Latest / Moser, Lombardi and Kane / 5-14-26 Hour 1 - AVS WIN GAME 5 IN OT/Makar dinged up, Making the goalie swap/Depth win this series
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Kane on demand.
- 0:04Speaker 2: Listen live every weekday morning from seven to ten on
- 0:07Speaker 2: Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five and on the Altitude
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- 0:18Speaker 3: Boy Natus just got completely walks through the neutral zone.
- 0:24Speaker 3: Docy dove by boldy Is Blackwood makes this safe rebound
- 0:28Speaker 3: as they score. Boy miss penalty at centerized really costs
- 0:31Speaker 3: the Avalanche three nothing Minnesota.
- 0:34Speaker 4: You heard the autum miss Lynch. Make it so all
- 0:37Speaker 4: the way through for Burns can heat thread the needle,
- 0:39Speaker 4: nickd release the bounds spread Burns.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Gets the Avalanche on the board. It's chipped by Parker Kelly.
- 0:51Speaker 4: Break it walk back up for Tape room to shoot.
- 0:53Speaker 1: Lets it go, blease God, you're a dreary duty.
- 1:00Speaker 3: So now with the circle McKinnon short aggle.
- 1:06Speaker 5: The mac attack's back jack goes at six straight.
- 1:11Speaker 1: For Nathan McKinnon and with a minute.
- 1:14Speaker 5: And twenty three seconds to go in the third period,
- 1:18Speaker 5: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages, this
- 1:23Speaker 5: is a tie hockey game.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Make it so, Nature's far a circle, Natures good time
- 1:28Speaker 1: or two these go.
- 1:33Speaker 4: And you know them to go home.
- 1:35Speaker 1: But you can't stay here because of this series omer.
- 1:43Speaker 6: That is the primal scream of one. Mark Ryecroft on
- 1:47Speaker 6: the call with Connor McGahee. I like what a Textra
- 1:51Speaker 6: says in the appetizer it was the worst best game
- 1:55Speaker 6: he's ever seen, because that's kind of how it felt.
- 1:58Speaker 6: There's something about theirs and Nelly told me this. It
- 2:02Speaker 6: blew my mind. The Avs have not closed a series
- 2:06Speaker 6: at home since two thousand and eight. The entire bed
- 2:11Speaker 6: In Oar tenure, which is a decades a decade's worth
- 2:15Speaker 6: of playoff runs every year, never been closed out at
- 2:19Speaker 6: home until last night. And we know the game five
- 2:22Speaker 6: scaries at home that have happened in the past. Do
- 2:24Speaker 6: you think about Saint Louis. I'll be honest, most what
- 2:28Speaker 6: hit me. McKinnon scores the impossible goal with the extra
- 2:32Speaker 6: attacker to tie things up, and you're just like, oh
- 2:34Speaker 6: my god, short side top shelf, a window the size
- 2:41Speaker 6: of a puck he puts in, and I was like,
- 2:47Speaker 6: please win an overtime because this is gonna have the
- 2:49Speaker 6: same feel as Saint Louis in Game five and twenty
- 2:52Speaker 6: twenty two, where he scores an insane goal and then
- 2:54Speaker 6: it doesn't.
- 2:54Speaker 7: Matter, please, And they did I mean you were there most.
- 2:59Speaker 8: You tell me, I like, I finish it off and
- 3:02Speaker 8: in it. Vick was there. I was there. It was crazy,
- 3:10Speaker 8: it was I thought it was over.
- 3:11Speaker 4: I thought that.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd be lying if I said with seven minutes
- 3:15Speaker 2: to go in the game, I wasn't planning on which
- 3:17Speaker 2: clothes I'm taking to Saint Paul.
- 3:20Speaker 8: I think in normal.
- 3:20Speaker 2: Human wood, you're just trying to properly plan ahead. Right, Okay,
- 3:24Speaker 2: I gotta go home. Do I pack tonight or do
- 3:27Speaker 2: I get up early and do it in the morning.
- 3:29Speaker 2: Do I need to wash anything in terms of how
- 3:32Speaker 2: I you know, what I want to wear for game
- 3:33Speaker 2: number six? And a man Jack Drury gets a peace
- 3:40Speaker 2: And then Nathan McKinnon, I.
- 3:41Speaker 8: I said, last night, Vic Brett on.
- 3:44Speaker 2: The old Twitter machine, I said, there's there's maybe, I said,
- 3:48Speaker 2: maybe maybe a handful of guys in the world that
- 3:51Speaker 2: can make that shot in that circumstance, in that, in
- 3:54Speaker 2: the moment, and in that in that moment, and it's
- 3:59Speaker 2: it's And I also said, it's frighteningly elite.
- 4:03Speaker 8: And that's exactly what it is. The world freaking class.
- 4:09Speaker 4: What's crazy is that there's a social media post going
- 4:12Speaker 4: around that shows Nathan McKinnon in that same exact spot
- 4:17Speaker 4: in the Olympic Games with wide open net, and then
- 4:20Speaker 4: last night with about this much net to operate with,
- 4:24Speaker 4: and he makes the shot with this much net. It's unreal.
- 4:28Speaker 6: Yeah, you think about that wide open net gold medal
- 4:31Speaker 6: game of the Olympics and then you have this much
- 4:35Speaker 6: room with traffic in front and a goalie that is
- 4:39Speaker 6: completely covering almost every gap that's possible and still making
- 4:42Speaker 6: the shot. He did drop a tiny bit, I mean,
- 4:47Speaker 6: and again this is where the this is where the
- 4:50Speaker 6: cat and mouse comes in. He dropped a tiny bit
- 4:53Speaker 6: and if you look, it just barely ticked right here.
- 4:56Speaker 4: Yeah. I think that's I think to this date, and
- 5:00Speaker 4: I think he was asked this after the game. I'm
- 5:02Speaker 4: not sure what his answer was. I think that's the
- 5:05Speaker 4: biggest shot of Nathan McKinnon's career very.
- 5:08Speaker 8: Well could be Vick. I mean, it was just absolutely.
- 5:11Speaker 6: Gorge We just watched the replay the right mos he
- 5:15Speaker 6: dipped I mean half an inch, maybe.
- 5:19Speaker 7: Rick Coochet's off the top of the shoulder. He goes
- 5:21Speaker 7: on the top of the net.
- 5:23Speaker 6: But to do that and then send it ought and
- 5:25Speaker 6: this is where you know I mentioned this last night.
- 5:29Speaker 6: I don't think the Avs have played an A game
- 5:33Speaker 6: yet in the postseason. Maybe Game four was that pretty close,
- 5:38Speaker 6: but they've played a whole bunch of B games.
- 5:40Speaker 7: They've been pretty good, but not absolutely great.
- 5:44Speaker 4: Can I make an ugly admission?
- 5:46Speaker 7: Sure?
- 5:46Speaker 4: And because I'm transparent about it, I left with six
- 5:51Speaker 4: and a half to play. Did you really Yeah, jumped
- 5:54Speaker 4: on the VESPA, said I'm gonna beat traffic out because
- 5:57Speaker 4: I'm gonna get home. On watch the postgame show, I
- 6:01Speaker 4: thought it was over.
- 6:02Speaker 7: Wait, wait, so does your.
- 6:04Speaker 6: Vest But were you able to listen on the way
- 6:05Speaker 6: home or did you just come home and be like, no, no, no.
- 6:07Speaker 4: I put my I put the old Altitude AP on.
- 6:11Speaker 4: I listened to Connor's call, and as soon as they
- 6:15Speaker 4: cut it to three to one, I flipped my Fubo
- 6:18Speaker 4: on or HBO Max whatever the game was on TNT. Yeah,
- 6:22Speaker 4: I flipped that sucker on and watching as I'm going
- 6:26Speaker 4: home and the McKinnon goal was I got there just
- 6:29Speaker 4: in time for overtime. The McKinnon goal is the goal
- 6:32Speaker 4: of the playoffs so far? Can we all agree?
- 6:35Speaker 8: I think it is.
- 6:36Speaker 4: It's the goal of the playoffs for any team.
- 6:38Speaker 8: Yeah, it is.
- 6:39Speaker 4: It is the nature the way it was scored, that
- 6:44Speaker 4: the skill level involved what it meant. And after he
- 6:47Speaker 4: scored that goal, did you guys not get the feeling?
- 6:50Speaker 4: All right? The Abs are going to win this game.
- 6:51Speaker 8: Because I did well.
- 6:53Speaker 7: I actually I told you, I actually didn't.
- 6:55Speaker 6: I was like, this is setting up just for another
- 6:57Speaker 6: McKinnon does something crazy in game five, only for heartbreak
- 7:00Speaker 6: after this, and let's be honest, thirty seconds into ot
- 7:06Speaker 6: you had mccaren wide open to close the game out.
- 7:09Speaker 8: Crist that is.
