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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Devil's Debrief after the Devils have beaten the Manchester Storm by four goals to two to kick off their weekend with some Friday night hockey damn rather alongside Gareth Ewish and Neil Francis guys.
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It's great to see you once again.
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Guys, what did you make of that?
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Tough.
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It was a tough uh one to kind of get through because there was just no rhythm to the game, was there?
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It was uh very stop start.
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Uh yeah, it's it's a strange one.
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I can't really put my finger on why because I think both teams came to work hard.
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I I don't think there was a lack of effort there.
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Uh I just there were periods of the game where it just wasn't kind of flowing.
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Uh overall, for me, the devils were you know very much worth the win.
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Uh far more time in the offensive zone cycling, and the bright spots were the offensive time, and you know, that was where the fluidity came from the devils as uh as an offensive threat.
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Uh but yeah, a bit of a strange one, but very happy with the two points.
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Yeah, I think where the rhythm got disrupted was the penalties, um, you know, it was either PKs or PPs.
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So, you know, there wasn't that much five-on-five continuous to get that rhythm going.
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Um, but for me, overall, my summary is I don't think the devils were ever in danger of losing that game.
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I mean, even giving up a goal in the first seven seconds, after that, it was just devils were in control, and I didn't see much threat from Manchester.
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I thought the Devils entered the Manchester D zone quite easily and created chances, and I think, you know, in all honesty, it should have been more than four.
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The Devils, yeah, like you say, they they they they go down early in the game, seven seconds in, and and and I think to to turn it around as quickly as they did, Gaz, but also quite as imperious as they looked in every shift after they conceded was probably credit to the fact that they they they kind of recognized the severity of the situation.
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Yeah, the the reaction to that early goal was fantastic uh from the guys, and uh I think uh I read that that seven seconds is tied with a Cole Sanford goal uh against Coventry in this building um for fastest goal in the league, so we'll have to get verification on that.
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But I think it's uh in and around there, which is an interesting little tidbit.
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Um, but yeah, the the the reaction was great.
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Uh, I thought the power play looked great tonight as well.
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I thought the pack movement was very good there, uh, always looked threatening, got a goal uh from it too.
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And the finishing for all of the goals that uh the Devil scored tonight is some of the prettiest goals uh we've seen it in in a single game for some time.
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Fournier snipe in particular, I thought was a real good shot tonight.
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He would probably have been my man of the match tonight.
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No, no offense to Richie.
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Richie was it was great as usual, but I thought Fawn's was a different level.
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See, my man of the match tonight, I would have given it to Christian Stover.
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And again, that's not taking anything from Richie.
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I think Richie had a brilliant game.
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You know, there's a few others on there, you know, Fawns, like you mentioned, but I thought Stover, considering he hasn't had the full preseason with the injury, um, you know, he's come back, he didn't play last weekend, he's come back in tonight, and he's got a breakaway barreling down on him after seven seconds.
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I mean, that can easily break a goalie.
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And I thought, you know, he showed really good mental resilience on that and made some absolute key stops when the game was still up for grabs, uh, especially in that first period.
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I think there was those two close-in slapshot saves um from Steven Johnson.
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And uh, you know, again in the second period, I thought he made some really big stops.
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So um, yeah, I thought it was a it was a very important game for Christian Stover.
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Yeah, speaking of man of the matches, I think uh it's probably best to hear from the devil's man of the match in the game, and that is Mark Richards, and I caught up with him after the game.
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Richie, man of the match performance tonight.
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What did you make of that?
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Yeah, I thought we played a good game, obviously, uh tough start.
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Um, so I thought we did well to kind of bounce back from that.
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Uh them scrolling really early there.
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Um, yeah, all round I think it was a solid game.
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There was a tough team to play Manchester, you know, they don't stop coming.
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So um, yeah, I think all in all is a good win.
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A bit of a chaotic game, probably, and it takes some white sense, you know for name particularly to get above that.
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Yeah, for sure.
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It was a bit chaotic, you know.
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Obviously, they took a lot of penalties, then we started taking penalties, and there was just kind of a lot going on like that.
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So, yeah, you've got to keep focused, and um, and in the end, I feel like uh we did that.
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It's good to get back in the win column as well.
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You know, you want to go and get two more tomorrow, really get your challenge cup, you know, set.
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Yeah, for sure.
