Devils Playing Like Preseason Hockey! (Season 10 | Episode 2)

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Happy Devils Sunday. This is the Let's Go Devils podcast,
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Sunday edition, season 10, episode 2. I'm your host, Sam Wu,
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coming to you live, live from the Primetime Radio studios
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inside the bunker. Undisclosed location in beautiful New Jersey. And
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to the mountaintop with the biggest view of the Garden State,
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it's Beer Baron. And 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 we're talking a
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little bit more Devils hockey.
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Yeah, a little Devils hockey. I love, I got to say,
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NY Davey. He goes, hello from the president of the
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9-0 club. 9-0. 9-0 club. Yeah, 9-0 club. Was there
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last night, too. Not going back to that house of horrors.
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Message received. That actually gave me a good chuckle there. Yeah, whoop.
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You know the history of N.Y. Davey, right? He went
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to a 9-0 beatdown. I forgot what game it was
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on the road. It may have been Islanders back in
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the 80s or something. And then that 9-0 debacle on
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our only bus trip last year. And then he went
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there for the 6-0 beatdown. You know, I think N.Y.
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Davey just likes to self-destruct. And loves the pain of
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it all, being a Devils fan.
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Man, I tell you, it was.
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Listen, man, last night was one of those games where
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it didn't start off bad, right? Like, it didn't feel
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like it was going to go off the rails. They
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scored that first goal, and you were like, all right, whatever.
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It's going to be another one of those, like, one-nothing-them
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kind of things. And that second goal was like... Like,
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that immediately, immediately... felt like, oh boy. And there's, well,
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first of all, right around that time, like right before
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the first goal, Jack goes into the boards, gets up
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like holding his face, goes into the locker room. And
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I'm like, oh, here it is. Here we are again.
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Jack is getting hurt. Team imploding as soon as he leaves.
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And this is going to be, I mean, the second goal,
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as soon as that goes in, There's a lot going on.
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I will say... Did I freak out? No. Did I
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get angry at the team? Not as I normally do.
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Because it's Game 2. I will allow these mishaps. Yeah, 6-0.
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You never want to see 6-0. You never want to
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see a game like that. Ever. Ever. But.
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It's Game 2. So... We'll get a little grain of salt.
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We'll let a little bit slide there. I know it
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was different, and I apologize. I was supposed to be
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at the viewing party last night, but as you can
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still hear, I'm slowly getting my voice back from opening night,
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which I lost my voice after Jack scored that amazing
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overtime winner. But yeah, Sammy, I don't know about you,
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but it felt you could feel the wheels come off
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pretty early in that game, or at least it felt
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that way from where I was sitting.
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Yeah, you know, being at the viewing party, it was
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just like, you know, everybody was chill. It was a
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great time at Sideline's Bar Grill. The service was great.
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The food was great. Had the wings and the pretzel.
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And Grant Marshall was there. And also, also, my childhood idol,
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and I used him a lot in Super Tecmo Super Bowl,
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was O.J. Anderson in the crowd as well, unexpectedly. And
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that sometimes happens with our... Live event podcast. But Beer
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Baron was out with a UTI. Game time decision. We
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are now.
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UTI. Urinary tract infection? Upper throat injury. Oh, upper throat injury.
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That sounds worse. That actually sounds way worse.
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Yeah, well, you know what? We developed this thing called E-Bub.
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the emergency backup broadcaster where we pull a fan out
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of the crowd, Roman, to fill in.
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Thank you, Roman.
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Thank you. So that's going to be our new thing
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right now. We're going to have every podcast, we're going
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to have an e-bub. Most likely you won't get on air,
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but for that slight chance that something like this would
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happen where Vinny was out, well, actually he was in,
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but Scotty was out, you know, all that kind of stuff. Mm-hmm.
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We're going to actually do it. Yeah. Every podcast at
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American Whiskey, I'm going to pick an e-bub. Be ready,
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just in case.
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You have to be ready, but there's a couple things
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that we'll put by you before you go out there.
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Number one, always keep it clean, right? We could say
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whatever we want off air, but you'll always notice that
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we always keep it clean. We don't curse on purpose.
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I always say it's always nice if my kids could
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watch the show, right? Yeah. And it's not like that
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we're PG or anything like that, but, hey, this is
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a real thing. And if you guys are at American
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Whiskey during game day, there's a good chance that you
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might be pulled from the crowd and thrown on a headset.
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So just be aware. Yeah.
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And, you know, I think it's going to be a
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fun thing throughout the season. So that's what came out
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of it. You know, I was like, oh. I was like,
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I kind of invented it on the fly. I'd be like, yeah,
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every podcast at American Whiskey, we should have an e-bub.
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on standby in case something happens or if a guest
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doesn't show up. Sometimes that happens. So, you know, so
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Roman filled in. He did a great job. And also,
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ironically enough, when you're talking about cursing on air, we
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had Grant Marshall on. Who didn't Grant Marshall himself on air?
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He was great. Just always pleasant to be around. So
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we'll also see him again October 13th at Miller's Ale
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House in Rockaway. where we've got four Stanley Cup champions,
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Jim Dowd, Ken Danico, Bruce Driver, and Grant Marshall from
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all eras, 95, 2000, and 2003 being represented. It's going
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to be awesome on October 13th for that date when
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the Devils are on the road. So anyway, to get
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back to your question, because we went off a tangent there,
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that as soon as it went 2-0, you kind of
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felt The momentum really swinged the Islanders way. And what
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I was looking for was, does this team still have
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that fight? Can they kind of grind it out, even
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though they're not top notch or on their A game?
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And it concerns me because, you know, everyone's, you know,
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harping on the goaltending. I'm going to harp on the offense.
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None of the Devils forwards have scored in regulation. First
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two games of the season. That is very concerning. Goaltending,
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you still have Jake the Snake Allen. And Nico Dawes,
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I'll attribute to, is just one of those things. For now,
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to give the benefit of the doubt. But the offense,
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I'm not liking the line chemistry of the top two lines.
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I think Mantha should be on the team of Meyer.