- 7:10Speaker 2: Correct, So you got a little bit fortunate as well.
- 7:13Speaker 2: You had one called back, you know, in their favor.
- 7:16Speaker 2: It was punched in with the left glove. But you
- 7:20Speaker 2: could see it building and as the game went on,
- 7:22Speaker 2: and by the way, Minnesota made a pretty damn good
- 7:24Speaker 2: push to begin the third period. You have a three
- 7:26Speaker 2: to one lead to make a push, have sustain and
- 7:29Speaker 2: then they start really pushing back. It was the only
- 7:32Speaker 2: time they had to push since the first period. But
- 7:35Speaker 2: as it went along, boys of telling you, it's it's
- 7:38Speaker 2: that inflicting your will, it's that depth that just this
- 7:43Speaker 2: You may not notice it for you know, sixty two minutes,
- 7:47Speaker 2: but then it's that one play. Look, I look back
- 7:49Speaker 2: at them on that last goal and Vic, if you
- 7:53Speaker 2: go back and watch it, the back checking by the
- 7:56Speaker 2: Avalanche into their own zone was superb. Capriceoff elects not
- 8:01Speaker 2: to shoot, he elects to pass, and who gets a
- 8:04Speaker 2: piece of it? Brett Koulak. Yeah, now, this is the backcheck.
- 8:08Speaker 2: This is where you're let's let's educate. Maybe not the
- 8:10Speaker 2: super super sophisticated hockey fans, but that's okay, certainly not hockey, Bratt,
- 8:14Speaker 2: that's not you're talking.
- 8:15Speaker 4: I mean, you're not talking about hockey. Vick here, it's.
- 8:17Speaker 8: No, no, not you too, Nelly, grab your flute.
- 8:21Speaker 2: This is important. Okay, he's got it. The backcheck. It's
- 8:28Speaker 2: the organization on the back check. Who's got who, who's
- 8:31Speaker 2: going where? Head on a swivel. You know that kind
- 8:33Speaker 2: of was missing in.
- 8:34Speaker 8: The first missing, It couldn't be.
- 8:40Speaker 4: The first six the game, complete chaotic joke.
- 8:45Speaker 7: But continue motion. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, go ahead, missing.
- 8:47Speaker 8: They were beamed to the mars. Yeah.
- 8:50Speaker 2: Anyway, it's the organization on the back check and everybody
- 8:54Speaker 2: knowing their job that allows that to happen. So it's
- 8:57Speaker 2: a very hard backcheck. This is called tracking back into
- 9:00Speaker 2: your own zone. Then this is where the organization comes
- 9:03Speaker 2: really into play. On how you're gonna get the puck
- 9:06Speaker 2: and go back the other way? So everybody's picking up
- 9:09Speaker 2: the right guy. Caprisof elects not to shoot short side,
- 9:13Speaker 2: he tries to go across for a one time, or
- 9:15Speaker 2: COOLi gets a piece, Parker Kelly gets the puck. Now
- 9:18Speaker 2: this is is you talk about a heady friggin play.
- 9:21Speaker 2: It's boy pkk Banks.
- 9:25Speaker 8: Looks up Vic and this has to happen like this.
- 9:27Speaker 4: It's the way he made the pass. It wasn't a
- 9:29Speaker 4: direct pass.
- 9:30Speaker 2: It was off the boards one hundred percent the only
- 9:33Speaker 2: pass he could really make in that point. Yeah, but
- 9:35Speaker 2: he's throwing it back Now. You watch Minnesota back backtracking.
- 9:39Speaker 2: You watch them backchecking and tracking back.
- 9:41Speaker 8: Into their own zone. This is where the disorganization happens.
- 9:45Speaker 2: And that's where you allow Kulak, who made the play
- 9:47Speaker 2: at one end, jumps into the play at the other end.
- 9:50Speaker 2: Nobody picks him up. Hartman doesn't know who or is
- 9:53Speaker 2: it Zucarrello doesn't.
- 9:55Speaker 4: Know who to take Zukarolla he got completely erased from
- 9:59Speaker 4: the play.
- 9:59Speaker 8: Were there?
- 9:59Speaker 2: You go, oh, he doesn't know who to take because
- 10:02Speaker 2: they're disorganized coming back in. They think they're going to
- 10:04Speaker 2: get an opportunity in the offensive end and maybe even
- 10:07Speaker 2: keep the pucking and cycle. Whatever you're they're gonna do,
- 10:10Speaker 2: you make the play and now your transition is better.
- 10:13Speaker 2: Kulak steps in and slides from the far side of
- 10:16Speaker 2: this over to this side. As he comes into the zone,
- 10:18Speaker 2: he presents himself beautifully and Marty Natus lays.
- 10:22Speaker 4: It over to him. Pete Cox himself. Yes, he did
- 10:25Speaker 4: give Marty Nachus all the credit in the world. And
- 10:28Speaker 4: I know he's been the subject of some scrutiny of
- 10:30Speaker 4: times because he won't shoot the puck.
- 10:32Speaker 7: And he didn't again last night.
- 10:33Speaker 4: But yes, the patience he displayed on that particular play
- 10:38Speaker 4: as he's making around the goal, because I'm thinking, what
- 10:41Speaker 4: you're thinking, go fire one away. Let's just go fire
- 10:44Speaker 4: one and he's waited and waited, waited for opportunity, and
- 10:48Speaker 4: it was perfect.
- 10:49Speaker 6: Every single iPhone video that I saw of that game
- 10:54Speaker 6: winner had about three people audibly yelling shoots yeah when
- 11:00Speaker 6: when they just had the puck but then finds Kulak
- 11:03Speaker 6: one time or boom, game over. So that's those are
- 11:05Speaker 6: the little things that over the course I talk about it,
- 11:08Speaker 6: over the course of a period, the course of a game,
- 11:10Speaker 6: the course of a series.
- 11:12Speaker 8: Those are the little.
- 11:12Speaker 2: Things that can make the difference between two terrific teams
- 11:15Speaker 2: going head to head, one advancing on in one not
- 11:18Speaker 2: the organization on your your tracking and your back check
- 11:22Speaker 2: was pretty damn good.
- 11:24Speaker 8: Their organization.
- 11:25Speaker 2: You got them out of it, and especially when Marty
- 11:28Speaker 2: elected not to shoot and he swung around, then okay,
- 11:31Speaker 2: Minnesota is they're back, But like, well, who the hell's
- 11:33Speaker 2: coming in? Who do I pick up? Which guy's my guy?
- 11:35Speaker 2: And before you know what, they have no idea?
- 11:38Speaker 6: Who like BEng Hang On one second, Vic, can you
- 11:41Speaker 6: tell me if hockey bred is hon or off on this?
- 11:43Speaker 6: I actually thought that Kulak and Burns were terrible for
- 11:48Speaker 6: a good portion of that game until the very end
- 11:50Speaker 6: when they started to turn it around. And obviously Kulak
- 11:52Speaker 6: makes up for it with that, but you I mean
- 11:54Speaker 6: the first the first goal of the game, Kulak and
- 11:57Speaker 6: Burns were both on mccaren and they left Joe Hanson
- 12:01Speaker 6: and everybody left Joe Hanson alone, but everybody lost him.
- 12:05Speaker 7: They were on the same guy on that first goal.
- 12:07Speaker 8: Well, I'll tell you what.
- 12:08Speaker 2: I'm gonna challenge you both, hock Vic. I saw you
- 12:11Speaker 2: last night with your cut leg and all took one
- 12:13Speaker 2: for the team.
- 12:15Speaker 8: You find me a.
- 12:16Speaker 2: Guy in the first period for the avalanche who wasn't trash.
- 12:19Speaker 7: Right, no good point, good point?
- 12:22Speaker 4: I was trash.
- 12:23Speaker 7: You were trash, Vick. Can I give you a shout out?
- 12:26Speaker 7: Last night we had a big problem. You're just like me, trash.
- 12:29Speaker 6: Big problem in the Cane household. You're making some homemade pizzas.
- 12:33Speaker 6: Baby Jamal Klee told her not to. She gave fresh
- 12:39Speaker 6: out of the oven pan the old touch on the
- 12:42Speaker 6: back of the hand first, first big burn.
- 12:45Speaker 7: With a blister.
- 12:45Speaker 6: She was screaming for about an hour, and then you
- 12:48Speaker 6: came on screen, pulled up your pant leg and showed
- 12:51Speaker 6: some blood on the pregame.
- 12:52Speaker 7: Show and said, oh look, Vic's hurt too.
- 12:54Speaker 6: Kind of made her feel better. Thanks for doing that,
- 12:56Speaker 6: But I do I make kids feel better with my pain.
- 12:59Speaker 6: She had somebody else hurt in order to for her
- 13:02Speaker 6: not to make that.