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You know, there's challenge cup, our group, you know, there's no easy games.
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So um every time you get a win, you've just got to keep chipping away and trying to get those points.
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Some block shots tonight, not too sore after that.
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No, that's fine.
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Big thank you to Richie.
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Gaz, I think, you know, we we we look at the guys who were really good tonight.
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Obviously, Stover in net, and you've got to always be pretty calm and composed when you're in the net.
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But then Fournier and Richardson, two very level-headed guys.
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And in a game of chaos, like I said in the interview, you need a bit of that, don't you?
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Yeah, he's always uh keeping a cool head while some people around him lose his Richie's uh so dependable.
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I think he started the season great, though.
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Like it's you always wonder a little bit as players at advance in age a bit, will will Will they lose a little something somewhere?
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Um and I think the thing about Richie is he's never been a speedster.
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That's never been something that he's relied upon.
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It's always been in his head how he sort of arranges things.
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And I just think tonight the reason he got one of the matches a 4-1, 4-2 you want to shut the game down, and there's not been a better player in the Devil's Jersey to do that than Mark Richardson.
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And I just it's composure for me.
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That's the thing that always stands out for Richie is the composure.
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He just when he gets the package, just seems like he's got a million years to do stuff with it just because of how much he's in control of the situation, and uh yeah, I'm pleased he got his recognition really because you know, a lot of the times in uh in Devil's Colours, maybe Richie doesn't get the nod for for things like that for awards like that.
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The the ultimate underrated player at the end of season year awards, isn't he?
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Um yeah, great performance from him tonight, and yeah, he did deserve his awards.
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Franny, uh Richie blocking a fair few shots on the penalty kill, and Devils had to do a lot of that tonight.
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And when you when you do end up in those situations where you're gonna have to kill penalties, having guys like Richardson who are reliable is a really big thing.
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Yeah, uh, and overall I thought the penalty kill was was decent tonight.
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It had to be.
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Um, yes, Manchester got that power play goal at the end, and it was literally uh a bounce over Jimiolini's stick that managed to kind of get to the guy on the um to put it in the empty net there.
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Um, but yeah, I mean Richie does it time after time, and you know, we you know we say he's an unsung hero, but you know, he did get the uh the accolade tonight, and that's ahead of Josh McDonald who got the two goals.
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Um that was great to see, especially how quickly that power play got that uh that first goal.
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Um, some really good puck movement.
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And so I thought, yeah, both special teams were were pretty impressive tonight.
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For Manchester, I was maybe a little bit disappointed and probably wanted to see a little bit more.
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I thought, you know, coming into the game, they they've obviously all the talk over the summer has been about the arena and all that stuff, but but in terms of the on-ice stuff, I was expecting a little bit more from them going forward.
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Yeah, I think they'll reflect back on that game and be disappointed that they didn't offer more.
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Uh, I felt, especially in the first period and and some parts of the second period, the only chances they've got they got was what the devils gifted them, and there was way too much of that.
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As I said on the period breaks on the stream, I thought there was way too much forcing of passes that weren't there, and Manchester sort of capitalized on those to get chances.
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But I thought that was all they had, they didn't really create enough of their own, and I thought at the other end the Devils you know got entry into their zone fairly easily, and and you know that resulted in you know the goals obviously, but also a fair few other chances that that maybe should have been converted.
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So, yeah, I I don't think Manchester, who have had a decent record of coming into this building and giving us a really good game, uh, I don't think they'll be pleased with how they showed up tonight.
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Yeah, I I interviewed Cam Critshaw after the game and he um sort of highlighted that he thought they had a lack of compete tonight, which he didn't feel was characteristic of them.
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And I I agree with that assessment.
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Um I look at Ulette tonight and I I he just didn't have that influence that he usually does uh in a game, whether that be you know either side of the pack, with the pack or without it.
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Um and I think when you've got a guy like that who they look to to try and urge them forward, when he isn't doing that, you're not gonna get guys following after that.
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So yeah, I I totally kind of on board with Cam Critcher's assessment of his team.
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I was surprised at the lack of compete in the store tonight.
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For the Devils, uh, just the last thing we'll touch on tomorrow, up to Guildford, and I think the way they ended that game was good because you can't go into Guildford playing like maybe how they did in the second period, guys.
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No, uh, and it's gonna be a different kind of look to the game uh at the Vindigo last week against the Flames.
