Devils Shouldering Offseason Challenges (SOTFA EP300)

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Happy Devils Wednesday. This is the State of the Fan Address,
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Episode three hundred. Did you hear that? Nick? It's episode
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three hundred. Bet you didn't know that before. The podcast
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streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live x live Man
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which Seawan the Let's Go Devil's Network coming to your
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live live front the Pine Time Radio studios inside the Bunker,
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North and South Jersey talking Devil's Hockey as the playoffs continue.
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There is no offseason with us Nick and put Fucks
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and pitchforks dot Com.
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No, absolutely not.
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No.
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I took two days off and I felt like I
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was off for a month because I I don't take
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much time off from this. We just keep keep going,
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keep going, and and we're back at it. We're full force, uh,
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full steam ahead, you know we. I had an article
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go up just a few minutes ago by Jenny Streeter
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talking about three players that are not going to that
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shouldn't be on the team next year. Three players the
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Devil should do everything they can to kind of hit
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the bricks.
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Kid. I didn't read the article, but I'm gonna guess
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which three fashion lazare.
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You can't can't give away It's in an article, but
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I think you're over too. Okay, I wrote, I wrote
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about the guys who will definitely not be there, and
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I don't think those ours on that list. I think
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there's a if the injury that he dealt with means
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that there's an outside chance that he's back.
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Okay, all right, Well there's the teaser, there's the cliffhanger.
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Go to pucksinpitchfords dot com.
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But yeah, these are guys under contract for next year.
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That should be Gonzo. Yeah.
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Well, I have a lot of opinions right now watching
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the playoffs, wondering what the Devils are gonna do in
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the offseason to kind of improve their team. We learned
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a lot during the Carolina series.
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Yeah, that article is up on Pucks and pitchforks dot com.
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Three things we learned from that Carolina beat down?
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Yeah, well, I said something couple I think a couple
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times on the podcast, and I think the Devils this
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is what they lack, except for the exception of Timo Meyer,
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who became you know when there the attention came on
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him during the playoffs, crashing the net, going hard to
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the net, making the goaltender pay in case some invern
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contact and one team that does that. Well, are the
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Florida Panthers sure about that? Well? It's effective, it always works,
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It always can turn the series around when you need to.
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Well, that game is currently two two and the Panthers
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are down one on in the series. So we'll see.
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But the Panthers, Stanley Cup and one other team hasn't
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done it. It's as sixty seven.
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I get it. But we're talking about right now. What
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have you done for me lately? Sam?
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Come on, Nick, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?
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Crashing the net and disturbing the goaltender? Is? It is
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so basic? The Devils are just too nice. That's the
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problem that they had against the Carolina Argons, who, by
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the way, beat the Washington Capitals, coming back to one
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to beat them. And you know, I like the Florida
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Panthers model. I don't know if the Devils have the
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personnel to replicate it, but if you're going into the
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offseason the bottom six, they need players that can cause chaos,
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can change the tide of the game, the narrative just
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by being a little nasty. And I think that's what
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the Devils need right now. They're just too nice. They've
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got a lot of the you know, they've got Jack Cues,
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They've got Nico Heisher, They've got quite a nice you know,
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the blue line. You know, despite the injuries, goaltending is
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not an issue for at least next year, I don't think.
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But I just like to see some snarkiness, snarl Brad
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mar Shant type players come on to the New Jersey
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Devils because again against the Carolina Hurricanes, you know, they
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they crashed into march them no problem.
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I mean we literally knocked their goalie out of the series.
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Like I don't like, you know what I mean, Like
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I don't know to tell you you know what I mean?
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Like Timo Meyer is that guy? I do think they
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could use another one, another one like you said on
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the bottom six, Like who plays like Timo Meyer? Who
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could score goals by crashing the net. And they I
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think they thought Stephan Nason was gonna be that guy.
