fun, be funny to see. All right, Maddie, let's
19:57
Speaker 1: go let's talk some trash. Come on, all the Americans,
20:00
Speaker 1: let's go see.
20:01
Speaker 5: But the problem is the Canadians are too nice, so
20:05
Speaker 5: you have to think.
20:06
Speaker 1: When it comes to hockey. Yeah, you mess of their hockey.
20:08
Speaker 1: They're Tim Horton's and their maple syrup, and they're gonna
20:10
Speaker 1: beat the hell ups.
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Speaker 4: True, that's true.
20:13
Speaker 1: We're gonna knock your teeth out of your mouth. All right,
20:16
Speaker 1: Coming up next, What I learned from Spring Training, Part two.
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Speaker 1: Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM.
20:23
Speaker 5: Yesterday was yesterday was all right in the afternoon in
20:26
Speaker 5: the afternoon.
20:27
Speaker 4: Yeah, went for a nice walk, ma'am.
20:29
Speaker 1: Not really an afternoon kind of oh yeah, go or
20:32
Speaker 1: I kind of want to get it done the morning.
20:34
Speaker 1: Good morning to you all. It is Chuck Pall, It
20:37
Speaker 1: is Ashley Ryan with you here on this Monday. No
20:39
Speaker 1: Bucky Jacobson, and I know what you're thinking, it's about time.
20:44
Speaker 5: Yeah.
20:44
Speaker 4: I think in thank goodness.
20:46
Speaker 1: He stayed down there with his family in Arizona, and
20:50
Speaker 1: believe me, everybody in Arizona.
20:53
Speaker 4: Was like, don't go job, don't leave him, don't leave
20:56
Speaker 4: this guy here.
20:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, of all the people that have come and stayed.
21:02
Speaker 1: So anyway, he's down there with the family, soaking it
21:06
Speaker 1: up a little bit longer, burn into a crisp No
21:09
Speaker 1: doubt he'll just be one giant ginger Brickhett.
21:14
Speaker 4: Probably a tomato, really like a fire roasted tomato.
21:17
Speaker 1: That actually makes a lot of sense. But we did
21:22
Speaker 1: provide spring training coverage last week. We love doing it,
21:25
Speaker 1: happy to provide it. I think we came up with
21:28
Speaker 1: some pretty good interviews for you. As I put in
21:30
Speaker 1: a tweet, I think we let you hear from the
21:33
Speaker 1: people you want to hear and had him talk about
21:36
Speaker 1: what you want to have talk about out talked about,
21:39
Speaker 1: and so we wrapped it up on Friday. But certainly
21:42
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of lingering here. I'm still thinking
21:46
Speaker 1: about baseball. I am in baseball mode right now, as
21:49
Speaker 1: we should be after last week's shows, and we're going
21:53
Speaker 1: to replay some justin Hollander for you later on in
21:56
Speaker 1: the program. I thought it was one of the most
21:58
Speaker 1: informative interviews that youneral manager has ever provided us. Great
22:02
Speaker 1: stuff from him, So we're going to replace some of
22:04
Speaker 1: that for you in the nine o'clock hour today. But
22:07
Speaker 1: let me piece together some of the things I've learned.
22:09
Speaker 1: We've already talked about the second base position. Let's talk
22:11
Speaker 1: about this corner outfield, this right field position, and this
22:16
Speaker 1: DH position. And you might be thinking to yourself, well,
22:20
Speaker 1: we don't have like a one locked in guy. It
22:23
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like well, you're right, and that is by design,
22:26
Speaker 1: and they are very happy with that. They don't mind
22:28
Speaker 1: that whatsoever, at least to start the year. I mean,
22:32
Speaker 1: if you're sitting there thinking, man, we've got a lot
22:33
Speaker 1: of just like platoon players, yep, yes you do, and yeah,
22:39
Speaker 1: and they like that. And I don't know why people
22:41
Speaker 1: get so hung up on this platoon thing. It's been
22:44
Speaker 1: around forever. I mean, Casey Stangele was doing it back
22:49
Speaker 1: in the fifties, for goodness sake, I think it was
22:51
Speaker 1: even done before that. I don't know why people are
22:54
Speaker 1: so hung up on not liking platoons. I mean, you
22:57
Speaker 1: know who platoons the most in the entire sport, Dodgers. Yeah,
23:01
Speaker 1: just because your platoon doesn't mean you think you suck, No,
23:05
Speaker 1: just the opposite. They feel like it gives them depth.
