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Hi, this is Chico Resch. You are listening to the
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Let's Go Devils podcast on the Primetime Radio Network.
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Happy Devils Saturday. This is Game Day Live. Coming to
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you live, live from American Whiskey. 51 Edison Place across
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the street from Financial Center next to Championship Plaza. I'm
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your host, Sam Wu, here with our EBUB emergency backup
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broadcaster again, Roman, for the second time as Vinny Parisi
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is somewhere in Wisconsin and cannot get to this wonderful
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Game Day Live podcast, Game 4, against the Vancouver Canucks.
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Streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live, X Live, Twitch Live,
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And now on Instagram Live on the Let's Go Devils
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Network as really Roman, let me just tell you, good afternoon,
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good morning, good evening, wherever you are. It's been the
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last 72 hours, the news cycle, and my personal life
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has been just absolutely busy.
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Busy, busy, busy, busy.
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In full disclosure, I went to Max's wedding, invited him. Max,
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congratulations on getting married. We were in Boston. We were
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by the water. It was a beautiful wedding. Everything was
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going great. And then I had to come back and
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drove through.
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Mrs. Wu and I drove through at midnight, got home
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around 3 a.m.
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In the morning just to make this podcast here at
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Game Day Live for Game 4 as the Devils take
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on the Vancouver Canucks.
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During that time period.
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We've had a lot of news, and I don't even
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know where to even start, but let's maybe start off
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with the Metropolitan Division right now. The power may have
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shifted because, well, Igor Shosturkin, ESPN's reporting out for the season.
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Yeah, that's, you know, I mean, obviously we're not Rangers
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fans here in any way, but we're all hockey fans,
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and the sport's not as good of a place without
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a goalie like Shosturkin.
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He's an incredible player.
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And it's tough to see somebody go down three or
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four games into the season for the entire year like that.
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Yeah, and Max is actually in the YouTube live, which
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is great, because he probably just went through, you know,
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after a wedding, you have that brunch with all your
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friends and family and all that, but again, congratulations to
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Max and Alessandra. Great wedding. The food was fantastic. I
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had the filet mignon. I had some allergies. You know,
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I put my.
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You know I'm allergic to pineapple? Really? Yeah.
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Pineapple, mushrooms, all the melons. Like, I'm just an absolute wreck.
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And their service staff actually accommodated my meals.
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Love that. According to whatever.
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Yeah.
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So they did a great job. But anyway, it was
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a great wedding.
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So, yeah, so Shusterkin, when I saw the news, I'm like,
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that doesn't look good because he came out of the
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crease and flopping around like he normally does in the crease.
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But the way his leg twisted, that was a little
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awkward to me.
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Yeah, you see the legs twist in front of these guys.
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You just get so nervous that, you know, that's going
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to be the outcome. And, you know, hopefully he bounces
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back and he's back ready for the beginning of next
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season and just as strong as ever, except when he
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plays the Devils.
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So now, and we talk about the Devils and their
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goalie depth. Look at the goalie depth right now with
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the New York Rangers. And, again, this is a big
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deal because the Rangers got off to a hot start. Unexpectedly,
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they were overachieving. Now their number one goaltender is gone
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for the season. I think Corpus Sala, is he the
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backup right now?
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Yeah, Corpus Sala.
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I don't know who they have behind him. They'll probably
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have to pull up an AHLer.
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So it stresses the importance, and this is where I'm
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just going to segue to the Devils. It stresses the
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importance of having that– cap flexibility, but also getting, you know,
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to have that depth at the goaltending position.
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Now, I wonder about the whole Connor Hellebuck.
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He's losing money every day. Will the Rangers actually make
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a trade for him?
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I mean, I think he's losing money every day, but
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he's gaining value on the market every day. A guy
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like Shusterkin goes down, it would make sense that the
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Rangers try to bring Hellebuck over with the LTIR salary
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relief they get.
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They could probably afford him.
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As the Devils continue to struggle, if they're going to
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be giving up four or five goals a game, that
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becomes more and more urgent by the day for us
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to think about getting a goalie that can really toe
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the line.
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And speaking of which, the Devils making their move. Stephon Nason,
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clear waivers. There were some.
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I forgot who, but I think James Nichols, good friend
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of the podcast, New Jersey Hockey Now. Also, Keith Cavanaugh
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as well with Puckpedia.
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Putting like....
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The signs and intricacies of the salary cap, why the
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Devils made the move. I'll be quite honest. I'm with
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Nick Villano here, but he's smarter than I am. Pucksandpitchworks.com.
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I'll be honest with the audience.
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I don't know.
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What the F they're talking about. Do you even understand
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what they were trying to do?
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I think they saved some money sending him down to
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the AHL team, but my guess is.
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You've talked about it a lot.
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Sonny made as a poker player, and he's trying to
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get as many options as he can for what to do.
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He saves a couple million dollars on the cap with Nason,
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who was kind of invisible in the first couple of games.
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It doesn't seem like there's any downside to it, and
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I think it's a statement that a guy with a
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career resume like that cleared through waivers.
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There was a tweet earlier, going back to the Shusterkin thing.
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Knicks win the championships. sports god that will cost you
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one leg of Jackson Dart one leg of Aaron Judge
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and one leg of Igor Shostakhin I.
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Saw that on on accident I thought that was pretty.
