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2-25-26 Hour 3 - Avs aren't done yet/Double Keys-a-Roo, Calvin Booth speaks his mind/Brett "Sinkhole" Kane · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 3: So listen and I know we'll get through. We'll get
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  Speaker 3: thro the Nuggets coming up here in a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: This is a big stretch for them, dude. They got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of massive games, a lot of really tough games.
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  Speaker 3: The next ten here, dude, we're talking five and five
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  Speaker 3: would be great. I think with the way they're playing
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  Speaker 3: right now, dude, they got to find something.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: I thank god Vic is back tomorrow. I need to
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  Speaker 3: pick his brain a little bit more on the inside
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  Speaker 3: about this basketball team. But Brett, the need to find something,
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  Speaker 3: especially at the end of games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this you pop up as you pop up, mischieh
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  Speaker 1: they do.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll get into that in just a second with
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  Speaker 2: some keys to the game. But in the meantime, the
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  Speaker 2: Sammy G trade from yesterday, Uh, this feels like a
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  Speaker 2: trade to a trade. Let me explain in much the
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  Speaker 2: same way that Michael Porter Junior was a trade for
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  Speaker 2: Cam Johnson, but not Cam Johnson. It was Cam Johnson
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  Speaker 2: and then Valentunis and then Hardaway and then Bruce Brown.
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  Speaker 2: Like it opened you up to acquire more than just
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  Speaker 2: the one to one trade.
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  Speaker 3: It unlocked. It unlocked a box that had more more
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  Speaker 3: stuff in it.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, the Sammy G trade saves money. That money now
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  Speaker 2: totals eight point seven million in cap space that the
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  Speaker 2: AVS can use still until the deadline, which what is
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  Speaker 2: it March sixth or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: Most is that a week from I think it's a
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  Speaker 4: week from Friday, So.
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  Speaker 2: They have room to do more now than what they
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  Speaker 2: had previously. This is not just a straight up Gerard
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  Speaker 2: for Kulak trade, but Kulik does bring something to the
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  Speaker 2: table that so funny. All these years of people blaming
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  Speaker 2: Sammy G for you know, not being big enough and
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  Speaker 2: not being physical enough. We need a big physical demand.
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  Speaker 2: Then they trade for a big physical demand that I understand.
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  Speaker 2: He's not six foot seven, but kula is not small guy,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's like, oh, well, what about the speed
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  Speaker 2: of Gerard. You're just like, what do we want here?
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Can we go back to Jered Bednor's commentary, Nelly, I
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  Speaker 3: know I asked you to do something. I apologize you're
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  Speaker 3: running around back there kicking some major but Jared Bednor
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  Speaker 3: laid out what Brett Kulak is going to bring to
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  Speaker 3: the Colorado Avalanche and how he envisions.
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  Speaker 4: Brett Koulak with the Colorado Avalanche.
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  Speaker 2: This is Bednar here earlier today, if you want to
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  Speaker 2: hear it most.
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  Speaker 5: Sam has just been an incredible teammate, you know, and
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  Speaker 5: he's been an incredible player for us too. He came
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  Speaker 5: in as a young kid, dynamic player, oh help the
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  Speaker 5: turnaround of our team as part of the twenty two
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  Speaker 5: championship team. It's always sad to see those guys go,
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  Speaker 5: especially guys that are like fully committed like Sam was.
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  Speaker 5: He was great in the community, great with the fans.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, everyone loves Sam and so it's hard to
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  Speaker 5: see those guys go. We're hoping that like it's it
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  Speaker 5: benefits everybody.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's the thing, that's that's that's that's Sammy
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  Speaker 3: g going but he said more about about what what
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  Speaker 3: who loves is going.
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  Speaker 2: To that Nelly. You'll find it in just a second.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, But the.
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  Speaker 2: Initial part of this is Sandrard was a pretty massive
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  Speaker 2: piece of what you've been able to do over the
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  Speaker 2: last few years. And he was somebody that was a
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  Speaker 2: total effort guy. You know, there was someone on the
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  Speaker 2: text line that mention this, and I think this is
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  Speaker 2: true that maybe when you faced more physical teams earlier
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  Speaker 2: in his career, it felt like Sammy might have got
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  Speaker 2: eaten up a little bit. I will say the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of years it felt like he was much more
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  Speaker 2: willing to play a physical brand well, and maybe early
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  Speaker 2: in his career.
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  Speaker 3: Because of his size, you have to do things differently.
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  Speaker 3: Your stick has to be very good. Your positioning has
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  Speaker 3: to be very good. You can't just go in the
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  Speaker 3: corner and stuff a guy into the corner Brett and
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  Speaker 3: expect somebody else to come get the puck and take
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  Speaker 3: it away.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean. You have to position yourself.
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  Speaker 3: You've got to get your stick in there, You've got
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  Speaker 3: to anticipate well. Because of his size, but he does
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  Speaker 3: a lot of things really really well that that bigger
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  Speaker 3: guys can't do. His skating is superb. His outlet passes
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  Speaker 3: are superb. His ability to skate the puck out of
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  Speaker 3: his own dang zone is superb. I mean, so he's
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  Speaker 3: a very good player, and you don't want to trade
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  Speaker 3: very good players, but need to construct a team for
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  Speaker 3: the postseason. Again, if Sam Malinsky does not exist as
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  Speaker 3: a human being on the Avalanche, then this probably.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't go down.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the emergence of Sam Malninsky, his game offensively and
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  Speaker 3: that little bit that he brings with the nastiness on
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  Speaker 3: the defensive side, that stoneface Sam Malinsky and he will
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  Speaker 3: lay hits.