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But Steven Nason's more of a weight for his opportunities guy,
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not a crash the net guy. Like he's gonna be
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a net front presence and then bank it, you know,
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either tipping a goal or get a rebound in for
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a goal. But he's not going to crash the net
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like Meyer does. I just don't think the Panthers. I
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think the Panthers model is when you chase and fail,
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and I almost see the Devils did part of that
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this year, right, because like, if you think about the
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Devil's as the first half, they look like the Flota
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Panthers for part of it. They were hitting people, they
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were knocking people out, were suppressing shots, they were smothering teams.
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I think the problem with that same is you get
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hurt playing that way, and I don't think the Devils
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have the right strength and conditioning to do that. Like,
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I just don't what does.
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That mean, the right strength and condition You're saying that
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we need new trainers.
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I'm not saying we need new trainers. I just think
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you need if I mean, you lose a lot of
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speed when you play that way, or straight line speed.
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There's some speed in the peripherals, but you lose a
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lot of straight line speed, and the Devils need straight
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line speed. I there's a lot of things that I
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noticed this year that I just don't have enough information
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to put into an article. But it's something that I'm
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really like, I'm curious about. You know, there's a lot
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of like these really like tactical things about the season
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that that I just noticed. For one, Luke Hues didn't
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have the the he he He had a lot of
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twenty mile per hour bursts, but not a lot of
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twenty two and twenty three mile per hour bursts, which
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tells me and I think that has to do with
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the off you know, the the shoulder injury that probably
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lingered all season, and also the Sheldon keif system. I
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think those two things kind of changed how he played.
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But like you didn't see the coast to coast that
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that Luke Ues did multiple times in the Lindy Ross season,
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and even under Travis Screen for those couple of months,
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Dougie Hamilton's shot is lesser. It's still probably one of
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the top in the top fifteen percent of the league,
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which is in the top five percent of league. Like
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there's a big difference there. I think when when you're
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looking at what went wrong for the Devils this year,
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you know, it's just.
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Like I think, I sorry, Nick, I respects, I've heard enough.
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Finished my sentence, Okay, finish your sentence.
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I I think the guys, for one, I think Fitzgerald
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swung I missed on a lot of the types of
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guys he was getting. The philosophy was right, the the
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execution was wrong. I think you needed one of Paul
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Cotter or Stephan Mason. I think you needed I don't
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think you could have gone on into the season with Jackies,
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nikoa Hesher, Eric Halla and Curtis as Is your center.
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It's like that just that just wasn't It wasn't the
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right philosophy, right, You needed another center. You need and
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I agree, like you do need a guy who's going
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to crash the net from the center position, a guy
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who's gonna jump up into the play, and and like
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Dawston Mercer, he's just not there, like this is not
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what he is. He also said in his post game
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that he or in his postseason press conversely, doesn't want
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to play center, which is bizarre to me, Like you
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would think that you would want to play center, but
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say doesn't want He said he'd rather play wing. I think,
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like your priority, like the weird thing, the priorities. They
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need a center, they a center, And the problem is
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like the guys that would be perfect for this are
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going to be impossibly expensive, Like Ryan O'Reilly would have
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been great but they're asking for a psychotic amount for
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Ryan O'Reilly over in Nashville, you know, and and uh,
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I'm trying to like I gotta like really dive in.
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But there's there's a couple of guys like listen, like, uh,
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you know, the least have Max Domi. I think that's
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a guy that's like interesting. I know Max Domi is
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like a very hit or misplay, but he's the type
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of player that like scores clutch goals and that's kind
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of like what you need. And I think he'd be
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like a really good guy in the third line, you know,
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like that kind of center who's just gonna and like
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Max Stummy's kind of small, but he plays big. I
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think that's the kind of guy that you're looking for, saying,
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And I think like that that works. So as you
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get one of them, you don't want to over you know,
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over indulge on them just because you do need more
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skill in this lineup. Yeah. Yeah, when when you realize
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that Alex Holtz failed and you moved on from him,
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and you know, you you spent your offseason prioritizing guys
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like hotter guy like Stephen Nason's one of the slowest
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players in the league. I don't know if you know that,
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Like he is one of the slowest players in the league.