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Funny yeah it's been a it's been a tough week
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or so for New York sports and New Jersey sports.
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Yeah but getting back to the New Jersey Devils you
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know again the.
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They're going into.
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This game against Vancouver they got a red hot Paul
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Cotter Paul Cotter, former New Jersey Devils.
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What, he has four goals right now?
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Four goals, two assists, which that accounts for as many
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goals that Paul Cotter has contributed to as the New
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Jersey Devils team has contributed to to start the season.
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Yep.
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Signing a one-year $ 2. 15 million deal after the Devils did
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not even issue... a qualifying offer after two seasons, after
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being traded from Vegas back in 2024. Four goals, two assists,
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six points instead in the last five games. First five
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games of the season. Also had a shorthanded goal, an
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overtime winner in the season opener against Edmonton.
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Look for Paul.
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Cotter to be that guy that every Devils fan talks
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about to crush the Devils in their homecoming back.
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At the Rock.
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Yeah, there doesn't seem like there's been too many changes
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on the team. Obviously, a lot of new players and
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things like that. But in terms of the style of
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play and what we're seeing on the ice, there doesn't
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seem to appear to be a lot of changes from
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last year. But I'm really hoping one of those changes
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will be that that script of whoever comes back that
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used to wear the red and white is going to
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inevitably score a goal or have a couple of assists.
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I mean, it'd be really great if we could shut
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Cotter down today. And not have another first star of
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the game be a former devil.
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Yeah. And Cotter said that he'll know he'll be gunning
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for all of them, end quote.
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And they'll be expecting it and going against Nico Heischer
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on the face calls and all that.
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So watch out for that today.
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Also, in other news, and this is really sad news,
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actually Wimpy, I believe, has his authentic game-worn jersey.
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Uh miles o'connor former devils defenseman passed away um.
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Is it yesterday or i think yesterday yesterday yeah at
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the age of 59 uh passed away suddenly and this
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is starting to become recurrent so you know what they
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say it comes in threes but you know again this
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one came out of nowhere yeah it's.
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You know these players aren't that old you wonder with
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the head injuries and all that stuff that goes on
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or you know what's causing it but these guys aren't
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that old they're in their 50s and yeah it's just
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it's terrible it's sad and you know hopefully they'll do
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something in the arena to remember him today yeah and you.
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Know what Wimpy I believe bought his jersey because he
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was the last number four to wear that jersey before
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Scott Stevens was you know in that super acquisition a
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compensation for from the St. Louis Blues back in 1991.
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Miles O'Connor drafted by the New Jersey Devils in the
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third round back in 1985, 45th overall. Played college at Michigan,
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served as their captain as a senior. That part I
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did not know. Played parts of three seasons with the Devils,
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38 of his 43 NHL games, plus a brief stint
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with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, if you remember them.
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Being called that.
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Career NHL total, three goals, four assists, 7.69 penalty minutes,
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and 43 games.
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Really sad.
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Also the father of Colorado Avalanche forward Logan O'Connor, who
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is now on personal leave.
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Our condolences to the O'Connor family.
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Again, you really hate hearing these stories coming out just recently.
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Yeah, you don't want to hear it about anybody, but
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especially not these players that played in the late 80s,
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early 90s. It's very sad.
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Let's move on to the game. Jake Allen, another milestone,
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expected to start tonight. He'll play his 500th career NHL game.
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Jake the Snake Allen. Sheldon Keefe on NHL.com recently has
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praised his longevity, professionalism, and his versatility to be a
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number one backup and mentor goaltender.
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Let's just hope they don't do any ceremony for him
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on the ice to start the game, because any time
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they did one of those last year, it would usually
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be 2-0.
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The other team... about four or five minutes into the game. Yeah,
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and look, the Devils have struggled so far this season.
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First three games, now those fake AI rumors of Jack
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Hughes requesting a trade. I was fighting back on X
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yesterday saying, look, if you're going to up your game
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at trolling, I'm talking to you, the Minnesota Wild fans,
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I will up my game because why would Jack Hughes
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request a trade to go to Minnesota while his brother
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Quinn doesn't even have an extension? Makes no sense. Jack
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Hughes has four years. Minnesota doesn't really have the cap
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space this year.
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Nothing makes sense.
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I don't see how anything could have happened in 185
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minutes of hockey that would have taken Jack Hughes from Mr.
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I Love New Jersey last year into I Want to Trade.
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We haven't had our favorite start to the season. It's
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definitely been a little bit frustrating, but at the same time,
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It's three games. We've got 81 games left. There's a
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lot of new players. I think each line has a
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new player on it, at least one. So it takes
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a little time to get used to that, and I
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think we're seeing that in the offensive zone.
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A lot of shots, but not a lot of high-quality shots.
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Yeah, and you made a great point before we got
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on air, Roman, about who's going to be starting for Vancouver,
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because the reason why I led off with the whole
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Igor Shosturkin thing, things have changed, because... Am I right
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that Vancouver's playing the Rangers tomorrow?
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Yeah, Vancouver's got the Rangers tomorrow, so they've got a back-to-back,
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and we're getting the stronger of their two goalies today
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in net, of course. I'm going to mess up his
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last name if I try. I think it's Maralinkas or.
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Marilyn? Maralinen? Maralinen, yeah. Maralinen, yep.
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I see a lot of the accents over the letters
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of the A and I and all that.
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Good stuff.