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  Speaker 4: And he's still learning on the job.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong, he's not completely there yet as
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  Speaker 3: a defenseman, but he's getting closer. But his emergence and
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  Speaker 3: his progress has allowed you to do this deal. And
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  Speaker 3: that's a positive thing as far as I'm concerned. And again,
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  Speaker 3: when when coach talked about Coolock, what he's going to
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  Speaker 3: bring in, he talks about in the in the in
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  Speaker 3: the postseason and matchups and being on the road and
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  Speaker 3: what teams are trying to do to you.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to give him options. Go ahead, And now.
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  Speaker 5: Brett's a guy he's been around, he's a little older,
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  Speaker 5: he's got a ton of experience, but he's a big, strong,
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  Speaker 5: long guy that can skate and he's a great defender,
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  Speaker 5: especially closing plays out in the D zone, net front play,
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  Speaker 5: breaking up, rush attack. I mean, this is a guy
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  Speaker 5: that you can use in matchup situations. I think you know,
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  Speaker 5: like he's playing in Edmonton's been back to back finals.
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  Speaker 5: He's played the Bouchard, which would be like their version
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  Speaker 5: of the car.
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  Speaker 2: He still played with multiple guys he is. He played
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  Speaker 2: for versions of guys like Josh Manson. He also goes
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  Speaker 2: on to mention that he is somebody that maybe you
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  Speaker 2: can use him with mccarr and move Taves down for
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  Speaker 2: a different, different sort of look and matchup for the
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  Speaker 2: opposing team.
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  Speaker 3: For for those if you're out there and you don't
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  Speaker 3: like this, maybe it's because you like Sammy G. I
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  Speaker 3: love Sammy G. Bednor loves Sammy G. Chris McFarland loves Sammig.
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  Speaker 3: His teammates love Sammy G. But if you don't like
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  Speaker 3: this trade because you think the team is going to
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  Speaker 3: be poor, then that means you don't believe in the
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  Speaker 3: judgment of Jared Bednar Okay, you think that Bennar is
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  Speaker 3: a crap coach, or you don't think he knows hockey
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  Speaker 3: or whatever it is.
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  Speaker 4: And let me explain, Chris McFarlane.
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  Speaker 3: Doesn't just make this deal and go hey, uh, Jared,
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  Speaker 3: here's your dude. Enjoy huh yeah, yeah, we just got you.
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  Speaker 3: We just got you, Kolik Enjoy that. That's not the
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  Speaker 3: way it goes down. There are discussions. Hey, man, if
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  Speaker 3: you're looking for a guy on your back end to
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  Speaker 3: compliment so and so, what you know who you look,
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  Speaker 3: what kind of guy you're looking for? Okay, fine, then
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  Speaker 3: you target it down. Then okay, we we can maybe
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  Speaker 3: get a deal done with this guy. What do Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I like this guy and here's I know his game?
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  Speaker 3: Well blah blah blah. I've already given you the other
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  Speaker 3: the other things about Koulak. I mean, in the last
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  Speaker 3: two years he's played as many postseason games as it's
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  Speaker 3: tied for the most of anybody on the blue line of.
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  Speaker 2: National Top five blocks in the last two postseasons too, right.
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  Speaker 3: Top five in blocks with eighty eight blocks, that's correct.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is a guy who will sacrifice to
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  Speaker 3: a guy who will who will do little things and
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  Speaker 3: hard things and difficult things like net fund presence that
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  Speaker 3: are not easy. And no offense to Sam Gerard, but
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  Speaker 3: again he's the kind of guy with his size. It's
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  Speaker 3: easier to push him around from out in front of
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  Speaker 3: the net, is it not?
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  Speaker 4: Is so?
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, it's just and again that's just that's
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  Speaker 3: who he is as a player. But he does other
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  Speaker 3: things better than big guys. So it's six to one
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  Speaker 3: way half does the other. You have to have compliments
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  Speaker 3: up and down your lineup when people don't understand that.
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  Speaker 3: And and by the way, the last thing I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: do in this world a second guess the opinion of
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  Speaker 3: Jared Bednar, who was a professional defenseman as one of
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  Speaker 3: the best coaches in the National Hockey League.
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  Speaker 4: So, stuff it?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Do you hear what I said? Brett?
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  Speaker 2: You said stuff it?
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  Speaker 4: Stuff it?
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  Speaker 2: What you said about take it?
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  Speaker 4: You take it? Hey? You stuff it?
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  Speaker 2: What you said about about Chris McFarlane, just saying here,
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  Speaker 2: I get you, Gulac, do something with it. It reminded
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  Speaker 2: me because I just watched money Ball the other day
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  Speaker 2: and nothing gets me more ready for baseball than Moneyball.
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  Speaker 2: You watch that movie. I'm just I'm all in again.
