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5-20-26 Hour 3 - Avs vs VGK will come down to.../The Hunger to Win/Coach & Springer Live in the Penalty Box · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Kine on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 1: every weekday morning from seven to ten on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 2: Uh coach, Are you a Are you a car guy?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: You are?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So let me ask you a question in a
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  Speaker 4: different way. If you had a car, would you take
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  Speaker 4: it out for a drive tonight for game one of
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  Speaker 4: the Western Conference Final?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? I would.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay, good to know.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's actually shocked that he answered it, even even
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  Speaker 4: with how weird of a question.
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  Speaker 2: Sounded like a show host.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, let's see a car anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, having them on the ice is obviously welcome news,
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  Speaker 5: but what he can do on the ice might be
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  Speaker 5: more important.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the thing, man, it's very it's very clearly a
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  Speaker 4: right shoulder issue. The question is what could it be?
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  Speaker 4: It can only be a few things. Vic If you
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  Speaker 4: have a shoulder injury that is painful like that and
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  Speaker 4: there doesn't seem to be a risk of further injury,
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  Speaker 4: that really narrows down the options, doesn't it. So it
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you mentioned this I think the day after
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  Speaker 4: the game, where you're like, could be an ac joint thing,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that would probably make the most sense. Now,
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  Speaker 4: we don't know, but it's one of those weird things
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  Speaker 4: we hear. Guys get hurt in hockey. If you remember,
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  Speaker 4: we watched Landiskott crash into the goal, hit his ribs
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  Speaker 4: on a post. We kind of, I knew it was
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  Speaker 4: a rib thing, but we didn't actually know. Maybe it
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  Speaker 4: was something inside. I don't know you ever had a
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  Speaker 4: cracked rib.
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  Speaker 2: I've not had a cracked rib.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you can all right, you could survive, but
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  Speaker 5: every move you make hurts. You don't want anybody touching.
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  Speaker 2: You now, kneezing, deep breaths. I don't want.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody looking at you. Yeah, so a lot of these
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  Speaker 5: injuries are the same. It's just I lower back. You
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  Speaker 5: know about my back issues. I don't want you even
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  Speaker 5: looking at me cross eyed, and it hurts. So playing
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  Speaker 5: a hockey game is a different story, which is why,
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  Speaker 5: again these guys go out of their way to mask
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  Speaker 5: their injuries. They don't want anybody to know. For this reason,
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  Speaker 5: what do you think Vegas is going to try to
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  Speaker 5: do with Cale mccarr when they see him on the ice?
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  Speaker 4: I am fully expecting in the first two minutes of
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  Speaker 4: this game, somebody's going to take a run on his shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, would I be wrong there, of course not.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they're going to try to do.
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  Speaker 4: If if that, if the same thing was happening the
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  Speaker 4: opposite way, and it was Jack Eichel who had the
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  Speaker 4: same issue, I would fully expect Josh Manson, if he.
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  Speaker 2: Had a shot at it, to go take a shot
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  Speaker 2: at it.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, I've heard people say, you know
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  Speaker 5: tough enough these dudes, let me tell you, they're at
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  Speaker 5: a different level when it comes to toughness.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so most of us.
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  Speaker 5: I know you, you know me, and we certainly know Moser.
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  Speaker 5: Did you imagine when Nathan McKinnon had his face his
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  Speaker 5: nose smashed by a puck?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, I might miss a week of work, let
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  Speaker 2: alone a shift.
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  Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now, there are many things I
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  Speaker 4: think you are able to question in sports. You can
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  Speaker 4: question motivation, you can question toughness at times. I am
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  Speaker 4: not questioning the toughness of.
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  Speaker 2: A hockey player ever.
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  Speaker 6: Ever.
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  Speaker 4: To do that, Ever, if you're willing to put your
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  Speaker 4: face in front of a slap shot to block something,
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  Speaker 4: you don't get to question.
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  Speaker 5: Now, are there softies in other sports, of course, just
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  Speaker 5: like there are softies in life. Pain tolerance is different
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  Speaker 5: for everybody I know, Like I think my mother has
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  Speaker 5: the highest pain tolerance of anybody.
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  Speaker 2: I've ever met. Yeah, everybody's got different pain tolerance. Can
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  Speaker 2: I ask you this, and maybe this is a dumb question.
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  Speaker 2: You ever been hit by my mother's shoes? Though talking
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  Speaker 2: about pain tolerance.
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  Speaker 4: I have never made your mother upset to my knowledge,
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  Speaker 4: this might be a dumb question.
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  Speaker 2: Does kill mccarr need as best he can.
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  Speaker 4: To not show, even if it does hurt, that his
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  Speaker 4: shoulders bothering him? Or does it matter at this point
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  Speaker 4: when you already know what's ailing a player. You know,
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  Speaker 4: at the end of Game five against Minnesota it was hanging.
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  Speaker 4: You could tell he was favoring it, and it was
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  Speaker 4: obvious to kind of everybody. Do you think that he
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  Speaker 4: needs to, to the best of his ability, with as
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  Speaker 4: much pain as he can withstand not show that it
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  Speaker 4: is ailing him during.
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  Speaker 5: I mean I think the game itself will show it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he is he playing his normal self? Is he getting
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  Speaker 5: in the play, is he getting in the zone? Is
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  Speaker 5: he attempting shots? Is he The game will reveal itself,
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  Speaker 5: just much like it did in Game five. Yeah, we're
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  Speaker 5: focusing on him, but you have to understand two. We
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  Speaker 5: have to understand a lot of other players with similar injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Sure there is that are having to get through it.