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He's your line. And I think Evangelista should be up
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with Jack and Bratt. Where you have like a bull
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in a china shop. with Meyer and Manta on the
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wings with Hesher in the middle. And then you've got
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this highly skilled....
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High-flying line.
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Yeah, that can push the tempo up the ice. So
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you get, like, two different looks. And if you have
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the right match-up pairings, you know, defensively, the opposition, you
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might be able to catch them off guard because it's
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just two different league dynamic lines. But that's just me.
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I'm not Sheldon Keefe. But he did say that they
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were playing like it was kind of in preseason hockey
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while the Islanders were playing in February. What are your
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thoughts on that?
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Yeah, no, I totally agree. First of all, I want
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to say what's up to everybody. What's up, Mark Schwab
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and Max and Ariel and everybody on the YouTube channel
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and everybody out there listening live. Thank you very much
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for listening. Yeah, I don't disagree with what he said,
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and I totally agree with what your outlook on the
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line changes would be. I thought Mantha being on Timo
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Meier's line, it's a big, heavy line then, and you're
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getting that down-low pressure. You're going to get, like you said,
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a bull in a china shop. You get Evangelista on
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the Jack line, at least you get more of that
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up-tempo kind of.
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I don't know if he fits more of their style
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of play or if he fits more of the Nico
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style of play. Either way, there's a lot of things,
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and we're not making excuses because... The last thing you
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want to do is get comfortable with being okay with
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a 6-0 loss. Nobody should be happy about it. The
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coaches should not be happy about it. The players definitely
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should not be happy about it. But I will say,
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you have a lot of new players. You have a
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new player on every single game. line. The defensive core,
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there's really no excuse for them. They should have been
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playing better because a few of those goals seemed like
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there was a defensive lapse or just like a brain
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fart where it's like, all right, this guy's wide open.
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He's not covered. Nico Dawes' rebound control was atrocious last night.
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There's a lot of things that happened where it was
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the perfect storm of a crappy game. The big question
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is going to be, how do they rebound? Tuesday's a
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big game. How do you come out on Tuesday night,
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and how do you play? Because if you come out
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and you're flat, after having a couple of days to
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reset and get your house in order, If you come
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out flat and you look like trash again, then we're
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going to start to see some problems. And you know what?
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You said the offense is alarming. Yeah, I agree. The
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power play going, what, 0 for 7 now? 0 for
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7 or 0 for whatever the hell it is.
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It's 0 for. It's 0 for.
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Who cares?
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Nada.
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Zip. You get nothing. You stole a fizzy lifting drink.
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But yeah, we have to put in perspective about our
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power play. We've got the same amount of goals that
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the like the Minnesota Wild have Stanley Cubs zero.
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I just want to put that. Yeah, well, that is true, too.
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But I mean, like they they just need to. The
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power play, like watching it, the game being live and
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then watching it on TV is you know, there's a
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lot of this, it's like on the perimeter, it's like
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this beautiful little skate in circles and like this nice little,
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it's not a lot of like, just get it dirty,
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get it in front of the net. Like sometimes I
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wonder if we try to get too cute with the pockets,
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like just get the puck on net. But then you
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look at it and you're like, well, this team is the,
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you know, first game they put up 45 shots. They
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outshot the Islanders in the last night's game. So it's
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not like they're, not getting the shots not like they're
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not getting high you know high danger chances it's not
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like they're getting not getting the opportunities i always feel
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like there's the initial shot but how much of that
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like i really need somebody that is great at crunching
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the numbers on this like how many secondary shots are
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we getting how many secondary chances are we getting like
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how many how many rebounds are recollecting and putting into
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a high danger zone or how many are they recreating
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for themselves? Or is it like come in the zone,
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one shot out, one shot out?
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Well, I'm just going to give you the eye test
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opinion of mine. You know what the eye test is?
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The goaltender is seeing every shot coming at him. That's
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the eye test that I have. I mean, I see
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that Jay Snow saying, who's the net front guy? They're
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a perimeter team.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like, I agree with a lot of the things that
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are being said in the YouTube Live. But my eye
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test says, how come Sorokin or Wall is seeing everything
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coming at him? And that bothers me. They are screening
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the goalie, but, like, even that Manta, you know, screening
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the goalie where Dougie Hamilton scored and everybody, you know,
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a couple commentators, even on X, like, commenting on that.
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But you want to know something that really bothers me
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about that? He stood still. You can't sit still in
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front of the net. You've got to move. You've got
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to make the goaltender look around you. You can't just–
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because all the goaltender has to do is they can
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still plant their skate in the crease and just look
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to the side. See, I almost went off the mic there.
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But you get what I'm trying to say.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Again, it's– and it's like– Is it Sheldon Keefe? Are
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they not listening to them? Why the inconsistency? You know, again,
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this has to stop. But one thing I did notice
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between this year and last year was Sheldon Keefe talking.
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He's wasting no time calling out the team. Whereas last year,
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you know, oh, you know, you know, we're going to
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stay positive, you know, and then. And then, you know,
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Sheldon Keefe, you know, we find out is not really
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in the locker room and all that. I think all
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that stuff is over. And I think it's a new regime. Now,
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it's how they react against Utah, which they were getting
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fights with the New York Rangers tonight. I didn't see
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the end score. But Utah Mammoth, again, we're going to
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see John Marino signing an eight-year deal. Paul Marino, his
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dad's going to be there at American Whiskey on Tuesday,
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by the way. Game Day Live, we've got Catherine Bogart,
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formerly of New Jersey Devils. Now Utah Mammoths will be
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on air with us. Utah is going to be a
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big test. Utah is going to be a great test
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for the New Jersey Devils.
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Utah just got beat by the Rangers 4-2.
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Yeah, but they're a decent team, though.
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No, no, no, no, no. I'm not saying they're not.
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I'm just saying, you know, like I'm just looking at
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the score for tonight just to see how it is.
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So my point of that is saying they're not going
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to come in and roll over. You know what I'm saying?
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Like when the Flyers got beat 7-0, they gave the
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Devils a hell of a fight and could have easily
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won that game too.
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Right?
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So the Devils need to come back and they need
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to have a reaction the same way. They need to
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come back and have a solid game. The home opener,
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they looked fantastic. They had controlled the puck majority of
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the game. They controlled offensive time zone majority of the game.