23:07
Speaker 1: It feels like they're taking advantage of the strengths of
23:10
Speaker 1: a certain cluster. I mean, I'm sure I know that
23:13
Speaker 1: they like to have a superstar at every position or
23:16
Speaker 1: an all star two superstart every position, but there aren't
23:20
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys to go around, and so
23:23
Speaker 1: what they believe they've pieced together. And look, they've had
23:26
Speaker 1: some platoons blow up in their face. They just haven't
23:29
Speaker 1: worked in the past, and I think that's part of
23:32
Speaker 1: the grudge that some fans hold against them for this philosophy.
23:36
Speaker 1: But it can work. It does work, and if it
23:40
Speaker 1: didn't work, then teams wouldn't use it as frequently as
23:44
Speaker 1: they do. So I think to start the year, I
23:48
Speaker 1: don't think there's any thought that Victor roblaz is an
23:51
Speaker 1: everyday player. I mean it was told to me, no, no, no, no,
23:55
Speaker 1: He's He's a platoon guy.
23:57
Speaker 3: Huh.
23:58
Speaker 1: I think Dom canzone. It's a platoon guy with limited
24:01
Speaker 1: defensive abilities, and I don't know if those are ever
24:04
Speaker 1: going to come around. He can get better, but I
24:07
Speaker 1: think that he's sort of feeling I'm going to be
24:10
Speaker 1: the DH against righties. Ref Snyder might be the DH
24:14
Speaker 1: against lefties, even though he can play a little bit
24:16
Speaker 1: of an out a little bit of outfield. And then
24:18
Speaker 1: Luke Rayley, who's a bit of a wildcard heading into
24:21
Speaker 1: this season. He was very good, don't forget in twenty
24:23
Speaker 1: twenty four, and his season just did not come together.
24:26
Speaker 1: Last year. He wasn't good, then he got hurt, and
24:29
Speaker 1: then he tried to come back and he still wasn't good.
24:32
Speaker 1: I mean, there's no getting around it. We think the
24:35
Speaker 1: world of Luke Rayley.
24:36
Speaker 4: Such a nice man well, and he plays so hard, and.
24:39
Speaker 1: He plays so hard and he does bring a lot
24:41
Speaker 1: of different intangibles. He just wasn't good last year, but
24:45
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that he can't bounce back this year.
24:47
Speaker 4: So that happened to Polanka.
24:48
Speaker 1: He looks good, he's in good condition, good shape. He's
24:53
Speaker 1: a big guy with speed, and he does a lot
24:55
Speaker 1: of little things that help you win. But he's got
24:58
Speaker 1: to obviously put the ball in play. So their plan
25:00
Speaker 1: right now is to, I think have a platoon and right,
25:03
Speaker 1: and I think their plan is to have a platoon
25:05
Speaker 1: at d H. And I think a Rose Arena plays
25:07
Speaker 1: every day at left, even though he's probably the worst
25:10
Speaker 1: defensive player of the entire group. I think the idea
25:12
Speaker 1: is still to put him in left. And then obviously
25:15
Speaker 1: Julio is the you know, the standard out there in centers,
25:20
Speaker 1: that's every day in the middle of your order, Julio Rodriguez.
25:24
Speaker 1: But I will say this another thing that came up
25:28
Speaker 1: that I learned while I was there, and we've talked
25:31
Speaker 1: about it Anders and I during our Stove podcast in
25:34
Speaker 1: the off season. Here's another thing. Baseball season is long.
25:40
Speaker 1: It's one hundred and sixty two games. And if you
25:44
Speaker 1: haven't figured out by now, I mean, you're going to
25:46
Speaker 1: go through lulls, You're gonna go through hot streaks, you're
25:48
Speaker 1: gonna go through cold streaks. And that's why they play
25:51
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two because after one hundred and
25:54
Speaker 1: sixty two game grind, where do you stand amongst everybody else?
25:57
Speaker 1: And they're one hundred and sixty two game grind, And
26:00
Speaker 1: so I think I feel this is the most solid
26:05
Speaker 1: playoff roster. I don't think there's a hole on this roster, okay,
26:09
Speaker 1: that they've ever had in my eleven years covering this team.
26:13
Speaker 1: I think this is their most complete roster that they've
26:16
Speaker 1: had to start a season. There felt to me like
26:20
Speaker 1: there were no loose ends that needed tied up. I mean,
26:25
Speaker 1: the things that they were after re signing Naylor, getting Donovan,
26:28
Speaker 1: getting Foreir, those were all three top priorities. They got
26:32
Speaker 1: them all done. Then they added ref Snyder. So I
26:37
Speaker 1: think that they feel like it was the most relaxed.