- 13:02Speaker 4: Funny how that if you show a kid a scar
- 13:05Speaker 4: or something, you know I've actually scarred my nephews and
- 13:09Speaker 4: nieces by showing them my bunion and they're without words.
- 13:12Speaker 2: They say, they're like, you know what, I could have
- 13:14Speaker 2: an alien growing inside of me and it wouldn't be
- 13:15Speaker 2: as bad as looking at Uncle Vics Bunyan.
- 13:17Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly right.
- 13:18Speaker 8: That's a you know, that's a really gift. That's a
- 13:20Speaker 8: big gift you have.
- 13:21Speaker 4: It is it's before I forget though in overtime and
- 13:24Speaker 4: sometimes you have to have luck. You can have momentum,
- 13:27Speaker 4: but luck is on your side too.
- 13:30Speaker 2: When Boldie whiffs, no, that was mckerran was that wift
- 13:34Speaker 2: early mcaren whift?
- 13:36Speaker 7: Wow, I was glad he was still in the game.
- 13:39Speaker 1: Wow.
- 13:41Speaker 2: Hey hey, but you know what the final thing. I
- 13:43Speaker 2: didn't tweet this out last night. I wanted to, but
- 13:44Speaker 2: I didn't want to be stupid and cliche. But I'm
- 13:46Speaker 2: gonna be right now. The handshake line.
- 13:50Speaker 8: I watched it closely.
- 13:52Speaker 2: I took it and those two guys who got into
- 13:55Speaker 2: it and butt end and wish he was glad he
- 13:57Speaker 2: still you know, you shake hands.
- 14:00Speaker 4: But thinking what are they thinking?
- 14:04Speaker 2: Probably what Lloyd Christmas was thinking when he shook Bobby's
- 14:07Speaker 2: hand at the end of Dumb and Dumber.
- 14:09Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm sure happy for you.
- 14:11Speaker 4: They want to make a good impression because they know
- 14:13Speaker 4: the cameras are on them, so they're going to shake hands.
- 14:16Speaker 4: They don't want to make an issue of this. But
- 14:18Speaker 4: you know it's not real.
- 14:21Speaker 2: Vic, It's still it's the best Tradition's awesome. I mean
- 14:25Speaker 2: it really imagine imagine NBA guys or I was trying
- 14:28Speaker 2: to imagine baseball guys doing that.
- 14:30Speaker 8: Not in a million years.
- 14:32Speaker 7: You lost most of.
- 14:36Speaker 2: It's not like you're wapping up the opposition. I mean
- 14:38Speaker 2: you're not doing that. It's it's gentlemanly behavior.
- 14:43Speaker 4: I need to make one last admission that because I'm
- 14:46Speaker 4: watching you, Kyle JML just walk around the arena, try
- 14:52Speaker 4: to find a place to watch the game, which is
- 14:55Speaker 4: not an easy task. It's easier to watch at home.
- 14:59Speaker 4: As much I love being there, and I love being
- 15:02Speaker 4: among the crowd, and I love the moment, I love
- 15:04Speaker 4: the joy, and I love all of it. You can't
- 15:07Speaker 4: pick up the game because there's too many distractions.
- 15:14Speaker 7: I agree with that.
- 15:14Speaker 4: Actually you can't now.
- 15:16Speaker 7: I think that's the same in every sport, though.
- 15:18Speaker 4: You just can't pick up the game like you can
- 15:20Speaker 4: at home. See when I'm at home watching the game,
- 15:23Speaker 4: there are no distractions. They don't exist. It's just easier
- 15:28Speaker 4: to watch it. I don't know how you guys do it.
- 15:31Speaker 4: I don't know how you watch the game. Hell Kyle
- 15:35Speaker 4: and Jammella watching the game from a tunnel.
- 15:38Speaker 8: That's correct.
- 15:41Speaker 2: Anywhere you can get a spot, buddy, any war, you
- 15:43Speaker 2: can get a piece of real estate to look out.
- 15:46Speaker 8: That's what you do.
- 15:47Speaker 6: By the way, shout out to everybody, not just in Ballerina,
- 15:50Speaker 6: but at avs Ali that bailing for biling.
- 15:55Speaker 4: I watch Kenner. I watched most of the second period
- 15:58Speaker 4: from avs Aali. I wanted to get the perspective out there.
- 16:01Speaker 4: It was awesome in.
- 16:02Speaker 6: Fact, but they cut the overtime game winner, and I
- 16:05Speaker 6: was kind of expecting a scattered crowd. Maybe some people
- 16:08Speaker 6: gave up act. I mean it was three to one
- 16:11Speaker 6: with four minutes left to go. You didn't have a
- 16:13Speaker 6: great feeling that you were coming back.
- 16:15Speaker 8: It would have ACT.
- 16:16Speaker 4: Avs Ali gives you a little bit of both. It
- 16:19Speaker 4: gives you the television perspective, which is awesome on the
- 16:21Speaker 4: big screen, and the announcement with the credit all and
- 16:24Speaker 4: the replays and the information. For example, if you're watching
- 16:27Speaker 4: the game, you may not know the status of Cale mccarr.
- 16:30Speaker 4: You're watching closely, but you may know you're watching on
- 16:33Speaker 4: the big screen there and you know what's going on.
- 16:35Speaker 4: They identify it and you're there among three thousand friends.
- 16:38Speaker 4: It gives you the best of both worlds.
- 16:39Speaker 6: So, speaking of that, there's a ton to discuss with
- 16:42Speaker 6: this game. But when we come back, there is an
- 16:45Speaker 6: update from Kale from after the game from Bednar, so
- 16:47Speaker 6: we'll get to that.
- 16:48Speaker 7: There is.
- 16:50Speaker 6: A comment from Bednar about Mackenzie Blackwood his decision to
- 16:56Speaker 6: make the switch to start the second period, so we'll
- 16:59Speaker 6: get to all that. A second coach was very insightful
- 17:02Speaker 6: last night, Yes he was. We'll get to all of
- 17:03Speaker 6: it next, all right, So first, and uh foremos the
- 17:07Speaker 6: Avs get the win? They advanced the conference finals. Is
- 17:09Speaker 6: it okay to talk about who you'd rather play with
- 17:12Speaker 6: Game six tonight between Anaheim and Vegas?
- 17:14Speaker 4: No? Not, Yeah, we got some other things I think too.
- 17:17Speaker 7: I figured, yeah, you got some good you know.
- 17:18Speaker 4: As I mentioned yesterday, the winner of Game five would
- 17:21Speaker 4: win the series. And that's exactly nailed it happened.
- 17:24Speaker 7: Absolutely nailed it.
- 17:25Speaker 8: Now nailed it.
- 17:27Speaker 7: We'll get to that later. Oh no, now you can no, no.
- 17:30Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- 17:33Speaker 8: What you were not getting off that easy? Two? What
- 17:38Speaker 8: are you talking about?
- 17:39Speaker 4: You know what? Four?
- 17:41Speaker 2: I had to leave yesterday to go down do my
- 17:43Speaker 2: interviews and get my stuff done.
- 17:44Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 17:44Speaker 4: By the way, we didn't give us any intel. Nothing
- 17:47Speaker 4: we have.
- 17:47Speaker 8: I wasn't very yet, you dork.
- 17:48Speaker 2: It was bumpered a bumper traffic from the text center
- 17:50Speaker 2: all the way down to Santa Fe.
- 17:52Speaker 7: Who is not getting off that easy?
- 17:54Speaker 4: You're you're not getting off that easy? Me go ahead?
- 17:57Speaker 8: Why you guys couldn't get enough of me? So you
- 17:59Speaker 8: had to call me in my car.
- 18:02Speaker 2: Well we can't live with EU Mos, let's call him.
- 18:06Speaker 8: And so you did, and I gave you my key
- 18:08Speaker 8: to the game.
- 18:10Speaker 2: You're not just in the open, I understand, but you're
- 18:13Speaker 2: you're both gonna mention something about how good it was.
- 18:16Speaker 4: I mean, from now on, Mos, I'm gonna give you
- 18:18Speaker 4: full credit. Since now you're two for two on these keys,
- 18:21Speaker 4: every key you make has to be a Star Trek
- 18:23Speaker 4: reference everyone from here on out.
- 18:26Speaker 7: Eight more wins, eight more of them. I don't know
- 18:29Speaker 7: how many more games.
- 18:31Speaker 8: I don't know anything else about starts.
- 18:32Speaker 4: Well, you better do some research. You better watch as
- 18:34Speaker 4: many Star Trek episodes as you can. Yeah, you know what,
- 18:37Speaker 4: you better do it. You're gonna do like.
- 18:42Speaker 2: Kirk or Pricard or what and after Percard all the
- 18:46Speaker 2: Star Trek Aliens eat Plants, you know, all these different series.
- 18:51Speaker 8: I I don't do those.
- 18:52Speaker 7: You just got to find it, dude. Now, now you
- 18:54Speaker 7: have to So there.