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The two goals that Jake the Snake let up, I'll
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say one was a really nice tip on a delay penalty,
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and the other one was put in the top corner
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where not most goalies are going to get that. So
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the two goals that Philadelphia had, very legit. But the
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point that I'm trying to make is they need to
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come out and have that same kind of fight that
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they had in that first game. They can't get into
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these bad old habits like last year. You're talking about
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Sheldon Keefe getting into their face and calling out the team.
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Good.
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Sure. Great. Tuesday is going to be a huge test.
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You have a team coming off of a loss. You've
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had plenty of days off. You should be... your legs
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should be getting there. Right. I mean like, sure. Maybe
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there's a few guys that are like, I'm not all
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the way because a preseason was, it was a shortened,
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but there's no reason that they should be losing a
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game six, nothing. And, and like the people that are like,
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it's the goaltending. It's like they're no, there's so many
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parts to that. Are the Islanders that much better? Are
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the Islanders like a, The last time I checked, I'm
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pretty sure on paper the teams stack pretty evenly against
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each other. You cannot tell me that the Islanders are
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that much better where they in consecutive years have beaten
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us nine to nothing and six to nothing. There's absolutely
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no way. And I mean, that kind of stuff as
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a fan drives you batty. You know, we sit there
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and we watch this and we're like, oh, like the
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hell we know what we're talking about. Like, oh, if
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we would have changed this line, if we would change
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that line. The reality is it's on the team. Like,
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the coach can put you in the right spot. The
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coach can tell you what to do. But if you're
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out there and you're not doing what you're supposed to
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do or you're doing it to, like, the worst ability possible,
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then the results are going to be 6-0. So....
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Well, Maria says that's because there was structure. Structure went
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out the window last night. NY Davies says Dawes had
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a lot of incredible saves last night. I mean, defensively,
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I didn't think they gave up, especially like once it
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was 3-0. They just gave up. They were there, but
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they weren't there. You know, that's my opinion on it.
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And, you know, with.
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To put things in perspective, like, I think really the Devils,
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they have this problem where it's just the inconsistent, like,
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you don't know what you're going to get night in
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and night out. And we're two games in. Are they
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really that good? I mean, against the Flyers? Yeah, they
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did win the game. Yeah, they put a lot of
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shots on goal. But I go back to it, their offense,
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their forwards, they're not scoring. They're not scoring. I mean,
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the three-on-three with Jack Hughes, okay, fine. But they're just
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not scoring. So are they playing at a level that
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they should be? Because now it's the regular season. Now
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the 82-game season starts now. You know, it should be
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very interesting what happens on Tuesday. You know, they're off today.
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They didn't have practice, anything. But like, how do they
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respond to that? You know, how do they respond to adversity?
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Because last season, they would go on, like, they couldn't
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stop the bleeding. They had winless streaks of, like, over 10, right,
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last season? Like, can we prevent that and get back
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on track and get a good win against a Utah Mammoth?
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That's what I'm looking for. You're not going to have
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your A game every night. But I don't think we
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should hit the panic button. The other thing that I
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couldn't understand, and I'm not really an analytics guy, but
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did you really, like people on X, did you really
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have to post the analytics between Sorokin and Dawes? The
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eye test wasn't enough that you just really have to
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post all these... nonsensical stats that, you know, the devil's
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got their asses kicked. Like, anyway, I just never understood that.
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I know. And it's going to happen, right? It's going
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to happen. Like, there's going to be bad games. You
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just aren't expecting a bad, a six nothing clunker to
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happen this early in the season. And maybe, hey, look,
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maybe it's a better thing that they got this kind
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of game out of the way. Maybe it's okay. I
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started off the podcast. I swear to God, I feel
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like I'm schizophrenic sometimes when I'm on here because I
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start the podcast and I'm like, it's not that bad.
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And maybe I'm not that mad about it. And then
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the more we talk about it, the more I'm like,
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you know what? God damn it. I'm actually pissed off
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about this. I'm actually pissed off about how they played.
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I'm actually pissed off about watching that game. You're sitting
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there and you're like, this reeks of last year. And
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I wish I could go back and scroll up here
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and see who said it. But somebody said, how do
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you defend a team with speed as you keep them
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to the perimeter? And that's what happens with this team
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a lot. You need these guys to start to get
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into the mindset of going down the middle, get into
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the hard areas. It feels like we have all the
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opportunity in the world, and we take these shots. And
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like you said before, the goaltenders are seeing everything. And
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it's like we don't have the guys that are going
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to put it into these you know, ridiculous angles and
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like these incredible highlight real goals. Like we don't have
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the celebrities and the, you know, Nathan McKinnon's of the world.
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Like we, we have Jack Hughes and he's, he's damn good,
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but he can't do it all himself. And it's been
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this way with this team, by the way, if you're
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a devil's fan, you've been a devil's fan. As long
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as we have the, the guys not scoring a ton
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is not a new story. There's a reason why Brian
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Gionta holds the record in our franchise for most goals
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in a season. There's guys that come through and we
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get great goal scorers and things like that, but this
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team just feels like they have the talent to score.
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Why the hell are we not scoring? It drives you
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absolutely nuts.
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It's one thing to be snake bitten, but snake bitten is.
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Like one or two games or like you get a
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player who's like on a seven game. Oh man, he's
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really getting close, but he's not doing it.
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I'm wondering if this team is going to be feast
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or famine where it's like they have no scoring or
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they score, they pop in nine, nine goals in one
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night where it kind of averages self out statistically and
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You know, with the, you know, goals.
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Where you don't see the big flop. Yeah.
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You know, so. But that's frustrating. That's frustrating. And Sheldon
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Keefe has to figure this out quick. Because if he doesn't,
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I would assume that he's going to be on the
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hot seat. Really, really quick. Because at the end of
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the day, he's not Sonny Maida's guy. You know, he
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kept him on. He kept him on. And if you're
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not getting results, that's a reflection on the GM. And
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the GM just got here. Like, there's still that honeymoon period.