26:40
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously they think they have a really good team,
26:42
Speaker 1: so that helps relax you. But it was the most
26:44
Speaker 1: relaxed the camp has ever been. I mean, they were
26:48
Speaker 1: just in a good place. Depoto was floating, Hollander was floating.
26:53
Speaker 1: The entire staff just feels like we're in a great place.
26:59
Speaker 1: We love our team. We felt like we had a
27:02
Speaker 1: really good off season, and we feel like we are
27:06
Speaker 1: going to win the World Series this year. I mean,
27:08
Speaker 1: that's just the attitude. But they did a couple of
27:12
Speaker 1: things last year because we did not feel that way
27:13
Speaker 1: at the beginning of last year. We felt like that
27:17
Speaker 1: was a terrible off season. What did you add to
27:21
Speaker 1: this team? The only thing you really did have significance
27:25
Speaker 1: is brought back Hori Polanko, who was bad the year before,
27:29
Speaker 1: and so we did not feel all that great. Felt
27:32
Speaker 1: like they were a playoff contender at the beginning of
27:35
Speaker 1: the season when we went down for spring training last year,
27:39
Speaker 1: but the roster did not feel complete. A lot of
27:44
Speaker 1: the questions are what are you going to do here?
27:47
Speaker 1: And what are you going to do here? And we
27:48
Speaker 1: didn't have any of those questions this year. And what
27:51
Speaker 1: did they do during the regular season. During the regular season,
27:54
Speaker 1: they hung around, They stayed in playoff contentions, they stayed
27:57
Speaker 1: in divisional contention. And then the trading deadline, they were
28:01
Speaker 1: the most aggressive team arguably in the entire sport. And
28:05
Speaker 1: they added Josh Naylor and they added Gino Suarez, which
28:08
Speaker 1: have been things they've been a little reluctant to do,
28:11
Speaker 1: getting rental players and giving up prospects, and they love
28:13
Speaker 1: all their prospects. It's just something that they don't really see.
28:17
Speaker 1: They don't like that math equation renting a guy for
28:21
Speaker 1: two months and giving up on six years of control
28:24
Speaker 1: of Tyler Locklear. That's just something that they haven't really
28:27
Speaker 1: practiced a lot. Well, they did it this year and
28:30
Speaker 1: it worked like a charm off. Not only did you
28:32
Speaker 1: start playing better immediately and then had another weird slump.
28:36
Speaker 1: I don't know how that happens to this team, but
28:38
Speaker 1: not only did you start playing better immediately, you eventually
28:42
Speaker 1: started playing well enough that you win the division, kind
28:45
Speaker 1: of pulled away in the division. We weren't sweating it.
28:48
Speaker 1: On the last week of the regular season. We knew
28:50
Speaker 1: we're going to get into the playoffs. Got a buye
28:52
Speaker 1: for goodness sake out of the entire thing. And guess what,
28:56
Speaker 1: I think Jerry and Justin loved that. I think they
29:00
Speaker 1: loved the idea of we don't have to have our
29:04
Speaker 1: playoff roster on April first. You know, we so we
29:10
Speaker 1: showed you last year. We kind of liked that rental
29:13
Speaker 1: thing now because we got Josh Naylor and Gino Swarz
29:16
Speaker 1: when it mattered the most, and we only had to
29:19
Speaker 1: pay him a fraction of their salary. And then we
29:23
Speaker 1: used that time with them to figure out which one
29:26
Speaker 1: we wanted to keep, maybe even both of them, and
29:28
Speaker 1: they ended up keeping one of them. And part of
29:32
Speaker 1: the equation is maybe he falls in love with the city,
29:35
Speaker 1: which he did, Josh Naylor. So they haven't forgotten what
29:41
Speaker 1: they can do in season, especially if you keep the
29:44
Speaker 1: payroll in check and they did not cap out. You know,
29:48
Speaker 1: they said that we were going to start this season
29:51
Speaker 1: with the payroll we ended last season with. We're under that.
