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Hi, this is Chico Resch. You are listening to the
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Let's Go Devils podcast on the Primetime Radio Network. Happy
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Devils Saturday. This is Game Day Live. Coming to you live,
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live from... The Primetime Radio Studios inside the bunker. Undisclosed
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location in beautiful New Jersey. And cross half-continent to Chicago, Illinois.
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It is Vinny Parisi of pucksandpitchforks.com. USA Today. The Hockey News.
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And there's one other. I want you to tell me, Vinny,
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where else will you be? Because I saw the announcement yesterday.
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Okay. Yeah, so I'll be covering the Chicago Blackhawks for
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the recap. David Kaplan is a Chicago radio legend, and
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he started his own company a couple years ago to
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cover all Chicago sports, and I have been brought in
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to be the Blackhawks guy going forward. So there will
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be a recap, they call it, after every single Chicago
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Blackhawks game. Wow.
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Wow. And that's amazing news because, again, our careers have
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taken off in so many different directions.
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Everybody.
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With the Let's Go Devils podcast. So congratulations to you, Vinny.
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Thank you.
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But hello, everybody. On the YouTube Live, X, Instagram Live, Facebook.
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We're everywhere.
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Twitch.
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I'm your host, Sam Wu, here with Vinny Parisi. We
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got Devils Capitals, matinee affair down in D.C. Devils coming
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off of 7-1-1. victory over the New York Rangers last Thursday.
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It's been feeling really good right now, Vinny. I mean,
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I think everybody has a smile on their face, a
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little bit more confident in the New Jersey Devils team.
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Nico Dawes just getting that monkey off of his back.
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Luke Hughes now has three goals on the season. He's
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having a fantastic start to the year. So a lot
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of these question marks, there's still some, but you have
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to be feeling good right now.
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Yeah, absolutely. I mean, if you won every game you
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played well in and you lost every game you played
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poorly in, the Devils would be 6-1. So they went
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back to Nico Dawes against the Rangers. And at first,
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I'm not going to lie, I was like, why? Why
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are they doing that? Why wouldn't they start Jake Allen?
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He's been better. They're playing the Rangers. The Rangers are
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off to a good start. They're feeling good. I know
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they lost Jess Durkin, but that doesn't impact the other goalies.
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You know, the guys up front in New York are
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still going to skate hard and do what they do.
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That's why I'm not a coach, because Nico Dawes was incredible.
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And now looking back in retrospect, it's really good that
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he got his first win of the season, you know,
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in the role of New Jersey Devils 1A, 1B, whatever
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you're going to call it this season. We'll see what
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happens down the stretch with potential trades or Poirier or whatever,
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however you say his name. it's going to be interesting
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to see how goaltending goes for the rest of the season. But,
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I mean, the one guy that you have to talk
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about right now when you're evaluating the New Jersey Devils
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is the guy that you played the intro song for,
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the beautiful intro song for. Luke Hughes already has half
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as many goals as he did all of last season
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and a third of his career high-end goals, and they
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played seven games. So it'll be interesting to see how
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he keeps that up. Do I ever think he's going
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to reach like Quinn Hughes's? Ceiling, that's kind of difficult
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to say he's going to be like a top two.
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I think he's going to surpass it. I think he's
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going to surpass it later in his career.
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Then you're saying he's a top two defenseman.
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I am saying it right now. I said it last
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year that he has that potential. And, you know, this
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season was his first ever. He actually was in training camp. So,
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you know, with all the distractions of the contract, the
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shoulder injury, You know, again, people forget how young Luke
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Hughes is, and he has that bigger size than Quinn.
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I'm making that call right now, and I'm taking receipts as,
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you know, fans that think I'm an idiot because I'm
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getting in when the stock is low. Hence, I played
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that song that we made last season, you know, when,
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you know, the booing of Luke Hughes, which I didn't boo.
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I was at that game.
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I didn't boo. But now they're turning into Luke chants.
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And it's freaking awesome. And by the way, Vinny. Woo!
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Thank you to Joseph McCauley for the super chat saying
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that this is going to be a greasy game. I'm
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thinking very close. And I think this will be a
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close game. You've got the factor of Alexander Ovechkin announcing
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a week ago, two weeks ago, that this will be
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his last season. That this is his final tour of
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duty for the Washington Capitals of his NHL career. So
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you know the Capitals are all in to win it all.
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So I expect every game that the Capitals play, they're
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going to play 100%. And I think that's what's going
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to happen today because this is a Metropolitan Division rivalry game.
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And the Washington Capitals made a lot of additions this
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offseason that a lot of people like. I mean, you
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add Alex Tuck. He was probably the best player available
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via free agency at the start. Um, they had Jordan
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Cairo came in, they moved out Connor McMichael. Like there's
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just all sorts of things they did that a lot
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of people believe make the team better. They have Lane
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Hudson's brother Cole in his, you know, first full rookie season.
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He's like a Calder trophy candidate. It's a really good
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team on paper and it just hasn't gotten off to
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the start. They were like the sexy pick to make
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the playoffs and bounce back and give Ovi a chance
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at the cup in his final season. And that still
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might be the case. But it's been a little bit
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bumpier of a start than I think some people, I'm
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not even going to say just in Washington, just in
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the overall NHL landscape, believed. And they're 4-3-0, so are
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the Devils. The Devils probably would say they haven't had
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the start they thought they were going to either, and
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they're still over. 500. So it's going to be interesting
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to see whoever comes out of this game will probably
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be feeling real nice about themselves. But whoever loses it
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isn't going to be the end of the world either.
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I do think... It's a really good team. I think
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those preseason projections were strong. A lot of teams across
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the National Hockey League were sloppy in the first week
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of the season. I don't know if that was for
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a shorter training camp or less preseason games or preseason
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time on ice. Rules for certain veterans across the league,
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injuries play a role in some of these. So we'll
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see how the Devils fare against the Capitals, but it's
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definitely an improved, each team has improved from where they
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were last year. I strongly believe that.
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Oh, absolutely. And both teams enter the game, I believe, 4-3-0.
