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ITR: Alex Pietrangelo Withdraws From 4-Nations Faceoff
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Jan 31, 2025
The Vegas Golden Knights and Alex Pietrangelo have announced that he will withdraw from the 4-Nations Faceoff for health-related reasons. Hear what Conrad and Chris think about this announcement and what it means for Team Canada at the 4-Nations. Vegas Golden Knights, Alex Pietrangelo, 4-Nations, 4-Nations Faceoff, Team Canada,
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four nations right away but it came out
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yesterday that Alex petrangelo withdrew
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from the four nations face Dr Face
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Off Chris take it
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away yeah so he played from what I saw
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it sounds like he did play last night
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and he's just focusing on something that
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he wants the two weeks off without
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further injury and the questions already
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come out who's replacing them and
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automatically it sounds like every is
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just saying it's true dowy and there's
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no question it's true dowy who I got
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confirmation to not play tonight I
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thought I saw eight but I did not um but
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he is on the trip so he will return for
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the Kings at least some point over the
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next couple games and it sounds like
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even with him coming back it's a way
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that you know they want to get him
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ramped up um so it sounds like he's a
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replacement for petrangelo but a lot of
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people aren't happy about it they want
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weager they want somebody like tanev or
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Montour blue Shard so it's an
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interesting move not surprised
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but my my one question for you Chris
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is we see more players withdrawing from
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the four
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nations I don't think so because a lot
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of players are excited about it I mean
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if they're dealing with something yeah
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you might see that but I think you're
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going to see whoever's been named want
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to be a part of this well in the case of
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patrano is he said it was for injury
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seasons and for the season but then
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yesterday I think it was yesterday is he
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was skating and playing yeah
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so yeah he said it was an ailment and so
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he was pull out because of an ailment
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and so that tells me that I think he
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wants to play but I think he knows like
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obviously the season matters more he's
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pulling out whereas I see a lot of
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players looking at this like if I'm
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fully healthy if I'm not dealing with
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anything I'm not pulling out I don't
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care I want to represent my country and
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I want to be a part of
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this and I could also see guys who are
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on Stanley Cup contending teams who may
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be just they're there to get some extra
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reps in for the year but they don't go
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full they don't go Full
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Tilt there's always that injury risk
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who knows maybe Team USA and we were
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talking about the goal tending thing
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earlier maybe Team
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USA maybe ainger is the guy that they
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came in because huk said hey I'll go but
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I don't want to go pedal to medal every
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single game right
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and maybe at the same time is for him
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it's a badge of honor if he's on Team
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USA and they go and they win it all
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and maybe that's fuel for him to go and
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win it all again yep
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so there's a lot to factor in when it
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comes
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to guys withdrawing or potentially
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withdrawing and patrula withdrawing but
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there's also a there's even more to
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factor in when it comes to guys who are
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injured and supposed to play because if
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you look at markstrom he was supposed to
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be with Team Sweden same I think Almer
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was as well
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and I believe so yeah Friday's 32
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thoughts they were joking around is uh
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does Joey dard have any Swedish
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Heritage
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so that's I found that a little funny
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topic but
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like it shows you how much these guys
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want to compete and they're they're at
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the level that they are supposed to
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compete at for for a reason and
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maybe petrangelo was trying to play
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through it and then finally he sat down
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with the team and the people for the
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four nations for Team Canada and said
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you know what guys I don't think I can
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go I think this is going to physically
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limit me if I play through this
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tournament and I have to go down in the
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stretcher and another interesting thing
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that I saw and I know this is completely
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speculatory on the person who posted
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this so I'm not going to out them
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is that Alex petrangelo could be playing
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through something that might require
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surgery and we know how Vegas has been
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when it comes to shutting guys
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down conveniently in time for the trade
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deadline yep like I'm not going to
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expand on that thought because the
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person who posted it I know it's
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completely speculatory and I don't want
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to speculate
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myself but it's just that little element
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of you don't know business side of
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things and I
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