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Rise and shine. This is The Morning Wood Company, live
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Actually we're not on it. I don't know what happened.
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It says we're streaming on my computer, but I don't
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see the posts. And sometimes these technical issues happen from
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time to time, folks. Nothing we can do about it.
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Sometimes other locations where we stream just simply doesn't work.
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Don't know why. But we're live live right now the
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YouTube live. I see years of John, I see Wimpy
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Maria Metalander, and let's see. Well, we'll talk a little
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bit about Jack Hughes because the title of today's podcast
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is better be on Time, and we'll get to that
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a little bit later in the program. I see Pete
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m chiming in all that. So let's talk a little
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bit about Olympics. Wow, the dominant of Team USA women's
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ice hockey should be noted that they are just absolutely
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blowing through the preliminaries through the tournament. Right now, shutting
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out Canada yesterday five nothing unbelievable start outscoring their opponents
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twenty to one so far at the Winter Olympics. Just
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absolute dominance. And ice hockey has come a long way
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in the United States, let me tell you. I mean,
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when the nineteen eighty team beat the Soviets won gold
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in Lake Plas, last time the men's ice hockey team
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has won gold, they opened the doors ice in the
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United States because you know, it was primarily you know,
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the Canadians and the Soviets and the Eastern European countries,
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but the United States always struggled at ice hockey back
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in those days, or at least on the world stage.
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But now the teams that the United States are putting
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out on the ice, both men's and women's, they just
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blew down that door. Just actually blew down that door.
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And it's gonna be fun to watch the rest of
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the way that the women's the men's teams that saw
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that the men's teams were a lot of the players
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were watching the games, watching the women's teams play yesterday,
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and I think it's a good thing. I think it's
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a real good thing. And I'm just loving the international competition,
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and I'm really enjoying just the whole Olympic spirit. You know,
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we talked about those that are playing at the Games,
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like Lindsay Vaughn, uh you know again to her acm
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now has two broken up, you know, broke her leg
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in two different places, surgery after surgery, you know, the
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the love of the game, the tragic story of one
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of the men's figure skaters whose parents died in the
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playing crash about a year and a half. It's not
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even a year and a half, but uh, last year
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in January, and skating in the Olympics. The quad god, okay,
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the quad god. Another Olympics men's skater for the United
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States h outperforming the competition yesterday. So I'm really enjoying
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the Olympics so far. Watched a little bit of the luge,
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watched a little bit of the speed skating, which they're
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just absolutely just insane. Curling men's and women's mixed doubles,
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I believe got silver for Team USA, but they were
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able to beat Italy in a semi finals round. Again,
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I just love the competition. I love the attention, the details,
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I love the tears at the end, whether it's good
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or bad when you finish a race because you want
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it more. You want it more, and that's the Olympic
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spirit that drives fans to be watching these games. On
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another note, let's switch back to the NHL. Let's switch
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back to Devil's Hockey. And I posted it on my
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X account at Primetime Sam Wu Christie Flannery's interview with
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Brett Pesci. You could go on my x account and
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it's there. It's probably on the top of the feed.
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Christy Flannery, good friend of the podcast Other Hockey News.
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The articles it's called Devil's Dish. Brett Pesci reveals which
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teammates are most likely. So you go through this article
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and I'll let you go through that article. And one
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thing in particular kind of irked me. And we've been
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saying it all along. We've been saying it all along
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about this New Jersey Devil's team, the lack of discipline,
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the lack of leadership, bad habits. But this one, I'll
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read this out loud again. You could go find it
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on the Hockey News. Christy Flannery her interview with Brett Peschi.
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One of the questions she asked Brett Peschie was which
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teammate is most likely to show up late to an event,
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And then there's an editors note. Prior to Pesci responding
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to this question, I revealed that Luke Hughes was the
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original answer to this question, but Pesci says, I will
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go with Jack Hughes and then pause for three seconds
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of silence, file by ten seconds of laughter. I feel
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like he has been late to a few things in
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the past, so I feel like sometimes guys are just
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used to it. Then asked the Hockey News asked, do
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Jack and Luke carpool together two events? Oh? Yeah, they
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will be the last ones there. Okay, I don't want
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to make such a big deal of this, but it's
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the little things that count. I can tell you can't
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build a winning team if the two players that are
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on top of your payroll and the marquis face of
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your franchise, the faces of the franchise are late to
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these fan events. I'm assuming I would assume they're late
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to practice as well. Reading between the lines, but I'm assuming,
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so don't hold me to it. But I am assuming
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that's a problem. That is a big problem for any organization.
