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Hi, this is Chico Resch.
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You are listening to the Let's Go Devils podcast on
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the Primetime Radio Network.
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Happy Devils Tuesday.
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This is Game Day Live.
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Coming to you live, live from Miller's Ale House in
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beautiful Rockaway, New Jersey. I'm your host, Sam Wu, here
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with Beer Baron as we're streaming live on Facebook Live,
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YouTube Live, X Live, Twitch, and now on Instagram Live
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on the Let's Go Devils Network as the Devils take
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on the Detroit Red Wings in Detroit in the Pizza
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Pizza Arena on this frozen frenzy.
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I had to say it. Pizza, pizza.
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I had to say it.
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Yeah, I love that. I had to say it.
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But, well, beer band, bad loss yesterday. We have to
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go over it.
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We are going to dissect that because I was very
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hopeful going into that game. Very hopeful. Yeah. First of all,
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this is an amazing setup here. We're live on location.
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There's not a lot of people that can do this.
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Live performances. Live, live means we're actually in this place
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right now, surrounded by Devils fans. We're getting ready for
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a viewing party here, which hopefully if you're on the
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road coming on, I can't wait to see you. So
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hopefully we'll see everybody soon. But last night was extremely disappointing,
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to say the least. And we'll talk about the entirety
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of the game, but I will say, Before the game,
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there was so much optimism of like, hey, we're coming
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off a 4-1 victory. We're feeling good. The PK, which
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is one of the things that I pointed out in
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the pregame show of Game Day Live yesterday, I was like,
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the PK needs to show up. And it showed up.
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It had to. It had to, yeah. Because, man, oh, man.
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You know, listen, I will always say like, oh, that
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was definitely like the five-minute major, that was a penalty, right? Yeah.
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That was definitely a penalty. But there were a lot.
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a lot of really ticky-tack calls that game, and going
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against us.
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Actually, I thought he lost an edge, the Manta. Well, yeah,
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you know, I mean, it's just the optics didn't look good. Yeah,
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the optics looked terrible. I have to be objective somewhat.
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He's fallen into the boards already, and Manta's going in
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for a hit, and I mean, it's just bad timing,
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but the Luke Hughes interference, like, you've got to be
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kidding me. Like, there's so many that I was like, okay,
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there's Okay, that's a penalty. There were so many last night.
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I mean, Chisholm, yeah, he hits somebody kind of like
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after he gets rid of the puck. He gets tackled.
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He gets full-on tackled. No call. He gets cross-checked in
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the back of the head. No call. It felt like
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the refs got a beaner bonnet right in the beginning.
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They were going to start calling everything. I like to
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see the feistiness out of Brent Dillon because Dillon was
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out there, you know, definitely moving some people around. I'll
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tell you that. He had a hit on Zetterlin. Whoa.
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That hit on Zetterlin was.
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It was Scott Steven-esque.
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It was a big booming hit, which he got a
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penalty for because they called it interference, even though Zetterlin
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had the puck on his stick. And then a second later,
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as soon as he got rid of it, is when
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the contact happened, which, by the book, is not interference. But, look,
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you can't blame the referees for losing that game. They
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looked sloppy.
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Yeah.
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The offensive zone pressure was not there. It was in, shot, out.
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And that's what it felt like all night, in, shot, out.
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They were not sustaining any kind of offensive zone time.
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And when they did... They were all pushed to the outside.
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There was not a lot of high danger area chances.
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The goal by Gritsiuk was, it felt like one of
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the only times that we got a shot through the middle.
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And it felt like, okay, well, we are such a
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perimeter team. Every time Jesper Bratt brings the puck in,
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it's a perimeter shot. The goalie's hugging the post. He's
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going to make that save all day.
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Yeah, all day long.
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By the way, thank you to Joe for this present because... Well,
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there's going to be some guests here.
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Oh, yeah.
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Here at Miller's Ale House in beautiful Rockaway, New Jersey.
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If you're being lazy right now.
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It's like unboxing. It's an unboxing episode. Yeah.
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And we've got Ken Danico coming down here shortly. Grant Marshall.
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Yeah.
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All good friends of the podcast. Jim Dowd. Jersey born.
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Jersey raised. Jersey guy.
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Played with my cousin in high school.
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Really? Yeah. I had no idea.
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Line mates with my cousins.
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Yeah, and Bruce Driver.
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One-time captain of the New Jersey Devils, also Stanley Cup champion,
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good friend of the podcast.
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So they're going to be coming down. They don't make
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them like this anymore. Yeah, they don't. The bobbleheads you
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get now are way less. I mean, look at the
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ice thing on this. This is beautiful. That's a nice piece.
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I think this is from, when was this from? Is
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this from the 90s?
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It's got to be when they cared.
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Was this the Vanderbeek years?
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The great years?
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Thank you, Joe, for the bobblehead.
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Joe, when was this from? When was this from?
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The whole case of them.
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Wow.
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Lou Lamorello.
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Lou Lamorello.
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Wow.
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I'll take a few.
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I'll take that, yeah.
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In my classroom, I have a shrine to the devils
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with all these different bobbleheads and stuff like that. So
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it's great. Yeah. That's amazing. Oh, wow. Amazing.
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Joe is also a Section 18 psycho. Oh, yeah.
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Because we sit in Section 18. It's just a happening section.
