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Wowser's boys are back. It's another
pod. It's table buzz, me and
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Josh back here in Toronto. got
some exciting stuff coming up. World Juniors.
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That's a summer world juniors. Kinda
not classic. But you've seen who's
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on this podcast with us, Lucas
freaking cormier. He's about to take on
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the World Juniors here in Calgary.
Great Pod with him, great interview.
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We learned a lot. You'll be
hearing this before you hear the Lucas interview,
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but what a great time to get
him on, especially he's gonna be
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playing such a big role on the
team this year. Like pretty good guy
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to get out here right before World
Juniors. Won't lie. He's gonna put
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on a show for the for the
Hometownada, baby, watch out. Well,
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Canada, like there's a lot of
players not playing like own power and
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then boys. So like the depth
chart kind of bumps up, and that's
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what we're here for. That's what
we're here for all day. Like no,
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Maddie Banier's in USA. No,
no Russia at all. Yeah,
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no, Russia. That'll be that's
one of the one of the big horse
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out of the race already. So
you know you don't mind seeing that,
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but it's always an exciting game to
watch Canada Russia, and I feel like
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Canada usually gets the better of them, so that makes it even unless you're
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talking like his nets off and Panarin
and the boys in Tara, Sanko,
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that was a tough one to watch, but we're past that. But cheers,
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Lucas, best looking. Thanks for
joining us. This guy joined us
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from literally his hotel room, like
his roommate was trying to nap and he
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was talking to us. Yeah,
if you see a shirtless guy in the
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background, it's nothing weird going on, just pro hockey stuff. Okay.
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Yeah, so showed out. Let's
get it rolling. Enjoyed this episode.
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We'll be back next week. Ladies
and gentlemen, welcome back to another table
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buzz podcast. Today we're joined by
very special guests once again, Lucas Cormier.
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Lucas, how are you good?
How are you guys? Good,
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man, good, just living the
dream. You're at in Calgary now.
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How's the weather out there? Probably
Pretty Hot. Not Too bad. Ye,
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it's been. It's been pretty hot. No, that's how in Vegas
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before. Is a lot harder there. But yeah, seeing that you were
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in Vegas in the old snap story, hitting up the boat and seeing out
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there. What's that like? A
little bit different than Atlantic Canada, I
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would say. Yeah, it was
fun. Really hard at this time of
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year, though. Was that for
a Dev camp? Yeah, actual did
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there a couple of weeks after just
to train with the guys. Cool,
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cool, Nice. So you you
had a couple you probably had you were
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like a month out in Vegas then. UH, yeah, three weeks.
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Damn, that's not that's not a
bad place to be for a few weeks.
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Did you get to meet any of
the boys or it's mostly just the
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rookies there for Dev camp? Yeah, well, we I was training for
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the deaf gund was like mainly rookies, and after that I stayed with white
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clouds for the two weeks I was
there and I was training with the with
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most guys, like mostly hl guys
in Henderson. But yeah, it was
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fun. It's awesome. So you're
out in Calgary. You're you're pretty busy
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these days, I would imagine.
We obviously appreciate you joining this. Like,
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what are you up to? You're
at the world juniors getting it's for
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three days away. You probably we
came here on Monday and I think the
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well, the first exhibition is the
next Monday, I think so. Right
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now we're just in Calgary, training
in the morning, practice after and then
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we usually have something at night,
but we had had the day off to
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day so at some time. Yeah, you don't mind living it up in
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Calgary. Anything? What are you
up to in the day off? Not
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much. We don't really have anything
Plann right now. I think we have
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a supper tonight. That should be
interesting, but you're nothing the rest of
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the day. So much needed rest. I can get the relaxation. And
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is this? Is this like a
do they grill you guys pretty hard,
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like are these skates tough, like
cardio wise, or is it more so
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like systems? Trying to get the
team used to each other? Yeah,
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a lot of system we we've been
working on the dees on quite a bit
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just to get get some chemistry going, and we have systems and stuff mostly.
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Yeah, I can imagine it would
be tough. Like you're just throwing
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together twenty hockey players, obviously like
the best in the world for your age,
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but even just no chemistry. Like
I can imagine there's not too many
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guys that you've ever played with that
are on this team and you've got to
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learn how to, you know,
Gel together pretty quickly on the biggest stage.
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There's a lot of pressure involved with
that. Yeah, we we have
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like have they have the team basically
that was here at Christmas, so we
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have like a little, little base. But yeah, we have a lot
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of new guys and I think it's
going going pretty good right now. We're
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we're proving every day on all the
details and stuff. Sweet, sweet,
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what are you most excited for?
Once you guys get playing into the round
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rob and then hopefully into the playoff
rounds. Just excited to get going.
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You see the crowd how it's gonna
be and hopefully we get some some good
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crowd out there. Pretty cool,
I can imagine. Yeah, I mean
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World Juniors is like the absolute dream
for any young hockey player in Canada.
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It's one of the most like for
for hockey wise on TV, like I
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feel like this is one of the
more popular events that people take in the
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whole country watches. The Olympics are
only ever four years. So to cheer
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on team Canada, you get to
do it every year at the World Juniors
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and last year to have that canceled. I can imagine that sucked pretty bad,
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but are you happy to have another
second chance out of here? Yeah,
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for sure. It was at this
point when he got canceled. It
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was the start of the tournament.
was still pretty cool, but it's fun
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that we got another chance at it. I'm not sure how it was going
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to be in the summer, but
it should be a good experience no matter
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what. Yeah, there's not gonna
be the boxing day classic as per usual,
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and years even all that. Yeah, I've seen these skates that people
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are rocking at the World Jays.
They get the custom skates with the Canada
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flag on them and stuff like that. You have a pretty is it fair
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to say you have a bigger role
on the team this time around the last
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time around? I'd say Pretty Miller. It's pretty similar, just right there.
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Yeah, we have a a lot
of good guys, obviously in Canadas,
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a lot of depth here and yeah, it's gonna be should be fun.
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So how do you how do you
get to be one of the guys
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that gets these custom pair of wheels
to be skating around it? Well,
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every everyone got them at Christmas.
I think I I use bower bower skates,
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so the bower goes a little bit
harder on this case. They got
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a good design on them, but
I know CCM PCM has them doing.
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True, has like some stickers on
there that that had some guys. So
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it's kind of whatever. Skates are
already used and then they just make it
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work. Yeah, yeah, cool, cool, cool. That was always
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a question. I had just seen
them. I was like, Damn,
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that's a pretty nice pair of skates, but I wouldn't want to be wearing
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a brand new pair of skates for
one of these big tournaments. But I
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guess if you already got them in
Christmas then you're used to him now.