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  Speaker 2: But when Brad Pitt Billy Bean sits down in front
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  Speaker 2: of Art and he goes, can't play Penny at first
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  Speaker 2: base today? Well, Billy lineup sheets my call. Yes it is,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm telling you you can't play Payny at first base.
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  Speaker 2: I just traded him. That's not happening in the assization. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: right right, that's not what's going on. You can't play
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  Speaker 2: payn yet. No, it's not what's going now. Between McFarland
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  Speaker 2: and Bednar. There are conversations to be had.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, because there's too much on the line, Man
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  Speaker 4: and Britt you said it earlier.
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  Speaker 3: This team, these guys are smart guys number one, number two.
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  Speaker 4: They desperately want to win, Joe, Chris, Jared Dave, you know, Nol.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, everybody desperately wants to win, and they're going
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  Speaker 3: all in while their window is open.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously it didn't work the last couple of years. And
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  Speaker 3: I love the way Nate put it after last season.
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  Speaker 3: He said, like, you know, the first couple of years
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  Speaker 3: after the couple knew we weren't gonna win, but we
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  Speaker 3: thought we had a team. But they're going for it
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  Speaker 3: all the time. They're constantly working and tweaking, and you
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  Speaker 3: know what they are, Brett and God. I hope it
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  Speaker 3: works again.
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  Speaker 4: I do. I hope it works again. It may not.
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  Speaker 3: It's frigging tough to win in this league, but I
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  Speaker 3: hope it works again. But they're proactive. They're they're they're
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  Speaker 3: they're doing it. They're not reactive, They're proactive. And that's
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  Speaker 3: the way I want my team to be. So if
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  Speaker 3: you don't like it, then you don't like it. But
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  Speaker 3: I like it and I trust these guys. He and
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna get over to the rink and and enjoy myself.
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  Speaker 2: I need people to understand something too, like this. I
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  Speaker 2: need people to understand something. If you remember when Michael
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  Speaker 2: Porter Junior got traded, because here's what I'm saying. I'm saying, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: where did it just go? Dam was objectively the better player,
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  Speaker 2: and to give up a second rounder and a better
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  Speaker 2: player makes no sense. The Michael Porter Junior trade. When
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  Speaker 2: that went down, it was Michael Porter Junior and an
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  Speaker 2: unprotected first round pick in twenty thirty two for Cam Johnson,
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  Speaker 2: who is objectively the better player between those two. And
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's I guess there's arguments to be made
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  Speaker 2: both ways, but I'd tell you that Michael Porter Junior
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  Speaker 2: scoring twenty six at night now it's having a pretty
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  Speaker 2: good year. Now he's a number one option in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 2: Kim Johnson brings defensive things that Porter couldn't do. I
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  Speaker 2: get all that you attached the first round pick to
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  Speaker 2: it because of some cap reasons that are on top
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 3: You see, you opened up, you opened up a box
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  Speaker 3: that had a bunch of drawers, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Would this is what I would tell ABS fans who
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  Speaker 2: are maybe not liking this yet, and I, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: pardon me understands it because I love Sammy g two.
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  Speaker 2: Wait until the deadline clears. I don't think this is it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they made this as a one for one.
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  Speaker 2: I think that something else is gonna come with that,
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  Speaker 2: that maybe opening the door for a couple of million
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  Speaker 2: more in cap space could allow them to do.
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  Speaker 3: What you bought with your second round pick is you
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  Speaker 3: bought an immediate two point five million dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and a defenseman that can play like that, and
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  Speaker 2: that's that's the player for the player.
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  Speaker 3: And you bought you bought cap space. I mean, dude,
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  Speaker 3: how many teams right now would kill for an extra
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  Speaker 3: two and a half before the deadline to go along
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  Speaker 3: with what you had. Now you're at eight point seven
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  Speaker 3: how many teams would kill for that?
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  Speaker 2: You can get a pretty damn good player with eight
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  Speaker 2: point seven million dollars.
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  Speaker 4: Dude, you can get a couple of pretty damn good
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  Speaker 4: players for a point.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're what's the most important thing, well, one
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  Speaker 3: of the most important things when it comes to the
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  Speaker 3: Stanley Cup playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: Depth? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Depth, You need depth, bro, and you're gonna be able
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  Speaker 3: to deepen your team. And I will say this, all
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  Speaker 3: things being equal, and thank goodness, Logan O'Connor is on
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  Speaker 3: the men, Thank goodness, all things being equal, You're going
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  Speaker 3: to have guys who have played significant minutes and made
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  Speaker 3: big plays for this Avalanche team throughout the course of
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  Speaker 3: this year who are going to be healthy scratches when
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  Speaker 3: the plosseason rolls around.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that likely is going to happen for a
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  Speaker 4: couple of guys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, And I still think you probably need more
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  Speaker 3: blue line depth, right, You probably still need more of
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  Speaker 3: that bread as we speak.
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  Speaker 2: Sean Payton talking about giving up play calling duties to
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  Speaker 2: Davis Webb yesterday, and I think in a remarkable show
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  Speaker 2: of self criticism and reflection, he was able to say
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  Speaker 2: something that I think most coaches wouldn't be willing to admit.