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Racine being back in play there, I think, is gonna give the game a whole different look.
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Uh I I love games against the Guildford Flames.
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I I really do.
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It there's just something about them that it they bring out the kind of games that I love.
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Like lots of stuff off the puck, lots of niggles, lots of goals, lots of skill, just a mixed bag of everything.
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But we have to we can't have another split weekend, I don't think.
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I think that'll be a disappointment for for this group to have that.
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So it's it's a really big game tomorrow.
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There's a lot of pressure on it.
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Um and yeah, let's hope we can get the two points.
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Yeah, you're right, Gaza.
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I you know, from from my takeaway from tonight is we can't go into Guildford giving gifting as many chances as I think we gifted Manchester tonight.
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You know, just looking at the shots on goal, Manchester actually managed to outshoot us in that game, despite us saying that we never looked out of control of that game.
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Uh, but you know, we know Guildford have got an offensively talented team, they always have.
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Uh, I think Racine will give them that kind of physical edge that um they they became a better team when he joined last year, didn't they?
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And you know, he was missing in Cardiff, he's back there now.
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He got two goals actually on the Sunday night, just shows his importance to the team.
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And yeah, I I just it needs to be a lot more clinical, I think, is the word that I would use tomorrow in Guildford.
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And I would also like to see us get on the front for early rather than play a road game and try and sort of trap it up because I just don't think that suits us.
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I think we're always best, whether it's home or away, going after the game and taking control.
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We are indeed.
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The Devils face the Guilford Flames tomorrow and night to cap off their weekend.
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They start it though with two points and a victory against the Manchester Storm on Friday night.
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Devils beat Storm 4-2.
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That's all for debrief tonight.
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Thank you, Gaz and Franny, for joining me once again.
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Thank you to Richie for chatting to me after the game.
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It's been great.
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We will be back with Insider in the week.
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Plenty of exciting stuff as part of that, I'm sure.
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And then, of course, it's Friday Night Hockey once again, this Friday coming.
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Nottingham Panthers into town for their first game competitively against the Devils this season.
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So uh I'm sure that'll be a good one.
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But yeah, that's all for tonight.
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Thank you for listening.
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Shamelai Powerback Kroysal.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Devil's Debrief after the Devils have beaten the Manchester Storm by four goals to two to kick off their weekend with some Friday night hockey damn rather alongside Gareth Ewish and Neil Francis guys.
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It's great to see you once again.
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Guys, what did you make of that?
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Tough.
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It was a tough uh one to kind of get through because there was just no rhythm to the game, was there?
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It was uh very stop start.
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Uh yeah, it's it's a strange one.
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I can't really put my finger on why because I think both teams came to work hard.
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I I don't think there was a lack of effort there.
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Uh I just there were periods of the game where it just wasn't kind of flowing.
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Uh overall, for me, the devils were you know very much worth the win.
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Uh far more time in the offensive zone cycling, and the bright spots were the offensive time, and you know, that was where the fluidity came from the devils as uh as an offensive threat.
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Uh but yeah, a bit of a strange one, but very happy with the two points.
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Yeah, I think where the rhythm got disrupted was the penalties, um, you know, it was either PKs or PPs.
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So, you know, there wasn't that much five-on-five continuous to get that rhythm going.
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Um, but for me, overall, my summary is I don't think the devils were ever in danger of losing that game.
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I mean, even giving up a goal in the first seven seconds, after that, it was just devils were in control, and I didn't see much threat from Manchester.
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I thought the Devils entered the Manchester D zone quite easily and created chances, and I think, you know, in all honesty, it should have been more than four.
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The Devils, yeah, like you say, they they they they go down early in the game, seven seconds in, and and and I think to to turn it around as quickly as they did, Gaz, but also quite as imperious as they looked in every shift after they conceded was probably credit to the fact that they they they kind of recognized the severity of the situation.
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Yeah, the the reaction to that early goal was fantastic uh from the guys, and uh I think uh I read that that seven seconds is tied with a Cole Sanford goal uh against Coventry in this building um for fastest goal in the league, so we'll have to get verification on that.
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But I think it's uh in and around there, which is an interesting little tidbit.
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Um, but yeah, the the the reaction was great.
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Uh, I thought the power play looked great tonight as well.
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I thought the pack movement was very good there, uh, always looked threatening, got a goal uh from it too.