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  Speaker 2: But the difference here is, and this is what I
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  Speaker 2: think is rare VIC hockey. They they classify injuries in
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  Speaker 2: the most vague and nonspecific way that you give this
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  Speaker 2: reason though upper but exactly, this is one of the
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  Speaker 2: rare times VIC where you it's obvious what the injury is,
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  Speaker 2: you know what it is. The only other example I
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  Speaker 2: can think of this year is when Landy took it
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  Speaker 2: off the cup. Yeah, it's like, I know where that is.
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  Speaker 2: How do you target that? By the way, right?
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  Speaker 4: But I guess to me to go back to kind
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  Speaker 4: of where we started this morning, there's three things that
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  Speaker 4: I think, to me really matter in this series. And
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  Speaker 4: the number one thing is Kale. Like, he's one of
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  Speaker 4: the best players in the world. He's an all timer,
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  Speaker 4: he's a generational type talent. If he is not at
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  Speaker 4: one hundred percent, then that matters. That's one.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a matter of like you said, what extent
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  Speaker 2: are we getting out of that? Is it eighty percent?
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  Speaker 2: Is it ninety percent? Is it sixty percent? The second
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  Speaker 2: thing is I am.
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  Speaker 4: So intrigued Carter Hart, who's had a really good run
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  Speaker 4: so far through twelve games with Vegas as they have
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  Speaker 4: been playing you know, Patty Cake with goalies all year,
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  Speaker 4: they've settled on him and he's done well a save percentage,
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  Speaker 4: he's like nine to seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see if thing's heat up. Anaheim and Utah is
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  Speaker 2: not the Abs. You talking score, but they are not
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  Speaker 2: the Abs. Let's see if the Abs throw nine at him,
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  Speaker 2: if you.
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  Speaker 4: Can put some pressure on him early and maybe get
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  Speaker 4: one or two by him, does he start to leak
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of confidence? So that's two and number
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  Speaker 4: three is is depth. This was Brett Kulak on with
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  Speaker 4: PhD yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: The style of play gives the team a chance to
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  Speaker 7: win every night, no matter if the big guys are
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  Speaker 7: snapping it around and sniping goals or not. The depth
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  Speaker 7: of the team, Yeah, I think the depth and just
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  Speaker 7: the style of play of the team does, and how
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  Speaker 7: much pride they taken in the defensive side of the game,
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  Speaker 7: that allows the team, no matter what's going on, to
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  Speaker 7: be in a game and have a chance to win
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  Speaker 7: every night. I think it's been pretty eye opening for.
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  Speaker 4: Me, everybody being committed to the defensive side. But more
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  Speaker 4: than that, I would compare this a little bit to Minnesota.
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  Speaker 4: It's not totally the same. The Avs were able to
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  Speaker 4: take out either one or two guys from sort of
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  Speaker 4: that tippy top of the talent roster for them, which
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  Speaker 4: was boldy was kind of non existent for five games
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  Speaker 4: Games four and five. Caroll Caprisov had one shot on
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  Speaker 4: goal in two games. Can you eliminate see now I've
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  Speaker 4: said the name is so wrong so many times. I
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  Speaker 4: can't get Dorfiev.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you screwed it for all of us. I know,
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  Speaker 2: I said Dorfus Dorfyev.
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  Speaker 4: Can you limit marnor can you limiticel Can you limit
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  Speaker 4: howden those guys do the bulk of their damage? Can
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  Speaker 4: you make sure that those guys, either one or two
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  Speaker 4: of them are not impactful for huge stretches.
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  Speaker 5: Of This is where Vegas is different from Minnesota. They're
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  Speaker 5: deeper down the middle.
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  Speaker 4: They're just deeper, deeper, not as deep as the Avs,
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  Speaker 4: is what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 2: I gotcha. The Avs have that ability.
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  Speaker 4: Like nick Wahs got six points in nine games in
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  Speaker 4: the playoffs right now, that's something that I don't think
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  Speaker 4: Vegas has got.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm curious, Moser.
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  Speaker 5: I know you're listening to the show as you're driving
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  Speaker 5: to the rink, or you're probably listening to Van Halen's
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  Speaker 5: best of, but you're guaranteed just in case you're listening
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  Speaker 5: to the show, Can you do us a favor and
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  Speaker 5: do something for the show for a change. You know
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  Speaker 5: the guys that are calling the action tonight, you know
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  Speaker 5: the guys from ESPN. Can you possibly get somebody on
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  Speaker 5: the program to talk to us?
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  Speaker 3: Do it?
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  Speaker 5: Most do maybe take a phone call and have them
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  Speaker 5: call us whoever's calling the action for ESPN. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: tell you what Jared Bednar told us an hour ago,
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  Speaker 5: because he poured through all the videotape, right he looked
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  Speaker 5: at what Vegas has to offer, Vegas now versus Vegas
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  Speaker 5: then Vegas now since the last twenty games, they won
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  Speaker 5: fifteen of the last twenty that John Tortorella in the house,
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  Speaker 5: different team.
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  Speaker 2: So what are they? Who are they? What challenges do
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  Speaker 2: they pose? He said?
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  Speaker 5: Quote their defensive structure, they suppress all your chances. They're
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  Speaker 5: very good in their defensive zone. Suppressing chances two. Their
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  Speaker 5: four depth is supreme compared to what they've they havevs
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  Speaker 5: have faced three. They've got veterans on the bunch, eleven
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  Speaker 5: guys from their Stanley Cup champion team of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: three eleven.
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  Speaker 2: So they've been there, They've done that. They know what
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  Speaker 2: it takes.
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  Speaker 5: P K is a well oiled machine. Whether they got
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  Speaker 5: four shorties so far in these.