- 18:56Speaker 4: I need you to defend me on something because I
- 18:58Speaker 4: am getting hammered right now on the text line for
- 19:00Speaker 4: leaving the game early. You have to understand why specifically
- 19:05Speaker 4: I leave games like this early. First of all, I
- 19:08Speaker 4: thought it was over, like many people did. It wasn't.
- 19:10Speaker 4: It was the most exciting comeback perhaps in Avalanche playoff history,
- 19:14Speaker 4: and I miss something excitement.
- 19:15Speaker 7: Well it was.
- 19:15Speaker 4: It was the biggest comeback in Avalanche play obviously, but
- 19:19Speaker 4: most And work with me on this one. I'm trying
- 19:21Speaker 4: to explain, and I'm not trying to be a snob here.
- 19:24Speaker 4: It's just that I lack the mental wherewithal to multitask.
- 19:28Speaker 4: I can't focus with people talking. I need to watch
- 19:33Speaker 4: the game and Kane help me out here, you know
- 19:37Speaker 4: what I'm You know what I mean by this?
- 19:38Speaker 6: Well, people ask me all the time, They're like Oh,
- 19:40Speaker 6: you work for Altitude, you must go to the games
- 19:42Speaker 6: all the time. And I was like, really, don't. I like,
- 19:45Speaker 6: I get way more information watching at home. No, don't
- 19:49Speaker 6: get me wrong. Atmosphere all that stuff, it's amazing. I
- 19:53Speaker 6: love going to games, but if they're big games like
- 19:56Speaker 6: this where I need to kind of focus, I needed.
- 19:58Speaker 7: People talk too much, too how much this?
- 20:01Speaker 4: I don't want to talk and I'm sorry, Look, I
- 20:03Speaker 4: don't want to talk to you, but VIC, I want
- 20:05Speaker 4: to watch the game.
- 20:06Speaker 7: VIC.
- 20:06Speaker 6: For people who are gonna get up and go to
- 20:09Speaker 6: a cubicle the next day, they love that stuff because
- 20:12Speaker 6: that's what they're there for. I need to be able
- 20:15Speaker 6: to talk about the game. And look, there's been times.
- 20:17Speaker 6: I guarantee, if I was at the game last night,
- 20:19Speaker 6: it would have taken me forever to realize what was
- 20:21Speaker 6: going on with mccar right.
- 20:22Speaker 4: I missed the first two goals. Yeah, I missed the
- 20:25Speaker 4: first two goals because it's.
- 20:26Speaker 7: Talky talk yep.
- 20:27Speaker 4: Well, and I cannot do talkie talk I gotta watch watch.
- 20:31Speaker 1: Well.
- 20:31Speaker 7: Then here's the other thing. Cal really had me freaked out.
- 20:39Speaker 6: He takes what looks like just a love tap on
- 20:42Speaker 6: the shoulder, drops his stick goes straight to the locker room.
- 20:46Speaker 7: Didn't know if he was going to return or not.
- 20:47Speaker 7: Then the TV.
- 20:48Speaker 6: Broadcast, I think it was Eddie Oh said that I
- 20:51Speaker 6: see Kale back on the bench. I was like, okay,
- 20:52Speaker 6: well that's.
- 20:53Speaker 7: Good, but you cannot deny this.
- 20:56Speaker 6: Moe's watching the rest of that third period that he
- 20:59Speaker 6: was in and then an over time. First of all,
- 21:01Speaker 6: really quick shift and ot for him, really quick. Secondly,
- 21:05Speaker 6: every time the puck was on his stick, he looked
- 21:07Speaker 6: like he was trying to get it out before he
- 21:08Speaker 6: get contact. Thirdly, if he was ever about to get
- 21:12Speaker 6: contacted up against the board something, you could see him
- 21:14Speaker 6: physically turn that shoulder away from contact so that it
- 21:19Speaker 6: wasn't gonna get hit. So I was still even after
- 21:21Speaker 6: the Avs won, You're like, that's great, they get the
- 21:26Speaker 6: winning game five, you get maybe a couple more days'
- 21:28Speaker 6: rest to get that thing he held up.
- 21:29Speaker 7: But what exactly is the problem.
- 21:31Speaker 6: Here's what Bennar said as he literally he got up
- 21:33Speaker 6: out of his seat and somebody asked about the car
- 21:35Speaker 6: as he's walking off.
- 21:36Speaker 9: You know, I think Burnsey's series was incredible, and obviously
- 21:39Speaker 9: Kulax was the same. Cale is okay.
- 21:46Speaker 7: So Cale is okay? Is what he said.
- 21:48Speaker 4: Now, I don't like the sound of that.
- 21:51Speaker 6: I actually if he said Cale is okay, that's better
- 21:56Speaker 6: than day to day or I don't know, do you
- 21:59Speaker 6: want me to know?
- 22:01Speaker 8: But if that's the case.
- 22:02Speaker 7: Most is it the hope is fingers crossed? Just a stinger?
- 22:05Speaker 8: Maybe let me let me give you my Spidey sense.
- 22:09Speaker 2: There's discomfort, Sure, there's pain, there's nothing structurally abnormal. Okay,
- 22:17Speaker 2: but this but but clearly he I mean, he looks
- 22:20Speaker 2: to be in pain to me, to you.
- 22:22Speaker 8: Like a separation or something something something like that.
- 22:26Speaker 2: But but they would not put him back on the
- 22:28Speaker 2: ice if there was something structure.
- 22:32Speaker 8: Hey, his rotator cuff is around? Uh Saturn.
- 22:35Speaker 7: Especially as much as you.
- 22:36Speaker 6: Hate to say it, it's a close game, you'd love
- 22:39Speaker 6: to close it out. It is only game five. You
- 22:42Speaker 6: don't need to risk him in a moment like that
- 22:44Speaker 6: because you'd have to potentially.
- 22:45Speaker 8: He did come back, I know he did.
- 22:48Speaker 4: But all I kept thinking about was please end it
- 22:50Speaker 4: so you don't have to put him back on the
- 22:52Speaker 4: ice for games exacts. I kept thinking because when you
- 22:56Speaker 4: saw him leave the ice last night, he wasn't even
- 23:00Speaker 4: he was just sort of jostled. Ye, I don't know
- 23:02Speaker 4: who did it. It was like it was almost like a hug.
- 23:04Speaker 4: And he was in so much pain over that that
- 23:07Speaker 4: he left immediately to the tunnel. And that was concerning
- 23:11Speaker 4: You're right, Mos, you can play with pain, but at
- 23:14Speaker 4: what level can you play well?
- 23:15Speaker 8: Sure?
- 23:16Speaker 2: And and what level can they mitigate that pain on
- 23:19Speaker 2: a game by game basis.
- 23:21Speaker 8: I sort of went to the catastrophization. Is that a word?
- 23:26Speaker 7: I get it?
- 23:27Speaker 8: Last night.
- 23:28Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, you're you're If they don't come back
- 23:32Speaker 2: in this game, this stinks because the series is prolonged.
- 23:36Speaker 2: Obviously the best defensement of the planet is in some
- 23:40Speaker 2: some sort of discomfort. Whatever level that is, I don't know,
- 23:43Speaker 2: but he's a tough son of a gun in that
- 23:45Speaker 2: film that's before.
- 23:46Speaker 7: Earlier in this series, we knew he had the hip
- 23:48Speaker 7: thing going on too.
- 23:49Speaker 2: There's a stuff going I mean, this is a Stanley
- 23:51Speaker 2: could playoff. Everybody's got something, man, everybody's got something. Maybe
- 23:55Speaker 2: it's the Minnesota guy has got something. I promise you.
- 23:58Speaker 4: All you can ask for now is that Vegas Anheim series,
- 24:01Speaker 4: the full seven.
- 24:01Speaker 8: Yeah, I would love to see the Ducks win tonight,
- 24:04Speaker 8: go Ducks.
- 24:04Speaker 4: Yeah, by the way, give call as many days off
- 24:07Speaker 4: as possible.
- 24:09Speaker 7: You can hear that seven point thirty right here.
- 24:10Speaker 6: On ninety two five, we'll have the game six tonight
- 24:12Speaker 6: between Vegas.
- 24:13Speaker 8: Give me your best Duck.
- 24:15Speaker 7: I can only do Donald duck sneezing, all.
- 24:18Speaker 8: Right, do it? Check it out.
- 24:24Speaker 7: That's all I got.
- 24:24Speaker 8: That's pretty good. That's very bad, mag What do you got.
- 24:28Speaker 4: I don't watch cartoons.
- 24:31Speaker 7: Look, if you didn't watch the Looney Tunes, then you
- 24:33Speaker 7: didn't have a child.
- 24:35Speaker 2: You never watched bugs before? Please big, give me your
- 24:37Speaker 2: best Australian accent.
- 24:39Speaker 4: I I just want to talk sports.