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Showing up on time is a prerequisite to success, you
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prefer to show up early. If you're showing up late
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to a fan event where the fans not only pay
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money to come see you, but you're late, in my mind,
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that is disrespectful. And the way it came off in
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the Peshi interview was this is not the first time.
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It's you know, it's never okay to be late, but
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every once in a while it's understandable. Right, you try
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to hold yourself to be a professional. Okay, a professional?
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What do professional no hockey players do? They show up
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on time no matter what, and they play the part.
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And if you can't do that for the fans, especially
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to sweep the deck, which is a charity event, which
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is about eight hundred dollars, what minimum for fans to pay.
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I know it's charity, but to come to see you.
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You could at least have the decency to show up
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on time. And that's a problem off the ice. Is
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it a problem on the ice? What if you're a
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teammate of Jack and Luke? How would you feel if
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you're doing the right things but the star players on
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the teams are not doing the right things like showing
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up on time, and they're not being held accountable. Do
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you know what that causes? That causes resentment, that causes
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a dysfunctional locker room. Again, every thing counts, every little bit.
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These things count. Think of in your work life when
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you go to work, everybody has that co worker that
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never shows up on time, always gets away with stuff.
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But somehow you're held accountable even though you do the
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right things. But that one co worker that you always
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have to make up the difference for their tardiness lackadaisicalness,
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and somehow you're holding the bag and getting paid less
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than that coworker that never shows up on time or
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calls out sick conveniently when things are bad at work.
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I'm just trying to dumb it down to the point
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this cannot happen. Metelanders says, people pay to see me
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play quote from Jack Hughes. If you remember that episode
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and years of John, That's what I've been saying. The
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ownership has given them the keys to the organization. We've
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been saying this all along on the podcast. I completely
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agree with you. Pete says, I was raised. If you're
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not ready to go for whatever fifteen minutes early, you're late,
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whether it's hockey, wrestling, baseball, dance. Any successful organization has discipline.
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You know, it's a team concept. Everybody show up on time.
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Now there are some people out there that don't think
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it's a big deal. Well, those are the people that
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are not successful. And if you want to build a
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championship team, you have to have your leaders lead by example.
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I'm sure Niko Heisher is on time. I'm sure the
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rest of the guys are on time. But it's just
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amazing how Brett Peshi put that in an interview. And
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I think we've been saying it all along. And you
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know who said it first. Really you guessed that Travis
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Green when he said that they're immature. Well, that's an
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immature thing to do, you know. And I don't want
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to keep on harping on the Hughes brothers, but when
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you're losing and you're trying to figure out why with
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all this talent, there you go, there you go, yours
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of John says that's part of the divide in the
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locker room. Not likely. Whibby says his on ice play
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isn't much of a problem to me. The character is
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a problem. And of course the injuries, well the injuries,
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to be fair, to be fair, let's let's not go
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there just yet. All right. You know, freak accidents happened,
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But you know, I think the lack of effort on
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Jack's part. He could have played that game if he
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wanted to. I'm not saying he should have. I'm just saying, well, no,
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I am saying they should have. Because you're leaving for
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the Olympic break and you're telling us that you can't play.
