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Network as the Devils take on the Columbus Blue Jackets.
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Built as Fight Night tonight, but there was no fight
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in the Devil's last night against the Toronto maple LEAs
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except for one person.
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That was Nico Heer.
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I'm not gonna lie. I was really really mad, like
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really mad. I came on here and I said everything
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I said, You're who you are, go prove it. You
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have all this talent, all these nice things that I said,
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and then they go out there and lose four nothing.
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I mean, that was a disgusting disgrace. I have nothing
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nice to say about them until they stop playing like
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a bunch of losers. That's what they are. They're losers, Okay,
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all of them right now, they are losers. I believe
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in Jack Hughes's supreme talent. I believe in Nico Hesher's
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elite two way game. I think Bratton Meyer can be
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elite wingers. They're not right now though. They're losers. They
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don't put the puck in the net. They get Goaliad
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every game. There's no fight. It just it's so stale.
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It's so stale.
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I'm tired of the excuses.
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I think us as fans, the media, I think we're
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all done with the excuses because I'm seeing right now,
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like Christy Flannery telling you how it is, uh, Nick
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Vaalano as per usual, telling how it is on pucksinpitchforst
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dot Com. Uh, James Nichols, Ryanovazinski are all like, Okay,
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we can't spend this anymore. We can't spend this anymore.
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This is not a bad this is talent wise, on paper,
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this is not a bad team. But the results the
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r o I, if you want to use use that terminology,
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just describe this team.
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It's simply not there. I had.
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I had a problem with the rest of the team
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just staring, you know, sort of cheering Nico on when
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he took on that big fight last night. Devils got lucky,
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it didn't get hurt, to be honest. But someone mentioned
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on the Devils after Dark Vinnie last night, what would
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the Florida Panthers have done had that been bark Off,
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they would have swarmed them. They would have kicked everybody's
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ass that was out there on the ice. Whether they
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can fight or not, it didn't matter. This Devil's team,
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they just stood and watched like they do they're on defense.
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They just stood there and watched. So you know, again,
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and I don't know. Sheldon Keith was kind of pissing
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me off. I was talking about in the morning, Woo.
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I harped on it that he said, I didn't I
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didn't see the guys in the locker room after the game,
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but I will talk to them tomorrow morning.
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Like what.
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You couldn't You can't make five ten minutes to chew
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them out and let him know unless he's given them
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a silent treatment. I don't know, but like that's not
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why I want to hear. And also I don't want
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to hear puck luck anymore. I'm done with it, done
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with it.
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Yeah, I'm done with it too, And I'm done with
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the excuses. I'm done defending Tom Fitzgerald because he was
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good early in his tenure as the GM. This team,
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if they don't start winning within the next week or two,
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like consistently, and listen, the Eastern Conference is so like
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mid that a five game winning streak would put him
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right back in the playoffs. And you know, if they
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did go on a run and made the playoffs and
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got hot, I believe they could, believe it, beat any
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team because of the talent level that they have. But
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for right now, I'm not seeing it. I'm just not
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seeing it.
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And you cover the Blackhawks, you watch hockey, you watch
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other organizations, and this is not about grass is greener
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on the other side. I mean, every team has their problems.
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I think the problem here is the optics look terrible,
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and on top of everything else, we didn't even talk
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about the cap situation. Well, what are the solutions to this?
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What are the solutions? And there are not many other
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than win. But this group is not winning, and at
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some point, at some point, I don't care if it
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doesn't look good on paper. But if Pilott and Hamilton
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are not producing, sit them.
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We can't.
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Just like when Markstan was trying to find his game,
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we can't sacrifice these games. Right now, we're at game forty.
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Right now, we're just one game shot at the halfway
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mark on this condensed scheduling. And you would think after
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the break, okay, they got everybody back, they have some
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energy whatever. This is low energy hockey.
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It is. And you could say not producing, not producing,
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not producing. It's one thing to not produce, it's another
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to play straight up bad. And Plot and Hamilton, especially
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Palat have just mostly been playing bad.
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Yeah, so you know, I ask you, Vinny, like, what
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are the solutions here? Player trades can't do it.
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Yeah, it's hard to just make a move. You don't
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fire players. I'm not saying to fire Sheldon Keith, Bench,
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someone Bench, Dougie Hamilton. Send a message say like, there
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is so much talent in this organization. Bring up Seamus Casey,
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do something. I don't know if Shamus Casey hurt, do something.
