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HWS 20: In Which Wallstedt Makes His Wild Debut
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Jan 31, 2025
In this episode, Mikki covers the disastrous Wild vs. Stars game in Dallas and Jesper Wallstedt's debut. She also rambles a bit about trade rumblings and the PWHL. For more from us, visit: https://insidetherink.com/ How to support us and our sponsors: Columbia Apparel - https://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-101025920-10728211 ESPN+ - https://insidetherink.com/espn Fanatics - https://fanatics.93n6tx.net/c/3080932/586570/9663 Draft Kings - CODE ITR On this episode of Her Wild Side - Episode 20 0:00 The Wild struggle against the Stars 2:20 Wild being towards the bottom of the standings, halfway through the season 3:15 MIN vs DAL breakdown 5:20 Wallstedt gets thrown to the Sharks against Dallas 9:09 Wild injury updates 9:50 Excitement of the recent ANA & PHI trade 12:40 Ek being involved in trade rumors 15:10 Who is most likely going to be gone for next season
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[Music]
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hello welcome to her Wildside hockey
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podcast I am your host Mickey and it has
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been a few days since I have released a
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podcast um I had kids homick and uh it's
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really hard to record because my husband
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had to work and the studio is in his
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office so anyway here we are um this
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might be a little shorter mostly because
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the last game was the Stars game in
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Dallas and we all know how that
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went uh just generally I I literally in
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my in my notes I wrote Stars and then I
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wrote a a frowny face that's just how I
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feel um
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I mean everyone was so excited going in
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it's was yes for volstead's first NHL
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game
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and you know while I understand the
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thinking behind putting him
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in you know at the same time it's like
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why why did they throw him into that
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situation um but even beyond that we
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even like rock Faber wasn't playing his
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best but even he was like the only one
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doing anything he broke his stick when
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he was on the bench I mean he just
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looked he would just look so upset um so
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I'm recording this on Friday tonight the
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wild are
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playing I just talked to my brother
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about this Arizona's tomorrow Islanders
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are next week Flyers tonight's the
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Flyers
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um
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so you know I tonight we have flurry in
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net and it looks like Guston might be
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back soon so tomorrow it could be Guston
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if he's back or you know I'm kind of
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hoping that they'll give vad a game at
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home and kind of give him that
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experience because he deserves that you
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know he deserves to like have that home
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crowd cheering because then gipson could
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always come back and play on
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Monday but we are sliding into the
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second half of the hockey season here
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and the wild are towards the bottom
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uh and I am you know rose-colored
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glasses and I will always you know I
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will fully admit that but I feel like
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the wild can still reach a playoff spot
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if they are really buckled on and work
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for it um part you know partially these
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injuries have just not helped um you
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know they were playing great when John
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Hines came back came in they what were
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like 11 and three under him for a while
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and then all these injuries are
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happening and it's like they were able
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to kind of hold it together for a while
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and then it just it has just not been
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great um so I'm hoping that Wally will
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get a game at home because he deserves
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that um anyway this Dallas game was
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really weird because you know what for
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the
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first two periods and even a little bit
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at the beginning of the
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third you know even though they weren't
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playing great it the wild could have
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come back you know they they could have
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gotten further into the game um at the
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beginning of the game you had this weird
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8 Minute span of time where there's no
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whistles like they just back and forth
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and back and forth and then there was
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the two-minute delayed penalty you know
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they they blew the whistle delayed
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Dallas was able to keep it away from the
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wild for like two full minutes and I
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felt really bad for the ref because you
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know he has his arm up the entire time
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the entire two minutes and while I'm
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sure that I could sit here and hold my
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arm up for two minutes I think it would
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get really tiring when you're skating
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around and doing it all at the same time
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I also um I don't know but I wonder like
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can he switch
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arms you know like is there a specific
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arm and can he switch you know so if
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this one gets tired can you switch to
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the
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left I don't know the answer I may have
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to look that
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up and then I would say you know the the
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Dallas
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scores and then Hines challenges for
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offsides and
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winds that means we are three for three
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coaches challenges we all remember last
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year pting evison would challenge so
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many things and I don't think he ever
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succeeded maybe maybe once but it was
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just ridiculous so after two periods
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Wilder down three- Z and that you know
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really sucks you can see they're not
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playing well but at the same time that
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score 30-0 that score is not
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you know a huge difference and then a
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little while into the third period Baldi
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scores making it 3-1 and at that point
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it's kind of like okay you know the wild
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could really just put on the Jets and
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go but they didn't we all know they
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didn't so I'm done talking about that
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because it just makes me
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sad but I do want to talk a little bit
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more about
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wallstead first of all let's be very
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very clear that that Dallas game was not
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his
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fault that baby goalie was thrown to the
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Sharks
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and nobody was
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helping you know Brock Faber was doing
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his darnest but even he you know was not
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playing great I don't know what was
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going on I don't know
