Devils Clobber Rangers 7-1 As Luke Hughes Stars (Devils After Dark)

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Hi, this is Chico Resch.
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You are listening to the Let's Go Devils podcast on
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Happy Devils Thursday.
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This is Devils After Dark coming to you live live
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from American Whiskey. 51 Edison Place across the street from
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Financial Center next to Championship Plaza. And going cross-continent to
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the Michael J. Fox Studios in beautiful Beverly Hills, California,
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it's Scotty at SiriusXM.
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Liquid Metal as they're streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live,
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Let's Go Devils Network as the Devils demolish and clobber
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the New York Rangers tonight.
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7-1 at the Rock. Luke Hughes, the star of the game.
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Nico Dawes performed very well. Lots to go over. Lots
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of scoring. It was just a big-ass whooping, Scotty, tonight.
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And the crowd was just loving every minute of it.
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Nobody let off the gas pedal tonight.
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Yeah, and we say we already have classy Ranger fans
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right behind you picking their nose.
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So, I mean, it kind of, like, makes sense over there.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Great job, guys. Way to go.
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Anyway, we have a jam-packed Devils After Dark here going on.
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Welcome, everybody.
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Hello.
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Tuning in on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X as well. What's
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going on? I see everyone chiming in. Lynn Mars, double
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down under, serve, Max, Eddie, Max.
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The newly married man, Robert Isaacson, AJ, Wimpy, what's.
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Going on, Corbin, Roman, Meadowlander, Nick Lavelle.
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Man, we got a whole bunch of people chiming in,
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chiming in.
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Chirp away, chirp away.
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We're going to get to your reactions and Sam Wu's reactions.
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Everyone else, we're going to do a quick game recap here.
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And then we will get to it.
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Yes, Corbin.
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The Devils took the Rangers behind the barn and old
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yellered them. So we have the first meeting of the
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Hudson River rivalry this year. Game number seven on the
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season at home at the Rock. You got Dylan and
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Evangelista out. Kovacevic in the lineup. Stefan Nason stays in.
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No Rempe for the rags. And you got Nico Dawes
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in net once again. Will he finally get some goal support?
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Spoiler alert, he did. And, you know, the.
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Devils really battled through.
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Nick Adams, what's up? John Heaton, there we go. Another
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Corbin as well.
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But this game was just, it was everything that Devils
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fans have been hoping and waiting for this season so far.
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So, yeah, they battled through the first period. A big
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hit by Will Cooley answered.
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And I was like, good, clean, at least from my perspective.
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I know it looked like he caught him right in
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the chest. You like seeing those things, but, you know,
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you're going to have to answer the bell. And Jonathan
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Kovacevic stepped up to throw.
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Some fisticuffs there at Will Cooley. I don't really think
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anyone got the upper hand advantage. A couple punches thrown
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on both sides.
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Good deal.
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Nice little hockey scrap. And we're moving on.
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And it's usually something we see go against the Devils.
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But in this time, it goes in our favor. Multiple times, actually.
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We're talking end of the period or beginning of the period.
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We've seen the Devils give up a lot of goals.
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But today was the opposite. They were putting them in
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the back of the net themselves. And it starts out
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with the man new to town, but always starting to
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feel like an old favorite already. And that's Evan Rodriguez,
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who's been quite the force on that third line.
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He gets an unassisted.
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Goal at 1930 of the first period, his second of
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the year. And he got the Rangers coughing up the
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puck in the zone. I don't remember which D-man it was,
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but to say they fanned on that centering pass would
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be the understatement of the world.
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That stick got swiped.
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And that puck moved about, oh, I would say about 0.1
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mile an hour across the ice.
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Directly to Evan Rodriguez, who scooped.
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It up, and he was able to fire home a
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shot far side, like we said.
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In the last 30 seconds of the period.
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And at 19.30, to put the Devils up 1-0, send
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the crowd into a frenzy, and get this going in
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the right direction now.
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We've seen this team start slow in periods. You know,
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we've seen them previous years. Oh, they don't come out
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ready in the first.
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This year we've been seeing, oh, they don't come out
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ready in the second period. Well, today was a different
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story because 18 seconds into the second.
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Period, Luke. You underestimate my power.
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Luke Hughes gets his second goal of the year.
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Nice little snapshot here.
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Little ping pong action as it's going towards the net.
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Who cares?
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You're going to take them as you get them.
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Especially, you know, we all hate the Rangers, of course.
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But let's face it.
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They won six out of their first eight. You know,
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even with Shusterkin going down, they're a hot team out there.
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So this one, this part, I think it hit a
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stick and hit a body kind of went this way, kind.
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Of went that way. And Garan was never able to
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really pick it up.
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And it gets past them for Luke's second of the
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season coming from Timo Meyer and Brett Pesci. Two nothing devils,
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18 seconds into the second period, but they weren't done yet.
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No, the captain gets his fourth. That's right. His fourth
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goal of the year.
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Just about four minutes later at 4.08 of.
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The second period.
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And you're seeing a lot of good forecheck here from
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that Dawson Mercer, Nico, he shared Timo Meier line, which
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we've seen together in previous seasons.
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And we've seen them have some success.
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We know Sheldon Keefe is going to juggle those lines
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a little bit to maybe find some better stability. And
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this is one that has performed in the past. And
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you got Dawson Mercer. Winning that puck battle along the boards,
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being able to feed Nico Heischer, who's down below. He's
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then going to pass it back out into the center
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slot to a driving Timo Meier. And then what does
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Nico do? He gets to the side of the net.