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I think the problem is they have no cap space
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to do anything. Twelve under the cap I mean, you
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can't even you can't even do much with that. No,
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you know, so, you know, do you even have flexibility
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of calling somebody up while not sending one of these
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big guys down?
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I don't.
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I don't think Tom Fitzgerald really is cash strap right
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now with this cap it kind of reminds me of
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the old days of college football where you only can
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give a certain amount of scholarships.
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Right you remember that movie Rudy.
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It's like, oh, we only have a certain amount right now,
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there's just a certain amount of cap room. And really
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you've got Covid Savage, who knows can he come back now?
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But does it even matter at this point? Or Nemitch,
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you know, you hear the like how long is it
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gonna take for them to recover? Now?
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They're kind of kicking the can down the road. Kicking
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the can down the road now.
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It's like now we're talking about mid January now, when
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they were saying beginning of January.
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Just reading between the lines.
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Yeah, it would be a big boost to get him
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back because would be another body on defense, But like,
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can they bring him back?
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Even I'm not a capitologist that's there.
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There's gonna be moves that have to be made in
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order to fix the problems that are on this team.
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I don't know if they could be made this year.
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And I think that lies to problem. But they something
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has to give. I mean, if these players are actually
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one hundred percent healthy, you can't just keep them on
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there forever.
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No, you know what I mean.
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I mean, you don't want to be involved circumvention that
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that cap even though everybody else did it before.
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They changed kind of.
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Tweak the rules to prevent some you know. I mean
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there was one year that this pissed me off that
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you know, with all the injuries, the Devils didn't make
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the playoffs after that that big run in twenty twenty three.
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They had the cap space because of all the injuries,
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and they could have got like gained a couple of
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draft picks out of it, had they took on some salary.
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But no, we don't. Don't. We don't do that.
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Yeah, yeah, it's it's not good.
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Yeah. Uh dag for Hanson. Uh.
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Just to let you know, Vinnie moved into his new
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digs literally like less than a month ago.
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So we're working on his background.
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Okay, what's wrong with my background?
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I don't know. He doesn't like it. He can't get
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fired up over it.
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Oh well, if he quick pays me five hundred dollars
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right now, I will take that money and go get
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a sweet background. Okay, well, at Vinnie Persi, at Vinnie
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Persi on Venmo, five hundred bucks, I will go to
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the store and buy five hundred dollars or however much
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you send me worth of awesome background stuff. Hang it
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up and improve my background for you. I'll send something
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to you at Vinnie Persi on Venmo.
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Yeah. Actually I kind of like your background.
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Yeah, I think it's better. I think it's better than
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my background. I was actually gonna ask you about those lights,
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you know.
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The back your background sick, But you think so, give
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me a break. I've been here a month.
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I think it's a little I think it's a little
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too cluttered, though. Do you think it's cluttered? No, No,
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we got to ask people with OCD if it's too cluttered.
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If you watch like McAfee or Dan Patrick or any
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of those guys, all of them have like their cool
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little memorabilia. So no, I don't think so at all.
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Yeah, I mean I got some cool stuff. Let me
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let me pull one.
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All faithful, all reliable, Yeah, Uh, can't forget the Ranger
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Sucks sign. Yeah. Sam's background is sick. Yeah, I got
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don't be hating on my background unless you're gonna fund it.
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The Vinny fund.
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So he has a background, you know, you know for years,
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you know, have you in our early days you ever
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see Beer Baron's background?
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It was horrible.
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It was horrible, Like it was so bad that it
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was just like, dude, we're in season three, could you
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change it up?
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Eventually?
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You know he did something, but you know, anyway, all right, Vinny,
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I know it's New Year's Eve time for New Year's resolution.
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I think I'm going to break them all because one
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of mine is to be more positive about Jack Hughes
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with all his negativity. But after last night, I don't
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think there's anything I really want to talk about Jack
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Hughes right now. No.
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I mean, he needs to score. That's the end, is
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the story. Yeah, you know what's his name? Did play like?