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But now all of a sudden, miraculously you can practice,
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and miraculously you may be then the lineup. Roman says,
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the margin in the NHL is so thin. Championship teams
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are the best at everything. No team with huge brothers
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will ever make it to the conference finals. Well, I
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would even further that argument. No team with the huge
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brothers not held accountable will ever make it to a
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conference final. Accountabilities everything here. But the problem is Tom
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Fitzgerald has backed himself into a corner. He doesn't have
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the leverage here because the Huge brothers can do whatever
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they want. They could do whatever they want. What are
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you going to do about it? There was a show,
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a podcast, you know, I forgot the name of it,
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but said it best. It's right now you backed yourself
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in the situation with the cap situation where you're kind
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of like, you know, living paycheck to paycheck, You're living
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day to day with his cap situation that Tom Fitzgerald's
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backed himself in. You've got your two best players, one
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of your two top players, Jack Hughes and Luke Hughes
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again not performing to their potential. You asked Dougie Hamilton
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if you if you want to be traded or we
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want to trade you. But if Dougie Hamilton is showing
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up on time and Tuggy Hamilton, yeah, sure he makes
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nine million AAV. But if he's doing all the right things,
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and yeah, I'm sure the performance is not there, but
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neither is Luke's or Jacks. Why should he have to go?
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Or even Pallot for that matter, Yes, Pilot's numbers were bad,
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but if Polot was showing up to practice and leading
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by example all the time, you have to reward good behavior.
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You have to reward good behavior. And I hate to
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say it, you know, unless the Hughes brothers figure this
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thing out quickly, you might as well ship him out.
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And I hate to say it, because I there's one
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thing I a pet peeve of mine that I cannot
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stand is when people are late and they know they
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shouldn't be. You know, of course things happen, you get
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stuck in traffic. I get it, But when it becomes
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a habit, itf fects everybody else in the room. And
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you know, and that's what I got out of Christie's article.
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I I do interview. Go to the Hockey News Christy Flannery,
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go to her X account at NHL's stiletto Stilettos on
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X you'll find her. But I thought that was kind
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of I know, Patty was laughing about it, and I
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know that, uh, you know, as he was saying it,
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but I think he was also sending a signal as
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well to the fans, like this is what's happening, and
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this is not good. This is not good. I know
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it's just an event, but you know. And again, fans
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have told me that Jack and Luke travel together and
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at the end of the game they don't sign autographs
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for fans, and not that they should be obligated to,
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but they blow by everybody while the other players are
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signing autographs for fans. Just remember who who pays the
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bills and where that money comes from. And I think
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this entitlemental entitlement mentality that seems to be in the
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locker room is what's destroying the New Jersey Devils. Here's
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the John says, I think it's a big deal. It's
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the small details that build character and accountability. I hate
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harping on too, but there are multiple sources calling out
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Jack and Peshi and Rup. Oh absolutely absolutely, you know,
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and you know this can't You can't build a successful
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organization and get paid that much money. Jay Snows says,
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Luke worries me more than Jack. The fact that the
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scouts think that Luke will have a short career because
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of injuries his entire life is a huge problem. I'm
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not sure about that, but I'll take your word for it.
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U p DP four eight says Jack is going to
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be embarrassing at the Olympics. I kind of disagree with
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you there, but again, you got to play the games
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to really know. But you know, I was watching Jack
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Hughes interviews at the Olympics. He was a good interview.
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wants to again. Metalanders says, all have no movement clauses unmovable, unmovable. Well,
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when you make when you make players lives a living hell,
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they can be movable. They definitely can be. Let's see
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here dag far hands at early morning WU. Well, not exactly,
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it's eight thirty two pm Eastern. Also, no regrets on
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draft of them. It's how this organization developed talent and character. Yeah,
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we've talked about it. There's a systemic problem with the
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New Jersey Devils. This ownership group doesn't know how to
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put a winning team together. And that's just affecting everything.
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That's it's it's it's something that you know, really they didn't.
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to grow up. And that's where the immaturity lies. And
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you're in You're not in New York, but you're in
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New Jersey. Jersey people can spot a phony. Jersey people
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demand respect. Jersey people will give respect when they are respected.
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And again, Luke getting booed, some of it justified some
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of it. Not Jack again, Uh, wouldn't address the fans.