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So it just it doesn't mesh well with some of
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what the Devils are trying to do. And then you
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also have like a lot so like you at times
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you would pull out on Jack Hughes's line and Nason
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on Niko Heisha's line, and they're both slowing those lines down.
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And I think you need to bring speed up to
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the top six. And I know I want. I did
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write about tempering expectations for our Sinny Kritzik, who signed
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with the Devil's officially this week. But he's a guy
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who's skating can match Hughes or Hesher on those top
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six lines. Whether that is enough in the North American
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game to keep him in the top six, I'm not sure.
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He's twenty four years old. This isn't like a typical
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prospect we're talking about. This is a guy who who
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has professional experience and has been doing this at a
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high level. But I do think you need one more
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speedy winger just to kind of you don't want to
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go too small with it. But like I've always liked ethnicu.
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I think he's on Chicago. He's kind of played his
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way out of the NHL, though, But somebody like that time,
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like a six foot three guy who's got blazing speed.
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You know, maybe they trade for riccard Racal, who I
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think is a really good fit for this team. But again,
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the again, we're looking at these guys who like really
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really fit the Devils, and they're just like incredibly expensive.
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And the guys that you would have wanted, you would
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have targeted those teams are like, you know, you wanted
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some of the guys maybe on the Ducks, but the
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Ducks say they want to be a playoff team next year,
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so they're not gonna be trading guys or selling guys.
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Obviously you wanted Brady Kachuk, but the Senders think that
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they're on the up, so they're not trading Brady Kachuck.
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You know, I'm trying to think of like some of
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the other guys, Like there's some guys in the Blues,
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like Jordan Kiro would have been fantastic for this team.
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But the Blues made the playoffs and and that had
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one of the most exciting games we've ever seen in
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Game seven of the first round. So they're not trading
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any other players away. They're not selling. You know, you're
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looking at all these opportunities and Sam correct me if
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I'm wrong, But am I looking at like the least
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amount of sellers we've had in a long time in
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this league?
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At Chicago?
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Has nothing you want? Like I was looking at Chicago's
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roster yesterday, I want nothing on that team.
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All right, let's back up here, because I want to
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go back to why I disagree with you. You're talking
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about you were talking about Luke U's going twenty miles
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per hour versus twenty two to twenty four miles per hour.
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What was the a something speed or whatever you're talking about,
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the straight straight line, Yeah, straight line. Look, I'm all
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about pushing the tempo, but that will fail in the
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playoffs because it would not be the team would not
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be he built for the playoffs because teams will clutch
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grab you can get away with a lot more physicality.
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You can slow that down immediately and it'll be ineffective.
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And I think that's part of the reason why the
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Devils were ineffective, because they couldn't they couldn't get their
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speed on because they're worn out by the third period.
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And we even saw that against Carolina in the double
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overtime that just they got out shot.
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I understand, but they didn't get outside in the third period.
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They blew as the game. As the game went along,
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Carolina just dominated, absolutely donated. They couldn't even.
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You're playing with every guy was hurt on that team.
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Pretty much.
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Excuses I'm just saying. I'm just saying the team needs
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to bulk up even more. But on the bottom, Sid agree.
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The problem is these shoulder injuries are gonna cause you
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to where you can't poke up like your bulking season
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is now much shorter. Right if Jack Hughes is rehabbing
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until training camp.
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Wait, who has shoulder injuries? It's just the Huge Brothers.
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Right, No, it's the Huge Brothers. It's Peshi, it's Nemetz
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is still doing he didn't go to World because he's
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still dealing with his shoulder injury.
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It's I wasn't paying attention to the exit interviews with
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with all the injuries and surgeries or whatever. So forgive
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me for that.