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But also, so are the Devils getting Lankanen tonight?
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They're getting Marilinen, who's the stronger of the two. His
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goal's against about 1.63 or something like that to start
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the year, and he's done a nice job. I guess
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Vancouver lost to the Hurricanes 6-0, and Lankanen gave up
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six goals in the first period and a half, and
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then Marilinen came in and shut the door. So he's
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looked pretty good this season. It's just going to be
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a matter. Vancouver, their average game this year is a
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5-4 loss. They've all been high scoring, so we've got
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to put the puck in the net, and I expect
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this to be a run-and-gun type of game, not a
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ton of defense.
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Yeah, and you know what?
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Also, getting back in the lineup, and Nick Villano was
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scared of this because the lack of depth on defense
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for the New Jersey Dells because the injuries is Jonas
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Ekenfaller is back in the lineup, which is.
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We're back on defense. That's huge for us. Is he
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back in the lineup? He is. Okay. Yeah, he's back.
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That gets our defensive core back, you know, intact. And,
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you know, hopefully that shores up the side because we,
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you know, we need all the help we can get.
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It seems like there have been a lot of miscommunications
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in our own zone.
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Yeah. See, Dubzilla in the YouTube lives is let's go devils.
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Yeah, sorry that there was no morning woo this morning.
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As you know, um i was in a wedding up
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in boston max's wedding up in boston again beautiful blue
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sea uh i had the the scallops wrapped in that
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juicy bacon i had was it the lamb shanks as
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well had a little mint on it um then i
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had some kind of tuna it looked like a tuna
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ice cream cone i don't even know what.
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It was called but That's what I'm calling it. And
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then they had this, I don't know if it was
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a cheese ball. I don't even know what. But I
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was just eating.
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Yeah, they got the hors d'oeuvres being passed around.
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How do you say no? Yeah, it was a beautiful wedding.
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A couple was happy. It was actually, believe it or not,
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my first Jewish wedding.
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Wow. Yeah, or they had, you know, some Jewish theme
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in there. I don't know if the theme is the
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right word, but.
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It was my first.
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I was the kid that never got invited to the
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bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs.
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I missed out on all that. Yeah, they're fun, though.
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They get up on the chairs. Yeah, they got on
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the chairs, going around in circles.
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The whole time, I'm like, hey, maybe we should do
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this on Edison Place when we're protesting against the city
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kicking us out. Maybe we should put Frank the Tank, Kevin,
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and Casey up on chairs. you know, that we're protesting,
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that we're not allowed out there.
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It almost feels like we're back at college, 19 years old,
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trying to get away with something out here.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So, yeah, that's what it feels, because everybody knows, and
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I put it out on X, on Tuesday, we had
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Catherine Bogart scheduled for this podcast, and 20 minutes, literally
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20 minutes prior, they shut me down. The Newark's Alcohol
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Beverage Control Group, we're not selling beer. We're not even,
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you don't even see Anchor Brew anywhere. Like, we're not even,
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we're just talking about Devils hockey in the middle of
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the street. It's no different than taking your phone and
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going on, you know, YouTube Live.
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Or Facebook Live or whatever. Yeah. But we got shut
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down by the.
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City, and I'm a little grumpy because now it's involved me,
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which I try not to get involved with any of
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this stuff.
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Devils Down Under from Australia, he says, good day. I
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was hoping he'd say mate. Yeah. Because we're mates right now.
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Max says, was a Jewish and Italian themed wedding?
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Yes. So it had the best of both worlds. Yeah.
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Sebastian Maniscalco talks about that all the time. The Italians
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should do the catering. The Jewish people should do the
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wedding tradition. It matches up perfectly.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like the breaking of the glass and the glass all over.
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The place and all that kind of good stuff.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it was just awesome.
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I was really honored to be part of it because
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I've always wanted to experience it. And when I saw
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the chairs go up, Alessandra and Max, I'm like in
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a circle.
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Like, yeah, let's go.
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Let's go.
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Let's go, Devils. That's what was going through my mind.
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And then I see Mrs. Wu, you know, being the,
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you know.
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I was under adult supervision then, so we need that support.
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Adult supervision is always good when I'm at a wedding
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because it can simply get out of control.
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But Table 9, we were at. Table 9 made the
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most noise in that wedding. Yeah.
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You know how the DJ, they tried to get everybody.
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The DJ was great. Transitions were great. Songs were great.
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Just the timing, all that. I look into that stuff because, heck,
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I do these live events. I should probably understand all this.
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Everything was good, but anyway. We got a game to play.
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Devils versus Canucks. Margarita pizzas were awesome, by the way.
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Always great here. Michael and I forgot the other guy's name.
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Kendall.
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Michael and Kendall back there. Kendall's new, so not good
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with names. Here at American Whiskey. We munched down on
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some margarita pizzas and.
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Let's do predictions. We haven't done predictions.
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This has been like our game day lives have been
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like really off. This is probably the first game day
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live that's actually.
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Traditional format doing some predictions. Even now there's a lot
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going on everywhere we turn.
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As Vinny is at I think a 70th birthday party
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stuck somewhere in Wisconsin.
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Also Scotty is stuck at work.
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So that's going to be a problem for Devils after
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dark so I'll have to Go to the e-bub as well.
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Predictions, predictions, predictions. I think Jack Hughes needs to step
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it up.
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Yeah.
