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Happy Double Sunday. This is a late edition of The
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Morning Woo. Rise and shine. It's almost 1 p.m. Eastern.
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Sorry for the late start, folks. I got to apologize
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for a lot of things. I am your host, Sam Wu,
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streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live, X Live, Twitch,
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and now on Instagram Live on the Let's Go Devils
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Network as the Devils losing... Last night, 6-0 to the
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New York Islanders. Out on Long Island, NY Davey is
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now banned from going to any road trips to Long Island.
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Now president of the, I don't know, 15-0 club, seeing
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the 9-0 debacle. Back in January, now Devils getting shut
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out again, 6-0. Very concerning after having a lot of
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good juju after opening night when the Devils took took
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it to the Flyers, winning 3-2 in overtime. Lots of
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concerns about the goaltending. Nico Dawes did not have a
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great game. Defense didn't have a great game and kind
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of gave up in the end there. Didn't have any
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fight in them. And again, it's almost like the same
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old problems. No scoring from any of the Devils' forwards
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in regulation. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. And I mean scoring, I mean goals.
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Dougie Hamilton and Luke Hughes got their goals in the
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first game. Devils shut out in the second game. Jack
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Hughes' three-on-three overtime goal. Again, it's three-on-three. Jack Hughes, I
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know he's deadly, but where's the offense? Goaltending? Goaltending? You
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still have Jake the Snake Allen. I would not panic
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over the goaltending. And you know what? It seems to
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amaze me. All these analytics people out on X are
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posting the analytics between Sorokin and Nico Dawes, the goals
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expected average or whatever stat they have. Why are you
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posting that? Why is it? Because the eye test didn't
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show that the Devils got their asses kicked by the
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New York Islanders? That you need to put these statistics up?
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How badly the Devils sucked last night? No reason for that.
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But there are some proposed changes I would like to
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make if I was Sheldon Keefe. To address the offense issues. Sure,
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they're putting shots on goal, but they got to create
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traffic in front of the net. They've got to not
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be so stagnant in front of the net. Again, remember
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I used to say they're telegraphing their shots. They're shooting
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into the goaltender. You got to shoot at will, and
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you got to create some buzz, traffic, and uncertainty to
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get to the opposing goaltender. Making Wall look like a
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Vesna Trophy winner. Sorokin, who is a great goaltender, shutting
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the door. Wasn't challenged as much, Pete says. And, you know,
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the shots on goal, all that, that's all nice and dandy.
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These statistics... But the bottom line is, is what Sheldon
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Keefe said last night. We played like preseason hockey. Preseason hockey.
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Not enough intensity. And that was one of the question
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marks heading into this season. Because of Sonny Mata and
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there's a new era. Is it going to be, you know,
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a different type of culture? And it has. But last
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night was the same old devil's. Same old devils. After
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barely beating the Philadelphia Flyers, they didn't play well in
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the first two periods. I know they got a lot
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of shots on goals against the Flyers, but they didn't
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particularly play well to third period on. They may think
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they're playing 60 minutes of hockey, but I don't quite agree.
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And It was a horrible performance team-wise. Devils off today,
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getting some rest. And they're going to need it because
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the Utah Mammoths are coming on Tuesday. The big stage
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will be out, I promise, outside of American Whiskey. Also,
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there's going to be a surprise at American Whiskey outside,
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out in the big stage. I don't want to say
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anything now because... Last time I said there was a
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big stage, there was no big stage because the DHS,
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the Department of Homeland Security, kind of took over security.
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Chris Latt says, downtown Connor Brown should be back for Tuesday.
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I hope so. But the change up in the lineup,
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I think, I never really agreed or liked, and Nick
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Villano of PucksandPitchforks.com and I talked about it, but I
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really never liked the line combination of Nico Heischer, Timo Mayer,
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and Luke Evangelista. I just didn't like that at all.
