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In Which Fleury Takes 2nd Place All Time Goaltender Wins
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Jan 31, 2025
In this episode, Mikki talks about the turn-around game against the New York Islanders and Fleury's big night. She also touches on the Wild being the Short Kings of the league and two specific player haircuts. Foligno Lifting Zuccarello (https://x.com/shawzybae/status/1747072793588400629?s=43&t=2G-IY9G5WJ5R3WPEd8WZOQ) Social Media: Twitter (https://twitter.com/hockeyshewrote) Instagram (https://instagram.com/hockeyshewrote) Facebook (https://facebook.com/hockeyshewrote)
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hello welcome to her Wildside hockey
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podcast I am your Hostess Mickey and uh
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here we are we are let's see halfway
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through the season is halfway is um and
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last night the wild seem to have turned
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another Corner which we're kind of going
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into what I would say is the fourth
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iteration of this
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team so you know we never know kind of
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which team is going to show up to a game
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and I was actually at the Islanders game
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last night and it was such a fun one to
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be a part
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of but so th this team started off the
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season
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terrible they fired Evon brought in
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Hines the team was
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wonderful then people started getting
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injured they tried to hold it together
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and it you know just it was downhill
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again but then last night Alla sudden
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we've got this team that looks a lot
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more like the first or the they first
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did when Hines came in so is this uh
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team that's here to
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stay could be I'm hoping so and I know
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that there was a press conference with
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um Billy G before the game last night
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where he was talking about he still sees
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them as a playoff team if they work
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really hard they can get there and you
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guys know me I'm rose-colored glasses so
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I am absolutely of that train of thought
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if they can look like they did last
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night here on out they have a chance a
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chance um and who knows why they played
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so well last night because um as far as
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I know the island aren't terrible you
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know but they completely shut them
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out so talking a little bit more about
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just the Islanders game coming in the
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wild are at Rock Bottom like just
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absolute Rock Bottom they are coming
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back from the game against Arizona on
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Saturday which I I'm not even gonna get
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into that game except to say that they
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were booed off the ice they were
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completely shut out they were booed off
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the ice um I mean congrats to Nick bues
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in Stead for his hattick that was uh
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nice for him he's a Minnesota boy so I'm
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still going to support him um and what
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was weird is that that game we actually
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had Carill and guson
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back so maybe the key is that Jonas
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Brodin was back last night obviously we
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all know what a big part he is on the
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blue line uh the other difference that
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we had in the lineup was that they took
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out Merill and gagoski and they had hunt
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in
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uh hunt and mermis were the third
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pairing second pairing was bagoan and
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Brodin first pairing uh Middleton Faber
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and honestly that seemed to work really
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well and I hope they really uh keep up
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with that because it's it works and I'm
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hoping it keeps working um I know Hunt
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is Young I know he doesn't have a ton of
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experience but I think he does at least
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as good as Merill or gagoski can
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do um I will see that brodine coming
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back his hair was Flawless and I don't
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understand how you know I think at one
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point he did an interview and they were
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like oh everyone talks about your hair
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how does it you know how do you do your
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hair and he was basically like um I wash
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it but um anyway he was looking flawless
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which might have helped so like I said I
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was at the game last night and I brought
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my best friend Amanda with me I have
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brought her to probably five games over
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the past couple of season Seasons
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whenever I you know needed to have
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someone come with me CU my brother
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couldn't except somehow until last night
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every single game that I took her
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to was against the Avalanche and I don't
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know how or why that ended up but last
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night she finally saw the Wild play
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someone who was not the Avalanche we've
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even we've been to preseason games we've
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been to season games we've been always
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the Avalanche until last night so she
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jokingly was like I almost said no cuz
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it's not the Avalanche but she did come
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with me and as we were getting to the
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end of the
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game and it was obvious that flurry was
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going to win at least and then you know
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I didn't want to talk about a shut out
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because you never know
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but I was trying to uh tell Amanda how
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special flurry is and how he's just the
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last kind of goalie of his kind and you
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know I I mean she got it but at the same
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time it's like unless you really watch
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or pay attention to hockey I don't think
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you can express how amazing flurry
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actually
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is um let's come back to him though
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first I'm going to talk about so two
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minutes or it's like a minute into the
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game the Islanders take a penalty um one
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of the Islanders slashed flurry uh after
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the whistle blue flurry was uh he was
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not having it he immediately face washed
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this guy with his glove and of course
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everyone else swarmed him
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to guy goes to the Box uh like a minute
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or so into the power play Zuki scores
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now we are already doing better than you
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know Saturday or Friday or you know any
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of the last five games six games they've
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played this is a great start so I know
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myself I was letting myself get hopeful
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I was hopeful that if nothing else they
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were in the game I could count on them
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to be in the
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game and then you know we uh first
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period ends we're up one Zer that's
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great second period now we've got doer
