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Shimai Powerbach, Kroysa.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Devil's Debrief after the Devils have beaten the Manchester Storm by two goals to nil on Saturday night to kick off their five-game homestand.
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Dan Ruther alongside Gareth Hewish and Neil Francis.
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Gaz, what did you make of that?
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I really enjoyed that.
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I thought it was two teams with full commitment going at it.
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I really liked the tempo of the start of the game.
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I thought both teams came out hard on the four-check.
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I thought the Devils had a really good couple of shifts to start the game, which I thought set a tone.
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Yeah, just two, you know, I I've maybe not after the Cam Christmas interview, but I thought it was two honest teams going at it.
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And it just came down to who won those those battles along the boards and uh in in key areas, and ultimately I think uh we as the as the Devils did enough of that.
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Yeah, guys, I I pretty much was gonna say exactly that.
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I loved how both teams came out.
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Um, Manchester start the you let line, so you they you you felt from that that they wanted to get that kind of jump early on because of how flat they were in the Vindico in the previous game.
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But I thought the Devils start was so good that it didn't actually give Manchester a chance to use that effectively at all because they simply couldn't get near the Devils, and um yeah, yeah, Manchester grew into the game, they they got better and better.
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Uh, but you know, I I really enjoyed the game.
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It was uh it was all action, it was uh you know, long passages of play with a lot of chances and very little stoppages, you know, a bit of drama at the end, I think, yeah, a bit of everything, didn't it?
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Yeah, really, I think it's one of those games that's just easy to watch, isn't it?
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And and you can you can sit back and enjoy it for what it is, and even though there's only uh uh I say a goal, obviously, the anti netter for the second, but the only one cuts on a proper goal in the game, they're still really entertaining those games.
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Yeah, for for Daphna.
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I mean, it would be easy to say that it was a battle of the two goaltenders because I think both were excellent tonight.
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The Ridder made some saves he had no business making.
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You know, we probably had about four point blank, five, six, maybe even point blank attempts, and you know, he saved them because he's got such good lateral speed.
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Stove at the other end, I thought was really good.
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Um, so it'd be easy to say it was a battle of the goaltenders, but I think it was way more than that.
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I think it was um I I I loved a lot of the hockey that we played.
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I thought the power play was absolutely buzzing, even though we didn't get a power play goal.
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You know, the uh the movement, the speed, the chances it was creating, and um recycling possession as well.
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It was uh I thought the devils did that really well tonight.
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Is that they they didn't I've been a bit critical of the Devils in recent weeks for turning over pucks too easily, but I felt tonight they moved the puck away from pressure really, really well and just kept it alive.
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And um yeah, I thought that was a big improvement in the Devils game.
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For me, tonight I thought we looked a lot solid a unit defending as a five again.
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I think the start of the Challenge Cup games, even at homes, it we felt a lot more loose at the back than maybe we did at all last year.
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But I kind of feel like that game in Sheffield last week where we were down some guys, kind of refocused us again.
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And I think we play better now because I think we win more battles, I think we we play for each other just a little bit more when we think about it like that.
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So I was really happy as an overall performance.
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Stover was very good tonight, but we didn't give up cheap breakaways or odd man rushes, or we we didn't make it easy for Manchester to get to Stover, and then once they did get to him, he was imperious.
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So I really felt like it was a lot more togetherness and a lot more as a unit tonight as a as a five, which I loved.
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Yeah, I I really I I think I agree pretty much spot on with that, and I think it forces you to play in a way it almost forces players to not be selfish, and that's not accusing them of being selfish in pre-previous weeks, it just you have to then chip in as a unit, and you know, obviously, then when you're back to pretty much full strength, I know the devil spent 11D tonight and and six at the back, but it makes you play that way, and I really like that.
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And I thought there was you know, in a game where maybe it wasn't quite as physical as we would expect a Manchester game to be, you know, you let didn't he had a few moments, but he didn't really get stuck in the way maybe we would expect him to, and same with Jenyon, apart from the end and and Locke and stuff.
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So I think the devil's dealt with that really well.
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But um, you know, I the the the the big headline out of tonight, of course, is is the the man that that Franny, you you have been pumping the tires off for a long time.
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We've all been pumping his tires to be fair, and and I think tonight was the real arrival of Mr.
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Box Office Bailey, wasn't it, Franny?
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Yeah, I mean we we've spoken about his unpredictability, you don't know what's gonna happen next, and yeah, hence the nickname Box Office Bailey because he is just exciting to watch.
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He is, and you know, he is he's strong, he's got good acceleration, he's got good hands.