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He needs to step it up. Leadership must step it
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up on this team. You're 1-2. Could have easily been 0-3.
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What's your prediction? Roman, and give it to me. I
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don't want you to sugarcoat anything.
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I'll give you an optimistic prediction and a realistic prediction. Optimistic,
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I hope Hughes gets a couple in. I hope Heischer scores.
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I hope Meyer can find the net. If that happens,
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I think the Devils can win this game 6-4. More realistically,
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I think we probably lose this game 4-3.
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Really? Real.
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I see Kevin behind the bar right now. That tells
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you how busy it is at American Whiskey.
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This place is awesome.
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Don't tell Kevin I said this, but he does nothing here.
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He just entertains people. Frank the Tank rolls up in
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his sleeves. He's going to town trying to get everything going,
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dealing with the police, you know.
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Outside with this whole outside thing. And you got Casey.
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He's like in the, you know, he's in the, whatchamacallit,
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in the kitchen right now.
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You know what? I should take the camera and go around. Yeah?
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Do you think I should? Yeah. Do you have a prediction? Yeah,
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I got a prediction.
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But I should take the camera and just go around.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, keep on talking because I only got,
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I'm not wireless right now. Okay. So you keep on talking.
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I'll take the camera around. Yeah.
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Spur of the moment things, folks. See, this is why
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we try to keep you engaged here on the Let's
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Go Devils podcast is we are going, we're going behind
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the scenes. You see, you got Michael right there behind
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the scenes.
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You got Roman. You got people. Just hanging out. There's Kevin.
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Kevin's actually working. Kevin's actually working. Yeah, Kevin's actually working.
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Let's see here. Yeah, there's Kendall. All that stuff. Let's
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go behind the scenes. Let's see what people are saying
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about our behind the scenes work right here.
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Let's see here. Where do I put the camera?
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Let's put the camera over here because I'm trying to
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get to my YouTube live to see what people are saying.
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Hold on a sec here. Don't you hate it?
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That's a real good pizza tossing going on.
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Oh, yeah. You got it? Yeah, we got it. Yeah.
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We'll get to the prediction soon, but I'm going mobile
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right now.
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Why don't you take over, Roman? I want to go
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behind the scenes. Hold on a sec. Sure.
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Yeah, that's going to be the big variable for today
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is what can the Devils do on offense? How strong
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can the goalies stay? Can Jake Allen shut the door?
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and what's going to happen as the game goes on.
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It's an exciting time of the season for us, and
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I think it was Scotty in the last podcast that
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was saying it's basically an 81-game season from here on out.
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We can kind of take the first three games as
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a bit of a mulligan and just see where it goes,
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but ultimately for the Devils, we've got to find a
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way to shut the door on defense a lot more,
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communicate a lot better in back, and and take it
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from there. It looks like Sam's almost back from his
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tour of American whiskey here.
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Yeah, I'm back.
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That experiment probably failed. I should probably do a helmet
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cam with that bit. All right, so let's get to
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these scores right now. PodLegend says 4-2 Devils. Seagot says
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5-1 Devils. Double Down Under retracted a message. Pete says
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5-2 Devils. Eddie says 5-3 Devils. Devils down under now
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says 6-1 Devils.
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I hope he's right. Wimpy says no team plays perfect
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60 minutes. It's a void. Long lapses in play. Good point.
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4-3 Devils even though they can easily win this 4-1.
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Devils win. Select a boy. 5-2 Devils.
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For the Hughes Brothers. Big game for the Hughes Brothers
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says Wimpy. Repeat of last year. Vancouver wins 3-1. Devils
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have 40 shots. Goalie stands on his head again.
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I kind of agree with that.
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Yeah, I agree with that too. I don't want to
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see it though.
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Nick Lovell says 3-1 Vancouver. Sorry. All of you guys
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are wrong. Offensive explosion today for your New Jersey Devils.
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11-2.
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11. Jake the Snake Allen. The Snake.
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Is going to be on fire. Thank you, Mark Schwab,
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says hello from everybody. Thank you for the super chat.
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I'm ready for the game. Greetings from Switzerland. Thank you,
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thank you, thank you.
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Pete says, I'd say if we go 500 in the
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first 10 games, we're.
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In good shape, essentially, with each line, have a new face.
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Eric says 4-1 Devils. Mark Schwab says, I'd just say
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a win, don't care the score. Kind of agree right now.
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I'm not going for style points. I'm going for wins.
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Just hit points in the standings. Yeah, exactly.
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All right, we're going to get out of here. We're
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going to have Devils After Dark after the game.
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I will. I guess I'm flying solo. So it's just
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you and me. So we're going to have to figure
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this thing out, Roman. Yeah. I don't know what's going
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to happen after the game, but I'm going to the game.
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I'm going to be with the Section.
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18 Psychos today downstairs in the Rich People section. Going to.
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Hopefully eat club seating food as well. Get that in.
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But Mrs.
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Wu, you didn't hear that. Right now she's somewhere right
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now in Pennsylvania. Anyway, all right, getting out of here.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you to everybody tuning in,
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dropping the podcast a little bit later.
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Thank you, Roman, as.
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Our official emergency backup broadcaster.
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Jacob couldn't make it. I called Jacob. He said, I'm
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stuck at work. Stupid work. Can you believe that?
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Anyway, we're getting out of here. Thank you to everybody.