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Yeah, we got them a couple
of weeks before, so we got to
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get used to them a little bit. Sick, sick. That was a
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personal question that fifteen year old Josh
would have loves to know. So thank
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you. So obviously, yeah,
your World World Juniors coming up, but
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you just spent like four years in
our hometown, charlottown. But the islanders
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just wrecking it up, being in
a legend out there. That's what we
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love to see. Uh, what
was what? What do you like about
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Charltown? Like what kept you coming
back? UH, yeah, I love
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my time in Charlottetown. It's a
it's a great city, a great place
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to be everyone around. The organization
was great too. We had a great
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group of guys all all four years
I was there and pretty fortunate to get
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some some pretty good teams do there
at the end. Unfortunately you couldn't bring
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the cup to Charlottown, but yeah, it was a lot of fun.
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Have you been able to spend any
summers in the off season or some time
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on P I? Yeah, I
always go for for a week here and
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there. I went to the cabby
after my first year. We got canceled
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before years and this year I couldn't
go, but yeah, I'll be there
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over again for sure. Oh,
yeah, yeah, that's what we like
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to hear. This is our first
summer not being on P I, so
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we're getting a taste of the other
life, but we're missing the V I
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summer big time for sure. Yeah, so you have some history with this
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guy on my left here. I
never got the chance to play against you,
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but there's H it dates back to
to midget, the days against the
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pride killer here, just from my
perspective, because Richie probably won't want to
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ask you too much about it,
but what was it like playing against this
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kid? Yeah, everyone, everyone
remembers Richie, playing against him always.
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I was sure, yeah, it
was. It was funny sometimes. I
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remember playing in Kensington and I just
like meet the pass and Richie just gave
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it to me all the way after. Yeah, I wish, I wish
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I could take some of that back, because a lot of people out of
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STRP and they're like doing some six
stuff now and I'm just like, damn,
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up to you, I want to
come on the pod now. Then
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you chirped me all the way up. So I I used to always love
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playing against monked and flyers. What
a time there. I I love your
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your assistant coach, Stephen Mcpherson,
shared beauty, beauty. Did you ever
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have words with him? No,
I just smile at one of the only
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guys that I know that loves getting
into it with the coaches as the other
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team. Is there much chirping that
goes on at World Juniors? I can
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imagine there's a pretty big language barrier
when you're trying to get under the skin
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of like a Slovakian kid, but
is there much that goes on? Yeah,
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for sure. A little bit.
I'm not I'm not the biggest,
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biggest chairpers I can't really talk too
much for myself. I kind of just
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let my my playing do the job. But yeah, there's there's always those
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guys that that's their game and they
they're doing no matter what word they are.
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So yeah, yeah, yeah,
they just have to get a little
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more eight is right. Yeah,
do you find that a lot of people
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try and attack you as one of
the, you know, the better players
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on every team you've been on?
Pretty well, sometimes, I mean I
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don't think it's I don't think it's
too bad more than anyone else, but
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yeah, sometimes it's. Uh,
I think the worst was probably against Kanthnington.
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Honestly, I was gonna say yeah, like, if you withstood that,
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I think you was set a lot
of things. That's pretty good conditioning
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right there. What was the run
that you just went on this year with
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the islanders? Like sold out ranks
there and playoffs, like, what was
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that like? City was probably just
buzzing. Yeah, it was really cool
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just to play out in the summer
too. We get to the eyes a
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lot nice during the summer. Just
do a lot of things that the guys
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go golfing always in the pool.
That that the billets and there was yeah,
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it was really, really cool to
just been the those playoff runs are
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always fun. It was fun.
Yeah, I mean the season it went
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abnormally long than usual, right.
Yeah, the men cup was like late
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June. Yeah, like, what's
that like? I mean, obviously it's
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different at this level, but I
can imagine that like like junior a,
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junior b, if guys were told
that they're going to be playing into July,
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is like the puck just starts ending
out. They're going that somehow.
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Like, what's that like? I
can imagine it's mentally tough. Like you
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just can't be at the rank every
single day and it's twenty five and sunny
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outside. Do you find it a
bit of a struggle? Well, we
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had a good group this year,
so we had had a lot of fun
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doing it. So we didn't really
think about how long we got. It
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was just it was all going by
so fast and the next thing you know
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it was it was done and we
wish it would have went longer. So
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yeah, it was it was fun. You've played with on the islanders.
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You've played with a tandem of some
pretty good goal he's back there you had
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Colton Alys for a couple of years. You had matt wells. Right,
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yeah, my first two years.
So you had hand Matt and Jacob and
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Jacob Gooby too. So I'm just
saying, like, who's your who's your
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favorite to play in front of them? I guess that's my question. Well,
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they were all. They were all
good. I can't really put one
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above yes on the spot. Well, well, she obviously, and C
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like out there love him. So
he was there for like five years and
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Colton just came in for one year. But the thanks you did when he
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was there was was remarkable too.
Yeah, Colton's awesome. I I chirped
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him a couple of times in Nigit
two. He would come off to me
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after and talk and then, yeah, long story, but yeah, Colton
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great guy off the ice too.
All those guys are even googy. Yeah,
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yeah, I'm not complained. Do
you find the world juniors like there's
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a lot more media attention than the
Q M J h l would gather do
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you? Do you ever get overwhelmed
or do you find difficult dealing with all
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of the you know, the TV
stuff behind the scenes? Yeah, a
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lot, a lot more, but
I don't think it's too difficult. It's
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all usually just like after after practice
or games, then just like a ten
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minutes and there's like a little media
scrum or something. So it's not too
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fun. Just the classic hockey answers
that you got. Yeah, it is
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the same answers every time. Four
lines going. Is Is there a team
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that you like matching up with,
like if you're if you're looking at the
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group stage, is there a country
where you're like this is gonna be sick
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when we get to play them?
Uh Well, obviously, like always,
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the US is always a great rivalry
by bigger polities. Play them eventually in
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the tournament. And Russia is not
here this time, but that's uh,
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that's always pretty cool. and Uh
yeah, Finland sweet into it. Every
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country is that. There's a lot
of country now that getting pretty good,
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so that should be interesting. Is
there, or do you have is there
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a big difference between like if you're
defending like a finish forward, not that
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everyone plays the same or that everyone
plays differently, but do you find a
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big difference between countries of their style
of play when they're coming down on the
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rush? And like every team has
different systems, but just like style of
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play. Basically. Yeah, every
team has different, different guys that do
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different things. But yeah, it's
a lot of trends. Sometimes in the
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euro team that they they try to
be a little more skills, trying to
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go between between your legs and stuff
like that. So but every team has
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those guys and every team, as
the Gretty guys, you can't really tell
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a big difference. But yeah,
I just gotta know what you're going out
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against. Yeah, and is there
much of like a scouting report that goes
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into that? Do you have like
I know it's pretty annoying like you're stretching
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trying to get ready to play and
then people are just shoving information of like
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this guy like shooting high glove or
whatever. He's gonna cut to his forehand.
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And obviously you're not thinking of that
in the game when there's cameras and
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fans screaming and you have the team
Canada Jersey on. But do you find
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that there's like a pretty in depth
idea of who you're going to be matching
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up with every night? Not Really. We go we go in details with
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the teams a lot, like what
their system is and stuff like that,
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but not not a lot of individual
individual guys and with their tendency there got
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yeah, that that makes sense.