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A simple question from Danielle McCartin and saying I have
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nothing to say to them, and of course Devil social
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media has to, like, you know, put more gas on
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the fire by cropping out Quinn. I get it, it's
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an inside joke. I get it. But learn how to
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read the room. At the same time, season ticket holders,
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have you gotten your renewals? Tom was telling me originally
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that there would be a price increase with these renewals,
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but they kind of held back. Normally they have those
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renewals out by mid January, end of January. Now it's
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about mid February. They sent out the renewals. No changing
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price at least on my end or on Tom's end,
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that you decided not to increase the ticket prices based
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on principle, based on the fact that this team sucks
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right now. And I'm sure the Devil's management have been
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overwhelmed with complaints from Devils fans across the board, and
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because of that they decided not to raise the ticket prices.
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As that was a very very smart move. I can
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only speak for myself and Tom, because we talked. There
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was an extra game that was added on to the package,
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but other than that, prices stayed the same. Uh, Felix says,
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FITZI will not make the guys live and living. Hell,
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we need a guy like Lou or Lou himself. Oh yeah,
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Fitzi's just too nice. He is too nice. And with
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the twenty five games that the Devils have remaining, you
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know again, they're they're gonna have to I don't think
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winning twenty games, They're gonna gonna do it. Twenty games
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will probably get you to the ninety eight point mark.
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Right now, the Devils have to go what twenty one
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and four in order to make the playoffs. And I
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love barring it any miracle or them streaking. It's just
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simply not going to happen anyway. All Right, Well that's all,
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folks for the morning. WU one hundred and thirty straight
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days of this fine programming. And yeah, we talked more
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Devil's Hockey today. Also Mets baseball, Mets making a couple
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of transactions. Also, Juan Sota will be in left field,
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so going back to his natural position, Juan Soto. And yeah,
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so I'm gonna get out of here. Lots to do today,
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Lots to do. Let's do the ceremonial sip to the
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people that show up on time. I salute you, because,
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for whatever reason, people have excuses why they don't show
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up on time, and they go to extremes to tell
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you why they show up on time. And in my
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personal life, I fired a lot of people for not
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showing up on time. It's disrespectful and you can't build
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a successful organization when you can't do one of the
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most basic things, be on time. Leave a little early anyway,
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peace out. The ceremonial sip to those that show up
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on time, I salute you till next time. This is
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the morning woo, let's go devils.
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Pretty bready bread, A pretty morning, O morning, my morning?
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Or will I love you and I need you morning.
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Oh well, I love you. I won't you mon.
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Rise and shine. This is The Morning Wood Company, live
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live from undisclosed office location in New Brunswick, New Jersey,
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screaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live, x Live, Twitch
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and now on Instagram live on the Let's Go Devil's Network.
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Actually we're not on it. I don't know what happened.
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see the posts. And sometimes these technical issues happen from
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time to time, folks. Nothing we can do about it.
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Don't know why. But we're live live right now the
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YouTube live. I see years of John, I see Wimpy
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Maria Metalander, and let's see. Well, we'll talk a little
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bit about Jack Hughes because the title of today's podcast
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is better be on Time, and we'll get to that
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a little bit later in the program. I see Pete
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m chiming in all that. So let's talk a little
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bit about Olympics. Wow, the dominant of Team USA women's
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ice hockey should be noted that they are just absolutely
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blowing through the preliminaries through the tournament. Right now, shutting
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out Canada yesterday five nothing unbelievable start outscoring their opponents
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twenty to one so far at the Winter Olympics. Just
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absolute dominance. And ice hockey has come a long way
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in the United States, let me tell you. I mean,
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when the nineteen eighty team beat the Soviets won gold
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in Lake Plas, last time the men's ice hockey team
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has won gold, they opened the doors ice in the
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United States because you know, it was primarily you know,
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the Canadians and the Soviets and the Eastern European countries,
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but the United States always struggled at ice hockey back
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in those days, or at least on the world stage.
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out on the ice, both men's and women's, they just
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blew down that door. Just actually blew down that door.