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He doesn't just stand around watching the play. Captains don't
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do that.
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All right.
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He gets to the side of the net and Nico
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shot because he was covered.
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Excuse me.
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Timo shot because he was covered. you know, doesn't actually
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get on goal. It actually hits Nico Heischer in the skates,
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but he's then able to clean up that loose puck,
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put it into the back of the net. Pascaron, therefore,
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his fourth of the year, Timo Meier gets his second
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assist of the game. His third, Dawson Mercer gets an assist.
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His second, well, the.
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Devils ain't done yet because 30 seconds after that, I
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know what you're thinking, holy hell, it is a goal
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festivus here in the second period.
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But Gritz gets into it. That's right. Our city, Gritschuk,
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gets his second goal of the year.
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See these guys starting to find a little chemistry, starting
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to get hot.
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That's what we like to see. Okay, Gritz gets.
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His second goal coming from, oh, it was a Dougie Hamilton.
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Oh, Sam Wu, I stepped on your touchdown call. Are
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you there, Sam Wu?
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I'm here. Which goal was that? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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We'll save it for next time. Don't worry about it.
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It's the one that we're on right now, so my bad.
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Maybe I'll do something for the seventh goal because it is.
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An extra point.
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All right. We'll do that then.
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This is called improvising.
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Oh, actually, Doug, he's on that one too, so perfect.
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Okay, so we'll save that. Yeah. Apologies.
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Apologies. I missed Dougie being on the assist area.
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Tell Mrs. Wu to kick it up a notch because
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she should be in your ear about this. I'll tell
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her to let her.
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Yeah, she's got to pick it up.
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Yeah. She's slacking.
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I didn't say that, by the way, Mrs. Wu. That
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was all Sam.
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But we get a goal from Gritz and, you know,
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he's coming in on a breakaway. He ends up getting stopped.
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But the Rangers are unable to clean up that puck.
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And the Devils, you know, keep it in the zone.
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And they start just kind of moving it around. You're
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going D to D. You got Jack Hughes. You got
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Jesper Bratt.
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You got all these guys.
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Now with Gritz on that line, it's really, really starting
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to sink in that chemistry, which is, it's.
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Looking pretty, pretty damn good there. But now all of
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a sudden you get this puck moving around.
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All right.
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And the Rangers.
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Are caught off guard. They can't get it out of
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the zone. Eventually Jack Hughes rips a shot that gets
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kicked out and Gritz is right there. in the face-off circle.
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The puck comes right to him, and he's able to
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slam it home into the back of the net for
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his second of the year. That's jumping Jack Flash's seventh
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assist of the year, and Dougie Hamilton gets his second.
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Three goals already in the second period, but no, they
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are not done yet.
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A fourth goal.
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At 1634 of the second period, Luke Hughes gets his
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third goal of.
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The season and his second of the game coming from
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Brett Pesch. another assist for.
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Him, and Lombardi, look at Amadeus there, starting to put
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some points up on the board.
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And Luke Hughes getting the puck at the point, doing.
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The old spin-a-rooney, kind of then just start doing his magic,
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skating around, you know, in the zone, stick handling, and
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all of a sudden, he sees that there's a lane
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open straight to the net, you know, from the face-off circle.
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So he just drives right there, and he rips a shot.
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Far side, you know, that away side that is high, Pascurant,
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and it clinks off the post and into the back
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of the net. What a beautiful, beautiful shot from Luke
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Hughes to make it 5-0 New Jersey Devils, his second
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of the game and third of the year.
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Yes, I said that correctly.
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Five goals through two periods with Nico Dawes at net.
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He had no idea what was going on. I can
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tell you. I can tell you he had no idea.
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But the Devils weren't done. Because then Stefan.
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Nason, who we know has been in the lineup with
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Evangelista being out. And he gets his first of the year.
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And this one, man, Lombardi looked good on this. Evan
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Rodriguez gets an assist as well. He passes up to Lombardi.
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You got Lombardi and Nason coming in on the rush
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on the two wings. And then what happens is Lombardi
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kind of crosses over the center slot towards Stefan Nason.
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But Nase kind of bleeds down a little bit. And
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then both of the Rangers' defensemen go to Lombardi. He
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slides the puck over to Nason, who's now past them.
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Boom. Able to rip one into the back of the
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net past Guerin.
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I mean, this was a full-on... ass whooping that the
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devils were putting.
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On the, the New York Rangers here.
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And every devil's fan, absolutely loving every single second of it.
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Now, Nico Dawes, he does lose the shutout. Okay.
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Well, let me tell you, he was gobbling up pucks.
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We know we like to call him jaws because he's
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Nico Dawes. He was gobbling up pucks by old jaws,
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a poor Quint.
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There at the end of the movie.
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Okay. Just eating up those pucks and not giving the
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Rangers any sort of momentum whatsoever.
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So it is now 6-1. 6-1. This score and late
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in the third period.
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The Devils are actually on the penalty kill.
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I'm sorry, what's that? Oh, you are there now.
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You want me to tell him he'll be sleeping on
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the couch tonight? I will absolutely relay that message. Okay,
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I just had Mrs. Wu in my ear. Sam Wu
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will be sleeping on the couch tonight, but it is
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time for a Let's.
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Go Devils podcast.
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Game break update with the man of the hour, too
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sweet to be sour, the tower of power, Sam, by God.
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Woo!
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Woo!