I feel like that would just be too
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much to put into someone's head when
they just need to go out. Yeah,
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yeah, but even even just like
like the young Russian last year or
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in the last yeah, meach covs, like, I don't know, I
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feel like you got to have some
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know where their their top players are
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for sure, and they know,
like you're telling me that they, the
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boys, know who the top players
are. You don't need to be studying.
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But he just asked your favorite team
to line up. It's like,
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obviously it's got to be America.
Probably, if I was in your shoes,
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it would be sick to play against
America. Just a huge rivalry.
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But what do you think about playing
against like individual players? Do you ever
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look at that and be like Oh
ship, like I'm playing against this guy.
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Maybe I don't know if there's I
don't really know too many of the
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top players in this year's world juniors, but there's got to be something that
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you're just like, damn, I
can't wait to play against this guy.
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Yeah, there's at this time around. There's a lot of like you top.
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A lot of the top players on
the team are not here. So
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it's still gonna be there's gonna be
a lot of good players, but not
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the big names are. Yeah,
YOU'RE NOT gonna be here too, too
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much. So we got a couple
of our team too, but are yeah,
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exactly pretty stick to play things you're
doing practice and stuff ridiculous. Yeah,
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I can imagine the one on one
drills get a little interesting when guys
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like yeah, I couldn't. Yeah, have you found on like even just
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in a six month span from practicing
with him and like over Christmas, he's
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obviously like he was the youngest kid
there. Now, I don't I'm not
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sure if he still is going to
be the youngest on the team or not,
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but somewhere is close at least.
But if you found that he's even
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taking a step up from the last
tournament? Yeah, for sure. He's
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always, always getting better. When
you just look at him in practice,
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he's a you just canna take your
eyes off him. This stuff he does
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with the fucking yeah, it's and
people. If you stop him or you're
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like okay, like let's go,
he's like you're kind of supposed to stop
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him. He's like four years younger
than you. If it's more, if
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you don't fair enough. Yeah,
that's funny what we had Dave Cameron on
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our pod. He's he's your coach
coming up here. What do you have
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any thoughts on Old Dave? He's
a good old islander boy. Yeah.
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Yeah, there's a great dialogue.
Coaching Staff is Pretty UH, they're pretty
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not not loose like but like in
a way like when it when it's time
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to have fun, like didn't know
how to like say some jokes and stuff
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like that. Yeah, we're having
a pretty good time with the coaching staff
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too. Yeah, Dave seems like
a guy to keep it kind of pretty
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chill. I mean I could see
him flip in his lid a couple of
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times. But yeah, they all. Yeah, we have great coaches here.
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I mean team kind of does not
gonna have the they're going to have
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the best coaches available every time.
We're pretty fortunate. Yeah, we AH,
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we're good buddies with Jordan Spence.
I'm not sure. Well, you
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probably know who he is. Yeah, but but he was telling us about
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the world juniors whenever he was there
in the Christmas presents that come out.
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Did you guys get to that point? Did you get any gifts from hockey
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Canada last year? Yeah, we
got. The big one we got was
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was virtual reality set. We all
got one of those, a little oculus.
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It was. Yeah, it's not
something you really need, but it
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was playing with playing with it at
the hotel after. I didn't really did
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a lot after that. Yeah,
I mean I think spending got like an
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electric scooter or something. I can't
I can't imagine he's rocking that too much.
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Yeah, we got a lot of
different things with that, but that
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was like the big one for all
you. Cool, cool, cool.
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Did you come with any games or
what? Did they just give you the
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headset and say you go just the
headset, you play the Games on your
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own. That's hilarious. That's awesome. What about any like clothing type stuff?
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I can imagine there's a huge Holi
kitch and all that, but the
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hockey Canada stuff, like when you're
on a road trip back with your you
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know, your junior team or wherever
you end up next year, like is
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that something a bit of a flex
to throw on? Like yes, my
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world junior t shirt. No,
you can't. You can't worry too much
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every time you every time you put
a shirt on, people like you know.
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Yeah, I was gonna say so. Sometimes you put it on.
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You kind of gotta keep it in
the closet. Most time spendywhere to see
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in Canada this year. Yeah,
gets in here full over time. So
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I can imagine that's how it goes. Are Your buddies excited for you?
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Do you ever like are they asking
you about you know, what's it like
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up there from I mean like your
hometown Budd he's like high school friends.
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Yeah, everyone. Uh, I
got a lot of support from from my
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hometown. I think it's well,
it's pretty cool that. It's just uh,
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I come from a really small town. So, yeah, a lot
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of a lot of my friends and
a lot of these people and in the
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community I see this support a lot. So it's uh, yeah, it's
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good to have that. Yeah,
you're not from the same place as Mgal
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Pori area pretty close. Okay,
man, I was thinking. Man,
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I was thinking you might be from
the same area. What's the what's the
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town you're from? St Mary again? Okay, yeah, yeah, it's
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pretty close from from where we go. Is I just falked into my mind.
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He's one of the rip time boys. So obviously I mean not to
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overlook what's coming up here, but
have you put any thought into where you're
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gonna end up next season? Well, I'll be in Vegas probably, probably
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in the H L team, but
it's it's in Vegas too. So yeah,
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I was there to summer for the
just to see what it's like.
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See Me, me, the guys
and the miss facilities and stuff like that,
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and it's it looks pretty, pretty
incredible. It should be fun.
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Yeah, I would say not,
let alone that it's in Las Vegas,
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but a new franchise, everything brand
new. I can imagine it's pretty impressive.
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Like I'm just picturing like a water
treadmill in the dressing room or something
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like that. Yeah, I just
gotta you'll rank you. So it's uh,
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yeah, it kind of looks like
the guys know rink a little bit.
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Oh yeah, okay, damn.
So and how pump you must be.
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I need your thoughts now on the
silver helmets. Right, so I
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think it's I don't know, come
on, come on, I haven't I
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haven't tried them all yet, but
I think it's pretty cool that they implement
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that kind of they're gonna fit fine
now, but what about the look?
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Honestly, when I looked at him
the first time, I don't think it
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looks great, but I think I
think it's cool. Like I think,
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yeah, it wouldn't be kind of
sick to me, just like you take
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off your bucket and like you can
see yourself and check out your hair.
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Yeah, Team Picture Day. You
never know, guys are fixing their hair
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in the glass. All you gotta
do is turn the bucket around. That's
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funny. I forgot about those.
That's what there is. They do them
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in Europe with like the leading score
or something. He gets a gold around.
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That's hilarious. Oh my gosh.
Yeah, I'm sure you'll probably get
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a couple of snaps from the boys
system chirps about those two. So the
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the HL team is right there in
in Las Vegas as well. Yeah,
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it's in Henderson, so like fifteen
minutes, I think so. So hopefully
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you'll have a nice like apartment and
stuff. You'll be all set up in
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the area at the very least.