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But at some point, you're going to have to make
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a change. If, you know, the team is 10 games under. 500,
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you know, at the end of December, like, you shouldn't
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have to wait that long. Like, you got to make
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a change because Sheldon Keith's been there for at least
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two full seasons. Now in his third, you know, they
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got to play better. They simply just– the level intensity–
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It didn't match the Islanders, just the lackadaisicalness and getting
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down on themselves. They have, as what NY Davies says,
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they have too much talent to not be successful. And,
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you know, it's unfortunate that it's going to take some
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time to figure out the optimal combinations, but I think
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it's more than that. Because defensively, they kind of gave up.
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So it was like 3-0, 4-0, 5-0. Like, have some pride.
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You know, have some pride or start a fight. Do something.
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You know, do something, you know, that.
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You're not good at. It's like that meme of the
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guy with the stick and it's like, just do something. Yeah.
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And listen, we could always say that. Like, we could
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be like, why the hell didn't they do this or
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that and this? It's like, you know, we're not in
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the locker room. We don't know everything that's going on.
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You just see like as a fan, like that's all
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we could, all we could speak of is as a fan. Like,
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it doesn't even matter. Like, Hey, people are like, Oh,
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you didn't play puck or you didn't do this or
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you didn't do that. It's like, yeah, no kidding, dude.
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Like how many of us were in the NHL? Like
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how many of us are out there from the NHL
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as a fan's perspective, like looking at what we're seeing.
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I think the thing that drives you nuts as a
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fan is the potential of what is there. It's like
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buying a brand new sports car, and you're like, I'm
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going to get in this sports car, and it's going
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to be great. And you jump in it, and it's
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got a freaking blown wheel. And you're like, oh, that's
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all right. We can fix that real quick. We'll just
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get another wheel. We'll put another wheel on there. It's
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no problem. And you start driving down the road, and
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you're like, oh, this engine doesn't have any pickup because
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it has four cylinders. You're like, you're promised this big
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flashy thing, and it just underperforms constantly. And it's really frustrating.
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And I think that's the biggest thing as a fan.
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You watch this team and you're like, dude, look at
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on paper what we have. You have Timo Meier. You
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have Jack Hughes. You have Nico Heischer. You have Jesper Brat.
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Now you add in these other pieces like Evangelista. They
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just need to get it together. It's game two. I
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know I started off by saying, it's only game two.
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It's not a big deal. I'm like, I just want
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to break something. but it is only.
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It's not so much as game two. It's the mindset
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and mentality. Just, just the way they kind of like,
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you know, I don't mind losing if you put it
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all on the line in that game. And I just
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don't think they did. You know, I just, I just
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don't think they did. I just don't think that they,
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you know, again, they're getting their shots. But again, I
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think they're telegraphing it. I think Sorokin saw every shot.
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Last last night. Yeah. No, I mean, that needs to change.
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And wall too. Yeah. And if you're watching a game,
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like it seemed like, you know, how many, how many
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cross crease stretches did he have to make to do?
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Like how many big time saves were you like, Whoa.
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And isn't that a theme to like the last couple
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of years and just, it feels like forever and ever
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and ever now. that every time we can get a
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backup goaltender in there, and you're like, oh, it's like
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vintage freaking Patrick Waugh in there. It's like, oh, great.
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Somebody's like, oh, we got their backup, and it's like,
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doesn't matter, boys. We're going to find a way to
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make this guy look great.
468
00:27:51.380 --> 00:27:53.099
Oh, yeah. I mean, they could pull a guy out
469
00:27:53.140 --> 00:27:57.519
in the street, you know, the e-bug, and it would
470
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definitely beat us, you know, because you still need to
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score goals.
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That's what it feels like some days.
473
00:28:02.259 --> 00:28:04.720
Yeah, you still need to score goals. I mean, you
474
00:28:04.759 --> 00:28:08.289
can complain about Nico Dawes all you want, But I
475
00:28:08.329 --> 00:28:12.029
don't think it was entirely his fault at all. It
476
00:28:12.369 --> 00:28:21.470
was a team disappointment. And, you know, it is frustrating. But, again,
477
00:28:21.630 --> 00:28:25.279
you still have 82 more games. The season's not over.
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00:28:25.990 --> 00:28:28.359
You know, I know on X, I mean, it's like
479
00:28:28.420 --> 00:28:32.859
a cesspool of trolls. Like, Wild fans were just on
480
00:28:32.900 --> 00:28:37.410
my account just... beating it in the 6-0 and all
481
00:28:37.450 --> 00:28:41.390
that kind of stuff, but it's just one game of
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00:28:41.910 --> 00:28:47.410
many in this NHL season. You got 84 games total.
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You got 82 more games to figure it out.
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That's all. Yeah, and you have to have faith in
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the coaching staff and you have to have faith in
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the team and you have to have faith in the
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00:28:59.980 --> 00:29:02.940
new pieces that they brought in that these things will
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00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:05.670
work out. You know, you have Rodriguez who's coming from
489
00:29:05.710 --> 00:29:11.319
a winning pedigree where, oh, by the way, just really quick.
490
00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:14.319
You know what else pisses me off? Now that we're
491
00:29:14.339 --> 00:29:17.900
going down these like rabbit holes of things and I
492
00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:21.559
have ADD and I'm like, squirrel, squirrel. The fact that
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00:29:21.579 --> 00:29:25.240
Andre Palat scored last night is one of those things.
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It's one of those things that happens and you're like,
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Just like we make a backup goalie look like he's
496
00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:37.210
a number one best goalie in the league, ex-Devils come
497
00:29:37.269 --> 00:29:40.920
here and always score. There's three... there's three things that
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00:29:40.980 --> 00:29:44.079
I always think happen. We make backup goalies look great,
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ex-Devils that come in and score, and the third being
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if it's your first time in the NHL, you will
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score against us.
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And that's a great point because it just seems like
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it always happens to the New Jersey Devils. all the
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time or, you know, a goaltender that's first, first game.
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So if you want to combine that, like the two,
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number two and number three.
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God forbid you're, you're devil's ex goaltender. You're pitching a
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shutout for sure.
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Oh yeah.
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If you, if you used to be a goaltender for
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the devils, you're pitching a shutout.
