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Hi, this is Chico Resch.
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You are listening to the Let's Go Devils podcast on
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the Primetime Radio Network. Happy Devils Thursday. This is Game
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Day Live. Coming to you live, live from American Whiskey,
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51 Edison Place, across the street from Redentor Center, National
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Championship Plaza. I am Sam Wu, here with The E-Bub, Roman,
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also a podcast fan. And then cross half continent to Chicago, Illinois.
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It is Vinny Parisi of the Hockey News. Pucksandpitchforks.com.
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USA Today. And the recap report. I forgot what it
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was called.
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Let's Go Devils Network.
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As the Devils are taking on the Anaheim Ducks tonight
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at the Rock. I'm loving the West Coast, the Western
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Conference teams playing the Devils. The Devils seem to have
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their number from last season, beating the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday.
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Here's the second one. But I think this is going
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to be a pretty tough team, Vinny.
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Yeah, I mean, the Anaheim Ducks rock. And they have
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good players on their team. They're highly skilled. And they
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have Joel Quinville. who people have good feelings about Joel Quinville.
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I say the same thing about Mike Babcock and Edmonton.
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People have their feelings about these guys, but nobody ever
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said that in between the lines on the ice they
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were bad coaches. And that's so true for Joel Quinville.
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When the lights come on and it's time for hockey,
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he's won three Stanley Cups, he's made multiple deep playoff runs,
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he's helped teams come out of rebuilds, and that's exactly
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what's happening today. with the Anaheim Ducks right now. I mean,
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they had to lose a couple pieces this offseason because
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the Philadelphia Flyers threw a pitchfork, not to be punny,
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in everybody's offseason plans by offersheeting Leo Carlson. $ 18 million,
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and the Ducks had no choice but to match. Otherwise,
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they'd lose their number one center. But, you know, like
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I said, they had to lose a couple pretty good
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players as a result. They didn't keep John Carlson, Chris
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Criders in Montreal. but they still have Gautier and Leo
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Carlson and a bunch of other young pieces that they're
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currently building around. So Devils have their hands full.
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Well, yeah.
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You know, last offseason, there was the controversies of these
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offer sheets going around.
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Ducks were involved.
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It actually started with Sonny Maeda with, I forgot, in Utah.
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Barrett Hayden.
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Yeah. That started just the domino effect because a lot
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of these free agents were already signed, like all these deals,
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like teams planning ahead. But, you know, again, the ducks
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are intact. Are they in cap hell right now, Vinny?
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Do you know?
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They're getting there. It's going to be difficult because they
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do have to– and they did get GoTA signed too.
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So– Eventually, they're going to have to pay Beckett Seneca,
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who was the third overall pick a couple years ago.
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You might remember went super viral for his reaction to
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being drafted third overall. He wasn't expecting to go to
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the mid-teens. He's made the Ducks look really smart for
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making that selection third overall. It's one of those risks
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for Anaheim that has worked. If that draft were redone,
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he'd go right around that area. They're going to have
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to get him paid. He's just one of their many
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young players that they're building around. I wouldn't say they're
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in cap hell yet because I don't know who's going
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to be in cap hell due to it going up
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so much in the next couple years. But eventually that
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curve's going to flatten. And Gary said this many times.
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All they're trying to do is catch up to where
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they would be if COVID never happened. That's why the not-so-steady,
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the extreme increase is happening over these last couple years
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for the next two-ish, three-ish, I would say. And then
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eventually it's going to flatten. So by then, we'll really
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know if they're in cap hell. But for right now,
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they had to get the job done. Top guys getting 80,
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90 points are going to be making in the 18,
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17 million range, and that's Leo Carlson. So we'll see
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where they go from here. But the Devils have a
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challenge on their hands against a speedy team.
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Yeah, and Roman, let me tell you something.
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Vinny just made a great point about coming out of COVID,
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the cap numbers, all that.
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But can't we.
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Say that, I know the Players Association doesn't want to
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hear this, but I think the collective bargaining agreement between
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the NHL and the NHLPA, it's working as intended because
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it adjusted to the economic times of that, you know,
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and it was an unforeseen time. Like, you couldn't have
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predicted that you would have a pandemic in the middle
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of the 2020 season, you know.
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Yeah, I mean, it seems like the league is running
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really well. Like, the players' salaries are going up, as described,
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and the Leo Carlson contract, it was a shock to
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the senses a little bit, but You know, I think
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you see the amount of progress the league has made
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where Jack Hughes gets a similar contract. Like, you know,
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$ 8 million a year may have seemed a bit high
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for a player that had played for a year and,
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you know, didn't do a ton to prove himself yet.
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Now that number is $ 18 million.
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So it's great for the players, and it shows how
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popular the sport is and what's coming in for all
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the teams.
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Yeah, and, you know, to be honest with you guys,
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the sport has grown globally, and you Back in the mid-90s,
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I don't know if you guys remember, but the early 90s, mid-90s,
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early 2000s, there was the expansion.
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Expansion, expansion.
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And it really was kind of a Ponzi scheme because
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the initiation fee that were funding a lot of the
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teams that weren't doing well, especially the Canadian teams, it
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wasn't because of the fans. But if you remember late 90s,
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the U.S. dollar versus the Canadian dollar was completely off.
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I mean... In college, we used to joke that, you know,
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going to Canada was basically a 40% discount, you know,
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back in those days. And, you know, obviously at the
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Canadian Ballet, they accepted American dollars. But anyway, and so
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you had that problem. You had that problem of, you know,
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the currency, but also you didn't have a salary cap.
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You didn't have cost certainty. You had the New York
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Rangers that had unlimited funds. because of the Madison Square
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Garden network that they own, and they can get any
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player they want, so they were taking the league's assets
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on one player, and they all sucked. They all sucked.
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And which, that caused that one-year lockout.
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Yeah, and you just.
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Can't replace a team's cohesion and chemistry playing together, and
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when you get a lot of, you know, a lot
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of guys that were disparate parts, like all you hear
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about the Dodgers right now is that entire locker room
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can't stand itself, and You know, the second you throw
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a bit of adversity and losing in there, all of
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those problems come up. The Rangers had some troubles back
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then and basically tried to build an all-star team that
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just couldn't get anything done.
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Yeah, and I'm not going to lie to you guys.
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I'm not going to lie to you.
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Watching baseball right now, I know Danielle McCarna, WFAN, was
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rooting for the Cleveland Guardians, but I wasn't. And then
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when I tried to tell her my reason, she didn't
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want to even hear it. But because this is our podcast,
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I'm going to tell you a reason why I wasn't
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rooting for the Cleveland Guardians. Because, A, the minority owner
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is David Blitzer that has a path to possibly be
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the majority owner of the Cleveland Guardians. But their path
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to success was they are the lowest paid baseball team
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in the Major League Baseball. had the Cleveland Guardians have
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gotten to the World Series and won, I would be
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afraid that David Blitzer would say, hey, we won the
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World Championship, the World Series with the lowest payroll. Maybe
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we can replicate that with the New Jersey Devils and
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be at the cap floor.
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I'm just still upset they beat the White Sox.
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I'm sorry, Vinny.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm like, he had to bring that up?