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He's down by the glass. That's where I was sitting
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the other night against Vancouver. And, yeah, it was just
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a fun time, especially screaming at the refs when Evan
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Rodriguez got that penalty. Double minor. The Marco Rossi flop.
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I even put that out on X. And it got
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a lot of traction about the flop. And then I
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got someone that says, oh. How dare you make fun
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of a guy that almost died and then came back?
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I think he had COVID or something, and it was bad.
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Oh, really? Yeah.
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Well, I didn't know.
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You know what? Stop being sensitive. Everybody needs to grow up.
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Yeah, I know.
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I can't believe you. Nobody cares. Nobody cares what that
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opinion is. Nobody cares what any opinion is. But going
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back to our opinion about last night's game, I will
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say the first period, Yeah, you're marred by tons of
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different penalties, right? You killed seven minutes of penalty in
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a row. They get the two-minute from Dylan, and then
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they get the five-minute from Manta, like pretty much back-to-back.
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So you're dealing with being on the PK for seven
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minutes straight. They do an amazing job. They kill it off.
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And it felt like that was the whole building erupts,
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like everything was on the up-and-up. Yeah. Oh, we're going
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to use it. We're using it. We're using the chair. Yeah, sorry.
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Yeah. Okay. Well, I guess we're going to do this
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on the fly, but I guess he doesn't know that
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we're on air right now. Yeah.
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Yeah, that's all right.
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So anyway.
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So, yeah, there was.
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Maybe I should free up that chair.
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Yeah, probably. Yeah.
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Why don't you talk to the audience?
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Yeah, I'll talk.
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Yeah, I'll just roll around.
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So the thing that was extremely disappointing, by the way,
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this is the things that happen when you're live live.
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This is not prerecorded. You have guys asking for chairs
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and Sam has to go and do some busy work
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back there. But what was disappointing about it is you
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leave the first period. You feel great. You go into
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the second period and you're like, all right, let's let's
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regroup the energies in the building and The fans are
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really amped up. You just killed off seven minutes of penalty.
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You feel like that it could be a momentum swing
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of getting everybody on the same page. And you open
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up the second period and nine seconds in. Nine seconds.
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And what's really disturbing is Sheldon Keefe, who we talked
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about yesterday, is not holding any punches. Flat out said,
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I had my most experienced line out there. And they
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can't do that. It's unacceptable. I get it. I understand.
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Because as a fan, you're like, hey, here we go.
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Second period. We had a wild, weird first period. Let's regroup,
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come out strong, and play our game. Nine seconds in. Now,
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the goal that was let up, you can't really blame Dawes.
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Because nobody, Timo Meier, I don't know what he's thinking
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on that play. He's not even protecting the back door. Basically,
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it's the cleanest two-on-one that you can get, even though
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it wasn't a two-on-one. So there's that. And you're like,
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all right, well, there goes the whole pre-speech of let's
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not let up the first goal because that happened five
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games in a row.
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It's a Debbie Downer. It really is.
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Yeah, because you can feel the entire building deflate. You
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can see the bench deflate because it's just like everybody
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in the building is like, damn it, Like, why?
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Why?
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Why is this that in the meme of one nothing
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them just rings in everybody's head if you're on Twitter
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or X, whatever it's called.
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Yep.
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And then it's like, all right, fine. Down one nothing. Fine. Regroup, regroup, regroup.
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We get another penalty. And I think that might, was
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that the Luke Hughes penalty, the phantom interference when he's
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skating backwards penalty?
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So Luke Hughes gets his penalty, or maybe it wasn't him.
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Whatever it was, we get a penalty. Devils go on
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a PK. Brett Pesci trips over his own feet, leaves
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the guy wide open for a shot. Of course he does.
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But my problem isn't Pesci in that situation. My problem
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was Dawes. First, we need a goaltender that's going to
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make these crazy saves. You need a goaltender that's going
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to aggressively come out and challenge. Now he knows it's one-on-one.
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Aggressively come out and challenge the shooter. I mean, he
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was out. He was out of his crease. It wasn't
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like he was sunken back. He lets up this, like,
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a glove-side goal. And all I can think of, I'm like,
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if we had a better goaltender, and I hate to,
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I'm not knocking dogs, but if we had a better goaltender...
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that's somebody that's going to bail you out. You need
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somebody that's going to bail you out of those situations. Yep.
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And he didn't. Then, boom, down 2-0. And it just
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snowballs from there.
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At the same time, five periods of Nico Dawes and
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the offense doesn't score one goal.
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Well, there's that, too.
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Yeah, I mean, that just adds on. It snowballs.
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Yeah, because you're chasing the game the entire time, and
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it puts more pressure on him that he has to
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be perfect. You know, and not for nothing, like, he
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had a lot of great saves. There was a lot
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of great moments that he had. And there was some,
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you know, some flashing leather, like, looking great, coming out,
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making a big-time save. Especially in that first period, he
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had a couple of really big saves to keep it 0-0.
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But then it just, it just, like, the wheels fell
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off in, like, the most devil's type way. Like, nine
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seconds in, boom, 1-0. Then we let up that second goal.
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And then it was just like, the Senators played a
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smart game. Lay back, let them come in the zone,
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protect the middle. The middle was impossible to get through.