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Eight points with the Devils being the better, the best team,
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the best 4-3 team that I tweeted out yesterday in
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the NHL. First of four meetings this season. The next
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is home and home. November 12th in Newark and November
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14th in D.C. So watch out for that. This is
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a crucial game early on in the season. Again, I
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don't know why the NHL are putting all these crucial games,
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these Metropolitan Division games, so early in the season. So
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the Devils have to get off to a great start
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in the first two months of the season because you've
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got the New York Rangers playing Four games against the
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New York Rangers, who they spanked on Thursday between now
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and end of December. Like, that's just asinine. And then
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you don't play them. So I just don't understand why.
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I get it with scheduling, with the scheduling. But even
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last season, they didn't play against the Rangers until March.
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And by that time, both teams were irrelevant at that point.
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So maybe that's why it's an overreaction. I don't know, Vinny.
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Do you prefer them have one a quarter?
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Well, yeah, I do. But if you were to really
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do it right, I wouldn't have one till December. Because
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traditionally speaking, and this goes with New York area sports,
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I'm not saying that they don't sell out buildings, either
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the Islanders, Rangers, or Devils, but traditionally, all these franchises
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are after-Christmas franchises because you've got the Knicks, Nets, you've
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got baseball. If it happens, the Yankees or Mets are
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in the playoffs, which has happened in years past. The Mets,
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not so much, but the Yankees. And then you've got football,
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the Giants and Jets. You are fully loaded in the
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New Jersey area, just in general, that it dilutes. And
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you want this rivalry to be like, hey, you're the
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only game in town. Let's have a Devils-Rangers game. It
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just amps up the hype. It puts more focus on
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the rivalry. Like, yeah, it was in October that we,
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you know, two days ago, Devils Rangers, yeah, I enjoyed
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the beatdown, but before the game, it was like, ah,
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we finally get to see it. Instead of, like, you
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go in there with your body armor ready to go
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because it totally means something. So those games, like, in
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March and April... are kind of like winning in kind
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of games. It just, it feels like a playoff game.
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You get top dollar for those games. I just don't
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know why they're doing it so early on.
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Yeah. And you wonder with Washington schedule, how much they,
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I mean, they knew it was going to be Ovi's
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last season. And if they didn't know, they assumed it. Um,
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how much getting Pittsburgh and the Rangers and some teams
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he's played against in the playoffs a little more towards
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the end of the season for ticket selling purposes. And, um,
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a lot of people believe Washington's going to be a
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playoff team. So his last regular season game is probably
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not going to be his last game, but, um, you
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never know. And I know that game against Pittsburgh in April,
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I don't think it's their last game, but I think
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it's their last, it's the last Pittsburgh Crosby versus Ovechkin. Um,
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that will certainly be crazy. And so I don't know
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how the scheduling works as far as that, but you know,
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if you're the New Jersey devils of present, you have
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to just look at your schedule and see who's on
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it and bring your grade a effort every night. And
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they had their grade a effort against the New York Rangers.
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Everything went well. Um, do I think every shot Luke
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Hughes puts on goal is going to go in every night? No,
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of course not. But the fact that he looks like
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a guy who's dynamic and him and Hamilton, where I
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thought were really good against the Rangers, um, You go
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in there and you try to do the same thing
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with the Capitals and you try to shut down some
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of their more prolific forwards. They have a lot of
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high-end talent, a lot of guys who can get 30
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to 40 goals. But I don't know if they have
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that one forward who can take over a game with
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his creativity the way that Jack Hughes can. And it's
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been special to watch.
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Yeah, and Meadowlander's saying this is a heavy four-checking team today,
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a different animal than the Rangers.
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Yep.
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I need a defensive a game today. Couldn't agree with
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you more, but coming out of the Rangers game the
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other night, even strength scoring was the story because most
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of the goals came five on five or shorthanded.
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Special teams on the power play.
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Yeah. Special teams, you know, you know, before that game, the, the,
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the Rangers, the analytics, the special teams were really, really
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good coming into that game on Thursday. But, The Devils, again,
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they've been having problems on special teams. They've been very inconsistent,
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and the penalty kill has been dismal for the most part,
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but maybe they can start building off of that 7-1 victory. Look,
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the Capitals, they just beat Montreal, I believe, a few
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days ago, 5-4. Alex Tuck had two goals and assists
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for the Caps. They're on a five-game homestand. You know,
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Jordan Cairo, Boone Jenner, some of the names that they
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added on. I mean, they are totally going to, you know,
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be on their A game, and they still have Tom Wilson, Strom,
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you know, all these players that, you know, are capital fixtures.
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So this is one of these litmus tests, like these
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measuring stick games, because aside from, like, the Carolina Hurricanes,
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the Washington Capitals did– did– was the team to beat
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a couple of years ago, you know, in the regular season. So,
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you know, if the devils were to, you know, again,
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get ahead, look, I don't mind having a victory in overtime,
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but I want to get greedy and get two solid
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points out of this to make a four point, you know, difference,
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you know, in the standings. I mean, that's how close
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it is. I mean, they're literally tied with, with the
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Washington capitals, but again, the devils really haven't started playing
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well till recently.
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You know, since Detroit. And I'm starting to realize that
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that's been the case for a lot of teams across
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the national. There were some teams that got off to
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hot starts. I know Edmonton, you know, Vegas. I think
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Anaheim was off to a real nice start. Carolina. But
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those are teams, I just named a bunch of teams
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who won a playoff series last year. They're a little
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more seasoned. Some of these teams, it's been a little
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sloppy early on. Even some of the good teams, and
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I consider the Devils one of the good teams. People
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were blasting Nico Escher in the first couple games of
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the season. And now he's on pace for 48 goals.
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He's got four goals in seven games. Like he's turned
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it on and I, that's going to happen with the captain.
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He will go through cold phases too. Cause there are
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games where his main assignment is to four check and
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be hard to play against defensively. That could be the
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case in a game against Washington. It wouldn't shock me
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if Nico has one of his better games overall as
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a hockey player, but he doesn't score or create a goal.