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But you know there's quite a few shoulder injuries.
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Then we again that we have to ask the reason
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why or.
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Shoulder surgery. So it's five guys dealing shoulder injuries and
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probably more. San Terry Hataka had had the shoulder injury
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and was most of the season, and now he's not
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even in your system. He left, he went, he went
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to play overseas, which is the sane to me.
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But Jackus shoulder injury, I mean, was that a freak
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accident you think with jack or or was it wearing
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terror or a little bit of both.
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But I think Luke's is wearing tear. I think that
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Luke got hurt in the offseason, rested for as long
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as he could, he came back, and he was hurt
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the whole year. I think the same thing goes for
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Simon Nemetz. I think Pattis was wearing tear. He said
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he hurted in Game one. But and then you have Bratt,
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who I think was wearing tear. I think they're just
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you know, you're and Bratt, Like, here's the thing about
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brad Is. Brad had eighty hits this year. He was
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the only player in the league with eighty hits and
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eighty points. So he's hitting people and he got a
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shoulder injury, you know, so you're I agree the Devils
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had to add the right type of physical physicality in
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the offensive zone. But you don't want to like like
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a lot of guys that go out and get Ryan
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Raves and like that's not the right move for this team,
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you know, or they'll go out and get like you know,
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are you gonna pay nine million dollars to get Brad
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Marshan at his age? Like that's a mistake. You know.
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Are you gonna go out and spend nine million dollars
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in Sam Bennett? Again, I think that's a mistake. I
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like Sam Beneant' is a player, but he's not a
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nine million dollar player, you know. And and he's plays
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the type of game that's gonna get you hurt him hurt,
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like you know what I mean. Like he I think,
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you know, he plays a little bit of a an
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on the edge game. I think it's I don't think
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he's as dirty as people say he is. I think
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that's just like the Florida Panthers of it all, right,
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Like they just think everybody kind of plays that way.
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But I do think he plays the type of physical
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game that's gonna break him down and somebody's gonna give
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him like a sixty million dollar cont I just don't.
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I want no part of that. So this is an
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interesting offseason because a lot of people have a lot
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of money, but like Mitch Marner is available, Sam Bennett's
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gonna get a lot of money. There's a couple of
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guys out there that are going to break the bank.
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And then you also have to remember that now every
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GM saying I'm kind of interested in in in offer sheets,
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so you know, people are gonna be saving their money
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for those as well, you know. So I think that
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there's an opportunity here for the Devils to kind of
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swoop in and get some of those like guys in
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the middle, you know where where in some years, a
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guy like what's his name, Tyler Bertuzzi is breaking the
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bank with Chicago. I think the Devils could sneak in
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and get him for a little bit cheaper than what
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he would have you know, he's under contract in Chicago,
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but a guy like him, I haven't jumped into the
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free agency pool yet. I gotta do that, but I
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I that's where I want to be. I want to
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be in the middle, and I think that that will
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have to make some moves just to get there. Because
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Luke U's his contract is up, So I think he's
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gonna get a big contract of at least eight million
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dollars a year. You're gonna be left with like nine
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to ten million dollars to spend on your entire bottom
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six on a backup goalie. Even if it's dogs that
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take some million dollars away from it. There's a lot.
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There's a lot that the those have to do this offseason.
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I think you gotta move a guy like a plot
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or you definitely. I mean, I think they're buying out haula.
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I think they're just gonna cut their losses there because
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I don't think anybody's gonna trade for him. And honestly,
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I think you might go back to Finland, Like I just,
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I just he was so bad this year. I don't know.
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We might get a PTO right, like somebody might give
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him like a you know, the Kevin Lebank treatment. I
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am curious. I was about this the other day. Do
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you think Kevin Lebonc could have just continued playing as
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well as he did in the preseason in the Devil's system?