Yeah, yeah, it's all you can
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some some guys are in Summerland,
some guys in Henderson. It's like thirty
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minutes apart in the someone's where the
practice rank is for for Vegas, with
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some guys who just all over the
place. I don't have an apartment yet,
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but I should. I'm looking into
that now. Have have you been
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able to speak with any of like
the big headline or Vegas Guys, Jack
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Chel or mark stone or anything like
that? Any text messages or anything?
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Yeah, not really text messages,
but I was, like I said,
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I was staying with white cloud while
I was there and he was they had
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like Carlton's wedding was was one of
the weekends I was there. So they
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had I didn't go there, but
there was like every moment guys came in.
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So there was a lot of guys
in town for like that week.
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So whitey like brought me. I
went golfing like Theodore and we had a
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we had supper a couple of times
with like hey, I think ICO was
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there once, and it was pretty
cool to meet those guys. Yeah,
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wait, I can imagine. What's
the what's the first tea like there when
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you're teeing up with the big boys, and do you take out the big
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stick or is that a is that
a fine? Just get it and play
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and then go from there. I
had had rental clubs too, so it
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was first shot goes way, a
laugh and say, you know, the
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ball goes away right after that.
Perfect. I just blame it on the
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rental clubs, though. I had
an excuse. Yeah, yeah, you
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had those taken care of. Were
they? Were they good golfers or what?
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Yeah, pretty good golfers, white
clouds to scratch handicap. And Yeah,
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the other guys like four or five
probably. Yeah, that's what some
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years golf year round there and there. So, yeah, I can imagine
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the courses are pretty nice too.
What do you golf do you get out
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golf and much in the summer?
Sounds like you do when you're not,
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you know, playing. Yeah,
when you're not doing like yeah, yeah,
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I've been golfing since I'm since I'm
pretty young. This year haven't gone
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too much because I've had a busy
summer, but you were gonna get out
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quite a bit. What do you
normally are you normally like a big I'll
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drive the ball three yards, or
you like a short game? For this
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type of Guy, it depends on
the day, beds of the day.
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Yeah, if you're feeling good,
you're gripping and ripping. If not,
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keep it under control. What's the
what's the low round? It was way
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back tournaments and stuff. Now it's
uh, it's more just for fun.
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This year it's like probably seventy five
my top. I haven't played you too
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much, but that's what I thought
you were going to say for the first
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answer. My God, yeah,
you're all right. I should have known.
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Yeah, what do we got up? We got the stats up.
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You find anything interesting looking at the
stats? The couple Q and j h
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l trophies in there. You don't
mind block them off? Defensive of the
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year, Defenseman of the year.
That ain't bad, following from our buddy
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Jordan's fence. Actually, that's not
a bad road, to be honest.
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I'll tell you right now. Yeah, no, but Henderson, Henderson has
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the sounds like a pretty similar set
up to what spenny just went through,
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like twenty minutes away from the main
club, like just grinding and out,
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and both Ontario and Henderson both seemed
like really good places to me, so
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can't complain about that. Yeah,
most goals by defense from this year,
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Josh, thirty three and kids light. Oh my gosh, would you consider
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yourself more of an offensive defenseman?
Yeah, for sure, I think that's
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mostly my game. Those guys have
more fun. Yeah, Oh yeah,
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just killing people on the paper.
I used to breaking it. I used
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to take like probably I'd probably take
like a for minute penalty. Punched someone
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after and you have to see this
guy come out. Just dummy and power
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play goals. I know you're not
staying in the box very long when this
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guy's running the first speaker, I'll
tell you that much. Are you excited
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to for a power play with team
Canada, to have some more weapons in
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there? Yeah, it's always.
It's always some good power plays out there.
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I'm on the second unit right now, but yeah, it's looking pretty
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good. Yeah, I mean especially
like I can imagine, the second unit
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is the first unit on literally any
other team in in the CHL. So
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yeah, you still have the shots. Yeah, I mean, I mean
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if you're on tellboy. Chemistry,
though, some some teams can have.
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Let's good. We just gotta make
sure. We would work on it,
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and it's not always the best.
Guys just gotta gotta be good together and,
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yeah, make sure it works out. Do you know your d partner
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for the tournament? The working out, like they probably tell you before.
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So you're getting the chemistry going.
He once again. Yeah, right now
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I'm with I'm playing with hunt.
He was probably would have been on the
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team like Christmas, but he was
injured. So Kay, but everything can
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change. It always. Uh.
Yeah, exactly. There's a new shoot
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out. I've been with him since. We have like three practice now,
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but I can change pretty quick.
Yeah, what leads he coming from?
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He played in moves down the okay, right, learn from each other a
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little bit there too. Yeah,
I play. I wasn't. That wasn't
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my partner at Helen. I do
so there already. Yeah, there.
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There used to be some like I'm
not sure I wouldn't call it a commercial,
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but like during the commercial break and
world junior games they'd show like team
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Canada, like a drill. Every
player would get to come up with like
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a practice drill and run through a
little skills. Think have you guys had
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any anything like that that you had
to do yet? Yeah, we did
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it at Christmas and some of the
guys that weren't there have been doing it
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now. So I think you're just
gonna use their art clip from Christmas.
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What's what's the drill? They showed
me a clip of like the car doing
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something and thend be like this guy, what you doing? It's like doing
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something in a game and they're like
yeah, like trying to do the same
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thing. So what do you think
I've been trying to do? Yeah,
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some drills are like some drills are
good, but some drills like, you
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know, the goal. You see, they just got like one drill was
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like with a basketball or something,
and everyone was saying like Oh, like,
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I love that drill. He was
just like no, like don't do
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that drill. I didn't choose that
like but yeah, it's uh, some
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drills are interesting with some of them
are actually pretty good. Yeah, because
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I remember watching some of them and
I'm like, first of all, there's
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no way this guy ever does that. The second of all, you definitely
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hated making this thing. Yeah,
it's just like crossovers around the dot and
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then just a shot or something,
and it's like, and that's mostly for
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like people just starting out don't know
what to do, like with drill.
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To See guys like that just in
practice doing drills like that too, and
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everyone has to do it. That's
hilarious. So I'm trying to think here.
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You were playing in Moncton. Is
there any guys that you've been teammates
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with from midget that you have seen
come up with you through major Jr and
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stuff like that? If you had
a chance to play with any guys from
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like a while backing on, you
from a small town, so that probably
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isn't too much talent being pumped into
there. But M Patrick was all from
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the same town as me. I
played with him all the way up.
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Still wicked damn. Yeah, okay, so you had a buddy that he
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was. The only year we didn't
play together was was my first year in
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the queue. He was still in
midget and then he joined us in the
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queue after seeing Q. Wow,
didn't an answer like that. I kind
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of just pulled that question. That's
that's perfect, supreme. What a beauty.
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Yeah, better than that. I
didn't talk too much exactly when this
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thing is right. He does a
good job of it though. Yeah,
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so what's it like when you're showing
up, when a when a bunch of
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hockey guys get in the dressing room
for the first time, it's like you
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got to kind of feel each other
out, like who's the loud guy?