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Like because Washington, like you said, they don't have like
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a Jack Hughes, but someone pointed out in the chat,
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it's a hard for checking team that drives four lines
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every single game and brings their A game on every shift,
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and that's how they score goals, and that's how they
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find ways to win. So a player like Escher is
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going to be extremely important, especially when you are on
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the road and you have to not get the line
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matchups that you're hoping for. You've got to figure out
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ways to get Escher against some of their top dogs.
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Well, yeah. Also, some of the comments coming from the
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YouTube Live, Wimpy saying Dawes wasn't the reason we lost
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in those starts, but Dawes wasn't the main factor in
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their win. Let them feel good and not face a
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better team today. Leave this to a proven veteran, meaning
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Jake the Snake Allen, which I believe would be the
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one starting today. I didn't get any confirmations yet. I'm
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sure we will soon because they're about to start warm-ups.
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Roman is also saying is Jack Hughes off to the
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quietest nine points in seven games to start a seven-game
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start possible. Like, I hope he scores in regulation today.
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I mean, I.
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Think Jack Hughes is playing awesome. And it's great that
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his teammates are now starting to put the puck in
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the net. But I kind of agree with Roman. Like,
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they were saying, like, well, Jack Hughes, you know, wasn't
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the main, you know, the ranger killer, you know, last Thursday. But, hey,
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a win's a win.
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I mean... I mean... And he literally killed them in overtime. So, like, yes,
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he was. No, I'm thinking of the game before. Yeah.
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But he did have a point. He did help create goals.
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There are a lot of plays that lead to goals
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that Jack Hughes isn't one of the three players to
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touch the puck before it goes in the net either. And,
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you know, it's all relative. Jack Hughes does have seven
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points in nine games. He's on pace for, like, 115
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points or something like that if that were to keep
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up over 84. Yeah. Listen, Jack Hughes... is one of
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the best players in the NHL. I mean, he's a
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top 10 forward. There's no denying. And I think he's
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the single best overtime forward in the National Hockey League,
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even more than McDavid. I just, in the Olympics, he
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shut down McDavid and then brought it to the other
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end of the ice and scored. And I think McDavid's
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one of the best players ever. I would never say
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Jack Hughes is better than him. I just think in
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the three-on-three, that mentality, that shiftiness, it favors Jack in
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a lot of ways.
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It's been really cool to watch. Listen, in previous years,
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he had 20 points in his first 10 games, and
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then he's burnt out, gets hurt, whatever. The team falls apart.
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Slow and steady wins the race. I don't care about
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Jack Hughes' point total. I care about the Devils winning. Yeah,
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I'd love to see him be the first player in
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Devils history to score 50 goals or have 100 points.
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One of those two things is going to happen eventually.
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I'm not so sure about 50 goals because I think
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Jack Hughes has a lot of two-way offensive– mindset in
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order to get, you know, 50 goals, he might have
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50 assists, you know, he will, he better have 50 assists,
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but I just think it's not really worried about Jack's
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totals too. And Nico's the same way.
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Yeah.
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Nico's all about playing that two way. Jonathan Taves, Patrice
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Bergeron type play. I'm not saying he's going to be
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like a bonafide hall of famer like those guys. Maybe
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he will be by the time this is all said
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and done. It's not, trending in a completely opposite direction
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of that. He's got 200 goals already in his career.
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I think he's fourth all-time in Devils goal scoring as
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of one of his more recent goals.
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I think if he keeps at the pace he is
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right now, and this is another podcast for another day,
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maybe in the offseason, but if Nico Heischer keeps at
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the pace he is right now and remains the Devils
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captain and wins at least two cups, so say if
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he has about 400 to 450 goals captain of the
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new jersey devils that's patrick elias type territory where you're
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on the fringe of getting into the hockey hall of
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fame it could happen but right now you know in
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my mind you know again i'm not fond of a
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lot of these hockey hall of fame voters especially when
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stan fishler you know the professional hockey writers association and
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i've I've had my grievances, like why isn't Stan Fischler
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in the Hockey Hall of Fame? But yeah, so anyway,
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I just want to tell the YouTubers on the YouTube
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Live to give us your predictions. Give us your predictions
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because we're going to get to that shortly. But really,
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getting back to the game, Vinny, you know, Luke Hughes,
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he's heating up right now. He's having a fast, a
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good start to the season. But today, is he going
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to emerge as that number one defenseman and handle the
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cap size and physicality? That's something, you know, to watch
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today that I think, you know, I'm kind of interested
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to see how he follows up that performance he had
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on Thursday. Does he gain a lot of confidence today?
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In that also the top line, the Jack Hughes line
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with Jesper Bratt and Gritzek, you know, that change that
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Sheldon Keefe. made has made a difference and going back
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to you were saying before now Nick Villano pucks and pitchforks.com
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you know Nick I know Nick he had Greg Wyshynski
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from ESPN on yesterday on the state of the fan
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address that special Friday special that we dropped and I'm
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saying that, you know, McDavid and Leon dry settle on
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three on three, you know, on, on, um, in that overtime,
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I'll tell you what pound for pound brat and, um, uh,
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and Jack, they, they have actually a much lower salary
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cap hit than those two in overtime. That's the kind
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of caliber that the devils have right now. Three on three.
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You may say that, you know, Connor McDavid and Leon
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Drysdale may be better, but a win's a win, and
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they're getting it. So if this is a tight game
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and it goes three on three, my bet's on Jack
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and Jesper Bratt, you know, to get it done and
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possibly Luke, you know, on the blue line. So those
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are some things to look at. Also, you know, the
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special teams, because right now the Devils power play right
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now is at 20%. It's gotten better because they weren't
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scoring in the beginning of the season. But their PK,
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and again, their penalty kill is, you know, well, at
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least it's at 71.4% from what I'm seeing right now
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compared to the Capitals' 83%. Hopefully that starts to rise.
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Hopefully they can get a good streak together. I mean,
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they did have that one five-minute kill the other night, which,
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you know, again, you know, you have to start somewhere. But,
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you know, they got to do better on special teams.
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And if I were to pick and choose which special
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teams I would want to be better, it would be
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the penalty kill, 100% over the power play.