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Protect the middle, keep them to the outside, and then
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get the puck, get it out of the zone. Take
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a shot, Olmark, who's a great goalie, is going to
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make that initial save, kick it to the corner, get
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the puck, boom, out of the zone. And that was
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the entirety of the second period and majority of the
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third period. And, okay, now we can talk about the
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goal that wasn't. Okay?
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The goaltender interference. There needs to be somebody in the
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office that sits down and goes, we need to have
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a clear-cut, this is what it is, line on that. Yeah.
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Yeah. It's such a gray area and it's subjective that,
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I mean, the rest you suck chant last night was
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like in playoff form.
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Oh, yeah.
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Well, and rightfully so. It was brutal. It was absolutely brutal. Yeah.
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You're watching there. And if you're watching the game, if
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you like being there live, there are so many things
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that were happening behind the puck, behind the puck, behind
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the play. There's one play in particular. Luke gets the
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puck up the boards. And as soon as he gets
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rid of the puck, he gets tripped. No call. That
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was like the theme of the night. There was always
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something happening behind the play that a devil was getting
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interfered with, which these interference calls that they had yesterday
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were mind-blowing. I would agree.
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I would totally agree.
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They were undisciplined.
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They were unprepared at times, but When there's urgency, like
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the last ten minutes of the game, they start to
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play a lot better.
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Yeah, but why can't they do that from the jump?
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I don't understand that. Is it coaching? Is it on
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the players?
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Is it culture? Well, I don't... So, I don't know
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if it was Amanda Stein, or I don't know if
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it was... I can't remember. I'll have to go back
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and find out to give proper credit. But somebody was saying...
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In the second intermission, it was oddly quiet. Oddly quiet.
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And the team came out flat.
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Yeah.
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I don't know if this is an emotional leader thing where, like, look,
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I love Nico Heischer, and I'm not going to question
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his captaincy because every player on a team always speaks
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very highly of him. But how the hell do you
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come out that flat? And I'm sorry, but Timo Meier...
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does not look good right now.
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No, he doesn't.
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He's out of position. He's... I don't know what's going on.
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I'm a fan. We're fans. We're watching the game as
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a fan. We could be dead wrong about everything. They
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could be like, oh, Teemu's actually playing great. Here's the
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statistics and blah, blah, blah. But from the eye test
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from outside... I don't know. Well, anyways, well, we got
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a new chapter.
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Well, just one last thought on that. You know, I again, if.
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Nico Heischer being the captain and I know this is
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going to be this, I'm not trying to troll anybody,
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but you have to wonder, should you give the captaincy
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to Jack? But the problem with that is you may
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divide that locker room right off the bat.
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Even more.
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Yeah.
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So maybe that's a bad idea.
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But you get my drift that you've got to hold
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everybody accountable, including the captain on that one, and Sheldon Keefe,
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everybody within that locker room, and just not coming out prepared.
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And then somebody sent me a tweet about Sonny sucking
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and all that. You're only five games.
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In the season.
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And he's cleaning up the mess of the previous regime. Exactly.
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And it's a work in progress. We all knew that.
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But anyway, getting to the game today against the Detroit
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Red Wings, they have their own problems, Detroit. Dylan Larkin,
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that whole drama just keeps on festering and festering and festering.
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The rumors and, you know, will the Minnesota Wild get
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into the Dylan Larkin sweepstakes? To tell you the truth,
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I'm thinking Dylan Larkin's waiting on Quinn Hughes, and Quinn
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Hughes is going.
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Straight to free agency.
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So I don't think Dylan Larkin, I think he might
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be in the lame duck right now, and as much
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as he wants to go to Minnesota, that's what the
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reports are, assuming that they're true, I think he's going
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to be waiting around for another year.
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Yeah, I mean, listen, this is a game, a get-right game.
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We thought yesterday, by all means, we all forget Ottawa
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was not only a playoff team last year. Yeah, losing
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Brady Kachuk is a huge hit, but they're still a
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pretty damn good team. Linus Allmark is a good goalie.
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So anybody that thought yesterday's game was going to be
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an easy one is completely mistaken. But tonight... even though
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you're on a back-to-back, even though you're on a travel,
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even though you're playing earlier than you're supposed to be playing,
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this is a game that they should win. And this
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is a game that if I'm Sheldon Keefe, if you
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can't figure out what message you need to send, you
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need to figure it out now. If this is the
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problem that he doesn't have this room, that the players
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don't believe in him, Which, by the way, that could
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be a player issue. That doesn't even necessarily mean it's
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a coach issue.
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Yep.
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You need to get this team right tonight. This needs
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to be the game... I feel like a broken record.
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This needs to be the game they score first. But
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not just score first, score often. This needs to be...
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You need to take advantage of a broken Detroit. And
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you need to make sure that you go out there
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and you play your ass off. Because if you don't...
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you're going to end up with another loss like you
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had last night.
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Well, the Devils have played, what, five games? Their first
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road game was a total, total loss. Losing 6-0 to
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the New York Islanders. It wasn't even like a road game.
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They were like down the street.
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Yeah. I mean, losing 6-0 to the Islanders.
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Yeah.
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And it just, they need to get back on track,
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on the road. Just be, just you and the guys
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in the locker room. Go out there. Keep your game simple.