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scores X scores on a power play goal
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we're up three Z after the second period
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and again I was cautiously
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optimistic now I'm always optimistic but
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but I was trying to be cautious because
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in hockey the thing that I like so much
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about hockey one thing I guess is just
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how fastpaced it is and how a game can
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change in 10
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seconds you can go from winning to being
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tied to two in like 15 seconds you know
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it just things can turn on a
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dime but get to the third period um and
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EK gets a short-handed goal which I
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think I read was the first of his career
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and then moose scores and Tada they win
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5- z um all 18 skaters on the ice for
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the wild had a shot on net last
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night and getting to the
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end you know there was just this
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palpable excitement because you know
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that all of the wild fans in
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attendance know what this game was going
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to be they we all knew that this win was
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going to mean something when we got to
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the end and after getting booed off of
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the ice on Saturday I can only imagine
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how it felt for flower as everyone was
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chanting flurry flurry
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flurry and it was amazing and to have
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this G the 552 games that he has won in
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the National Hockey League and putting
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him above Patrick W he is now solely the
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second number
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two and to do it with a
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shutout I mean it just amazing it's
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amazing now one thing I do want to point
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out for this game is our special teams
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have been
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terrible that that's been kind of part
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of what's been going on the last couple
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of games
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terrible this game against the Islanders
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last night 100% PK
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and a 40% power play they scored on two
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of the five power plays they had and had
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a short-handed
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goal you know who knows again if this is
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something that will keep up but I like
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it I like what I'm seeing you know so
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let's oh and then um I did have to point
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out that as always at the end of the
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game when they're coming off the ice and
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Zuki is always last and Felino you know
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like picks him up this time
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I he picked him up so high that you know
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Zuki was just about flung up in the air
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and I'm going to post a link to that
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video on Twitter because I've never seen
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him lift zugell this
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high and maybe I just you know don't
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always pay attention but this one was
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like
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extraordinarily
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high but
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flurry
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he it's hard to explain to someone who
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is not super into hockey why this is
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such a big deal and why he is the last
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he's going to be the last goalie to ever
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reach a th games it just it is not
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mathematically feasible for any other
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goalie to do that there are no goalies
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who play that much
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anymore it's moving into where it's
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mostly goalie tandems and you know it
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might not be a completely 50/50 split
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but it's usually something you know 6040
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where there's only 82 games a season
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only only I say um but it just unless
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you get someone who comes in at 18 like
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flurry did and then I guess plays pretty
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much every game every season for 20
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years um then they have a chance but I'm
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just I'm G to tell you right now that's
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not going to happen again it's just not
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and the fact that he is 39 years
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old and as Zuki said in an interview
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last night he keep keeps getting younger
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and
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younger I was trying to point out to my
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friend Amanda like like look at how he's
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playing you never would guess that that
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goalie that that man is that man right
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there is 39 and you know especially
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because of the style of go tending that
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he does you know this is not um kind of
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the style more that like Gus ofon and
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and wall saidu where um they're very
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like set like their whole thing kind of
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is making sure they're in the correct
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POS position um and that works great for
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them but flurry does just the athletic
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saves he likes to do uh the flexible
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stuff windmilling the arms he likes to
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if he can put on a show and to be able
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to keep playing 20 plus
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years doing that much athleticism in the
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net again I just and I think the best
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thing is that he's just such a great
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guy there is no one that will ever have
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a bad word to say about flurry he is
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nice to everyone he meets nobody hates
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him even though he pranks
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them but no one can get mad at him and
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he even last night he was telling the
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the reporters my dream was just to play
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in the
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NHL he's been doing that but like that
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was his dream and it came true but he
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never was like like oh my dream is to
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win the Stanley Cup my dream is to do
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this my dream no he just wanted to play
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in the
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NHL and um greatest of all time someone
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on Twitter was saying he's also the
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greatest of all time for not um injuring
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his teammates on the last couple of
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games when they really hung the goalies
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out to dry so like props to him for
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that there's a story that I've heard a
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couple times now in STO um pieces about
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flurry when he was in juniors his coach
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at that time was um Pascal Vincent and
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flurry was like 16 years old and he
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pulls flurry out of the game and sits
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him on the bench I don't know why but
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what he was supposed to do while he was
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on the bench was track the shots where
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they were coming
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from so at the end of the game coach
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goes over to get the sheet there are no
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numbers on it flurry has simply written
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I'm not a statistician I'm a
