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At the end of the day, it's up to me.
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I gotta do a better job with them to to to teach them.
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I'm making you feel guilty here.
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So but uh You are.
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You are yeah Did any of your friends ask for free furniture?
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I still could ask for free furniture.
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My mom kind of forced me into it.
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Wanted to check my teeth at night.
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All right, everybody, welcome to a brand new season of Ground Control the Podcast.
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I'm Jamie Thomas, your host, and pleased to welcome to the uh uh the podcast, uh Gustav Nyquist, one of the newest members of the Winnipeg Jets.
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I just apologize to you before we came on this.
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I'm in the dining room.
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We have a really cool set.
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You're gonna have to believe me on this one, um, but uh it'll be renovated here pretty soon in the future here.
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But uh just quickly for everybody, uh Gus, we talked about this in the dressing room the other day at your first media availability.
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Uh, you know, there's as a free agent, there are so many options for a player out there.
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Uh, why did you choose to be a Winnipeg Jet?
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No, I think the main thing just looking at what this team's done the last uh few years and and um uh you know just how good of a hockey team it is, uh for me, that's you know, that's that's that's a priority right now in my career.
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Um, you know, obviously haven't haven't won uh won the ultimate goal yet of a Stanley Cup and something that that I'd love to do uh um before my time's over.
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So so um hockey-wise, it's an incredible opportunity for me to come play and a really good team and excited to be here.
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Obviously, you have some familiarity with the Central Division because you've played in Minnesota and and Nashville, so you understand the schedule and the grind that comes with it.
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Uh after playing the Eastern Conference with Columbus for such a long time, how have you adapted to the Central Division you know travel schedule?
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Yeah, uh a little more travel, uh, but but uh but it's still, I mean, you know what, uh all teams go through it in their own way, anyways.
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So um it's it's a tough schedule for for everyone.
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And obviously this year is going to be a little more uh even so with with uh with the Olympic break bleep being a little longer, so um a few few more games in a in a shorter period of time there.
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So so uh um, but you know, everyone goes through it, so it is it is what it is.
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Well, you had a little bit of taste of it last year because of Four Nations face-off and the schedule being a little bit more compressed.
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Is there any change to your routines when the schedule gets as tight as it is and and there's there's fewer and day fewer days off in between?
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Um I think it's more the change is probably more common from coaches.
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You know, obviously you can't you can probably practice as much as as as we usually uh as you usually could in a in a normal year.
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So that's probably the only thing that that really changes uh uh for for uh for us as a team.
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So you've you've only been here a short time.
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Did you kind of know early on before training camp started that you'd be with Jonathan Taves and and Cole Profetti on the Jet Second Line?
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I mean, we I'd had some conversations with with coach and stuff like that where it would fit in, but but uh um you know uh obviously group two great players and really excited to to um get to know them here in camp and and uh just had the one preseason game, thought there was some some good, some bad, some some things that could get better, but but thought we had uh um a couple good shifts, so hopefully we can build off that.
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They're two obviously great players, so I'm I'm happy to be playing with those guys.
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Uh what are your thoughts on the preseason?
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Is it just a necessary evil or do you really do you need those games to get ready for the regular season?
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Because you've been in the league for a long time, guys.
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Yeah.
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Um, well, I think it depends on your situation a little bit.
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You know, I think uh younger guy probably wants to have the chance to, you know, those those that's where you really kind of show yourself, I think, in games.
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It's it's hard to judge in practice, and and uh you need to play games, and and uh I think even you know, me and Taser coming into a new, I think anytime you change teams and come into an new organization, I think it can help for sure to to get maybe a couple extra games.
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But um, you know, maybe if you're a little older and you've played for the same team, you you could probably be without a couple.
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So so I think it's it's all it's all about your situation, basically.
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You you were you were a younger man in this game for the longest time.
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I'm just really curious what made you decide to come to North America one and choose the NCAA uh as your first taste of North American hockey.
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Yeah, um, good question.
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Um in Sweden you can't really do uh both.
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You get you after you're done your your high school, you kind of have to choose to go pro or you go to university and study.
