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Hi, this is Chico Resch.
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You are listening to the Let's Go Devils podcast on
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the Primetime Radio Network.
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Happy Devil Saturday. This is Game Day Live.
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Coming to you live, live from Sidelines Bar Grill in
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beautiful Fairfield, New Jersey. I'm your host, Sam Wu, here
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with Vinny Parisi in Chicago, Illinois. Pucksandpitchforks.com, USA Today, and
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the Hockey News. And our emergency backup broadcaster, pulling a
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fan from the crowd, Roman, filling in for Beer Baron
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with an upper throat injury as he lost his voice
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in the last game of the Devils beat the Flyers
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3-2 in overtime. Streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live,
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X Live, Twitch, and now on Instagram Live on the
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Let's Go Devils Network as the Devils take on the
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New York Islanders, 7.30 p.m. Eastern start on Long Island,
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UBS Arena. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are. Vinny,
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how are you, my friend?
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Doing very good. It's been an interesting start to the season.
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I love the way the Devils started their season.
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Yeah.
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It feels like a rave in here with the way
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this light just started changing on me right at the beginning.
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It feels like a rave over here, too.
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It was a magnificent start to the season. I mean,
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it kind of felt like one of those typical devil
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games that have been basically through the entire Hughes-Hesher era
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where they kind of dominate chances, own puck possession, lead
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in shots on goal, and then the other goalie looks
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like Brodeur in his prime. And they lose 2-1. Well,
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they found a way to get it tied. Luke Hughes had...
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One of the more better games of his career so far,
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I think, other than the way he played in overtime.
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But he got tired and whatever. But they ended up
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winning anyway. And I think there's a lot that could
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be taken away from a game like that. Philly's a
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good team. And the Devils kind of played with their
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food a little bit.
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Yeah, and I'll be honest with you.
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I was very, very happy with the performance third period on,
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but the first two periods, I think the Devils were putting.
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Shots on goal. Walsh just stood on his head.
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But when you get offense from your defense, Dougie Hamilton's
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getting it going with that first goal. Obviously, Jack Hughes
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had a little bit to do with it, but also
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Luke Hughes getting it. You had your blue line getting
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the goals, but Jack Hughes... In overtime, he is so
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deadly three on three. Like, absolutely deadly. And he got
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it done. And, you know, getting it done, you know,
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driving down the net to Bratt and then in the
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net to get the win.
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That was just awesome.
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I mean, I'm curious what you and Roman think about it.
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Dry sidling McDavid, best duo in the league in overtime,
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and then Hughes and Bratt have to be second.
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Yeah, I think Jack Hughes is one of the best
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players in the world three-on-three. If you were starting a
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draft and it was just a three-on-three league, I might
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take Jack Hughes before McDavid. I mean, you saw it
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in the Olympics. He's almost unstoppable on any stage. And then,
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you know, Philadelphia, too, their first game of the season,
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they lost 7-0 to Pittsburgh.
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It's a rivalry game.
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They probably came in the next day, you know, really
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sour after that and gave us their best effort they could.
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And we, you know, we really played the better game
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by a pretty big margin.
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Yeah, and I'll tell you, the bar at American Whiskey
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after the game, I mean, pregame was great, game day live,
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but after dark, they were singing, the fans were singing.
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It was just such joy. It is a totally.
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Different atmosphere and outlook with the New Jersey Devils under
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Sonny Meda, who's made just so many changes in the offseason.
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But you know what's great about all these changes? Some
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of them, I think none of us expected it pretty
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much 90% of them. Like getting Luka Evangelista later in
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the offseason, but also trading Jacob Markstrom to free up
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that cap space. The assets that you got from Shimon Nemitz.
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I mean, Shimon Nemitz signing, re-signing was such a big deal,
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but he turned the volume down right away and basically
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traded in Calgary to get those assets.
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And we put that offer sheet in for Barrett Hayden
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and you know, that didn't go through. And it seemed
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like in the past, whenever something didn't go our way,
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that was kind of the end. But then all of
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a sudden, Anthony Mantha comes over on almost the same
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level deal. We get a great contract for him. And
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now there's another 30 goal scorer on the team.
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Yeah.
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Well, we're having a live viewing party. Devils all day,
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all night. Vic has set this up. Grant Marshall is
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going to be here, we think, in time for Game
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Day Live. We'll try to get Grant on. Grant, good
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friend of the podcast. We haven't had him on Recently,
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but he is, well, Chico Resch surpassed him in most appearances,
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but Grant Marshall's got to be second. He's got to
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be second. So I have a lot of questions. I
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know you've got a lot of questions to ask him.