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I may be scoring a goal too, or get assist. Possibly. Yeah.
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00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:24.029
Possibly. Yeah. They is, it's, it is tough. Like, and I,
514
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I don't, I would love to sit down and have
515
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a round table with like other teams, fans from other
516
00:30:29.529 --> 00:30:31.490
teams and be like, does this, does this happen to you?
517
00:30:31.509 --> 00:30:33.839
Or is this only us? Like all some of these
518
00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:36.579
mouth breathers you get from the state of Minnesota. Like, look,
519
00:30:38.099 --> 00:30:40.400
and that's the other thing too. Devil's fans. Can we
520
00:30:40.440 --> 00:30:43.299
stop infighting? Can we please, how many years do I
521
00:30:43.299 --> 00:30:45.509
have to say this? Like, can we just please like
522
00:30:45.660 --> 00:30:48.130
bond around the fact that like you root for a
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00:30:48.170 --> 00:30:51.809
team that most people absolutely despise for absolutely no reason.
524
00:30:52.309 --> 00:30:55.240
Like the amount of vitriol we get from like, a
525
00:30:55.329 --> 00:30:58.470
state like Minnesota, like you're not even a real hockey state. Like,
526
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you know what? Suck it through my jeans, bro. Like,
527
00:31:00.829 --> 00:31:03.650
I don't even care. Look at how good. Don't, don't
528
00:31:03.670 --> 00:31:05.890
put me on this. So look at it. Like, it
529
00:31:06.190 --> 00:31:10.069
just drives me nuts that like, there's still pockets of fans,
530
00:31:10.109 --> 00:31:12.440
like devil's fans that still like, Oh, I know more
531
00:31:12.519 --> 00:31:14.440
puck than you. Like, I know more about this team.
532
00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:16.720
I love the team more than you do. Like, you're
533
00:31:16.740 --> 00:31:18.720
an idiot. You're like a fat idiot.
534
00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:20.339
Like, it's like, shut up.
535
00:31:20.500 --> 00:31:23.779
We all want the same thing. You all want the
536
00:31:23.859 --> 00:31:27.200
same thing. We all want to root for the same thing.
537
00:31:27.279 --> 00:31:30.980
I want to know something that's really wild, no pun intended.
538
00:31:32.019 --> 00:31:34.579
Oh, and Paul Mary scored. There you go, too.
539
00:31:35.480 --> 00:31:38.220
You know, with these trolls on X, do you know
540
00:31:38.410 --> 00:31:42.869
the question that everybody asked me and then finally I responded?
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Have you ever skated before? Have you ever skated before?
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00:31:50.210 --> 00:31:53.130
Do people in Minnesota think that we have no ice
543
00:31:53.569 --> 00:31:57.799
in New Jersey? We don't have any outdoor rinks, you know,
544
00:31:57.880 --> 00:31:59.799
and then, and then they, and then they would be like, well,
545
00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:02.039
how many outdoor rinks you have? Because Minnesota, we have like,
546
00:32:02.059 --> 00:32:04.960
I don't know, 15,000 of them are blah, blah, blah, blah.
547
00:32:05.099 --> 00:32:07.940
You know, it's like, I mean, I don't know.
548
00:32:08.069 --> 00:32:11.009
Global warming has destroyed that dude. Like we can't even
549
00:32:12.589 --> 00:32:15.539
be lucky. I get ice in my coffee. Yeah. Anyways,
550
00:32:15.579 --> 00:32:19.359
moving on. Let's not sit there and talk about those bums.
551
00:32:19.500 --> 00:32:23.779
I mean, they lost a team in the late... I'm sorry,
552
00:32:23.819 --> 00:32:28.220
in the early 90s. So you tell me. Yeah. Anyway.
553
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:34.059
Anyways, anyways. So I think the most important thing is
554
00:32:34.099 --> 00:32:36.700
just the way this team reacts, like we were talking
555
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about before. How is it going to look on Tuesday
556
00:32:40.980 --> 00:32:45.289
playing the Mammoth? Back at home, so... You're given a
557
00:32:45.309 --> 00:32:47.990
good opportunity to have like a very solid, you know,
558
00:32:50.619 --> 00:32:52.559
pretty solid game. Like you don't have to worry about
559
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:54.960
all the pompous circumstance that they had in the opening night.
560
00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:57.299
You don't have to worry about doing the red carpet stuff.
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00:32:57.779 --> 00:33:01.220
It is just brass tacks down to game time. And
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it'll be interesting to see how Sheldon Keefe and the
563
00:33:04.500 --> 00:33:06.299
rest of the stuff, you know, the coaching staff gets
564
00:33:06.339 --> 00:33:10.440
these guys, you know, prepared. But it'll be even more
565
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:15.940
interesting to see how the players respond of like Look,
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00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:20.000
I'm assuming Jake Allen's going to be in that. I assume.
567
00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:24.599
But how they respond to, you know, the goalies play
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00:33:24.619 --> 00:33:28.289
and how they respond to just like getting everything acclimated,
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like getting these new players acclimated. Like they just like
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00:33:32.269 --> 00:33:34.369
you said, I feel like they're just they need to score,
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get the forward scoring, and then it's just going to
572
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be a boom. And then it's like opening of the dam.
573
00:33:39.710 --> 00:33:45.190
Yeah, and they come in bunches. They always do. With
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00:33:45.250 --> 00:33:48.910
inconsistent teams, they always come in bunches. It's either you
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score or you don't. And how many times did the
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00:33:51.829 --> 00:33:54.049
Devils get shut out last season? It seemed like it
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00:33:54.069 --> 00:34:01.099
was quite a few, right? Yeah. I don't remember that stat.
578
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I don't remember.
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00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:05.480
Was it last year they didn't get shut out or
580
00:34:05.539 --> 00:34:07.079
the year before they didn't get shut out? I think
581
00:34:07.099 --> 00:34:08.400
it was the year before they didn't get shut out.
582
00:34:08.420 --> 00:34:11.440
I don't know. Why don't they look that up?
583
00:34:11.739 --> 00:34:13.949
Yeah. Yeah.