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  Speaker 2: Playoffs, Howden's got three on his own?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And those are the things that he sees
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  Speaker 5: when he pours through the tape.
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  Speaker 2: And he would be right. I mean they are.
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  Speaker 4: Look, man, when you've got a team that's played postseason
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  Speaker 4: games for a long time together, you have that sort
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  Speaker 4: of chemistry and it's gonna pose a pretty giant challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 4: I think we all know this, the Avs have. It's funny.
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  Speaker 4: I had back to back text in the appetizer, vick
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  Speaker 4: One said I'm nervous as hell for this series. At
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  Speaker 4: the same time, back to back another text came through
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  Speaker 4: that said, I don't know if I'm crazy. I don't
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  Speaker 4: have any nerves. I'm totally confident. And I think that
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  Speaker 4: both of those feelings are probably appropriated yours for every
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  Speaker 4: series me too. You're nervous just because of the unknown,
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  Speaker 4: the bounces that might not go your way, whatever. But
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  Speaker 4: you have a bunch of reasons to be ultimately confident
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  Speaker 4: in this team, and one of them is they've been
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  Speaker 4: the best team in the league since November first. They
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  Speaker 4: have not wavered on that at all since then.
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  Speaker 2: And you kind of think, you know, the.
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  Speaker 4: When you've played this level of hockey over this extended
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  Speaker 4: stretch of time, Well, when you get to the postseason,
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  Speaker 4: did you peak to early? Well, Vic, they're eight and
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  Speaker 4: one in the postseason so far, so that would kind
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  Speaker 4: of tell you that they are now prepared for the
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  Speaker 4: next step of this too.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know how you cannot be anxious about a
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  Speaker 5: series as you one step away from the Stanley Cup finals.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just perfectly natural to be anxious, especially
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  Speaker 5: against this team. And while most of the AVS players
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  Speaker 5: they've changed out players from the last time, right, But
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  Speaker 5: in a fans memory box, what do you remember about Vegas?
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  Speaker 5: You remember to nothing lead going to Vegas and then
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  Speaker 5: dropping four straight. It's just perfectly natural that.
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  Speaker 2: Comes to mind.
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  Speaker 4: I always kind of asked this, Look, it's recent memory,
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  Speaker 4: It's not recent recent though twenty twenty one is a
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  Speaker 4: long time ago. It's five years. Do you think, first
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  Speaker 4: of all, any players, even the ones that were still
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  Speaker 4: on the roster in twenty twenty one, have fleeting memories
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  Speaker 4: of that series?
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  Speaker 3: One?
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  Speaker 2: Two?
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  Speaker 4: Should you allow any of that to creep into this?
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  Speaker 4: Do they have fleeting memories of I mean, they all
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  Speaker 4: remember stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what I'm saying is when the Nuggets played the Lakers,
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  Speaker 2: do you remember what Nathan McKinnon said after that series?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, But hang on, when the Nuggets played the Lakers
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  Speaker 4: in the Western Conference Finals in twenty twenty two, you
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  Speaker 4: were nervous because you were having flashbacks of all the
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  Speaker 4: different Lakers series from.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the day.
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  Speaker 4: Sure they didn't apply to that series, No, not to
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  Speaker 4: that specific because it was too long ago, but you
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  Speaker 4: had it.
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  Speaker 2: In your memory bank. Twenty twenty one doesn't matter for now.
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  Speaker 2: But is it in the memory?
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  Speaker 5: But again for most of these players, who doesn't because
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  Speaker 5: they weren't here. But for those who were here, it better? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: why wouldn't it? Well, if that's the case, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I asked ben nar and Nolla, let me know when
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  Speaker 5: you have this ready. He made a comparison and he's
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  Speaker 5: made multiple comparisons between this team and the one that
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  Speaker 5: won the Cup, but one of them was when you
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  Speaker 5: experienced the heartbreak from the year prior of thinking you've
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  Speaker 5: got a team that's capable of doing something, and then
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  Speaker 5: you don't reach the ultimate goal, or you fall short
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  Speaker 5: or whatever. It can break you, or it can bring
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  Speaker 5: a real hunger within the team to make sure that
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  Speaker 5: doesn't happen again. He said earlier this week that he
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  Speaker 5: sees the same hunger now as he did from twenty
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  Speaker 5: twenty one, and I think that that stuff matters, and
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  Speaker 5: a big difference here is the leadership quality of it.
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  Speaker 5: What's the biggest similarity you can find between twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: two and now. Gabe Landiskag is wearing the sea again
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  Speaker 5: and he's playing really good hockey and he's a leader
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  Speaker 5: within the room, which I think was sorely missing over
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  Speaker 5: the last three years. And it's been a big change.
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  Speaker 5: But it's about keeping your guys motivated. And I think
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  Speaker 5: a lot of them who were on the roster last
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  Speaker 5: year felt that Game seven loss and goes, dude, how.
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  Speaker 4: The hell did we stop after the first round? We
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  Speaker 4: were too good for that, And it's sort of like
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  Speaker 4: a making sure that's not gonna happen again thing, and
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  Speaker 4: ben Nar mentioned it.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what he said, twenty one was a really solid team.
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  Speaker 3: The way we conducted ourselves that year, I really might did.
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  Speaker 3: We were healthy for the most part, in the same
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  Speaker 3: thing last year, and then you go through the heartbreak.
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  Speaker 3: But sometimes there's things that you can't control, like injuries
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  Speaker 3: and guys going down, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: your death disappears. But that wasn't the case in those
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  Speaker 3: two seasons. And you go through it and everyone understands it.