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And uh I think uh for me, just to have the chance to get an education if hockey doesn't work out, I think I was probably pretty realistic when with realizing that that it's pretty you need to get lucky and and you a lot of things have to have to align if you're gonna make it all the way.
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And um, you know, I thought it'd be a uh a good idea to have something to fall back on if you know you get hurt or or if hockey doesn't work out for you all the way.
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So so I think that was really um something that stood out to me and and just a cool experience to to go and and kind of um obviously the big goal was to make the NHL and you know try the small ranks a little bit and stuff like that.
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Right.
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And so when when you're at the University of Maine, what was your what was your uh focus in terms of studying and um what was your interest?
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Um well you start off kind of figuring it out, but I ended up going to business finance and and uh um here I am talking about this school, so I I never finished, I never graduated, so so uh well you were interested at the time.
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You had good intentions.
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Yeah, I I have I have about just over a semester left, so but I've also had that for 14 years now.
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So I I don't know.
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We'll we'll see if I if I do it or not.
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Yeah, do you do you think you will?
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Like, I mean you're uh when you retire, do you think you should be able to do that?
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I mean I say I hope I do, but yeah, we'll well I think we'll I'll I'll let that be unanswered.
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We'll we'll we'll uh we'll see how it goes after.
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Well, you you have some distractions too.
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Like you have a small you have a family and everything like that.
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It kind of cuts uh puts the uh the education on the background when you have others uh distracting a little bit, does it not?
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Yeah, a little bit, yeah, no, for sure.
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But it would be nice to get done.
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It was something I'd be proud of for sure.
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And there's guys that that have done it, you know.
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I know I played with uh uh I think McDonough uh when we were in Nashville together.
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I think he finished it then.
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I'm pretty sure.
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But I mean, obviously, there's been plenty of examples that guys that have taken some last classes when when while they're still playing, so it's doable.
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You just gotta put your mind to it.
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Well, did you enjoy class the university like in that aspect?
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I think I enjoyed hockey more, but right.
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Uh but I had a great I had a great experience at Maine.
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Um, you know, uh awesome time.
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Yeah, and it hockey's the big sport there, which was which was a lot of fun.
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The fans were crazy and great.
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They used to tempt outside the night before the big games.
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It was it was pretty wild to see and and uh uh I a lot to be thankful for for uh for Maine.
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When you first came to the National Hockey League all those years ago, did almost 900 career games in the league seem a possibility to you?
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No, probably not.
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I mean, um no, I've been fortunate, you know.
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It's it's it's uh it's been a great journey and and uh a great um um yeah to be part of and it, you know, as I think I was lucky to come into the Detroit system.
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Um, you know, or when I started, it was a little different.
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Uh um you were young at 30 on that team.
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I I remember I walked into a lock uh locker and it was uh pretty uh pretty big names.
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Um it was a little intimidating, but but uh um few, you know, a lot of those veterans uh still you know friends for life and it took took uh took me under their, you know, kind of mentored me and and uh um really really good organization to come to for me personally, with with the with all the Swedes kind of showing me the ropes.
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Yeah, certainly Detroit has had plenty of success with the Swedish players uh over their history.
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But who in particular would you say stands out in terms of taking you underneath their wing when you when you join the Red Wings?
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No, I think it was uh Cronwell and and Zetterberg, both those guys meant uh uh a tremendous amount for my career, and we still uh stay in touch uh uh a lot.
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So so uh no, those two guys kind of yeah, took me under their wing and stayed at uh uh their places and uh their homes.
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And and yeah, no, they they they meant a lot to my career for sure.
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Gus, like Swedes spent a lot of Swedes stories, spend a lot of time learning English.
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Over your time here in the in the National Hockey Constantine College, did any of your teammates try to learn Swedish at all?
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And if you make such a huge effort to learn English, right?
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So before you come over, um I've always wondered if these if these guy teammates try to learn Swedish, is it because it's too hard or is it just like I I've always wondered about that?
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Yeah, yeah, it's probably too hard.
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I mean, well, them I'm sure they all could if they put their you know into it.
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But but uh uh no, I uh well I it wouldn't probably wouldn't be the most most useful language outside of you know in the world to to to learn.