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Thank you to Frank the Tank. Thank you to Michael.
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Thank you to Kendall. Thank you to Kevin, who's actually
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doing something around here. Emilio, Casey, the rest of the
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staff here at American Whiskey. We'll see you after the game.
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Until next time, let's go Devils.
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So so
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Hi, this is Chico Resch. You are listening to the
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Let's Go Devils podcast on the Primetime Radio Network.
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Happy Devils Saturday. This is Game Day Live. Coming to
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you live, live from American Whiskey. 51 Edison Place across
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the street from Financial Center next to Championship Plaza. I'm
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your host, Sam Wu, here with our EBUB emergency backup
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broadcaster again, Roman, for the second time as Vinny Parisi
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is somewhere in Wisconsin and cannot get to this wonderful
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Game Day Live podcast, Game 4, against the Vancouver Canucks.
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Streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live, X Live, Twitch Live,
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And now on Instagram Live on the Let's Go Devils
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Network as really Roman, let me just tell you, good afternoon,
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good morning, good evening, wherever you are. It's been the
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last 72 hours, the news cycle, and my personal life
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has been just absolutely busy.
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Busy, busy, busy, busy.
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In full disclosure, I went to Max's wedding, invited him. Max,
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congratulations on getting married. We were in Boston. We were
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by the water. It was a beautiful wedding. Everything was
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going great. And then I had to come back and
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drove through.
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Mrs. Wu and I drove through at midnight, got home
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around 3 a.m.
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In the morning just to make this podcast here at
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Game Day Live for Game 4 as the Devils take
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on the Vancouver Canucks.
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During that time period.
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We've had a lot of news, and I don't even
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know where to even start, but let's maybe start off
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with the Metropolitan Division right now. The power may have
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shifted because, well, Igor Shosturkin, ESPN's reporting out for the season.
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Yeah, that's, you know, I mean, obviously we're not Rangers
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fans here in any way, but we're all hockey fans,
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and the sport's not as good of a place without
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a goalie like Shosturkin.
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He's an incredible player.
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And it's tough to see somebody go down three or
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four games into the season for the entire year like that.
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Yeah, and Max is actually in the YouTube live, which
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is great, because he probably just went through, you know,
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after a wedding, you have that brunch with all your
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friends and family and all that, but again, congratulations to
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Max and Alessandra. Great wedding. The food was fantastic. I
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had the filet mignon. I had some allergies. You know,
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I put my.
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You know I'm allergic to pineapple? Really? Yeah.
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Pineapple, mushrooms, all the melons. Like, I'm just an absolute wreck.
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And their service staff actually accommodated my meals.
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Love that. According to whatever.
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a great wedding.
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So, yeah, so Shusterkin, when I saw the news, I'm like,
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that doesn't look good because he came out of the
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crease and flopping around like he normally does in the crease.
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awkward to me.
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Yeah, you see the legs twist in front of these guys.
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You just get so nervous that, you know, that's going
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to be the outcome. And, you know, hopefully he bounces
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back and he's back ready for the beginning of next
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season and just as strong as ever, except when he
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plays the Devils.
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So now, and we talk about the Devils and their
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goalie depth. Look at the goalie depth right now with
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the New York Rangers. And, again, this is a big
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deal because the Rangers got off to a hot start. Unexpectedly,
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they were overachieving. Now their number one goaltender is gone
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for the season. I think Corpus Sala, is he the
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backup right now?
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I don't know who they have behind him. They'll probably
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have to pull up an AHLer.
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just going to segue to the Devils. It stresses the
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importance of having that– cap flexibility, but also getting, you know,
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to have that depth at the goaltending position.
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Now, I wonder about the whole Connor Hellebuck.
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a trade for him?
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I mean, I think he's losing money every day, but
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he's gaining value on the market every day. A guy
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like Shusterkin goes down, it would make sense that the
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Rangers try to bring Hellebuck over with the LTIR salary
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relief they get.
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be giving up four or five goals a game, that
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becomes more and more urgent by the day for us
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to think about getting a goalie that can really toe
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the line.
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And speaking of which, the Devils making their move. Stephon Nason,
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clear waivers. There were some.
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I forgot who, but I think James Nichols, good friend
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of the podcast, New Jersey Hockey Now. Also, Keith Cavanaugh
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as well with Puckpedia.
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The signs and intricacies of the salary cap, why the
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Devils made the move. I'll be quite honest. I'm with
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Nick Villano here, but he's smarter than I am. Pucksandpitchworks.com.
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I'll be honest with the audience.
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I don't know.
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What the F they're talking about. Do you even understand
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what they were trying to do?
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I think they saved some money sending him down to
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the AHL team, but my guess is.
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Sonny made as a poker player, and he's trying to
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get as many options as he can for what to do.
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He saves a couple million dollars on the cap with Nason,
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who was kind of invisible in the first couple of games.
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It doesn't seem like there's any downside to it, and
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I think it's a statement that a guy with a
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career resume like that cleared through waivers.
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There was a tweet earlier, going back to the Shusterkin thing.
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Knicks win the championships. sports god that will cost you
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one leg of Jackson Dart one leg of Aaron Judge
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and one leg of Igor Shostakhin I.
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Saw that on on accident I thought that was pretty.
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Funny yeah it's been a it's been a tough week
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or so for New York sports and New Jersey sports.