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You know what kind of clicks are
you trying to get into? What's it
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like when all these guys for the
for the first time, you're showing up,
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like meeting the world junior team whatever, like the list that comes out
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for tryouts? Is it intimidating walking
into that room for the first time,
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like, especially if you don't know
anyone there, or did you have someone
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that you kind of just went to
right away? Yeah, well, it
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was intimidating. Like you seventeen,
the first time I meet all those guys,
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it was like I didn't know what
to expect. But then we go
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through that and then that u eighteen
and then couple like tryouts at the U
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twenty level. So like after all
the events, you kind of at the
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end it's kind of all the same
people that that just come back. So
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you get pretty comfortable with all the
guys. Yeah, I guess like the
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program would stay somewhat consistent, like
some guys, you know, fall off
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and some guys, you know,
just become unbelievable. But I know that's
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cool to know that the boys stick
together. is of the same goal at
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the end of the day, to
play pro hockey. Yeah, and to
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win gold for the boys. Oh
Yeah, oh, yeah, no,
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no, I was just gonna say
it wasn't much of a question. Like
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you're feeling good about this year's team
or what I think? So I think
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we're the team to be so you
got to prove that in the tournament.
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Hell yeah, we'll be watching,
that's for sure. We can't wait.
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We appreciate you joining us. We
don't want to take too much of your
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day off. I know you're a
busy man. You better go and enjoy
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your day off. So yeah,
thanks for coming on. It's been great
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talking to you. We wish you
the best of luck with the tournament and
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with everything that follows after that.
All right on. Thank you, guys.
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Yeah, hopefully we can bring you
a little table buzz boost for the
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boys here. Let's see it.
Good Luck, man. Thank you.
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All right, here's Bro
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Wowser's boys are back. It's another
pod. It's table buzz, me and
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Josh back here in Toronto. got
some exciting stuff coming up. World Juniors.
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That's a summer world juniors. Kinda
not classic. But you've seen who's
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on this podcast with us, Lucas
freaking cormier. He's about to take on
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the World Juniors here in Calgary.
Great Pod with him, great interview.
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We learned a lot. You'll be
hearing this before you hear the Lucas interview,
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but what a great time to get
him on, especially he's gonna be
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playing such a big role on the
team this year. Like pretty good guy
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to get out here right before World
Juniors. Won't lie. He's gonna put
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on a show for the for the
Hometownada, baby, watch out. Well,
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Canada, like there's a lot of
players not playing like own power and
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then boys. So like the depth
chart kind of bumps up, and that's
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what we're here for. That's what
we're here for all day. Like no,
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Maddie Banier's in USA. No,
no Russia at all. Yeah,
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no, Russia. That'll be that's
one of the one of the big horse
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out of the race already. So
you know you don't mind seeing that,
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but it's always an exciting game to
watch Canada Russia, and I feel like
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Canada usually gets the better of them, so that makes it even unless you're
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talking like his nets off and Panarin
and the boys in Tara, Sanko,
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that was a tough one to watch, but we're past that. But cheers,
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Lucas, best looking. Thanks for
joining us. This guy joined us
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from literally his hotel room, like
his roommate was trying to nap and he
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was talking to us. Yeah,
if you see a shirtless guy in the
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background, it's nothing weird going on, just pro hockey stuff. Okay.
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Yeah, so showed out. Let's
get it rolling. Enjoyed this episode.
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We'll be back next week. Ladies
and gentlemen, welcome back to another table
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buzz podcast. Today we're joined by
very special guests once again, Lucas Cormier.
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Lucas, how are you good?
How are you guys? Good,
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man, good, just living the
dream. You're at in Calgary now.
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How's the weather out there? Probably
Pretty Hot. Not Too bad. Ye,
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it's been. It's been pretty hot. No, that's how in Vegas
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before. Is a lot harder there. But yeah, seeing that you were
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in Vegas in the old snap story, hitting up the boat and seeing out
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there. What's that like? A
little bit different than Atlantic Canada, I
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would say. Yeah, it was
fun. Really hard at this time of
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year, though. Was that for
a Dev camp? Yeah, actual did
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there a couple of weeks after just
to train with the guys. Cool,
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cool, Nice. So you you
had a couple you probably had you were
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like a month out in Vegas then. UH, yeah, three weeks.
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Damn, that's not that's not a
bad place to be for a few weeks.
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Did you get to meet any of
the boys or it's mostly just the
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rookies there for Dev camp? Yeah, well, we I was training for
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the deaf gund was like mainly rookies, and after that I stayed with white
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clouds for the two weeks I was
there and I was training with the with
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most guys, like mostly hl guys
in Henderson. But yeah, it was
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fun. It's awesome. So you're
out in Calgary. You're you're pretty busy
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these days, I would imagine.
We obviously appreciate you joining this. Like,
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what are you up to? You're
at the world juniors getting it's for
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three days away. You probably we
came here on Monday and I think the
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well, the first exhibition is the
next Monday, I think so. Right
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now we're just in Calgary, training
in the morning, practice after and then
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we usually have something at night,
but we had had the day off to
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day so at some time. Yeah, you don't mind living it up in
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Calgary. Anything? What are you
up to in the day off? Not
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much. We don't really have anything
Plann right now. I think we have
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a supper tonight. That should be
interesting, but you're nothing the rest of
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the day. So much needed rest. I can get the relaxation. And
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is this? Is this like a
do they grill you guys pretty hard,
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like are these skates tough, like
cardio wise, or is it more so
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like systems? Trying to get the
team used to each other? Yeah,
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a lot of system we we've been
working on the dees on quite a bit
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just to get get some chemistry going, and we have systems and stuff mostly.
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Yeah, I can imagine it would
be tough. Like you're just throwing
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together twenty hockey players, obviously like
the best in the world for your age,
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but even just no chemistry. Like
I can imagine there's not too many
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guys that you've ever played with that
are on this team and you've got to
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learn how to, you know,
Gel together pretty quickly on the biggest stage.
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There's a lot of pressure involved with
that. Yeah, we we have
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like have they have the team basically
that was here at Christmas, so we
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have like a little, little base. But yeah, we have a lot
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of new guys and I think it's
going going pretty good right now. We're
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we're proving every day on all the
details and stuff. Sweet, sweet,
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what are you most excited for?
Once you guys get playing into the round
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rob and then hopefully into the playoff
rounds. Just excited to get going.
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You see the crowd how it's gonna
be and hopefully we get some some good
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crowd out there. Pretty cool,
I can imagine. Yeah, I mean
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World Juniors is like the absolute dream
for any young hockey player in Canada.