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Uh but no one's uh no one's really tried, I guess.
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I I've seriously always wonder that because it's just like I mean, what a what an advantage that would be if you learned Swedish a little bit too, if you ever decide to go play pro in Sweden when you you know a little bit later in life.
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But it so having learned English and knowing Swedish, do you feel that English is harder to learn, you know, or Swedish would you feel having spoken very well, both very well?
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I I I think Swedish would probably be a little bit harder to learn, I think, because of our we have three extra letters, we have some weird pronunciations and stuff like that.
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But yeah, um, but everyone the hard part.
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I mean, my wife's American, my kids, they they're all American.
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They um I've done a terrible job at at at teaching them to speak Swedish.
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So they only get it in the summer.
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The problem is Sweden.
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We start learning English so early, right?
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First first grade, we have English classes, so everyone is very willing and very good at speaking English.
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So they're hap more than happy to start speaking English to when I really want them to speak Swedish to my kids when they're home.
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So uh for them to learn a little bit.
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So um it is what it is, but it's it's at the end of the day, it's up to me.
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I gotta do a better job with them to teach them.
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I'm making you feel guilty here.
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So but you are, you are, yeah.
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Uh listen, there's a lot of things you gotta you gotta change when you come to a new team, but I've always wondered about warm-up routines.
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Like there's a limited amount of ice out there when you guys are going through warm-up and you have everyone has their own routine.
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How do you work yours in without running into others uh during that crazy time with uh before a hockey game?
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Yeah, I mean, coming to a new team, it's always you kind of have to uh there it takes a few games to kind of you you kind of want to do your thing, but you kind of kind of go with the flow too.
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And and there's some you know, stretching spots on the ice that you probably guys you know typically sit at.
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You gotta kinda kind of find your spot there, not run into people.
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But so it probably takes a few games to kind of get into groove.
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You might have to change some things, but but usually you can kind of do do what you've been doing for for the the the warmups itself is fairly similar to most teams run the same drills, right?
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Yeah, there's not I've I see the same drills in warm-up that I saw when I was a minor hockey.
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Exactly.
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Just like there's got to be something new out there.
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So is it stressful when you first step on the ice and you're doing your warm up routine?
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Because a lot of guys are superstitious and they have to do their their set routine most times to feel comfortable heading into a hockey game.
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Yeah, luckily I'm not too superstitious, so I don't need uh I don't need uh any special things done really.
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I mean, yeah, I do the same things, but if it doesn't get done at a certain point or a certain way, it's I'm not gonna spend too much time uh I know it won't.
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So so uh uh warm-ups I'm I'm I'm okay with.
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I did some deep research on this one.
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Uh there's over 25 different hockey cards out there of you from your time in the National Hockey League.
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Do you have any of those?
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Do you keep any of them around, or was it a novelty when you first came to the league to have a hockey cart?
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Hockey cart.
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Uh yeah, I mean, I usually you get send some to you from the company sort of the PA or something.
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So I have a big box at home just to keep to you know, give away to friends, kids, or or whatever.
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So um you do collect over a few years.
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How many you said?
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Did you say I have there's over 25 different individual cards of you out there?
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Okay, yeah, probably means you don't play for a lot of teams on top of teaching against Swedish, it's catch getting all 25 of your cards out there.
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Yeah, I I definitely don't have all 25, I'll tell you that.
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Tell me this: who was your favorite player growing up?
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Um, Peter Forceberg, I would say.
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Okay.
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That's one that stands out.
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So when you got to meet him, was it exciting?
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What was that like?
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You know what?
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I I I think I just shook his hand quickly once.
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I've never really had a chance to talk to him, so I I guess that's we'll see you'll see when I do.
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Right.
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And then favorite favorite non-Swedish player.
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That's a good one.
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That's a good question.
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I I was I I was all I was always the Swedes.
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Uh yeah, for sure.
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Delani probably sticks out, you know.
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I should probably stuck in the guys, yeah.
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It's okay.
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Yeah, I mean, probably not, but he's a good player.
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Yeah, I think I think it'd be okay on that one.
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Yeah, maybe Yager stuck out too probably, stood out.