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  Speaker 3: It sticks with you, you know, and it takes you
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  Speaker 3: a while to get over it, and then you come
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  Speaker 3: back the next year and like we didn't shy away
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  Speaker 3: from bringing it up. We brought it up, and the
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  Speaker 3: focus and becomes not so much on just like the
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  Speaker 3: short term goals of winning on a Friday night or
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  Speaker 3: a Saturday night, but like, what how do we have
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  Speaker 3: to conduct ourselves consistently? And then what habits do we
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  Speaker 3: have to build to be able to win come playoff time.
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  Speaker 5: You're always going to get over it always, but you're
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  Speaker 5: never going to forget certain moments. Sure, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: And I remember sitting here, and this is what scares
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  Speaker 5: the hell out of me.
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  Speaker 2: As a fan.
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  Speaker 5: As a fan, I remember we're sitting on this radio
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  Speaker 5: show in twenty twenty one, when those Avs who were
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  Speaker 5: not nearly as talented as these Avs, we've already gone
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  Speaker 5: through that roster. Brandon was the top line, not even
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  Speaker 5: close to the talent that they possessed today. I remember
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  Speaker 5: when they were up two games to nothing and we
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  Speaker 5: sat there and said, well, there's no.
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  Speaker 2: Way Vegas is winning four out of five? What are
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  Speaker 2: we doing here?
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  Speaker 4: Was as guilty as you remember that, we had that conversation,
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  Speaker 4: nobody's winning four out of five against Remember that?
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  Speaker 5: Yep, So that that kind of mentality is still in
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  Speaker 5: my brain.
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  Speaker 2: Because we talked about it yes time. Yep. That sears
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  Speaker 2: through my brain. Yep.
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  Speaker 5: I just think the the Avs, there's so much better
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  Speaker 5: off this time around. It doesn't affect them like it
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  Speaker 5: does us.
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  Speaker 4: I think so too. By the way, it's NAVS game Day.
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  Speaker 2: You can't say restorative? Restorative?
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  Speaker 2: Very nice. Uh So, a lot more to break down
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  Speaker 2: with this game as we go along today.
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  Speaker 4: The Bednar interview should be on the podcast shortly in
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: case you missed any of it.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: Back after this, bro check out what I got. It's
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: very pretty.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: This is uh you know what this is. This is
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: a ten year gift from the company for ten years
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: of professional services.
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: A north faced jacket with a Nuggets logo. Yeah, it
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: looks nice and sharp.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Sexy, sexy, sexy of sexy, sexy.
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: It took a while to get it because my first
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: order they had me pick from jackets and I just
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: saw the one I liked, and they emailed me back
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: and said, you picked the women's chexts.
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: You know there's an office episode about Michael scott or
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: in a suit like that.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they go, are you sure you want this one?
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I go, yeah, yeah, I give you that one. That
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: is a lady's jacket. Well, congratulations on ten years. Damn.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: So that is that ten in radio or TV or
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: just the company in general?
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: What is this? Pretty much started at the same time.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks sixteen, it's actually ten plus five months.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: God that went quick man. Holy crap, I think about that.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I've been here for seven seven really yeah, I remember
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: when I didn't know your name. You thought it was Greg.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: That's a real thing.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: By the way, for those who are just listening, Vic
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: would call me Greg in the middle of the show. Sincerely,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: like six months into it, Greg.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: This is honestly the nicest jacket I've ever owned. Like
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: these kind of jackets.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: See, those are one of those. They're deceiving because they
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: look like they're a thinner jacket and they're not. They're
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: super warm, really.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: Warm, really warm.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: I got Miss Little Nuggets logo on it.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: How about this Nick Katsanika, who's a writer for NHL
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: dot com. At Ballerina today, Cale mccarr is on the
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: ice early for the Avalanche. Were scheduled to hold their
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: morning skate at nine thirty, no surprise, So he's out
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: there before getting some work.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: I asked Jared Bednar point blank when he joined us
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: on the show earlier, if mccarr will skate tonight, and
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: he told us what What did he say? When I
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: asked him point blank? What was his just find the
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: answer forget the question part of it? When I asked
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: Jared bedenar point blank, do you expect Cale mccarr to
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: skate tonight?
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: Yes, I would.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is not how it was asked, but yes,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: go ahead and take credit.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Vic.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: All I'm saying is it seems.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: To me for sure that Cale's going to play. It's
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: just what you said, It's what extent is he going
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: to be? Now if you had to compare your nerve level, forget,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: like where you are in the playoffs, Vic, just straight
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: up matchup.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: By the way, somebody just said, glad to hear that
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: everyone but is actually reporting news from.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Skate Mosh is seething right now because he's probably still
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: driving there and he's like.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: Time win.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Forget like where we are in the postseason, because as
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: you the farther you go, the more angsty you get
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: about how close you are getting the taste of maybe
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: another cop.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Just straight up matchup.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Are you more nervous about this series or Minnesota from
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: a matchup perspective?
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: Yes, the same, Okay, I don't know what else to say,
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: every sir. The only series I wasn't really nervous about
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: was the first one, because I said, come on, really,
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: LA was.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Even though the games were close. Yeah, they're close.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: You could see the difference right in talent. Yeah, I
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: would say, I'm I'm the exact same I was before
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: the Minnesota series. I am I'm, I'm like ooh, I Actually.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: It's gonna sound weird the way I put this.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: I agree with you while also acknowledging I think that
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: Minnesota was the best team that was left in the West.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Does that make sense? My nerve, my nerve level is
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: the same. Yeah.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: It's not always who wins the who who is the
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: best team left in the West? When Dallas and Avs,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: the Avs met last year, who's the best team left
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: after that series?