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  Speaker 2: And just to set this up, most you go fourteen
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  Speaker 2: and three, you are a free quarterback injury away from
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  Speaker 2: probably winning the AFC Championship Game and making it to
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. I don't know how many coaches would
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  Speaker 2: look at that and say anything other than look at
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  Speaker 2: the masterful job that I did. Last year and have
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  Speaker 2: a really difficult time finding faults in how they got
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  Speaker 2: there fourteen and three, right there on the doorstep of
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl, and you're probably willing to give yourself
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  Speaker 2: a giant pat on the back. And Sean Payton, to
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  Speaker 2: his credit, said something yesterday that I don't think most coaches,
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  Speaker 2: when put in that situation, would admit, which is.
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  Speaker 4: This from my lens.
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  Speaker 6: We won a lot of games by one score or less, right,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm not naive enough to think those games couldn't
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  Speaker 6: have swung.
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  Speaker 4: But where's the meat on the bone.
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  Speaker 6: The meat on the bone exists with our takeaways that
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  Speaker 6: has to improve our run game, consistently, consistency, our meat
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  Speaker 6: on the bone relative to a number of things that
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  Speaker 6: we won despite maybe not being as good as others.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that's the only way to look at
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  Speaker 6: it relative to this team, you know, writing its own
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  Speaker 6: chapter and getting us to where we want to go,
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  Speaker 6: which is obviously a game and a half further than
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  Speaker 6: where we went.
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  Speaker 2: Like for you to say, I'm not naive enough to
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  Speaker 2: think that those games that we won in one possession
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  Speaker 2: games couldn't flip, is I think in an incredible job
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  Speaker 2: of assessing what last year was. It was not taking
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  Speaker 2: for granted, like yeah, what he could have said is, well,
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  Speaker 2: that's because I rule at play calling when the game
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  Speaker 2: matters most, or something like that. It's a skill to
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  Speaker 2: win close games. It's a credit to you as a coach.
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  Speaker 2: It's a credit to your quarterback for being able to
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  Speaker 2: do that. It's a credit to your defense for getting stops.
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  Speaker 2: It's also wildly volatile on how those games can finish.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to I'm gonna get to something here,
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  Speaker 3: Brett in the next segment. Somebody passed away a buddy
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  Speaker 3: of mine that was just a tremendous broadcaster and good person.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get to that in a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: So it just remind me and I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: just my brain right second, I guess is kind of off.
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  Speaker 3: But back to the Peyton thing real quick. He you
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  Speaker 3: know what, he was remarkably honest in that situation. Basically,
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: he's saying what some of us said during the course
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: of the year that man, they are sort of skating
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: on thin ice at time. Yeah, they if it wasn't
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: for your killer defense, Uh, you know, you might be
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: in a world a hurt in some of these games. Now, listen,
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: they pulled it out, and credit Bonix and credit you know,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: credit this team for.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Pulling it out.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: And and when when it really came down to it,
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: they got some big wins. And these one score games
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: were gigantic. But it's also Sean Payton with a bit
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: of a miacolpa there, going, Hey, you know, we know
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: we're not dumb. We know that we sort of skated
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: by some of these games and got fortunate in some
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: of these games, and that could easily flip next year
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: to the other side like it did for Casey. Because Brett,
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: when you when you go game after game after game
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: of living on that razor's edge and coming out on top,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: the Sean Payton is not a dummy. He knows that
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: it could have easily been the other way, right. Do
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: you remember so I love I love I love the
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: fact that he's I love honest Sean Payton.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Do you remember moj when I said that the Broncos
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: are Jamie Lee Curtis in a Halloween movie, and I
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: said they survive right barely, like barely. You have to
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: wait until the last minute of that movie before you
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: figure out if Michael Myers is gonna get her or not,
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: and they always just seem to survive whatever was ailing them.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it's really really important that Sean
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Payton sees it that way. By the way, something just
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: came across my timeline, moj and this is something that
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: we're too late in the show. I don't know how
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: much we could even get audio of this, but Nelly,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna send you at least one little clip of it.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Calvin Booth sat down for an interview with Kevin O'Connor,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: who's a writer and who is he with? Kevin O'Connor
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: is with Yahoo Sports.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Steve of Basketball, so Jeff's Hoops.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: He gave a recap on what this full interview was,
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: and I can't wait to listen to this, he says.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Calvin Booth believes four factors converge to cost him his
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: job in Denver. First, the Nicola jokicch effect. When you
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: have the best player in the world, everything else gets
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: taken for granted. Second, the friction between a tenured champion
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: coach in first time GM that we all saw for
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: a couple of years.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Third, ownership. Booth believes the Kronkey family for all its
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: success across sports doesn't place the value on front office
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: executives that other organizations do. And fourth, here's a quote
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: from him. I think I just made it look too easy,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: is what he said. So this is the clip that
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Nelly's gonna get for us in a second. So while
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Nelly goes to get that, we'll get to that in
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: a couple of minutes. But most the Double de Peru,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: he just hang on. We'll get back to just a second.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: And just a second, let's do this first.