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the way that the women's the men's teams that saw
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that the men's teams were a lot of the players
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were watching the games, watching the women's teams play yesterday,
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a real good thing. And I'm just loving the international competition,
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and I'm really enjoying just the whole Olympic spirit. You know,
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we talked about those that are playing at the Games,
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like Lindsay Vaughn, uh you know again to her acm
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now has two broken up, you know, broke her leg
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in two different places, surgery after surgery, you know, the
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the love of the game, the tragic story of one
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of the men's figure skaters whose parents died in the
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playing crash about a year and a half. It's not
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even a year and a half, but uh, last year
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in January, and skating in the Olympics. The quad god, okay,
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the quad god. Another Olympics men's skater for the United
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States h outperforming the competition yesterday. So I'm really enjoying
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the Olympics so far. Watched a little bit of the luge,
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watched a little bit of the speed skating, which they're
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just absolutely just insane. Curling men's and women's mixed doubles,
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I believe got silver for Team USA, but they were
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able to beat Italy in a semi finals round. Again,
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it more. You want it more, and that's the Olympic
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spirit that drives fans to be watching these games. On
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another note, let's switch back to the NHL. Let's switch
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back to Devil's Hockey. And I posted it on my
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X account at Primetime Sam Wu Christie Flannery's interview with
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Brett Pesci. You could go on my x account and
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it's there. It's probably on the top of the feed.
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Christy Flannery, good friend of the podcast Other Hockey News.
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The articles it's called Devil's Dish. Brett Pesci reveals which
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teammates are most likely. So you go through this article
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thing in particular kind of irked me. And we've been
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saying it all along. We've been saying it all along
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about this New Jersey Devil's team, the lack of discipline,
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the lack of leadership, bad habits. But this one, I'll
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read this out loud again. You could go find it
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on the Hockey News. Christy Flannery her interview with Brett Peschi.
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teammate is most likely to show up late to an event,
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to this question, I revealed that Luke Hughes was the
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original answer to this question, but Pesci says, I will
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go with Jack Hughes and then pause for three seconds
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of silence, file by ten seconds of laughter. I feel
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like he has been late to a few things in
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the past, so I feel like sometimes guys are just
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used to it. Then asked the Hockey News asked, do
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Jack and Luke carpool together two events? Oh? Yeah, they
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will be the last ones there. Okay, I don't want
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to make such a big deal of this, but it's
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the little things that count. I can tell you can't
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build a winning team if the two players that are
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on top of your payroll and the marquis face of
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your franchise, the faces of the franchise are late to
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these fan events. I'm assuming I would assume they're late
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to practice as well. Reading between the lines, but I'm assuming,
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so don't hold me to it. But I am assuming
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that's a problem. That is a big problem for any organization.
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Showing up on time is a prerequisite to success, you
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prefer to show up early. If you're showing up late
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to a fan event where the fans not only pay
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money to come see you, but you're late, in my mind,
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that is disrespectful. And the way it came off in
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the Peshi interview was this is not the first time.
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every once in a while it's understandable. Right, you try
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to hold yourself to be a professional. Okay, a professional?
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What do professional no hockey players do? They show up
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on time no matter what, and they play the part.
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to sweep the deck, which is a charity event, which
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is about eight hundred dollars, what minimum for fans to pay.
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I know it's charity, but to come to see you.
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You could at least have the decency to show up
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on time. And that's a problem off the ice. Is
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it a problem on the ice? What if you're a
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teammate of Jack and Luke? How would you feel if
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you're doing the right things but the star players on
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the teams are not doing the right things like showing
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up on time, and they're not being held accountable. Do
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you know what that causes? That causes resentment, that causes
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a dysfunctional locker room. Again, every thing counts, every little bit.
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you go to work, everybody has that co worker that
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never shows up on time, always gets away with stuff.
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right things. But that one co worker that you always
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have to make up the difference for their tardiness lackadaisicalness,
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and somehow you're holding the bag and getting paid less
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than that coworker that never shows up on time or
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calls out sick conveniently when things are bad at work.
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I'm just trying to dumb it down to the point
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this cannot happen. Metelanders says, people pay to see me
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play quote from Jack Hughes. If you remember that episode
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and years of John, That's what I've been saying. The
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ownership has given them the keys to the organization. We've
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been saying this all along on the podcast. I completely
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agree with you. Pete says, I was raised. If you're
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not ready to go for whatever fifteen minutes early, you're late,
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whether it's hockey, wrestling, baseball, dance. Any successful organization has discipline.