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This game update is brought to you by American Whiskey.
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American Whiskey. We will.
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party all night long after this beatdown Devils Rangers at.
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The rock 76 degrees winds coming out of the northwest
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at five miles per hour great Thursday night football in
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the Garden State Devils with the 6-1 lead driving down
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the field.
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Do you think they're just going to knee?
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No, they're going to beat them down even more.
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Hamilton under center. The puck is snapped. He laterals to Mercer.
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He goes in.
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He throws it to Cody Glass. Touchdown, Devils. Touchdown, Devils.
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Cody Glass is in the end zone. Devils up 7-1.
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Are you ready, New Jersey?
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Very nicely done.
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On the spot, Sam Wu with the touchdown call.
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Love it. We didn't even plan it.
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No, we didn't.
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We didn't even plan it. We actually planned it on air, actually.
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We totally forgot about it. We totally forgot about it.
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We missed the football calls, but we got one in.
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There for everyone. It was half-assed, but we got it in.
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Half-assed for Cody Glass.
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That's it. Yeah.
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Half-ass for Cody glass.
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Half-ass for Cody glass. That's right.
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There you go.
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Yeah.
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Devils on a Thursday night football night.
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Go ahead and put a touchdown up on the board
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with the extra point right there.
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Seven one. They win this game. A complete, complete effort.
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The defense playing solid, getting in the lanes.
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All those things that we were talking about. Five on
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five scoring.
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The Devils did not score a power play goal tonight.
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They had the shorty, but they did not score a
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power play goal.
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The five on five. That's right.
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Old Yellard behind the barn. Devils took him out there
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and old Yellard to Rangers. But the five on five
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play and scoring. The winning the puck battles. Giving Nico
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Dawes some goal support. Dawes eating up those pucks.
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This is what fans want to see on the regular.
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We don't want this to be the, oh, occasional, hey,
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we know we can play.
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This should be the consistent effort that we see out
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there from our team. And that's what we're hoping that
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they're going to get to sometime soon in the season.
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It's only the beginning. It's only the seventh game. It's
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going to take a little while. But you're starting to
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see some pieces go together.
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And I heard from many people, Sam Wu was on
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TV multiple times tonight.
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So a touchdown? and Sam Wu being on TV, I
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think something might have been up there. But shots on
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goal for the Devils. Where is it?
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Six, 14, 11 for a total of 31. The Rangers, five, six,
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eight for a total of 19. Rangers actually won the
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face-off battle, 32 to 28. Devils, like we said, they
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were the Jersey everything bagel with cream cheese, 0 for 4.
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The Rangers were 1 for 4. Hits, again, Devils out hit.
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Pretty consistently here, 25 to 15. 23 block shots for
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the Rangers to the Devils, 13.
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Only nine giveaways. Love seeing that.
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The Rangers had 14 Devils back in that winning streak
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mode as they are getting the ship righted. And we're
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seeing some good things here against the arch nemesis, New
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York Rangers. So let's hear from you on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram,
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everywhere else. You might be listening to this podcast. And
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of course the legend.
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The man, Sam, by God, woo, Sam.
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Scotty, that was just an awesome performance by the New
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Jersey devils tonight. Uh, you know, we had game day live,
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you know, we were, we had all our sports prediction,
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your score predictions, every, None of us could have really
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predicted 7-1. I mean, the one time I don't do
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a 7-1 prediction, that's when the Devils score seven goals.
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They actually get seven, yeah.
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And, you know, honestly, this is one of the biggest
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beatdowns in Devils-Rangers history. Just total annihilation. And the Rangers
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are a good team, by the way. They're actually a
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really good team. They just had some bad luck with
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their goaltender going out with injury, Shesterkin, but You have
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to say, the Devils showed up tonight. They got the
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early lead. They poured it on. They were relentless pursuit
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for the puck. They did not let up on the
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gas pedal, and they just fought their way through each
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period as if it was their last shift. And the
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sense of urgency was right from the get-go. They played
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so well tonight. That's the Devils' team that, with these
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new line combinations.
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now working, coming into fruition.
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Nico Dawes, can we just put that, Nico Dawes, you know,
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the goaltending situation, you know, can we put that on
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hold for now? Nico Dawes played great tonight, and this
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is going to build his confidence. I was a little
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skittish of putting Nico Dawes in because, not because of
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Nico Dawes, the Devils hadn't been scoring goals for Nico
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Dawes at all. For six periods, what, they only scored
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one goal? It was in that last five minutes of
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the game?
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Yeah.
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One goal for poor old Nico Dawes.
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But they surely made it up. It's kind of law
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of averages. They put up seven goals for Nico Dawes.
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Nico Dawes shut the door, played strong. The Devils actually
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knocked out the Rangers goalie tonight.
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And it was just the classic beatdown of a rival.
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Yeah.
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And I forgot to mention, thank you, I believe it
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was serve or oh my goodness.
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Actually, the newlywed Matt predicted seven, Sam. But who said it? Serve, Nico.
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Congratulations to Nico.
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He's your now third all-time in Devils goals, passing Bobby Holik.
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So, yeah, and good point here.
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Oh, my goodness, you can't out-hit the other team when
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they don't have the puck.
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So, touche, touche. Very nicely done there.
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Yeah.
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So, yeah, I mean, let's see what everyone is. Dawson
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Mercer saved a goal.
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Thank you, sir.
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Dougie was hitting the turbo button on that back check.
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That's right.
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Robert Isaacson. Yeah, South Fork Yeti.