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Like do you think there was a system maadic part
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of that to it? Because he didn't play that well
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in Columbus.
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I I think it was a nice story.
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I mean.
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I felt like he was like the Tommy DeVito. You know,
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it was a very nice story that he was ripping
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it up or Jeremy Lynn. You know, but that's just
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preseason got the bag. But uh, it was just preseason
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and it was a nice story.
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Yeah, yeah, I don't disagree. I do think he would
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have done better than some of the fourth line players
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we had, but you know, probably doesn't move the needle much.
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I think he would have done better with the Devils
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than Columbus. I mean, Columbus is Columbus, you know, and
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and you know again he went for a better deal
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for himself and you know, it is what it is.
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But you know, getting back to Sam Bennett, I mean,
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the reason why he's going to command that kind of money,
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Nick is those players are hard to find. They're very
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hard to find.
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They don't last usually.
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I don't care about last. I'm caring about now, you know,
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and look look up a lot. What do we do
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with him? You can buy him out. Eventually, you can
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trade him, you know, if it doesn't work out. But
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so far, yeah, so far, Jack Hughes isn't lasting the
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entire season. You know same with Luke Hughes this year.
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Well, I mean Luke qu'es is that's like a one
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time thing and he did last most of the season.
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He just missed the first month.
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He was conditioning and he got hurt. To me, that's
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a red flag. How do you how do you how
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do you get hurt lifting weights?
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There's the we don't have the entire story there, so
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I think that that one's a uh, what.
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Are you talking about?
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Wasn't that like he was training, but we don't know
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how he got hurt. Did he fall, did he run
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into something? Did he was he lifting and like his
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shoulder failed, Like there's a lot of different ways you
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could get hurt during.
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Oh, I thought he was lifting weights and he got
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and he got hurt.
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Did that come out? I don't. I don't remember seeing that,
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so I'll take your word for it, but I don't
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remember that.
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That's that's what I remember hearing.
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And if that's the case, yeah, that is a little concerning.
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But I'm concerned about the surgeries because they're not gonna
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like I just don't think you're gonna be able to
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bulk and Jack Hughes, especially the bulk Luke Hues is
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a bigger guy than Jackues. He six to one I think,
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so he's just like built bigger, but he's still slender
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compared to Brenda Dylan, you know what I mean. So,
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I uh, that's where I think. That's where I'm at
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with this team. I just think that they're I agree
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with you, they need that piece. I don't know who
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it is yet because I haven't I haven't jumped in.
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It's unfortunate that they haven't drafted a guy like that.
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They've been so focused on defense for the past four
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years in a draft that you don't have a guy
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like that that you've drafted right, that you've developed. I
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thought Herman Draft could be that guy, and then they
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traded him for Brian Dumelin.
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So there's a lot.
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There's a lot to do. That to do list is long, Sam.
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Oh, it is long again. I'll say it again. You
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had Logan Cooley right there. I think he would have
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been a great right, yeah, you know, but that's.
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Never pretty small. That doesn't help what you're trying to do.
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Yeah, but it helps think what the third center. I mean,
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he's a mini Jacks, you know.
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But right again, they'd be much better off right now
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with Logan Cooley than Nevitts. But Nevits look good. But
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I don't want to take anything away from it.
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He looked really No, it's not to take it away
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from him. It's just you know, at the time period,
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you knew he had Casey, you know, and.
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I just Luke. That was the thing is Luke kues.
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He was clearly a very good player.
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But I think the bottom six was small. That's I
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think that's what it boils down to, Like for let's
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not bring the Tutars back, the Lizars and and even
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bashing he was too slow, you know, Cotter he could stay.
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But yeah, I like Cotter. I think Cotter is a
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really good piece.
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I just think he was getting used to a.
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Lot of things. He's he's not He's never going to
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be a consistent car. Whatud he end up with? He
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with like sixteen goals this year.