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Tonight he had an opportunity, bumped up the uh a line, and you know, he just took it and he just looked threatening throughout, and you know, he got that first goal, which he creates it because he he reads the play really well, so he intercepts a pass, he gets himself in the right in a nice spot to intercept the pass when he goes down.
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You know, he changes the angle of the shot and he gets a quick deceptive shot away through a screen and finds a way past the ridder, which we we couldn't do up to that point.
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And then you know, later on in the game, I mean that that run that he made at the end where he stick handles one way, you know, through a stick, comes back the other way.
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Um and then there was that uh the pass from Yeho, who I thought he was really good tonight.
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I mean he sat up so many chances tonight.
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Um, Bailey has a nice kind of one-two with him.
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Um on another night, box office Bailey could have had three, and Jake Sacratini as well had three or four chances that he will still be wondering how Darida got to them.
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But you know, that is credit to Derida.
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I just really liked tonight just how much of a positive influence uh Hayward had on that entire game.
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Whenever he went out there, there wasn't just an expectation from the crowd that something might happen.
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I I actually think as the game progressed, there was a expectation from the Manchester defence that he was going to influence something.
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And I I think there was a kind of okay, this this kid is coming at us again, we we've got to be careful.
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I loved his little drop pass, uh turning over the pack of the blue line, driving into the zone, getting that drop pass.
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And if if not for a good stick uh in the lane, I I think we probably would have seen a second goal a bit earlier.
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But everything that he did offensively today, I felt really meant something and really created things.
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Uh, and it's just yeah, positive is exactly the word I'd use for tonight.
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It is positive, and it's it's it's a young guy who's driving and just wants to, I think, have fun while he's out there.
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And I think we forget sometimes that the game is meant to be fun, and and Bailey definitely treats that way.
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Same as Jake Sacrettini, Fran.
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I'm glad you mentioned him because I think, yeah, you're right, he had a couple of really good chances tonight, and and Derrida made a couple of saves on those.
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But for Bailey, for me, I think I love his unpredictability.
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I actually love how raw he is to the game.
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Yes, it's not perfect in your own end sometimes, but you're never gonna have a completely perfect player.
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And uh, and I'm sure he drives Paul Thompson up the walls, which is kind of why we love him.
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But uh, yeah, a great performance, and uh and I caught him very briefly after the game.
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Bailey Hayward, man of the match performance.
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What did you make of that one?
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Yeah, no, um, that was a good game.
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I uh felt good and uh happy to get the win.
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You're uh you've got the the the first goal of the goal uh the game, the game-winning goal on it as well.
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Take me through what happened.
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Um I just skated down uh right side of the ice and uh ripped it through the guy and it went in.
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And I'm happy with it.
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Good celebration as well in front of Block 13.
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Yeah, 100%.
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You uh, you know, they they're called a new box office Bailey upstairs, and you know, when you hear stuff like that, how does it make you feel?
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Love that.
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Love that.
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That's all I gotta say.
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That's all we gotta say.
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Bailey, keep it up, congratulations.
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Thank you.
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Great to hear from Bailey there, just ecstatic with his performance.
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And actually, after the microphones turned off at the end of that, he looked at me and he said, Oh, I've gotta, I've gotta learn to shoot early.
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And I think, Franny, that that is a that's a really underrated part of his game, is his shot, and and he recognises that, which is good.
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Yeah, I mean, he's learning all the time.
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I mean, we gotta remind ourselves that this is his first full year as a full-time devil playing at elite league standard week in, week out.
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When you're playing in the NIHL, it's a totally different game.
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You get rewarded in that league by cheating a bit.
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You know, you have to if you're an offensive player, you have to take gambles on your blue line to get breakaways to rack up the points, and you can't do that at this level, you get found out very easily.
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Um, but you know, he's yes, uh Paul Thompson.
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I think in his interview said about okay, I want him doing that kind of stuff up that end, but not in his own, you know, our own end.
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But he's learning as though as the weeks go by, um, he's starting to put it all together, and yeah, you know, he is an exciting talent.
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We don't want to get too carried away because you know he's still got a lot of learning to do, but you know, I it it just leaves me with a big smile on my face when I watch his performances like the one tonight.
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Yeah, I think that the big smile is what you always look for, and uh, and that's great to see.
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Just as we give our kind of closing thoughts on tonight, guys.
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I think you know the devils will be glad to have got out of tonight unscathed, they did what they had to do and set up tomorrow quite nicely as well.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Um, we haven't touched on uh Emmetal uh his debut tonight, very solid, yeah.
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Uh you know, I what what we wanted uh for that spot on the roster, I think he fit perfectly tonight.
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He went out, he was solid, dependable.