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I don't think Rachel realized that they're saying Luke, which
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is quite shocking there.
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Which is awesome.
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Yeah.
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Great point by, oh, my goodness, 300th career victory for
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Sheldon Keefe as head coach.
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And for Sheldon Keefe.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Oh, Max said he guessed seven to three. So, all right,
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that's close enough. At least he got one part.
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Of it right. That's good.
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Gritsiuk didn't give up on the play. Selecta, and he
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got rewarded.
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Yes, they kept.
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I mean, yeah, you can... You're coming in on a
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breakaway like that, and you get stumped. Like, you can
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kind of, you know, maybe put your head down at
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that moment. But he kept his head up, and they
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were able to keep the puck in the zone, and
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that's the reason why they were able to put that
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one in the back of the net.
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So....
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Um, yeah, the, the five on three was, you know,
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but that's okay. That's okay.
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Um, I'm more, I'm more impressed with the five on
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five play because we know that's been a struggle for
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recent years.
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Um, so yeah, they definitely made up for that botched
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five on three. Good point. Supernova. Um, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump.
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Lombardi is going to be good.
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Who is this? We got a noob here.
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Trevor95.
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The future is sunny. I see what you did over there.
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Sunny minute. Gritz is good. Dubzilla here. Let's go, boys.
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Have to get this going. Lin Mars wants to know,
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is this the turning point or am I getting too giddy?
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Are people going to get off of Sheldon's back now
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or too early to say?
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What do you think about that, Sam Wu?
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What's that?
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Do you feel this might be a turning point and
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are people going to, you know, maybe give Sheldon Keefe
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a little bit more leniency for a bit? I think, personally,
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I think they have to prove that this is the normal.
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This is the regular. This is what you should expect
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every time you go.
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Out on the ice.
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Not you know, once or twice out of seven games.
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Well, look who made the changes. It was Sheldon Keefe.
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After the first few games of the season, mixing up
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the line combinations, you know, doing some experiments here, trying
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to get the offense going. These were all Sheldon Keefe's moves. So,
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if anything, Sheldon Keefe should get credit for the last
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two games. The Devils are scoring the last two games.
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They scored, what, five goals in that overtime win over
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the Detroit Red Wings, they put up seven. So you're
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talking about 12 goals in the last two games. An
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average of just under six goals a game. That's a
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hell of an adjustment. Plus, the goaltending tonight, the defense
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tonight against the Rangers, who, you know, had a very
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good record going in. You know, Mike Sullivan has his team,
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you know, playing pretty well. And to beat them in
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this fashion... You know, we were all expecting a close game.
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But they actually annihilated them. They actually abused them tonight.
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They actually just really just clobbered them and flogged them
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to death. And they just didn't stop, which is great.
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And that's what we want to see. So they made
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the adjustments. With Sheldon Keefe, again, I'll say this again,
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it should be about 25 games. It should be 25
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games before you actually make a good sample size evaluation
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of Did this team improve from last season? Is it
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the same old Devils? They didn't come off, they didn't
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get off to a great start. They kind of got
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lucky against the Flyers on opening night. It was a
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good feeling win, but they struggled in games two, three,
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and four. They struggled against the Utah Mammoth. And, you know, look,
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the Devils are four and three right now. I think
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they're the best four and three team in the NHL.
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And with eight.
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Points, this has got to build their confidence.
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Going into Saturday when they go on the road to
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play the Washington Capitals. You know, it's a 1 p.m.
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Eastern start that afternoon game. Can they translate and put
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some wins together like they have been? Right now they're
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on a two-game winning streak on a young season. All
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good signs right now. But, you know, buyer beware. They
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had a heck of a start last season. But this
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team is more looking like the 22-23 team. Devils, and
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there's some analytics that C.J. Turturro, who we had on
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the State of the Fan address yesterday, he put it
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out there that all the analytics are virtually the same,
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like the 2022-23 team, and they start off the season
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poorly before they went on that 13-game heater.
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Yeah, and just to follow up here, you know, Robert Isaacson,
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too early to say if the heat is off.
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Keefe, have to start linking these back-to-back-to-back 60-minute efforts. Totally agreed.
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Oh my goodness, this is what most of us thought
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this team could be. Let's hope this is who they
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actually are. Ariel says if they go on a winning streak, hopefully,
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then that's what we might be able to consider a
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turning point. Looks like Mark Schwab agrees as well.
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Let's see if we are consistent. If it's inconsistent, well,
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it's just a fluke. We need a winning streak. I
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get that. Yeah, I get that. I totally agree with you.
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The test is going to be how this team shows
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up on Saturday and.
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Plays next week. According to AJ Visco.
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Yeah. I mean, I think that's what it's all going
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to come down to is that consistency, because we know
489
00:26:34.079 --> 00:26:37.180
we've said it, you know, this team could looks like
490
00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:39.380
it can play like this all the time on paper.
491
00:26:40.019 --> 00:26:41.980
They got to go out there on the ice and
492
00:26:42.019 --> 00:26:42.500
make it happen.
493
00:26:42.940 --> 00:26:45.920
Oh, absolutely. And, you know, I mean, this place is
494
00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:47.960
bumping right now. People are happy.
495
00:26:47.980 --> 00:26:48.859
Yeah.
496
00:26:49.400 --> 00:26:53.220
This is a Thursday night, you know, after a victory,
497
00:26:53.700 --> 00:26:55.089
especially against the New York Rangers.