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It's one of the most like for
for hockey wise on TV, like I
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feel like this is one of the
more popular events that people take in the
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whole country watches. The Olympics are
only ever four years. So to cheer
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on team Canada, you get to
do it every year at the World Juniors
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and last year to have that canceled. I can imagine that sucked pretty bad,
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but are you happy to have another
second chance out of here? Yeah,
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for sure. It was at this
point when he got canceled. It
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was the start of the tournament.
was still pretty cool, but it's fun
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that we got another chance at it. I'm not sure how it was going
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to be in the summer, but
it should be a good experience no matter
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what. Yeah, there's not gonna
be the boxing day classic as per usual,
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and years even all that. Yeah, I've seen these skates that people
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are rocking at the World Jays.
They get the custom skates with the Canada
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flag on them and stuff like that. You have a pretty is it fair
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to say you have a bigger role
on the team this time around the last
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time around? I'd say Pretty Miller. It's pretty similar, just right there.
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Yeah, we have a a lot
of good guys, obviously in Canadas,
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a lot of depth here and yeah, it's gonna be should be fun.
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So how do you how do you
get to be one of the guys
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that gets these custom pair of wheels
to be skating around it? Well,
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every everyone got them at Christmas.
I think I I use bower bower skates,
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so the bower goes a little bit
harder on this case. They got
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a good design on them, but
I know CCM PCM has them doing.
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True, has like some stickers on
there that that had some guys. So
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it's kind of whatever. Skates are
already used and then they just make it
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work. Yeah, yeah, cool, cool, cool. That was always
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a question. I had just seen
them. I was like, Damn,
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that's a pretty nice pair of skates, but I wouldn't want to be wearing
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a brand new pair of skates for
one of these big tournaments. But I
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guess if you already got them in
Christmas then you're used to him now.
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Yeah, we got them a couple
of weeks before, so we got to
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get used to them a little bit. Sick, sick. That was a
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personal question that fifteen year old Josh
would have loves to know. So thank
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you. So obviously, yeah,
your World World Juniors coming up, but
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you just spent like four years in
our hometown, charlottown. But the islanders
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just wrecking it up, being in
a legend out there. That's what we
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love to see. Uh, what
was what? What do you like about
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Charltown? Like what kept you coming
back? UH, yeah, I love
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my time in Charlottetown. It's a
it's a great city, a great place
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to be everyone around. The organization
was great too. We had a great
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group of guys all all four years
I was there and pretty fortunate to get
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some some pretty good teams do there
at the end. Unfortunately you couldn't bring
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the cup to Charlottown, but yeah, it was a lot of fun.
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Have you been able to spend any
summers in the off season or some time
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on P I? Yeah, I
always go for for a week here and
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before years and this year I couldn't
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over again for sure. Oh,
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to hear. This is our first
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kid? Yeah, everyone, everyone
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up to you, I want to
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you chirped me all the way up. So I I used to always love
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playing against monked and flyers. What
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your assistant coach, Stephen Mcpherson,
shared beauty, beauty. Did you ever
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have words with him? No,
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guys that I know that loves getting
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team. Is there much chirping that
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of like a Slovakian kid, but
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for sure. A little bit.
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biggest chairpers I can't really talk too
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let my my playing do the job. But yeah, there's there's always those
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guys that that's their game and they
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more eight is right. Yeah,
do you find that a lot of people
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on every team you've been on?
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right there. What was the run
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the islanders? Like sold out ranks
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that like? City was probably just
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just to play out in the summer
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lot nice during the summer. Just
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go golfing always in the pool.
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it was really, really cool to
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always fun. It was fun.
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abnormally long than usual, right.
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June. Yeah, like, what's
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different at this level, but I
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is like the puck just starts ending
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Like, what's that like? I
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just can't be at the rank every
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outside. Do you find it a
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had a good group this year,
so we had had a lot of fun
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doing it. So we didn't really
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was just it was all going by
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it was it was done and we
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yeah, it was it was fun. You've played with on the islanders.
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Colton Alys for a couple of years. You had matt wells. Right,
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yeah, my first two years.
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Jacob Gooby too. So I'm just
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favorite to play in front of them? I guess that's my question. Well,
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they were all. They were all
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above yes on the spot. Well, well, she obviously, and C
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like out there love him. So
he was there for like five years and
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Colton just came in for one year. But the thanks you did when he
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was there was was remarkable too.
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him a couple of times in Nigit
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after and talk and then, yeah, long story, but yeah, Colton
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great guy off the ice too.
All those guys are even googy. Yeah,
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yeah, I'm not complained. Do
you find the world juniors like there's
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a lot more media attention than the
Q M J h l would gather do
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you? Do you ever get overwhelmed
or do you find difficult dealing with all
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of the you know, the TV
stuff behind the scenes? Yeah, a
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lot, a lot more, but
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all usually just like after after practice
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minutes and there's like a little media
scrum or something. So it's not too
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fun. Just the classic hockey answers
that you got. Yeah, it is
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the same answers every time. Four
lines going. Is Is there a team
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that you like matching up with,
like if you're if you're looking at the
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group stage, is there a country
where you're like this is gonna be sick
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when we get to play them?
Uh Well, obviously, like always,
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the US is always a great rivalry
by bigger polities. Play them eventually in
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the tournament. And Russia is not
here this time, but that's uh,
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that's always pretty cool. and Uh
yeah, Finland sweet into it. Every
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country is that. There's a lot
of country now that getting pretty good,
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so that should be interesting. Is
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a big difference between like if you're
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everyone plays the same or that everyone
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big difference between countries of their style
of play when they're coming down on the
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rush? And like every team has
different systems, but just like style of
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play. Basically. Yeah, every
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different things. But yeah, it's
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euro team that they they try to
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go between between your legs and stuff
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those guys and every team, as
the Gretty guys, you can't really tell
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a big difference. But yeah,
I just gotta know what you're going out
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against. Yeah, and is there
much of like a scouting report that goes
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into that? Do you have like
I know it's pretty annoying like you're stretching
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trying to get ready to play and
then people are just shoving information of like
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this guy like shooting high glove or
whatever. He's gonna cut to his forehand.
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And obviously you're not thinking of that
in the game when there's cameras and
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fans screaming and you have the team
Canada Jersey on. But do you find
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that there's like a pretty in depth
idea of who you're going to be matching
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up with every night? Not Really. We go we go in details with
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the teams a lot, like what
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but not not a lot of individual
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yeah, that that makes sense.
I feel like that would just be too
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much to put into someone's head when
they just need to go out. Yeah,
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yeah, but even even just like
like the young Russian last year or
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in the last yeah, meach covs, like, I don't know, I
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feel like you got to have some
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for sure, and they know,
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boys, know who the top players
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obviously it's got to be America.
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it would be sick to play against
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But what do you think about playing
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look at that and be like Oh
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Maybe I don't know if there's I
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top players in this year's world juniors, but there's got to be something that
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you're just like, damn, I
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it's still gonna be there's gonna be
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the big names are. Yeah,
YOU'RE NOT gonna be here too, too
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much. So we got a couple
of our team too, but are yeah,
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exactly pretty stick to play things you're
doing practice and stuff ridiculous. Yeah,
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I can imagine the one on one
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like yeah, I couldn't. Yeah, have you found on like even just
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in a six month span from practicing
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obviously like he was the youngest kid
there. Now, I don't I'm not
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sure if he still is going to
be the youngest on the team or not,
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but somewhere is close at least.