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Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited to chat with him. Yeah.
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Also, I'm seeing on the YouTube live, NY Davey is
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out on Long Island right now at UBS watching the
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podcast as he's entering the building. Also, in other news
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and very sad news, one of my favorite players, you know,
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when he was on the Devils, Lyle Odeline suddenly.
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Passed away yesterday.
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News coming out a few hours ago, Lyle Odeline, one
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of those character players. I think him and Marty Berdour
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really got along.
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Do you have any memories?
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Yeah, I mean, I remember as soon as we got
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him on the team, he was just such a defensive
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stalwart on the ice, and there was just almost an
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impossibility for the other team to get any.
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Pucks past him.
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He was just a solid all-around player and seemed like
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somebody that the team loved to play with.
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Vinny?
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Yeah, I mean... He scored 50 goals, 202 assists, 252
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points in 1,056 games as a defenseman. He was a
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plus defenseman. All the advanced analytics say that he was
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good with shot suppression and helping keep the other team
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off the board. He won the Stanley Cup with the
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New Jersey Devils. No, forgive me. He won the Stanley
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Cup with the Montreal Canadiens.
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Yes, that's correct.
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In the year that the Devils won their second of
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three cups, they traded him to Phoenix midseason. He had
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a cup of coffee with the Chicago Blackhawks, multiple other teams.
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Yeah, very, very sad.
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He was a really good player. Underrated part of every
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team is guys like him. You need those defensive stalwarts
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who might chip in a little bit of offense here
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and there. He clearly moved the puck a little bit.
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200-plus assists is nothing to sneeze at for a defensive
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defenseman who was a plus player with good underlying numbers.
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There's a reason he was on a lot of teams
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that were winning teams. I was trying to find who's
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got in return for him when they traded him in
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the middle of the year that they won the Stanley Cup. Sam,
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let's test your incredible memory from some of those things.
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Well, my incredible memory remembers Lyle Odeline as one of
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the players that you want on your team. He did
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some shenanigans that I absolutely love that's legendary, like shooting
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a puck at the opposing team's bench just to start trouble.
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Those are the kind of character players that Back in
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the late 90s, I mean, right now it's kind of
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rare to see that kind of, you know, shenanigans because
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it was always day in and day out. Like every
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night with Lyle Odeline, he was doing something. He was
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always doing something. He was a tough, tough defenseman, you know,
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in front of the crease. You know, and I think
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Marty Berdour absolutely loved him.
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Yeah, there's no doubt about it.
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I was going to say he's never going to be
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a headline player, but he was always just somebody that
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you could depend on.
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Yeah. Yeah, and again.
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I found it. The Devils gave up Stephon Richer to
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Montreal to get Odeline.
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Yep.
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Or Richer, excuse me. And then they traded him away
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for a third-round pick in 2003.
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So.
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Yeah, and Grant Marshall.
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For 2000. Yeah, Grant Marshall did play with him in Columbus, correct? Yeah. Yeah,
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for two years they played together.
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Yeah. So, you know, again, you know, that coming over
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the news, it just puts a somber day a little
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bit to, you know, what's, you know, we're all getting
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pumped up for, and it's just like, it reminds, Claude Lemieux.
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Yeah. Claude Lemieux.
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You know, it's just like, these are guys that I
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grew up watching, wanting to be, and just absolutely just
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loving what they bring to the table.
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You know, this is pre-analytics.
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This was all about hockey, the unwritten code, The code
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that you break and then the code that you face
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the punishment, you know, and every hockey player loved it.
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And it's like something you dream of, too. I mean,
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you think about the Ty Domies. You know, Lyle Odilon
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had to deal with a lot of guys in that
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era that were absolute pests. And he was the guy
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that had your back.
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The enforcers were a little different back then than they
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are today.
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Yeah, definitely.
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Anyway, so I'm seeing a lot of comments. on the
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U2 Live, and Max says, no 9-0 zone, please. Yes,
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9-0 last year. We had that infamous bus trip with
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Danielle McCartan, WFAN, the bus trip that was but wasn't.
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Art Heaton, I remember, was on there. I remember Art
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Heaton's daughter got in a shouting match with an Islanders
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fan on that bus, you know, that shuttle bus that
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goes from UBS Arena to the parking lot. And I
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was like, wow, Art Heaton, you have an enforcer. Anyway,
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because the mom, I guess the Islander fan said something
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derogatory to her mom.