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why but you know what he tried his
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hardest um his parents are in North
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America now his dad was in Dallas and
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his dad's a goalie coach and I felt so
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bad for him having to sit and watch his
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son lose you know in that game I almost
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think it's better that his mom wasn't
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able to make it to Dallas something
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about she had Visa trouble or something
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so she had to go to um she went straight
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to Minneapolis but you know just because
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I as a
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mom I don't know if I could sit and
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watch that you know I don't know if I
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could watch my my
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baby um but it's kind of cool he is the
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youngest goalie in the NHL this season
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um he just turned 21 I believe and or
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maybe 20 he's young um which is funny
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because he is currently paired with Mark
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Andre flurry who is the oldest goalie in
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the league and apparently this is only
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like the third time that this has
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happened since the expansion draft where
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one team has you know both ends of the
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spectrum and I am really glad that he
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has flurry because even though their
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gold hunting styles are different flurry
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just has such a wealth of knowledge and
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is happy to help and I think that is
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just so invaluable for
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walstead um one thing I did notice is
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wallstead looks huge in the net and I
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don't think he's actually that much
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bigger than you know flurry or gusen but
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for some reason and he just looks like
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you know the Great Wall of St
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Paul um oh and I do think it's also cool
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that he's the first Swedish goalie to be
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taken in the first round just kind of a
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cool fact I um I am really excited I
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know he's going to be going back down to
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Iowa soon but I love that we got to see
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him for a little while I love that he
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got to come up and have some experience
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and you know what um he's not ready for
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his NHL like a a full-time
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NHL job you know um
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and that nothing to do with him it's his
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age he just needs more development and
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it seems like a lot of goalies you don't
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they don't really come into the league
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young anymore I mean flurry came in at
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18 and that is like pretty much unheard
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of
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now it seems like all goalies kind of
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need a couple of years in the AHL more
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more than other positions do so you know
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it seems like 2425 it's kind of that
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sweet for age for when they come in and
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are really like hitting their stride
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like look at guson that's kind of what
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happened with him you know it he was
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he's mid 20s I mean I think he's getting
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late 20s now but he this is when he's
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hitting his stride is right
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now so I think um when he gets back sent
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back down I hope that fans are not upset
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about that because first of all there's
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nothing else you can do second of all we
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have two good goalie and you know
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everyone knows that this is temporary
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right now so we just need to kind
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of kind of go with it um but speaking of
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injuries and temporary it seems that
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Jonas Brodin Gill cof and Philip guson
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all skated this morning they're not
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playing tonight but they have a
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possibility of playing
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Saturday or even if not then there's
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another game on Monday so we are going
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to see some of these some of these
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cracks being filled back in and you know
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um I am hoping
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that that will help some things you know
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cuz this point what else do you do you
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know people are joking like oh well you
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you get another coach because that
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worked the first
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time um and obviously you can't do that
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but they've tried a lot of things and
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there's just not much they can
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do so moving on this is kind of a
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shorter one yeah I'm at 10 minutes right
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now that's okay um future considerations
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in a bag of pucks
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uh first of all one thing I said this
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week on social media is that it's always
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really fun to watch a trade that came
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out of nowhere just like completely out
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of left field as long as it doesn't have
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to do with your team so of course I am
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talking about the Dale trade to the
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flyers for um cutter goder and I believe
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they also got a a draft pick um
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something like that but first of all
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that whole situation was crazy and you
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know what I don't blame the kid for not
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wanting to play on the Flyers and I
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think people need to realize that he is
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a young kid basically still a child and
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he does have the ability to make
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decisions in his life if he doesn't want
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to play in in um Philadelphia he doesn't
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want to
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play and I don't people are just getting
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so up in arms about it um the only thing
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that I do think was that he did wrong is
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when he was at World Juniors and they
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had sent the Flyers had sent a couple of
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um guys from the organization basically
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to talk to him and he like Flatout
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refused to even see them like or his
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agents or anybody I feel like at that
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point you at least need to talk to them
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that's that was my one beef with this
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whole thing everything else I you know
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what I don't
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no but Dale being traded for him I am
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actually really surprised that
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Anaheim was willing to part with Dale he
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felt like a big um such a big part of
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their team and I'm going to be honest I
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do not watch Anaheim so I uh I might be
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somewhat off base but I just got this
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idea that you know they have a couple of
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younger guys uh they are re building
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around I assumed um you know and I'm