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Nor did I really feel that Mantha, Hughes, and Bratt
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would be a good line either. If I was going
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to make the switch, I would put Luke Evangelista on
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the Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratt line, and move Mantha down
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to the Heischer line. Meyer, Mantha line. I think that's
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a new look that I think could work wonders. You
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got a speedy, high-skilled line, first line, you're rolling out. Speed, skill, tenacity,
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buzz around the net. You do a line change and
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suddenly you've got two bulls in a china shop and
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Mantha and Meyer on the wings with your captain, Nico Heischer,
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Going hard to the net. I think that would be
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a better. Two better combinations in my opinion. I think
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that would be better. Always something 17 says. Meyer missed
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easy chances. Generating nothing for himself. But throws the body
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when he's frustrated. And we give him eight. Stupid. Timo Meyer.
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For whatever reason. He always has a slow start to
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the season and that's to be expected. Stanley says Dawes
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is just one of the many goaltenders to look like
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garbage behind these guys. This core has zero grit. It's
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the only constant. It's the only constant across these past seasons.
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And I completely agreed. And I was hoping that the
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arrival of Sonny Maeda could actually hit the reset button
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on the mindset and mentality of his team. Jack Hughes
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is trying, but I think everybody needs to have the
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same intensity as Jack Hughes. And what's equally as frustrating
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is we know this team is better than this. And
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even Nico Dawes, he is better than than what he
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performed last night on Long Island. But Stanley says 100%
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spot on, King, because insane lack of maturity for players
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that have been in the league for this long. It's astonishing, honestly.
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Downtown Connor Brown is one of the more mature players
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on this team. He wasn't in the lineup. Stephon Nason...
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Very ineffective. I would be expecting more from Eric Rodriguez.
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And things are going to take time. This is a
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new team. New personnel. Takes time to gel. But right now,
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you're playing the New York Islanders on the road, Metropolitan
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Division team, and you lay a goose egg. The only
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highlight last night was the 105-year-old World War II veteran
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playing the national anthem on his instrument. We were at
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Sidelines Bar Grill for Game Day Live. Sorry about Devils
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After Dark. I'll get that a little bit later. Standing
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with our hats off to the national anthem, which was
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beautifully done. 105 years old. loving his country, and still
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playing football. the national anthem I don't know if it
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was a saxophone or I don't know my instruments but
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still that was the only highlight you might as well
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shut off the TV if you're a Devils fan And
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you knew that Don LaGreca and Ken Danico, good friend
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of the podcast, Rachel Herzog, they were just chomping at
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the bit to get their season going, and they couldn't
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even talk about a goal. Congratulations, by the way, to
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Bryce Salvador being inducted in, I think, the Hockey Hall
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of Fame in Manitoba, which is why he wasn't at
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the game. Congratulations to Bryce Albert, a good friend of
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the podcast as well. Oh, yeah. So last night at
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Sidelines Bar and Grill, we had some technical issues. Still
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a little rusty going into the season. So shame on me.
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I performed like the Devils last night. And also Devils
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After Dark, it was just getting late. Everybody left. And
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it would have just been a little weird me being
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alone doing Devils After Dark because Scotty had his Aussie
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tribute that he was at. Beer Baron has an upper
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throat injury, which, by the way, he's recovering very well.
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Suddenly he got his voice back Sunday morning. That's something
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we need to talk about on the Sunday edition of
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the Let's Go Dolls podcast, 9 p.m. Eastern tonight. Also,
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I'm going to put up the podcast on the Apple podcast,
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Google podcast, Spotify, Amazon, Music Prime, Audible after this podcast.
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So Lots going on. I want to thank also Grant
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Marshall yesterday. Just a class act. Just hanging out with fans.
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We're going to do another viewing party on October 13th
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at Miller's Alehouse in beautiful Rockaway, New Jersey. This is
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going to be one for the ages. A lot of
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Stanley Cups between Bruce Driver, Jim Dowd, Ken Danico. and
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Bruce Driver, all going to be there. We will be there.
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Game Day Live, Devils After Dark, Miller's Alehouse on October 13th.