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Well yesterday everybody keeps saying Golie, Golie, Like okay, it's fine,
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like yeah, but at the same time, you can't get
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goalie every single game. Yeah, so you know, you gotta
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figure out ways to score. They haven't done that. Hopefully
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they're able too soon.
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Yeah. Roman makes a great point.
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If COVID, Sevage and Image come back, we have seven
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d guys, maybe that's when they'll start scratching Dougie. The
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problem is we don't have cap space for those two
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to be to be on with that scratch. That's that's
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the problem we're talking about. And and then Sheldy Keith,
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if you go through past press conferences, he's made subtle
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hints without saying it, like almost like he's held hostage.
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But he's like blinking to the cop, you know, nine
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to one one, you know, in worse code. That's what
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he kind of is in some of these press cons
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You gotta you gotta read between the line with with
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Sheldon Keith when you listen.
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To him next time. We're all the time.
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Because sometimes I think he's he's calling for help, and
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sometimes I think that he's not in control here, just
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like with Lindy Ruff, where it's kind of like Tom
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Fitzgeral is pushing the buttons, but he has the ownership
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in his ear and he's got his hockey ops in
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his ear, and he doesn't know what to do, which
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is why he has that hesitation with that, with that
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proposal with the Vancouver Canucks, the trade Quinn Hughes, And
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that's annoying.
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Yeah, it is very annoying, but I mean it is
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what it is. You have to work with what you have,
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and what they have is better than what they've shown.
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I do believe that.
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Yeah, all right, what are you expecting with this game?
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We're gonna go get your predictions?
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Now?
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What are your Because Devil's after Dark, Nick Vel was
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filling in for Scottie and he was texting me behind
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the scenes, and I'm like, Nick, yeah, this could be
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a little different than what you're normally used to, especially
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like after last night. Everyone was fired up. I was
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even fired up this morning. But what's your prediction? What's
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gonna happen? And take the fandom out of it for
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a sec. We can we can go back to our
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predictions for the game and at our fandom back in.
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But let's let's be rational here for five minutes. What's
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your prediction.
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Yeah, I think the Devils are gonna lose. I haven't
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predicted them to lose on this podcast in a long time.
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But I'm done with them. I'm not done with them,
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done with them but I'm done believing in them. Right now,
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they've been horrible. I don't like what I see. Everything
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feel stale, which you shouldn't feel in the second year
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of a coach when you have a bunch of superstars
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under twenty five years old that just aren't playing up
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to their potential. Right now, it happens. Every team in
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the East has had a stretch where they were amazing looking,
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and every team in the East has had a stretch
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where they've looked terrible. Right now, the Devils are in
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the middle of one of those terrible ones. I'm gonna
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go three to two Blue Jackets.
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Okay, So that's your rational, your rational, you know, just
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like a stockbroker or financial analyst picking steps for their clients.
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There's no emotion here. Now give me a prediction with
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your emotion, your hopeful emotion.
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My hopeful emotion. Emotion. They come out, it's New Year's Eve,
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they're on the road, nobody's booing them. If they make
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an extra pass, nobody's booing them. If they take a
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second to shoot. Then you go four to two Devils.
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Okay, Okay, I'll give you. I'll give you both of mine.
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But let's read some of these scores right now. Selective
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Boy says, hold on sick, Wow, there's a lot of
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scores coming in on your Wednesday night. Prediction four to
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three Devils uh t mo Meyer says five to three Columbus.
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Uh never seen that screen name before? Please subscribe to
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our YouTube channel at let's go Devils. Set the alerts.
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Roman says in five to one BJS uh Stanley says
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Columbus five New Jersey who cares seriously? Uh Ja Snow
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says four to one CBJ Devils get beat up. Uh
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fire GM no Dick has four to two Devils six
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pack bops uh dag for Hanson says four to two
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New Jersey win at least eight fights.
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In the first period, ratt with the shorty Keith gets ejected.
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I like that Keith catching.
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Jim Norton says three two Devils. Uh, let's see here.
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Three to two Devil's in ot Serve says this is
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what I'm gonna predict. This is my rational The Devils
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get their asses kicked tonight, but more of between the second.
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Period and the third period.