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The Devils need to play more north-south. They need to
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be more north-south. They've got to stretch the ice. They've
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got to get Jack Hughes. These outlet passes come from
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the blue line. They've got to be crisp and in
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stride because once you have a three-on-two or a two-on-one
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with Jesper Brad or Evangelista or Jack Hughes or anybody
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or Timo Meier in March.
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You know, You're going to score goals, and that's the
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bottom line. So, you know, again.
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Dano agrees. Yeah.
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So we're waiting for Ken Danico, Bruce Driver.
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Jimmy Dowd.
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Jimmy Dowd, Graham Marshall. I keep on forgetting names.
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The Stanley Cup champions here at Miller's L House in
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beautiful Rockaway, New Jersey.
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I want to thank Nick. for setting us up, the manager.
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He was talking to corporate before, so he wasn't able to,
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you know, chit-chat, make small talk. Also, doubles all day,
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all night for putting this all together. And, you know,
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we're just here, and we're here to have a good time.
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A lot of people are filing in right now. Also,
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before we get to our predictions, because I'm seeing the
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predictions in our YouTube Live that– The.
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Alerts may not go out, so I'm going to give
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you a warning.
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But first intermission and second intermission, we're probably going to
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be doing interviews in between the periods with any of
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these guests. So hopefully we're going to get them on air.
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I don't see any of them here right now. Or
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do they go through the back door and now they're signing?
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They might be. Not yet. Also, breaking news before we
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get into predictions, that Kovacevic is going to be in
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the lineup tonight. Who's going out? I'm not sure, but
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Kovacevic is going to be in. I wonder if that
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means Chisholm is going to be out. Just because he's
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the lowest man on that totem pole. We have Evangelista
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did not travel with the team, so Evangelista is still
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dealing with an illness. All credit to him for trying
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to play last night and got it out. But he
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is sick, so he's not joining the team. So these are,
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as per Amanda Stein on Twitter. So it's going to
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be interesting on the D end and see how they do.
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You know, you got a little bit of grit back
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there with some Kovacevich, but whoever's back there, we need
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to figure this out. Yeah. Or they need to figure
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it out.
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Anyway, so Wimpy says 3-0 Detroit. Selected Boy says 4-2 Devils.
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Sir says 5-3 Devils. Devil Heaven, 2-1 Devs, tight one.
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Come flying out. Yeah, we are not at American Whiskey.
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I know it says American Whiskey on there. We just
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got to keep Frank the Tank happy because he gets
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a little jealous when we're on the road and not
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doing it at his place.
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But, yes, we are. At Miller's Alehouse.
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We're at Miller's Alehouse. Also, oh my goodness, 6-2 Devs.
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Oh my goodness, in London right now, overseas. Corbin says
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4-1 Devils. Eddie says 3-0 Wings. Pete says Devils need
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this game. Allen will be big in net.
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3-1 Devils.
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Yeah, I love Jake the Snake. Allen doubled down under.
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Damian says, I'm predicting we score first today. That's a prediction.
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that we all want to happen. Seagotch15 says, the 4-2 Devils,
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but won't worry about, but won't worry, it will be
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1-0 them. Brandon says, obviously Devils are going to be
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trailing all games, so it's going to come down to
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pulling the goalie and trying to tie it. That's his prediction. So,
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you know, because this is the frozen frenzy, an ESPN thing,
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we're going to have, what, 32 games.
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32 teams?
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16 games, all 32 teams are playing today. So there's
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the ESPN thing. I don't know why they put us at.
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A 6 p.m.
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Eastern start because we're up a little bit over time
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right now. So, Beer Baron, what's your prediction?
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First of all, my prediction is coming up. I mean,
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we have the game on every single TV in this place.
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If you've never been to a Miller Sale house, look,
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we don't get sponsored by them, but it is one
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of the coolest places. There are multiple Miller Sale houses around.
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There's TVs everywhere. This is like your quintessential sports bar.
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So it's going to be awesome because every time I
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turn my head, it doesn't matter which way, there's a game.
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So the game hasn't started yet. It looks like they're
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still going through the pregame stuff, which means there's probably
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going to be a 6.15, 6.20 start time. That's usually
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what happens.
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Yeah, yeah. But a lot of doubles fans are filing
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in right now. A lot of doubles fans.
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At the bar. As we can only hope, right? Yep. Yeah,
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the bar's filling up now. My prediction for tonight's game
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is I'm going to say it's going to be a
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4-2 Devils win. Jake Snake's going to hold the fort.
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I might even change it 4-1. I feel like they're
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going to have a redemption game. They need to get
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their act together. So hopefully this is a wake-up game
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again against the team that they should beat, and they
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get their record back to 500.
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All right, so I'm going to go bold here. I
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think the Devils are going to dominate throughout the entire game.
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They're going to come out pissed off, and they're going
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to win 7-0.
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That's my prediction.
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All right. A touchdown. Touchdown.
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A touchdown and a shutout.
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All one. All one.
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But, anyway, just remember, folks, go to our Let's Go
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Devils podcast YouTube page at Let's Go Devils, our channel, podcast.
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Because you may not get the alerts because we found
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out that if you do too many of these podcasts
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within a 24-hour period, guess what happens? They don't go
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off the alerts. So we'll probably have either Ken Danico,
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Grant Marshall, Bruce Driver, and Grant Marshall.
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Jimmy Dowd.
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Jimmy Dowd, yep.