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• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Mos, defend, defend, defend, defend.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: The Mammoth are gonna be much more fresh because they
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: had one guy who went to the Olympic Games, Clayton Keller, right,
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: and one dude defend, defend, defend. Coming into the Olympic Break,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: the Utah Mammot Mammott averaged averaged four point four to
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: five goals per game in their last eleven games.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Going into the break, they were.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: A bit helter skelter Brett in the fact that they
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: gave up plenty of goals at times too, and their
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: penalty kill has been god awful as of late. So
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: maybe it's just what the doctor ordered, Like what the
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Avs are doing to their power play, like let's forget
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: about all that and let's just start right here. They're going,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: let's forget about our PK and let's start right here.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens tonight. In that regard, could
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: be good for the FS, but they have been scoring
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: a lot of goals, so you must defend these guys
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: tonight in a big time way. That's just that's just
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: the number one thing. Take care of your own and first,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: that is the number one key to success.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: At is seven o'clock on AM nine to fifty Aves in
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Mammoth at eight o'clock on ninety to five Nuggets and Celtics.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: And I'll take this one because Boston has been playing
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: really good basketball. As of late, they've won all three
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: of their games since the All Star Break. They won
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: all of them comfortably by double digits and then some.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: In most of these, they've won nine of their last
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: ten dating to before the All Star Break. The key
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: for me, obviously, closing is going to be important because
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: this game will probably be close. Get started early. Give
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: me aggressive Jokic, give me aggressive Jamal. Let them feel
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: the offensive prowess early in this game and try and
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: build up a lead.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: By the way, if we do get aggressive Joker early
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: and aggressive Jamal early, don't everybody else stand around expecting
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: them to save your bacon.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, get involved, right, support, go for it too. I
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: don't mind that, Brett.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: I don't mind seeing Joker get off early and say,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: you know what, enough of this. Like he seemed genuinely
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: tort following that game the other night against Golden State
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: or the other day against Golden State. He seemed genuinely
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: sort of angsteridden like angry.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I think that's why he's gonna He's gonna
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: come out of the gates fire. And today they had
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: a couple of days off, they should be well rested.
• 22:57
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• 23:19
  Speaker 4: Oh crap, I'm sorry. Okay.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: The Abs this season one hundred and fifty seven even
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: strength goals. Man, that's by far number one in the
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: National Hockey League, by far.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: You know it's number two. Utah two.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: They've got one hundred and twenty three, give me two.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: They're thirty two back. But it just shows you how
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: freaking dominant the Abs have been even strength. And if
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: you if you get that power play cranked up, dude,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: it's time to smash, crash and bash.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: So here's what we're gonna do.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Good talk, good talk.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I have to hear this. And look, this is a
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: whole interview. This is what a minute of it Essentially, Nelly,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: we can start and stop if we want to. But
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: I told you. In an interview with Kevin O'Connor of
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Yahoo Sports, Calvin Booth talks about the four factors that
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: converge to cost him his job. So the first one
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: was the Nikola Jokic effect of having the best player
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: in the world. Everything else gets taken for granted. I
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: actually can kind of see that. The second was the
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: friction between a tenured champion coach and a first time GM,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: that being Booth in Malone, we knew that was happening. Third, ownership,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Booth believes that the Cronkeys, for all their successes across sports,
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: don't place the same value on front office executives as
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: other organizations do. I would have to listen to more
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: of that than fully understand it. It was like, there's
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of emphasis on the Rams front office and
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a lot of emphasis on the Ams front office that
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: has been in place for a long time.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: But whatever, But did they not hire Messiah Jury to
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: be their GM at one point?
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Well, regardless, there's a fourth fact.
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, okay, okay.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: His fourth factor that we're going to play here is
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: he thinks he just made it look too easy, which
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I need to hear this, go ahead, Nelly.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: And the last thing is, I think I just made
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: it look too easy, all right, So you're a podcaster,
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: a durnal Lizzy, anybody that has that's really good at something.
• 25:12
  Speaker 7: When they make it look easy, that was really really
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: hard to get too. A lifetime's worth of playing basketball,
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: being coaching basketball, having conversations, scouting and doing whatever for
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: me to make it going there right away assemble championship team,
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: win a championship.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I think we need for a second, Joe going there
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: right away and assemble as championship team. I would just say,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: my god. A lot of that team was already kind
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: of put in place before he was the main guy.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: And I understand he was part of the front office.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I get that again, yeah, but a lot of it
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: was in place. To his credit, he drafted Christian Brown,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: which was a big piece for them, especially in the postseason.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: He went out and got Bruce Brown, which was a
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: big piece for them. I think that's kind of breaking
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: your arm patting your back over there a little bit,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: but a little bit, okay, a little bit, let's hear
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: some more.
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: Go in there right away. As simple championship team win
• 26:09
  Speaker 7: a championship. I think when you take the joker thing,
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: the head coach, paradox ownership and their preceds, and hey, look,
• 26:16
  Speaker 7: they have a formula that works championships in hockey, basketball, football,
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: Arsenal will probably get one soon, I mean, and it's
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: their prerogative to operate that way, and I think it's
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: the right call. I'll probably disagree with their take upon executives,
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: especially in this world, but like, who am I that got?