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Something like that. I think long term, if they can
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sign Cody Glass, I think that would be that would
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be helpful. I wouldn't mind having Cody Glass start, you know,
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be on the fourth line next season.
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But I think you got what's that. I think they
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take a pay cut. Pay cut two point three or
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two point six something like that. I would give a
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three year deal at like two mm hmm. But if not,
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if not, I think you gotta like you're I mean,
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he's a restricted free agent. Do they have control? And
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I do want him back. I think a full season
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in the system, I think he'd be more consistent. But yeah,
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go ahead, I kind of cut you off to where
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you're making your point.
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Yeah again in an ideal world, because I haven't looked
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at the salary cap, you know whatever. But I think
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Cody Glass would be excellent on the fourth line as
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a fourth line center. And if you can bring in
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somebody on the second line and move you could play
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around with the third line. But they need more scoring
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from the bottom six, and they and and you're not
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gonna wear down teams with small guys. You know, you
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gotta roll all four lines, you know, defensively, I love
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I love what they did. But Dylan's hurt, Covid Savage
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is hurt. They're they're locked to multi year deals. You
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know what happens there. You know that's a concern. Uh,
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Pesci's locked long term. Same with Dougie Hamilton. Don't mind that.
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Luke Hughes, look the whole Quinn Hughes buzz. If you're
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gonna get Quinn, you better lock down Luke now. You
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should lock down lou now, because if he really wants
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to play with his brothers, you would have Jack and
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Luke for at least what five for five five years?
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Five more years? Yeah, And.
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I don't even know what to make of that whole
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bank who you know. The Rutherford thing, I think he's
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trying to put more pressure off of himself and putting
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him more on Tom Fitzgerald to do something.
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Probably, I think I think part of it is he's
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trying to warn his fan base like this, this might happen.
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You know, I'm kind of like losing. But he also
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came out and said like nothing would happen until next year.
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But they say these things. I also, I'm not convinced
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I wrote about this him. I'm not convinced the Devil's
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would be the only team in on him. I think
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Detroit would trade for Quinn Hughes thinking they can resign them.
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I think Toronto would trade for Quinn Hughes thinking they
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can resign them. You gotta remember, like Jim Hughes worked
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for Toronto for like ten years, but during some of
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Quinn Hughes's formidable years, so he probably spent a lot
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of time in Toronto rooted for Toronto, probably because you know,
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Dad works for that team. I'm rooting for the team
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that dead works for. And I think Vegas is always
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just a team that can somehow convince players to resign.
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You know, you remember Noah Hannafan. They made the big
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trade for Noah Hannafane's Well he's gonna resign it, He's
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gonna sign in Tampa. He wants to go to Tampa.
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Well would you make that move? He sends for eight
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years in Vegas for not like a crazy number. So
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I just think the Devils can't go into this too confident.
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I think you have to go into the Quinn Hughes
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things with a little bit of fear, little bit of
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fear that you could drop the ball on this.
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Did you read on that?
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I did.
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I liked I really liked his article.
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Yeah, I mean it made a lot of sense. The
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trade was all, but I think it was one piece
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too many from what I remember. And I think people
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are failing to put like there's gonna be like another
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NHL player in there, whether it's a lot, whether it's
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Hamilton beyond like, but again, like if I told you
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that they traded a first, a twenty twenty six first
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Dawston Mercer and someone Nemits for Quid Hughes tomorrow, would
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you be upset?
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No?
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I don't think I would be either. I would be like, dang,
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that's a lot. But like, this is a this is
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a Norris caliber defenseman. Every year you're getting two extra
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years of him. You know that costs Like all these
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people saying we'll just wait till he gets a free agency. Hey,
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I just laid out a couple of teams that could
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beat you there and then he never gets the free agency.