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Yeah, I couldn't agree more because giving up goals, you
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could score goals at even strength. If you give up
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goals on the penalty kill, it's really hard to win
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the game. Yeah. Really hard. And you could score goals
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on the power play, but so can the other team.
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I just, I definitely think being better on the PK
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leads to winning more than being good on the power play.
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Especially when, when you look at the overall makeup of
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the devils, if their penalty kill is strong or if,
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if they're both weak, which one do you think has
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the chance to get better by the personnel they have
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on the team? The answer is the power play because
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they have so much talent. So you'd rather one off
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the bat be strong. It's definitely the penalty kill. Yeah.
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Yeah, absolutely. And, I mean, we can have a podcast
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about this on the Woo Report another day. Do you
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want Jack Hughes and Jesper Brat on the PK? If
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it's late. We can dive deep into it in a
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Woo Report. But if it's late in the PK, 15,
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20 seconds, come back to even strength with them on
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the ice. And they're both fast. They're both smart. So
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I definitely think they're good penalty killers. But in terms
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of wasting their minutes on the PK is probably what
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you mean.
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I'm with you. I wouldn't do it too much if
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they go out there with 20, 30 seconds left and
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use their speed to maybe generate a shorthanded chance or
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be out there when somebody comes out of the box.
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It also might depend on who takes the penalty.
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Or if you're down a goal. Or if you're down
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a goal late in the game.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Because on the PK, the two forwards that are covering
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the points, you want to have kind of like jackrabbits
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up there. The ones that can just have that kind
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of elite speed north-south. and be relentless to the puck,
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and obviously using their stick to clog those passing lanes.
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It's very important. All right, so I'm getting to some
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of these predictions, Vinny, because now they're starting to chime in.
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Selective Boy says, my prediction will be 5-3 Devils with
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an empty net goal. Good prediction. Wimpy says 3-2 Devils overtime.
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He's looking at the overtime angle. Corbin says 4-2 Devils. Devils,
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using emoji. Roman says 4-3 Devils in overtime. Eddie retracted
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his prediction. I don't know why. Lawrence Eck says 4-3
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Devils and Timo gets a goal. Timo Meier. Nick Lavelle
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says 3-2 Devils. See, I'm seeing a lot of confidence
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right now in these Devils fans. Pete says it's going
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to be a tight game. Got Devils 3-2 in overtime.
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Timo breaking out with two goals today. That seems to
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be the sentiment. Eddie put in his prediction 3-2 Devils.
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Let's see here. Also Wimpy commenting that Hudson and Caulfield
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3-on-3 is up there too. Very good point. Very good point.
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Also in the Eastern Conference. Devils in disguise is 4-3
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Devils or maybe 5-3. Tom. Hello, Tom. Good luck, Tom.
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You always bust my chops. I say that he's bad luck.
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So his new nickname is good luck. Tom says four,
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three devils, AJ Visco, the law offices of AJ Visco
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and sons attorneys at law, six, two devils, max is five,
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two Diablos. And also Tom is on the golf course
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about to tee off says LGD Vinny. What is your
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prediction for today?
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I believe the New Jersey Devils will win 4-2. I'm
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kind of in the winning 3-2, throw one into the
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empty net camp.
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Yeah, you know, I wish I said something outrageous because
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we had Keith Cavanaugh on, and he got me all
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into the analytics. So normally my outrageous position, you know
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how I'm always like 9-1 Devils. I had seven in mind,
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like 7-2 Devils. But I went with the conservative route,
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so I'm going to go back to my normal predictions.
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Devils are going to route the Capitals 8-2 tonight.
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Both goals by Ovechkin?
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No, one's Tom Wilson and the other is.
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Chikrin. Okay.
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Yeah. Threw a name out there.
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8-2. Because think about it.
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The Devils are averaging six goals a game. Just under
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six goals a game because they played in overtime. So
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I have no reason to think that they won't put
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up goals. Their offense is clicking right now.
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And, you know, I did see a stat. Again, I
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test versus analytics. I use both. Um, the analytics say
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the devils are incredible at creating offense and they're going
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to score goals. And that did say that their numbers
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look oddly similar to the 22, 23 season. Yeah. And
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then if you remember in the 22, 23 season, they
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also got off to like a 500 medium start in October.
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The difference is that year was coming off a year.
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They won the lottery. You said that I forget what
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the prediction was that they need to go on a
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13 game heater or something for you to be back in.
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And then they did. Wait, I said that? Yeah, you
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said something like, I need to see them win 10
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in a row for me to be back in on
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them being a good team this year. And then they
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won 13 in a row. That season was magic.
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Lisa Drucker says, Sam Kassan, good friend of the podcast,
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reporting that Jake the Snake Allen is your starter for
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your New Jersey Devils. So hopefully that answers Devils in
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Disguise question. Also, AJ Visco thinks maybe Chisholm gets a goal.
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against the former team good point good point good point
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um but yeah vinny it's a bit of fun podcast
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glad to have you this is the first time you
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and i are both in studio because we've been traveling
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like like i woke up this morning i got a
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fresh haircut from connie cuts it looks.
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Looks wonderful thank you yeah do i look like an
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executive you look you look better than wischinski and nick
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villano Thank you. You know what? No offense to them.
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No offense to them. You know what?
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I'm going to take that recording and make a short
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out of it and then tag them, tag them on
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X and be like, that's right. Because like, you know,
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I kind of felt embarrassed. Luckily I was not on
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camera because you know, I, you know, I, I was
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at work and I was producing and all that. So
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I'm producing this podcast and beforehand, you know, in the,
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you know, in the green room, so to speak, they
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were talking about their haircuts and I'm like, I look
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like a fugly, a fugly fan. You know, only fans,
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fugly fans. You know. Fugly fans. That's my new website, fuglyfans.com.
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You know, get paid to look ugly, fugly.
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Yep. I'd purchase your subscription. Yeah, $ 9. 99 a month.
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Anyway. All right. So we're going to get out of here.
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We got Devils After Dark after the game. Vinny, I
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have to talk to you off air. So don't go away.