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Who represented? And then who represented the West? And the
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Stanley Cup years?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Sure? I mean, just who you think is the best
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: team left doesn't matter. The best team is the best team.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: This is like a major benefit of taking care of
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: your business during the regular season. By the way, God,
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: is it great to have these first games at Paulerino
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: to have and that place is going to be an
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: absolute madhouse tonight of Avs fans who have been waiting
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: and waiting again, doesn't this blow you away?
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Vic?
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: For the amount of success that the ABS have had
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: and as good of a team as they've been for
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: a decade now, a decade. This is only the second
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: time they've made it past the second round of playoffs. Second,
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: isn't that crazy?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Well, they won it all, so they obviously did it.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Then that's it. Yeah, it's then, and then this year.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: You know, you could say the same that that the
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Nuggets have a similar trick.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Right, They've done it twice.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: They got to the Western Conference and the bubble bubble
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: once and then yeah, they won it. And that's what
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: makes the playoffs such a painful journey, because you might
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: have a team that's better than your championship team on
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: paper and it gets eliminated in the first round.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, for sure, that happens all the time.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: Like, let me ask you what team, which Avalanche team,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: in your mind, was the most talented team?
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Was it the Cupier? Yeah? I think we'd agree the
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: cup Yer.
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: Right, is this one more talented on paper than that
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: cup Yer?
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Yes? I think so.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: And in fact, I don't even think it's a think.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: I think it's probably a fact. It doesn't mean the
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: results will be the same exactly. That's what we said
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: that about the Nunuggets. The Nuggets, which team on paper
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: was the most talented.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: It was this one. This one. Now, injuries had a
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: big hand in the Nuggets stuff.
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: But god, we forget to the year that the Nuggets
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: won it all. Did we hear any peep about injuries.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: During that playoff run?
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Take nobody was hurt. There was knickknack stuff, but nobody
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: was hurt. Yeah, guys, go back to that season and
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: think about how we take it for granted. Think about
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: how we take health for granted. Remember every step of
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: that season nobody was hurt.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Well, go back to what said earlier this week.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: But it's partly why I think it's the hardest trophy
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: to win is just because of the grind of it all.
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: So not only do you have to be good, you
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: got to be lucky, You got to be healthy, you
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: gotta be tough playing through injuries, you got to be
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: mentally tough, because it's a grind every day. Because it
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: feels like every game is a Game seven. You know,
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: like I got to ask a bunch of questions last round, Well,
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: you know this is a close out game. Makes it
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: different from you know, Game one or and the answer
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: truly is nothing. Every game feels like it's Game seven.
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: And that you need to win it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: And let me bring something else up. I do think
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: this stuff matters, and we can quibble on how much
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: it matters or whatever. We all know that having Gay
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: back in the lineup is a huge, huge asset for
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: a number of different reasons.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Do you know what I think? It is important that.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Maybe the Nuggets felt like they were missing this year.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Did they look like they were having fun?
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: No?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Well, there was moments.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: The most fun the Nuggets had was the month that
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: they were missing all their players.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: Do you remember that month?
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: Do you remember the happiness, the giddiness, the hope, the promise,
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: Oh my god, the joy, the sheer joy during the
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: month of January.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Would you agree with me that was the happiest month
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: of the season. Yes.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: And I only bring that up with the Nuggets to
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: say this about the Avs.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: The Avs look like they're having fun. There was a
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: moment yesterday. He's also professional.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: I mean I was in that room yesterday, the look
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: on all of their faces. Yes, but it is locked in.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: You can be professional and take care of business while
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: also having fun, because that's.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: What the sport is. It's it's entertainment. It's fun.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: There was a moment yesterday. It's not worth playing the
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: audio because you can't even hear it. It's more of
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: a video thing. But Landy and McKinnon are doing a
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: joint sort of presser. I don't know if you saw
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: this yesterday, Vic, and they introduced him and they said,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: now at the podium is Avalanche Captain gab Landeskog and
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Avalanche center Nathan McKennon. And McKenny goes yea, and Landy
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: goes barely audible in the mic yes, and say assistant
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: captain for me, and Landy just burst out laughing like that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: I'm not I know that's a little thing that probably
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: nobody cares about or whatever. I do think that stuff matters, though.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: This is in the middle of what you're talking about, Vic,
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: a very professional approach, knowing what business needs to be
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: taken care of. And if there's anybody on this team
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: that does not suffer stupid little moments like that, it's
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Nathan McKinnon, right.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: And even then in that moment it's.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Like I didn't say assistant captain, like he didn't give
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: you my proper accolades. I think that stuff shows that
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: there is along with professionalism a joy that you play with.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: You're having fun, and that stuff matters too. It's all
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: of it.
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: And look, game one tonight, you had a week off,
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: time for guys to get rested in healthy.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: We went on, not just mccarr.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: I asked at the very end of the interview, is
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: everybody going to be available tonight? And Bennard gave us
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: a well see, But I mean, doesn't it feel like
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: vic throughout the course of this week, seeing how things
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: have progressed, all the guys that have been dealing with
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: injuries that have kept them out of games or practices.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: That week off did Wonder's brother mccarr's been the only question,
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: are right?
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: You know?
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm listening to Malinsky who missed what he missed?
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: The last two games? Or the last game of the
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Minnesota series. I can't recall now. I believe it was
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: the last yeah, Lecky and Malinsky?
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the last two. I believe whatever.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: Was ailing Malinsky seems to be gone. Yeah, he seems
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: to be fine.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: And look this up and get a clear look.
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: So that week off, I'm telling you that was a
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: that was the best thing to happen to these apps.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: And but you earned that. You are like taking care
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: of your business.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Now, imagine if they have to go back to Mini right,
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: and then it goes Sunday, right, and now you're now
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: you're in a hurry for this game. Now you're just
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: trying to right. I mean, that changes the footprint of
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: a playoff run. It changes everything. And maybe that's why
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: last year we wondered, well, what happened to Dallas after
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: they got through the aves. Maybe maybe those tough series they.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Just catch up to you.