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it's a big deal. Well, those are the people that
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are not successful. And if you want to build a
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championship team, you have to have your leaders lead by example.
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I'm sure Niko Heisher is on time. I'm sure the
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rest of the guys are on time. But it's just
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amazing how Brett Peshi put that in an interview. And
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I think we've been saying it all along. And you
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know who said it first. Really you guessed that Travis
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Green when he said that they're immature. Well, that's an
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immature thing to do, you know. And I don't want
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to keep on harping on the Hughes brothers, but when
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you're losing and you're trying to figure out why with
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all this talent, there you go, there you go, yours
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of John says that's part of the divide in the
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locker room. Not likely. Whibby says his on ice play
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isn't much of a problem to me. The character is
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a problem. And of course the injuries, well the injuries,
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to be fair, to be fair, let's let's not go
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there just yet. All right. You know, freak accidents happened,
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But you know, I think the lack of effort on
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Jack's part. He could have played that game if he
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wanted to. I'm not saying he should have. I'm just saying, well, no,
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I am saying they should have. Because you're leaving for
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the Olympic break and you're telling us that you can't play.
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But now all of a sudden, miraculously you can practice,
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and miraculously you may be then the lineup. Roman says,
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the margin in the NHL is so thin. Championship teams
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are the best at everything. No team with huge brothers
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will ever make it to the conference finals. Well, I
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would even further that argument. No team with the huge
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brothers not held accountable will ever make it to a
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conference final. Accountabilities everything here. But the problem is Tom
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Fitzgerald has backed himself into a corner. He doesn't have
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the leverage here because the Huge brothers can do whatever
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they want. They could do whatever they want. What are
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you going to do about it? There was a show,
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a podcast, you know, I forgot the name of it,
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but said it best. It's right now you backed yourself
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in the situation with the cap situation where you're kind
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of like, you know, living paycheck to paycheck, You're living
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day to day with his cap situation that Tom Fitzgerald's
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backed himself in. You've got your two best players, one
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of your two top players, Jack Hughes and Luke Hughes
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again not performing to their potential. You asked Dougie Hamilton
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if you if you want to be traded or we
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want to trade you. But if Dougie Hamilton is showing
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up on time and Tuggy Hamilton, yeah, sure he makes
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nine million AAV. But if he's doing all the right things,
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and yeah, I'm sure the performance is not there, but
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neither is Luke's or Jacks. Why should he have to go?
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Or even Pallot for that matter, Yes, Pilot's numbers were bad,
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but if Polot was showing up to practice and leading
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by example all the time, you have to reward good behavior.
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You have to reward good behavior. And I hate to
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say it, you know, unless the Hughes brothers figure this
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thing out quickly, you might as well ship him out.
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And I hate to say it, because I there's one
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thing I a pet peeve of mine that I cannot
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stand is when people are late and they know they
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shouldn't be. You know, of course things happen, you get
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stuck in traffic. I get it, But when it becomes
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a habit, itf fects everybody else in the room. And
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you know, and that's what I got out of Christie's article.
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I I do interview. Go to the Hockey News Christy Flannery,
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go to her X account at NHL's stiletto Stilettos on
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X you'll find her. But I thought that was kind
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of I know, Patty was laughing about it, and I
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know that, uh, you know, as he was saying it,
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but I think he was also sending a signal as
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well to the fans, like this is what's happening, and
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this is not good. This is not good. I know
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it's just an event, but you know. And again, fans
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have told me that Jack and Luke travel together and
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at the end of the game they don't sign autographs
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for fans, and not that they should be obligated to,
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but they blow by everybody while the other players are
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signing autographs for fans. Just remember who who pays the
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bills and where that money comes from. And I think
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this entitlemental entitlement mentality that seems to be in the
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locker room is what's destroying the New Jersey Devils. Here's
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the John says, I think it's a big deal. It's
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the small details that build character and accountability. I hate
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harping on too, but there are multiple sources calling out
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Jack and Peshi and Rup. Oh absolutely absolutely, you know,
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and you know this can't You can't build a successful
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organization and get paid that much money. Jay Snows says,
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Luke worries me more than Jack. The fact that the
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scouts think that Luke will have a short career because
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of injuries his entire life is a huge problem. I'm
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not sure about that, but I'll take your word for it.