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You know, yeah, and that's the other thing, too, is, like,
585
00:34:17.949 --> 00:34:21.760
the 6-0 part of it sucks, but, like, getting shut out, too, like,
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00:34:21.800 --> 00:34:25.940
that just... We keep, you know, going back to the
587
00:34:25.980 --> 00:34:27.559
same thing and just saying the same thing over and
588
00:34:27.599 --> 00:34:30.280
over again, but, like, there's too much talent on his
589
00:34:30.320 --> 00:34:32.800
team for that to happen. Like, you have too many
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00:34:32.840 --> 00:34:36.880
high-end guys for you to get shut out. Not to say...
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00:34:36.719 --> 00:34:40.619
And listen, Sorokin is, what, top five goaltender in the league. Like, he's...
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00:34:40.780 --> 00:34:43.219
It's not like they were playing... you know, some bum
593
00:34:43.260 --> 00:34:45.440
and they got shut out by some like random dude.
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00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:48.739
So give, you know, give credit where credit's due. Pete
595
00:34:48.760 --> 00:34:51.019
DeBoer is a hell of a coach. Yeah. You know,
596
00:34:51.059 --> 00:34:54.329
like the Islanders are a legit team. Like our division
597
00:34:54.489 --> 00:34:58.369
is very, very tough. You know, the Rangers look good.
598
00:34:59.090 --> 00:35:02.070
Islanders look good. The Flyers, I don't know, like, but
599
00:35:02.090 --> 00:35:04.429
they'll figure it out. They have Rick Talkett behind the bench.
600
00:35:04.469 --> 00:35:07.889
Like there's so many good coaches in this division. There's
601
00:35:08.010 --> 00:35:10.789
so many good teams in this division. And that's why, like,
602
00:35:11.050 --> 00:35:15.280
you can't screw around. This should hopefully be one of
603
00:35:15.300 --> 00:35:18.739
those like, alright, whoa, we got our ass kicked. It's
604
00:35:18.760 --> 00:35:23.000
time to wake up. Boys, that was straight up embarrassing.
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00:35:23.260 --> 00:35:25.920
Whatever we need to figure this out, bag skate yourself
606
00:35:25.940 --> 00:35:27.380
without the coach coming out there and telling you to
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00:35:27.420 --> 00:35:31.389
do it and just get it figured out. Because you
608
00:35:31.409 --> 00:35:33.610
don't have time to sit here and go like, oh, three,
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00:35:33.650 --> 00:35:35.130
four games. We'll figure it out in three, four games,
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00:35:35.230 --> 00:35:37.969
five games, six games, seven games. Because then that starts
611
00:35:37.989 --> 00:35:41.909
to become a losing habit. Just like anything else. It
612
00:35:41.949 --> 00:35:44.880
becomes a habit and then Oh, we fall back into
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00:35:44.929 --> 00:35:46.460
excuse land and blah, blah, blah.
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00:35:46.960 --> 00:35:49.880
Yeah, well, they're going to get their chance against the
615
00:35:49.980 --> 00:35:52.400
Utah Mouth, which is a Western Conference team.
616
00:35:52.420 --> 00:35:54.000
Which are a good team.
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00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:59.039
Last season, the Devils actually did pretty well against Western
618
00:35:59.059 --> 00:36:05.820
Conference teams. So they have Utah on Tuesday. And I
619
00:36:05.860 --> 00:36:07.469
think Saturday, I think that's a 3.30 p.m.
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Eastern start.
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I think it's against the Vancouver Canucks, if I'm not mistaken,
622
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:18.710
on Saturday. So, you know, again, they have some time
623
00:36:18.750 --> 00:36:22.670
in between, you know, the Utah game.
624
00:36:22.969 --> 00:36:23.210
Yeah.
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00:36:24.230 --> 00:36:28.530
Utah game and, you know, the game on Saturday. So
626
00:36:30.389 --> 00:36:33.559
I would expect them to get two wins. But again,
627
00:36:33.619 --> 00:36:35.960
you just don't know which team is going to show up,
628
00:36:36.800 --> 00:36:39.360
you know, but I hope. that they figure things out
629
00:36:39.449 --> 00:36:44.670
in practice, change a couple things, tweak it, and come Tuesday,
630
00:36:44.710 --> 00:36:48.409
I mean, you know, all that excitement on Thursday and
631
00:36:48.449 --> 00:36:53.650
the good feeling of that big win in overtime, that's
632
00:36:53.710 --> 00:36:58.269
long gone. It's over. You know, you got to start
633
00:36:58.309 --> 00:37:01.869
a new streak. Although that was just one game that
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00:37:01.889 --> 00:37:02.210
they won.
635
00:37:04.949 --> 00:37:07.210
Which, hey, let's be honest, they're lucky they won that game.
636
00:37:08.730 --> 00:37:11.269
That could have gone either way. That could have gone
637
00:37:11.349 --> 00:37:14.289
either way. And if they started the season 0-2, it's
638
00:37:14.349 --> 00:37:17.360
not the end of the world. Like, here we go, like,
639
00:37:17.449 --> 00:37:20.840
feeling of this ebbs and flows, especially during this podcast of, like,
640
00:37:20.889 --> 00:37:23.519
my emotion of how I feel about the team and
641
00:37:23.539 --> 00:37:26.960
the game. You get back into the, like, all right,
642
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:29.340
all right, all right. Like, talk sense into yourself. By
643
00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:36.300
the way, Selectaboy said eight times. And Robert confirmed that.
644
00:37:36.320 --> 00:37:39.500
So last year we got shut out eight times. That's just,
645
00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:41.519
that's just wow.
646
00:37:43.070 --> 00:37:44.389
Yeah. Wow.
647
00:37:44.449 --> 00:37:44.730
Wow.
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00:37:44.789 --> 00:37:45.050
Wow.