- 24:43Speaker 8: They can't.
- 24:44Speaker 7: That's Australia talk sports.
- 24:46Speaker 8: Hey man. The point is this is that I was.
- 24:48Speaker 2: I was catastrophizing and thinking, golly, you know if you
- 24:52Speaker 2: have to extend this thing and now you know he's
- 24:54Speaker 2: in some sort of discomfort and anything can happen. I mean,
- 24:57Speaker 2: we've seen it. We've seen anything happen, have we not.
- 25:01Speaker 2: We've seen Miko ranton and whip behind the net and
- 25:05Speaker 2: fall down and throw it off of skating in and
- 25:09Speaker 2: everybody's like, oh, he's so awesome, Like no, it was
- 25:12Speaker 2: a bonut.
- 25:12Speaker 7: The head play, and he got lucky.
- 25:15Speaker 4: I'll have to be a little lucky.
- 25:16Speaker 2: But I tell you agree, I'm just saying, yeah, did
- 25:19Speaker 2: that's anything can happen.
- 25:20Speaker 8: So to be able to sit back and chill and
- 25:23Speaker 8: wait for the winner of this series is huge.
- 25:25Speaker 4: The start of the game was crazy to me. I
- 25:27Speaker 4: settled in after nearly losing my leg in a horrible
- 25:31Speaker 4: pregame accident, settle in to watch the game. You look around,
- 25:35Speaker 4: all of a sudden, it's one nothing. That was the
- 25:37Speaker 4: opening shift?
- 25:37Speaker 8: Correct?
- 25:39Speaker 4: Opening three?
- 25:40Speaker 8: How many thirty seconds in? Thirty two, thirty six, thirty
- 25:43Speaker 8: eight somewhere in there.
- 25:43Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, And you're like, okay, let's just go
- 25:46Speaker 4: ahead and get that out of the way right now.
- 25:48Speaker 4: And they just they didn't look right. They didn't look no.
- 25:52Speaker 4: And it's amazing. And I'm not saying the goalie change
- 25:55Speaker 4: changed everything, but can you explain to me how? And
- 25:59Speaker 4: I said it at the time, I said, you watch,
- 26:00Speaker 4: I bet you they come back with Wedgwood to start
- 26:02Speaker 4: the second Yeah, they did exactly that. How does one
- 26:05Speaker 4: lead to another? How does the just the actual change
- 26:09Speaker 4: of a human in that net change the way the
- 26:12Speaker 4: team plays in front of him?
- 26:13Speaker 2: Okay, we have a coach on that, because he was
- 26:15Speaker 2: very thoughtful about that too.
- 26:17Speaker 7: I do.
- 26:17Speaker 6: Can I just say something real quick about that though,
- 26:21Speaker 6: I do think there's something to this.
- 26:24Speaker 7: First of all, Minnesota let their foot off the gas.
- 26:26Speaker 7: I think that's pretty clear.
- 26:27Speaker 8: And no doubt about it. Well, yeah they did.
- 26:30Speaker 2: I mean, but they claimed they didn't, but.
- 26:33Speaker 7: They obviously did. The obviously did.
- 26:35Speaker 8: Second, consciously or subconsciously they did.
- 26:37Speaker 6: This is why I thought that Wedgwood is the better
- 26:40Speaker 6: choice than Blackwood for right now and for most of
- 26:42Speaker 6: this year. To start with, Wedgwood is very good at
- 26:46Speaker 6: being a hoover vacuum. Shot comes this way. If he
- 26:49Speaker 6: makes a save, it's usually sticking to him like most
- 26:53Speaker 6: she was making.
- 26:54Speaker 7: Glove saves last night.
- 26:55Speaker 6: All right, we got the parks, sit down, let's go
- 26:58Speaker 6: with a face off. I think part of the reason
- 27:00Speaker 6: why you see shots on goals so much higher for
- 27:03Speaker 6: Mackenzie blackwooden games than Wedgwood. Blackwood gives up a lot
- 27:06Speaker 6: of rebounds, and when Minnesota is last night, and when
- 27:09Speaker 6: Minnesota's really good at creating chaos in front of the
- 27:11Speaker 6: net and getting traffic in front, and you give up
- 27:13Speaker 6: a rebound, one shot on net now.
- 27:16Speaker 7: Turns into two or three because he can't hang on
- 27:18Speaker 7: to it.
- 27:19Speaker 8: Agreed.
- 27:19Speaker 7: That's just my theory towards I.
- 27:21Speaker 2: Agreed, especially when you've got big fellas crashing in. I
- 27:24Speaker 2: mean Nick Felino, who hadn't scored a goal since when god,
- 27:29Speaker 2: I don't know what, when Obama was president.
- 27:32Speaker 8: I mean, I don't mean, you know what I mean.
- 27:33Speaker 2: It's like the guy is not a goal scorer and
- 27:35Speaker 2: he's got two on you in the first period. You know,
- 27:37Speaker 2: things are funky. But I want I want Coach Bednar's
- 27:41Speaker 2: explanation of all this, because again, he was very, very
- 27:44Speaker 2: thoughtful last night, and you don't think he's protecting.
- 27:47Speaker 7: His Seleno had one goal since March third.
- 27:49Speaker 8: There you go last night, There you go.
- 27:51Speaker 2: You don't think that that Bednar's is also protecting and
- 27:54Speaker 2: taking care of his his other goalie, Mackenzie Blackwood, he
- 27:58Speaker 2: was You have.
- 27:58Speaker 7: It, so two different cuts. Here's the first one.
- 28:00Speaker 9: A regular season game. I would have I would have
- 28:03Speaker 9: left Blackwood in there because he was no different than
- 28:07Speaker 9: the rest of our team, like we just weren't good enough.
- 28:10Speaker 9: But you're looking for a spark and and that's a
- 28:13Speaker 9: tough for me. That's a tough situation because I'm like, well,
- 28:16Speaker 9: we're everyone else had the opportunity to turn it around,
- 28:19Speaker 9: and Blackwood didn't, you know, but I just kind of
- 28:22Speaker 9: felt like everything that was coming to the net, like
- 28:25Speaker 9: he wasn't controlling the rebounds, you know, like there was
- 28:28Speaker 9: too much garbage in front of the net. And if
- 28:29Speaker 9: that's the way they were going to play, like we
- 28:31Speaker 9: needed to handle some pucks clean, like through traffic and
- 28:35Speaker 9: without traffic, and black he wasn't doing that.
- 28:38Speaker 2: Okay, So if he's fighting, let's translate, if he's fighting
- 28:42Speaker 2: the puck a little bit and there are some rebounds
- 28:44Speaker 2: bounced out there, Minnesota was crashing in. They're they're going
- 28:47Speaker 2: hard at the front of the net. If the abs
- 28:49Speaker 2: were keeping them at bay or keeping them on, you know,
- 28:51Speaker 2: at the exactly right, or you'd clean those up yourself
- 28:57Speaker 2: and they'd be gone, right.
- 28:57Speaker 4: But that the way I thought that the goal, Blackwood
- 29:02Speaker 4: should have just suffocated that puck. There shouldn't have been
- 29:05Speaker 4: a rebound on the third goal.
- 29:06Speaker 8: There you go.
- 29:06Speaker 2: So the rebound control was not great for him. But
- 29:08Speaker 2: he also says, look, man, nobody else was good either,
- 29:11Speaker 2: which is why I said, do you you find me
- 29:13Speaker 2: somebody wasn't trashing period number one go ahead.
- 29:15Speaker 9: If I could have made changes to our lineup with
- 29:17Speaker 9: healthy bodies and after the first period, I'd have pulled
- 29:20Speaker 9: a whole bunch of guys, not just Blackwood.
- 29:23Speaker 8: True, if I could bench half the damn team, I probably.
- 29:25Speaker 1: Would have done.
- 29:26Speaker 4: You know, somebody made mention of this, and they're so
- 29:28Speaker 4: correct on It wasn't just Minnesota playing cautiously, which they
- 29:33Speaker 4: did most teams do. I mean, you have three nothing.
- 29:35Speaker 4: What else he's supposed to do in that situation. I
- 29:37Speaker 4: thought later in the game, in third and overtime they
- 29:40Speaker 4: were winded. They were winded.
- 29:43Speaker 8: I would have much I want to get to that.
- 29:46Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, I thought the Avs just had way more
- 29:49Speaker 4: pop in their step than Minnesota did, and it was
- 29:53Speaker 4: very obvious at the end of the game.
- 29:54Speaker 2: I think you're right about that. So he's protecting his goalie. Look,
- 29:57Speaker 2: he wasn't.
- 29:58Speaker 8: He's just like everybody else.