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And the finishing for all of the goals that uh the Devil scored tonight is some of the prettiest goals uh we've seen it in in a single game for some time.
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Fournier snipe in particular, I thought was a real good shot tonight.
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He would probably have been my man of the match tonight.
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No, no offense to Richie.
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Richie was it was great as usual, but I thought Fawn's was a different level.
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See, my man of the match tonight, I would have given it to Christian Stover.
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And again, that's not taking anything from Richie.
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I think Richie had a brilliant game.
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You know, there's a few others on there, you know, Fawns, like you mentioned, but I thought Stover, considering he hasn't had the full preseason with the injury, um, you know, he's come back, he didn't play last weekend, he's come back in tonight, and he's got a breakaway barreling down on him after seven seconds.
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I mean, that can easily break a goalie.
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And I thought, you know, he showed really good mental resilience on that and made some absolute key stops when the game was still up for grabs, uh, especially in that first period.
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I think there was those two close-in slapshot saves um from Steven Johnson.
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And uh, you know, again in the second period, I thought he made some really big stops.
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So um, yeah, I thought it was a it was a very important game for Christian Stover.
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Yeah, speaking of man of the matches, I think uh it's probably best to hear from the devil's man of the match in the game, and that is Mark Richards, and I caught up with him after the game.
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Richie, man of the match performance tonight.
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What did you make of that?
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Yeah, I thought we played a good game, obviously, uh tough start.
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Um, so I thought we did well to kind of bounce back from that.
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Uh them scrolling really early there.
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Um, yeah, all round I think it was a solid game.
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There was a tough team to play Manchester, you know, they don't stop coming.
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So um, yeah, I think all in all is a good win.
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A bit of a chaotic game, probably, and it takes some white sense, you know for name particularly to get above that.
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Yeah, for sure.
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It was a bit chaotic, you know.
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Obviously, they took a lot of penalties, then we started taking penalties, and there was just kind of a lot going on like that.
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So, yeah, you've got to keep focused, and um, and in the end, I feel like uh we did that.
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It's good to get back in the win column as well.
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You know, you want to go and get two more tomorrow, really get your challenge cup, you know, set.
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Yeah, for sure.
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You know, there's challenge cup, our group, you know, there's no easy games.
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So um every time you get a win, you've just got to keep chipping away and trying to get those points.
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Some block shots tonight, not too sore after that.
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No, that's fine.
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Big thank you to Richie.
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Gaz, I think, you know, we we we look at the guys who were really good tonight.
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Obviously, Stover in net, and you've got to always be pretty calm and composed when you're in the net.
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But then Fournier and Richardson, two very level-headed guys.
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And in a game of chaos, like I said in the interview, you need a bit of that, don't you?
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Yeah, he's always uh keeping a cool head while some people around him lose his Richie's uh so dependable.
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I think he started the season great, though.
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Like it's you always wonder a little bit as players at advance in age a bit, will will Will they lose a little something somewhere?
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Um and I think the thing about Richie is he's never been a speedster.
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That's never been something that he's relied upon.
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It's always been in his head how he sort of arranges things.
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And I just think tonight the reason he got one of the matches a 4-1, 4-2 you want to shut the game down, and there's not been a better player in the Devil's Jersey to do that than Mark Richardson.
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And I just it's composure for me.
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That's the thing that always stands out for Richie is the composure.
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He just when he gets the package, just seems like he's got a million years to do stuff with it just because of how much he's in control of the situation, and uh yeah, I'm pleased he got his recognition really because you know, a lot of the times in uh in Devil's Colours, maybe Richie doesn't get the nod for for things like that for awards like that.
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The the ultimate underrated player at the end of season year awards, isn't he?
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Um yeah, great performance from him tonight, and yeah, he did deserve his awards.
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Franny, uh Richie blocking a fair few shots on the penalty kill, and Devils had to do a lot of that tonight.
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And when you when you do end up in those situations where you're gonna have to kill penalties, having guys like Richardson who are reliable is a really big thing.
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Yeah, uh, and overall I thought the penalty kill was was decent tonight.
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It had to be.
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Um, yes, Manchester got that power play goal at the end, and it was literally uh a bounce over Jimiolini's stick that managed to kind of get to the guy on the um to put it in the empty net there.
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Um, but yeah, I mean Richie does it time after time, and you know, we you know we say he's an unsung hero, but you know, he did get the uh the accolade tonight, and that's ahead of Josh McDonald who got the two goals.