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Devils all day, all night, sponsoring the event, allowing us,
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the podcast, both pre-game and post-game at these events. So
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I want to thank them for their hospitality. It's really,
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really great to start uniting the Devils fan base and
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which is kind of fragmented, in my opinion, over the years,
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but now starting to come together and time to gel
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is fine, says Pete, like Devils fans too, time to gel.
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But the fact that the Devils seem like to give
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up at times is an issue. It should be fight
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for 60 minutes of hockey. Earn your paychecks. Nobody earned
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their paychecks yesterday for the New Jersey Devils. Nobody earned
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their paychecks yesterday. And that's something that's unacceptable. Stanley says,
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Keefe made a point to mention that the Devils tried
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to skill through the game. That is their biggest issue,
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in my opinion. Game two or game 75, you're not
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winning anything without tenacity. And I completely agree with you.
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Tenacity is what you want, an element you want in
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your team. But tenacity is only effective when it's consistent
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night in and night out. Tenacity is something you build
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over time. It's not when you get pissed off and
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then you go on a rampage or when dogs go
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on zoomies, you know, when they want to get their
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rage out. No, tenacity should be a consistent thing. It
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should be an everyday thing. It should be every shift,
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every minute, every second. That's when tenacity is extremely effective.
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The problem with the Devils is you don't know which
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night they're going to actually get it. Tenacity. Great point
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by Stanley. But I think for now, I'm not going
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to hit the panic button. I am concerned, but I'm
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not going to hit the panic button. No way. But
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I would tweak the lines a little bit. just to
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generate just a little bit more offense. I think Luke
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Evangelista would be awesome on the Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratline,
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move Mantha to Timo Meier and Nico Heischer, have them
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win the battles in the corners and have Nico Heischer
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be up front in the net trying to get those
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goals in. But right now, That was a laughing stock
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of a performance last night on Long Island. Michael Shane
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says Keefe has never has his team prepared or playing
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to their ability. New players, same system, same results. Kind
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of agree with you. When will Sheldon Keefe be on
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the hot seat? I know we're at game two right now.
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But sometimes change is good. And This is unacceptable. If
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your team is playing preseason hockey, that means it was
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a lack of preparation, lack of the details. But you
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need to do as a team, not just individuals. Pete says,
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separate Nico and Timo. They've been together for almost three
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years now. Timo not performing finishing. Yeah, and you've got
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Luke Evangelista that, you know, again, is he a finisher?
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Not entirely. He gets a lot of assists. But if
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Timo Meyers is not finishing, what's the point? All right, well, anyway,
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football's on. We're going to get out of here. We're
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going to be working on the podcast. Also, remember, Sunday
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edition of the Let's Go Devils podcast tonight. Also... Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday,
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the big stage will be out. We got a little
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bit of a surprise at the big stage. So be there,
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be square outside of American Whiskey. 51 has some place
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across the street from Prudential Center and actually Championship Plaza.
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Our special guest booked. It's going to be a little
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bit early interview, a little bit early game day live.
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Catherine Bogart. who used to work for the New Jersey Devils,
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if you remember on the intermission reports on the Jumbotron
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and some of the online work that she's done. She's
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now with the Utah Mammoths doing the same thing. Multimedia reporter.
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Follow her on social media. She's actually a good friend
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of the podcast. Well, it's her homecoming. Second time back
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since relocating to Utah. So we're going to have her on.
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Love Catherine. She is a very, very, very, very nice person. Uh,
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she's easy to talk to and, you know, and, uh, yeah.
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So I can't wait to introduce her on the big
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stage because when she was with the devils, we couldn't
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get her on because she was already doing pregame for
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the New Jersey devils. So we, there was always a
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scheduling conflict, no fault to her own, but the opportunity
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to get Catherine on for, on the big stage, that
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is awesome. I'm really happy. So, and you should be
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happy too. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all
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those tuning in. Ceremonial sip around the world. That felt good.
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And maybe you can also win an autographed The Morning
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Woo mug on Tuesday as well, outside on the big stage,
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outside of American Whiskey on Tuesday before the Devils take
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on the Utah Mammoths. All right, getting out of here,
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hitting the music. All right, got to watch a little football.