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Yeah, so yeah, there's a couple of good choices.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Can can you can you explain to me, like, we always like here over in North America, when the world hockey championships are on, it's mid-May and hawk and Stanica playoffs are going on.
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Can you kind of speak to how huge of an event the world hockey championships are at that time of year for and for everybody in Europe?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, it's it's such a big event, and obviously, uh um you know, coming to last year was in Sweden, uh, which is uh it's really cool to see the country come together and and cheer you on like that.
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And and um, you know, I was fortunate to uh win gold in 2018 um in Copenhagen, and uh crowd was amazing, and and and it's so cool coming back to Stockholm, your your your capital city.
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They they shut down the the big square and you know, thousands of people kind of gather and and kind of shows you how big the sport is back home.
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So so that was a pretty cool feeling.
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Now we've seen a lot of Stanley Cup parades get a little crazy in terms of partying.
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Uh, what's that like for a world hockey championship celebration, especially with that many that many people celebrating with you at losing uh winning a big event like that?
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Yeah, no, you there's a couple good days there uh partying, but but uh typically you kind of split up problem.
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I mean, I would assume a little faster in the world championship because you know you've you're going separate ways and you don't you don't have a home base in the in the in the city that you want in.
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So you you're on your way kind of fast, I think.
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Um, where I would assume the this Stanley Cup celebration would probably continue on a little bit longer in the in the city you want.
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Well, listen, last one for you before I let you go, because it's we've got a long road ahead before the regular season start.
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But what's what's got you excited the most about opening night when you when Dallas comes to town and you become, you know, you officially become a Winnipeg jet that night.
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Yeah, no, it's it it's gonna be great.
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Um you know, playing playing many games, sess and away team in this building.
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I know the crowds, crowd's incredible here, and and to be part of this organization now and you know start our our journey for this season is is is exciting.
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I think everyone in that room is is is already thinking about that that first night against Dallas.
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So we're all excited and gonna be ready to go.
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Well, really appreciate your time and listening.
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Best of luck to you this season and and welcome to Winnipeg.
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Awesome.
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Thank you so much.
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At the end of the day, it's up to me.
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I gotta do a better job with them to to to teach them.
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I'm making you feel guilty here.
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So but uh You are.
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You are yeah Did any of your friends ask for free furniture?
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I still could ask for free furniture.
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My mom kind of forced me into it.
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Wanted to check my teeth at night.
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All right, everybody, welcome to a brand new season of Ground Control the Podcast.
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I'm Jamie Thomas, your host, and pleased to welcome to the uh uh the podcast, uh Gustav Nyquist, one of the newest members of the Winnipeg Jets.
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I just apologize to you before we came on this.
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I'm in the dining room.
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We have a really cool set.
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You're gonna have to believe me on this one, um, but uh it'll be renovated here pretty soon in the future here.
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But uh just quickly for everybody, uh Gus, we talked about this in the dressing room the other day at your first media availability.
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Uh, you know, there's as a free agent, there are so many options for a player out there.
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Uh, why did you choose to be a Winnipeg Jet?
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No, I think the main thing just looking at what this team's done the last uh few years and and um uh you know just how good of a hockey team it is, uh for me, that's you know, that's that's that's a priority right now in my career.
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Um, you know, obviously haven't haven't won uh won the ultimate goal yet of a Stanley Cup and something that that I'd love to do uh um before my time's over.
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So so um hockey-wise, it's an incredible opportunity for me to come play and a really good team and excited to be here.
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Obviously, you have some familiarity with the Central Division because you've played in Minnesota and and Nashville, so you understand the schedule and the grind that comes with it.
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Uh after playing the Eastern Conference with Columbus for such a long time, how have you adapted to the Central Division you know travel schedule?
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Yeah, uh a little more travel, uh, but but uh but it's still, I mean, you know what, uh all teams go through it in their own way, anyways.
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So um it's it's a tough schedule for for everyone.
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And obviously this year is going to be a little more uh even so with with uh with the Olympic break bleep being a little longer, so um a few few more games in a in a shorter period of time there.
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So so uh um, but you know, everyone goes through it, so it is it is what it is.