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I'm still kind of hurting about that. I'll make it worse.
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I agree, though.
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I'm still a Mets fan.
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And you're kind of going to have your cake and
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eat it, too, because the MLB is going to fix
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itself after this upcoming lockout. And the Rays and the
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Brewers playing each other in the World Series is actually
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a good thing in that sense. But that's a podcast
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for a whole other day. You're talking about the NHL
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and the rising salary cap. There's a lot of things.
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that have helped the league a lot in the last
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handful of years. Like, okay, so I'm looking. Vegas spent
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$ 500 million as their expansion fee, and Seattle spent $ 650 million.
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That's over a billion dollars poured into the league in
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a span of like three years. And Vegas has come
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in and been super successful. They've won playoff rounds. They've
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added more revenue to the league. Seattle's won a playoff round.
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It's not like they're a joke. But Vegas has been
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one of the premier teams in the league. in a
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premier city destination city. So, and then you have that,
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the TNT, the TNT slash ESPN TV deal in the
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United States, uh, Sportsnet just re-upped their TV deal in Canada.
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I think, uh, Bell, whatever Bell owns, they did too.
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There are a lot of things that have, you know,
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helped the league go from having that steady cap through
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COVID to come out of it and rise. So it's
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going to be interesting to see how the devils take
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advantage of it. They do spend money. Dougie Hamilton was
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the top free agent yeah and they they gave him
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what he was on the market value for and he's
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worked out they traded for timo meyer now is timo
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meyer a slight disappointment in terms of what he was
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in san jose sure but they made the trade they
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paid him they they never hesitated it was never a
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question when it was time for jack hughes and nico
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he sure to get their extensions they did not hesitate
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we just got to wonder Are they spending this money
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on the right people? Sometimes is the fair question to ask.
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But as of right now, the cap going up to
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me is exciting because I've yet to see an example
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of the Devils not using it on their roster.
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Well, I know we got the Ducks and Devils tonight,
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but I also want to talk about the Dylan Larkin
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situation right now. There's a lot of speculation. Elliott Friedman,
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I don't know. I don't know if you believe that one...
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tweet from somebody that about I guess on the on
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his podcast that he said a Devils fan text messaged
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him and saying oh instead of Dylan Larkin going to
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Minnesota maybe the way of New Jersey I know Nick
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Villano has been on that wagon for a long time
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now going back to last season what are your thoughts
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Dylan Larkin in New Jersey if Sonny Maida was going
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to make a trade.
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Yeah, I'm interested to hear what Roman thinks too. I'll
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just say I used to think I wanted them to
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trade whatever assets they have for Quinn Hughes. But if
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you trade those assets for Dylan Larkin, and now not
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only do the Devils have Luke and Jack, they also
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have Dylan Larkin, you're not going to have to trade
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for Quinn. He's just going to come to you for
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nothing but money on July 1st.
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So.
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You try to get as far as you can this year.
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Let him have his swan song with the Minnesota Wild.
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They're a good team. I watched them play Edmonton the
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other day. I think Edmonton is the more skilled team.
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But the Wild, they play hard. They wouldn't go away.
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They tied it up. They got the loser point. That's
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a good team. They'll be in the contention for the
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Cup if everything goes according to plan for them in
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the playoffs. They've got to go through Dallas and Colorado.
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And then if they get through them, one of Edmonton
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or Vegas, good luck with that. you know, if you
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get Dylan Larkin, now all of a sudden you have
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another chip on your side for getting the second best
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defenseman in the league, sometimes the first best defenseman.
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Yeah, I think, you know, you never know the personality
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of these players. Dylan Larkin's gotten a lot of bad
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publicity in the media for holding out, for getting his
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captaincy pulled and things like that, but for me, it's
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like you don't know what's actually going on. You don't
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know what Detroit promised him, what was said in closed-door
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meetings with him, and you know, how much, and obviously
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with Iserman out as GM, clearly something wrong is going
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on organizationally there. So, looks like we're frozen, but yes,
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I think it's, you know, if he's the guy that's
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a bit of a prima donna and walked out on
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his team, as a fan, I'd rather not see him
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in our locker room, but if he's a guy that's
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going to come here, bring his lunch pail, be a hard-nosed,
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blue-collar player, and work his butt off, I think he's
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extremely talented. I think he's a guy that could bring
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a lot to the team my question though would be
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you put a package together that's something the effect of
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mercer a first round pick or two maybe a kovacevich
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or a dylan or you know insert your your two
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or three players your two or three picks and you
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go get larkin if you're making a push at the
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end of the year do you think there's a package
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to to be met for quinn as well or do
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you think that becomes 100 we just have to try
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to sign him as a free agent.
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Yeah, that's a really good question. It depends what, I mean,
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Detroit has no leverage. The Wild do a little bit
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because they can treat Quinn Hughes like a rental and
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try to win the cup and accept their losses if
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they don't, which that kind of feels like the likeliest
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outcome if Quinn does leave them in the end, which
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I do respect them for trying to win. I wish
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more NHL teams would just try to win. But, you know,
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as far as Larkin, yeah, that's on Sonny Mehta to
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figure out. What's the deal here? Because I'll tell you this.
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It's not Larkin's fault they took Philip Zedina over Quinn
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Hughes or any of the other great players that came
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after Zedina. Brady Kachuk was one of them. No, Brady
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Kachuk might have went one pick prior. It's not Dylan
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Larkin's fault that after hitting on Moritz Seider and that
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kind of being a surprise draft pick and it worked,
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They've done nothing but take high-end first-round defensemen in the
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first round instead of building a forward group from scratch,
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other than Lucas Raymond, who they lucked into. But in
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that draft, it's not their fault they didn't win the lottery.
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The Heischer draft, the Jack Hughes draft, all these drafts
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that they were one of the worst teams in the league,
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and they're getting pushed down three or four pegs because
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teams below them are winning the lottery. None of that
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is Dylan Larkin's fault. They haven't spent any money in
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free agency other than trying to get older guys brought
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in like Justin Falk or Patrick Kane. You know, guys
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who are good, but they're not what they once were.
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None of that is Dylan Larkin's fault either. He probably is...
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Grown fed up of ever since Datsouk and Zetterberg left,
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the team has basically been a dumpster fire and have
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had three coaches in a span of four years now.
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You know, could it be mostly on him? Absolutely. I'm
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not against the idea that he might be the prima
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donna you speak of, but it'll be interesting to see
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how this whole saga ends up. I don't think it's
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going to linger much longer either. I really don't. I'll
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be shocked if we get to Thanksgiving and he's still
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on the Red Wings.
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And to be honest, I'd be I'd be pretty excited
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if we put together a package, you know, found a
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way onto the team, because then all of a sudden
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our forward group that's already, you know, arguably a top
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five forward group in the league gets a Dylan Larkin
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on it.
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Now, what you know, you're looking at your centers.
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You got Jack Hughes, Nico Heischer and Dylan Larkin as
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your top three centers. You know, the team all of
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a sudden starts to feel loaded. And that's the first
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time I can remember that I felt that way about
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the Devils and in at least 10, 15 years.