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My rational thinking is they're gonna lose six to two,
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and those two goals are gonna be meaningless coming from
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in the third period when they were the game was
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already been concluded. But this is my irrational prediction, and
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I'm gonna tell you this as a fan, Vinny, I'm
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praying to God the Devil's get their asses kicked tonight
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for one reason, because a win tonight with this jeckle
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On Hyde, you don't know which devil team you get,
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disguises the big picture and the big problem. Kind of
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like the New York Football Giants beating the crap out
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of the Raiders on Sunday. When I get it, you
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want that love and winning feeling again and all that
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kind of stuff. But as an organization, I get it.
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You want to tell your players you gotta win, win, win,
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We don't tank and all that kind of stuff. While
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the other team was, uh, well, at least management wanted
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the tank. But the players, I truly believe, want their
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incentives and you know, and pride and all that. But
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that Giants management didn't do any favors. And I'm afraid
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that if they win tonight, my irrational everyone's gonna be happy,
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but they're not. They're gonna be We're gonna have fools
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gold again. If they beat them six to two and
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they win every single fight, or like.
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Where was this team? Yay, we have potential.
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We know that they have potential, and then they're gonna
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disappoint us again on January third, after that feel good feeling.
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So that's why I want them to lose for that reason.
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But my irrational is like they're gonna They're gonna come
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out and we're gonna see the real team that we've
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always been dreaming of. So my irrational will say that
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the Devils will win five to two over the Columbus
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Blue Jackets. Do you see like the schizophrenia as a fan?
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Is that even the proper or or is it bipole?
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I don't know what term it is, but multiple personalities?
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You know which team is gonna show up?
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Yeah, you never know, you never know. There's a very
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jackal in hyde field of this season, but not lately
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it's just most been bad. Yeah it's been bad. Yeah,
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another bad December for the New Jersey Devils.
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Yeah, and Whippy says eight five bjs and I actually
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think Whippy is actually being being uh realistic. The Devils
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gave the Blue Jackets enough the bulletin board material for
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whatever reason. You know, from the la you know, from
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the last go around when they were at the Rock,
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when there were a lot of guys fighting, Brendan Dillon
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get his face smashed in all that kind of stuff.
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Annie. But you know, I'm trying to be hopeful, I'm
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trying to be positive.
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I'm trying to make this podcast along with you, upbeat
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and and all that. But we're also realistic here because
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this game.
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It's again.
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I hate to say it, I'm gonna be really pissed
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off if they did win tonight because I want that.
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I want the acts to happen. I don't care where
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it is. I don't care if you fire the janitor
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at this point, do something.
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That would be nice.
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Not the janitor, please, They had nothing to do it,
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you know. Anyway, Well, thank you Danny, thank you Vinny.
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I am gonna wish you and missus w wish you
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and your missus a happy New Year.
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You got any plans tonight?
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Yeah, I'm going out to a family member's house for
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a little New Year's Eve get together. Nothing crazy, but
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I'm excited about it. And I wish you and missus
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Wu and everybody watching in the chat have very happy
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New year as well. Thank you for listening for all
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of twenty twenty five. It's been very up and down,
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but we've had a lot of fun and we look
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forward to more. In twenty twenty six, we're.
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Gonna look forward to more and also the next time
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we'll be back, we'll be back at American Whiskey up
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in the Attic for Game Day Live and Devil's after Dark.
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So I feel it's like a goodbye, but it really isn't.
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This is the last last Game Day Live at twenty
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twenty five. We've got some memories. Unfortunately I didn't have
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time to put a montage of memories for this podcast,
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but probably the biggest memory was not too long ago,
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at your wedding doing Game Day Live.
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That was awesome.
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Yeah, that was awesome, And Micro's ins said, thanks for
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the broadcast. It's great to throw some negativity around with
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NJAD peeps.
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Piece.
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Hey, it's not negativity, it's what's happening right now. You know,
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we're not we're you know, we were actually neutral, which
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makes us sound like we're positive, but really, you know,
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we've been burnt with this organization before in the last
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ten years, so watch out. It should be interesting. What
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happens tonight. We'll have Devil's after Dark after the game,
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myself and Nick Vellano Pucks and pitchforks dot Com. We'll
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recap the game that was no State of the Fan
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addressed tonight, obviously because of preemption New Year's Eve, and
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plus there's the Devil's game going on. But you know
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what one prediction that one wise man said in Rocky
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three Pain, and that's what's gonna happen tonight, So we'll
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recap that. Thank you all those tuning in twenty twenty
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five for Game Day Live. Thank you Vinnie, Thank you
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to everybody dropping the podcast in about ten minutes. Until
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next time, Let's go doubles
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Network as the Devils take on the Columbus Blue Jackets.