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Yeah but getting back to the New Jersey Devils you
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know again the.
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This game against Vancouver they got a red hot Paul
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Cotter Paul Cotter, former New Jersey Devils.
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What, he has four goals right now?
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Four goals, two assists, which that accounts for as many
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goals that Paul Cotter has contributed to as the New
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Jersey Devils team has contributed to to start the season.
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Signing a one-year $ 2. 15 million deal after the Devils did
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not even issue... a qualifying offer after two seasons, after
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being traded from Vegas back in 2024. Four goals, two assists,
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six points instead in the last five games. First five
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games of the season. Also had a shorthanded goal, an
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overtime winner in the season opener against Edmonton.
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Cotter to be that guy that every Devils fan talks
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about to crush the Devils in their homecoming back.
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At the Rock.
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Yeah, there doesn't seem like there's been too many changes
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on the team. Obviously, a lot of new players and
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things like that. But in terms of the style of
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play and what we're seeing on the ice, there doesn't
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seem to appear to be a lot of changes from
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last year. But I'm really hoping one of those changes
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will be that that script of whoever comes back that
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used to wear the red and white is going to
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inevitably score a goal or have a couple of assists.
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I mean, it'd be really great if we could shut
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Cotter down today. And not have another first star of
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the game be a former devil.
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for all of them, end quote.
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on the face calls and all that.
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So watch out for that today.
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Also, in other news, and this is really sad news,
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actually Wimpy, I believe, has his authentic game-worn jersey.
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Uh miles o'connor former devils defenseman passed away um.
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Is it yesterday or i think yesterday yesterday yeah at
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the age of 59 uh passed away suddenly and this
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is starting to become recurrent so you know what they
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say it comes in threes but you know again this
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one came out of nowhere yeah it's.
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You know these players aren't that old you wonder with
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the head injuries and all that stuff that goes on
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or you know what's causing it but these guys aren't
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that old they're in their 50s and yeah it's just
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it's terrible it's sad and you know hopefully they'll do
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something in the arena to remember him today yeah and you.
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Know what Wimpy I believe bought his jersey because he
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was the last number four to wear that jersey before
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Scott Stevens was you know in that super acquisition a
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compensation for from the St. Louis Blues back in 1991.
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Miles O'Connor drafted by the New Jersey Devils in the
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third round back in 1985, 45th overall. Played college at Michigan,
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served as their captain as a senior. That part I
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did not know. Played parts of three seasons with the Devils,
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38 of his 43 NHL games, plus a brief stint
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with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, if you remember them.
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Being called that.
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Career NHL total, three goals, four assists, 7.69 penalty minutes,
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and 43 games.
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Really sad.
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Also the father of Colorado Avalanche forward Logan O'Connor, who
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is now on personal leave.
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Our condolences to the O'Connor family.
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Again, you really hate hearing these stories coming out just recently.
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especially not these players that played in the late 80s,
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early 90s. It's very sad.
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Let's move on to the game. Jake Allen, another milestone,
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expected to start tonight. He'll play his 500th career NHL game.
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Jake the Snake Allen. Sheldon Keefe on NHL.com recently has
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praised his longevity, professionalism, and his versatility to be a
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number one backup and mentor goaltender.
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Let's just hope they don't do any ceremony for him
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on the ice to start the game, because any time
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they did one of those last year, it would usually
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be 2-0.
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The other team... about four or five minutes into the game. Yeah,
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and look, the Devils have struggled so far this season.
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First three games, now those fake AI rumors of Jack
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Hughes requesting a trade. I was fighting back on X
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yesterday saying, look, if you're going to up your game
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at trolling, I'm talking to you, the Minnesota Wild fans,
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I will up my game because why would Jack Hughes
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request a trade to go to Minnesota while his brother
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Quinn doesn't even have an extension? Makes no sense. Jack
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Hughes has four years. Minnesota doesn't really have the cap
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space this year.
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Nothing makes sense.
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I don't see how anything could have happened in 185
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minutes of hockey that would have taken Jack Hughes from Mr.
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I Love New Jersey last year into I Want to Trade.
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We haven't had our favorite start to the season. It's
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definitely been a little bit frustrating, but at the same time,
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It's three games. We've got 81 games left. There's a
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lot of new players. I think each line has a
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new player on it, at least one. So it takes
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a little time to get used to that, and I
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think we're seeing that in the offensive zone.
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A lot of shots, but not a lot of high-quality shots.
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Yeah, and you made a great point before we got
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on air, Roman, about who's going to be starting for Vancouver,
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because the reason why I led off with the whole
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Igor Shosturkin thing, things have changed, because... Am I right
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that Vancouver's playing the Rangers tomorrow?
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and we're getting the stronger of their two goalies today
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in net, of course. I'm going to mess up his
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last name if I try. I think it's Maralinkas or.
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Marilyn? Maralinen? Maralinen, yeah. Maralinen, yep.
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I see a lot of the accents over the letters
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of the A and I and all that.
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Good stuff.
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But also, so are the Devils getting Lankanen tonight?
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They're getting Marilinen, who's the stronger of the two. His
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goal's against about 1.63 or something like that to start
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the year, and he's done a nice job. I guess
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Vancouver lost to the Hurricanes 6-0, and Lankanen gave up
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six goals in the first period and a half, and
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then Marilinen came in and shut the door. So he's
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looked pretty good this season. It's just going to be
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a matter. Vancouver, their average game this year is a
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5-4 loss. They've all been high scoring, so we've got
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to put the puck in the net, and I expect
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this to be a run-and-gun type of game, not a
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ton of defense.