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And, you know, and me, I kind of like turtled like, what?
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What's going on here? They're not wild.
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And if I recall.
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No problem.
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Speaking of the wild, I'm pretty sure that.
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We lost Vinny. We lost Vinny's feed. Oh, boy. That's
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not good.
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Well, it happens, folks, when you're live live. We're here
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at Sideline Bar and Grill. We're going to improvise, put
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up another graphic until Vinny comes back. But what happened
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to Vinny? Like, we're around a bar, you know, in
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the middle of nowhere. And then Vinny just gets cut up.
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But now I see the.
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Internet now going out. And that has been a problem.
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I need to set up the Starlink outside. I was thinking, oh,
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you know, everything was working so perfectly, so perfectly with
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this podcast, and now suddenly everything went out. I'll try
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to get it back up right now as we're live, live.
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But the entire time, the entire time we were here,
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everything was fine.
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Yeah, it was perfect. But now we're on live air,
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now it's not fine. So I don't get it.
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I really don't get it. But, yeah, so we do
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not have internet.
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At the moment.
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It looks like we froze on there as well.
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Yeah, yeah, we did. But we're still recording, though. Everything
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is good.
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So we have to keep that up, especially when you're
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in front of a live audience. See, if Beer Baron
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was here, if Beer Baron was here, he would take over,
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and then I'd.
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Go fix it. But he's got a UTI. Go figure, right?
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Yeah.
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Go figure. Go figure.
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But let's see what I can do right now, because
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right now I don't know why we don't have any Internet.
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Let's see here. Is it working? Is it not? It
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appears to be working. But I'll find out right now
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what's going on. This sucks, Roman. Yeah, tough. This sucks.
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Elyse Grant's not here.
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I was going to say, Elyse Grant's not here. But, yeah,
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so I don't know what to do in this moment.
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But I'll find out what's going on because, you know,
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people don't know this. Cell towers, they take five minutes
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to reset. And you can't really predict when it's going
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to reset, when it's not. But, you know, we're going
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to pretend like we're on there because I don't think
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anybody really knows or is listening to us right now in.
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The live audience. So what do you think about the
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Devils and the Islanders tonight?
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last year pretty good, but overall the team looks very different,
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and I think that the way that they skated Philadelphia
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was another team that every time, I think we were
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0-4 against them last year, or 0-3, and some of
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them were pretty convincing games where Philadelphia was beating us
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by 3-4 goals. I think that we're going to come out,
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and if we can continue to play that style and
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continue to out-shoot, out-chance, and you know, stay strong on
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the puck, then we've got a great chance. And I
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think this could be game two in a path to 84-0-0.
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Yeah, I think we're getting the Internet back up. I
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see Vinny back up. But, yeah, all right, so we're back.
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We're back, Vinny. The Internet actually shut off for about
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Unpredictable.
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Every time.
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We lost Vinny. We're having fun.
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The important thing is we're having fun.
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The important thing is I need to set up the
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Starlink outside next time instead of being lazy. See, that's
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the problem. Everything works during pregame, and then it just
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doesn't work. The same thing happened in American Whiskey as well,
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but we'll get it back. Vinny, we see you're back. Nope,
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we lost him.
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Well, there we go. Well, this sucks.
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Well. Roman, I didn't draw it up this way. This
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is why I need beer bar in here. But you're
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doing fine.
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I'm doing my best.
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You're doing your best. Because right now, I'm trying to
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figure out what's going on here. Trying to get this
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thing back up. But I guess the cell towers are
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not cooperating.
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I do. You do? I don't. But that's weird. I
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don't know. But anyway. I guess we're babbling right now.
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Yeah, I mean, the Islanders have looked pretty good this year, though,
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as well. They've had a pretty decent start, and they're,
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you know, a lot of young talent and stuff. There's
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a lot of people excited about their chances in the division.
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Yeah. Oh, definitely.
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And could you hand that phone to me, please? Because
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I need to figure this thing out. Trying to add
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another Internet source to our problem right now. Oh.
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This sucks. At least Grant's not here. Oh, he is here. Oh, crap.
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I better stall. Oh, boy.
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All right.
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I guess so. Yeah, I guess so.
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We're going to have to improvise on the fly. But
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Internet's out. I'm trying to connect to the. The problem
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with their Wi-Fi, it's behind a firewall.