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Built as Fight Night tonight, but there was no fight
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in the Devil's last night against the Toronto maple LEAs
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except for one person.
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That was Nico Heer.
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I'm not gonna lie. I was really really mad, like
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really mad. I came on here and I said everything
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I said, You're who you are, go prove it. You
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have all this talent, all these nice things that I said,
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and then they go out there and lose four nothing.
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I mean, that was a disgusting disgrace. I have nothing
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nice to say about them until they stop playing like
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a bunch of losers. That's what they are. They're losers, Okay,
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all of them right now, they are losers. I believe
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in Jack Hughes's supreme talent. I believe in Nico Hesher's
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elite two way game. I think Bratton Meyer can be
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elite wingers. They're not right now though. They're losers. They
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don't put the puck in the net. They get Goaliad
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every game. There's no fight. It just it's so stale.
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It's so stale.
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I'm tired of the excuses.
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I think us as fans, the media, I think we're
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all done with the excuses because I'm seeing right now,
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like Christy Flannery telling you how it is, uh, Nick
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dot Com. Uh, James Nichols, Ryanovazinski are all like, Okay,
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we can't spend this anymore. We can't spend this anymore.
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This is not a bad this is talent wise, on paper,
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this is not a bad team. But the results the
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r o I, if you want to use use that terminology,
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just describe this team.
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It's simply not there. I had.
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I had a problem with the rest of the team
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just staring, you know, sort of cheering Nico on when
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he took on that big fight last night. Devils got lucky,
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it didn't get hurt, to be honest. But someone mentioned
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on the Devils after Dark Vinnie last night, what would
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the Florida Panthers have done had that been bark Off,
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they would have swarmed them. They would have kicked everybody's
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ass that was out there on the ice. Whether they
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can fight or not, it didn't matter. This Devil's team,
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they just stood and watched like they do they're on defense.
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They just stood there and watched. So you know, again,
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and I don't know. Sheldon Keith was kind of pissing
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me off. I was talking about in the morning, Woo.
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I harped on it that he said, I didn't I
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didn't see the guys in the locker room after the game,
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but I will talk to them tomorrow morning.
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Like what.
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You couldn't You can't make five ten minutes to chew
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them out and let him know unless he's given them
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a silent treatment. I don't know, but like that's not
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why I want to hear. And also I don't want
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to hear puck luck anymore. I'm done with it, done
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with it.
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Yeah, I'm done with it too, And I'm done with
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the excuses. I'm done defending Tom Fitzgerald because he was
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good early in his tenure as the GM. This team,
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if they don't start winning within the next week or two,
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like consistently, and listen, the Eastern Conference is so like
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mid that a five game winning streak would put him
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right back in the playoffs. And you know, if they
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did go on a run and made the playoffs and
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got hot, I believe they could, believe it, beat any
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team because of the talent level that they have. But
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for right now, I'm not seeing it. I'm just not
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seeing it.
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other organizations, and this is not about grass is greener
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on the other side. I mean, every team has their problems.
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I think the problem here is the optics look terrible,
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and on top of everything else, we didn't even talk
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about the cap situation. Well, what are the solutions to this?
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What are the solutions? And there are not many other
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than win. But this group is not winning, and at
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some point, at some point, I don't care if it
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doesn't look good on paper. But if Pilott and Hamilton
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are not producing, sit them.
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Just like when Markstan was trying to find his game,
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we can't sacrifice these games. Right now, we're at game forty.
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Right now, we're just one game shot at the halfway
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mark on this condensed scheduling. And you would think after
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the break, okay, they got everybody back, they have some
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energy whatever. This is low energy hockey.
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It is. And you could say not producing, not producing,
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not producing. It's one thing to not produce, it's another
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to play straight up bad. And Plot and Hamilton, especially
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Palat have just mostly been playing bad.
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Yeah, so you know, I ask you, Vinny, like, what
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are the solutions here? Player trades can't do it.