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And also possibly a special guest, a mystery guest coming in.
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Yeah, a mystery guest. And he's also a good– oh,
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I already blew it. Good friend of the podcast.
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He or she is a good friend of the podcast.
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But anyway, we're going to get out of here. Thank you,
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thank you to all those tuning in.
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And hitting the music.
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So we'll be back at intermission probably. And also we'll
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have Devils After Dark after the game. Scotty, AsirisXM, Liquid, Metal,
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and I will recap the game that was.
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Maybe Beer Baron will still be here. You never know.
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You never know.
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Or maybe our guests will still be here.
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Hi, this is Chico Resch.
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You are listening to the Let's Go Devils podcast on
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Happy Devils Tuesday.
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This is Game Day Live.
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Coming to you live, live from Miller's Ale House in
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beautiful Rockaway, New Jersey. I'm your host, Sam Wu, here
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with Beer Baron as we're streaming live on Facebook Live,
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YouTube Live, X Live, Twitch, and now on Instagram Live
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on the Let's Go Devils Network as the Devils take
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on the Detroit Red Wings in Detroit in the Pizza
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Pizza Arena on this frozen frenzy.
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I had to say it. Pizza, pizza.
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I had to say it.
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Yeah, I love that. I had to say it.
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But, well, beer band, bad loss yesterday. We have to
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go over it.
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We are going to dissect that because I was very
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hopeful going into that game. Very hopeful. Yeah. First of all,
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this is an amazing setup here. We're live on location.
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There's not a lot of people that can do this.
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Live performances. Live, live means we're actually in this place
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right now, surrounded by Devils fans. We're getting ready for
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a viewing party here, which hopefully if you're on the
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road coming on, I can't wait to see you. So
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hopefully we'll see everybody soon. But last night was extremely disappointing,
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to say the least. And we'll talk about the entirety
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of the game, but I will say, Before the game,
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there was so much optimism of like, hey, we're coming
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off a 4-1 victory. We're feeling good. The PK, which
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is one of the things that I pointed out in
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the pregame show of Game Day Live yesterday, I was like,
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the PK needs to show up. And it showed up.
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It had to. It had to, yeah. Because, man, oh, man.
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You know, listen, I will always say like, oh, that
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was definitely like the five-minute major, that was a penalty, right? Yeah.
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That was definitely a penalty. But there were a lot.
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a lot of really ticky-tack calls that game, and going
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against us.
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Actually, I thought he lost an edge, the Manta. Well, yeah,
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you know, I mean, it's just the optics didn't look good. Yeah,
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the optics looked terrible. I have to be objective somewhat.
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He's fallen into the boards already, and Manta's going in
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for a hit, and I mean, it's just bad timing,
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but the Luke Hughes interference, like, you've got to be
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kidding me. Like, there's so many that I was like, okay,
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there's Okay, that's a penalty. There were so many last night.
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I mean, Chisholm, yeah, he hits somebody kind of like
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after he gets rid of the puck. He gets tackled.
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He gets full-on tackled. No call. He gets cross-checked in
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the back of the head. No call. It felt like
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the refs got a beaner bonnet right in the beginning.
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They were going to start calling everything. I like to
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see the feistiness out of Brent Dillon because Dillon was
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out there, you know, definitely moving some people around. I'll
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tell you that. He had a hit on Zetterlin. Whoa.
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That hit on Zetterlin was.
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It was Scott Steven-esque.
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It was a big booming hit, which he got a
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penalty for because they called it interference, even though Zetterlin
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had the puck on his stick. And then a second later,
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as soon as he got rid of it, is when
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the contact happened, which, by the book, is not interference. But, look,
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you can't blame the referees for losing that game. They
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looked sloppy.
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The offensive zone pressure was not there. It was in, shot, out.
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They were not sustaining any kind of offensive zone time.
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There was not a lot of high danger area chances.
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The goal by Gritsiuk was, it felt like one of
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the only times that we got a shot through the middle.
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perimeter team. Every time Jesper Bratt brings the puck in,
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it's a perimeter shot. The goalie's hugging the post. He's
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going to make that save all day.
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By the way, thank you to Joe for this present because... Well,
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Here at Miller's Ale House in beautiful Rockaway, New Jersey.
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If you're being lazy right now.
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It's like unboxing. It's an unboxing episode. Yeah.
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And we've got Ken Danico coming down here shortly. Grant Marshall.
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All good friends of the podcast. Jim Dowd. Jersey born.
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Jersey raised. Jersey guy.
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Played with my cousin in high school.
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Really? Yeah. I had no idea.
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Line mates with my cousins.
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Yeah, and Bruce Driver.
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One-time captain of the New Jersey Devils, also Stanley Cup champion,
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good friend of the podcast.
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So they're going to be coming down. They don't make
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them like this anymore. Yeah, they don't. The bobbleheads you
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get now are way less. I mean, look at the
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ice thing on this. This is beautiful. That's a nice piece.
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I think this is from, when was this from? Is
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this from the 90s?
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It's got to be when they cared.
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Was this the Vanderbeek years?
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The great years?
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Thank you, Joe, for the bobblehead.
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Joe, when was this from? When was this from?
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The whole case of them.
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Lou Lamorello.
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Lou Lamorello.
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I'll take a few.
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I'll take that, yeah.