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all right. Well, we've got to figure this thing out
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real quick. Do you want me to ask somebody for
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a password? No. It's open. It's just one of those
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things where you've got to go through a menu, and
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I can't get through that menu.
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that's what we're going to do. Okay. Yep. Stand by.
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Hi, this is Chico Resch.
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You are listening to the Let's Go Devils podcast on
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the Primetime Radio Network.
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Happy Devil Saturday. This is Game Day Live.
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Coming to you live, live from Sidelines Bar Grill in
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beautiful Fairfield, New Jersey. I'm your host, Sam Wu, here
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with Vinny Parisi in Chicago, Illinois. Pucksandpitchforks.com, USA Today, and
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the Hockey News. And our emergency backup broadcaster, pulling a
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fan from the crowd, Roman, filling in for Beer Baron
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with an upper throat injury as he lost his voice
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in the last game of the Devils beat the Flyers
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3-2 in overtime. Streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live,
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X Live, Twitch, and now on Instagram Live on the
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Let's Go Devils Network as the Devils take on the
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New York Islanders, 7.30 p.m. Eastern start on Long Island,
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UBS Arena. Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are. Vinny,
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how are you, my friend?
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Doing very good. It's been an interesting start to the season.
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I love the way the Devils started their season.
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Yeah.
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It feels like a rave in here with the way
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this light just started changing on me right at the beginning.
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It feels like a rave over here, too.
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It was a magnificent start to the season. I mean,
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it kind of felt like one of those typical devil
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games that have been basically through the entire Hughes-Hesher era
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where they kind of dominate chances, own puck possession, lead
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in shots on goal, and then the other goalie looks
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like Brodeur in his prime. And they lose 2-1. Well,
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they found a way to get it tied. Luke Hughes had...
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One of the more better games of his career so far,
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I think, other than the way he played in overtime.
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But he got tired and whatever. But they ended up
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winning anyway. And I think there's a lot that could
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be taken away from a game like that. Philly's a
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good team. And the Devils kind of played with their
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food a little bit.
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I was very, very happy with the performance third period on,
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but the first two periods, I think the Devils were putting.
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Shots on goal. Walsh just stood on his head.
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getting it going with that first goal. Obviously, Jack Hughes
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had a little bit to do with it, but also
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Luke Hughes getting it. You had your blue line getting
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the goals, but Jack Hughes... In overtime, he is so
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deadly three on three. Like, absolutely deadly. And he got
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it done. And, you know, getting it done, you know,
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driving down the net to Bratt and then in the
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net to get the win.
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That was just awesome.
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I mean, I'm curious what you and Roman think about it.
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Dry sidling McDavid, best duo in the league in overtime,
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and then Hughes and Bratt have to be second.
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players in the world three-on-three. If you were starting a
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draft and it was just a three-on-three league, I might
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take Jack Hughes before McDavid. I mean, you saw it
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in the Olympics. He's almost unstoppable on any stage. And then,
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you know, Philadelphia, too, their first game of the season,
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they lost 7-0 to Pittsburgh.
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It's a rivalry game.
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They probably came in the next day, you know, really
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sour after that and gave us their best effort they could.
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by a pretty big margin.
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after the game, I mean, pregame was great, game day live,
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but after dark, they were singing, the fans were singing.
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Sonny Meda, who's made just so many changes in the offseason.
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of them, I think none of us expected it pretty
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much 90% of them. Like getting Luka Evangelista later in
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the offseason, but also trading Jacob Markstrom to free up
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that cap space. The assets that you got from Shimon Nemitz.
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but he turned the volume down right away and basically
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traded in Calgary to get those assets.
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like in the past, whenever something didn't go our way,
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that was kind of the end. But then all of
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a sudden, Anthony Mantha comes over on almost the same
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level deal. We get a great contract for him. And
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now there's another 30 goal scorer on the team.
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Well, we're having a live viewing party. Devils all day,
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all night. Vic has set this up. Grant Marshall is
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going to be here, we think, in time for Game
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Day Live. We'll try to get Grant on. Grant, good
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friend of the podcast. We haven't had him on Recently,
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but he is, well, Chico Resch surpassed him in most appearances,
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but Grant Marshall's got to be second. He's got to
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be second. So I have a lot of questions. I
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know you've got a lot of questions to ask him.
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Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited to chat with him. Yeah.
