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Shemai Powerback Kroysal.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Devil's Debrief.
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After the Devils have beaten the Glasgow clan by two goals to one to make it a four-point weekend as they start their homestand here.
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Dan Ruther, alongside Gareth Ewish and Neil Francis.
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Gaz, what did you make of tonight's game?
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Well, to start with, it was like a mirror of yesterday's game.
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It was a full five minutes where I wasn't allowed to take a breath and have to talk on absolutely everything.
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And I thought the clan came out really quite sharp.
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The forecheck was aggressive, they seemed like they were going to set up well.
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And I think when you get a visiting team here who comes with that energy, we always look to kind of match it.
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So it set up really nicely.
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Um as the game went on, then it felt like uh again quite close.
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Chances more for for us than them.
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But I did feel as as it went on towards the third period.
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Last night Manchester felt like they were going to come back at us a little bit, whereas I felt the clan probably due to you know some of the injury problems recently, I felt they fell away a little bit then more towards the third.
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Yeah, I I will echo that it was quite similar across the two games this weekend.
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There was something I really liked about the Devils game this weekend.
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Um, I I thought we were we were better at managing the puck, which has been my criticism over the split weekends that we've been having, you know, too many sort of careless uh throwaway passes, too many turnovers.
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And I felt that the Devils moved the puck quickly, purposefully, um, relieved pressure when we had to instead of trying to pull one too many moves.
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I think it got us a lot more time in the Ozone.
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Um, so we had a lot more kind of looks at that.
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I thought there was some absolutely unreal playmaking during the weekend.
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The only thing that was missing out of the performance was more goals.
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I felt the whole weekend, both games I felt the devils weren't gonna lose in the game.
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I I didn't, you know, I was confident throughout just the way we were playing, managing the puck.
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Um, the only thing, the only question mark was the goal scoring because you know there was lots of kind of point-blank um shots that didn't go in, especially on the on the Saturday night.
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Um I totally agree with what Paul Thompson said in his interview that creating the chances is the thing that you worry about.
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If you're not doing that, then you've got problems.
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I felt our puck movement and everything, all the chances we were creating was really, really good.
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And if we keep doing that, the goals will come.
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And what I liked was that we were creating chances across all four lines.
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If I think about this weekend, Jake Sacrettini had lots of chances, Ben Davis had lots of chances, you know, Barrow had lots of chances, McDonald, it just straight across the four lines.
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So it's not that we were relying on just one line to try and get us that offensive jump, it was happening across all four.
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So I completely agree.
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In time, that's gotta kick off if someone's in for a hiding.
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If we keep creating that amount of chances in the coming weeks.
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Yeah, I think despite the fact that maybe both games, I wouldn't call them classics, but they they were watchable enough that you could see what the devils wanted to get from them.
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They they, like you say, they're they're a step away from those goals really kicking into gear, which I think is good to see.
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And and yeah, it's good to see that Tom was happy with where the team are at.
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I think I'm really happy with the fact that they've got now that four-point weekend out of the way.
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You know, you go you go the first three without it, and you start to think, when's it gonna come?
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When's it gonna come?
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Are we gonna keep splitting these weekends?
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To get that four-point weekend out of the way, great.
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Great start to the fact as well that you've got five five home games in a row, you get two of them immediately down and you get it settled ahead of next weekend, which is gonna be there's gonna be a lot going on next weekend, a lot of noise around everything.
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So just to be able to get those two wins on the on the board is really good.
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Um, you know, just to isolate a couple of guys from from not only tonight, but from the weekend, but we'll talk about tonight.
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Stover again, really solid.
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I do wish he stopped heading those pucks.
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Please, for the love of God, Stove, stop putting your head in front of pucks because I worry about your sanity and about your safety.
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But um, the the man actually who got man of the match tonight, Cohen Olashevsky, along with Barrow as well, I think was really good.
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But Ollie tonight gets a he gets two points, an assistant, and a power play goal for uh Gaz was really, really good.
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Yeah, he was.
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Ollie was uh uh when Franny mentioned taking the pressure away from us at times.