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U p DP four eight says Jack is going to
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be embarrassing at the Olympics. I kind of disagree with
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you there, but again, you got to play the games
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to really know. But you know, I was watching Jack
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Hughes interviews at the Olympics. He was a good interview.
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He obviously knows how to interview. I know, like Scottie
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and a few people are like, oh, he's a bad interview. No,
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Jack will have a good interview with you if Jack
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wants to again. Metalanders says, all have no movement clauses unmovable, unmovable. Well,
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when you make when you make players lives a living hell,
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they can be movable. They definitely can be. Let's see
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here dag far hands at early morning WU. Well, not exactly,
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it's eight thirty two pm Eastern. Also, no regrets on
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draft of them. It's how this organization developed talent and character. Yeah,
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we've talked about it. There's a systemic problem with the
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New Jersey Devils. This ownership group doesn't know how to
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put a winning team together. And that's just affecting everything.
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That's it's it's it's something that you know, really they didn't.
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In fairness to Jack and Luke, they had no time
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to grow up. And that's where the immaturity lies. And
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you're in You're not in New York, but you're in
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New Jersey. Jersey people can spot a phony. Jersey people
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demand respect. Jersey people will give respect when they are respected.
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And again, Luke getting booed, some of it justified some
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of it. Not Jack again, Uh, wouldn't address the fans.
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A simple question from Danielle McCartin and saying I have
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nothing to say to them, and of course Devil social
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media has to, like, you know, put more gas on
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the fire by cropping out Quinn. I get it, it's
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an inside joke. I get it. But learn how to
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read the room. At the same time, season ticket holders,
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have you gotten your renewals? Tom was telling me originally
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that there would be a price increase with these renewals,
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but they kind of held back. Normally they have those
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renewals out by mid January, end of January. Now it's
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about mid February. They sent out the renewals. No changing
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price at least on my end or on Tom's end,
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And I'll compliment the Devils where it's due. I'm glad
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that you decided not to increase the ticket prices based
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on principle, based on the fact that this team sucks
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right now. And I'm sure the Devil's management have been
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overwhelmed with complaints from Devils fans across the board, and
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because of that they decided not to raise the ticket prices.
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As that was a very very smart move. I can
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only speak for myself and Tom, because we talked. There
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was an extra game that was added on to the package,
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but other than that, prices stayed the same. Uh, Felix says,
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FITZI will not make the guys live and living. Hell,
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we need a guy like Lou or Lou himself. Oh yeah,
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Fitzi's just too nice. He is too nice. And with
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the twenty five games that the Devils have remaining, you
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know again, they're they're gonna have to I don't think
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winning twenty games, They're gonna gonna do it. Twenty games
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will probably get you to the ninety eight point mark.
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Right now, the Devils have to go what twenty one
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and four in order to make the playoffs. And I
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love barring it any miracle or them streaking. It's just
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simply not going to happen anyway. All Right, Well that's all,
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folks for the morning. WU one hundred and thirty straight
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days of this fine programming. And yeah, we talked more
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Devil's Hockey today. Also Mets baseball, Mets making a couple
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of transactions. Also, Juan Sota will be in left field,
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so going back to his natural position, Juan Soto. And yeah,
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so I'm gonna get out of here. Lots to do today,
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Lots to do. Let's do the ceremonial sip to the
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people that show up on time. I salute you, because,
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for whatever reason, people have excuses why they don't show
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up on time, and they go to extremes to tell
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you why they show up on time. And in my
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personal life, I fired a lot of people for not
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showing up on time. It's disrespectful and you can't build
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a successful organization when you can't do one of the
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most basic things, be on time. Leave a little early anyway,
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peace out. The ceremonial sip to those that show up
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on time, I salute you till next time. This is
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the morning woo, let's go devils.
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Pretty bready bread, A pretty morning, O morning, my morning?
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Or will I love you and I need you morning.
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