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I feel blue Without morning My morning woo Oh, well,
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I love you Yes, I love you Morning woo Thank you.
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Happy Double Sunday. This is a late edition of The
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Morning Woo. Rise and shine. It's almost 1 p.m. Eastern.
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Sorry for the late start, folks. I got to apologize
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for a lot of things. I am your host, Sam Wu,
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streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live, X Live, Twitch,
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and now on Instagram Live on the Let's Go Devils
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Network as the Devils losing... Last night, 6-0 to the
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New York Islanders. Out on Long Island, NY Davey is
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now banned from going to any road trips to Long Island.
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Now president of the, I don't know, 15-0 club, seeing
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the 9-0 debacle. Back in January, now Devils getting shut
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out again, 6-0. Very concerning after having a lot of
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good juju after opening night when the Devils took took
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it to the Flyers, winning 3-2 in overtime. Lots of
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concerns about the goaltending. Nico Dawes did not have a
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great game. Defense didn't have a great game and kind
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of gave up in the end there. Didn't have any
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fight in them. And again, it's almost like the same
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old problems. No scoring from any of the Devils' forwards
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in regulation. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. And I mean scoring, I mean goals.
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Dougie Hamilton and Luke Hughes got their goals in the
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first game. Devils shut out in the second game. Jack
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Hughes' three-on-three overtime goal. Again, it's three-on-three. Jack Hughes, I
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know he's deadly, but where's the offense? Goaltending? Goaltending? You
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still have Jake the Snake Allen. I would not panic
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over the goaltending. And you know what? It seems to
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amaze me. All these analytics people out on X are
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posting the analytics between Sorokin and Nico Dawes, the goals
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expected average or whatever stat they have. Why are you
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posting that? Why is it? Because the eye test didn't
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show that the Devils got their asses kicked by the
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New York Islanders? That you need to put these statistics up?
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How badly the Devils sucked last night? No reason for that.
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But there are some proposed changes I would like to
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make if I was Sheldon Keefe. To address the offense issues. Sure,
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they're putting shots on goal, but they got to create
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traffic in front of the net. They've got to not
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be so stagnant in front of the net. Again, remember
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I used to say they're telegraphing their shots. They're shooting
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into the goaltender. You got to shoot at will, and
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you got to create some buzz, traffic, and uncertainty to
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get to the opposing goaltender. Making Wall look like a
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Vesna Trophy winner. Sorokin, who is a great goaltender, shutting
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the door. Wasn't challenged as much, Pete says. And, you know,
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the shots on goal, all that, that's all nice and dandy.
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These statistics... But the bottom line is, is what Sheldon
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Keefe said last night. We played like preseason hockey. Preseason hockey.
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Not enough intensity. And that was one of the question
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marks heading into this season. Because of Sonny Mata and
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there's a new era. Is it going to be, you know,
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a different type of culture? And it has. But last
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night was the same old devil's. Same old devils. After
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barely beating the Philadelphia Flyers, they didn't play well in
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the first two periods. I know they got a lot
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of shots on goals against the Flyers, but they didn't
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particularly play well to third period on. They may think
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they're playing 60 minutes of hockey, but I don't quite agree.
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And It was a horrible performance team-wise. Devils off today,
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getting some rest. And they're going to need it because
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the Utah Mammoths are coming on Tuesday. The big stage
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will be out, I promise, outside of American Whiskey. Also,
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there's going to be a surprise at American Whiskey outside,
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out in the big stage. I don't want to say
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anything now because... Last time I said there was a
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big stage, there was no big stage because the DHS,
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the Department of Homeland Security, kind of took over security.
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Chris Latt says, downtown Connor Brown should be back for Tuesday.
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I hope so. But the change up in the lineup,
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I think, I never really agreed or liked, and Nick
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Villano of PucksandPitchforks.com and I talked about it, but I
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really never liked the line combination of Nico Heischer, Timo Mayer,
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and Luke Evangelista. I just didn't like that at all.