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Well, you had a little bit of taste of it last year because of Four Nations face-off and the schedule being a little bit more compressed.
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Is there any change to your routines when the schedule gets as tight as it is and and there's there's fewer and day fewer days off in between?
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Um I think it's more the change is probably more common from coaches.
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You know, obviously you can't you can probably practice as much as as as we usually uh as you usually could in a in a normal year.
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So that's probably the only thing that that really changes uh uh for for uh for us as a team.
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So you've you've only been here a short time.
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Did you kind of know early on before training camp started that you'd be with Jonathan Taves and and Cole Profetti on the Jet Second Line?
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I mean, we I'd had some conversations with with coach and stuff like that where it would fit in, but but uh um you know uh obviously group two great players and really excited to to um get to know them here in camp and and uh just had the one preseason game, thought there was some some good, some bad, some some things that could get better, but but thought we had uh um a couple good shifts, so hopefully we can build off that.
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They're two obviously great players, so I'm I'm happy to be playing with those guys.
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Uh what are your thoughts on the preseason?
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Is it just a necessary evil or do you really do you need those games to get ready for the regular season?
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Because you've been in the league for a long time, guys.
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Yeah.
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Um, well, I think it depends on your situation a little bit.
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You know, I think uh younger guy probably wants to have the chance to, you know, those those that's where you really kind of show yourself, I think, in games.
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It's it's hard to judge in practice, and and uh you need to play games, and and uh I think even you know, me and Taser coming into a new, I think anytime you change teams and come into an new organization, I think it can help for sure to to get maybe a couple extra games.
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But um, you know, maybe if you're a little older and you've played for the same team, you you could probably be without a couple.
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So so I think it's it's all it's all about your situation, basically.
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You you were you were a younger man in this game for the longest time.
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I'm just really curious what made you decide to come to North America one and choose the NCAA uh as your first taste of North American hockey.
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Yeah, um, good question.
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Um in Sweden you can't really do uh both.
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You get you after you're done your your high school, you kind of have to choose to go pro or you go to university and study.
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And uh I think uh for me, just to have the chance to get an education if hockey doesn't work out, I think I was probably pretty realistic when with realizing that that it's pretty you need to get lucky and and you a lot of things have to have to align if you're gonna make it all the way.
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And um, you know, I thought it'd be a uh a good idea to have something to fall back on if you know you get hurt or or if hockey doesn't work out for you all the way.
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So so I think that was really um something that stood out to me and and just a cool experience to to go and and kind of um obviously the big goal was to make the NHL and you know try the small ranks a little bit and stuff like that.
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Right.
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And so when when you're at the University of Maine, what was your what was your uh focus in terms of studying and um what was your interest?
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Um well you start off kind of figuring it out, but I ended up going to business finance and and uh um here I am talking about this school, so I I never finished, I never graduated, so so uh well you were interested at the time.
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You had good intentions.
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Yeah, I I have I have about just over a semester left, so but I've also had that for 14 years now.
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So I I don't know.
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We'll we'll see if I if I do it or not.
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Yeah, do you do you think you will?
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Like, I mean you're uh when you retire, do you think you should be able to do that?
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I mean I say I hope I do, but yeah, we'll well I think we'll I'll I'll let that be unanswered.
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We'll we'll we'll uh we'll see how it goes after.
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Well, you you have some distractions too.
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Like you have a small you have a family and everything like that.
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It kind of cuts uh puts the uh the education on the background when you have others uh distracting a little bit, does it not?
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Yeah, a little bit, yeah, no, for sure.
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But it would be nice to get done.
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It was something I'd be proud of for sure.
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And there's guys that that have done it, you know.
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I know I played with uh uh I think McDonough uh when we were in Nashville together.
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I think he finished it then.
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I'm pretty sure.
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But I mean, obviously, there's been plenty of examples that guys that have taken some last classes when when while they're still playing, so it's doable.
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You just gotta put your mind to it.
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Well, did you enjoy class the university like in that aspect?
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I think I enjoyed hockey more, but right.
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Uh but I had a great I had a great experience at Maine.
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Um, you know, uh awesome time.
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Yeah, and it hockey's the big sport there, which was which was a lot of fun.