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You know, we could rotate 60 men, have regular stats there.
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So, you know, poor Richie, uh happy birthday to him isn't playing an extra sort of 10 minutes a night.
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Um, and I I think you saw with Fournier again tonight he how influential he was.
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And when you're getting those regular shifts and not like over over exerting guys, then I I think we with the the players we have on that back end, they're so influential going forward as well as defending.
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It's just perfect.
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So yeah, I think uh great to see Emadal uh really uh make a good account of himself on his debut.
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Yeah, Franny, last thoughts ahead of of Glasgow now, and and you know they're gonna be coming in, they played in Guilford tonight.
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From what I can see, it looks like a pretty fiery game.
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They ended up losing that one.
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So they're gonna look to bounce back, and and it's a new opponent for the Devils, which is which is it's gonna be exciting, I think.
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Yeah, it's there's quite a lot of new faces on uh the Glasgow roster.
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We haven't seen them yet this year.
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It's their first time into our rink.
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Um, one thing I want to uh just sort of um mention is the atmosphere I thought was electric tonight, it was brilliant.
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That opening shift, which was about five minutes long, and and you had the drums rolling for the whole time on it, and everyone on their feet chanting and clapping and everything, it just set the game up.
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I I think it kind of gave it fed into the energy of the game, didn't it?
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And the players responded, both teams.
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Um, so I think I'd love to see more of that tomorrow night.
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Um, but yeah, I mean Glasgow is another another test for us, you know.
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Looking at their their roster tonight and the and the ice time minutes, I mean they're probably coming in with nine or ten forwards, so again, a shorter bench, and uh so they're almost matching um what what we'll have.
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Um they've got good goalie.
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Uh so yeah, it will be interesting.
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It will be interesting.
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I just want to see the devils start with the energy that they started tonight just to kind of welcome Glasgow into Cardiff.
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Yeah, and that'll be the aim of the game ahead of tomorrow.
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And you know that that's all for debrief tonight.
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We're gonna leave you to we've got our sleeping bags here, so we're gonna get some kipping for the evening, and uh, we'll be back here tomorrow with another stream, another game, and another debrief, and of course in Stider every Wednesday, this Wednesday coming as well.
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But yeah, thank you so much for listening in tonight.
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The Devils beat Manchester by two goals to nil to kick off their five game homestand.
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See ya.
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Shimai Powerbach, Kroysa.
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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Devil's Debrief after the Devils have beaten the Manchester Storm by two goals to nil on Saturday night to kick off their five-game homestand.
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Dan Ruther alongside Gareth Hewish and Neil Francis.
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Gaz, what did you make of that?
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I really enjoyed that.
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I thought it was two teams with full commitment going at it.
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I really liked the tempo of the start of the game.
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I thought both teams came out hard on the four-check.
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I thought the Devils had a really good couple of shifts to start the game, which I thought set a tone.
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Yeah, just two, you know, I I've maybe not after the Cam Christmas interview, but I thought it was two honest teams going at it.
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And it just came down to who won those those battles along the boards and uh in in key areas, and ultimately I think uh we as the as the Devils did enough of that.
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Yeah, guys, I I pretty much was gonna say exactly that.
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I loved how both teams came out.
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Um, Manchester start the you let line, so you they you you felt from that that they wanted to get that kind of jump early on because of how flat they were in the Vindico in the previous game.
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But I thought the Devils start was so good that it didn't actually give Manchester a chance to use that effectively at all because they simply couldn't get near the Devils, and um yeah, yeah, Manchester grew into the game, they they got better and better.
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Uh, but you know, I I really enjoyed the game.
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It was uh it was all action, it was uh you know, long passages of play with a lot of chances and very little stoppages, you know, a bit of drama at the end, I think, yeah, a bit of everything, didn't it?
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Yeah, really, I think it's one of those games that's just easy to watch, isn't it?
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And and you can you can sit back and enjoy it for what it is, and even though there's only uh uh I say a goal, obviously, the anti netter for the second, but the only one cuts on a proper goal in the game, they're still really entertaining those games.
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Yeah, for for Daphna.
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I mean, it would be easy to say that it was a battle of the two goaltenders because I think both were excellent tonight.
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The Ridder made some saves he had no business making.
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You know, we probably had about four point blank, five, six, maybe even point blank attempts, and you know, he saved them because he's got such good lateral speed.
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Stove at the other end, I thought was really good.
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Um, so it'd be easy to say it was a battle of the goaltenders, but I think it was way more than that.
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I think it was um I I I loved a lot of the hockey that we played.
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I thought the power play was absolutely buzzing, even though we didn't get a power play goal.