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fire players. I'm not saying to fire Sheldon Keith, Bench,
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someone Bench, Dougie Hamilton. Send a message say like, there
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is so much talent in this organization. Bring up Seamus Casey,
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do something. I don't know if Shamus Casey hurt, do something.
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I think the problem is they have no cap space
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to do anything. Twelve under the cap I mean, you
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can't even you can't even do much with that. No,
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you know, so, you know, do you even have flexibility
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of calling somebody up while not sending one of these
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big guys down?
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I don't.
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I don't think Tom Fitzgerald really is cash strap right
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now with this cap it kind of reminds me of
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the old days of college football where you only can
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give a certain amount of scholarships.
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Right you remember that movie Rudy.
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It's like, oh, we only have a certain amount right now,
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there's just a certain amount of cap room. And really
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you've got Covid Savage, who knows can he come back now?
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But does it even matter at this point? Or Nemitch,
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you know, you hear the like how long is it
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gonna take for them to recover? Now?
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They're kind of kicking the can down the road. Kicking
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the can down the road now.
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It's like now we're talking about mid January now, when
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they were saying beginning of January.
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back because would be another body on defense, But like,
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can they bring him back?
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There's gonna be moves that have to be made in
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order to fix the problems that are on this team.
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I don't know if they could be made this year.
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has to give. I mean, if these players are actually
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one hundred percent healthy, you can't just keep them on
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there forever.
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No, you know what I mean.
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I mean, you don't want to be involved circumvention that
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that cap even though everybody else did it before.
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They changed kind of.
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Tweak the rules to prevent some you know. I mean
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there was one year that this pissed me off that
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you know, with all the injuries, the Devils didn't make
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the playoffs after that that big run in twenty twenty three.
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They had the cap space because of all the injuries,
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and they could have got like gained a couple of
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draft picks out of it, had they took on some salary.
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But no, we don't. Don't. We don't do that.
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Yeah, yeah, it's it's not good.
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Yeah. Uh dag for Hanson. Uh.
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Just to let you know, Vinnie moved into his new
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digs literally like less than a month ago.
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So we're working on his background.
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Okay, what's wrong with my background?
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I don't know. He doesn't like it. He can't get
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fired up over it.
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Oh well, if he quick pays me five hundred dollars
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right now, I will take that money and go get
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a sweet background. Okay, well, at Vinnie Persi, at Vinnie
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Persi on Venmo, five hundred bucks, I will go to
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the store and buy five hundred dollars or however much
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you send me worth of awesome background stuff. Hang it
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up and improve my background for you. I'll send something
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to you at Vinnie Persi on Venmo.
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Yeah. Actually I kind of like your background.
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Yeah, I think it's better. I think it's better than
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my background. I was actually gonna ask you about those lights,
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you know.
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The back your background sick, But you think so, give
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me a break. I've been here a month.
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I think it's a little I think it's a little
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too cluttered, though. Do you think it's cluttered? No, No,
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we got to ask people with OCD if it's too cluttered.
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If you watch like McAfee or Dan Patrick or any
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of those guys, all of them have like their cool
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little memorabilia. So no, I don't think so at all.
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Yeah, I mean I got some cool stuff. Let me
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let me pull one.
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All faithful, all reliable, Yeah, Uh, can't forget the Ranger
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Sucks sign. Yeah. Sam's background is sick. Yeah, I got
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don't be hating on my background unless you're gonna fund it.
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The Vinny fund.
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So he has a background, you know, you know for years,
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you know, have you in our early days you ever
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see Beer Baron's background?
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It was horrible.
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It was horrible, Like it was so bad that it
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was just like, dude, we're in season three, could you
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change it up?
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Eventually?
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You know he did something, but you know, anyway, all right, Vinny,
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I know it's New Year's Eve time for New Year's resolution.
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I think I'm going to break them all because one
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of mine is to be more positive about Jack Hughes
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with all his negativity. But after last night, I don't
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think there's anything I really want to talk about Jack
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Hughes right now. No.
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I mean, he needs to score. That's the end, is
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the story. Yeah, you know what's his name? Did play like?
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Well yesterday everybody keeps saying Golie, Golie, Like okay, it's fine,
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like yeah, but at the same time, you can't get
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goalie every single game. Yeah, so you know, you gotta
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figure out ways to score. They haven't done that. Hopefully
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they're able too soon.
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Yeah. Roman makes a great point.