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taking a step up from the last
tournament? Yeah, for sure. He's
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always, always getting better. When
you just look at him in practice,
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he's a you just canna take your
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with the fucking yeah, it's and
people. If you stop him or you're
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like okay, like let's go,
he's like you're kind of supposed to stop
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him. He's like four years younger
than you. If it's more, if
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you don't fair enough. Yeah,
that's funny what we had Dave Cameron on
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our pod. He's he's your coach
coming up here. What do you have
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any thoughts on Old Dave? He's
a good old islander boy. Yeah.
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Yeah, there's a great dialogue.
Coaching Staff is Pretty UH, they're pretty
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not not loose like but like in
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to have fun, like didn't know
how to like say some jokes and stuff
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like that. Yeah, we're having
a pretty good time with the coaching staff
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too. Yeah, Dave seems like
a guy to keep it kind of pretty
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chill. I mean I could see
him flip in his lid a couple of
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times. But yeah, they all. Yeah, we have great coaches here.
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I mean team kind of does not
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the best coaches available every time.
We're pretty fortunate. Yeah, we AH,
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we're good buddies with Jordan Spence.
I'm not sure. Well, you
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probably know who he is. Yeah, but but he was telling us about
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the world juniors whenever he was there
in the Christmas presents that come out.
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Did you guys get to that point? Did you get any gifts from hockey
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Canada last year? Yeah, we
got. The big one we got was
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was virtual reality set. We all
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It was. Yeah, it's not
something you really need, but it
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was playing with playing with it at
the hotel after. I didn't really did
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a lot after that. Yeah,
I mean I think spending got like an
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electric scooter or something. I can't
I can't imagine he's rocking that too much.
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Yeah, we got a lot of
different things with that, but that
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was like the big one for all
you. Cool, cool, cool.
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Did you come with any games or
what? Did they just give you the
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headset and say you go just the
headset, you play the Games on your
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own. That's hilarious. That's awesome. What about any like clothing type stuff?
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I can imagine there's a huge Holi
kitch and all that, but the
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hockey Canada stuff, like when you're
on a road trip back with your you
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know, your junior team or wherever
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that something a bit of a flex
to throw on? Like yes, my
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world junior t shirt. No,
you can't. You can't worry too much
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every time you every time you put
a shirt on, people like you know.
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You kind of gotta keep it in
the closet. Most time spendywhere to see
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in Canada this year. Yeah,
gets in here full over time. So
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I can imagine that's how it goes. Are Your buddies excited for you?
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Do you ever like are they asking
you about you know, what's it like
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up there from I mean like your
hometown Budd he's like high school friends.
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Yeah, everyone. Uh, I
got a lot of support from from my
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hometown. I think it's well,
it's pretty cool that. It's just uh,
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I come from a really small town. So, yeah, a lot
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of a lot of my friends and
a lot of these people and in the
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community I see this support a lot. So it's uh, yeah, it's
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good to have that. Yeah,
you're not from the same place as Mgal
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Pori area pretty close. Okay,
man, I was thinking. Man,
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I was thinking you might be from
the same area. What's the what's the
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town you're from? St Mary again? Okay, yeah, yeah, it's
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pretty close from from where we go. Is I just falked into my mind.
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He's one of the rip time boys. So obviously I mean not to
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overlook what's coming up here, but
have you put any thought into where you're
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gonna end up next season? Well, I'll be in Vegas probably, probably
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in the H L team, but
it's it's in Vegas too. So yeah,
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I was there to summer for the
just to see what it's like.
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See Me, me, the guys
and the miss facilities and stuff like that,
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and it's it looks pretty, pretty
incredible. It should be fun.
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Yeah, I would say not,
let alone that it's in Las Vegas,
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but a new franchise, everything brand
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like that. Yeah, I just
gotta you'll rank you. So it's uh,
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yeah, it kind of looks like
the guys know rink a little bit.
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Oh yeah, okay, damn.
So and how pump you must be.
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I need your thoughts now on the
silver helmets. Right, so I
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think it's I don't know, come
on, come on, I haven't I
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haven't tried them all yet, but
I think it's pretty cool that they implement
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that kind of they're gonna fit fine
now, but what about the look?
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Honestly, when I looked at him
the first time, I don't think it
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looks great, but I think I
think it's cool. Like I think,
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yeah, it wouldn't be kind of
sick to me, just like you take
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off your bucket and like you can
see yourself and check out your hair.
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Yeah, Team Picture Day. You
never know, guys are fixing their hair
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in the glass. All you gotta
do is turn the bucket around. That's
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funny. I forgot about those.
That's what there is. They do them
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in Europe with like the leading score
or something. He gets a gold around.
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That's hilarious. Oh my gosh.
Yeah, I'm sure you'll probably get
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a couple of snaps from the boys
system chirps about those two. So the
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the HL team is right there in
in Las Vegas as well. Yeah,
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it's in Henderson, so like fifteen
minutes, I think so. So hopefully
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you'll have a nice like apartment and
stuff. You'll be all set up in
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the area at the very least.
Yeah, yeah, it's all you can
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some some guys are in Summerland,
some guys in Henderson. It's like thirty
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minutes apart in the someone's where the
practice rank is for for Vegas, with
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some guys who just all over the
place. I don't have an apartment yet,
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but I should. I'm looking into
that now. Have have you been
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able to speak with any of like
the big headline or Vegas Guys, Jack
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Chel or mark stone or anything like
that? Any text messages or anything?
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Yeah, not really text messages,
but I was, like I said,
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I was staying with white cloud while
I was there and he was they had
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like Carlton's wedding was was one of
the weekends I was there. So they
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had I didn't go there, but
there was like every moment guys came in.
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So there was a lot of guys
in town for like that week.
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So whitey like brought me. I
went golfing like Theodore and we had a
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we had supper a couple of times
with like hey, I think ICO was
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there once, and it was pretty
cool to meet those guys. Yeah,
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wait, I can imagine. What's
the what's the first tea like there when
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you're teeing up with the big boys, and do you take out the big
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stick or is that a is that
a fine? Just get it and play
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and then go from there. I
had had rental clubs too, so it
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was first shot goes way, a
laugh and say, you know, the
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ball goes away right after that.
Perfect. I just blame it on the
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rental clubs, though. I had
an excuse. Yeah, yeah, you
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had those taken care of. Were
they? Were they good golfers or what?
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Yeah, pretty good golfers, white
clouds to scratch handicap. And Yeah,
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the other guys like four or five
probably. Yeah, that's what some
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years golf year round there and there. So, yeah, I can imagine
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the courses are pretty nice too.
What do you golf do you get out
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golf and much in the summer?