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: So being eight to one in the postseason, that's what's
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: different about this team.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they were able to take care of business in
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: the regular season. They took care of business in the
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: first series, and they took care of business against a really,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: really difficult team in the second series to earn the
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: right to get some rest in in get some bodies
• 27:20
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• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Again.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: The Aves have done a very good job at I
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: would say the the word professionalism.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: Over the course of this postseason run. They have.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Never felt as if they were taking anything for granted.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: They have stayed disciplined to the style of the game
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: that they need to play. And I know that the
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: excuse me Vegas is going to try and limit the
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Avs breaking out using their speed. This isn't gonna be
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: an LA series though. This isn't gonna be totally muddy
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: two to one win. I think this is gonna be
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: a little bit more open.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: This is a series two where we talk about the
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: top line always being limited and they neutralize each other.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Nathan McKinnon remember scored in every game in that Minnesota series. Yeah,
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: this might be one of those where the Cadre line,
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: you know, they got to do something.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Rock Nelson, those rocks a big one.
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: That's the depths, that's where that's the difference here.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Brock's a big one. And you know the.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Difference too between this year's AS team and the one
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: that lost to Vegas twenty twenty one.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: The size. They're bigger. Yeah, they're just bigger. They are bigger.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: That's where guys like Nick wah Helps obviously, Brent Burns,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: guys like that. I will say if there's one group
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: that I need more from, and maybe one guy in particular.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: It's not to say that brock Nelson has played poorly
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: in the playoffs.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I don't think he has.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: But your responsibility is to get some points, put some
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: goals on the board, rack up some assists, do that
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: sort of thing, and there hasn't been enough of that
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: throughout the first couple of rounds. You've been very fortunate
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: and you've earned the stuff that you've gotten from lines
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: three and four, and those are huge if you can
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: combine that with your second line producing at the level
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: that they should be. I mean, you were you're talking
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: about in absolute force that the apps would be for
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: the remainder of this postseason and specifically in this series.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: You have to find your advantages, and they certainly have
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: some at the tippy top of their roster.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: With the top end talent that they have.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: If you can get it in the middle that's sort
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: of that middle six of your forward group, it would
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: be a gigantic difference maker. So all of that is
• 30:42
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• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Altitude Sports Radio ninety two to five.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: Somebody's just sent the Vegas charter Vegas Golden Knights. Boy,
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: they got their charter all dressed up in their logo
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: and all that, and they just sent that they landed
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: up in jeff Co Airport.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: They didn't go to d I A. Is that common.
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: Choosing jeff Co? Is this like it's gonna be different?
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: It thing's a little different there in Vegas.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: I have no idea that.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Wait, are the Nuggets and NAVS planes wrapped in their
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: logo and stuff too. It's gonna say that's very Vegas
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: of them.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, got.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: The giant logo on the tail of the plane, Vegas
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: Golden Knights.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: The entire fuselage probably bought the charter. Oh for sure.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: The Patriots. See the Patriots, they have like two charters.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: So they're saying they arrived today that I'm confused. Here
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: helped me out.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Text, There's no way that that post is five hours ago.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: That I mean it was four thirty in the morning.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, not the case. No, maybe it's just sitting there. Yeah,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: maybe that hard to believe.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no way they got it today, no chance.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: Textor says brock Nelson has been huge on the penalty kill.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: For sure he has. And I'm not again, I don't
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: want to make it sound like he's had a poor post.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: And all I'm saying is I would like to see
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: that group in particular that line, like, I think Valves
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: played great, but val hasn't.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Been a lot in the scoring sheet. I need that
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: to change. So these are the.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: Things I'm weird like this. I'm watching Cadrew speak yesterday,
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: and do you remember the year they won the Cup?
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: His thumb was just absolutely yeah, tortured. He had pins
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: in his thumb bitten movie. I don't even know how
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: he shot the puck. I'm looking at the scars where
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: those pins are located in his thumb. I'm looking at
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: his fingers. Is he able to move his digits right?
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: And he's moving his digits perfectly, no sign of digit
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: impediment whatsoever, All digits moving perfectly.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Spirit fingers. Yeah.
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: I mean this when you start looking at stuff like that,
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: like is he good for sure?
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Good?
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Right? Yeah?
• 32:45
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  Speaker 5: That post was from yesterday when they arrived. Yeah, at
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  Speaker 5: the Jeff Coo Airport. So they're probably staying up north.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no chance they got in today zero zero zero.
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  Speaker 5: In their Vegas ways. Maybe they make a quick loop
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  Speaker 5: to central city black Hawk. Oh, so you have to
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  Speaker 5: lay the land there, throw down a couple of rolls,
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: spin quarter slots with my mother.
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  Speaker 2: For slots, head back, get ready for a game.
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  Speaker 5: How good would that be if Mark Stone just tidled
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: up to a slot machine next to my mother.
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  Speaker 2: He's not playing, he might his bank account would be
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  Speaker 2: on lt I R.
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  Speaker 3: Vic.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: That is true. So one last preview of this game next.
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  Speaker 4: All right, so the morning sprint is live for the
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna bounce. So let's talk to the boys from
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  Speaker 4: the penalty box. Hello, gentlemen, it's up Brad.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 6: Man?
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  Speaker 9: Hey?