- 30:00Speaker 2: But nobody was good, okay, And so if it's gonna
- 30:03Speaker 2: be that way of Minnesota's gonna continue to do that,
- 30:05Speaker 2: I want to get a guy and who's maybe gonna
- 30:07Speaker 2: handle the rebounds right now a little bit better. So
- 30:08Speaker 2: we did worked out great. Had a great interview with
- 30:11Speaker 2: Wedgewood after the game. By the way, maybe we'll get
- 30:14Speaker 2: to some of that a little bit later, but so
- 30:15Speaker 2: that's the way that works. If he can sit a
- 30:17Speaker 2: bunch of guys, he would, But the team responded. And
- 30:19Speaker 2: this is where you get a gay Blandiskog factor and
- 30:23Speaker 2: other factors.
- 30:24Speaker 8: Where the team responded.
- 30:25Speaker 4: You know, I saw most I saw your interview with Weggie,
- 30:28Speaker 4: and he's the humility is awesome, and I love the
- 30:32Speaker 4: relationship between him and Blackwood. He didn't sit there and
- 30:35Speaker 4: take credit. He didn't sit there. I'm the difference. I
- 30:38Speaker 4: came in. He really acknowledged that it's a game of
- 30:42Speaker 4: luck and fortune and moves and momentum. And I loved
- 30:45Speaker 4: his approach to that interview. He said, look, he did
- 30:47Speaker 4: the same thing for me, yes in game three, Yes, yes,
- 30:50Speaker 4: you know, I mean I got yanked out of there
- 30:52Speaker 4: and he after three and he came in and did
- 30:54Speaker 4: the same thing for me.
- 30:55Speaker 8: And then to what was the second part of that,
- 31:00Speaker 8: the bednarc cut.
- 31:01Speaker 7: That he said he would have pulled everyone.
- 31:03Speaker 8: Yeah, there was something else I wanted it.
- 31:05Speaker 2: Oh the winded vic I'm telling you right now, I
- 31:08Speaker 2: completely agree with you as the third period war on.
- 31:12Speaker 2: I don't know who I said it to. I said
- 31:14Speaker 2: it to probably a couple of different people. Yeah, but I'm like,
- 31:16Speaker 2: they look tired, and especially after they they had a
- 31:20Speaker 2: couple of chances in OT traded chances a little bit.
- 31:23Speaker 2: But you know, you're two and a half minutes into
- 31:24Speaker 2: overtime and I'm like, the abs are cycling them and
- 31:27Speaker 2: psych I'm like, they are tired.
- 31:28Speaker 8: That first are tired. They're they're dying out there.
- 31:31Speaker 6: Wasn't that four that first group in OT from Minnesota?
- 31:34Speaker 6: Weren't they out there for over two minutes? Quinn Hughes was, Yeah,
- 31:38Speaker 6: so even if you go to the bench for a second,
- 31:40Speaker 6: you're still feeling that the next time you jump back on.
- 31:44Speaker 4: Hey, mos, can I ask you a personal question? Maybe
- 31:49Speaker 4: after we did our pregame and we ate together, we
- 31:51Speaker 4: broke bread together, you ghosted me.
- 31:56Speaker 7: Where did you.
- 31:57Speaker 4: Watch the game?
- 31:58Speaker 8: You said? Okay, why did you leave me? Let me
- 32:00Speaker 8: tell you what Vic said. He goes, well, my brother's
- 32:03Speaker 8: in a box. Somebody go to the bucks, right.
- 32:07Speaker 4: No, I said to you, where you're gonna watch the game?
- 32:08Speaker 4: Can we watch the game somewhere? I wouldn't reveal it.
- 32:11Speaker 2: I set them up and I don't know the exact
- 32:15Speaker 2: it's two four is it two forty six?
- 32:18Speaker 8: No, it's too whatever.
- 32:20Speaker 2: It is behind the AVS goal that on the club
- 32:25Speaker 2: level up there, that behind the netting, that's where That's
- 32:28Speaker 2: where I typically watch games. How the first I booked,
- 32:32Speaker 2: I booked downstairs?
- 32:33Speaker 4: How loud was it when Nate scored?
- 32:36Speaker 8: But beyond loud? I mean crazy as loud as you've
- 32:40Speaker 8: ever heard it?
- 32:40Speaker 2: Crazy loud, Yeah, crazy loud it was.
- 32:44Speaker 8: I mean it was.
- 32:45Speaker 2: It's like an explosion, is what it is. Because it's
- 32:47Speaker 2: you know, there's.
- 32:50Speaker 6: It's one of those I can listen to us anywhere
- 32:52Speaker 6: on the Altitude Sports radio app and is powered by
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- 32:56Speaker 6: hepe wins dot com. It's will hepewinds dot com.
- 32:57Speaker 2: Here's what I'm not gonna do. Vix my brother's series
- 33:01Speaker 2: in a box. I'm gonna go send my brother in
- 33:03Speaker 2: a box. Oh fancy, Okay. I'm not gonna go with
- 33:08Speaker 2: you to your even if I was invited. I didn't
- 33:10Speaker 2: ask you that I know, but I'm not. I'm not
- 33:12Speaker 2: going with you anyway. Because now that I don't want
- 33:14Speaker 2: your company. We had a nice little meal together. It
- 33:16Speaker 2: was great, But I don't want to hear your people
- 33:19Speaker 2: yack in a luxury suitet all game when I'm trying
- 33:22Speaker 2: to focus on the damn hockey game.
- 33:23Speaker 4: I just made that argument earlier. It's I'm not a multitask.
- 33:27Speaker 4: I can't focus. I'm not good at it.
- 33:29Speaker 8: I don't need your brother's people or your brother.
- 33:33Speaker 7: Back.
- 33:34Speaker 8: I need to watch and focus. Man's my job.
- 33:36Speaker 7: I would have been in your brother's box, whether because
- 33:40Speaker 7: you want.
- 33:40Speaker 2: You want free food and booze, not his box.
- 33:44Speaker 7: First of all, I don't care. I'm gonna show up
- 33:48Speaker 7: and say I'm the most let me.
- 33:52Speaker 8: All right.
- 33:53Speaker 7: So a lot more to get to it this game
- 33:55Speaker 7: as we go along. Stier out I think arguably the biggest.
- 34:01Speaker 6: Thing to take from this series, it's something that McKinnon manchin.
- 34:04Speaker 6: Remember this series got done in five games. How many
- 34:07Speaker 6: goal scorers.
- 34:08Speaker 7: Did you have?
- 34:10Speaker 8: Sixteen?
- 34:11Speaker 7: Sixteen different guys scored a goal.
- 34:14Speaker 4: That's five games in this year record, But McKinnon scored
- 34:19Speaker 4: in everyone in this series.
- 34:20Speaker 8: He did. But how freaking nutty is that? Dude?
- 34:25Speaker 2: You may go, I mean you you may go three
- 34:26Speaker 2: months of the NHL and not have you have less
- 34:30Speaker 2: than that score.
- 34:30Speaker 6: The first time we talked to Bednard this year, he
- 34:33Speaker 6: still remember this first time before the season started. Jumps
- 34:37Speaker 6: on and you could tell he liked his team, really
- 34:41Speaker 6: liked him. And he said something in like the preseason
- 34:45Speaker 6: press conference about how much he liked the group. And
- 34:48Speaker 6: I asked, well, what makes you so confident in this group?
- 34:52Speaker 7: And he said depth. He goes, I got guys.
- 34:55Speaker 6: Lines one through four that I can trust, and then he
- 34:57Speaker 6: followed that up by saying, what I haven't felt that.
- 35:00Speaker 7: Since we won the Cup in twenty two, twenty twenty two.
- 35:04Speaker 6: And the biggest thing, and it's funny because it's not
- 35:08Speaker 6: the same thing as twenty twenty two, but the game
- 35:12Speaker 6: winner to close out the second round was a pass
- 35:15Speaker 6: that goes off the boards that sets up somebody a
- 35:18Speaker 6: couple of seconds later for a big shot to win
- 35:20Speaker 6: the game and close out the series. Exact same thing,
- 35:23Speaker 6: and it came from Tulak, a late addition to your
- 35:30Speaker 6: roster in the middle of the year. And that pass
- 35:33Speaker 6: was set up by Parker Kemper Kelly, depth guy who
- 35:38Speaker 6: makes an impact on your third and fourth lines.
- 35:40Speaker 2: I mean, but what a heads up play and you
- 35:42Speaker 2: saw Marty natche said, I wasn't supposed to be on
- 35:45Speaker 2: the ice for that play.
- 35:48Speaker 7: What does that mean? What are you talking about?
- 35:50Speaker 2: What he What he means is that nobody was when
- 35:53Speaker 2: they were changing, nobody else was going on.
- 35:54Speaker 8: So he made the decision to jump on the ice.
- 35:57Speaker 2: Oh, he didn't see anybody come at him, right, he
- 36:00Speaker 2: made one of his guys is coming off. He made
- 36:02Speaker 2: the decision to jump off, and so he would put
- 36:05Speaker 2: himself in a good position. Kelly fires because one's last
- 36:08Speaker 2: time Marty Nate just skated with Parker Kelly.