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I was going to ask you, Roman, and Sam, he
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play wing on the Devils? I mean, that's a lot
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of extra ice time he would get if he plays
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wing instead of center. I mean, who do you bump
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down to 3C? I'm sure there are situations where Larkin
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is better than Heischer. Jack Hughes is the number one center.
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Nobody's arguing that. But, you know, there are situations where
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Heischer plays like that true number one two-way center. But
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then Larkin also kind of does too. They both had
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seasons where one looks like the guy, the other looks
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like the guy. I wonder if Larkin would ever play Wink.
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And that's the question, too.
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Is Timo Meier in that trade, or is that a
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situation where all of a sudden we're figuring out where
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to put.
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Larkin and Meier on the same lineup?
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That's the other variable that's tough to talk about with this,
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is if we are going to get Larkin, we're going
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to have to give something pretty serious up.
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And I said this before yesterday on the State of
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the Fan Address, that this is what I was envisioning
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when drafting Logan Cooley a few years ago, to have
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a 1A, B, and C down the middle, you got depth.
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If you have an injury to any of them, you
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could just have at least your top six still intact,
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you know, of, you know, above average to elite center.
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At the time, we thought, well, we already have enough.
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You can never get enough down the middle. And I
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think getting Dylan Larkin, It gives Sheldon Keefe a lot
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of options here.
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You can move Jack to the wing.
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You can even move Dylan Larkin to the wing in
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your top six. Or do you want to roll four
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lines and your top three lines, the top nine, is
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legitimately three.
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Number one lines?
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You know, you can maybe mix and match with moving
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Timo Mayer off of the Nico Heischer line, putting him
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on the third line, move Gritsik up to the top six,
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you know.
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You can do a lot of stuff with this.
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The other thing that keeps happening, I'd be curious to
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look at this, is how many points did our fourth
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line get all of last season versus how many points
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they have now? And I'd imagine we're already starting to
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creep up on a good part of what we had
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last season. So as those top three lines continue to elevate,
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you've got players like Connor Brown that were spending time
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on line one.
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With Jack Hughes last year that's now a fourth liner.
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And what we've gotten out of Boquist and Lombardi and
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some of those guys, that's been one of the best
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parts about the team this year, is watching that fourth
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line kind of play like a second line.
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I would assume that Mercer would be part of this
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deal with Detroit, going by what Nick Villano said on
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X and also on State of the Fan Address, that
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Mercer would be part of that deal.
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He's out of the roster.
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You add in Command, you add in another first rounder,
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the one you got through the Nemec trade, Seamus Casey,
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and I guess probably one more position player.
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Anton Saliev?
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I think that's too much at that point. I think
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that's way too much at this point. But, if Mercer's
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out of the lineup, think about this lineup. You have
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Let's just say Hughes, Bratt, Gritsik on your first line.
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Second line, you can play it any way you want.
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You can put Heischer, not necessarily Meyer, but how about Meyer,
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how about this? How about Meyer, Larkin, and Rodriguez on
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that third line? On that third line. Cody Glass on
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the fourth line. because we always wanted Cody Glass to
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be that fourth line center. That's a role that he
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could excel in. And then you have Connor Brown and
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Bocas on that fourth line. The second line would probably
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be Heischer if Meyer moves down.
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What would that line look like?
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Evangelista.
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Yeah.
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And Manta it would have to be.
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Yeah, I mean, I'd probably flip Larkin and Manta in
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that scenario.
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Or would you put Larkin, Manta?
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I'd put Larkin up with Heischer and Evangelista, and then
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put Manta with Erod.
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And Meyer?
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Yeah.
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That would be sick. I think that would be sick.
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But if they traded for Larkin and they put him
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on the wing, I think he'd get a crack with
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Jack right off the bat. Because I think Jack would
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ask for it.
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Yeah, I just would hate to break up grits, but
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that lineup, if you had Manta, Erod, and Timo, that
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would be our new version of the crash line.
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Literally.
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Literally.
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I mean, the depth at center would be probably one
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of the best or the best in the NHL if
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you have Dylan Larkin on the team. Now, people are
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hooting and hollering in the YouTube live, and look, we're
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talking about a possible trade scenario.
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We're not advocating for it, but what it would look like.
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But also, it might even give you a better chance
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of landing Quinn Hughes in free agency without giving up anything.
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So you give up some. And can you fit everybody?
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Let the genius Sonny Meda and his staff figure out
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the salary cap, but you can really... If you have
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Dylan Larkin on this team, that will entice.
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Quinn Hughes to come during the offseason where you don't
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have to give up anything but cap space.
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You make that cap space.
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The biggest thing is getting guys like Boquist and Lombardi
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that can really play, that play on basically league minimum
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type contracts.
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I mean, it's a huge luxury.
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Whenever you get a player like that, it kind of
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is the money ball system where you have three or
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four guys that are making a million dollars a year.
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All of a sudden, paying Quinn 20 hurts a lot less.
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Yeah. But, yeah, and Dovzilla saying Meyer and Mantha would
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seem to be a potential monster of wings. And, you know, again,
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why I like this, guys, is you're rolling three types of,
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you're rolling three different lines that do different things. So, like,
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you can really catch the opposing defense, you know.
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Yeah, that's what's kind of interesting with the Devils is
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it's starting to be a situation where if you want
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to match up with us and you're the road team
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and you don't have your choice of lines and matchups,
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you end up getting your line that you want to
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play against our bigger crash type of line and all
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of a sudden you're against Jack Hughes and Larkin and
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those guys that are buzzing around with speed. It becomes
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a big problem and I think the Devils could make
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a lot of mismatches happen.
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Absolutely. Yeah. All right. Let's get predictions. Get them in.
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We're going to keep this conversation going, but get your
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predictions in the YouTube live. We got a lot of
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people commenting. We got a lot of comments.
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Let's see.
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Dave Singer says Larkin not worth it. It just depends
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what the price is. Depends what the price is. Larkin's
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a great player.
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Yeah.
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But to me, it's a two-for-one, potentially a two-for-one, because
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that can entice Quinn Hughes to actually get in here. Now,
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I'm going to say this. To me, this is not
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about three brothers, although it's cool, marketing purposes, whatever. To me,
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if Jack Hughes, Luke Hughes, and Quinn Hughes had three
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different last names and weren't brothers, would you take Quinn
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Hughes on your team?
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Quinn Hughes is an essential face of the league caliber
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type guy. He would change everything. He would be the
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best defenseman on the team since Niedermeyer left. And I
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know there's been some really good ones. I know that. Rafalski,
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I think I would take Quinn Hughes in his prime
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over Rafalski in his prime. I know that's crazy.
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Without a doubt.
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Rafalski is incredible. He would be the third best defenseman
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in franchise history, and he would be in the conversation
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to make the run-up for one of those top two spots.
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That's how good Quinn Hughes is. He is unbelievable. He
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changes games on a dime. I was watching the Wild
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the other night. Even when he doesn't get a point
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on the goal, he's out there. He's magically always in
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every hockey hug they ever have because he's that important
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to that team.
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Well, yeah, and that's... Look, there's three pairings. Traditionally, there's
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three pairings.