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The fans were crazy and great.
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They used to tempt outside the night before the big games.
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It was it was pretty wild to see and and uh uh I a lot to be thankful for for uh for Maine.
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When you first came to the National Hockey League all those years ago, did almost 900 career games in the league seem a possibility to you?
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No, probably not.
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I mean, um no, I've been fortunate, you know.
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It's it's it's uh it's been a great journey and and uh a great um um yeah to be part of and it, you know, as I think I was lucky to come into the Detroit system.
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Um, you know, or when I started, it was a little different.
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Uh um you were young at 30 on that team.
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I I remember I walked into a lock uh locker and it was uh pretty uh pretty big names.
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Um it was a little intimidating, but but uh um few, you know, a lot of those veterans uh still you know friends for life and it took took uh took me under their, you know, kind of mentored me and and uh um really really good organization to come to for me personally, with with the with all the Swedes kind of showing me the ropes.
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Yeah, certainly Detroit has had plenty of success with the Swedish players uh over their history.
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But who in particular would you say stands out in terms of taking you underneath their wing when you when you join the Red Wings?
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No, I think it was uh Cronwell and and Zetterberg, both those guys meant uh uh a tremendous amount for my career, and we still uh stay in touch uh uh a lot.
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So so uh no, those two guys kind of yeah, took me under their wing and stayed at uh uh their places and uh their homes.
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And and yeah, no, they they they meant a lot to my career for sure.
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Gus, like Swedes spent a lot of Swedes stories, spend a lot of time learning English.
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Over your time here in the in the National Hockey Constantine College, did any of your teammates try to learn Swedish at all?
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And if you make such a huge effort to learn English, right?
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So before you come over, um I've always wondered if these if these guy teammates try to learn Swedish, is it because it's too hard or is it just like I I've always wondered about that?
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Yeah, yeah, it's probably too hard.
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I mean, well, them I'm sure they all could if they put their you know into it.
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But but uh uh no, I uh well I it wouldn't probably wouldn't be the most most useful language outside of you know in the world to to to learn.
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Uh but no one's uh no one's really tried, I guess.
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I I've seriously always wonder that because it's just like I mean, what a what an advantage that would be if you learned Swedish a little bit too, if you ever decide to go play pro in Sweden when you you know a little bit later in life.
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But it so having learned English and knowing Swedish, do you feel that English is harder to learn, you know, or Swedish would you feel having spoken very well, both very well?
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I I I think Swedish would probably be a little bit harder to learn, I think, because of our we have three extra letters, we have some weird pronunciations and stuff like that.
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But yeah, um, but everyone the hard part.
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I mean, my wife's American, my kids, they they're all American.
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They um I've done a terrible job at at at teaching them to speak Swedish.
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So they only get it in the summer.
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The problem is Sweden.
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We start learning English so early, right?
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First first grade, we have English classes, so everyone is very willing and very good at speaking English.
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So they're hap more than happy to start speaking English to when I really want them to speak Swedish to my kids when they're home.
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So uh for them to learn a little bit.
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So um it is what it is, but it's it's at the end of the day, it's up to me.
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I gotta do a better job with them to teach them.
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I'm making you feel guilty here.
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So but you are, you are, yeah.
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Uh listen, there's a lot of things you gotta you gotta change when you come to a new team, but I've always wondered about warm-up routines.
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Like there's a limited amount of ice out there when you guys are going through warm-up and you have everyone has their own routine.
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How do you work yours in without running into others uh during that crazy time with uh before a hockey game?
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Yeah, I mean, coming to a new team, it's always you kind of have to uh there it takes a few games to kind of you you kind of want to do your thing, but you kind of kind of go with the flow too.
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And and there's some you know, stretching spots on the ice that you probably guys you know typically sit at.
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You gotta kinda kind of find your spot there, not run into people.
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But so it probably takes a few games to kind of get into groove.
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You might have to change some things, but but usually you can kind of do do what you've been doing for for the the the warmups itself is fairly similar to most teams run the same drills, right?
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Yeah, there's not I've I see the same drills in warm-up that I saw when I was a minor hockey.
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Exactly.
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Just like there's got to be something new out there.