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Um that was great to see, especially how quickly that power play got that uh that first goal.
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Um, some really good puck movement.
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And so I thought, yeah, both special teams were were pretty impressive tonight.
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For Manchester, I was maybe a little bit disappointed and probably wanted to see a little bit more.
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I thought, you know, coming into the game, they they've obviously all the talk over the summer has been about the arena and all that stuff, but but in terms of the on-ice stuff, I was expecting a little bit more from them going forward.
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Yeah, I think they'll reflect back on that game and be disappointed that they didn't offer more.
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Uh, I felt, especially in the first period and and some parts of the second period, the only chances they've got they got was what the devils gifted them, and there was way too much of that.
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As I said on the period breaks on the stream, I thought there was way too much forcing of passes that weren't there, and Manchester sort of capitalized on those to get chances.
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But I thought that was all they had, they didn't really create enough of their own, and I thought at the other end the Devils you know got entry into their zone fairly easily, and and you know that resulted in you know the goals obviously, but also a fair few other chances that that maybe should have been converted.
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So, yeah, I I don't think Manchester, who have had a decent record of coming into this building and giving us a really good game, uh, I don't think they'll be pleased with how they showed up tonight.
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Yeah, I I interviewed Cam Critshaw after the game and he um sort of highlighted that he thought they had a lack of compete tonight, which he didn't feel was characteristic of them.
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And I I agree with that assessment.
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Um I look at Ulette tonight and I I he just didn't have that influence that he usually does uh in a game, whether that be you know either side of the pack, with the pack or without it.
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Um and I think when you've got a guy like that who they look to to try and urge them forward, when he isn't doing that, you're not gonna get guys following after that.
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So yeah, I I totally kind of on board with Cam Critcher's assessment of his team.
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I was surprised at the lack of compete in the store tonight.
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For the Devils, uh, just the last thing we'll touch on tomorrow, up to Guildford, and I think the way they ended that game was good because you can't go into Guildford playing like maybe how they did in the second period, guys.
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No, uh, and it's gonna be a different kind of look to the game uh at the Vindigo last week against the Flames.
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Racine being back in play there, I think, is gonna give the game a whole different look.
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Uh I I love games against the Guildford Flames.
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I I really do.
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It there's just something about them that it they bring out the kind of games that I love.
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Like lots of stuff off the puck, lots of niggles, lots of goals, lots of skill, just a mixed bag of everything.
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But we have to we can't have another split weekend, I don't think.
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I think that'll be a disappointment for for this group to have that.
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So it's it's a really big game tomorrow.
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There's a lot of pressure on it.
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Um and yeah, let's hope we can get the two points.
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Yeah, you're right, Gaza.
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I you know, from from my takeaway from tonight is we can't go into Guildford giving gifting as many chances as I think we gifted Manchester tonight.
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You know, just looking at the shots on goal, Manchester actually managed to outshoot us in that game, despite us saying that we never looked out of control of that game.
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Uh, but you know, we know Guildford have got an offensively talented team, they always have.
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Uh, I think Racine will give them that kind of physical edge that um they they became a better team when he joined last year, didn't they?
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And you know, he was missing in Cardiff, he's back there now.
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He got two goals actually on the Sunday night, just shows his importance to the team.
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And yeah, I I just it needs to be a lot more clinical, I think, is the word that I would use tomorrow in Guildford.
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And I would also like to see us get on the front for early rather than play a road game and try and sort of trap it up because I just don't think that suits us.
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I think we're always best, whether it's home or away, going after the game and taking control.
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We are indeed.
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The Devils face the Guilford Flames tomorrow and night to cap off their weekend.
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They start it though with two points and a victory against the Manchester Storm on Friday night.
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Devils beat Storm 4-2.
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That's all for debrief tonight.
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Thank you, Gaz and Franny, for joining me once again.
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Thank you to Richie for chatting to me after the game.
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It's been great.
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We will be back with Insider in the week.
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Plenty of exciting stuff as part of that, I'm sure.
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And then, of course, it's Friday Night Hockey once again, this Friday coming.
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Nottingham Panthers into town for their first game competitively against the Devils this season.
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So uh I'm sure that'll be a good one.
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But yeah, that's all for tonight.
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Thank you for listening.
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We will catch you very soon.
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