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Yeah, and you know what?
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Also, getting back in the lineup, and Nick Villano was
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scared of this because the lack of depth on defense
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for the New Jersey Dells because the injuries is Jonas
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Ekenfaller is back in the lineup, which is.
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We're back on defense. That's huge for us. Is he
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back in the lineup? He is. Okay. Yeah, he's back.
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That gets our defensive core back, you know, intact. And,
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you know, hopefully that shores up the side because we,
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you know, we need all the help we can get.
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It seems like there have been a lot of miscommunications
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in our own zone.
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Yeah. See, Dubzilla in the YouTube lives is let's go devils.
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Yeah, sorry that there was no morning woo this morning.
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As you know, um i was in a wedding up
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in boston max's wedding up in boston again beautiful blue
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sea uh i had the the scallops wrapped in that
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juicy bacon i had was it the lamb shanks as
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well had a little mint on it um then i
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had some kind of tuna it looked like a tuna
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ice cream cone i don't even know what.
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It was called but That's what I'm calling it. And
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then they had this, I don't know if it was
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a cheese ball. I don't even know what. But I
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was just eating.
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Yeah, they got the hors d'oeuvres being passed around.
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How do you say no? Yeah, it was a beautiful wedding.
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A couple was happy. It was actually, believe it or not,
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my first Jewish wedding.
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Wow. Yeah, or they had, you know, some Jewish theme
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in there. I don't know if the theme is the
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right word, but.
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It was my first.
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I was the kid that never got invited to the
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bar mitzvahs, bat mitzvahs.
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I missed out on all that. Yeah, they're fun, though.
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They get up on the chairs. Yeah, they got on
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the chairs, going around in circles.
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The whole time, I'm like, hey, maybe we should do
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this on Edison Place when we're protesting against the city
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kicking us out. Maybe we should put Frank the Tank, Kevin,
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and Casey up on chairs. you know, that we're protesting,
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that we're not allowed out there.
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It almost feels like we're back at college, 19 years old,
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trying to get away with something out here.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So, yeah, that's what it feels, because everybody knows, and
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I put it out on X, on Tuesday, we had
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Catherine Bogart scheduled for this podcast, and 20 minutes, literally
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20 minutes prior, they shut me down. The Newark's Alcohol
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Beverage Control Group, we're not selling beer. We're not even,
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you don't even see Anchor Brew anywhere. Like, we're not even,
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we're just talking about Devils hockey in the middle of
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the street. It's no different than taking your phone and
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going on, you know, YouTube Live.
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Or Facebook Live or whatever. Yeah. But we got shut
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down by the.
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City, and I'm a little grumpy because now it's involved me,
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which I try not to get involved with any of
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this stuff.
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Devils Down Under from Australia, he says, good day. I
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was hoping he'd say mate. Yeah. Because we're mates right now.
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Max says, was a Jewish and Italian themed wedding?
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Yes. So it had the best of both worlds. Yeah.
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Sebastian Maniscalco talks about that all the time. The Italians
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should do the catering. The Jewish people should do the
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wedding tradition. It matches up perfectly.
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Oh, yeah.
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Like the breaking of the glass and the glass all over.
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The place and all that kind of good stuff.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it was just awesome.
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I was really honored to be part of it because
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I've always wanted to experience it. And when I saw
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the chairs go up, Alessandra and Max, I'm like in
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a circle.
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Like, yeah, let's go.
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Let's go.
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Let's go, Devils. That's what was going through my mind.
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And then I see Mrs. Wu, you know, being the,
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you know.
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I was under adult supervision then, so we need that support.
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Adult supervision is always good when I'm at a wedding
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because it can simply get out of control.
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But Table 9, we were at. Table 9 made the
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most noise in that wedding. Yeah.
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You know how the DJ, they tried to get everybody.
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The DJ was great. Transitions were great. Songs were great.
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Just the timing, all that. I look into that stuff because, heck,
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I do these live events. I should probably understand all this.
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Everything was good, but anyway. We got a game to play.
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Devils versus Canucks. Margarita pizzas were awesome, by the way.
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Always great here. Michael and I forgot the other guy's name.
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Kendall.
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Michael and Kendall back there. Kendall's new, so not good
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with names. Here at American Whiskey. We munched down on
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some margarita pizzas and.
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Let's do predictions. We haven't done predictions.
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This has been like our game day lives have been
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like really off. This is probably the first game day
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live that's actually.
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Traditional format doing some predictions. Even now there's a lot
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going on everywhere we turn.
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As Vinny is at I think a 70th birthday party
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stuck somewhere in Wisconsin.
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Also Scotty is stuck at work.
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So that's going to be a problem for Devils after
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dark so I'll have to Go to the e-bub as well.
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Predictions, predictions, predictions. I think Jack Hughes needs to step
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it up.
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Yeah.
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He needs to step it up. Leadership must step it
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up on this team. You're 1-2. Could have easily been 0-3.
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What's your prediction? Roman, and give it to me. I
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don't want you to sugarcoat anything.
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I'll give you an optimistic prediction and a realistic prediction. Optimistic,
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I hope Hughes gets a couple in. I hope Heischer scores.