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goalie
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I mean what else can you say flurry is
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just this complete character who is
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amazing although uh I mean he he thanks
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his net you know anytime the puck hits a
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net he thanks the posts but he also he
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thanks them in French and English
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because he doesn't know which language
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they
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speak I do still wish that he would have
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thought Bennington Jordan Bennington
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last
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year I think
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if that fight would have
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happened I mean I'm I I almost can't
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speak because I just you know the nicest
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guy in the league and the most hated
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goalie in the league fighting each
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other and flurry can really pull like he
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can fight he fought in juniors and then
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he broke his thumb so then he didn't do
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it anymore but I mean he can he can
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fight but again trying to explain this
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to someone who doesn't watch hockey that
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much um she could appreciate she could
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appreciate it uh but it just you know
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it's hard but anyway congratulations to
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flurry it it really is an amazing
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accomplishment like all of the records
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that he is setting this
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year
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amazing so there are a few other things
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so as I was writing my notes for today
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um I kept thinking of more things to
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write because I always think like okay
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you know about like one page of notes is
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kind of good for uh one podcast
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but you know I it just kept going
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today I will say that I have cried about
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hockey two times this
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week uh not because they were bad
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although they were but because I was
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happy I teared up for Mark Onre flurry
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but you know what during that Coyotes
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game they did the tribute video for Matt
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Dumba and on Bali they had a split
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screen of his tribute video and then the
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camera was on him watching his tribute
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video and first of all this tribute
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video was longer than any that I've ever
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seen and it makes sense because Dumbo
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was such a huge part of this team and he
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actually is still a big part of the
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community but watching him watch it just
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wrecked me
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in a way that I cannot
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express I I think he'll be back on the
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wild
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someday obviously the wild do not have
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the salary for him right now but you
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can't tell me that a couple years down
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the line they won't be able to sign him
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and bring him
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back um let's see what else do I have
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here okay so last night after flurry you
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know passes the record goes second place
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they take this team photo in the locker
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room I'm sure you've seen it it's on
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social media all over and now I'll say
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some of the team photos they
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take are
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just everybody is doing something
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goofy like the plane the plane to Sweden
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that picture I dissected that picture
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I'm pretty sure I dissected it in an
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article and also on the podcast there
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was just a lot to say this one's not as
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bad um so first of all Joel Ericson e
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like bless him he is my favorite he's
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just hands down my favorite but he still
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does not know how to take a picture I
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mean he's standing on the side towards
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the back and he's literally just like
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the standing man emoji you know
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and bless
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him um poor Vinnie lary is in the front
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he's got his boot I don't know when he's
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going to come back I I feel so bad that
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he got injured because he was doing such
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a nice job up here but then you've got
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Carl Capri off and Freddy gdo are like
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kneeling down and they're just like
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buddy buddy arms run each other huge
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Smiles but Matt ell must have been
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feeling a little left out because he's
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right behind them and he's put his arm
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kind of around Carill maybe just like
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kind of like a yeah you can have other
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friends but like I'm your bestie so you
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just remember
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that and then probably the the first
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thing that most people notice in this
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picture because it's one of those um one
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of these things is not like the other
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one of these things just isn't the same
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Middleton is practically
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naked not quite but I mean everyone else
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is wearing clothes like like long pants
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maybe a t-shirt um a couple of like the
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guys who were scratched and the injured
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guys have suits on and then there's
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Middleton wearing
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socks and a pair of under wear and like
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thank God they got him to put a pair of
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underwear on for the for the picture but
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it just makes me laugh he is just like
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he is wearing so much less clothes than
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everybody else which kind of goes back
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into they also posted I love when they
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post the line reads so flurry did the
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line read last night before the game and
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once again Middleton is the most naked
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you can't see much of him you can just
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kind of see like his shoulders but like
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everybody else is wearing a
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shirt it just makes me laugh it's
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just it's a running gag you know and
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during the line read uh there's Marco
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like is not shouting along with everyone
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else I mean like you know he's in it but
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everyone's going hey hey hey and Marco
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like does not move his mouth which seems
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very like him honestly fa of course is
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so happy big smile on his face just
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happy to be there and then um flower
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obviously is the one doing the line raid
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and his accent is just topnotch just I I
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love it and my favorite is at the end he
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says I go he's gonna be in the
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goal let's see ringside rally um I
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didn't really talk to you guys about
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this I posted a little bit about it but