498
00:26:55.109 --> 00:26:56.549
They're making pizzas back here.
499
00:26:56.930 --> 00:27:00.109
Like, it feels like pregame right now.
500
00:27:00.329 --> 00:27:03.089
As they should be. As they should be.
501
00:27:03.230 --> 00:27:07.730
And, yeah, let's hope that, you know, Saturday is more
502
00:27:07.789 --> 00:27:10.650
of the same on an early start time, too.
503
00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:12.019
So don't forget about that.
504
00:27:12.019 --> 00:27:18.289
1 p.m. Eastern time this Saturday. We got Devils and Capitals,
505
00:27:18.349 --> 00:27:21.609
one of the last games, last three or four games
506
00:27:21.769 --> 00:27:25.970
of Ovechkin and the Devils, going to be playing against
507
00:27:26.009 --> 00:27:29.859
each other. So make sure you tune in for that. And,
508
00:27:29.869 --> 00:27:32.079
of course, we're going to have it all covered for
509
00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:34.660
you here on the Let's Go Devils podcast network.
510
00:27:35.079 --> 00:27:38.339
We'll Game Day Live, Devils After Dark. You'll be getting
511
00:27:38.380 --> 00:27:39.279
your morning.
512
00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:41.980
Cup of woo and then your woo reports as well.
513
00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:44.819
So it's going to be all good stuff.
514
00:27:46.069 --> 00:27:50.029
Here for these next few games here.
515
00:27:50.089 --> 00:27:53.970
But, yeah, it's huge. It's huge. Hey, there's our buddy
516
00:27:54.009 --> 00:27:54.650
Ted as well.
517
00:27:56.089 --> 00:27:57.990
It's going to be huge to see how they follow
518
00:27:58.029 --> 00:28:01.150
this up on Saturday against the Caps.
519
00:28:03.329 --> 00:28:06.029
Yeah. Scotty, look at your phone. I'm just trying to
520
00:28:06.049 --> 00:28:09.029
get an answer from you. Sorry. I was texting you before.
521
00:28:10.910 --> 00:28:12.470
But we're about to.
522
00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:21.119
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. So where's old Casey?
523
00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:25.740
Casey, Casey, couple minutes. Grab a headset. I want to
524
00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:29.339
introduce everybody to my new best friend, Casey. Yeah, right
525
00:28:29.380 --> 00:28:31.099
over here. Yep, let me see if it's this. Yep,
526
00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:33.920
it's this one. Let me turn on your mic.
527
00:28:35.059 --> 00:28:36.079
Check, check, check.
528
00:28:36.259 --> 00:28:41.160
Yeah, Casey here. I want everybody to know.
529
00:28:40.940 --> 00:28:44.640
What happened tonight. I had no ticket. I had absolutely
530
00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:45.700
no ticket tonight.
531
00:28:46.230 --> 00:28:48.390
And then I get texts from Casey who, for the
532
00:28:48.430 --> 00:28:51.130
last three years, I thought he didn't like me, but.
533
00:28:51.130 --> 00:28:53.250
He actually did. I still don't know why you even
534
00:28:53.309 --> 00:28:56.089
thought that to begin with. I thought he thought I
535
00:28:56.109 --> 00:28:58.029
was a troll or something, and he didn't like me.
536
00:28:58.049 --> 00:28:58.759
I love trolls.
537
00:28:58.799 --> 00:29:02.779
Yeah. Anyway, Scotty, so he texted me in the middle
538
00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:04.980
of game day live, and I was like, okay, we'll
539
00:29:05.019 --> 00:29:05.579
go to the game.
540
00:29:06.579 --> 00:29:09.039
What kind of seats did we get? We were five
541
00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:10.759
rows off the ice in section 17. We saw every.
542
00:29:13.349 --> 00:29:16.309
Single goal in that second period.
543
00:29:17.269 --> 00:29:19.009
Beautiful, beautiful view.
544
00:29:18.769 --> 00:29:24.440
For all of that. It was delightful, man. Sam, and
545
00:29:24.500 --> 00:29:26.559
I quote, said, this was one of the best days
546
00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:27.059
of my life.
547
00:29:27.680 --> 00:29:27.940
Yeah.
548
00:29:28.660 --> 00:29:31.180
Wow. Very nice. Except for getting married to Mrs.
549
00:29:31.339 --> 00:29:31.599
Wood.
550
00:29:31.640 --> 00:29:33.349
I mean, that was my best day.
551
00:29:34.109 --> 00:29:37.170
Well, until you get home tonight after those comments earlier
552
00:29:37.250 --> 00:29:38.009
and you're sleeping out.
553
00:29:37.930 --> 00:29:39.950
On the couch. I'm sleeping on the couch, Casey, boy.
554
00:29:40.140 --> 00:29:40.319
No.
555
00:29:40.339 --> 00:29:40.809
What did you do?
556
00:29:40.819 --> 00:29:43.910
At least I had a good time tonight. And talk
557
00:29:43.930 --> 00:29:49.099
about hockey superstition. We were up, what, 6-0 at that point?
558
00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:52.579
Yeah, 5-0. No, it was, yeah, 6-0.
559
00:29:52.700 --> 00:29:52.880
Yeah.
560
00:29:53.299 --> 00:29:56.200
And then he comes back from the bathroom or somewhere.
561
00:29:56.220 --> 00:30:00.769
I actually snuck into some steak in between. And he,
562
00:30:01.450 --> 00:30:03.329
I guess there was Rangers fans in front of us
563
00:30:03.369 --> 00:30:03.849
that left.