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And I want to thank all those tuning in. Look,
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the Let's Go Devils podcast, Game Day Live and Devils
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After Dark continues. But yeah, so hitting the music right now.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to everybody.
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Great pregame podcast. Sorry that there was no morning woo.
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I figured, you know what, we can't kind of preempt it.
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But we'll have the morning woo tomorrow. So don't worry
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about that. But we also have Dulles After Dark. It's
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got to get SiriusXM. Liquid Metal. and i will recap
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the game that was thank you thank you thank you
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till next time let's go devils
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Hi, this is Chico Resch. You are listening to the
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Let's Go Devils podcast on the Primetime Radio Network. Happy
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Devils Saturday. This is Game Day Live. Coming to you live,
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live from... The Primetime Radio Studios inside the bunker. Undisclosed
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location in beautiful New Jersey. And cross half-continent to Chicago, Illinois.
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It is Vinny Parisi of pucksandpitchforks.com. USA Today. The Hockey News.
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And there's one other. I want you to tell me, Vinny,
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where else will you be? Because I saw the announcement yesterday.
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Okay. Yeah, so I'll be covering the Chicago Blackhawks for
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the recap. David Kaplan is a Chicago radio legend, and
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he started his own company a couple years ago to
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cover all Chicago sports, and I have been brought in
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to be the Blackhawks guy going forward. So there will
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be a recap, they call it, after every single Chicago
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Blackhawks game. Wow.
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Wow. And that's amazing news because, again, our careers have
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taken off in so many different directions.
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With the Let's Go Devils podcast. So congratulations to you, Vinny.
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Thank you.
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But hello, everybody. On the YouTube Live, X, Instagram Live, Facebook.
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We're everywhere.
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Twitch.
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I'm your host, Sam Wu, here with Vinny Parisi. We
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got Devils Capitals, matinee affair down in D.C. Devils coming
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off of 7-1-1. victory over the New York Rangers last Thursday.
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It's been feeling really good right now, Vinny. I mean,
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I think everybody has a smile on their face, a
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little bit more confident in the New Jersey Devils team.
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Nico Dawes just getting that monkey off of his back.
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Luke Hughes now has three goals on the season. He's
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having a fantastic start to the year. So a lot
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of these question marks, there's still some, but you have
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to be feeling good right now.
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played well in and you lost every game you played
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poorly in, the Devils would be 6-1. So they went
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back to Nico Dawes against the Rangers. And at first,
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are they doing that? Why wouldn't they start Jake Allen?
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He's been better. They're playing the Rangers. The Rangers are
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off to a good start. They're feeling good. I know
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they lost Jess Durkin, but that doesn't impact the other goalies.
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still going to skate hard and do what they do.
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he got his first win of the season, you know,
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in the role of New Jersey Devils 1A, 1B, whatever
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you're going to call it this season. We'll see what
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happens down the stretch with potential trades or Poirier or whatever,
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however you say his name. it's going to be interesting
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to see how goaltending goes for the rest of the season. But,
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about right now when you're evaluating the New Jersey Devils
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is the guy that you played the intro song for,
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the beautiful intro song for. Luke Hughes already has half
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as many goals as he did all of last season
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and a third of his career high-end goals, and they
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played seven games. So it'll be interesting to see how
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he keeps that up. Do I ever think he's going
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to reach like Quinn Hughes's? Ceiling, that's kind of difficult
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to say he's going to be like a top two.
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I think he's going to surpass it. I think he's
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going to surpass it later in his career.
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I am saying it right now. I said it last
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year that he has that potential. And, you know, this
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season was his first ever. He actually was in training camp. So,
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you know, with all the distractions of the contract, the
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shoulder injury, You know, again, people forget how young Luke
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Hughes is, and he has that bigger size than Quinn.
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I'm making that call right now, and I'm taking receipts as,
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you know, fans that think I'm an idiot because I'm
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getting in when the stock is low. Hence, I played
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that song that we made last season, you know, when,
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you know, the booing of Luke Hughes, which I didn't boo.
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I was at that game.
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I didn't boo. But now they're turning into Luke chants.
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And it's freaking awesome. And by the way, Vinny. Woo!
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Thank you to Joseph McCauley for the super chat saying
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that this is going to be a greasy game. I'm
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thinking very close. And I think this will be a
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close game. You've got the factor of Alexander Ovechkin announcing
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a week ago, two weeks ago, that this will be
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his last season. That this is his final tour of
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duty for the Washington Capitals of his NHL career. So
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you know the Capitals are all in to win it all.
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going to play 100%. And I think that's what's going
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to happen today because this is a Metropolitan Division rivalry game.
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offseason that a lot of people like. I mean, you
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add Alex Tuck. He was probably the best player available
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via free agency at the start. Um, they had Jordan
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Cairo came in, they moved out Connor McMichael. Like there's
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just all sorts of things they did that a lot
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of people believe make the team better. They have Lane
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Hudson's brother Cole in his, you know, first full rookie season.
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team on paper and it just hasn't gotten off to
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the start. They were like the sexy pick to make
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the playoffs and bounce back and give Ovi a chance
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at the cup in his final season. And that still
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might be the case. But it's been a little bit
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bumpier of a start than I think some people, I'm
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not even going to say just in Washington, just in
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the overall NHL landscape, believed. And they're 4-3-0, so are
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the Devils. The Devils probably would say they haven't had
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the start they thought they were going to either, and
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they're still over. 500. So it's going to be interesting
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to see whoever comes out of this game will probably
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be feeling real nice about themselves. But whoever loses it
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isn't going to be the end of the world either.
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I do think... It's a really good team. I think
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those preseason projections were strong. A lot of teams across
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the National Hockey League were sloppy in the first week
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of the season. I don't know if that was for
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a shorter training camp or less preseason games or preseason
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time on ice. Rules for certain veterans across the league,
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injuries play a role in some of these. So we'll
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see how the Devils fare against the Capitals, but it's
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definitely an improved, each team has improved from where they
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were last year. I strongly believe that.