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Also, I'm seeing on the YouTube live, NY Davey is
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out on Long Island right now at UBS watching the
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podcast as he's entering the building. Also, in other news
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and very sad news, one of my favorite players, you know,
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when he was on the Devils, Lyle Odeline suddenly.
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Passed away yesterday.
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of those character players. I think him and Marty Berdour
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really got along.
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Do you have any memories?
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him on the team, he was just such a defensive
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stalwart on the ice, and there was just almost an
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impossibility for the other team to get any.
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Pucks past him.
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He was just a solid all-around player and seemed like
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somebody that the team loved to play with.
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Vinny?
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Yeah, I mean... He scored 50 goals, 202 assists, 252
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points in 1,056 games as a defenseman. He was a
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plus defenseman. All the advanced analytics say that he was
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good with shot suppression and helping keep the other team
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off the board. He won the Stanley Cup with the
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New Jersey Devils. No, forgive me. He won the Stanley
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Cup with the Montreal Canadiens.
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Yes, that's correct.
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In the year that the Devils won their second of
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three cups, they traded him to Phoenix midseason. He had
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a cup of coffee with the Chicago Blackhawks, multiple other teams.
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Yeah, very, very sad.
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He was a really good player. Underrated part of every
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team is guys like him. You need those defensive stalwarts
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who might chip in a little bit of offense here
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and there. He clearly moved the puck a little bit.
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200-plus assists is nothing to sneeze at for a defensive
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defenseman who was a plus player with good underlying numbers.
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There's a reason he was on a lot of teams
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that were winning teams. I was trying to find who's
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got in return for him when they traded him in
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the middle of the year that they won the Stanley Cup. Sam,
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let's test your incredible memory from some of those things.
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Well, my incredible memory remembers Lyle Odeline as one of
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the players that you want on your team. He did
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some shenanigans that I absolutely love that's legendary, like shooting
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a puck at the opposing team's bench just to start trouble.
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Those are the kind of character players that Back in
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the late 90s, I mean, right now it's kind of
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rare to see that kind of, you know, shenanigans because
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it was always day in and day out. Like every
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night with Lyle Odeline, he was doing something. He was
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always doing something. He was a tough, tough defenseman, you know,
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in front of the crease. You know, and I think
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Marty Berdour absolutely loved him.
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I was going to say he's never going to be
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a headline player, but he was always just somebody that
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you could depend on.
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I found it. The Devils gave up Stephon Richer to
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Montreal to get Odeline.
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Or Richer, excuse me. And then they traded him away
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for a third-round pick in 2003.
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Yeah, and Grant Marshall.
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For 2000. Yeah, Grant Marshall did play with him in Columbus, correct? Yeah. Yeah,
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for two years they played together.
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Yeah. So, you know, again, you know, that coming over
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the news, it just puts a somber day a little
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bit to, you know, what's, you know, we're all getting
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pumped up for, and it's just like, it reminds, Claude Lemieux.
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Yeah. Claude Lemieux.
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grew up watching, wanting to be, and just absolutely just
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loving what they bring to the table.
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You know, this is pre-analytics.
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This was all about hockey, the unwritten code, The code
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that you break and then the code that you face
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the punishment, you know, and every hockey player loved it.
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And it's like something you dream of, too. I mean,
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you think about the Ty Domies. You know, Lyle Odilon
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had to deal with a lot of guys in that
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era that were absolute pests. And he was the guy
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that had your back.
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The enforcers were a little different back then than they
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are today.
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Yeah, definitely.
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Anyway, so I'm seeing a lot of comments. on the
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U2 Live, and Max says, no 9-0 zone, please. Yes,
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9-0 last year. We had that infamous bus trip with
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Danielle McCartan, WFAN, the bus trip that was but wasn't.
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Art Heaton, I remember, was on there. I remember Art
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Heaton's daughter got in a shouting match with an Islanders
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fan on that bus, you know, that shuttle bus that
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goes from UBS Arena to the parking lot. And I
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was like, wow, Art Heaton, you have an enforcer. Anyway,
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because the mom, I guess the Islander fan said something
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derogatory to her mom.
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And, you know, and me, I kind of like turtled like, what?
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What's going on here? They're not wild.
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And if I recall.
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No problem.
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Speaking of the wild, I'm pretty sure that.
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We lost Vinny. We lost Vinny's feed. Oh, boy. That's
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not good.
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Well, it happens, folks, when you're live live. We're here
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at Sideline Bar and Grill. We're going to improvise, put
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up another graphic until Vinny comes back. But what happened
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to Vinny? Like, we're around a bar, you know, in
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the middle of nowhere. And then Vinny just gets cut up.