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I felt Olashevsky was really good at that tonight as well, not just with his goal and his assist.
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He it was sort of an all-action performance.
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You know, we talked last year about that sort of holy trinity of Ferguson Barrow and Olashevsky making lines that they go on better.
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Tonight it felt like Olashevsky was kind of leading that line with Joey and McDonald and dragging them through.
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Um, and another guy I'd probably point out as being really influential tonight was Pan O Mejo as well.
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Um in fact, probably all weekend.
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I just think that the way he plays the game, he simplifies it, he just does every little thing correct, and I think there's a lot to say about that.
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I think we said on the stream a couple of weeks ago, Panu's gonna be that guy at the end of the year.
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We're gonna look at his stats sheet, and we're gonna go, wow, we should sign a guy that has these sort of stats, I guess, face-offs, you know, board battles, all those little things, all those little intangibles that lead to gold.
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And I thought his assist on the power play was great as well.
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Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned Panu because I thought last night he was brilliant.
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I said on the on the stream in the in the summing up that you know he could have had four assists last night.
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You know, he was putting on backdoor chances, and Derrida made some brilliant stops.
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Tonight his assist was absolutely golden.
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It was just so quick on and off his tape uh to Ollie.
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They actually had the same play the night before, um, and it didn't quite go in.
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But uh I I felt that he he drove the team a lot more this weekend, uh, took a lot more responsibility.
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Um you know, he had been carrying injury previous to the weekend.
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Maybe that kind of affected his ability to drive the team, but it certainly didn't affect his ability to do all those little things.
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And I think when you look at great teams, they all have that player that you know, bit that bit of that unsung hero kind of thing, um, where they just make the right decisions, they make good plays, they make hard plays, and you know, Panot does that.
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Uh, you know, I I don't feel he's probably getting the credit that he deserves, um, but I'm sure that will come as the season goes on when you know you realize just what he's putting into this team um night in, night out.
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Yeah, and it was he who fed man of the match, like I said, uh Cohen Olashevsky for the goal on the on the power play tonight, and I caught up with Oli just after the game.
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Ollie, man of the match performance tonight.
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What did you make of that one?
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That was another good one for us.
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I mean, I think we played two really solid games this weekend.
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Um defensively, we were really, really sound.
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I don't think we gave Gabe either team much, so I think that was kind of the the root of our success.
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A goal of the power play for you, and it was a really well-taken one by by all of you.
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Yeah, yeah, that was nice.
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We've been we've been putting a lot of emphasis on uh the power play work.
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Obviously, that was a a theme last year and it's something that we wanted to get ahead of this year.
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So a lot of good practice went into it and good execution and made for a nice play.
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It's been a lot of line mixing over this weekend, you know, owing to guys being out of the lineup.
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And uh have you have you found that challenge, or has that been fun maybe playing with guys you're not normally on a line with?
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Yeah, it's it's a little bit of a challenge.
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Like it's something different.
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It gives uh you know different looks, but at the end of the day, it's it's playing with everybody on this team is is easy and it rolls naturally, and I guess it gives teams different looks.
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So yeah, it's a good thing.
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And two wins to start off the league season.
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That must feel pretty good.
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Yeah, it's a great start.
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I mean, we knew we needed it at home, so hopefully we keep it going.
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Great to hear from Ardeshevsky there after his man of the match performance, and it's great to hear the positivity ringing out about the Devils.
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It's a like we say, a good start to the season.
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Uh, guys, we're just gonna we're we're not we're not gonna dwell too much on tonight.
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Obviously, it's been two games over the weekend, and we've got a bumper episode of Insider coming this week.
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So we'll we'll just uh turn to you both for your final kind of closing statements on tonight.
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Franny, like I said, it's good to get those two wins on the board early, and for the Devils, that sets them up nice enough for next weekend.
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Yeah, league season starts and devils kick off with two wins, so you can't ask for more than that.
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It doesn't matter how we got them.
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But like I said, I was really encouraged by our our style and our play the weekend and the amount of chances we were creating.