649
00:37:45.110 --> 00:37:52.130
Wow. But anyways, yeah. So I, uh, this team, this
650
00:37:52.170 --> 00:37:54.409
team can get it, get it together. I feel like
651
00:37:54.650 --> 00:37:57.230
Sonny's put together a good enough squad where it's like,
652
00:37:57.289 --> 00:38:00.320
you know what, we'll, we'll figure this out. Now Chisholm
653
00:38:00.380 --> 00:38:02.699
is somebody that I've been kind of keeping a close
654
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:08.280
eye on. Um, In the home opener, there's a few
655
00:38:08.320 --> 00:38:11.590
times where he's shooting the pucks in defeat, and that
656
00:38:11.619 --> 00:38:16.349
puck is coming back at him really quickly. I would
657
00:38:16.389 --> 00:38:18.829
like to see the under-the-hood stats of how he actually
658
00:38:18.869 --> 00:38:25.269
did in these first two games. But overall, defensively, there's
659
00:38:25.429 --> 00:38:32.170
some breakdowns that happened. That Islanders game, there's three goals
660
00:38:32.269 --> 00:38:35.309
specifically I could point to to be like, well, this
661
00:38:35.710 --> 00:38:39.219
would have been okay if our defense didn't absolutely just
662
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:44.980
forget what they were doing out there. But yeah, this
663
00:38:45.039 --> 00:38:49.900
Tuesday is big. The following game is big. Hopefully get
664
00:38:50.099 --> 00:38:55.880
into a nice little streak of we always say 3-1, 3-1, 3-1, right?
665
00:38:55.900 --> 00:38:58.119
So if you're winning three and losing one, you put
666
00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:01.840
yourself in a really good position for that. But they
667
00:39:01.860 --> 00:39:04.039
don't have time to screw around, man. They do not
668
00:39:04.099 --> 00:39:05.079
have time to screw around.
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Yeah. Robert Isinson says, Keefe will get 30 games to
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00:39:12.179 --> 00:39:15.659
figure this out. But if he's sent packing, there'll be
671
00:39:15.860 --> 00:39:19.150
third or fourth coach with this quarter, you know, burns through.
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00:39:19.769 --> 00:39:23.190
But just remember, I think part of why Sheldon Keefe
673
00:39:24.110 --> 00:39:29.690
is still here was for Sonny, you know, clean slate
674
00:39:29.710 --> 00:39:34.420
with Sonny. but again not Sonny's guy but it gives
675
00:39:34.539 --> 00:39:40.280
another option for Sonny to make changes because look if
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00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:42.760
Sonny brought in his own guy and then you have
677
00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:46.369
a horrible start it's like you can't you can't make
678
00:39:46.409 --> 00:39:49.300
a change Because you still need, you know, you still
679
00:39:49.340 --> 00:39:51.820
need time with the new guy to, you know, the
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00:39:51.860 --> 00:39:55.639
new coach to get things going. I mean, you don't
681
00:39:55.659 --> 00:39:58.690
want to be, you know, especially with this bunch, you've
682
00:39:59.469 --> 00:40:01.130
got to have some kind of continuity.
683
00:40:03.309 --> 00:40:04.230
And, again, I.
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00:40:06.050 --> 00:40:09.150
Know it's just one game, but the body of work
685
00:40:09.190 --> 00:40:13.530
of these two games, small sample size, I don't think
686
00:40:13.550 --> 00:40:16.909
the Devils are playing that great. Mm-hmm.
687
00:40:20.389 --> 00:40:23.050
Well, two games, man. Two games. They have plenty of
688
00:40:23.090 --> 00:40:25.030
time to figure this out. You know, they have plenty
689
00:40:25.070 --> 00:40:29.429
of time to kind of put things into a rearview mirror.
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Like you said, all the good vibes of Tuesday night
691
00:40:32.699 --> 00:40:36.159
or Thursday night, rather, are gone. But at the same time,
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00:40:36.340 --> 00:40:46.139
so are the feelings of Saturday. So. Just as easy
693
00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:48.849
as those good vibes and everything else has gone out
694
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of picture and out of sight, out of mind, out
695
00:40:50.969 --> 00:40:53.449
of sight, whatever, they have to be able to do
696
00:40:53.489 --> 00:40:55.409
that with the loss. They have to look at the
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00:40:55.429 --> 00:40:59.969
6-0 loss and be like, that was embarrassing, but we
698
00:41:00.010 --> 00:41:01.699
move on. And I can almost guarantee you that's the
699
00:41:01.739 --> 00:41:03.599
message in the locker room, and I can guarantee if
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you ask any of the players, they'll say the same thing.
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Because there's not a single one of them that will say,
702
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oh man, I can't stop thinking about it. I can't eat.
703
00:41:12.849 --> 00:41:15.659
I can't sleep. All I think about is losing 6-0.
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They don't care. That's gone. That game is behind them.
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It sucked. It was Timo Meier's 700th game. I could
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be wrong. I think I heard Amanda Stein saying that
707
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he was the third Swiss-born player to reach 700 games.
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I might be wrong about that number. But yeah, it's
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I think they'll be all right. I think they'll be
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all right.
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Yep.
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All right.
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Well, before we end the podcast, really sad. This happened
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a few hours before we went on air for Game
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Day Live yesterday. Lyle Odewine passing away suddenly. I think
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Friday night, word came out. Grant Marshall talked about him.
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on air, played with Lyle when he was in Columbus.
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Not with the Devils, but with Columbus. And, you know,
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and Grant finding out 25 minutes, you know, before he
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went on air. He didn't know. He didn't know when
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he was at the bar. That's when he found out.
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I guess somebody told him. So, you know, again, like,
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Claude Lemieux, Lyle, I'm assuming that the Devils are going
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00:42:37.269 --> 00:42:42.079
to make, you know, A silent tribute to Lyle. He
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was one of my favorite players. One of my favorite
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players because he was tough. He was physical. He had
727
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your back.
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He would always smile every fight. Every fight he was
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always smiling.
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And he was a character. Like hearing stories of him
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shooting the puck at the other team's bench just to
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start trouble. You know, I mean, he was legendary. But
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later in life, I guess he had health issues. And, again,
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really sad. He was one of my, definitely one of
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my favorite players in the late 90s, Lyle Odeline. Passing away,
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I think he was 57 years old of a sudden
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00:43:26.489 --> 00:43:35.289
heart attack. So, you know, again, it's sad. But, you know.
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Rest in peace, Lyle. Yeah.