29:54
Speaker 1: So they got a little bit of financial flexibility if
29:57
Speaker 1: John and the owners drive a hard line on how
29:59
Speaker 1: much willing to spend, and that little flexibility means that
30:03
Speaker 1: when the time is right and after you've had two
30:06
Speaker 1: to three months to assess the roster that you put together,
30:10
Speaker 1: that you can go be aggressive again, fill in whatever
30:15
Speaker 1: holes are created through injury or poor performance, and let's
30:20
Speaker 1: go as long as we have our best team at
30:23
Speaker 1: the end of the year. That's what they can't wait
30:27
Speaker 1: to achieve for twenty twenty six. And last thing, Ashley,
30:32
Speaker 1: to be able to start in so much better a
30:35
Speaker 1: position than what you started a year ago and to
30:40
Speaker 1: have that in your back pocket means this team could
30:44
Speaker 1: look considerably better in the second half of the year,
30:48
Speaker 1: and I think they already look pretty damn special right now.
30:51
Speaker 4: And I completely agree.
30:52
Speaker 5: I mean, I think we have higher expectations for this team,
30:55
Speaker 5: but I think that that's fitting. I think we should
30:56
Speaker 5: because of where they're at right now, and they're offseason
31:00
Speaker 5: mariners getting the three players they wanted right for Rare
31:03
Speaker 5: and I'm not refs Don, Yeah, and then being able
31:07
Speaker 5: to resign Naylor, and then you bring in ref Snyder
31:10
Speaker 5: as a as a bonus, as another utility player to
31:13
Speaker 5: help out where you can. And you've got the young
31:14
Speaker 5: guys who you have a lot of promise with and
31:16
Speaker 5: a lot of faith in. And you know, right at
31:18
Speaker 5: the end of the season, when Jerry spoken talked about that,
31:21
Speaker 5: you know, our off season isn't going to be busy.
31:23
Speaker 5: We're gonna have a couple of things we want to
31:25
Speaker 5: focus on. But this is kind of our formula to
31:28
Speaker 5: go to the trade deadline and make our moves. Then, Yeah,
31:30
Speaker 5: and thank goodness that.
31:33
Speaker 1: Has been the case. I mean, how many we've had
31:36
Speaker 1: I think two highly frustrating trade deadlines. Yeah, Because it
31:41
Speaker 1: felt like I was like, well, we make a little
31:43
Speaker 1: bit of an addition but we also made a subtraction. Yeah,
31:47
Speaker 1: like that's infuriating, that's hair point. I think they're done
31:50
Speaker 1: doing that nonsense because I think it is nonsense what
31:53
Speaker 1: they tried to pull those two years. Yeah, I think
31:56
Speaker 1: they feel a lot better when three of the last
31:58
Speaker 1: five years they've really gone for it at the trading deadline.
32:01
Speaker 1: Even two years ago when you missed the playoffs, it's
32:04
Speaker 1: still felt good and you still have Randy Rose Arena.
32:08
Speaker 4: Because of that, Yeah, exactly.
32:09
Speaker 5: And that's the thing is, I was just glad that
32:11
Speaker 5: this last year worked out so well because I think
32:14
Speaker 5: they already liked that formula and so to have it
32:17
Speaker 5: boost their confidence in going that route, you know that
32:20
Speaker 5: they're like, Okay, yeah, this is us. This is the
32:23
Speaker 5: way we need to do this. This is the way
32:24
Speaker 5: we need to operate. And I think it's even more
32:27
Speaker 5: exciting because you know, if this team goes into the
32:29
Speaker 5: season as strong as they look right now, or as
32:32
Speaker 5: strong on paper as you assume they're going to be,
32:34
Speaker 5: and you get to that trade deadline, you're real pumped.
32:38
Speaker 4: As that trade deadline approaches, I think.
32:40
Speaker 2: They would be really good.
32:42
Speaker 1: And I don't think they run away and hide and
32:44
Speaker 1: win a division by twelve fifteen games. I don't think
32:47
Speaker 1: it's going to be like that. But I do believe
32:53
Speaker 1: we're not going to have those ebbs and flows. We're
32:56
Speaker 1: not going to have that atrocious May that you need
32:59
Speaker 1: to go thirty eight and oh in July in order
33:03
Speaker 1: to save the season. It's not gonna be that type
33:05
Speaker 1: of the year. Yeah, it's gonna be a much more
33:07
Speaker 1: consistent product. I think we're going to win a lot
33:11
Speaker 1: more than we lose and not have that trade off,
33:15
Speaker 1: those trade offs from week to week. We lost six
33:19
Speaker 1: of seven, but you know we've made up for it
33:22
Speaker 1: by winning seven of nine. I don't think it's gonna
33:24
Speaker 1: be that type of the year. I think it's gonna
33:25
Speaker 1: be a lot more consistent, and I think it's gonna
33:28
Speaker 1: be a lot more comfortable of the season. And I
33:30
Speaker 1: do believe in the end we're gonna win the division
33:33
Speaker 1: by a comfortable margin.