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In my classroom, I have a shrine to the devils
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with all these different bobbleheads and stuff like that. So
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it's great. Yeah. That's amazing. Oh, wow. Amazing.
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Joe is also a Section 18 psycho. Oh, yeah.
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Because we sit in Section 18. It's just a happening section.
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He's down by the glass. That's where I was sitting
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the other night against Vancouver. And, yeah, it was just
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a fun time, especially screaming at the refs when Evan
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Rodriguez got that penalty. Double minor. The Marco Rossi flop.
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I even put that out on X. And it got
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a lot of traction about the flop. And then I
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got someone that says, oh. How dare you make fun
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of a guy that almost died and then came back?
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I think he had COVID or something, and it was bad.
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You know what? Stop being sensitive. Everybody needs to grow up.
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Yeah, I know.
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I can't believe you. Nobody cares. Nobody cares what that
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opinion is. Nobody cares what any opinion is. But going
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back to our opinion about last night's game, I will
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say the first period, Yeah, you're marred by tons of
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different penalties, right? You killed seven minutes of penalty in
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a row. They get the two-minute from Dylan, and then
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they get the five-minute from Manta, like pretty much back-to-back.
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So you're dealing with being on the PK for seven
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minutes straight. They do an amazing job. They kill it off.
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like everything was on the up-and-up. Yeah. Oh, we're going
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to use it. We're using it. We're using the chair. Yeah, sorry.
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on the fly, but I guess he doesn't know that
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we're on air right now. Yeah.
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Why don't you talk to the audience?
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Yeah, I'll talk.
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Yeah, I'll just roll around.
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So the thing that was extremely disappointing, by the way,
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this is the things that happen when you're live live.
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and Sam has to go and do some busy work
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back there. But what was disappointing about it is you
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leave the first period. You feel great. You go into
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the second period and you're like, all right, let's let's
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regroup the energies in the building and The fans are
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really amped up. You just killed off seven minutes of penalty.
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You feel like that it could be a momentum swing
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of getting everybody on the same page. And you open
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up the second period and nine seconds in. Nine seconds.
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about yesterday, is not holding any punches. Flat out said,
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I had my most experienced line out there. And they
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can't do that. It's unacceptable. I get it. I understand.
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Second period. We had a wild, weird first period. Let's regroup,
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come out strong, and play our game. Nine seconds in. Now,
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the goal that was let up, you can't really blame Dawes.
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Because nobody, Timo Meier, I don't know what he's thinking
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on that play. He's not even protecting the back door. Basically,
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it's the cleanest two-on-one that you can get, even though
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it wasn't a two-on-one. So there's that. And you're like,
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all right, well, there goes the whole pre-speech of let's
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not let up the first goal because that happened five
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games in a row.
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It's a Debbie Downer. It really is.
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can see the bench deflate because it's just like everybody
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in the building is like, damn it, Like, why?
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Why is this that in the meme of one nothing
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them just rings in everybody's head if you're on Twitter
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or X, whatever it's called.
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And then it's like, all right, fine. Down one nothing. Fine. Regroup, regroup, regroup.
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We get another penalty. And I think that might, was
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that the Luke Hughes penalty, the phantom interference when he's
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skating backwards penalty?
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a PK. Brett Pesci trips over his own feet, leaves
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the guy wide open for a shot. Of course he does.
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was Dawes. First, we need a goaltender that's going to
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make these crazy saves. You need a goaltender that's going
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to aggressively come out and challenge. Now he knows it's one-on-one.
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was out. He was out of his crease. It wasn't
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like he was sunken back. He lets up this, like,
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a glove-side goal. And all I can think of, I'm like,
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if we had a better goaltender, and I hate to,
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I'm not knocking dogs, but if we had a better goaltender...
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that's somebody that's going to bail you out. You need
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somebody that's going to bail you out of those situations. Yep.
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And he didn't. Then, boom, down 2-0. And it just
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snowballs from there.
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At the same time, five periods of Nico Dawes and
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the offense doesn't score one goal.
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it puts more pressure on him that he has to
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be perfect. You know, and not for nothing, like, he
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had a lot of great saves. There was a lot
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of great moments that he had. And there was some,
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you know, some flashing leather, like, looking great, coming out,
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making a big-time save. Especially in that first period, he
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had a couple of really big saves to keep it 0-0.
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seconds in, boom, 1-0. Then we let up that second goal.
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smart game. Lay back, let them come in the zone,
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protect the middle. The middle was impossible to get through.
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get the puck, get it out of the zone. Take
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a shot, Olmark, who's a great goalie, is going to
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make that initial save, kick it to the corner, get
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the puck, boom, out of the zone. And that was
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the entirety of the second period and majority of the
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third period. And, okay, now we can talk about the
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goal that wasn't. Okay?
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The goaltender interference. There needs to be somebody in the
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office that sits down and goes, we need to have
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a clear-cut, this is what it is, line on that. Yeah.
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Yeah. It's such a gray area and it's subjective that,
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I mean, the rest you suck chant last night was
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like in playoff form.
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Oh, yeah.
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Well, and rightfully so. It was brutal. It was absolutely brutal. Yeah.