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Quinn Hughes would be on the top pairing, and chances are,
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in a 60-minute match, he would have about 30 minutes
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of ice time, about half of the game, just himself alone, which, again,
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especially in the playoffs, against a.
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A good team.
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Like, you know, normally you don't want to run Quinn
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Hughes 30 minutes a night, although it seems like Minnesota's
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doing that right now. But, you know, it just, that.
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Tells you the kind of caliber. They're missing Brodine and
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Spurgeon and Faber.
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Did you just get sprayed on?
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It's like SeaWorld over here.
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Yeah, did you just get sprayed on?
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Yeah, he put a dish back and there was some
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shrapnel that came up.
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Yeah.
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I just got, just got like, oh, I smell like
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salad dressing.
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Yeah, we don't like that.
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Yeah, I smell like salad dressing. Jesus.
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Anyway, all right, so let's get your predictions. Let me
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read out a few, and then we'll get with Vinny first.
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Your prediction. I hate that smell. It smells like balsamic vinaigrette.
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It's got to power through.
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Yeah.
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Devils down under says high-scoring game, 5-4 Devils in OT.
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What else?
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Max says 6-3 Devils. Joey B says 6-5 Ducks. Lupus
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Nott says 3-1 Devils. Dave Singer says 4-2 Devils. Serve
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says 4-2 Devils. Robert Isakson says 4-2 Ducks. Bipolar kicks in.
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Larkin has one point more than Mercer. Says serve, but
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he's in a different situation. Lin Marge says 3-1 Devils.
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Dave Singer says Quinn is a top-down player. Anthony says
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3-0 Devils.
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Let's go.
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What else, what else, what else?
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Again, serves at 42 Devils. Joey B says, Sam Woosh
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smells like the upper deckers at Old Meadowlands Arena. You're
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talking about, like, the upper deckers. You know what an
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upper decker.
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Is, right?
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Can you please explain it on the air? Oh, yeah.
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So if you take a dump, instead of, like, taking
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a dump like you normally do in a toilet.
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I'm sorry, baby. You know that bowl? What you do
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is you open that up.
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And then you take the dump in that bowl, and
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then that chain that chains the flapper, you cut that off,
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and then you put it back so the next person
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that uses the bathroom and tries to flush will be.
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Like, why isn't it working? And then they take off.
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The lid, and they'll be like, oh, somebody took an
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upper deck.
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You only reserve that when, like, you know, you get fired.
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Yeah, you get fired from a job, or you're at
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a New York Rangers bar, you know, something like that,
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you know. That's what an upper decker is. And I
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think that's what Joey B was referring to, an upper decker. Oh,
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my goodness, that's 5-3 Devils. Vinny's mom listening in. 6-4 Devils.
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Sorry about that, Mrs.
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Parisi. Let's see here. And we got John Heaton says
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4-1 Devils.
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And, yeah.
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All right, Roman. I'm sorry, Vinny, what's your prediction?
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I think the New Jersey Devils are going to win 4-3.
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I think Jack Hughes will score the game winner with
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an upper-decker goal.
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I was going to say 4-3 too. Who's starting a
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goal for us? It's going to be Nico Dawes. Devils
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win 9-8.
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Wow.
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We're going to need to put some in. I don't
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think he's giving up one or two tonight.
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9-8. Two fast, highly skilled teams with bad goals.
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7-4 Devils. 7-4 Devils. I think Evangelista is going to
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break out.
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Two goals, two assists. I think Bantha breaks out tonight.
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He finally learns how to skate and he starts putting
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some pucks in the net.
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You know what's awesome? It seems like Evangelista scores the
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first goal of the game whenever he scores. There's a
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prop bet for everyone tonight. Evangelista, first goal scorer.
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Eric says 4-3 Devils.
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Six Pack Pops says 3-2 Devils. 10-4 Devils says Wimpy.
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Top shelf, says Max, not Upper Decker.
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4-0 Devs win. Let's see here.
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The Woo predictions are off the rails.
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Yeah, anyway.
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Yeah.
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All right, well, we're going to get out of here.
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Thank you to everybody here at American Whiskey.
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Casey, Kevin.
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Alejandra, Frank the Tank, everybody here at American Whiskey. Thank
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you to Roman being our resident e-bub, the emergency backup broadcaster.
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If you're a fan and you want to be on
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the Let's Go Devils podcast as an e-bub, get screened
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and just maybe you'll be called back.
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To be on air with us. Thank you to everybody.
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Thank you to Vinny. And we're getting out of here.
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I got to get the music. So keep talking.
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Double duty for me tonight. Bear down, Chicago Bears.
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Oh, yeah?
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Yeah, Thursday night football.
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The Bears.
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Thursday night football against the New England Patriots. I know
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everyone in Jersey might actually be rooting for the Bears. Yep.
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All right.
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Well, we're getting out of here. Follow me on social
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media at PrimetimeSamWu. Vinny Parisi at Vinny Parisi. PucksandPitchforks.com at PitchforkPuck.
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You can see what Nick is up to. Roman, do
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you have a handle?
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I don't really go on Twitter too much.
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And at Let's Get Olds Pod. At Let's Get Olds Pod.
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We'll see you Devils After Dark after the game. Scotty
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is SiriusXM, Liquid Metal, and I will recap the game.
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That was here at American Whiskey. Enjoy the game, everybody. Devils-Ducks.
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Until next time, let's go Devils.
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Hi, this is Chico Resch.
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You are listening to the Let's Go Devils podcast on
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the Primetime Radio Network. Happy Devils Thursday. This is Game
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Day Live. Coming to you live, live from American Whiskey,
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51 Edison Place, across the street from Redentor Center, National
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Championship Plaza. I am Sam Wu, here with The E-Bub, Roman,
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also a podcast fan. And then cross half continent to Chicago, Illinois.
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It is Vinny Parisi of the Hockey News. Pucksandpitchforks.com.
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USA Today. And the recap report. I forgot what it
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was called.
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Anyway, as we're streaming live on Facebook Live, YouTube Live,
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As the Devils are taking on the Anaheim Ducks tonight
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at the Rock. I'm loving the West Coast, the Western
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Conference teams playing the Devils. The Devils seem to have
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their number from last season, beating the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday.
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Here's the second one. But I think this is going
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to be a pretty tough team, Vinny.
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Yeah, I mean, the Anaheim Ducks rock. And they have
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good players on their team. They're highly skilled. And they
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have Joel Quinville. who people have good feelings about Joel Quinville.
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I say the same thing about Mike Babcock and Edmonton.
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People have their feelings about these guys, but nobody ever
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said that in between the lines on the ice they
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were bad coaches. And that's so true for Joel Quinville.
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When the lights come on and it's time for hockey,
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he's won three Stanley Cups, he's made multiple deep playoff runs,
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he's helped teams come out of rebuilds, and that's exactly
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what's happening today. with the Anaheim Ducks right now. I mean,
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they had to lose a couple pieces this offseason because
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the Philadelphia Flyers threw a pitchfork, not to be punny,
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in everybody's offseason plans by offersheeting Leo Carlson. $ 18 million,
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and the Ducks had no choice but to match. Otherwise,
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they'd lose their number one center. But, you know, like
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I said, they had to lose a couple pretty good
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players as a result. They didn't keep John Carlson, Chris
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Criders in Montreal. but they still have Gautier and Leo
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Carlson and a bunch of other young pieces that they're
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currently building around. So Devils have their hands full.