33:34
Speaker 4: Okay, let's do it.
33:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right? Coming up next on the program, did
33:38
Speaker 1: Canada end up with Sour Grapes? Sports Radio ninety three
33:43
Speaker 1: point three KJRFM. It does have to be crushing, though,
33:54
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're Canada and you know it's your sport,
34:00
Speaker 1: it's what you do.
34:02
Speaker 4: Yeah.
34:03
Speaker 1: I mean imagine if we just said, if if I
34:06
Speaker 1: just had like a Chuck Powell tournament at my house, Yeah,
34:10
Speaker 1: and everybody came and tried to be Chuck Powell and
34:14
Speaker 1: I ended up not winning it.
34:16
Speaker 4: They were the best Chuck.
34:17
Speaker 2: Yeah.
34:17
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, like I gave out the I couldn't
34:20
Speaker 1: even give it to myself because Craig from Rhode Island
34:24
Speaker 1: was better at being Chuck Powell than it Craig. I mean,
34:27
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be my expertise, right, being me. Yeah,
34:31
Speaker 1: and if I found out that I was the second
34:33
Speaker 1: best at being me, like, it's their whole identity sting
34:36
Speaker 1: a lot. I know. So from that standpoint, I'm a
34:41
Speaker 1: little sympathetic to the Canadian this morning, but also hardy horror, horror.
34:48
Speaker 5: I'm not sympathetic to second.
34:53
Speaker 1: Yeah you got it's it's ham. It ain't bacon, right, Yeah, yeah,
35:00
Speaker 1: you get your get your meats right, get your meat sweats.
35:04
Speaker 4: Going, uh sweaty on Canadian bacon.
35:07
Speaker 1: Get your meats right.
35:08
Speaker 2: Well.
35:09
Speaker 1: And look, look, I can be honest. I think Canada
35:12
Speaker 1: outplayed us yesterday. I mean there was like two shots
35:16
Speaker 1: to one. They dominated the entire second period, half of
35:19
Speaker 1: the third period. If it wasn't for Hellabuck, we don't
35:23
Speaker 1: win that game. Period. He was extraordinary in the contest yesterday.
35:29
Speaker 1: But that's sports for you. And you know, we've we
35:32
Speaker 1: watched the Seahawks take on the Rams during the regular season.
35:36
Speaker 1: They split the games, and in one of the games
35:39
Speaker 1: the Seahawks completely outplayed them and lost, and then the
35:41
Speaker 1: other one, the Rams completely outplayed the Hawks and they lost. Yeah,
35:46
Speaker 1: so that sports, and there was a factor. Hella Buck
35:49
Speaker 1: kept us in the game and then ended up getting
35:52
Speaker 1: the perfect execution for the game winning shots. So US wins,
35:58
Speaker 1: US takes the gold coulations to the US. Does John Cooper,
36:03
Speaker 1: the head coach of the Canadian team, who I really
36:05
Speaker 1: like a lot, does he have a point or is
36:09
Speaker 1: it just being sour grapes when he said afterwards that
36:12
Speaker 1: the overtime rules are terrible and it doesn't feel like
36:16
Speaker 1: hockey when you play that way and the game should
36:19
Speaker 1: not be decided with three on three hockey.
36:22
Speaker 5: I mean, I do think he has a point in
36:24
Speaker 5: the sense that I think we have always had issues
36:27
Speaker 5: with a game that doesn't end in the way the
36:30
Speaker 5: game is played. You know, it's like it's like a
36:32
Speaker 5: shootout in a big game like that, it doesn't feel fair.
36:35
Speaker 4: A goalie like Hella Buck has hell a hell.
36:38
Speaker 5: Of a game, right, and then if that goes to
36:40
Speaker 5: a shootout and we lose in the shootout, it it
36:42
Speaker 5: feels like, well, that sucks for the goalie that.
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Speaker 4: Just crushed him a game long. Yeah, so I can understand.
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Speaker 5: I think three on three obviously a little different because
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Speaker 5: you're still playing hockey, but it is such a deviation
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Speaker 5: from the actual game.