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If COVID, Sevage and Image come back, we have seven
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d guys, maybe that's when they'll start scratching Dougie. The
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problem is we don't have cap space for those two
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to be to be on with that scratch. That's that's
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the problem we're talking about. And and then Sheldy Keith,
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if you go through past press conferences, he's made subtle
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hints without saying it, like almost like he's held hostage.
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But he's like blinking to the cop, you know, nine
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to one one, you know, in worse code. That's what
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he kind of is in some of these press cons
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You gotta you gotta read between the line with with
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Sheldon Keith when you listen.
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To him next time. We're all the time.
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Because sometimes I think he's he's calling for help, and
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sometimes I think that he's not in control here, just
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like with Lindy Ruff, where it's kind of like Tom
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Fitzgeral is pushing the buttons, but he has the ownership
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in his ear and he's got his hockey ops in
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his ear, and he doesn't know what to do, which
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is why he has that hesitation with that, with that
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proposal with the Vancouver Canucks, the trade Quinn Hughes, And
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that's annoying.
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Yeah, it is very annoying, but I mean it is
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what it is. You have to work with what you have,
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and what they have is better than what they've shown.
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I do believe that.
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Yeah, all right, what are you expecting with this game?
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We're gonna go get your predictions?
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Now?
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What are your Because Devil's after Dark, Nick Vel was
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filling in for Scottie and he was texting me behind
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the scenes, and I'm like, Nick, yeah, this could be
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a little different than what you're normally used to, especially
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like after last night. Everyone was fired up. I was
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even fired up this morning. But what's your prediction? What's
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gonna happen? And take the fandom out of it for
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a sec. We can we can go back to our
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predictions for the game and at our fandom back in.
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But let's let's be rational here for five minutes. What's
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your prediction.
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Yeah, I think the Devils are gonna lose. I haven't
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predicted them to lose on this podcast in a long time.
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But I'm done with them. I'm not done with them,
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done with them but I'm done believing in them. Right now,
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they've been horrible. I don't like what I see. Everything
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feel stale, which you shouldn't feel in the second year
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of a coach when you have a bunch of superstars
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under twenty five years old that just aren't playing up
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to their potential. Right now, it happens. Every team in
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the East has had a stretch where they were amazing looking,
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and every team in the East has had a stretch
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where they've looked terrible. Right now, the Devils are in
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the middle of one of those terrible ones. I'm gonna
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go three to two Blue Jackets.
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Okay, So that's your rational, your rational, you know, just
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like a stockbroker or financial analyst picking steps for their clients.
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There's no emotion here. Now give me a prediction with
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your emotion, your hopeful emotion.
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My hopeful emotion. Emotion. They come out, it's New Year's Eve,
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they're on the road, nobody's booing them. If they make
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an extra pass, nobody's booing them. If they take a
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second to shoot. Then you go four to two Devils.
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Okay, Okay, I'll give you. I'll give you both of mine.
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But let's read some of these scores right now. Selective
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Boy says, hold on sick, Wow, there's a lot of
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scores coming in on your Wednesday night. Prediction four to
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three Devils uh t mo Meyer says five to three Columbus.
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Uh never seen that screen name before? Please subscribe to
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our YouTube channel at let's go Devils. Set the alerts.
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Roman says in five to one BJS uh Stanley says
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Columbus five New Jersey who cares seriously? Uh Ja Snow
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says four to one CBJ Devils get beat up. Uh
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fire GM no Dick has four to two Devils six
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pack bops uh dag for Hanson says four to two
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New Jersey win at least eight fights.
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In the first period, ratt with the shorty Keith gets ejected.
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I like that Keith catching.
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Jim Norton says three two Devils. Uh, let's see here.
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Three to two Devil's in ot Serve says this is
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what I'm gonna predict. This is my rational The Devils
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get their asses kicked tonight, but more of between the second.
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Period and the third period.
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My rational thinking is they're gonna lose six to two,
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and those two goals are gonna be meaningless coming from
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in the third period when they were the game was
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already been concluded. But this is my irrational prediction, and
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I'm gonna tell you this as a fan, Vinny, I'm
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praying to God the Devil's get their asses kicked tonight
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for one reason, because a win tonight with this jeckle
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On Hyde, you don't know which devil team you get,
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disguises the big picture and the big problem. Kind of
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like the New York Football Giants beating the crap out
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of the Raiders on Sunday. When I get it, you
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want that love and winning feeling again and all that
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kind of stuff. But as an organization, I get it.