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But now I see the.
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Internet now going out. And that has been a problem.
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I need to set up the Starlink outside. I was thinking, oh,
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you know, everything was working so perfectly, so perfectly with
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this podcast, and now suddenly everything went out. I'll try
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to get it back up right now as we're live, live.
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But the entire time, the entire time we were here,
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everything was fine.
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Yeah, it was perfect. But now we're on live air,
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now it's not fine. So I don't get it.
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I really don't get it. But, yeah, so we do
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not have internet.
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At the moment.
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It looks like we froze on there as well.
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Yeah, yeah, we did. But we're still recording, though. Everything
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is good.
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So we have to keep that up, especially when you're
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in front of a live audience. See, if Beer Baron
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was here, if Beer Baron was here, he would take over,
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and then I'd.
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Go fix it. But he's got a UTI. Go figure, right?
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Go figure. Go figure.
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But let's see what I can do right now, because
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right now I don't know why we don't have any Internet.
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Let's see here. Is it working? Is it not? It
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appears to be working. But I'll find out right now
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what's going on. This sucks, Roman. Yeah, tough. This sucks.
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Elyse Grant's not here.
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I was going to say, Elyse Grant's not here. But, yeah,
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so I don't know what to do in this moment.
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But I'll find out what's going on because, you know,
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people don't know this. Cell towers, they take five minutes
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to reset. And you can't really predict when it's going
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to reset, when it's not. But, you know, we're going
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to pretend like we're on there because I don't think
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anybody really knows or is listening to us right now in.
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The live audience. So what do you think about the
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Devils and the Islanders tonight?
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Yeah, I mean, I think the Islanders got our number
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last year pretty good, but overall the team looks very different,
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and I think that the way that they skated Philadelphia
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was another team that every time, I think we were
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0-4 against them last year, or 0-3, and some of
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them were pretty convincing games where Philadelphia was beating us
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by 3-4 goals. I think that we're going to come out,
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and if we can continue to play that style and
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continue to out-shoot, out-chance, and you know, stay strong on
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the puck, then we've got a great chance. And I
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think this could be game two in a path to 84-0-0.
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Yeah, I think we're getting the Internet back up. I
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see Vinny back up. But, yeah, all right, so we're back.
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We're back, Vinny. The Internet actually shut off for about
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two minutes there.
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Unpredictable.
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Every time.
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We lost Vinny. We're having fun.
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The important thing is we're having fun.
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The important thing is I need to set up the
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Starlink outside next time instead of being lazy. See, that's
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the problem. Everything works during pregame, and then it just
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doesn't work. The same thing happened in American Whiskey as well,
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but we'll get it back. Vinny, we see you're back. Nope,
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we lost him.
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Well, there we go. Well, this sucks.
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Well. Roman, I didn't draw it up this way. This
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is why I need beer bar in here. But you're
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doing fine.
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I'm doing my best.
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You're doing your best. Because right now, I'm trying to
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figure out what's going on here. Trying to get this
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thing back up. But I guess the cell towers are
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not cooperating.
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I mean, do you have internet?
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I don't know.
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I do. You do? I don't. But that's weird. I
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don't know. But anyway. I guess we're babbling right now.
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Yeah, I mean, the Islanders have looked pretty good this year, though,
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as well. They've had a pretty decent start, and they're,
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you know, a lot of young talent and stuff. There's
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a lot of people excited about their chances in the division.
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Yeah. Oh, definitely.
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And could you hand that phone to me, please? Because
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I need to figure this thing out. Trying to add
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another Internet source to our problem right now. Oh.
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This sucks. At least Grant's not here. Oh, he is here. Oh, crap.
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I better stall. Oh, boy.
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All right.
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So I guess this is going to be a prerecording.
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I guess so. Yeah, I guess so.
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We're going to have to improvise on the fly. But
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Internet's out. I'm trying to connect to the. The problem
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with their Wi-Fi, it's behind a firewall.
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Yeah. And I can't even connect. Got it. Yeah. So,
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all right. Well, we've got to figure this thing out
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real quick. Do you want me to ask somebody for
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a password? No. It's open. It's just one of those
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things where you've got to go through a menu, and
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I can't get through that menu.
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But anyway, we're going to have to bag it, unfortunately.
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Yeah. Okay. We'll talk to Grant at intermission. I think
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that's what we're going to do. Okay. Yep. Stand by.