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You know, the uh the movement, the speed, the chances it was creating, and um recycling possession as well.
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It was uh I thought the devils did that really well tonight.
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Is that they they didn't I've been a bit critical of the Devils in recent weeks for turning over pucks too easily, but I felt tonight they moved the puck away from pressure really, really well and just kept it alive.
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And um yeah, I thought that was a big improvement in the Devils game.
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For me, tonight I thought we looked a lot solid a unit defending as a five again.
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I think the start of the Challenge Cup games, even at homes, it we felt a lot more loose at the back than maybe we did at all last year.
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But I kind of feel like that game in Sheffield last week where we were down some guys, kind of refocused us again.
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And I think we play better now because I think we win more battles, I think we we play for each other just a little bit more when we think about it like that.
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So I was really happy as an overall performance.
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Stover was very good tonight, but we didn't give up cheap breakaways or odd man rushes, or we we didn't make it easy for Manchester to get to Stover, and then once they did get to him, he was imperious.
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So I really felt like it was a lot more togetherness and a lot more as a unit tonight as a as a five, which I loved.
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Yeah, I I really I I think I agree pretty much spot on with that, and I think it forces you to play in a way it almost forces players to not be selfish, and that's not accusing them of being selfish in pre-previous weeks, it just you have to then chip in as a unit, and you know, obviously, then when you're back to pretty much full strength, I know the devil spent 11D tonight and and six at the back, but it makes you play that way, and I really like that.
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And I thought there was you know, in a game where maybe it wasn't quite as physical as we would expect a Manchester game to be, you know, you let didn't he had a few moments, but he didn't really get stuck in the way maybe we would expect him to, and same with Jenyon, apart from the end and and Locke and stuff.
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So I think the devil's dealt with that really well.
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But um, you know, I the the the the big headline out of tonight, of course, is is the the man that that Franny, you you have been pumping the tires off for a long time.
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We've all been pumping his tires to be fair, and and I think tonight was the real arrival of Mr.
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Box Office Bailey, wasn't it, Franny?
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Yeah, I mean we we've spoken about his unpredictability, you don't know what's gonna happen next, and yeah, hence the nickname Box Office Bailey because he is just exciting to watch.
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He is, and you know, he is he's strong, he's got good acceleration, he's got good hands.
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Tonight he had an opportunity, bumped up the uh a line, and you know, he just took it and he just looked threatening throughout, and you know, he got that first goal, which he creates it because he he reads the play really well, so he intercepts a pass, he gets himself in the right in a nice spot to intercept the pass when he goes down.
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You know, he changes the angle of the shot and he gets a quick deceptive shot away through a screen and finds a way past the ridder, which we we couldn't do up to that point.
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And then you know, later on in the game, I mean that that run that he made at the end where he stick handles one way, you know, through a stick, comes back the other way.
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Um and then there was that uh the pass from Yeho, who I thought he was really good tonight.
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I mean he sat up so many chances tonight.
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Um, Bailey has a nice kind of one-two with him.
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Um on another night, box office Bailey could have had three, and Jake Sacratini as well had three or four chances that he will still be wondering how Darida got to them.
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But you know, that is credit to Derida.
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I just really liked tonight just how much of a positive influence uh Hayward had on that entire game.
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Whenever he went out there, there wasn't just an expectation from the crowd that something might happen.
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I I actually think as the game progressed, there was a expectation from the Manchester defence that he was going to influence something.
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And I I think there was a kind of okay, this this kid is coming at us again, we we've got to be careful.
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I loved his little drop pass, uh turning over the pack of the blue line, driving into the zone, getting that drop pass.
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And if if not for a good stick uh in the lane, I I think we probably would have seen a second goal a bit earlier.
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But everything that he did offensively today, I felt really meant something and really created things.
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Uh, and it's just yeah, positive is exactly the word I'd use for tonight.
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It is positive, and it's it's it's a young guy who's driving and just wants to, I think, have fun while he's out there.
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And I think we forget sometimes that the game is meant to be fun, and and Bailey definitely treats that way.
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Same as Jake Sacrettini, Fran.
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I'm glad you mentioned him because I think, yeah, you're right, he had a couple of really good chances tonight, and and Derrida made a couple of saves on those.
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But for Bailey, for me, I think I love his unpredictability.
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I actually love how raw he is to the game.
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Yes, it's not perfect in your own end sometimes, but you're never gonna have a completely perfect player.
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And uh, and I'm sure he drives Paul Thompson up the walls, which is kind of why we love him.
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But uh, yeah, a great performance, and uh and I caught him very briefly after the game.
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Bailey Hayward, man of the match performance.
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What did you make of that one?