- 36:10Speaker 4: That's a good a minute, that's a very good point.
- 36:13Speaker 4: I just really enjoyed the patience that Marty Natsch has
- 36:16Speaker 4: showed there to skate around. And I'm everybody's yelling the
- 36:19Speaker 4: same thing. Probably shoot it well.
- 36:21Speaker 2: I think you get a little fatigue when you see
- 36:24Speaker 2: guys come in and listen, this is a typical National
- 36:28Speaker 2: Hockey League thing. They want to take away the what
- 36:30Speaker 2: the middle of the ice on? You take away they're
- 36:32Speaker 2: always they're trained and there it's rope in their brain.
- 36:35Speaker 2: Take away the middle of the ice, push them to
- 36:37Speaker 2: the outside, push them to the outside and that's what
- 36:40Speaker 2: they tend to do. So you know one out of it,
- 36:42Speaker 2: I don't even know the number, but you're gonna be
- 36:44Speaker 2: able to cut in and get a shot on goal.
- 36:47Speaker 2: But typically you gotta stop, pull up right, shut a guy,
- 36:51Speaker 2: but then wait for other guys filling find out who
- 36:53Speaker 2: you're gonna give a too, or maybe they open up
- 36:55Speaker 2: more time for you in space. Then you can dance around.
- 36:58Speaker 2: But that time, he just did it himself, no stopping,
- 37:02Speaker 2: came all the way around and found a trailer.
- 37:04Speaker 4: But what made that play and the reason Koulak had
- 37:07Speaker 4: that shooting lane? Who he raised zu Corella Zucarella from
- 37:11Speaker 4: the play there?
- 37:12Speaker 8: Who Jack Drury?
- 37:13Speaker 4: Is that Drury? That was the play that was because
- 37:16Speaker 4: he took him completely out of the shooting lane. That
- 37:20Speaker 4: made the goal for I guess exchanging stuff.
- 37:24Speaker 7: Now Nelly's got a couple of cots. He doesn't know
- 37:26Speaker 7: which one motion.
- 37:26Speaker 8: Okay, I want to get back to one.
- 37:28Speaker 2: Brett Kulak And how long have.
- 37:32Speaker 8: I talked about what bed Nor thinks about Brett Kolak.
- 37:34Speaker 8: I said he loves.
- 37:35Speaker 4: Guys like that because he's what, he's consistent.
- 37:37Speaker 2: That's right, he's predictable. You know what you're gonna get
- 37:40Speaker 2: and you know he's a terrific defender. And I love
- 37:42Speaker 2: hearing bed Nor talk about Brett Koulak last night.
- 37:46Speaker 9: It's easy to use him in any situation because he
- 37:51Speaker 9: is a reliable, trustworthy.
- 37:53Speaker 2: Stop right there, stop right there, he's gonna go back
- 37:56Speaker 2: in up a tiny bit.
- 37:57Speaker 8: Reliable, trustworthy.
- 37:58Speaker 2: Coaches love those guys, and this is why this is
- 38:02Speaker 2: such a damn good pickup at the deadline. And everybody
- 38:06Speaker 2: loves Sammy g I'll love them till the day I die.
- 38:09Speaker 7: I always I've always thought this.
- 38:12Speaker 6: It doesn't matter if you're the best player in the
- 38:13Speaker 6: world or if you're somebody who's a fourth liner just
- 38:16Speaker 6: hanging on. The number one quality you can bring to
- 38:21Speaker 6: any sports team is consistency, no matter what your level is.
- 38:25Speaker 7: If I know you're.
- 38:26Speaker 6: Gonna be at that level every time you take the field,
- 38:28Speaker 6: the ice, the cord, then I can work with that.
- 38:31Speaker 7: Yep, because I know exactly what I'm gonna get.
- 38:33Speaker 4: This is what you're gonna get from this guy in
- 38:36Speaker 4: any game possible boom, Yeah, I totally agree. You know,
- 38:40Speaker 4: let's not forget Minnesota completely losing their game. I've read
- 38:45Speaker 4: this debt the wild of the first team in NHL
- 38:48Speaker 4: history to have a three goal lead three or more
- 38:51Speaker 4: after the first intermission of a playoff game and then
- 38:54Speaker 4: have fewer than ten shots on goal the rest of
- 38:56Speaker 4: the game. They finished with seven shots on goal after
- 38:58Speaker 4: the first game.
- 39:00Speaker 7: That's wild.
- 39:01Speaker 8: Part of that though, part of that was also what
- 39:03Speaker 8: the f did.
- 39:04Speaker 2: Okay, let's go back to uh to the coach talking
- 39:06Speaker 2: about Kulik nearly Sorry, he is.
- 39:08Speaker 9: A reliable, trustworthy, elite defender. That's what he is, okay.
- 39:14Speaker 9: And and then you know I've said this before, then
- 39:19Speaker 9: we want to push him into helping us in other
- 39:22Speaker 9: areas because we've seen a bunch of guys that we've
- 39:24Speaker 9: had in the past. John josh Man said, no different,
- 39:27Speaker 9: Like with that, what else can you do to help us?
- 39:30Speaker 9: You've got this down pat now, Like, how can we
- 39:32Speaker 9: kind of grow your game? Right? And there's expectations that
- 39:36Speaker 9: our players keep improving in those areas. And he's he's
- 39:39Speaker 9: no different.
- 39:40Speaker 8: Okay, You've got a good, good hockey club.
- 39:43Speaker 2: But the way you're structured and the way that other
- 39:46Speaker 2: guys accept responsibility too. Hey, Brett Kulak, you can jump
- 39:50Speaker 2: up in there a little bit. You can add it
- 39:52Speaker 2: to your repertoire with this team. Sure, you may be
- 39:55Speaker 2: someplace else and they say, hey man, just just go
- 39:57Speaker 2: lock it down and shut up in LA that he's
- 40:01Speaker 2: coached differently, that's correct. But here, hey man, Jared Betner
- 40:06Speaker 2: will give a green light to anybody if they earn it. Sure,
- 40:08Speaker 2: anybody viclim Barty could get a greet. Well, we'll ask
- 40:11Speaker 2: him next week. Is there anything vicklim Barty could do
- 40:14Speaker 2: to earn a green light from you?
- 40:15Speaker 8: Coach? But probably say no, you couldn't.
- 40:18Speaker 4: Yeah, not you. I saw a lot of will of
- 40:22Speaker 4: Wild jerseys in the arena last night. Yeah, and they
- 40:25Speaker 4: were quiet at the end, but there were a lot
- 40:27Speaker 4: of people there.
- 40:28Speaker 2: That first goal it was loud. Thirty four seconds and
- 40:31Speaker 2: it was loud.
- 40:32Speaker 8: I thought it was loud. It startled me a little bit.
- 40:34Speaker 4: Now, how mad Minnesota? You're in Minnesota? How is the
- 40:38Speaker 4: Avs contingent there?
- 40:40Speaker 8: Not bad?
- 40:42Speaker 7: Not bad?
- 40:42Speaker 2: Not like the see Look, people go there to watch
- 40:46Speaker 2: the game and then they come back to Colorado. The
- 40:49Speaker 2: people at the game last night with Wild jerseys, they've escaped.
- 40:52Speaker 2: They've escaped the prison that is the Land of ten
- 40:54Speaker 2: Thousand Lakes, right.
- 40:56Speaker 6: Brett, Yes, Yeah, Now, going back to the depth part
- 41:01Speaker 6: of this, it is so important again, Sixteen different guys
- 41:06Speaker 6: scored a goal over the course of five games.
- 41:08Speaker 2: It's such an insane, crazy steat doesn't seem.
- 41:11Speaker 7: Real, and it does feel like every single one of
- 41:14Speaker 7: them was necessary, every single one. And the fact that
- 41:18Speaker 7: you got, I mean, what got you back in the game.
- 41:21Speaker 6: It was tips from Drury, It was Park Kelly, it
- 41:24Speaker 6: was Brett Koulak. It was all these different guys where,
- 41:28Speaker 6: you know, just to put two things side by side,
- 41:32Speaker 6: you had those guys stepping up and making plays. Do
- 41:36Speaker 6: you know how many combined shots Carill caprice Off, the
- 41:39Speaker 6: seventeen million dollar man had in the final two games
- 41:42Speaker 6: of that series.
- 41:43Speaker 2: Combined shots, I'm gonna see it's probably like six seven.
- 41:46Speaker 6: Two one shot no in games four and five. That
- 41:50Speaker 6: shot one shot on goal, Yeah, okay, because he's sorry
- 41:54Speaker 6: shots on goal. Okay, one because he attempted much more
- 41:57Speaker 6: than that, but he missed.
- 41:59Speaker 8: They blocked blah blah blah, and you know what.