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You're watching there. And if you're watching the game, if
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you like being there live, there are so many things
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that were happening behind the puck, behind the puck, behind
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the play. There's one play in particular. Luke gets the
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puck up the boards. And as soon as he gets
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rid of the puck, he gets tripped. No call. That
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was like the theme of the night. There was always
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something happening behind the play that a devil was getting
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interfered with, which these interference calls that they had yesterday
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were mind-blowing. I would agree.
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I would totally agree.
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They were undisciplined.
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They were unprepared at times, but When there's urgency, like
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the last ten minutes of the game, they start to
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play a lot better.
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Yeah, but why can't they do that from the jump?
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I don't understand that. Is it coaching? Is it on
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the players?
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Is it culture? Well, I don't... So, I don't know
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if it was Amanda Stein, or I don't know if
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it was... I can't remember. I'll have to go back
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and find out to give proper credit. But somebody was saying...
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In the second intermission, it was oddly quiet. Oddly quiet.
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And the team came out flat.
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Yeah.
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I don't know if this is an emotional leader thing where, like, look,
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I love Nico Heischer, and I'm not going to question
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his captaincy because every player on a team always speaks
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very highly of him. But how the hell do you
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come out that flat? And I'm sorry, but Timo Meier...
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does not look good right now.
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No, he doesn't.
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He's out of position. He's... I don't know what's going on.
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I'm a fan. We're fans. We're watching the game as
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a fan. We could be dead wrong about everything. They
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could be like, oh, Teemu's actually playing great. Here's the
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statistics and blah, blah, blah. But from the eye test
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from outside... I don't know. Well, anyways, well, we got
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a new chapter.
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Well, just one last thought on that. You know, I again, if.
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Nico Heischer being the captain and I know this is
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going to be this, I'm not trying to troll anybody,
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but you have to wonder, should you give the captaincy
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to Jack? But the problem with that is you may
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divide that locker room right off the bat.
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Even more.
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Yeah.
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So maybe that's a bad idea.
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But you get my drift that you've got to hold
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everybody accountable, including the captain on that one, and Sheldon Keefe,
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everybody within that locker room, and just not coming out prepared.
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And then somebody sent me a tweet about Sonny sucking
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and all that. You're only five games.
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In the season.
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And he's cleaning up the mess of the previous regime. Exactly.
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And it's a work in progress. We all knew that.
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But anyway, getting to the game today against the Detroit
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Red Wings, they have their own problems, Detroit. Dylan Larkin,
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that whole drama just keeps on festering and festering and festering.
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The rumors and, you know, will the Minnesota Wild get
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into the Dylan Larkin sweepstakes? To tell you the truth,
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I'm thinking Dylan Larkin's waiting on Quinn Hughes, and Quinn
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Hughes is going.
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Straight to free agency.
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So I don't think Dylan Larkin, I think he might
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be in the lame duck right now, and as much
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as he wants to go to Minnesota, that's what the
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reports are, assuming that they're true, I think he's going
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to be waiting around for another year.
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Yeah, I mean, listen, this is a game, a get-right game.
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We thought yesterday, by all means, we all forget Ottawa
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was not only a playoff team last year. Yeah, losing
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Brady Kachuk is a huge hit, but they're still a
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pretty damn good team. Linus Allmark is a good goalie.
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So anybody that thought yesterday's game was going to be
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an easy one is completely mistaken. But tonight... even though
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you're on a back-to-back, even though you're on a travel,
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even though you're playing earlier than you're supposed to be playing,
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this is a game that they should win. And this
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is a game that if I'm Sheldon Keefe, if you
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can't figure out what message you need to send, you
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need to figure it out now. If this is the
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problem that he doesn't have this room, that the players
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don't believe in him, Which, by the way, that could
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be a player issue. That doesn't even necessarily mean it's
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a coach issue.
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Yep.
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You need to get this team right tonight. This needs
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to be the game... I feel like a broken record.
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This needs to be the game they score first. But
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not just score first, score often. This needs to be...
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You need to take advantage of a broken Detroit. And
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you need to make sure that you go out there
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and you play your ass off. Because if you don't...
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you're going to end up with another loss like you
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had last night.
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Well, the Devils have played, what, five games? Their first
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road game was a total, total loss. Losing 6-0 to
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the New York Islanders. It wasn't even like a road game.
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They were like down the street.
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Yeah. I mean, losing 6-0 to the Islanders.
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Yeah.
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And it just, they need to get back on track,
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on the road. Just be, just you and the guys
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in the locker room. Go out there. Keep your game simple.
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The Devils need to play more north-south. They need to
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be more north-south. They've got to stretch the ice. They've
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got to get Jack Hughes. These outlet passes come from
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the blue line. They've got to be crisp and in
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stride because once you have a three-on-two or a two-on-one
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with Jesper Brad or Evangelista or Jack Hughes or anybody
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or Timo Meier in March.
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You know, You're going to score goals, and that's the
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bottom line. So, you know, again.
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Dano agrees. Yeah.
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So we're waiting for Ken Danico, Bruce Driver.
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Jimmy Dowd.
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Jimmy Dowd, Graham Marshall. I keep on forgetting names.
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The Stanley Cup champions here at Miller's L House in
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beautiful Rockaway, New Jersey.
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I want to thank Nick. for setting us up, the manager.
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He was talking to corporate before, so he wasn't able to,
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you know, chit-chat, make small talk. Also, doubles all day,
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all night for putting this all together. And, you know,
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we're just here, and we're here to have a good time.