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Eight points with the Devils being the better, the best team,
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the best 4-3 team that I tweeted out yesterday in
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the NHL. First of four meetings this season. The next
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is home and home. November 12th in Newark and November
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14th in D.C. So watch out for that. This is
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a crucial game early on in the season. Again, I
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don't know why the NHL are putting all these crucial games,
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these Metropolitan Division games, so early in the season. So
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the Devils have to get off to a great start
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in the first two months of the season because you've
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got the New York Rangers playing Four games against the
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New York Rangers, who they spanked on Thursday between now
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and end of December. Like, that's just asinine. And then
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you don't play them. So I just don't understand why.
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I get it with scheduling, with the scheduling. But even
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last season, they didn't play against the Rangers until March.
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Do you prefer them have one a quarter?
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Well, yeah, I do. But if you were to really
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do it right, I wouldn't have one till December. Because
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traditionally speaking, and this goes with New York area sports,
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the Islanders, Rangers, or Devils, but traditionally, all these franchises
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are after-Christmas franchises because you've got the Knicks, Nets, you've
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got baseball. If it happens, the Yankees or Mets are
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in the playoffs, which has happened in years past. The Mets,
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not so much, but the Yankees. And then you've got football,
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the Giants and Jets. You are fully loaded in the
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New Jersey area, just in general, that it dilutes. And
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you want this rivalry to be like, hey, you're the
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only game in town. Let's have a Devils-Rangers game. It
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just amps up the hype. It puts more focus on
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the rivalry. Like, yeah, it was in October that we,
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you know, two days ago, Devils Rangers, yeah, I enjoyed
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the beatdown, but before the game, it was like, ah,
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we finally get to see it. Instead of, like, you
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go in there with your body armor ready to go
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because it totally means something. So those games, like, in
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March and April... are kind of like winning in kind
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of games. It just, it feels like a playoff game.
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You get top dollar for those games. I just don't
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last season. And if they didn't know, they assumed it. Um,
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how much getting Pittsburgh and the Rangers and some teams
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he's played against in the playoffs a little more towards
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the end of the season for ticket selling purposes. And, um,
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a lot of people believe Washington's going to be a
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playoff team. So his last regular season game is probably
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not going to be his last game, but, um, you
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never know. And I know that game against Pittsburgh in April,
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it's their last, it's the last Pittsburgh Crosby versus Ovechkin. Um,
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that will certainly be crazy. And so I don't know
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how the scheduling works as far as that, but you know,
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if you're the New Jersey devils of present, you have
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to just look at your schedule and see who's on
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it and bring your grade a effort every night. And
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they had their grade a effort against the New York Rangers.
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Everything went well. Um, do I think every shot Luke
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Hughes puts on goal is going to go in every night? No,
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of course not. But the fact that he looks like
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a guy who's dynamic and him and Hamilton, where I
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thought were really good against the Rangers, um, You go
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in there and you try to do the same thing
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with the Capitals and you try to shut down some
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of their more prolific forwards. They have a lot of
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high-end talent, a lot of guys who can get 30
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to 40 goals. But I don't know if they have
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that one forward who can take over a game with
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his creativity the way that Jack Hughes can. And it's
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been special to watch.
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Yeah, and Meadowlander's saying this is a heavy four-checking team today,
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a different animal than the Rangers.
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Yep.
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I need a defensive a game today. Couldn't agree with
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you more, but coming out of the Rangers game the
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other night, even strength scoring was the story because most
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of the goals came five on five or shorthanded.
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Special teams on the power play.
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Yeah. Special teams, you know, you know, before that game, the, the,
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the Rangers, the analytics, the special teams were really, really
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good coming into that game on Thursday. But, The Devils, again,
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they've been having problems on special teams. They've been very inconsistent,
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and the penalty kill has been dismal for the most part,
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but maybe they can start building off of that 7-1 victory. Look,
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the Capitals, they just beat Montreal, I believe, a few
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days ago, 5-4. Alex Tuck had two goals and assists
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for the Caps. They're on a five-game homestand. You know,
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Jordan Cairo, Boone Jenner, some of the names that they
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added on. I mean, they are totally going to, you know,
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be on their A game, and they still have Tom Wilson, Strom,
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you know, all these players that, you know, are capital fixtures.
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So this is one of these litmus tests, like these
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measuring stick games, because aside from, like, the Carolina Hurricanes,
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the Washington Capitals did– did– was the team to beat
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a couple of years ago, you know, in the regular season. So,
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you know, if the devils were to, you know, again,
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get ahead, look, I don't mind having a victory in overtime,
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but I want to get greedy and get two solid
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points out of this to make a four point, you know, difference,
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you know, in the standings. I mean, that's how close
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it is. I mean, they're literally tied with, with the
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Washington capitals, but again, the devils really haven't started playing
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well till recently.
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You know, since Detroit. And I'm starting to realize that
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that's been the case for a lot of teams across
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the national. There were some teams that got off to
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hot starts. I know Edmonton, you know, Vegas. I think
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Anaheim was off to a real nice start. Carolina. But
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those are teams, I just named a bunch of teams
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who won a playoff series last year. They're a little
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more seasoned. Some of these teams, it's been a little
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sloppy early on. Even some of the good teams, and
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I consider the Devils one of the good teams. People
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were blasting Nico Escher in the first couple games of
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the season. And now he's on pace for 48 goals.
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He's got four goals in seven games. Like he's turned
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it on and I, that's going to happen with the captain.
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He will go through cold phases too. Cause there are
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games where his main assignment is to four check and
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be hard to play against defensively. That could be the
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case in a game against Washington. It wouldn't shock me
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if Nico has one of his better games overall as
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a hockey player, but he doesn't score or create a goal.
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Like because Washington, like you said, they don't have like
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a Jack Hughes, but someone pointed out in the chat,
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it's a hard for checking team that drives four lines
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every single game and brings their A game on every shift,
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and that's how they score goals, and that's how they
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find ways to win. So a player like Escher is
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going to be extremely important, especially when you are on
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the road and you have to not get the line
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matchups that you're hoping for. You've got to figure out
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ways to get Escher against some of their top dogs.