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Um, what I did like is we went back to our strength from last year, which was solid, solid defence.
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Across the weekend, you you've got to think we didn't give away that much at all to either team.
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Um, and then not just from that, it's it's taking it's preventing the the grade A chances for other teams, but also then the defense, getting the puck quickly into the hands of the forwards, jumping up and joining the rush and being a part of it.
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And how many times this weekend did we see you know a guy out wide, a net drive, and then one of the D sort of ghost into the slot to get a good chance?
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Yeah, those didn't quite go in over the weekend, but it makes it really hard to play against when you've got multiple options for the puck carrier.
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Um, and I just yeah, I just liked we felt really solid all weekend and very creative.
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Yeah, I would echo all of that.
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I I think I used the word last night and the debrief that I think sums up the weekend after that.
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It's just a togetherness that I felt was in every shift.
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Every time someone went out there, it felt like they were battling for each other.
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Brandt again tonight policing things with uh Sidroff when Emadal uh drilled him in the corner, and you know, it looked for all the the world of Sidroff was uh happy to go until uh Brandt kind of fronted up.
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So I I think stuff like that really highlights to me how this team is thinking about each other and block shots as well.
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I thought there were some huge block shots this week um across both games at key times, just guys willing to do that.
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Um so yeah, togetherness for me is is the the term for this weekend.
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I thought we had it in abundance.
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We did indeed.
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The Devils kick off their homestown with two home wins.
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They win tonight against the Glasgow clan by two goals to one.
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That's all for debrief this evening.
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Like I said, we'll be back with Insider this week.
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We've got two very special guests on that, so we hope you tune in.
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And if not, we'll see you next weekend.
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It's 40th anniversary weekend.
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There's gonna be a lot going on.
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Head on down to the rink.
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If you're not, or if you haven't got any tickets for the games, join us on the stream.
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We'll have plenty of stuff to talk about, I'm sure.
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But yeah, thank you so much for listening tonight.
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We'll see you in the week.
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Nice one.
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See you later.
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Goodbye.
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Shemai Powerback Kroysal.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Devil's Debrief.
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After the Devils have beaten the Glasgow clan by two goals to one to make it a four-point weekend as they start their homestand here.
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Dan Ruther, alongside Gareth Ewish and Neil Francis.
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Gaz, what did you make of tonight's game?
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Well, to start with, it was like a mirror of yesterday's game.
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It was a full five minutes where I wasn't allowed to take a breath and have to talk on absolutely everything.
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And I thought the clan came out really quite sharp.
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The forecheck was aggressive, they seemed like they were going to set up well.
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And I think when you get a visiting team here who comes with that energy, we always look to kind of match it.
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So it set up really nicely.
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Um as the game went on, then it felt like uh again quite close.
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Chances more for for us than them.
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But I did feel as as it went on towards the third period.
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Last night Manchester felt like they were going to come back at us a little bit, whereas I felt the clan probably due to you know some of the injury problems recently, I felt they fell away a little bit then more towards the third.
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Yeah, I I will echo that it was quite similar across the two games this weekend.
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There was something I really liked about the Devils game this weekend.
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Um, I I thought we were we were better at managing the puck, which has been my criticism over the split weekends that we've been having, you know, too many sort of careless uh throwaway passes, too many turnovers.
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And I felt that the Devils moved the puck quickly, purposefully, um, relieved pressure when we had to instead of trying to pull one too many moves.
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I think it got us a lot more time in the Ozone.
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Um, so we had a lot more kind of looks at that.
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I thought there was some absolutely unreal playmaking during the weekend.
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The only thing that was missing out of the performance was more goals.
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I felt the whole weekend, both games I felt the devils weren't gonna lose in the game.
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I I didn't, you know, I was confident throughout just the way we were playing, managing the puck.
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Um, the only thing, the only question mark was the goal scoring because you know there was lots of kind of point-blank um shots that didn't go in, especially on the on the Saturday night.
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Um I totally agree with what Paul Thompson said in his interview that creating the chances is the thing that you worry about.