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I don't think I really talked that much
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about
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it now I'm wondering if I did or
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not nope um the ringside rally was
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really fun watching them practice and
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having so much fun uh getting autographs
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the wild do a really nice job of taking
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care of their season ticket members I
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will say that I know it's
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expensive um and full disclosure I do
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not pay for tickets my brother is the
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season ticket member but as he travels
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he uh gives a lot of the tickets to me
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and even some of like the other events
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like the ringside rally but they do such
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a good job
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they had all sorts of things for kids
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they had game set up they had like a 360
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camera they had face painting and photo
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booths and I mean they do such a great
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job and I think they do that because
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it's the state of hockey and fans will
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turn out you know they fill the rink
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every night and they know that they even
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though they'll have fans all the time
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they need to treat fans the right way
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also and I I really I appreciate that I
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feel like it's just a really good
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organization in
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general um now my
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miscellaneous category future
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considerations in a bag of pucks as I
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call
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it um one of my friends on Twitter was
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talking about how there must have been a
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group on for shutouts for goalies last
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night because I think there were four
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different games that were shutouts and
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that I
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just okay like okay goalies were on
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their games maybe maybe all the goalies
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heard about flurry getting his record
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and they were just like so inspired that
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they decided they too were going to get
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a shut out in honor in honor of
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flurry we've got Connor Bard Connor Bard
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who is skating again one week after jaw
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surgery I'm pretty sure they're going to
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have to like leash him to Nick
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Felino because they cannot stop him from
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getting on the ice and in a way I gotta
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say I feel kind of bad because that's
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been his entire life like he does not
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know
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different I don't think he has Hobbies I
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don't think he has much of anything
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outside of hockey so um Nick Felino I
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need you to help him find a hobby uh
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Legos are good Brandon doam got really
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into Legos perhaps Connor Bard could
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also the Minnesota Wilds are tied with
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the Seattle Kraken for the most players
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under 6 feet
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tall both the Kraken and the wild have
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nine players on the roster who are under
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6 feet tall making them the shortest
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teams in the league that is not a
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surprise at all for wild fans um so just
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so you know those the nine that they're
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counting are Zuki patan Rossi Carill
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derer Spurgeon ler rasa and
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gagoski all under six feet tall you know
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what though we have the team of short
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Kings they get it
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done uh let's see the All-Star games
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were announcing the rest of the allstars
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that were voted in and apparently the
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last handful of them needed to be from a
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team where they wear blue jerseys
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because somehow both the Leafs and the
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Canucks have like half of their teams
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going to the All-Star
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games I don't know it's only Capri off
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for the Wild and not that I think anyone
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else wants to go because because once
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again it's in
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Toronto but it just seems a little sus
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seems a little sus um uh everybody
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noticed last night that Connor derer has
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a new haircut
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although there was no like walking in
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picture of him so I don't know what it
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looks like styled you know we only know
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what it looks like when he's sweaty in
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between periods of a hockey game but it
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appears that he has shaved the
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sides and I cannot make a judgment call
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on it because
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we I need to wait and see when it's
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styled somebody suggested that perhaps
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do him gave him the
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haircut which would make sense because I
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could see Duan being like man I've got a
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great idea for your hair just let me do
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it it's going to be
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great and do would probably be like um
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okay talking about hair uh ek's hair is
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finally getting to that stage where it
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is getting curly again and there are
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many people on social media who are
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begging him to not cut his
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hair his curls are so cute but every
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time it gets to this point he shaves his
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head um so eer I need you to keep the
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hair for a little while
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okay the Philadelphia Flyers have that
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dog mask that they put on the player of
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the game except every time someone wears
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the dog mask it's like they get sick
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right after that so I don't know if
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everyone's coughing inside of it I mean
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I know they're barking in The Mask so
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like perhaps all the saliva coming out
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they're just it's just like trapping uh
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viruses inside of the Mask but I feel
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like from now on people need to make
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sure that the player of the game gets
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like a hat and not a mask because so far
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that seems like it has not worked super
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well on the illness
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front and that's about it I I jumped
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around so much in my notes that I'm I'm
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like looking through trying to be like
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did I get everything but I I'm pretty
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sure I did so to sum up today's
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podcast the
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wild might be
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back uh we don't know but either way
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flurry is back and we can all agree that
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it's just really fun to celebrate
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him so until next time
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you are all beauties you are all part of
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the hot girls hockey club and I will see
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