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Yeah, no, um, that was a good game.
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I uh felt good and uh happy to get the win.
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You're uh you've got the the the first goal of the goal uh the game, the game-winning goal on it as well.
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Take me through what happened.
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Um I just skated down uh right side of the ice and uh ripped it through the guy and it went in.
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And I'm happy with it.
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Good celebration as well in front of Block 13.
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Yeah, 100%.
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You uh, you know, they they're called a new box office Bailey upstairs, and you know, when you hear stuff like that, how does it make you feel?
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Love that.
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Love that.
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That's all I gotta say.
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That's all we gotta say.
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Bailey, keep it up, congratulations.
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Thank you.
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Great to hear from Bailey there, just ecstatic with his performance.
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And actually, after the microphones turned off at the end of that, he looked at me and he said, Oh, I've gotta, I've gotta learn to shoot early.
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And I think, Franny, that that is a that's a really underrated part of his game, is his shot, and and he recognises that, which is good.
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Yeah, I mean, he's learning all the time.
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I mean, we gotta remind ourselves that this is his first full year as a full-time devil playing at elite league standard week in, week out.
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When you're playing in the NIHL, it's a totally different game.
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You get rewarded in that league by cheating a bit.
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You know, you have to if you're an offensive player, you have to take gambles on your blue line to get breakaways to rack up the points, and you can't do that at this level, you get found out very easily.
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Um, but you know, he's yes, uh Paul Thompson.
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I think in his interview said about okay, I want him doing that kind of stuff up that end, but not in his own, you know, our own end.
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But he's learning as though as the weeks go by, um, he's starting to put it all together, and yeah, you know, he is an exciting talent.
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We don't want to get too carried away because you know he's still got a lot of learning to do, but you know, I it it just leaves me with a big smile on my face when I watch his performances like the one tonight.
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Yeah, I think that the big smile is what you always look for, and uh, and that's great to see.
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Just as we give our kind of closing thoughts on tonight, guys.
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I think you know the devils will be glad to have got out of tonight unscathed, they did what they had to do and set up tomorrow quite nicely as well.
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Yes, absolutely.
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Um, we haven't touched on uh Emmetal uh his debut tonight, very solid, yeah.
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Uh you know, I what what we wanted uh for that spot on the roster, I think he fit perfectly tonight.
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He went out, he was solid, dependable.
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You know, we could rotate 60 men, have regular stats there.
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So, you know, poor Richie, uh happy birthday to him isn't playing an extra sort of 10 minutes a night.
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Um, and I I think you saw with Fournier again tonight he how influential he was.
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And when you're getting those regular shifts and not like over over exerting guys, then I I think we with the the players we have on that back end, they're so influential going forward as well as defending.
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It's just perfect.
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So yeah, I think uh great to see Emadal uh really uh make a good account of himself on his debut.
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Yeah, Franny, last thoughts ahead of of Glasgow now, and and you know they're gonna be coming in, they played in Guilford tonight.
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From what I can see, it looks like a pretty fiery game.
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They ended up losing that one.
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So they're gonna look to bounce back, and and it's a new opponent for the Devils, which is which is it's gonna be exciting, I think.
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Yeah, it's there's quite a lot of new faces on uh the Glasgow roster.
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We haven't seen them yet this year.
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It's their first time into our rink.
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Um, one thing I want to uh just sort of um mention is the atmosphere I thought was electric tonight, it was brilliant.
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That opening shift, which was about five minutes long, and and you had the drums rolling for the whole time on it, and everyone on their feet chanting and clapping and everything, it just set the game up.
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I I think it kind of gave it fed into the energy of the game, didn't it?
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And the players responded, both teams.
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Um, so I think I'd love to see more of that tomorrow night.
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Um, but yeah, I mean Glasgow is another another test for us, you know.
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Looking at their their roster tonight and the and the ice time minutes, I mean they're probably coming in with nine or ten forwards, so again, a shorter bench, and uh so they're almost matching um what what we'll have.
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Um they've got good goalie.
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Uh so yeah, it will be interesting.
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It will be interesting.
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I just want to see the devils start with the energy that they started tonight just to kind of welcome Glasgow into Cardiff.
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Yeah, and that'll be the aim of the game ahead of tomorrow.
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And you know that that's all for debrief tonight.
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We're gonna leave you to we've got our sleeping bags here, so we're gonna get some kipping for the evening, and uh, we'll be back here tomorrow with another stream, another game, and another debrief, and of course in Stider every Wednesday, this Wednesday coming as well.
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But yeah, thank you so much for listening in tonight.
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The Devils beat Manchester by two goals to nil to kick off their five game homestand.
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