- 42:01Speaker 7: And Nathan McKinnon had nine last night alone on golf.
- 42:05Speaker 8: And it's interesting, Vic because on that overtime game winner,
- 42:08Speaker 8: he elects pass to pass.
- 42:11Speaker 2: So clearly he's coming in. He's not confident in his
- 42:14Speaker 2: shot right now. This is where they ca This is
- 42:17Speaker 2: where I don't care how many how many numbers you
- 42:21Speaker 2: throw at me.
- 42:22Speaker 8: And analytics are.
- 42:23Speaker 2: Important and they can tell you a lot of things,
- 42:25Speaker 2: but they can't tell you what's going on in the
- 42:27Speaker 2: dude's brain. Is he's ripping twenty miles an hour into
- 42:30Speaker 2: the zone and he does, and he's has such a
- 42:33Speaker 2: lack of faith in his own shot that he elects
- 42:35Speaker 2: to pass it across rather than try to try to
- 42:38Speaker 2: he's an elite goal scorer, rather than try to beat Weggie,
- 42:40Speaker 2: he says, Eh, throws it across.
- 42:42Speaker 7: He's well, the good news for him.
- 42:44Speaker 8: How do you measure that, Brett, How do you measure
- 42:46Speaker 8: that he's.
- 42:46Speaker 7: Got five months now to find the confidence in his shot.
- 42:49Speaker 8: Again, that's obnoxious.
- 42:51Speaker 4: That's pretty mean, right, Why that's just this a very
- 42:55Speaker 4: mean comment to make.
- 42:56Speaker 7: Or in Minnesota, we win, you lose.
- 43:00Speaker 8: It's like this obnoxious. Yeah, accurate?
- 43:06Speaker 7: Hell yeah, I can't say that I'm wrong.
- 43:07Speaker 2: No, you are at the accuracy of your comment, Brett,
- 43:11Speaker 2: right on the button.
- 43:14Speaker 6: Everybody's telling me I'm too mean. No, they were mean
- 43:16Speaker 6: to us during the Nugget series.
- 43:18Speaker 4: I'm being facetious.
- 43:19Speaker 7: Why can't I come back and be mean back?
- 43:21Speaker 4: I'm being incredibly facetious.
- 43:22Speaker 6: I'll tell you just in for the sake of honesty,
- 43:26Speaker 6: I'm nothing if not honest with you that that shot
- 43:32Speaker 6: of Valstead on his face after the Kulac goal really
- 43:36Speaker 6: brought joy to me because.
- 43:37Speaker 4: He's my guy. All wrong, It's wrong, Tom, This.
- 43:40Speaker 7: Young guy was a little too big for his britches.
- 43:44Speaker 8: After what was a Game three? He got under your skin,
- 43:47Speaker 8: didn't he?
- 43:48Speaker 6: Well he not only did he do that. I took
- 43:50Speaker 6: one look at his choppers. I was like, nope, not
- 43:52Speaker 6: doing those buck teeth.
- 43:53Speaker 4: So let me ask you this, and this is where
- 43:56Speaker 4: I have to Yeah, hey, guys, I have to grow emotionally.
- 44:01Speaker 4: I'm just I'm not fully there yet. I need to grow.
- 44:04Speaker 4: How did people do this? Because I saw this last night,
- 44:08Speaker 4: an AVS fan and a wild fan friends sitting next
- 44:12Speaker 4: to one another, having a grand old time, and the
- 44:15Speaker 4: wild fan was wearing his jersey and the AVS fan
- 44:18Speaker 4: was wearing his jersey. How do you do that?
- 44:21Speaker 8: You know? Vic?
- 44:22Speaker 4: And I mean that with all of it, because, like
- 44:24Speaker 4: I'm trying to think of my best friend in the world, Chris,
- 44:28Speaker 4: I couldn't do that. I can't do I can't do
- 44:31Speaker 4: what you guys just did. And you're better humans than
- 44:34Speaker 4: I am.
- 44:34Speaker 8: Chris Apple.
- 44:35Speaker 7: I've done it before. I think I've told this story
- 44:39Speaker 7: on air.
- 44:40Speaker 6: I watched a Lions game with a Minnesota fan years ago,
- 44:45Speaker 6: and we're getting pretty toasty during the game. It's kind
- 44:47Speaker 6: of fun because you just get to talk trash back
- 44:49Speaker 6: and forth. But the Lions started to take a big
- 44:52Speaker 6: lead and he has two daughters that are just sitting
- 44:54Speaker 6: there on the floor playing with toys in front of them.
- 44:57Speaker 7: He's silent.
- 44:58Speaker 6: He's losing by like four ten points, and he just
- 45:01Speaker 6: yells at his daughter, Ellie, go to your room.
- 45:04Speaker 8: She was even doing it, she was just sitting there.
- 45:07Speaker 6: She's just like, I can't have cuteness in between my
- 45:10Speaker 6: anger right now, so go get out of here.
- 45:13Speaker 8: Uh Vic.
- 45:14Speaker 2: On that point, I don't know how many times I've
- 45:17Speaker 2: done it, but I've done it several all the you know,
- 45:22Speaker 2: I'm on the road, see an Avis fan wearing whatever,
- 45:25Speaker 2: and then the significant other girlfriend boyfriend, whether he's wearing
- 45:28Speaker 2: the other team.
- 45:29Speaker 8: Okay, so let's say we're in Edmonton.
- 45:31Speaker 2: You got a girl, you got a girl wearing an
- 45:33Speaker 2: Aves jersey and then the dude wearing an order and
- 45:36Speaker 2: I'll say, I'll say them like through the glass, I'll go,
- 45:39Speaker 2: are you sure he's the one man?
- 45:42Speaker 4: Well, here's here's a text. I'm glad that you guys
- 45:45Speaker 4: are calling in and texting on this some of the
- 45:47Speaker 4: texts and three sixty sixty five put your name on
- 45:49Speaker 4: the text. Please. Some friendships transcend sports, Vic, I'm sorry
- 45:53Speaker 4: all your friends suck. It's not a question of having
- 45:57Speaker 4: friends representing the other team. The question is why would
- 46:01Speaker 4: you attend the game with your friend wearing the opposite jersey.
- 46:04Speaker 8: I just it's it's.
- 46:05Speaker 7: Fun trash talk. I actually like it. Now. It sucks
- 46:10Speaker 7: when you're down three to nothing, I'm sure.
- 46:12Speaker 6: But think about that that little last shot that you
- 46:14Speaker 6: get after Kulak scores.
- 46:16Speaker 8: Oh, I like this from Adam, Like I.
- 46:20Speaker 4: Could never watch a Notre Dame Miami game with my
- 46:24Speaker 4: mother wearing a Miami jersey, not even my.
- 46:27Speaker 2: You know what, Bambina, Yeah, you know what. Oh, by
- 46:29Speaker 2: the way, Vick, I met somebody last night who gets
- 46:34Speaker 2: his hair cut from the same lady he cuts your
- 46:36Speaker 2: mom's hair.
- 46:38Speaker 7: That's good.
- 46:39Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm just saying that it's a small wild fan. No.
- 46:43Speaker 2: I was out front getting ready to do a hit,
- 46:44Speaker 2: and some dude who's walking Carl, hey up, Adam has
- 46:47Speaker 2: a great point here. I know, we gotta get to
- 46:49Speaker 2: the top. Ronald Reagan, what's this famous line, mister.
- 46:52Speaker 8: Gorbachev, tear down this wall?
- 46:55Speaker 2: Okay, Well, here's what we need on the Voice of
- 46:57Speaker 2: the People. Okay, if you can do a raw old
- 47:00Speaker 2: Reagan accent.
- 47:03Speaker 6: Right saying what tear down this valstet No mister Kulak
- 47:07Speaker 6: be called.
- 47:07Speaker 2: They call him the Wall of Saint Paul Volsted. Mister Kulak,
- 47:11Speaker 2: tear down this wall.
- 47:12Speaker 5: Mister Garbischow, teared down this wall.
- 47:15Speaker 8: Okay, good to the app, the Voice of the People. VIC,
- 47:18Speaker 8: do you have a prize? Do you know where's your
- 47:20Speaker 8: where's your Berry? Potter one? Can you give it up?
- 47:23Speaker 6: Give him the surprise dove baris soap, I'll give you
- 47:25Speaker 6: this thing or no Irish spring.
- 47:27Speaker 8: Oh fidget spinner. So go ahead and do that.
- 47:29Speaker 6: Get on the app and hit the microphonet at the bottom.
- 47:31Speaker 6: Send those in it.
- 47:32Speaker 2: Says mister Kulak. Tear down this wall. The best one
- 47:35Speaker 2: is gonna get. I don't know a Baris Soap from like,
- 47:38Speaker 2: what do you call it?
- 47:39Speaker 7: Irish spring, Irish spring back after this