564
00:30:04.349 --> 00:30:06.230
And he goes, oh, I'm going to sit down here
565
00:30:06.289 --> 00:30:09.190
instead of, you know, having the people next to us
566
00:30:09.250 --> 00:30:12.490
get up and stuff. He goes right into the row
567
00:30:12.730 --> 00:30:14.579
and the Rangers score on the power play.
568
00:30:14.819 --> 00:30:17.559
And he goes, oh. Guess I can't sit here now.
569
00:30:17.799 --> 00:30:19.019
My fault. My fault.
570
00:30:19.039 --> 00:30:20.240
Back to the regular seat.
571
00:30:20.279 --> 00:30:20.539
Yeah.
572
00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:23.980
Yeah. All bunched into that, you know, seat, you know.
573
00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:27.140
But you have to do what you got to do.
574
00:30:27.259 --> 00:30:28.960
You know what I mean? You got to do it.
575
00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:30.440
You can't screw up the mojo.
576
00:30:30.660 --> 00:30:32.220
Casey, how long have you been a Devils fan?
577
00:30:32.900 --> 00:30:36.220
Oh, boy. So, funny story.
578
00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:38.559
My dad is a Penguins fan, so I was actually
579
00:30:38.619 --> 00:30:41.279
raised a Penguins fan when I was, you know, one, two,
580
00:30:41.339 --> 00:30:42.019
three years old.
581
00:30:42.480 --> 00:30:42.859
And then I.
582
00:30:42.859 --> 00:30:47.440
Realized that the Devils were actually a team. And I go, Dad,
583
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:50.380
why'd you raise him to be a Penguins fan? So
584
00:30:50.519 --> 00:30:52.519
I ended up becoming a Devils fan at five.
585
00:30:53.900 --> 00:30:57.690
Okay. So a long time. Long time. I would say.
586
00:30:57.750 --> 00:30:58.269
Very nice.
587
00:30:58.750 --> 00:31:01.329
About 30 years.
588
00:31:01.349 --> 00:31:02.849
About.
589
00:31:03.369 --> 00:31:05.930
Okay. Yeah.
590
00:31:05.990 --> 00:31:09.480
What's some of your favorite Devils memories maybe going.
591
00:31:09.319 --> 00:31:10.140
To games or whatever?
592
00:31:10.900 --> 00:31:12.539
So the one that I have.
593
00:31:13.390 --> 00:31:13.829
Oh, my God.
594
00:31:13.869 --> 00:31:14.769
This one was crazy.
595
00:31:14.970 --> 00:31:17.750
So I was here when it was called Edison Alehouse
596
00:31:18.390 --> 00:31:23.829
for Game 7 of the Rangers Devils series in 2013.
597
00:31:23.829 --> 00:31:27.910
Was it? Or you mean Game 6? No, in Game 7.
598
00:31:27.910 --> 00:31:31.170
It was Game 7 when they beat them here, right? No,
599
00:31:31.250 --> 00:31:34.099
it was Game 6. In 2013? No, 2012. In 2012? Yeah,
600
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:36.880
Game 6. It wasn't a 7-game series? No, it was
601
00:31:36.920 --> 00:31:38.039
a 6-game. That was a 6-gamer?
602
00:31:38.079 --> 00:31:38.220
Yeah.
603
00:31:38.240 --> 00:31:39.900
All right, so it was a 6-game. It felt like
604
00:31:40.140 --> 00:31:40.539
a 7-game.
605
00:31:40.700 --> 00:31:40.920
Yeah.
606
00:31:41.420 --> 00:31:42.220
Oh, my God, yeah.
607
00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:42.700
So.
608
00:31:43.460 --> 00:31:45.230
This was Edison Alehouse at the time. It was not
609
00:31:45.269 --> 00:31:46.069
American whiskey.
610
00:31:46.730 --> 00:31:51.170
And I remember the entire place just jumping up and down.
611
00:31:51.289 --> 00:31:55.269
People were almost hitting their heads on the ceilings. And
612
00:31:55.930 --> 00:31:59.690
the mob outside was just absolutely bananas. Rangers fans are
613
00:31:59.730 --> 00:32:03.920
coming out. Devils fans are just laughing at them hysterically.
614
00:32:04.900 --> 00:32:08.359
That was, man, that was just like the most.
615
00:32:09.539 --> 00:32:12.000
I don't know. I can't even describe how crazy that
616
00:32:12.059 --> 00:32:12.599
moment was.
617
00:32:13.000 --> 00:32:20.279
Obviously, it was great beating them.
618
00:32:17.390 --> 00:32:19.369
In 2022 as well, 23.
619
00:32:19.369 --> 00:32:24.190
But, man, that series just absolutely crushed.
620
00:32:24.809 --> 00:32:25.049
Yeah.
621
00:32:25.089 --> 00:32:29.329
And there was one Rangers fan sitting at a table
622
00:32:29.430 --> 00:32:32.990
over here just watching the TV just by himself. And
623
00:32:33.009 --> 00:32:35.170
my buddy, Zach, who was with me, he took a
624
00:32:35.210 --> 00:32:37.500
photo of that, and he goes... This is what I
625
00:32:37.539 --> 00:32:40.579
want all Raiders fans to look like after every single loss.
626
00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:44.920
Just like that guy. Hit them when they're down and
627
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:48.049
remind them. It was great.