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You want to tell your players you gotta win, win, win,
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We don't tank and all that kind of stuff. While
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the other team was, uh, well, at least management wanted
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the tank. But the players, I truly believe, want their
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incentives and you know, and pride and all that. But
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that Giants management didn't do any favors. And I'm afraid
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that if they win tonight, my irrational everyone's gonna be happy,
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but they're not. They're gonna be We're gonna have fools
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gold again. If they beat them six to two and
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they win every single fight, or like.
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Where was this team? Yay, we have potential.
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We know that they have potential, and then they're gonna
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disappoint us again on January third, after that feel good feeling.
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So that's why I want them to lose for that reason.
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But my irrational is like they're gonna They're gonna come
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out and we're gonna see the real team that we've
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always been dreaming of. So my irrational will say that
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the Devils will win five to two over the Columbus
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Blue Jackets. Do you see like the schizophrenia as a fan?
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Is that even the proper or or is it bipole?
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I don't know what term it is, but multiple personalities?
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You know which team is gonna show up?
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Yeah, you never know, you never know. There's a very
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jackal in hyde field of this season, but not lately
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it's just most been bad. Yeah it's been bad. Yeah,
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another bad December for the New Jersey Devils.
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Yeah, and Whippy says eight five bjs and I actually
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think Whippy is actually being being uh realistic. The Devils
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gave the Blue Jackets enough the bulletin board material for
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whatever reason. You know, from the la you know, from
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the last go around when they were at the Rock,
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when there were a lot of guys fighting, Brendan Dillon
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get his face smashed in all that kind of stuff.
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Annie. But you know, I'm trying to be hopeful, I'm
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trying to be positive.
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I'm trying to make this podcast along with you, upbeat
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and and all that. But we're also realistic here because
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this game.
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It's again.
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I hate to say it, I'm gonna be really pissed
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off if they did win tonight because I want that.
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I want the acts to happen. I don't care where
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it is. I don't care if you fire the janitor
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at this point, do something.
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That would be nice.
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Not the janitor, please, They had nothing to do it,
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you know. Anyway, Well, thank you Danny, thank you Vinny.
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I am gonna wish you and missus w wish you
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and your missus a happy New Year.
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You got any plans tonight?
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Yeah, I'm going out to a family member's house for
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a little New Year's Eve get together. Nothing crazy, but
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I'm excited about it. And I wish you and missus
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Wu and everybody watching in the chat have very happy
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New year as well. Thank you for listening for all
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of twenty twenty five. It's been very up and down,
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but we've had a lot of fun and we look
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forward to more. In twenty twenty six, we're.
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Gonna look forward to more and also the next time
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we'll be back, we'll be back at American Whiskey up
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in the Attic for Game Day Live and Devil's after Dark.
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So I feel it's like a goodbye, but it really isn't.
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This is the last last Game Day Live at twenty
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twenty five. We've got some memories. Unfortunately I didn't have
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time to put a montage of memories for this podcast,
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but probably the biggest memory was not too long ago,
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at your wedding doing Game Day Live.
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That was awesome.
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Yeah, that was awesome, And Micro's ins said, thanks for
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the broadcast. It's great to throw some negativity around with
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NJAD peeps.
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Piece.
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Hey, it's not negativity, it's what's happening right now. You know,
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we're not we're you know, we were actually neutral, which
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makes us sound like we're positive, but really, you know,
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we've been burnt with this organization before in the last
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ten years, so watch out. It should be interesting. What
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happens tonight. We'll have Devil's after Dark after the game,
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myself and Nick Vellano Pucks and pitchforks dot Com. We'll
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recap the game that was no State of the Fan
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addressed tonight, obviously because of preemption New Year's Eve, and
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plus there's the Devil's game going on. But you know
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what one prediction that one wise man said in Rocky
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three Pain, and that's what's gonna happen tonight, So we'll
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recap that. Thank you all those tuning in twenty twenty
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five for Game Day Live. Thank you Vinnie, Thank you
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to everybody dropping the podcast in about ten minutes. Until
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next time, Let's go doubles