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would be a good line either. If I was going
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to make the switch, I would put Luke Evangelista on
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the Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratt line, and move Mantha down
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to the Heischer line. Meyer, Mantha line. I think that's
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a new look that I think could work wonders. You
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got a speedy, high-skilled line, first line, you're rolling out. Speed, skill, tenacity,
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buzz around the net. You do a line change and
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suddenly you've got two bulls in a china shop and
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Mantha and Meyer on the wings with your captain, Nico Heischer,
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a better. Two better combinations in my opinion. I think
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that would be better. Always something 17 says. Meyer missed
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easy chances. Generating nothing for himself. But throws the body
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when he's frustrated. And we give him eight. Stupid. Timo Meyer.
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the season and that's to be expected. Stanley says Dawes
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is just one of the many goaltenders to look like
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garbage behind these guys. This core has zero grit. It's
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the only constant. It's the only constant across these past seasons.
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arrival of Sonny Maeda could actually hit the reset button
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on the mindset and mentality of his team. Jack Hughes
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is trying, but I think everybody needs to have the
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same intensity as Jack Hughes. And what's equally as frustrating
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is we know this team is better than this. And
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even Nico Dawes, he is better than than what he
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performed last night on Long Island. But Stanley says 100%
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spot on, King, because insane lack of maturity for players
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that have been in the league for this long. It's astonishing, honestly.
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Downtown Connor Brown is one of the more mature players
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on this team. He wasn't in the lineup. Stephon Nason...
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Very ineffective. I would be expecting more from Eric Rodriguez.
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And things are going to take time. This is a
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new team. New personnel. Takes time to gel. But right now,
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you're playing the New York Islanders on the road, Metropolitan
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Division team, and you lay a goose egg. The only
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highlight last night was the 105-year-old World War II veteran
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playing the national anthem on his instrument. We were at
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Sidelines Bar Grill for Game Day Live. Sorry about Devils
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After Dark. I'll get that a little bit later. Standing
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with our hats off to the national anthem, which was
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beautifully done. 105 years old. loving his country, and still
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playing football. the national anthem I don't know if it
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was a saxophone or I don't know my instruments but
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still that was the only highlight you might as well
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shut off the TV if you're a Devils fan And
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you knew that Don LaGreca and Ken Danico, good friend
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of the podcast, Rachel Herzog, they were just chomping at
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the bit to get their season going, and they couldn't
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even talk about a goal. Congratulations, by the way, to
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Bryce Salvador being inducted in, I think, the Hockey Hall
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of Fame in Manitoba, which is why he wasn't at
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the game. Congratulations to Bryce Albert, a good friend of
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the podcast as well. Oh, yeah. So last night at
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Sidelines Bar and Grill, we had some technical issues. Still
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a little rusty going into the season. So shame on me.
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I performed like the Devils last night. And also Devils
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After Dark, it was just getting late. Everybody left. And
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it would have just been a little weird me being
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alone doing Devils After Dark because Scotty had his Aussie
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tribute that he was at. Beer Baron has an upper
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throat injury, which, by the way, he's recovering very well.
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Suddenly he got his voice back Sunday morning. That's something
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we need to talk about on the Sunday edition of
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the Let's Go Dolls podcast, 9 p.m. Eastern tonight. Also,
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I'm going to put up the podcast on the Apple podcast,
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Google podcast, Spotify, Amazon, Music Prime, Audible after this podcast.
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So Lots going on. I want to thank also Grant
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Marshall yesterday. Just a class act. Just hanging out with fans.
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We're going to do another viewing party on October 13th
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at Miller's Alehouse in beautiful Rockaway, New Jersey. This is
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going to be one for the ages. A lot of
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Stanley Cups between Bruce Driver, Jim Dowd, Ken Danico. and
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Bruce Driver, all going to be there. We will be there.
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Game Day Live, Devils After Dark, Miller's Alehouse on October 13th.
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Devils all day, all night, sponsoring the event, allowing us,
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the podcast, both pre-game and post-game at these events. So
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I want to thank them for their hospitality. It's really,
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really great to start uniting the Devils fan base and
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which is kind of fragmented, in my opinion, over the years,
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but now starting to come together and time to gel
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is fine, says Pete, like Devils fans too, time to gel.