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  Speaker 2: S So I saw that Cal mccarr was getting some
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  Speaker 2: early work on the ice.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, we showed up a coach and I about ten
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  Speaker 9: minutes ago. We're sitting in the penalty box. I have
• 34:12
  Speaker 9: not seen Cale yet, but I did see the tweets
• 34:14
  Speaker 9: that he was on the ice. But with my two eyes,
• 34:19
  Speaker 9: I have not seen Cale mccar, right, But you know,
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: I haven't seen Nathan McKinnon, Gabe Landis dog. We did
• 34:26
  Speaker 9: see Nachushkin skating, Brock Nelson, Blankenberg. You saw Blankie, Yeah, Bardicoff,
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: I must have missed him because he's so small. Jacka
• 34:36
  Speaker 9: Sean is small. He was out here, but he played
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  Speaker 9: good defense. So I don't know. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 9: Gabe and Nat aren't out here. Cale wasn't out here
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  Speaker 9: when I was here. But you know, hey, I heard
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  Speaker 9: it about your question, Brett. That was quite the question
• 34:50
  Speaker 9: you asked the Jared Bednall.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think we got the answer we wanted.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna play right, and I mean that's what's happening.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that is.
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  Speaker 9: It seems to be the case. Very cleverly done by you,
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  Speaker 9: Jared Bennar. I I assume I didn't hear it. Brady
• 35:06
  Speaker 9: said he would drive his car to the arena. We
• 35:09
  Speaker 9: can play it at night. We'll play it for you here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, please listen.
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  Speaker 4: If you had a car, would you take it out
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  Speaker 4: for a drive tonight for game one of the Western
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  Speaker 4: Conference Final?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? Would?
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Oh see that's all you need. So that's that's journalism
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  Speaker 2: and it's finest.
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  Speaker 6: I don't really understand what we're doing there. Are you
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: talking about my car? Are you talking about my car?
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: Are you talking about my car? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Where's my car?
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: See here's the problem, Stamford. We talk to him every
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: week and during the playoffs, like coach. I don't know
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: if you guys, I'm.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Sure you guys have heard it.
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: He's incredibly every week riveting stuff coming from the other canner.
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  Speaker 4: No, he's an incredibly honest coach for for hockey. He
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: gives us a ton of stuff. But when the playoffs start,
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: you ask about injuries, he always gives you an I
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  Speaker 4: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I tried to back door, and I think I did.
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  Speaker 6: I think you did a really good job, and I
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: think you're kind of getting to kind of die under
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  Speaker 6: resine levels of journalism. I'm really impressed with so really
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  Speaker 6: good job Kaner, breveting stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I do whatever it takes for the story. Just always
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  Speaker 2: remember that.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I asked this question to Vic, let me ask you
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  Speaker 2: and Springer.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: You're always on the postgame show between the Pipes with
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: Raj talking about this every single game. Minnesota felt like
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: it was the best and most talented team left in
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: the Western Conference when you played against them.
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  Speaker 2: You won that in five. Do you feel any better
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  Speaker 2: about this series heading into it than you did with Minnesota?
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  Speaker 9: I feel about the same. I suppose My only worry,
• 36:41
  Speaker 9: Brett is that you know this really is like a
• 36:45
  Speaker 9: step down in competition. And do the Avs do they
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: have any Game three in Minnesota moments where they were
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: up two to zero in that series, where they were up,
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: where they were six and oh overall, and it felt
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  Speaker 9: like they could just waltz. They felt like they could
• 36:59
  Speaker 9: just alts in to Saint Paul and get that win
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  Speaker 9: and that it would be easy. In Minnesota had an answer,
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  Speaker 9: and then the Avs played like like crap that night,
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  Speaker 9: and you know, they really beat themselves because I think
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  Speaker 9: that they for the first You know, when you're six
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: and oh and you know you're on such a run,
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: you might rest a little bit, you might. I just
• 37:21
  Speaker 9: don't want the Avs to look at this and say, oh,
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: we we just won the quote unquote Stanley Cup Finals.
• 37:26
  Speaker 9: We just beat maybe the best team remaining, as they
• 37:29
  Speaker 9: eliminated Dallas, who we all would have said was the
• 37:31
  Speaker 9: second best team behind the Ads. So I think if
• 37:34
  Speaker 9: they treat this like it is the Stars, like it
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: is the While, like they should get this series.
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  Speaker 6: I need too. Yeah, I thinking Canner. I'm feeling a
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: little bit gosh. I almost feel like this is a
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: bit of a doubt Stars vibe going in and meaning
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: just the style of hockey isn't gonna be such that
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: you can expect a nine to six win in game one.
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: You're probably gonna see. You're gonna see a game it's
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: two to one. You might hell, you might see a
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  Speaker 6: one a one nothing game, you know, where you there's
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  Speaker 6: an empty netter and you know you end up tying
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  Speaker 6: it up and going to overtime and the winner wins
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  Speaker 6: two one Like those are the kind of games that
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  Speaker 6: I could see happening in this series, which is frankly,
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  Speaker 6: I think as a as a hockey fan of the
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: Colorado Avalanche, you feel so confident that they can outscore
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  Speaker 6: anybody's offensive output. But you wonder sometimes about this gritty, grimy,
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: gross kind of style of hockey that that you know,
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: some of these teams do play in the in the
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: postseason against the app So that's the concern for me
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  Speaker 6: is how grimy and gritty does it get? And do
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  Speaker 6: you do you have the health to be able to
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  Speaker 6: match and surpass that physicality and intensity that we think
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: that Vegas is gonna bring.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's totally fair and and something that look,
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: I don't know if you get the full answer from
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: one game tonight, But I am I am really curious
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Vegas has had at their goaltending spot. Basically the Abe
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Simpson meme if somebody walks through the door had on
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  Speaker 4: the hat rack, grabs it and walked right back out.