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Well, yeah. Also, some of the comments coming from the
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YouTube Live, Wimpy saying Dawes wasn't the reason we lost
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in those starts, but Dawes wasn't the main factor in
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their win. Let them feel good and not face a
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better team today. Leave this to a proven veteran, meaning
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Jake the Snake Allen, which I believe would be the
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one starting today. I didn't get any confirmations yet. I'm
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sure we will soon because they're about to start warm-ups.
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Roman is also saying is Jack Hughes off to the
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quietest nine points in seven games to start a seven-game
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start possible. Like, I hope he scores in regulation today.
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I mean, I.
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Think Jack Hughes is playing awesome. And it's great that
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his teammates are now starting to put the puck in
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the net. But I kind of agree with Roman. Like,
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they were saying, like, well, Jack Hughes, you know, wasn't
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the main, you know, the ranger killer, you know, last Thursday. But, hey,
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a win's a win.
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I mean... I mean... And he literally killed them in overtime. So, like, yes,
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he was. No, I'm thinking of the game before. Yeah.
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But he did have a point. He did help create goals.
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There are a lot of plays that lead to goals
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that Jack Hughes isn't one of the three players to
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touch the puck before it goes in the net either. And,
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you know, it's all relative. Jack Hughes does have seven
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points in nine games. He's on pace for, like, 115
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points or something like that if that were to keep
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up over 84. Yeah. Listen, Jack Hughes... is one of
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the best players in the NHL. I mean, he's a
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top 10 forward. There's no denying. And I think he's
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the single best overtime forward in the National Hockey League,
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even more than McDavid. I just, in the Olympics, he
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shut down McDavid and then brought it to the other
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end of the ice and scored. And I think McDavid's
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one of the best players ever. I would never say
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Jack Hughes is better than him. I just think in
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the three-on-three, that mentality, that shiftiness, it favors Jack in
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a lot of ways.
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It's been really cool to watch. Listen, in previous years,
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he had 20 points in his first 10 games, and
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then he's burnt out, gets hurt, whatever. The team falls apart.
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Slow and steady wins the race. I don't care about
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Jack Hughes' point total. I care about the Devils winning. Yeah,
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I'd love to see him be the first player in
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Devils history to score 50 goals or have 100 points.
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One of those two things is going to happen eventually.
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I'm not so sure about 50 goals because I think
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Jack Hughes has a lot of two-way offensive– mindset in
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order to get, you know, 50 goals, he might have
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50 assists, you know, he will, he better have 50 assists,
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but I just think it's not really worried about Jack's
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totals too. And Nico's the same way.
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Yeah.
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Nico's all about playing that two way. Jonathan Taves, Patrice
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Bergeron type play. I'm not saying he's going to be
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like a bonafide hall of famer like those guys. Maybe
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he will be by the time this is all said
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and done. It's not, trending in a completely opposite direction
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of that. He's got 200 goals already in his career.
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I think he's fourth all-time in Devils goal scoring as
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of one of his more recent goals.
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I think if he keeps at the pace he is
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right now, and this is another podcast for another day,
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maybe in the offseason, but if Nico Heischer keeps at
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the pace he is right now and remains the Devils
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captain and wins at least two cups, so say if
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he has about 400 to 450 goals captain of the
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new jersey devils that's patrick elias type territory where you're
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on the fringe of getting into the hockey hall of
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fame it could happen but right now you know in
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my mind you know again i'm not fond of a
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lot of these hockey hall of fame voters especially when
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stan fishler you know the professional hockey writers association and
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i've I've had my grievances, like why isn't Stan Fischler
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in the Hockey Hall of Fame? But yeah, so anyway,
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I just want to tell the YouTubers on the YouTube
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Live to give us your predictions. Give us your predictions
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because we're going to get to that shortly. But really,
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getting back to the game, Vinny, you know, Luke Hughes,
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he's heating up right now. He's having a fast, a
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good start to the season. But today, is he going
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to emerge as that number one defenseman and handle the
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cap size and physicality? That's something, you know, to watch
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today that I think, you know, I'm kind of interested
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to see how he follows up that performance he had
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on Thursday. Does he gain a lot of confidence today?
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In that also the top line, the Jack Hughes line
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with Jesper Bratt and Gritzek, you know, that change that
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Sheldon Keefe. made has made a difference and going back
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to you were saying before now Nick Villano pucks and pitchforks.com
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you know Nick I know Nick he had Greg Wyshynski
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from ESPN on yesterday on the state of the fan
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address that special Friday special that we dropped and I'm
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saying that, you know, McDavid and Leon dry settle on
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three on three, you know, on, on, um, in that overtime,
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I'll tell you what pound for pound brat and, um, uh,
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and Jack, they, they have actually a much lower salary
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cap hit than those two in overtime. That's the kind
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of caliber that the devils have right now. Three on three.
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You may say that, you know, Connor McDavid and Leon
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Drysdale may be better, but a win's a win, and
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they're getting it. So if this is a tight game
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and it goes three on three, my bet's on Jack
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and Jesper Bratt, you know, to get it done and
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possibly Luke, you know, on the blue line. So those
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are some things to look at. Also, you know, the
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special teams, because right now the Devils power play right
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now is at 20%. It's gotten better because they weren't
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scoring in the beginning of the season. But their PK,
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and again, their penalty kill is, you know, well, at
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least it's at 71.4% from what I'm seeing right now
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compared to the Capitals' 83%. Hopefully that starts to rise.
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Hopefully they can get a good streak together. I mean,
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they did have that one five-minute kill the other night, which,
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you know, again, you know, you have to start somewhere. But,
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you know, they got to do better on special teams.
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And if I were to pick and choose which special
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teams I would want to be better, it would be
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the penalty kill, 100% over the power play.
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Yeah, I couldn't agree more because giving up goals, you
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could score goals at even strength. If you give up
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goals on the penalty kill, it's really hard to win
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the game. Yeah. Really hard. And you could score goals
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on the power play, but so can the other team.
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I just, I definitely think being better on the PK
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leads to winning more than being good on the power play.
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Especially when, when you look at the overall makeup of
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the devils, if their penalty kill is strong or if,
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if they're both weak, which one do you think has
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the chance to get better by the personnel they have
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on the team? The answer is the power play because
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they have so much talent. So you'd rather one off
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the bat be strong. It's definitely the penalty kill. Yeah.