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If you're not doing that, then you've got problems.
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I felt our puck movement and everything, all the chances we were creating was really, really good.
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And if we keep doing that, the goals will come.
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And what I liked was that we were creating chances across all four lines.
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If I think about this weekend, Jake Sacrettini had lots of chances, Ben Davis had lots of chances, you know, Barrow had lots of chances, McDonald, it just straight across the four lines.
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So it's not that we were relying on just one line to try and get us that offensive jump, it was happening across all four.
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So I completely agree.
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In time, that's gotta kick off if someone's in for a hiding.
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If we keep creating that amount of chances in the coming weeks.
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Yeah, I think despite the fact that maybe both games, I wouldn't call them classics, but they they were watchable enough that you could see what the devils wanted to get from them.
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They they, like you say, they're they're a step away from those goals really kicking into gear, which I think is good to see.
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And and yeah, it's good to see that Tom was happy with where the team are at.
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I think I'm really happy with the fact that they've got now that four-point weekend out of the way.
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You know, you go you go the first three without it, and you start to think, when's it gonna come?
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When's it gonna come?
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Are we gonna keep splitting these weekends?
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To get that four-point weekend out of the way, great.
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Great start to the fact as well that you've got five five home games in a row, you get two of them immediately down and you get it settled ahead of next weekend, which is gonna be there's gonna be a lot going on next weekend, a lot of noise around everything.
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So just to be able to get those two wins on the on the board is really good.
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Um, you know, just to isolate a couple of guys from from not only tonight, but from the weekend, but we'll talk about tonight.
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Stover again, really solid.
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I do wish he stopped heading those pucks.
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Please, for the love of God, Stove, stop putting your head in front of pucks because I worry about your sanity and about your safety.
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But um, the the man actually who got man of the match tonight, Cohen Olashevsky, along with Barrow as well, I think was really good.
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But Ollie tonight gets a he gets two points, an assistant, and a power play goal for uh Gaz was really, really good.
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Yeah, he was.
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Ollie was uh uh when Franny mentioned taking the pressure away from us at times.
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I felt Olashevsky was really good at that tonight as well, not just with his goal and his assist.
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He it was sort of an all-action performance.
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You know, we talked last year about that sort of holy trinity of Ferguson Barrow and Olashevsky making lines that they go on better.
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Tonight it felt like Olashevsky was kind of leading that line with Joey and McDonald and dragging them through.
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Um, and another guy I'd probably point out as being really influential tonight was Pan O Mejo as well.
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Um in fact, probably all weekend.
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I just think that the way he plays the game, he simplifies it, he just does every little thing correct, and I think there's a lot to say about that.
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I think we said on the stream a couple of weeks ago, Panu's gonna be that guy at the end of the year.
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We're gonna look at his stats sheet, and we're gonna go, wow, we should sign a guy that has these sort of stats, I guess, face-offs, you know, board battles, all those little things, all those little intangibles that lead to gold.
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And I thought his assist on the power play was great as well.
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Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned Panu because I thought last night he was brilliant.
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I said on the on the stream in the in the summing up that you know he could have had four assists last night.
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You know, he was putting on backdoor chances, and Derrida made some brilliant stops.
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Tonight his assist was absolutely golden.
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It was just so quick on and off his tape uh to Ollie.
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They actually had the same play the night before, um, and it didn't quite go in.
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But uh I I felt that he he drove the team a lot more this weekend, uh, took a lot more responsibility.
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Um you know, he had been carrying injury previous to the weekend.
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Maybe that kind of affected his ability to drive the team, but it certainly didn't affect his ability to do all those little things.
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And I think when you look at great teams, they all have that player that you know, bit that bit of that unsung hero kind of thing, um, where they just make the right decisions, they make good plays, they make hard plays, and you know, Panot does that.
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Uh, you know, I I don't feel he's probably getting the credit that he deserves, um, but I'm sure that will come as the season goes on when you know you realize just what he's putting into this team um night in, night out.