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But even if it's a guarantee that he's get into
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free agency, that means you're going two more years, two
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more prime Nicohastie years, two more prime Jack Hughes. Here's
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two more prime, Timo Myers, two more prime just for
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brat years without this guy on the roster who would
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elevate you to a championship level team. So you know,
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and I do need to think they you know, it
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gets complicated because you have to edit forward. But if
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you give them Dougie Hamilton back, you know, it's kind
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of a wash, right. It would be hard to lose
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Hamilton and Nemets because what used to be a strength
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on the right side is now kind of all of
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a sudden the weakness because you're gonna be without COVID
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seven debout the year. Seamus Casey doesn't really seem like
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he was ready to be a full time NHL or
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And like you said, Brett Pasch is dealing with injuries.
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So you know there's a risk there, but it's not
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a risk not worth taking, right, But I think that's it, Tame.
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I think we we we do a quick one for
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three hundred and and.
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It was definitely not a quick one. They went by fast.
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It's definitely not a quick one. We're over the thirty
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minute mark, just so you're aware.
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Okay, great, Yeah, I'm ready for bucks.
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Yeah, why don't you plug ahead?
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I got an article from Jersey Joe it's going to
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be coming out within the hour talking about Quinn Hughes
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talking about our Sidney Grid six. So take a look.
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That's going to be up before ten o'clock. I have
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an article that came out yesterday that talked about what
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went wrong with the or the lessons learned and the
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Devil's are no last night's was I regrated Tom fit
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Gerald's twenty twenty four off season. I gave new grades
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the signings like Tomas Star or trades are Johnnykovi Savitch.
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So go check that out. We have the Quinn Hughes
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article that I just talked about. We have the the
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what you know what the Devil's learned from the Carolina
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series that I talked about Vinnie Breezy as an article out. Uh,
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you know, the guys are rolling, we're hitting, We're hitting
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the gas. We're gonna be going full steam ahead. It's
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gonna be great.
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Well, I have nothing to plug. I'm in my off
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season mode, all right, total, just doing nothing, lazy. Yeah,
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you know what, it is a long season when you
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do this, Nick and you you should know, it's a
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long season. And even though the season kind of fell
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short of where we wanted to be. I wanted to
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be in the third round this year.
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Yeah, of this season.
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Reflecting back, and this is my last point, I think
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the Devil's made progress forward. What makes it hard is
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not knowing what the future is because of these injuries
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that have happened and and surgeries and whatnot, and we
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shall see. We shall see what the Devils do. But
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one thing for certain, I do like Sheldon Kief a lot.
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I really do.
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I think you have the right coach. That's the way
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that came out that the Devils went after Mike Sullivan.
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I realize Mike Sullivan hasn't won a rounds it's like
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twenty eighteen.
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I think he's overrated.
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To be honest, I think he's a good coach. But
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like I like Sheldon Kief too, So I mean I
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think we're good shape.
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This is where where this is me trolling and trash
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talking Ranger fans now that Mike Sullivan's on the team.
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On their team, Uh, how can you not win Stanley
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Cups with Maulkin and and and Crosby in their primes.
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And honestly, like, I think the Rangers are more than
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a coach away from being good. Yeah, their rosters the mass.
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Yeah, they've relied on Schasterken for so long. And when
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Shasterkin finally came back down to reality after he signed
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that contract, Uh, they got work to do.
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Peggy Iggy, it's their friend, Stan Fisher would call him.
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We gotta get Stan. In the off season, because that
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man had me laughing. I was dying just he he
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went like hard at the Rangers. When Stan is mad,
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he's at his greatest, like that time with Gary Bettman
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asking him about Nashville.
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Yeah, hopefully future Hall of Famers stand Fisher, hopefully.
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I we should start that campaign this summer. Maybe I
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should be annoying about it. Anyway, we should start sending letters.
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All right, all right, we gotta go, but I will
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last second plug. Thank you, Ted, Drink and Kruger. We'll
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make winning memories together. One cored a time. Go to
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pucksopitchforks dot com. Until next time, Let's go Devils