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Yeah, it's tough, man. And it's, you know, I hate
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to say it, but you see these guys out on
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the ice and you think they're invincible. And sometimes there's
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other things going on behind the scenes. You know, like
743
00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:57.360
Claude Lemieux had a lot of things going on. It's sad.
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00:43:57.619 --> 00:44:00.719
It really is sad. And it really puts the human
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side to it where, you know, we talk about these
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players sometimes and we we cheer them on or we
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00:44:07.170 --> 00:44:10.519
boo them either way. Uh, sometimes you have guys on
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the team that you love and they move on to
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another team and you say horrible things about them, but
750
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:18.099
we also have to remember that these guys are human
751
00:44:18.139 --> 00:44:23.090
beings too. So, uh, you know, it's, it's tough to see, uh,
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00:44:23.260 --> 00:44:26.829
a former player, um, pass away at such a young age,
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00:44:27.809 --> 00:44:31.050
you know, condolences to his family and friends and everyone. But, uh,
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you know, hopefully, uh, hopefully the team can go out
755
00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:39.920
there and have an inspiring game on Tuesday. Another, another
756
00:44:39.960 --> 00:44:41.860
good reason to go put out a good, a good
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00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:42.900
effort there. Yeah.
758
00:44:43.139 --> 00:44:46.809
Wimpy says he was old school hockey. Lyle said, uh,
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a lot was an old classic dinosaur devil's heaven. Um,
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00:44:51.900 --> 00:44:54.219
NY Davison, the old line was example of a guy
761
00:44:54.260 --> 00:44:58.039
that played with edge. Um, you know, Maria says very
762
00:44:58.079 --> 00:45:02.949
sad losing so many hockey guys, RIP, uh, Far from perfect,
763
00:45:02.969 --> 00:45:08.639
but played a heavy brand of hockey. Said before, Devil's Heaven,
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he passed away, I think, a sudden heart attack. Also,
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before we get to final thoughts, I want to address something.
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00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:18.900
I want to be careful when I say this. Devil's
767
00:45:18.940 --> 00:45:22.079
Heaven says, Sam, what's going on with the BS bars
768
00:45:22.219 --> 00:45:24.320
in Jersey? Drinks outside? LOL.
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00:45:24.420 --> 00:45:26.320
All right.
770
00:45:29.219 --> 00:45:31.530
I have some information, but I don't want to give it.
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00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:34.489
you know, full disclosure on it. I texted to you
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00:45:34.550 --> 00:45:39.010
beer Baron, uh, earlier. I will say that Frank is
773
00:45:39.110 --> 00:45:45.289
working on it. Frank, the tank at American whiskey and
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00:45:46.489 --> 00:45:49.389
come Tuesday. I think you guys are going to like
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00:45:50.090 --> 00:45:52.610
what he, what he has done. I'll just put it
776
00:45:52.650 --> 00:45:58.130
that about, um, drinks outside the big stage, the big
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00:45:58.170 --> 00:46:00.409
stage will be out there. And I think that should
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00:46:00.429 --> 00:46:05.190
be your clue. And we could talk about it afterwards
779
00:46:05.989 --> 00:46:08.460
if it comes into fruition. But I know Frank the
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00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:10.280
Tank is working on it. And I think you'll be
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00:46:10.380 --> 00:46:13.480
very pleased and happy on Tuesday when you go to
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00:46:13.539 --> 00:46:17.670
American Whiskey that it's going to be a lot of fun.
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00:46:18.409 --> 00:46:22.730
That's all. I'll just leave it at that. So anyway,
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final thoughts.
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Final thoughts are we're going to step out of the
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hockey world and give a big shout out to the
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New York Giants who've got a 3-1 record right now
788
00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:36.760
and sitting on top of the NFC East. Not the
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00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:39.679
prettiest wins in back-to-back weeks. They have to seal the
790
00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:43.300
deal with an interception in the end zone, which is
791
00:46:44.980 --> 00:46:49.019
not the most ideal way to win a game. But
792
00:46:49.059 --> 00:46:51.099
it's nice to see them winning and it's nice to
793
00:46:51.139 --> 00:46:54.820
see things going okay over there. Hopefully the Devils can
794
00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:57.219
follow suit Because it would be nice to have a
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00:46:57.280 --> 00:46:59.199
couple winning teams. And the Yankees be in the playoffs
796
00:46:59.219 --> 00:47:01.760
too right now. Even though they lost to the Rays
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00:47:01.780 --> 00:47:05.739
the other night. So, listen. I root for winning teams.
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That's all I can say. I was born the right way.
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That's all. Let's get the Devils back on the winning track.
800
00:47:13.590 --> 00:47:17.750
Yeah. I echo that sentiment. New York football giants. You know,
801
00:47:17.789 --> 00:47:19.570
you and I are Giants fans. I know there's Jets
802
00:47:19.610 --> 00:47:21.789
fans that follow this podcast.
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But.
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You know, I had a really horrible sports weekend, Penn State,
805
00:47:25.320 --> 00:47:29.619
getting blown out by Northwestern. My college football season is
806
00:47:29.659 --> 00:47:36.539
now over. Devils getting blown out 6-0 yesterday. But seeing
807
00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:38.519
the Giants win, I was like, ah, it gives me hope.
808
00:47:38.539 --> 00:47:40.900
It gives me hope for the Devils. You know, it
809
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:44.179
gets you in that, you know, fun mindset of sports.
810
00:47:45.190 --> 00:47:52.250
But my final thoughts– Come to the podcast on Tuesday
811
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as the big stage will be out. And like I said,
812
00:47:56.610 --> 00:48:01.570
answering Devil's Heaven's question, things are going to be made
813
00:48:01.670 --> 00:48:04.190
right on Edison Place. That's all I'm going to say.
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On that note, it's time to go. We're going to
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put up the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify,
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Amazon Music Prime, Audible, and on the iHeart app. as
817
00:48:24.210 --> 00:48:28.909
trying to find the music here. I was just searching
818
00:48:28.969 --> 00:48:37.400
and searching. I was searching every button. But yeah, we'll
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be back. Maybe I'll be back tomorrow.
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I'm not sure.
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But until then, let's go Devils.