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Yeah, and it was he who fed man of the match, like I said, uh Cohen Olashevsky for the goal on the on the power play tonight, and I caught up with Oli just after the game.
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Ollie, man of the match performance tonight.
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What did you make of that one?
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That was another good one for us.
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I mean, I think we played two really solid games this weekend.
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Um defensively, we were really, really sound.
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I don't think we gave Gabe either team much, so I think that was kind of the the root of our success.
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A goal of the power play for you, and it was a really well-taken one by by all of you.
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Yeah, yeah, that was nice.
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We've been we've been putting a lot of emphasis on uh the power play work.
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Obviously, that was a a theme last year and it's something that we wanted to get ahead of this year.
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So a lot of good practice went into it and good execution and made for a nice play.
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It's been a lot of line mixing over this weekend, you know, owing to guys being out of the lineup.
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And uh have you have you found that challenge, or has that been fun maybe playing with guys you're not normally on a line with?
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Yeah, it's it's a little bit of a challenge.
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Like it's something different.
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It gives uh you know different looks, but at the end of the day, it's it's playing with everybody on this team is is easy and it rolls naturally, and I guess it gives teams different looks.
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So yeah, it's a good thing.
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And two wins to start off the league season.
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That must feel pretty good.
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Yeah, it's a great start.
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I mean, we knew we needed it at home, so hopefully we keep it going.
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Great to hear from Ardeshevsky there after his man of the match performance, and it's great to hear the positivity ringing out about the Devils.
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It's a like we say, a good start to the season.
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Uh, guys, we're just gonna we're we're not we're not gonna dwell too much on tonight.
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Obviously, it's been two games over the weekend, and we've got a bumper episode of Insider coming this week.
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So we'll we'll just uh turn to you both for your final kind of closing statements on tonight.
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Franny, like I said, it's good to get those two wins on the board early, and for the Devils, that sets them up nice enough for next weekend.
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Yeah, league season starts and devils kick off with two wins, so you can't ask for more than that.
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It doesn't matter how we got them.
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But like I said, I was really encouraged by our our style and our play the weekend and the amount of chances we were creating.
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Um, what I did like is we went back to our strength from last year, which was solid, solid defence.
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Across the weekend, you you've got to think we didn't give away that much at all to either team.
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Um, and then not just from that, it's it's taking it's preventing the the grade A chances for other teams, but also then the defense, getting the puck quickly into the hands of the forwards, jumping up and joining the rush and being a part of it.
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And how many times this weekend did we see you know a guy out wide, a net drive, and then one of the D sort of ghost into the slot to get a good chance?
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Yeah, those didn't quite go in over the weekend, but it makes it really hard to play against when you've got multiple options for the puck carrier.
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Um, and I just yeah, I just liked we felt really solid all weekend and very creative.
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Yeah, I would echo all of that.
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I I think I used the word last night and the debrief that I think sums up the weekend after that.
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It's just a togetherness that I felt was in every shift.
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Every time someone went out there, it felt like they were battling for each other.
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Brandt again tonight policing things with uh Sidroff when Emadal uh drilled him in the corner, and you know, it looked for all the the world of Sidroff was uh happy to go until uh Brandt kind of fronted up.
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So I I think stuff like that really highlights to me how this team is thinking about each other and block shots as well.
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I thought there were some huge block shots this week um across both games at key times, just guys willing to do that.
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Um so yeah, togetherness for me is is the the term for this weekend.
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I thought we had it in abundance.
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We did indeed.
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The Devils kick off their homestown with two home wins.
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They win tonight against the Glasgow clan by two goals to one.
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That's all for debrief this evening.
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Like I said, we'll be back with Insider this week.
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We've got two very special guests on that, so we hope you tune in.
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And if not, we'll see you next weekend.
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It's 40th anniversary weekend.
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There's gonna be a lot going on.
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Head on down to the rink.
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If you're not, or if you haven't got any tickets for the games, join us on the stream.
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We'll have plenty of stuff to talk about, I'm sure.
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But yeah, thank you so much for listening tonight.
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We'll see you in the week.
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Nice one.
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See you later.
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