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  Speaker 2: It's just been a revolving door of guys.
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  Speaker 4: They've settled on carter Hart, who's played really well this
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: postseason so far, but facing Utah who can score, and
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: then facing Anaheim in the second round is not facing
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: what the Avalanche are going to bring to the table.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: The Mammoth averaged three goals a game against carter Hart
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  Speaker 4: in that first round, despite losing in six. If he
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: can continue to play at the level he's been playing at,
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: which is about a nine to seventeen save percentage, then
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Vegas has got a good shot. But I don't know
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: if carter Hart's going to be able to do that
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  Speaker 4: against this team.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: And no offense to the to the Utah Mammoth, no
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: offense to the to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, of California,
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: of Los Angeles. This is not the same team that
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: you've seen the last two series, or even remotely close
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: to it. So the volume in the quality is going
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: to be very different for Carter Hart than what he's
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: seen in this postseason.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think they're spring Carter Hart?
• 39:57
  Speaker 9: He you know, he was once like when he with
• 40:00
  Speaker 9: the Philadelphia Flyers, he was a good goaltending prospect. He
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: was in that Mackenzie Blackwood era where Blackwood was a
• 40:09
  Speaker 9: good goaltending prospect with the New Jersey Devils. Then obviously,
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: you know, Carter Hart got caught up in some some controversy.
• 40:18
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna call it controversy, sure, but he was starting
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  Speaker 9: to come into his own at the end of that
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  Speaker 9: run with the Flyers, and you know, Vegas loses a
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: Logan Thompson to the Washington Capitals and they're looking for
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: cheap goaltending and Carter was available, and you know what,
• 40:34
  Speaker 9: like you're singing with Mackenzie Blackwood right now, like he
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: he once upon a time was a good goaltending prospect
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: with the New Jersey Devils, and look what he's turned
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: into a pretty good goaltender.
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  Speaker 6: So it's in there with Carter.
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  Speaker 9: Hart, like he has the natural raw talent, but you
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: know he's he had to miss some time from the league.
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  Speaker 9: This is his first kind of you know, real full
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: long stretch of playing in a in a few years,
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: and now he's got to go up against an offensive jugger,
• 41:01
  Speaker 9: not after you know, allowing some goals to Utah and Anaheim,
• 41:04
  Speaker 9: and this aint Utah and Anaheim. So look, could Carter
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: Hart reached that full potential of his Sure he could,
• 41:10
  Speaker 9: But to do that in the Western Conference finals with
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  Speaker 9: that team in front of you is it's that's gonna
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: be a big boy moment for him if that's where
• 41:18
  Speaker 9: he decides to finally reach that high ceiling he has.
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: We talked to the coach and I asked him the
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: question because he said earlier this week about there's a
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: hunger with this team that reminded him of after they
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: lost to Vegas in twenty twenty one, that they were
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: not taking anything for granted. Let's say, and I think
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: there's another correlation that's very simple, and maybe I'm oversimplifying it,
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: but the numbers bear this out too. The biggest common
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: denominator you have in winning the Cup in twenty twenty two,
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: in the run that this team is on right now,
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: is that you have your captain there. And I do think,
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: you know, sometimes people can over blow the importance of like, oh,
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: you need a lead in the room, and this is
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: the big difference. But I don't know if you can
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: with what Laniskog means to this team. I mean, what's
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: their record. They're like fifty two eleven and seven or
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: something like that. When he plays in games this year,
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: which is an insane pace, it's something wild. And for
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: him to be not just the player that he is,
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: which is equally as amazing that you take three years off,
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: you come back and you're still playing well, but for
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: him to have sort of the gravity of the room
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: in place, I think is huge.
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Caner, you're a hat guy. I'm a hat guy.
• 42:33
  Speaker 6: You ever just had the hat you might not have
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: seen on the rack that you think is gonna be
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: like the best hat that you own and it just fits. Yeah,
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: that's what Gable Aiskog is.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: You can't really define why per se, other than the
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: fact that he's a great leader. He's the glue guy.
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: He keeps things moving. But there's no one particular thing
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: about his game that makes you say that is the
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: most important piece by far on a team that otherwise
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: is incredibly talented. But it is that way, man, It's
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: that hat that just fits perfectly man, and you slap
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: that sucker on, You're like, yep, I feel like I
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: don't need to colb my hair today. I'm ready to
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: go attack this day.
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  Speaker 9: It's really fun. It's it's nice when you got a
• 43:12
  Speaker 9: hat that fights for you. That's handsome. That's a handsome hat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: I think I don't know if I've ever called a
• 43:19
  Speaker 9: hat handsome. I think you have one right there, man,
• 43:21
  Speaker 9: that's a kind of my chili ones hat on today.
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think I made the cut on that
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: giveaway from from the boys?
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  Speaker 3: Is it?
• 43:27
  Speaker 6: Tyson Berry and Nate McKinnon. They didn't think about.
• 43:30
  Speaker 9: Me, spring Yeah, I'm an avalanche, very important person, the chillest.
• 43:34
  Speaker 9: I'll get you one because you're you're an AVS insider
• 43:37
  Speaker 9: and you asked Jared Bednar the hard hitting question.
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: So I'll get you.
• 43:40
  Speaker 9: I'm gonna get you a chili One's hatter, right I have,
• 43:43
  Speaker 9: I have one, but.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: I'll take another.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: A hat guy. I'm a hat guy. I'm also an avalanche,
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: very important person. You don't know what's hockey bread season?
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: Please springer? All right, boys, we'll toss it out to
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  Speaker 4: you guys in a few minutes. Thanks for joining me
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: see you. Absolutely, Springer and Coach gonna be there on
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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