Sounds like you do when you're not,
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you know, playing. Yeah,
when you're not doing like yeah, yeah,
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I've been golfing since I'm since I'm
pretty young. This year haven't gone
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too much because I've had a busy
summer, but you were gonna get out
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quite a bit. What do you
normally are you normally like a big I'll
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drive the ball three yards, or
you like a short game? For this
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type of Guy, it depends on
the day, beds of the day.
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Yeah, if you're feeling good,
you're gripping and ripping. If not,
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keep it under control. What's the
what's the low round? It was way
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back tournaments and stuff. Now it's
uh, it's more just for fun.
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This year it's like probably seventy five
my top. I haven't played you too
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much, but that's what I thought
you were going to say for the first
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answer. My God, yeah,
you're all right. I should have known.
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Yeah, what do we got up? We got the stats up.
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You find anything interesting looking at the
stats? The couple Q and j h
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l trophies in there. You don't
mind block them off? Defensive of the
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year, Defenseman of the year.
That ain't bad, following from our buddy
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Jordan's fence. Actually, that's not
a bad road, to be honest.
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I'll tell you right now. Yeah, no, but Henderson, Henderson has
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the sounds like a pretty similar set
up to what spenny just went through,
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like twenty minutes away from the main
club, like just grinding and out,
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and both Ontario and Henderson both seemed
like really good places to me, so
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can't complain about that. Yeah,
most goals by defense from this year,
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Josh, thirty three and kids light. Oh my gosh, would you consider
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yourself more of an offensive defenseman?
Yeah, for sure, I think that's
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mostly my game. Those guys have
more fun. Yeah, Oh yeah,
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just killing people on the paper.
I used to breaking it. I used
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to take like probably I'd probably take
like a for minute penalty. Punched someone
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after and you have to see this
guy come out. Just dummy and power
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play goals. I know you're not
staying in the box very long when this
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guy's running the first speaker, I'll
tell you that much. Are you excited
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to for a power play with team
Canada, to have some more weapons in
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there? Yeah, it's always.
It's always some good power plays out there.
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I'm on the second unit right now, but yeah, it's looking pretty
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good. Yeah, I mean especially
like I can imagine, the second unit
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is the first unit on literally any
other team in in the CHL. So
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yeah, you still have the shots. Yeah, I mean, I mean
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if you're on tellboy. Chemistry,
though, some some teams can have.
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Let's good. We just gotta make
sure. We would work on it,
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and it's not always the best.
Guys just gotta gotta be good together and,
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yeah, make sure it works out. Do you know your d partner
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for the tournament? The working out, like they probably tell you before.
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So you're getting the chemistry going.
He once again. Yeah, right now
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I'm with I'm playing with hunt.
He was probably would have been on the
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team like Christmas, but he was
injured. So Kay, but everything can
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change. It always. Uh.
Yeah, exactly. There's a new shoot
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out. I've been with him since. We have like three practice now,
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but I can change pretty quick.
Yeah, what leads he coming from?
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He played in moves down the okay, right, learn from each other a
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little bit there too. Yeah,
I play. I wasn't. That wasn't
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my partner at Helen. I do
so there already. Yeah, there.
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There used to be some like I'm
not sure I wouldn't call it a commercial,
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but like during the commercial break and
world junior games they'd show like team
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Canada, like a drill. Every
player would get to come up with like
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a practice drill and run through a
little skills. Think have you guys had
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any anything like that that you had
to do yet? Yeah, we did
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it at Christmas and some of the
guys that weren't there have been doing it
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now. So I think you're just
gonna use their art clip from Christmas.
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What's what's the drill? They showed
me a clip of like the car doing
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something and thend be like this guy, what you doing? It's like doing
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something in a game and they're like
yeah, like trying to do the same
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thing. So what do you think
I've been trying to do? Yeah,
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some drills are like some drills are
good, but some drills like, you
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know, the goal. You see, they just got like one drill was
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like with a basketball or something,
and everyone was saying like Oh, like,
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I love that drill. He was
just like no, like don't do
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that drill. I didn't choose that
like but yeah, it's uh, some
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drills are interesting with some of them
are actually pretty good. Yeah, because
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I remember watching some of them and
I'm like, first of all, there's
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no way this guy ever does that. The second of all, you definitely
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hated making this thing. Yeah,
it's just like crossovers around the dot and
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then just a shot or something,
and it's like, and that's mostly for
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like people just starting out don't know
what to do, like with drill.
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To See guys like that just in
practice doing drills like that too, and
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everyone has to do it. That's
hilarious. So I'm trying to think here.
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You were playing in Moncton. Is
there any guys that you've been teammates
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with from midget that you have seen
come up with you through major Jr and
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stuff like that? If you had
a chance to play with any guys from
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like a while backing on, you
from a small town, so that probably
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isn't too much talent being pumped into
there. But M Patrick was all from
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the same town as me. I
played with him all the way up.
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Still wicked damn. Yeah, okay, so you had a buddy that he
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was. The only year we didn't
play together was was my first year in
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the queue. He was still in
midget and then he joined us in the
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queue after seeing Q. Wow,
didn't an answer like that. I kind
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of just pulled that question. That's
that's perfect, supreme. What a beauty.
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Yeah, better than that. I
didn't talk too much exactly when this
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thing is right. He does a
good job of it though. Yeah,
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so what's it like when you're showing
up, when a when a bunch of
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hockey guys get in the dressing room
for the first time, it's like you
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got to kind of feel each other
out, like who's the loud guy?
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You know what kind of clicks are
you trying to get into? What's it
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like when all these guys for the
for the first time, you're showing up,
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like meeting the world junior team whatever, like the list that comes out
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for tryouts? Is it intimidating walking
into that room for the first time,
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like, especially if you don't know
anyone there, or did you have someone
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that you kind of just went to
right away? Yeah, well, it
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was intimidating. Like you seventeen,
the first time I meet all those guys,
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it was like I didn't know what
to expect. But then we go
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through that and then that u eighteen
and then couple like tryouts at the U
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twenty level. So like after all
the events, you kind of at the
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end it's kind of all the same
people that that just come back. So
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you get pretty comfortable with all the
guys. Yeah, I guess like the
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program would stay somewhat consistent, like
some guys, you know, fall off
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and some guys, you know,
just become unbelievable. But I know that's
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cool to know that the boys stick
together. is of the same goal at
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the end of the day, to
play pro hockey. Yeah, and to
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win gold for the boys. Oh
Yeah, oh, yeah, no,
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no, I was just gonna say
it wasn't much of a question. Like
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you're feeling good about this year's team
or what I think? So I think
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we're the team to be so you
got to prove that in the tournament.
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Hell yeah, we'll be watching,
that's for sure. We can't wait.
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We appreciate you joining us. We
don't want to take too much of your
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day off. I know you're a
busy man. You better go and enjoy
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your day off. So yeah,
thanks for coming on. It's been great
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talking to you. We wish you
the best of luck with the tournament and
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with everything that follows after that.
All right on. Thank you, guys.
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Yeah, hopefully we can bring you
a little table buzz boost for the
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boys here. Let's see it.
Good Luck, man. Thank you.
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All right, here's Bro