628
00:32:48.230 --> 00:32:48.829
Very nice.
629
00:32:48.890 --> 00:32:52.130
I just remember, man, everybody was just ecstatic, just jumping
630
00:32:52.150 --> 00:32:53.069
for joy, man.
631
00:32:53.170 --> 00:32:56.710
It was just super party celebration. It was ridiculous.
632
00:32:56.829 --> 00:33:01.430
Well, Casey, you're one of the original E-Bubs from last year.
633
00:33:01.869 --> 00:33:05.190
the emergency backup broadcaster. It's a new thing we do
634
00:33:05.269 --> 00:33:07.190
right now. And I asked him to be an EBUB
635
00:33:07.589 --> 00:33:10.460
for this podcast in case Scotty got stuck in, uh,
636
00:33:11.029 --> 00:33:12.710
LA traffic or whatever.
637
00:33:12.809 --> 00:33:14.519
So Scotty in California, right?
638
00:33:16.099 --> 00:33:16.980
I am in Cali.
639
00:33:17.019 --> 00:33:17.299
Yes.
640
00:33:17.440 --> 00:33:19.440
I'm, I'm, I'm out here in LA.
641
00:33:19.500 --> 00:33:21.900
I grew up in New Jersey and I moved out here, uh,
642
00:33:22.539 --> 00:33:25.460
about eight, nine years ago now, um, for, for work
643
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:26.240
and stuff like that.
644
00:33:26.299 --> 00:33:28.980
So, yeah, but I am, uh, born and bred from
645
00:33:29.279 --> 00:33:30.440
a Middlesex.
646
00:33:29.980 --> 00:33:34.079
Township and, uh, Been a longtime Devils fan, going to
647
00:33:34.099 --> 00:33:36.480
games at the old Brendan Byrne before it was called
648
00:33:36.579 --> 00:33:37.460
the Continental.
649
00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:39.519
I never got to a Brendan Byrne game.
650
00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:41.460
I don't know if I was alive just yet.
651
00:33:43.900 --> 00:33:44.920
I feel old now.
652
00:33:45.009 --> 00:33:49.349
If you ever see the giant puck that the Devils
653
00:33:49.390 --> 00:33:51.829
had for the first game that they had at the
654
00:33:51.869 --> 00:33:56.650
Prudential Center, I signed my name, but I am, I mean,
655
00:33:56.710 --> 00:33:58.630
as you can see with this Motorhead shirt on, I'm
656
00:33:58.650 --> 00:34:02.109
a huge Metal fan. And to help me find my name,
657
00:34:02.789 --> 00:34:06.150
I actually signed Ozzy's name, too. So if you see
658
00:34:06.190 --> 00:34:09.639
an Ozzy, it's not Ozzy Osbourne. That was actually me.
659
00:34:10.030 --> 00:34:11.780
So I'd be able to actually find it. And I
660
00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:14.739
bid the big O and the Zs and everything. So, yeah,
661
00:34:14.800 --> 00:34:17.519
if you ever see that on that ginormous puck that
662
00:34:17.579 --> 00:34:20.059
everyone signed from the first game at the Prue Center,
663
00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:21.099
that's me.
664
00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:23.400
We'll have to look for it, then. I was definitely
665
00:34:23.480 --> 00:34:26.820
at that game, too, when the Prudential Center opened. I
666
00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:28.179
was at that one. It was against the.
667
00:34:28.099 --> 00:34:28.860
Senators, right?
668
00:34:29.369 --> 00:34:30.769
Yes, it was. From what I remember.
669
00:34:30.929 --> 00:34:31.210
Yeah.
670
00:34:31.389 --> 00:34:32.030
I believe, yes.
671
00:34:32.289 --> 00:34:32.469
Yeah.
672
00:34:32.550 --> 00:34:33.849
I remember getting food poisoning.
673
00:34:34.130 --> 00:34:36.070
I may have had a few adult beverages that night.
674
00:34:36.090 --> 00:34:36.449
A lot of us did.
675
00:34:36.550 --> 00:34:38.679
I don't remember everything perfectly clearly.
676
00:34:38.719 --> 00:34:39.840
But yeah, you know.
677
00:34:40.039 --> 00:34:42.099
Yeah, that was a rough one because I'm pretty sure
678
00:34:42.139 --> 00:34:43.139
we got our asses.
679
00:34:42.900 --> 00:34:44.380
Handed to us. Yeah, we did. We did.
680
00:34:44.400 --> 00:34:44.760
Yeah.
681
00:34:45.179 --> 00:34:49.019
We did, but it was a great celebration, though. Oh, 100%.
682
00:34:49.019 --> 00:34:50.099
But we made the most of it.
683
00:34:50.489 --> 00:34:50.710
Yeah.
684
00:34:50.730 --> 00:34:51.190
That's right.
685
00:34:51.570 --> 00:34:52.730
I do love The Rock.
686
00:34:53.469 --> 00:34:56.340
It is my second home at this point. And it
687
00:34:56.360 --> 00:34:58.579
just feels like home every time we're here.
688
00:34:58.639 --> 00:34:59.579
Yeah, definitely.
689
00:34:59.820 --> 00:35:02.889
Every Devil's Fan around here, they lean on each other
690
00:35:02.909 --> 00:35:05.610
for support. It's a good time every time.
691
00:35:07.150 --> 00:35:09.369
And it's great having American whiskey there to be able
692
00:35:09.389 --> 00:35:11.929
to go and party at afterwards and beforehand.