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So is it stressful when you first step on the ice and you're doing your warm up routine?
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Because a lot of guys are superstitious and they have to do their their set routine most times to feel comfortable heading into a hockey game.
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Yeah, luckily I'm not too superstitious, so I don't need uh I don't need uh any special things done really.
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I mean, yeah, I do the same things, but if it doesn't get done at a certain point or a certain way, it's I'm not gonna spend too much time uh I know it won't.
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So so uh uh warm-ups I'm I'm I'm okay with.
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I did some deep research on this one.
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Uh there's over 25 different hockey cards out there of you from your time in the National Hockey League.
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Do you have any of those?
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Do you keep any of them around, or was it a novelty when you first came to the league to have a hockey cart?
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Hockey cart.
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Uh yeah, I mean, I usually you get send some to you from the company sort of the PA or something.
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So I have a big box at home just to keep to you know, give away to friends, kids, or or whatever.
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So um you do collect over a few years.
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How many you said?
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Did you say I have there's over 25 different individual cards of you out there?
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Okay, yeah, probably means you don't play for a lot of teams on top of teaching against Swedish, it's catch getting all 25 of your cards out there.
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Yeah, I I definitely don't have all 25, I'll tell you that.
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Tell me this: who was your favorite player growing up?
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Um, Peter Forceberg, I would say.
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Okay.
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That's one that stands out.
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So when you got to meet him, was it exciting?
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What was that like?
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You know what?
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I I I think I just shook his hand quickly once.
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I've never really had a chance to talk to him, so I I guess that's we'll see you'll see when I do.
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Right.
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And then favorite favorite non-Swedish player.
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That's a good one.
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That's a good question.
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I I was I I was all I was always the Swedes.
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Uh yeah, for sure.
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Delani probably sticks out, you know.
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I should probably stuck in the guys, yeah.
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It's okay.
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Yeah, I mean, probably not, but he's a good player.
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Yeah, I think I think it'd be okay on that one.
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Yeah, maybe Yager stuck out too probably, stood out.
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Yeah, so yeah, there's a couple of good choices.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Can can you can you explain to me, like, we always like here over in North America, when the world hockey championships are on, it's mid-May and hawk and Stanica playoffs are going on.
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Can you kind of speak to how huge of an event the world hockey championships are at that time of year for and for everybody in Europe?
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Yeah, yeah.
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I mean, it's it's such a big event, and obviously, uh um you know, coming to last year was in Sweden, uh, which is uh it's really cool to see the country come together and and cheer you on like that.
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And and um, you know, I was fortunate to uh win gold in 2018 um in Copenhagen, and uh crowd was amazing, and and and it's so cool coming back to Stockholm, your your your capital city.
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They they shut down the the big square and you know, thousands of people kind of gather and and kind of shows you how big the sport is back home.
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So so that was a pretty cool feeling.
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Now we've seen a lot of Stanley Cup parades get a little crazy in terms of partying.
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Uh, what's that like for a world hockey championship celebration, especially with that many that many people celebrating with you at losing uh winning a big event like that?
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Yeah, no, you there's a couple good days there uh partying, but but uh typically you kind of split up problem.
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I mean, I would assume a little faster in the world championship because you know you've you're going separate ways and you don't you don't have a home base in the in the in the city that you want in.
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So you you're on your way kind of fast, I think.
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Um, where I would assume the this Stanley Cup celebration would probably continue on a little bit longer in the in the city you want.
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Well, listen, last one for you before I let you go, because it's we've got a long road ahead before the regular season start.
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But what's what's got you excited the most about opening night when you when Dallas comes to town and you become, you know, you officially become a Winnipeg jet that night.
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Yeah, no, it's it it's gonna be great.
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Um you know, playing playing many games, sess and away team in this building.
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I know the crowds, crowd's incredible here, and and to be part of this organization now and you know start our our journey for this season is is is exciting.
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I think everyone in that room is is is already thinking about that that first night against Dallas.
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So we're all excited and gonna be ready to go.
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Well, really appreciate your time and listening.
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Best of luck to you this season and and welcome to Winnipeg.
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Awesome.
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Thank you so much.