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talking about uh zis I'm talking about
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uh McTavish I'm talking about Dale you
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know and it seemed like okay they've got
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them they can kind of build around
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them so for them to part with Dale was
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just something that I didn't understand
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but talking with my brother this morning
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he's thinking that you know maybe now
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that we've seen this Dale trade um maybe
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they will start getting rid of other you
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know try to get more assets in uh trade
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zis possibly and just get more draft
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picks get someone else you know I don't
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know it was uh it was it was
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entertaining uh the other thing we're
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still on the topic of Trades I have seen
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so many baddy
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claims about e being
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traded and I'm not I mean and some of
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them were just like hypothetical I get
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it but as I have said bill gearan would
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sell his own children I think before he
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got rid of juel Ericson a um I I think
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that you would have to pry e out of you
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know his cold dead fingers before he
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would let him go anywhere and I I get
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like I don't I don't really get into
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like the hypo the hypothetical trade
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situations just because I don't know I
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you know I'm not an expert on that I
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don't know what you would have to trade
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for who and you know what team and all
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that um but just the fact that people
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some people are taking it seriously is
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concerning like folks there are some
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players on the wild right now that could
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definitely be targeted in a trade um do
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him doer uh possibly maroon or bagoan or
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you know like
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sure they're not going to trade
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Eric they're just they're
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not uh but as we are getting guys back
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from
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injury I was thinking about some of the
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AHL players that we have had up here and
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you know I really do have to give them
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props
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because they I mean I feel like the wild
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we're getting to the point where there
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weren't a lot of players left in Iowa
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that could play in NHL they're they're
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just not ready you know some of the
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younger guys are just not ready I'm
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thinking like Carson Lambos um he will
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be ready at some point but he just you
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know he's young and he's inexperienced
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and he needs some more time down there
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so I feel like you know he's won um who
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else Ryan oror I mean you know we were
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getting to the point where we just were
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depleting things so now being able to
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send some of them back will be good um
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Hunt is still here he is a healthy
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scratch for tonight and murmus is here
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he's playing third pairing I believe um
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patan and rasa no patan is benched and
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rasa is on the for line so I mean we
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still have quite a few AHL guys but um
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it'll be nice to kind of start filtering
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them out and get back our regular guys
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and this morning we were talking about
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um Next Year my brother and I were next
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year with the wild who do we still have
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who needs to be signed at the end of
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this season um and I hate to tell
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everybody but I feel like both the dues
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are going to be gone that was kind of my
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brother was like I kind of was like you
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need to just realize
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because obviously um I love the dues and
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I want to keep them forever and honestly
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for the most part I want to keep all of
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our players forever and I know that that
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is not
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feasible and or realistic at all
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um but I feel like those are going to be
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pieces that are moved and we will see
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who else can come up from Iowa and not
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even just from Iowa we've got you know
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um yov possibly ogren
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um oh I always have to stop and think
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who's not
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daav yes we've got them coming over um
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it just we have options and we're going
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to need to
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clear things out and actually thinking
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about past players um the flyers today
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are coming and Nick delorier will be in
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the lineup he was a healthy scratch in
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their last game but he will be in the
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lineup tonight and can I just tell you
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how much I Miss DLo he is just he's such
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a tough guy and also like such a teddy
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bear and he was just so much fun but you
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know obviously we the wild can't keep
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everybody especially with their salary
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cap issues and DLo got you know what he
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got a good deal in Philadelphia so I was
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happy for him to be able to get you know
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a a little bit higher of pay um a couple
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years on the contract instead of just a
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one year so good for him
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all right I'm just rambling um the last
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thing I did want to say is that the pwhl
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Minnesota team is doing awesome they are
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three and 0 right now they lead the
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women's league and I know that you know
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there's only what six teams but they are
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so far undefeated and that is really fun
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they played a game on I think it was
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Tuesday or Wednesday night this past
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week and they still managed to pull in
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5,000 people and I'm just going to say
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that is such a great start that's a
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weekday night you know people are oh
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women's hockey it's not going to take
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off you know what they drew in 5,000
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people plus people watching at home so I
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am really excited I'm hoping to kind of
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uh to cover more of the pwhl soon
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because I am enjoying watching it and I
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know other people are too so look for
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some of that starting soon but until
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then I just want to say that you are all
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hockey Beauties we are all Haw girls in
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this club we love hockey ramble
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ramble okay until next time I am Mickey
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and I will see
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