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I hope Meyer can find the net. If that happens,
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I think the Devils can win this game 6-4. More realistically,
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I think we probably lose this game 4-3.
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Really? Real.
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I see Kevin behind the bar right now. That tells
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you how busy it is at American Whiskey.
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This place is awesome.
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Don't tell Kevin I said this, but he does nothing here.
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He just entertains people. Frank the Tank rolls up in
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his sleeves. He's going to town trying to get everything going,
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dealing with the police, you know.
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Outside with this whole outside thing. And you got Casey.
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He's like in the, you know, he's in the, whatchamacallit,
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in the kitchen right now.
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You know what? I should take the camera and go around. Yeah?
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Do you think I should? Yeah. Do you have a prediction? Yeah,
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I got a prediction.
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But I should take the camera and just go around.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, well, keep on talking because I only got,
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I'm not wireless right now. Okay. So you keep on talking.
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I'll take the camera around. Yeah.
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Spur of the moment things, folks. See, this is why
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we try to keep you engaged here on the Let's
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Go Devils podcast is we are going, we're going behind
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the scenes. You see, you got Michael right there behind
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the scenes.
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You got Roman. You got people. Just hanging out. There's Kevin.
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Kevin's actually working. Kevin's actually working. Yeah, Kevin's actually working.
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Let's see here. Yeah, there's Kendall. All that stuff. Let's
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go behind the scenes. Let's see what people are saying
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about our behind the scenes work right here.
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Let's see here. Where do I put the camera?
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Let's put the camera over here because I'm trying to
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get to my YouTube live to see what people are saying.
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Hold on a sec here. Don't you hate it?
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That's a real good pizza tossing going on.
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Oh, yeah. You got it? Yeah, we got it. Yeah.
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We'll get to the prediction soon, but I'm going mobile
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right now.
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Why don't you take over, Roman? I want to go
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behind the scenes. Hold on a sec. Sure.
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Yeah, that's going to be the big variable for today
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is what can the Devils do on offense? How strong
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can the goalies stay? Can Jake Allen shut the door?
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and what's going to happen as the game goes on.
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It's an exciting time of the season for us, and
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I think it was Scotty in the last podcast that
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was saying it's basically an 81-game season from here on out.
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We can kind of take the first three games as
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a bit of a mulligan and just see where it goes,
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but ultimately for the Devils, we've got to find a
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way to shut the door on defense a lot more,
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communicate a lot better in back, and and take it
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from there. It looks like Sam's almost back from his
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tour of American whiskey here.
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Yeah, I'm back.
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That experiment probably failed. I should probably do a helmet
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cam with that bit. All right, so let's get to
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these scores right now. PodLegend says 4-2 Devils. Seagot says
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5-1 Devils. Double Down Under retracted a message. Pete says
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5-2 Devils. Eddie says 5-3 Devils. Devils down under now
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says 6-1 Devils.
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I hope he's right. Wimpy says no team plays perfect
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60 minutes. It's a void. Long lapses in play. Good point.
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4-3 Devils even though they can easily win this 4-1.
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Devils win. Select a boy. 5-2 Devils.
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For the Hughes Brothers. Big game for the Hughes Brothers
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says Wimpy. Repeat of last year. Vancouver wins 3-1. Devils
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have 40 shots. Goalie stands on his head again.
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I kind of agree with that.
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Yeah, I agree with that too. I don't want to
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see it though.
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Nick Lovell says 3-1 Vancouver. Sorry. All of you guys
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are wrong. Offensive explosion today for your New Jersey Devils.
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11-2.
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11. Jake the Snake Allen. The Snake.
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Is going to be on fire. Thank you, Mark Schwab,
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says hello from everybody. Thank you for the super chat.
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I'm ready for the game. Greetings from Switzerland. Thank you,
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thank you, thank you.
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Pete says, I'd say if we go 500 in the
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first 10 games, we're.
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In good shape, essentially, with each line, have a new face.
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Eric says 4-1 Devils. Mark Schwab says, I'd just say
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a win, don't care the score. Kind of agree right now.
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I'm not going for style points. I'm going for wins.
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Just hit points in the standings. Yeah, exactly.
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All right, we're going to get out of here. We're
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going to have Devils After Dark after the game.
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I will. I guess I'm flying solo. So it's just
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you and me. So we're going to have to figure
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this thing out, Roman. Yeah. I don't know what's going
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to happen after the game, but I'm going to the game.
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I'm going to be with the Section.
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18 Psychos today downstairs in the Rich People section. Going to.
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Hopefully eat club seating food as well. Get that in.
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But Mrs.
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Wu, you didn't hear that. Right now she's somewhere right
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now in Pennsylvania. Anyway, all right, getting out of here.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you to everybody tuning in,
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dropping the podcast a little bit later.
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Thank you, Roman, as.
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Our official emergency backup broadcaster.
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Jacob couldn't make it. I called Jacob. He said, I'm
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stuck at work. Stupid work. Can you believe that?
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Anyway, we're getting out of here. Thank you to everybody.
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Thank you to Frank the Tank. Thank you to Michael.
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Thank you to Kendall. Thank you to Kevin, who's actually
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doing something around here. Emilio, Casey, the rest of the
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staff here at American Whiskey. We'll see you after the game.
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Until next time, let's go Devils.
486
00:25:54.500 --> 00:25:56.240
So so