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Yeah, absolutely. And, I mean, we can have a podcast
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about this on the Woo Report another day. Do you
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want Jack Hughes and Jesper Brat on the PK? If
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it's late. We can dive deep into it in a
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Woo Report. But if it's late in the PK, 15,
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20 seconds, come back to even strength with them on
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the ice. And they're both fast. They're both smart. So
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I definitely think they're good penalty killers. But in terms
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of wasting their minutes on the PK is probably what
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you mean.
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I'm with you. I wouldn't do it too much if
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they go out there with 20, 30 seconds left and
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use their speed to maybe generate a shorthanded chance or
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be out there when somebody comes out of the box.
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It also might depend on who takes the penalty.
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Or if you're down a goal. Or if you're down
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a goal late in the game.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Because on the PK, the two forwards that are covering
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the points, you want to have kind of like jackrabbits
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up there. The ones that can just have that kind
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of elite speed north-south. and be relentless to the puck,
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and obviously using their stick to clog those passing lanes.
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It's very important. All right, so I'm getting to some
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of these predictions, Vinny, because now they're starting to chime in.
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Selective Boy says, my prediction will be 5-3 Devils with
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an empty net goal. Good prediction. Wimpy says 3-2 Devils overtime.
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He's looking at the overtime angle. Corbin says 4-2 Devils. Devils,
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using emoji. Roman says 4-3 Devils in overtime. Eddie retracted
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his prediction. I don't know why. Lawrence Eck says 4-3
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Devils and Timo gets a goal. Timo Meier. Nick Lavelle
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says 3-2 Devils. See, I'm seeing a lot of confidence
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right now in these Devils fans. Pete says it's going
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to be a tight game. Got Devils 3-2 in overtime.
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Timo breaking out with two goals today. That seems to
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be the sentiment. Eddie put in his prediction 3-2 Devils.
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Let's see here. Also Wimpy commenting that Hudson and Caulfield
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3-on-3 is up there too. Very good point. Very good point.
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Also in the Eastern Conference. Devils in disguise is 4-3
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Devils or maybe 5-3. Tom. Hello, Tom. Good luck, Tom.
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You always bust my chops. I say that he's bad luck.
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So his new nickname is good luck. Tom says four,
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three devils, AJ Visco, the law offices of AJ Visco
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and sons attorneys at law, six, two devils, max is five,
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two Diablos. And also Tom is on the golf course
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about to tee off says LGD Vinny. What is your
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prediction for today?
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I believe the New Jersey Devils will win 4-2. I'm
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kind of in the winning 3-2, throw one into the
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empty net camp.
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Yeah, you know, I wish I said something outrageous because
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we had Keith Cavanaugh on, and he got me all
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into the analytics. So normally my outrageous position, you know
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how I'm always like 9-1 Devils. I had seven in mind,
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like 7-2 Devils. But I went with the conservative route,
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so I'm going to go back to my normal predictions.
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Devils are going to route the Capitals 8-2 tonight.
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Both goals by Ovechkin?
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No, one's Tom Wilson and the other is.
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Chikrin. Okay.
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Yeah. Threw a name out there.
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8-2. Because think about it.
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The Devils are averaging six goals a game. Just under
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six goals a game because they played in overtime. So
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I have no reason to think that they won't put
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up goals. Their offense is clicking right now.
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And, you know, I did see a stat. Again, I
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test versus analytics. I use both. Um, the analytics say
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the devils are incredible at creating offense and they're going
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to score goals. And that did say that their numbers
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look oddly similar to the 22, 23 season. Yeah. And
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then if you remember in the 22, 23 season, they
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also got off to like a 500 medium start in October.
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The difference is that year was coming off a year.
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They won the lottery. You said that I forget what
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the prediction was that they need to go on a
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13 game heater or something for you to be back in.
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And then they did. Wait, I said that? Yeah, you
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said something like, I need to see them win 10
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in a row for me to be back in on
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them being a good team this year. And then they
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won 13 in a row. That season was magic.
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Lisa Drucker says, Sam Kassan, good friend of the podcast,
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reporting that Jake the Snake Allen is your starter for
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your New Jersey Devils. So hopefully that answers Devils in
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Disguise question. Also, AJ Visco thinks maybe Chisholm gets a goal.
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against the former team good point good point good point
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um but yeah vinny it's a bit of fun podcast
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glad to have you this is the first time you
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and i are both in studio because we've been traveling
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like like i woke up this morning i got a
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fresh haircut from connie cuts it looks.
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Looks wonderful thank you yeah do i look like an
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executive you look you look better than wischinski and nick
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villano Thank you. You know what? No offense to them.
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No offense to them. You know what?
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I'm going to take that recording and make a short
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out of it and then tag them, tag them on
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X and be like, that's right. Because like, you know,
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I kind of felt embarrassed. Luckily I was not on
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camera because you know, I, you know, I, I was
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at work and I was producing and all that. So
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I'm producing this podcast and beforehand, you know, in the,
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you know, in the green room, so to speak, they
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were talking about their haircuts and I'm like, I look
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like a fugly, a fugly fan. You know, only fans,
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fugly fans. You know. Fugly fans. That's my new website, fuglyfans.com.
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You know, get paid to look ugly, fugly.
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Yep. I'd purchase your subscription. Yeah, $ 9. 99 a month.
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Anyway. All right. So we're going to get out of here.
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We got Devils After Dark after the game. Vinny, I
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have to talk to you off air. So don't go away.
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And I want to thank all those tuning in. Look,
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the Let's Go Devils podcast, Game Day Live and Devils
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After Dark continues. But yeah, so hitting the music right now.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to everybody.
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Great pregame podcast. Sorry that there was no morning woo.
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I figured, you know what, we can't kind of preempt it.
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But we'll have the morning woo tomorrow. So don't worry
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about that. But we also have Dulles After Dark. It's
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got to get SiriusXM. Liquid Metal. and i will recap
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the game that was thank you thank you thank you
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till next time let's go devils