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: They've been so successful, right, maybe it's the right way
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: to operate. But I'll say that you encompass that, all
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: that and some media manipulation and then all of a sudden, somehow,
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: some way. I don't I'm not running an NBA team right.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Now, so I'm curious media manipulation. That is he saying
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: that they intentionally put out bad pr or something like that.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Is that the allegation, Dude.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know, and I don't even care. This is
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: This is upsetting to me because I like Calvin and
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: I understand he wants another job, and I understand he's
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: probably bitter about this, But you know, I think more
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: of it has to do with the relationship with Michael Malone. Yeah, yeah, Bro,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: there's gonna come a point when baby Jamal Cale and
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Baby Boval and they're you know, ones ten and ones
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: like seven, and they are absolutely going at it right
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: for whatever reason. Yeah, and you may think that, you
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: know what, the cause of this skirmish is completely on
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: baby Boval.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: I mean she she's being an absolute pill to her sister.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: But you know what you're gonna do.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: You can to send them both to their room, like, hey,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: you both, you're both done right, And that's what the
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Nuggets had to do. Tim Connelly's the one who brought
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: in ag. Tim Connelly's the one that drafted Joker. Tim
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Connelly's the one that did Jamal, that gave Jamal mark.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: There was something.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: There was something I forgot. By the way, this was
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: a big detail for in a feather in Calvin Booth's cap.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: He did trade Will Barton for KCP, which was very He.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Did which was very important, and he did a good
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: I don't think he did a bad job.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: I'm not I'm not saying that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: I'm saying that there was a lot in place, including
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: the best player on the planet and now an All Star. Okay,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: that so that gives you a bit of a jump
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: start in regards to not taking care of their their
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: front off. I mean, Tim Conley got an offer that
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: he couldn't refuse that you couldn't match. Same with Messiah Jerry,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: who went on to Toronto obviously and and did what
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: he did with them in the front office. I mean,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: are you are you telling me the front office of
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: the LA Rams is not those.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: They won a Super Bowl?
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Okay there, dude, they would have if they just get by,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: they would have won again this year either.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: I can tell you guys for a fact, For a fact,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: they value Kevin Demoff in that front office in la
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: they valuated less need as the GM in l A.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: You think do they value do they value Joe Sakkeek
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: and Chris McFarland Do you think?
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: But wait, wait, do you do you think?
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing about Calvin Booth.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: I've said this before, Mama Mia.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: The quote of I think I just made it look
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: too easy is really really funny. But I've said this
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: before most.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: That's why I do every day on this show.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: You know that, right, Brett, I sit here, I argue
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: with Loretta and other people in the text line and I.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Have been sympathetic towards Calvin Booth because I do think
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: that his approach was not given a proper opportunity to
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: see if it works or not. And that was because
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Malone disagreed with it. When he wanted to draft and
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: develop players, Malone did not trust young guys, and so
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: you never got to see whether it worked or not.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Now when you see some of these guys playing and
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: you go, maybe in Jalen Pickett is a little bit
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: more of a player than we thought, or something like that,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: like maybe some of these The bottom line, though, Moje
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: is his approach I don't think is the proper way
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: to go about things. I think the way that Malone
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: wanted the team constructed. If Malone was the coach now,
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: I think he'd be over the moon with the roster
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: that was put in front of him, veteran players that
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: he could trust to get minutes. That's the team that
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: he wanted to coach that Calvin Booth was unwilling to do.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: And so you had two guys with poor opposite approach
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: is at what success would be that could never see
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: eye to eye and that's the.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Main issue, and they both had to go because they
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: both became problems, and they both refused and so on.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's the translation. They're like, if you two
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: can't get along, neither of you are going to be here.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: That's what you're gonna say to baby Boval and baby
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Jamal Kale coming up here at some point. I guarantee
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: it's gonna happen. They're gonna height there in high school.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: I can't wait, dude, I can't wait until they're both
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: in high school. It's gonna be what a day at
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: the Cane House.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Anyway.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: The point is this, I see some of these, uh,
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: these nerds like on the twitch feed right, like Guru
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: and Flax and you know, these these people who just
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: spout and talk and buffoonery. And then I think to myself,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: I make it look too easy as what I do
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: on this show. I sit here in my hotel room
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: in Salt Lake City, and I stare out at the mountains,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: the sun starting to peek through. Thank goodness, got rained
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: on this morning, looking at a guy walking his black
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: lad down there and watching it. And I make it
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: look too easy. You make it look too easy, Brett.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: We shouldn't make it look too easy. We should absolutely
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: make it look hard as hell every single day.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: What do you think I am? I am Miss Pop,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Miss Pop. Uh. So, I'm sure throughout the day dirt
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: more audios that is going to be played.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: There are days that we make I can't wait until.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: I can't wait till until the coach gets ahold of it.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Next in Berto and PhD. It's gonna be great. There
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: are days we make it look so hard on this program.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: We make it look way hard.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So we'll get more of that audio. I'm sure
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: throughout the course of the day on this on this station,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: we'll have more of it tomorrow. Fact check her next
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: all right, double dip tonight as at seven o'clock and
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: am nine to fifteen Nuggets at eight o'clock on ninety
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: two five. I just saw something that I feel like
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: is terrifying, motion terrifying. Somebody sent me a link to
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: my college you and O and a security camera that
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: captured right outside the college on one of these streets,
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: a sinkhole that just ate two cars at a stoplight.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: You know what? I saw that too.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: That would be correct me if I'm wrong, Nelly, and
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: I want the I want the fans of Brett Kane
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: a weigh in on this. Listeners. No, you don't have
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: you faith to get listeners. Three oh three, five oh
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: four oh nine two five you went to Uno. I
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: just saw that video of the cars going. Yeah, I
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: think good, good. New nickname for you would be sinkhole.