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But the fact that the Devils seem like to give
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up at times is an issue. It should be fight
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for 60 minutes of hockey. Earn your paychecks. Nobody earned
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their paychecks yesterday for the New Jersey Devils. Nobody earned
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their paychecks yesterday. And that's something that's unacceptable. Stanley says,
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Keefe made a point to mention that the Devils tried
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to skill through the game. That is their biggest issue,
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in my opinion. Game two or game 75, you're not
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winning anything without tenacity. And I completely agree with you.
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Tenacity is what you want, an element you want in
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your team. But tenacity is only effective when it's consistent
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night in and night out. Tenacity is something you build
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over time. It's not when you get pissed off and
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then you go on a rampage or when dogs go
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on zoomies, you know, when they want to get their
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rage out. No, tenacity should be a consistent thing. It
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should be an everyday thing. It should be every shift,
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every minute, every second. That's when tenacity is extremely effective.
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The problem with the Devils is you don't know which
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night they're going to actually get it. Tenacity. Great point
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by Stanley. But I think for now, I'm not going
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to hit the panic button. I am concerned, but I'm
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not going to hit the panic button. No way. But
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I would tweak the lines a little bit. just to
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generate just a little bit more offense. I think Luke
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Evangelista would be awesome on the Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratline,
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move Mantha to Timo Meier and Nico Heischer, have them
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win the battles in the corners and have Nico Heischer
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be up front in the net trying to get those
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goals in. But right now, That was a laughing stock
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of a performance last night on Long Island. Michael Shane
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says Keefe has never has his team prepared or playing
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to their ability. New players, same system, same results. Kind
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of agree with you. When will Sheldon Keefe be on
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the hot seat? I know we're at game two right now.
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your team is playing preseason hockey, that means it was
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a lack of preparation, lack of the details. But you
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need to do as a team, not just individuals. Pete says,
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separate Nico and Timo. They've been together for almost three
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years now. Timo not performing finishing. Yeah, and you've got
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Luke Evangelista that, you know, again, is he a finisher?
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Timo Meyers is not finishing, what's the point? All right, well, anyway,
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football's on. We're going to get out of here. We're
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going to be working on the podcast. Also, remember, Sunday
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edition of the Let's Go Devils podcast tonight. Also... Tuesday, Tuesday, Tuesday,
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the big stage will be out. We got a little
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bit of a surprise at the big stage. So be there,
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be square outside of American Whiskey. 51 has some place
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across the street from Prudential Center and actually Championship Plaza.
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Our special guest booked. It's going to be a little
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bit early interview, a little bit early game day live.
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Catherine Bogart. who used to work for the New Jersey Devils,
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if you remember on the intermission reports on the Jumbotron
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and some of the online work that she's done. She's
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now with the Utah Mammoths doing the same thing. Multimedia reporter.
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Follow her on social media. She's actually a good friend
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of the podcast. Well, it's her homecoming. Second time back
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since relocating to Utah. So we're going to have her on.
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Love Catherine. She is a very, very, very, very nice person. Uh,
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the New Jersey devils. So we, there was always a
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scheduling conflict, no fault to her own, but the opportunity
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to get Catherine on for, on the big stage, that
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is awesome. I'm really happy. So, and you should be
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happy too. Thank you, thank you, thank you to all
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those tuning in. Ceremonial sip around the world. That felt good.
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And maybe you can also win an autographed The Morning
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Woo mug on Tuesday as well, outside on the big stage,
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outside of American Whiskey on Tuesday before the Devils take
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on the Utah Mammoths. All right, getting out of here,
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hitting the music. All right, got to watch a little football.
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We'll be back 9 p.m. Eastern tonight. Be there, be square.
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Until next time, this is the Morning Woo. Let's go Devils.
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I feel blue Without morning My morning woo Oh, well,
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I love you Yes, I love you Morning woo Thank you.