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Speaker 1: I get his point entirely, and I'm with you. I
36:58
Speaker 1: don't think we should deva I think soccer's ridiculous for
37:02
Speaker 1: going just playing until you score, like hockey. That's what
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Speaker 1: hockey players want to do. I don't know. Maybe soccer
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Speaker 1: players don't want to play because the game could last hours,
37:14
Speaker 1: Like you know, I mean, think about soccers just keep away,
37:18
Speaker 1: like if you're playing it the right way, nobody scores.
37:21
Speaker 1: They could play for ten hours, twelve hours without a goal.
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Speaker 1: I don't yeah exactly. So maybe it's not even just
37:27
Speaker 1: physically feasible for soccer to play it that way. But
37:31
Speaker 1: I don't think that soccer should come down to penalty
37:34
Speaker 1: kicks with everything on the line and the regular season. Yeah,
37:39
Speaker 1: it's like baseball. I get that we've gone to the
37:42
Speaker 1: runner at second and extra innings, and that's not because
37:47
Speaker 1: the players are lazy. That's because the executives want to
37:52
Speaker 1: protect their investments and they don't want to ruin their
37:56
Speaker 1: pitching staff for an entire week and a half because
37:59
Speaker 1: they had to play twenty two innings the night before.
38:02
Speaker 1: That's why they did that, And so that's why you
38:05
Speaker 1: have these new overtime rules. It just isn't feasible during
38:09
Speaker 1: a long regular season to have guys play that many
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Speaker 1: extra minutes. And so I do like it for the
38:16
Speaker 1: regular season, right, for the regular season, yes, But when
38:19
Speaker 1: you've got something at stake like this Olympics, four nations.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's like deciding the World Cup on penalty kicks.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it'd be terrible playoffs, all of that shit. So yeah,
38:33
Speaker 1: just play it out, yep. So I get where he's
38:37
Speaker 1: coming from. I agree with him that said, we know
38:39
Speaker 1: what the rules were, and we win and we won.
38:43
Speaker 1: Yeah right, So, and I don't think he was necessarily
38:48
Speaker 1: trying to take from the US it's victory. I think
38:52
Speaker 1: that was more of him grousing about something that he
38:55
Speaker 1: doesn't like about the rules and using that as an
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Speaker 1: opportunity ever going to have a better opportunity to grouse
39:02
Speaker 1: about that particular way that they changed things that said
39:07
Speaker 1: everybody knew what the rules were, and within the rules,
39:10
Speaker 1: we got the perfect execution in overtime and won the
39:13
Speaker 1: game fair and square, and so yes, Connor Hallibuck, and
39:18
Speaker 1: then a hell of a pass in overtime to set
39:23
Speaker 1: up the one timer from Jack Hughes US wins gold.
39:26
Speaker 1: But I feel you, Cooper, I feel what you're laying down,
39:29
Speaker 1: and I hope they do change it by the next
39:31
Speaker 1: time that we play the Olympics.
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Speaker 5: Well yeah, and I was wondering, did Canada play any
39:36
Speaker 5: other overtime games in the Olympics?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I did.
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Speaker 5: And did he comment on the overtime rules when they
39:41
Speaker 5: beat Chechia in overtime?
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Speaker 1: Not that I heard of. So I mean you think
39:47
Speaker 1: it was a little sour greap.
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Speaker 5: That would be my only Oh yeah, because yeah, that
39:50
Speaker 5: would be my only issue. If you have a problem
39:52
Speaker 5: with the overtime rules, you should have brought it up
39:54
Speaker 5: when you won your overtime game.
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Speaker 4: Maybe he did, Maybe he did, I don't know.
39:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it didn't make national news or international news.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be my only thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, coming up next yesterday, excuse me. Last
40:05
Speaker 1: week we were at spring training, of course. Yeah, good
40:08
Speaker 1: luck to anybody trying to top that show. Week of shows,
40:12
Speaker 1: good luck to you, I guess. But there was one
40:15
Speaker 1: particular interview I'm not sure I've ever heard justin Hollander
40:19
Speaker 1: or maybe any GM this informative, this fourth right, and
40:23
Speaker 1: this honest, just candid like, even to the degree that
40:27
Speaker 1: when I did push it too far, he was like, well,
40:29
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give you that, you know, And
40:31
Speaker 1: so I thought it was worth replaying here this morning.
40:35
Speaker 1: We had the conversation on Friday, so it is still
40:38
Speaker 1: very very fresh. Just what the general manager has to
40:42
Speaker 1: say about spring training games getting underway. I think you'll
40:47
Speaker 1: enjoy it. In case you missed it, we're going to
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Speaker 1: replace some of that for you next on kJ R