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: You If and if I had to project a human sinkhole,
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: I think your face would probably be the first thing
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: that came into my mind.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: I think it's perfect.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: It's a perfect nickname for Brett Kane, the human sinkhole.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: I got a name with hole that I can call you.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, I've been called that a lot.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I I don't look scientifically. I don't understand how sinkholes work.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know how deep those things can go. But
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: all I know is if I'm at a stoplight and
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: my car just drop six feet, I would be the
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: most horrified I'd ever be in my life.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I love from the six five, four to seven. I
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: wish all of Nebraska would fall into a sink hole.
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  Speaker 3: The one five to five four of the whole university.
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  Speaker 4: Is a sink hole.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: This is pretty fun. Good job, people, good job. I'm
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: proud of you. Yes, please call Brett sinkhole. Okay, it's done.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: The human sinkhole. Hey, I'm making a joke. Can I
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: see something real quick, guys. Yeah, just found out this
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: morning that one of my favorites, serious XM NHL network
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: host Jim Boomer Gordon, has passed away. He's been fighting
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: cancer for an awfully long time, and I hadn't talked
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: to him in about a month, about a month and
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: a half, and he would text me during games, and
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: I would go on his show a lot, and I
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: love the guy, and I loved everything about him. I
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: love his approach to radio, which is far more professional
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: and smart, I think than I ever will be. I
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: loved his hockey brain. I love the way he thought
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: the game. I loved his attitude about the league. I
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: loved his ingenuity. I loved a lot about this guy.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: And I was on a show many, many, many, many
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: many times, and then he and I would just privately
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: converse over the years, and he fought cancer for an
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: awfully long time and he's passed away, and man, this
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: is just a big loss for the hockey world. It's
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: not a gigantic community, Brett. It's not the biggest community
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: on the planet, but it can be a tight one.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: And the loss of Boomer is a real It's it's
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: very sad for everybody at that network, and they all
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: do a really good job, but it's just it's.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: This, This is sad.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, he was younger than me by a couple
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: of years, and he's battled cancer for so long and
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: we've all known people who have, including our partner Vick,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: who's kicking ass, and it's just it's just such a
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: it's just such a sad day because this is such
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: a good guy, good guy, really good, smart, smart hockey guy.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Awful news and terrible news for the hockey community and
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: everything else. So hearts go out to him.
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he's just with him, just a stud. I mean,
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: I just love the guy so much. What about them much?
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: That that's it.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, I just I just wanted to, uh to
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: say that, and and it just hits Hardbrett because I
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: don't know, I guess the older you get, you know,
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: you never know, man, you never know. Just love, love
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: your family, love your love your peeps.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: The Abs and Nuggets both back at it tonight again.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: The Ass will be on a nine to fifty puck
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: drop at seven o'clock. The Nuggets on ninety two five
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: as they take on the Celtics at eight o'clock.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: So with these two, you know, what be a good
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: name for like a hockey team in Omaha, Like I
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: feel like a like an EHL team the Omaha Sinkholes.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: That would be freaking great. Good good call, James, good call.
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  Speaker 2: Done.
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  Speaker 4: No. I mean it's not every.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Day you see a sinkhole and it sucks things up, man,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: and you fall to the earth.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: I mean, the earth just gobbles you up. And that
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: doesn't happen every day.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: The fact that it happened to your alma mater is
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: a sign from above or below. It's a sign from below,
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: not above. It's hell trying to it's it's it's satan
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: trying to pull that university down.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: To the Delts are a mind, all a mind. Everybody
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: take your shots at my school. All you want to
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: n C Double A tournament and basketball n C Double
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: A tournament, and baseball n C DOUBLEA tournament, and softball
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: n C Double A tournament and volleyball. I I mean,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: we just we dominate. I don't know what the time about?
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: How what about hockey hockey?
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: They're always in the frozen four? What are you talking about?
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: Shout out US Olympian Jake Gonzil.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, shout out Avalanche champion Jason Megna. What's up, homeboy?
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: What else you got? How's that for a sinkhole? Are
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: you talking about Golden medalist Jake Genzil? Is that a sinkhole?
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: That's what I thought. Now, I will say this about
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: my home city, my home state, big pothole problem. It's
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: gotta figure that out. They're crazy, like your car will
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: get ruined most you take one drive down my family's neighborhood.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Your car is going to be all wheels off. Fix
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: the streets so they don't seek sink into the earth.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see China when I'm driving my
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: car in Nebraska. Okay, not to the games tonight. You
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: said the Chemos was defense with the abs tonight. Correct.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: I gotta play the I gotta play.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: The Utah has not made the playoffs in the last
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: five seasons, you know, over five seasons, and they aren't
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: the number one wild card. Dude, it's a pretty damn
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: good team. I don't I don't want people, I mean,
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: I don't want people to sleep on the Utah mammoth
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: because you know they've got a lot of top picks
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: on that team that are really starting now to come
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: into their own. I mean, obviously Clayton Keller has been
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: there for a long time and he leads him at
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: scoring every year. But you know, Dylan Gunther is a
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: is a terrific player. They acquired Saragachev on the back end.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: He's a Cup champion with the Lightning. They got Logan Cooley.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: They've got a lot of guys who have been really
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: high picks. And of course their goaltending.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know what.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know what it is about their goaltending, but
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: it just seems every time the Avs face Vanichek or Vamlka. Yeah,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: these guys play like like it's Earth versus Mars and
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: they got to make every friggin save on the planet.