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Well, yeah.
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You know, last offseason, there was the controversies of these
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offer sheets going around.
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Ducks were involved.
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It actually started with Sonny Maeda with, I forgot, in Utah.
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Barrett Hayden.
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Yeah. That started just the domino effect because a lot
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of these free agents were already signed, like all these deals,
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like teams planning ahead. But, you know, again, the ducks
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are intact. Are they in cap hell right now, Vinny?
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Do you know?
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They're getting there. It's going to be difficult because they
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do have to– and they did get GoTA signed too.
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So– Eventually, they're going to have to pay Beckett Seneca,
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who was the third overall pick a couple years ago.
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You might remember went super viral for his reaction to
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being drafted third overall. He wasn't expecting to go to
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the mid-teens. He's made the Ducks look really smart for
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making that selection third overall. It's one of those risks
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for Anaheim that has worked. If that draft were redone,
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he'd go right around that area. They're going to have
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to get him paid. He's just one of their many
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young players that they're building around. I wouldn't say they're
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in cap hell yet because I don't know who's going
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to be in cap hell due to it going up
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so much in the next couple years. But eventually that
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curve's going to flatten. And Gary said this many times.
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All they're trying to do is catch up to where
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they would be if COVID never happened. That's why the not-so-steady,
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the extreme increase is happening over these last couple years
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for the next two-ish, three-ish, I would say. And then
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eventually it's going to flatten. So by then, we'll really
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know if they're in cap hell. But for right now,
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they had to get the job done. Top guys getting 80,
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90 points are going to be making in the 18,
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17 million range, and that's Leo Carlson. So we'll see
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where they go from here. But the Devils have a
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challenge on their hands against a speedy team.
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Yeah, and Roman, let me tell you something.
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Vinny just made a great point about coming out of COVID,
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the cap numbers, all that.
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But can't we.
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Say that, I know the Players Association doesn't want to
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hear this, but I think the collective bargaining agreement between
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the NHL and the NHLPA, it's working as intended because
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it adjusted to the economic times of that, you know,
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and it was an unforeseen time. Like, you couldn't have
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predicted that you would have a pandemic in the middle
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of the 2020 season, you know.
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Yeah, I mean, it seems like the league is running
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really well. Like, the players' salaries are going up, as described,
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and the Leo Carlson contract, it was a shock to
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the senses a little bit, but You know, I think
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you see the amount of progress the league has made
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where Jack Hughes gets a similar contract. Like, you know,
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$ 8 million a year may have seemed a bit high
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for a player that had played for a year and,
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you know, didn't do a ton to prove himself yet.
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Now that number is $ 18 million.
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So it's great for the players, and it shows how
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popular the sport is and what's coming in for all
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the teams.
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Yeah, and, you know, to be honest with you guys,
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the sport has grown globally, and you Back in the mid-90s,
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I don't know if you guys remember, but the early 90s, mid-90s,
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early 2000s, there was the expansion.
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Expansion, expansion.
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And it really was kind of a Ponzi scheme because
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the initiation fee that were funding a lot of the
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teams that weren't doing well, especially the Canadian teams, it
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wasn't because of the fans. But if you remember late 90s,
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the U.S. dollar versus the Canadian dollar was completely off.
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I mean... In college, we used to joke that, you know,
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going to Canada was basically a 40% discount, you know,
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back in those days. And, you know, obviously at the
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Canadian Ballet, they accepted American dollars. But anyway, and so
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you had that problem. You had that problem of, you know,
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the currency, but also you didn't have a salary cap.
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You didn't have cost certainty. You had the New York
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Rangers that had unlimited funds. because of the Madison Square
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Garden network that they own, and they can get any
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player they want, so they were taking the league's assets
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on one player, and they all sucked. They all sucked.
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And which, that caused that one-year lockout.
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Yeah, and you just.
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of guys that were disparate parts, like all you hear
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about the Dodgers right now is that entire locker room
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can't stand itself, and You know, the second you throw
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a bit of adversity and losing in there, all of
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those problems come up. The Rangers had some troubles back
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Yeah, and I'm not going to lie to you guys.
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I'm not going to lie to you.
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Watching baseball right now, I know Danielle McCarna, WFAN, was
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rooting for the Cleveland Guardians, but I wasn't. And then
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when I tried to tell her my reason, she didn't
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want to even hear it. But because this is our podcast,
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I'm going to tell you a reason why I wasn't
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rooting for the Cleveland Guardians. Because, A, the minority owner
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is David Blitzer that has a path to possibly be
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the majority owner of the Cleveland Guardians. But their path
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to success was they are the lowest paid baseball team
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in the Major League Baseball. had the Cleveland Guardians have
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gotten to the World Series and won, I would be
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afraid that David Blitzer would say, hey, we won the
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World Championship, the World Series with the lowest payroll. Maybe
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we can replicate that with the New Jersey Devils and
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be at the cap floor.
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I'm just still upset they beat the White Sox.
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I'm sorry, Vinny.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm sorry.
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I'm like, he had to bring that up?
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I'm still kind of hurting about that. I'll make it worse.
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I agree, though.
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I'm still a Mets fan.
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eat it, too, because the MLB is going to fix
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itself after this upcoming lockout. And the Rays and the
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Brewers playing each other in the World Series is actually
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a good thing in that sense. But that's a podcast
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for a whole other day. You're talking about the NHL
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and the rising salary cap. There's a lot of things.
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that have helped the league a lot in the last
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handful of years. Like, okay, so I'm looking. Vegas spent
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$ 500 million as their expansion fee, and Seattle spent $ 650 million.
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That's over a billion dollars poured into the league in
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a span of like three years. And Vegas has come
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in and been super successful. They've won playoff rounds. They've
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added more revenue to the league. Seattle's won a playoff round.
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one of the premier teams in the league. in a
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premier city destination city. So, and then you have that,
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the TNT, the TNT slash ESPN TV deal in the
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United States, uh, Sportsnet just re-upped their TV deal in Canada.
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helped the league go from having that steady cap through
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COVID to come out of it and rise. So it's
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going to be interesting to see how the devils take
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advantage of it. They do spend money. Dougie Hamilton was
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the top free agent yeah and they they gave him
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what he was on the market value for and he's
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worked out they traded for timo meyer now is timo
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meyer a slight disappointment in terms of what he was
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in san jose sure but they made the trade they
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paid him they they never hesitated it was never a
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question when it was time for jack hughes and nico
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he sure to get their extensions they did not hesitate
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we just got to wonder Are they spending this money
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on the right people? Sometimes is the fair question to ask.
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But as of right now, the cap going up to
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me is exciting because I've yet to see an example
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of the Devils not using it on their roster.
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Well, I know we got the Ducks and Devils tonight,
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but I also want to talk about the Dylan Larkin
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situation right now. There's a lot of speculation. Elliott Friedman,
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I don't know. I don't know if you believe that one...