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A lot of people are filing in right now. Also,
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before we get to our predictions, because I'm seeing the
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predictions in our YouTube Live that– The.
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Alerts may not go out, so I'm going to give
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you a warning.
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But first intermission and second intermission, we're probably going to
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be doing interviews in between the periods with any of
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these guests. So hopefully we're going to get them on air.
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I don't see any of them here right now. Or
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do they go through the back door and now they're signing?
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They might be. Not yet. Also, breaking news before we
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get into predictions, that Kovacevic is going to be in
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the lineup tonight. Who's going out? I'm not sure, but
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Kovacevic is going to be in. I wonder if that
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means Chisholm is going to be out. Just because he's
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the lowest man on that totem pole. We have Evangelista
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did not travel with the team, so Evangelista is still
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dealing with an illness. All credit to him for trying
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to play last night and got it out. But he
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is sick, so he's not joining the team. So these are,
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as per Amanda Stein on Twitter. So it's going to
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be interesting on the D end and see how they do.
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You know, you got a little bit of grit back
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there with some Kovacevich, but whoever's back there, we need
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to figure this out. Yeah. Or they need to figure
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it out.
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Anyway, so Wimpy says 3-0 Detroit. Selected Boy says 4-2 Devils.
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Sir says 5-3 Devils. Devil Heaven, 2-1 Devs, tight one.
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Come flying out. Yeah, we are not at American Whiskey.
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I know it says American Whiskey on there. We just
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got to keep Frank the Tank happy because he gets
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a little jealous when we're on the road and not
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doing it at his place.
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But, yes, we are. At Miller's Alehouse.
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We're at Miller's Alehouse. Also, oh my goodness, 6-2 Devs.
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Oh my goodness, in London right now, overseas. Corbin says
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4-1 Devils. Eddie says 3-0 Wings. Pete says Devils need
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this game. Allen will be big in net.
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3-1 Devils.
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Yeah, I love Jake the Snake. Allen doubled down under.
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Damian says, I'm predicting we score first today. That's a prediction.
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that we all want to happen. Seagotch15 says, the 4-2 Devils,
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but won't worry about, but won't worry, it will be
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1-0 them. Brandon says, obviously Devils are going to be
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trailing all games, so it's going to come down to
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pulling the goalie and trying to tie it. That's his prediction. So,
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you know, because this is the frozen frenzy, an ESPN thing,
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we're going to have, what, 32 games.
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32 teams?
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16 games, all 32 teams are playing today. So there's
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the ESPN thing. I don't know why they put us at.
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A 6 p.m.
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Eastern start because we're up a little bit over time
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right now. So, Beer Baron, what's your prediction?
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First of all, my prediction is coming up. I mean,
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we have the game on every single TV in this place.
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If you've never been to a Miller Sale house, look,
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we don't get sponsored by them, but it is one
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of the coolest places. There are multiple Miller Sale houses around.
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There's TVs everywhere. This is like your quintessential sports bar.
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So it's going to be awesome because every time I
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turn my head, it doesn't matter which way, there's a game.
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So the game hasn't started yet. It looks like they're
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still going through the pregame stuff, which means there's probably
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going to be a 6.15, 6.20 start time. That's usually
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what happens.
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Yeah, yeah. But a lot of doubles fans are filing
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in right now. A lot of doubles fans.
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At the bar. As we can only hope, right? Yep. Yeah,
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the bar's filling up now. My prediction for tonight's game
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is I'm going to say it's going to be a
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4-2 Devils win. Jake Snake's going to hold the fort.
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I might even change it 4-1. I feel like they're
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going to have a redemption game. They need to get
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their act together. So hopefully this is a wake-up game
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again against the team that they should beat, and they
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get their record back to 500.
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All right, so I'm going to go bold here. I
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think the Devils are going to dominate throughout the entire game.
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They're going to come out pissed off, and they're going
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to win 7-0.
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That's my prediction.
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All right. A touchdown. Touchdown.
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A touchdown and a shutout.
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All one. All one.
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But, anyway, just remember, folks, go to our Let's Go
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Devils podcast YouTube page at Let's Go Devils, our channel, podcast.
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Because you may not get the alerts because we found
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out that if you do too many of these podcasts
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within a 24-hour period, guess what happens? They don't go
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off the alerts. So we'll probably have either Ken Danico,
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Grant Marshall, Bruce Driver, and Grant Marshall.
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Jimmy Dowd.
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Jimmy Dowd, yep.
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And also possibly a special guest, a mystery guest coming in.
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Yeah, a mystery guest. And he's also a good– oh,
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I already blew it. Good friend of the podcast.
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He or she is a good friend of the podcast.
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But anyway, we're going to get out of here. Thank you,
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thank you to all those tuning in.
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And hitting the music.
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So we'll be back at intermission probably. And also we'll
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have Devils After Dark after the game. Scotty, AsirisXM, Liquid, Metal,
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and I will recap the game that was.
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Maybe Beer Baron will still be here. You never know.
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You never know.
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Or maybe our guests will still be here.
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You never know. You never know.
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Yeah. Scotty, hold on the monologue. Ted Danico is joining in.
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He's got a lot to say. Give him an hour. Anyway,
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until next time, let's go Devils.
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Let's go. We'll be right back.