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: And they looks at Vemilka's got a two five eight.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: H you know, it's pretty dang good. He's got a
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: two to five eight with a nine to ozho three.
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: Not bad.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: But if something against playing the playing the Avalanche, these
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: guys just elevate like crazy.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, here's the game so far this year. The opener
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: was a two to one game with themelica between the pipes.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Then it was a four to three game with the
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Milica and then later in the third game it was
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: one to nothing with Vanachik. They always seem to just
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: somehow come up big.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: I don't get it. They do. I'm telling dude, I'm
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: telling you, they do. They they do. I don't know
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: how it happens. They do.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Uh. For the the Nuggets aspect of this, look, man,
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Boston is. I know everybody kind of thought they'd take
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: this giant step back without having Tatum healthy. They're still
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: really good motion, like a really good team. Jalen Brown
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: right now, with how things are trending, depending on who's
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: going to hit that minimum mark for games played to
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: be in the MVP race. I just saw ESPN earlier
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: they were talking about MVP right now. Is it Jalen
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Brown or is it Jokic. Jalen Brown's having a great
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: year with no Jason Tatum to really share the ball with.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Like he's he's really taken a hold on their offensive reigns.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: He's averaging twenty nine a night, he's taking twenty three
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: shots a night. But between him and I'll tell you
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: the guy to watch out for. So we know about
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Derek White, the more this guy plays, it feels like
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: the better this guy gets. Peyton Pritchard is a good player.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: He really is, and he's had his minutes tick up
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: more and more and more over the last couple of years. Yeah,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: I used to think like he's a nice little bench guy.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: He's pretty damn good.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Dude, he is, because I mean he's not a super
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: young guy. He's still in his twenties. But the more
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: playing time he gets, he's delivering. Hey, I mean he's
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: a he's a former I think he's a former first
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: ate first rounder if I'm not mistaken. But now given
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: the opportunity with those with those Tatum minutes spread around, Yeah,
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: he's playing some pretty damn good basketball for them.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: They got another guy on the roster. By the way,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: we were talking about NCAA tournament darlings and college basketball
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: guys who are really good that might not be good
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: NBA players because you brought up a kream Abdul Jabbar.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: What's his name? Avila?
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: Roberta Avila, Robbie Avila.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Larry Nerd. Yeah, Robert de Vela is one of them.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: They got Luca.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Do you remember how good Luca Garza was for Iowa
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: when he was in college. I think he was the player,
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: like he averaged like twenty six at night. He was incredible.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: He was really good. Yeah. But by the way, have
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: we for them? Yes?
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Every time I see that guy, his head looks square.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: It's like a square. It's like a milk crate on
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: a body. That's all Kennon division. He's got a square head.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: He does have a square He gets his jaw line
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: combined with his haircut, but he looks square.
• 42:53
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• 42:54
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• 43:07
  Speaker 8: Today, during the appetizer hour, Brett actually emerged from his
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: sinkhole and he taught me something, moj We were discussing
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: jetlag and the AVS players who were coming back from
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: the Olympics, how quickly they're going to be able to
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: reacclimate to their normal clocks and get back on the ice.
• 43:22
  Speaker 8: So we were talking about our travel experiences and when
• 43:26
  Speaker 8: I came back from India, Brett asked me which direction
• 43:29
  Speaker 8: I flew around the globe to get home, And I said,
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: why does that matter? Well, there is some research that
• 43:35
  Speaker 8: suggests that jetlag is actually not as bad when you
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: travel west, and that it's worse when you go east,
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: and it has to do with whether you gain or
• 43:47
  Speaker 8: lose time and the body's circadian rhythms. But that's the
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: short version, So Brett, there actually is some credence to
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: what you were asking.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Can I can I tell you why? I just I
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: was curious. Look, it's a very like weed circle thing
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: to bring up in conversation, but in Australia the toilets
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: flushing and opposite direction, and I was like, does that
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: do something to your body? I was actually curious.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: You know, DoD whenever I travel east, like going to Europe,
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: no problem. When I come home traveling west, major problem, Yeah,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: big time problem.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: And that's why I asked Nelly, I go, did you
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: go over the Atlantic or the Pacific to get to India?
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: Because it feels like the complete opposite side of the globe,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: like you could take two ways, right, But then he
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: said the Atlantic? Can I go? Oh? I don't know, Okay,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it makes a difference or not.
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: But most it's actually it's actually weird you say that
• 44:36
  Speaker 8: because a lot of the research suggests the opposite of
• 44:39
  Speaker 8: what you say that.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: Going well, the researchers are full of crack.
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: Going east is usually worse than it is to travel
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: back west. Not for me, No, take that as scientists.
• 44:48
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• 44:52
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• 44:53
  Speaker 2: wonderful Wednesday. We'll talk to you.
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: Save the whales, See the Whales.