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tweet from somebody that about I guess on the on
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his podcast that he said a Devils fan text messaged
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him and saying oh instead of Dylan Larkin going to
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Minnesota maybe the way of New Jersey I know Nick
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Villano has been on that wagon for a long time
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now going back to last season what are your thoughts
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Dylan Larkin in New Jersey if Sonny Maida was going
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to make a trade.
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Yeah, I'm interested to hear what Roman thinks too. I'll
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just say I used to think I wanted them to
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trade whatever assets they have for Quinn Hughes. But if
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you trade those assets for Dylan Larkin, and now not
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only do the Devils have Luke and Jack, they also
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have Dylan Larkin, you're not going to have to trade
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for Quinn. He's just going to come to you for
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nothing but money on July 1st.
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You try to get as far as you can this year.
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Let him have his swan song with the Minnesota Wild.
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They're a good team. I watched them play Edmonton the
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other day. I think Edmonton is the more skilled team.
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They tied it up. They got the loser point. That's
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a good team. They'll be in the contention for the
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Cup if everything goes according to plan for them in
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the playoffs. They've got to go through Dallas and Colorado.
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or Vegas, good luck with that. you know, if you
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get Dylan Larkin, now all of a sudden you have
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another chip on your side for getting the second best
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defenseman in the league, sometimes the first best defenseman.
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Yeah, I think, you know, you never know the personality
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of these players. Dylan Larkin's gotten a lot of bad
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publicity in the media for holding out, for getting his
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captaincy pulled and things like that, but for me, it's
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like you don't know what's actually going on. You don't
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know what Detroit promised him, what was said in closed-door
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meetings with him, and you know, how much, and obviously
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with Iserman out as GM, clearly something wrong is going
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on organizationally there. So, looks like we're frozen, but yes,
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a bit of a prima donna and walked out on
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his team, as a fan, I'd rather not see him
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in our locker room, but if he's a guy that's
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going to come here, bring his lunch pail, be a hard-nosed,
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blue-collar player, and work his butt off, I think he's
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extremely talented. I think he's a guy that could bring
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a lot to the team my question though would be
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you put a package together that's something the effect of
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mercer a first round pick or two maybe a kovacevich
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or a dylan or you know insert your your two
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or three players your two or three picks and you
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go get larkin if you're making a push at the
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end of the year do you think there's a package
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to to be met for quinn as well or do
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you think that becomes 100 we just have to try
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to sign him as a free agent.
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Detroit has no leverage. The Wild do a little bit
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because they can treat Quinn Hughes like a rental and
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try to win the cup and accept their losses if
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they don't, which that kind of feels like the likeliest
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outcome if Quinn does leave them in the end, which
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I do respect them for trying to win. I wish
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more NHL teams would just try to win. But, you know,
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as far as Larkin, yeah, that's on Sonny Mehta to
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figure out. What's the deal here? Because I'll tell you this.
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It's not Larkin's fault they took Philip Zedina over Quinn
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Hughes or any of the other great players that came
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after Zedina. Brady Kachuk was one of them. No, Brady
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Kachuk might have went one pick prior. It's not Dylan
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Larkin's fault that after hitting on Moritz Seider and that
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kind of being a surprise draft pick and it worked,
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They've done nothing but take high-end first-round defensemen in the
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first round instead of building a forward group from scratch,
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other than Lucas Raymond, who they lucked into. But in
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that draft, it's not their fault they didn't win the lottery.
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The Heischer draft, the Jack Hughes draft, all these drafts
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that they were one of the worst teams in the league,
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and they're getting pushed down three or four pegs because
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teams below them are winning the lottery. None of that
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is Dylan Larkin's fault. They haven't spent any money in
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free agency other than trying to get older guys brought
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in like Justin Falk or Patrick Kane. You know, guys
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who are good, but they're not what they once were.
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None of that is Dylan Larkin's fault either. He probably is...
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Grown fed up of ever since Datsouk and Zetterberg left,
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the team has basically been a dumpster fire and have
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had three coaches in a span of four years now.
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You know, could it be mostly on him? Absolutely. I'm
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not against the idea that he might be the prima
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donna you speak of, but it'll be interesting to see
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how this whole saga ends up. I don't think it's
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going to linger much longer either. I really don't. I'll
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be shocked if we get to Thanksgiving and he's still
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on the Red Wings.
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And to be honest, I'd be I'd be pretty excited
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if we put together a package, you know, found a
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way onto the team, because then all of a sudden
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our forward group that's already, you know, arguably a top
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five forward group in the league gets a Dylan Larkin
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on it.
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Now, what you know, you're looking at your centers.
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You got Jack Hughes, Nico Heischer and Dylan Larkin as
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your top three centers. You know, the team all of
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a sudden starts to feel loaded. And that's the first
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time I can remember that I felt that way about
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the Devils and in at least 10, 15 years.
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I was going to ask you, Roman, and Sam, he
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play wing on the Devils? I mean, that's a lot
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of extra ice time he would get if he plays
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wing instead of center. I mean, who do you bump
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down to 3C? I'm sure there are situations where Larkin
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is better than Heischer. Jack Hughes is the number one center.
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Nobody's arguing that. But, you know, there are situations where
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Heischer plays like that true number one two-way center. But
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then Larkin also kind of does too. They both had
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seasons where one looks like the guy, the other looks
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like the guy. I wonder if Larkin would ever play Wink.
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And that's the question, too.
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Is Timo Meier in that trade, or is that a
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situation where all of a sudden we're figuring out where
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to put.
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Larkin and Meier on the same lineup?
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That's the other variable that's tough to talk about with this,
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is if we are going to get Larkin, we're going
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to have to give something pretty serious up.
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And I said this before yesterday on the State of
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the Fan Address, that this is what I was envisioning
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when drafting Logan Cooley a few years ago, to have
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a 1A, B, and C down the middle, you got depth.
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If you have an injury to any of them, you
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could just have at least your top six still intact,
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you know, of, you know, above average to elite center.
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At the time, we thought, well, we already have enough.
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You can never get enough down the middle. And I
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think getting Dylan Larkin, It gives Sheldon Keefe a lot
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of options here.
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You can move Jack to the wing.
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your top six. Or do you want to roll four
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lines and your top three lines, the top nine, is
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legitimately three.
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Number one lines?
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You know, you can maybe mix and match with moving
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Timo Mayer off of the Nico Heischer line, putting him
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on the third line, move Gritsik up to the top six,
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you know.
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You can do a lot of stuff with this.
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look at this, is how many points did our fourth
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line get all of last season versus how many points
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they have now? And I'd imagine we're already starting to
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creep up on a good part of what we had
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last season. So as those top three lines continue to elevate,
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you've got players like Connor Brown that were spending time
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on line one.
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With Jack Hughes last year that's now a fourth liner.
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some of those guys, that's been one of the best
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parts about the team this year, is watching that fourth
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line kind of play like a second line.
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I would assume that Mercer would be part of this
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deal with Detroit, going by what Nick Villano said on
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X and also on State of the Fan Address, that
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Mercer would be part of that deal.
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He's out of the roster.
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You add in Command, you add in another first rounder,
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the one you got through the Nemec trade, Seamus Casey,
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and I guess probably one more position player.