693
00:35:12.829 --> 00:35:16.349
And, yeah, it's really awesome. And look at that. Hey, sir,
694
00:35:16.369 --> 00:35:18.630
if you share Ozzy's birthday, December the 3rd. Very nice.
695
00:35:19.210 --> 00:35:21.010
Very nice. Well, Casey.
696
00:35:21.510 --> 00:35:24.969
Thank you for filling in when you have and being
697
00:35:25.030 --> 00:35:28.349
our e-bub over here and taking care of Sam Wu,
698
00:35:28.389 --> 00:35:30.769
making sure he gets in and out of the games.
699
00:35:31.269 --> 00:35:31.969
Oh, he was great.
700
00:35:32.250 --> 00:35:35.010
You get a little TV time, too, there.
701
00:35:35.449 --> 00:35:38.110
The camera seems to always find Sam, whether he's got
702
00:35:38.139 --> 00:35:39.329
his cookie costume.
703
00:35:39.030 --> 00:35:39.610
On or not.
704
00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:43.579
Everybody was loving that light-up helmet.
705
00:35:43.840 --> 00:35:44.659
This thing is great.
706
00:35:45.190 --> 00:35:45.530
Oh, yeah.
707
00:35:45.570 --> 00:35:46.230
I love this thing.
708
00:35:46.250 --> 00:35:46.530
Yeah.
709
00:35:46.650 --> 00:35:47.710
The old gold helmet there.
710
00:35:47.750 --> 00:35:50.449
The fact that it's an old CCM helmet, too, it's great.
711
00:35:50.469 --> 00:35:51.639
It's so old school.
712
00:35:51.949 --> 00:35:54.449
Old school. It's awesome. That was from 2000. I built
713
00:35:54.469 --> 00:35:56.960
that in 2000. It still works. I used to have
714
00:35:57.019 --> 00:35:58.800
a CCM helmet myself when I played.
715
00:35:59.579 --> 00:36:00.030
Yeah, so.
716
00:36:00.039 --> 00:36:01.239
All right.
717
00:36:01.260 --> 00:36:01.659
Good stuff.
718
00:36:02.360 --> 00:36:06.320
Well, thank you, KC, for coming on, being our E-Bub. And, hey,
719
00:36:06.460 --> 00:36:09.039
if you get vetted and we like you, you, too,
720
00:36:09.079 --> 00:36:12.920
can be an E-Bub. Just come to American Whiskey. You know,
721
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:18.340
you've got to either bribe.
722
00:36:16.059 --> 00:36:18.059
Me or tell Mrs. Wu I ate a salad. It
723
00:36:18.119 --> 00:36:18.699
doesn't matter.
724
00:36:18.719 --> 00:36:21.469
You've just got to do what you've got to do.
725
00:36:23.050 --> 00:36:23.190
No.
726
00:36:23.210 --> 00:36:26.989
I've got to use my big body to screen that
727
00:36:27.030 --> 00:36:29.329
Ranger fan that walked by.
728
00:36:29.349 --> 00:36:33.139
That's why I eat. Anyway. All right.
729
00:36:33.179 --> 00:36:35.940
And I would like to say here, hey, Jay Snow,
730
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:36.780
what's going on there, bud?
731
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:39.039
South Fork Yeti just put this out.
732
00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:42.519
Someone asked Nico in the postgame how he felt to
733
00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:45.530
be third all-time in the scoring list for the franchise,
734
00:36:45.570 --> 00:36:47.389
and he says, it's really cool, but my head's.
735
00:36:47.230 --> 00:36:50.969
In bringing a fourth cup to the franchise. Love that.
736
00:36:51.090 --> 00:36:51.489
Wow.
737
00:36:51.710 --> 00:36:53.090
Love that from the captain.
738
00:36:53.190 --> 00:36:57.869
That's a good statement from the captain there. Very strong statement. Exactly.
739
00:36:59.050 --> 00:37:00.789
And Devil Dog, let me as God.
740
00:37:01.010 --> 00:37:07.210
Don't forget that. Especially that mole. Just a little programming
741
00:37:07.250 --> 00:37:08.110
note before we go.
742
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There's going to be a special State of the Fan
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address tomorrow at 2.30 p.m.
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Eastern.
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We will have Greg Wyshynski of ESPN.com. Nick Villano is
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going to be interviewing Greg Wyshynski, also a Devils fan.
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Came out an article on ESPN.com about Sonny Maeda, a
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Devils fan, running the team. And it's a great article.
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Go to ESPN.com, wishes list. So we're going to have
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Greg Wyshynski at 2.30 p.m. Eastern here on the Let's
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Go Devils podcast network. So set your alerts for that podcast.
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It's going to be a good one. That should be
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a good interview. Greg's a good, good interview for sure. Absolutely.
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I love him and Merrick on the daily face-off. They're great.
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Yeah.
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So I'm going to hit the music. Scotty, thank you.
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Thank you, Casey. Thank you, Frank the Tank. Thank you, Casey.
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We'll also find out what the heck the city of
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Newark is going to do about this street thing.
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Hey, we got a bunch of people out here after.
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Yeah, but I think something positive is going to come
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out of it. That's my prediction, but we won't know
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until tomorrow officially. Maybe we'll get the big stage back.
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Thank you to all those tuning in. Devils winning 7-1,
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spanking the Rangers. Remember that. Tell that co-worker, Rangers suck.
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And have a Rangers suck fortune cookie. Till next time,
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let's go Devils.