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Anton Saliev?
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I think that's too much at that point. I think
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that's way too much at this point. But, if Mercer's
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out of the lineup, think about this lineup. You have
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Let's just say Hughes, Bratt, Gritsik on your first line.
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Second line, you can play it any way you want.
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You can put Heischer, not necessarily Meyer, but how about Meyer,
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how about this? How about Meyer, Larkin, and Rodriguez on
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that third line? On that third line. Cody Glass on
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the fourth line. because we always wanted Cody Glass to
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be that fourth line center. That's a role that he
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could excel in. And then you have Connor Brown and
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Bocas on that fourth line. The second line would probably
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be Heischer if Meyer moves down.
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What would that line look like?
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Evangelista.
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Yeah.
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And Manta it would have to be.
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Yeah, I mean, I'd probably flip Larkin and Manta in
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that scenario.
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Or would you put Larkin, Manta?
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I'd put Larkin up with Heischer and Evangelista, and then
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put Manta with Erod.
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And Meyer?
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Yeah.
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That would be sick. I think that would be sick.
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But if they traded for Larkin and they put him
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on the wing, I think he'd get a crack with
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Jack right off the bat. Because I think Jack would
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ask for it.
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Yeah, I just would hate to break up grits, but
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that lineup, if you had Manta, Erod, and Timo, that
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would be our new version of the crash line.
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Literally.
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Literally.
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I mean, the depth at center would be probably one
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of the best or the best in the NHL if
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you have Dylan Larkin on the team. Now, people are
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hooting and hollering in the YouTube live, and look, we're
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talking about a possible trade scenario.
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We're not advocating for it, but what it would look like.
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But also, it might even give you a better chance
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of landing Quinn Hughes in free agency without giving up anything.
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So you give up some. And can you fit everybody?
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Let the genius Sonny Meda and his staff figure out
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the salary cap, but you can really... If you have
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Dylan Larkin on this team, that will entice.
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Quinn Hughes to come during the offseason where you don't
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have to give up anything but cap space.
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You make that cap space.
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The biggest thing is getting guys like Boquist and Lombardi
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that can really play, that play on basically league minimum
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type contracts.
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I mean, it's a huge luxury.
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Whenever you get a player like that, it kind of
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is the money ball system where you have three or
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four guys that are making a million dollars a year.
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All of a sudden, paying Quinn 20 hurts a lot less.
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Yeah. But, yeah, and Dovzilla saying Meyer and Mantha would
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seem to be a potential monster of wings. And, you know, again,
432
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why I like this, guys, is you're rolling three types of,
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you're rolling three different lines that do different things. So, like,
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you can really catch the opposing defense, you know.
435
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Yeah, that's what's kind of interesting with the Devils is
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it's starting to be a situation where if you want
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to match up with us and you're the road team
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and you don't have your choice of lines and matchups,
439
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you end up getting your line that you want to
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play against our bigger crash type of line and all
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of a sudden you're against Jack Hughes and Larkin and
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those guys that are buzzing around with speed. It becomes
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a big problem and I think the Devils could make
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a lot of mismatches happen.
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Absolutely. Yeah. All right. Let's get predictions. Get them in.
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We're going to keep this conversation going, but get your
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predictions in the YouTube live. We got a lot of
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people commenting. We got a lot of comments.
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Let's see.
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Dave Singer says Larkin not worth it. It just depends
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what the price is. Depends what the price is. Larkin's
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a great player.
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Yeah.
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But to me, it's a two-for-one, potentially a two-for-one, because
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that can entice Quinn Hughes to actually get in here. Now,
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I'm going to say this. To me, this is not
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about three brothers, although it's cool, marketing purposes, whatever. To me,
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if Jack Hughes, Luke Hughes, and Quinn Hughes had three
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different last names and weren't brothers, would you take Quinn
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Hughes on your team?
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Quinn Hughes is an essential face of the league caliber
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type guy. He would change everything. He would be the
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best defenseman on the team since Niedermeyer left. And I
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know there's been some really good ones. I know that. Rafalski,
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I think I would take Quinn Hughes in his prime
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over Rafalski in his prime. I know that's crazy.
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Without a doubt.
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Rafalski is incredible. He would be the third best defenseman
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in franchise history, and he would be in the conversation
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to make the run-up for one of those top two spots.
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That's how good Quinn Hughes is. He is unbelievable. He
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changes games on a dime. I was watching the Wild
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the other night. Even when he doesn't get a point
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on the goal, he's out there. He's magically always in
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every hockey hug they ever have because he's that important
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to that team.
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Well, yeah, and that's... Look, there's three pairings. Traditionally, there's
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three pairings.
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Quinn Hughes would be on the top pairing, and chances are,
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in a 60-minute match, he would have about 30 minutes
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of ice time, about half of the game, just himself alone, which, again,
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especially in the playoffs, against a.
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A good team.
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Like, you know, normally you don't want to run Quinn
485
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Hughes 30 minutes a night, although it seems like Minnesota's
486
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doing that right now. But, you know, it just, that.
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Tells you the kind of caliber. They're missing Brodine and
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Spurgeon and Faber.
489
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Did you just get sprayed on?
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It's like SeaWorld over here.
491
00:25:37.220 --> 00:25:38.480
Yeah, did you just get sprayed on?
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Yeah, he put a dish back and there was some
493
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shrapnel that came up.
494
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Yeah.
495
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I just got, just got like, oh, I smell like
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salad dressing.
497
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Yeah, we don't like that.
498
00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:51.099
Yeah, I smell like salad dressing. Jesus.
499
00:25:51.700 --> 00:25:55.059
Anyway, all right, so let's get your predictions. Let me
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read out a few, and then we'll get with Vinny first.
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Your prediction. I hate that smell. It smells like balsamic vinaigrette.
502
00:26:03.009 --> 00:26:04.309
It's got to power through.
503
00:26:04.349 --> 00:26:05.410
Yeah.
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00:26:05.470 --> 00:26:10.009
Devils down under says high-scoring game, 5-4 Devils in OT.
505
00:26:12.200 --> 00:26:12.559
What else?
506
00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:16.619
Max says 6-3 Devils. Joey B says 6-5 Ducks. Lupus
507
00:26:16.660 --> 00:26:20.180
Nott says 3-1 Devils. Dave Singer says 4-2 Devils. Serve
508
00:26:20.220 --> 00:26:24.309
says 4-2 Devils. Robert Isakson says 4-2 Ducks. Bipolar kicks in.
509
00:26:24.690 --> 00:26:29.069
Larkin has one point more than Mercer. Says serve, but
510
00:26:29.089 --> 00:26:33.630
he's in a different situation. Lin Marge says 3-1 Devils.
511
00:26:35.690 --> 00:26:38.750
Dave Singer says Quinn is a top-down player. Anthony says
512
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3-0 Devils.
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Let's go.
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What else, what else, what else?
515
00:26:42.859 --> 00:26:47.559
Again, serves at 42 Devils. Joey B says, Sam Woosh
516
00:26:47.619 --> 00:26:52.440
smells like the upper deckers at Old Meadowlands Arena. You're
517
00:26:52.460 --> 00:26:55.289
talking about, like, the upper deckers. You know what an
518
00:26:55.349 --> 00:26:56.210
upper decker.
519
00:26:55.950 --> 00:26:56.269
Is, right?
520
00:26:56.869 --> 00:26:59.069
Can you please explain it on the air? Oh, yeah.
521
00:26:59.690 --> 00:27:02.289
So if you take a dump, instead of, like, taking
522
00:27:02.309 --> 00:27:04.210
a dump like you normally do in a toilet.
523
00:27:04.549 --> 00:27:07.509
I'm sorry, baby. You know that bowl? What you do
524
00:27:07.609 --> 00:27:08.750
is you open that up.
525
00:27:09.750 --> 00:27:12.369
And then you take the dump in that bowl, and
526
00:27:12.410 --> 00:27:15.539
then that chain that chains the flapper, you cut that off,
527
00:27:15.920 --> 00:27:17.759
and then you put it back so the next person
528
00:27:17.799 --> 00:27:20.339
that uses the bathroom and tries to flush will be.
529
00:27:20.319 --> 00:27:23.859
Like, why isn't it working? And then they take off.
530
00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:26.299
The lid, and they'll be like, oh, somebody took an
531
00:27:26.380 --> 00:27:26.859
upper deck.
532
00:27:27.180 --> 00:27:30.619
You only reserve that when, like, you know, you get fired.
533
00:27:30.940 --> 00:27:34.190
Yeah, you get fired from a job, or you're at
534
00:27:34.230 --> 00:27:36.930
a New York Rangers bar, you know, something like that,
535
00:27:37.049 --> 00:27:40.220
you know. That's what an upper decker is. And I
536
00:27:41.279 --> 00:27:46.069
think that's what Joey B was referring to, an upper decker. Oh,
537
00:27:46.089 --> 00:27:52.069
my goodness, that's 5-3 Devils. Vinny's mom listening in. 6-4 Devils.
538
00:27:52.609 --> 00:27:53.990
Sorry about that, Mrs.
539
00:27:54.029 --> 00:27:58.069
Parisi. Let's see here. And we got John Heaton says
540
00:27:58.089 --> 00:27:59.069
4-1 Devils.
541
00:27:59.829 --> 00:28:01.809
And, yeah.
542
00:28:02.009 --> 00:28:04.369
All right, Roman. I'm sorry, Vinny, what's your prediction?
543
00:28:05.700 --> 00:28:07.950
I think the New Jersey Devils are going to win 4-3.
544
00:28:07.940 --> 00:28:14.339
I think Jack Hughes will score the game winner with
545
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:15.259
an upper-decker goal.
546
00:28:17.569 --> 00:28:19.670
I was going to say 4-3 too. Who's starting a
547
00:28:19.710 --> 00:28:23.609
goal for us? It's going to be Nico Dawes. Devils
548
00:28:23.650 --> 00:28:24.829
win 9-8.
549
00:28:25.789 --> 00:28:26.329
Wow.
550
00:28:26.789 --> 00:28:29.250
We're going to need to put some in. I don't
551
00:28:29.269 --> 00:28:31.089
think he's giving up one or two tonight.
552
00:28:33.490 --> 00:28:39.559
9-8. Two fast, highly skilled teams with bad goals.
553
00:28:39.579 --> 00:28:46.099
7-4 Devils. 7-4 Devils. I think Evangelista is going to
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00:28:46.160 --> 00:28:46.660
break out.
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00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:51.869
Two goals, two assists. I think Bantha breaks out tonight.
556
00:28:51.890 --> 00:28:54.029
He finally learns how to skate and he starts putting
557
00:28:54.049 --> 00:28:54.890
some pucks in the net.
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00:28:57.289 --> 00:29:00.130
You know what's awesome? It seems like Evangelista scores the
559
00:29:00.170 --> 00:29:03.279
first goal of the game whenever he scores. There's a
560
00:29:03.339 --> 00:29:06.829
prop bet for everyone tonight. Evangelista, first goal scorer.
561
00:29:09.430 --> 00:29:10.809
Eric says 4-3 Devils.
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00:29:10.970 --> 00:29:15.470
Six Pack Pops says 3-2 Devils. 10-4 Devils says Wimpy.
563
00:29:16.690 --> 00:29:19.349
Top shelf, says Max, not Upper Decker.
564
00:29:19.369 --> 00:29:24.430
4-0 Devs win. Let's see here.
565
00:29:24.470 --> 00:29:27.569
The Woo predictions are off the rails.
566
00:29:27.890 --> 00:29:28.910
Yeah, anyway.
567
00:29:28.930 --> 00:29:29.750
Yeah.
568
00:29:32.220 --> 00:29:33.900
All right, well, we're going to get out of here.
569
00:29:34.099 --> 00:29:36.670
Thank you to everybody here at American Whiskey.
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00:29:36.769 --> 00:29:37.390
Casey, Kevin.
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00:29:40.710 --> 00:29:45.299
Alejandra, Frank the Tank, everybody here at American Whiskey. Thank
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00:29:45.319 --> 00:29:49.160
you to Roman being our resident e-bub, the emergency backup broadcaster.
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00:29:49.460 --> 00:29:51.980
If you're a fan and you want to be on
574
00:29:52.700 --> 00:29:57.480
the Let's Go Devils podcast as an e-bub, get screened
575
00:29:58.200 --> 00:29:59.900
and just maybe you'll be called back.
576
00:30:00.170 --> 00:30:03.789
To be on air with us. Thank you to everybody.
577
00:30:04.049 --> 00:30:06.309
Thank you to Vinny. And we're getting out of here.
578
00:30:06.329 --> 00:30:09.539
I got to get the music. So keep talking.
579
00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:12.680
Double duty for me tonight. Bear down, Chicago Bears.
580
00:30:14.220 --> 00:30:14.599
Oh, yeah?
581
00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:16.980
Yeah, Thursday night football.
582
00:30:17.319 --> 00:30:17.819
The Bears.
583
00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:20.640
Thursday night football against the New England Patriots. I know
584
00:30:20.700 --> 00:30:23.579
everyone in Jersey might actually be rooting for the Bears. Yep.
585
00:30:23.700 --> 00:30:25.740
All right.
586
00:30:26.339 --> 00:30:30.000
Well, we're getting out of here. Follow me on social
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00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:38.490
media at PrimetimeSamWu. Vinny Parisi at Vinny Parisi. PucksandPitchforks.com at PitchforkPuck.
588
00:30:39.150 --> 00:30:42.390
You can see what Nick is up to. Roman, do
589
00:30:42.490 --> 00:30:43.049
you have a handle?
590
00:30:43.529 --> 00:30:45.029
I don't really go on Twitter too much.
591
00:30:45.730 --> 00:30:49.190
And at Let's Get Olds Pod. At Let's Get Olds Pod.
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00:30:49.609 --> 00:30:52.109
We'll see you Devils After Dark after the game. Scotty
593
00:30:52.170 --> 00:30:55.450
is SiriusXM, Liquid Metal, and I will recap the game.
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That was here at American Whiskey. Enjoy the game, everybody. Devils-Ducks.
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Until next time, let's go Devils.
