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HWS 23: In Which We Talk Wild Lore and PWHL Minnesota
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Jan 31, 2025
In this episode, Mikki talks about the Wild's first game against the Preds before their second game. She also touches on the PWHL Minnesota game against Montreal and her first experience with media credentials. 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 #minnesotawild #nhl #hockey #minnesota #dallasstars #pittsburghpenguins #washingtoncapitals #bostonbruins #vancouvercanucks #calgaryflames #chicagoblackhawks #newyorkrangers #wild #sanjosesharks #edmontonoilers #anaheimducks #buffalosabres #nashvillepredators #mnwild #tampabaylightning #stlouisblues #winnipegjets #detroitredwings #coloradoavalanche #newjerseydevils #carolinahurricanes #torontomapleleafs #ottawasenators #nhlhockey #vegasgoldenknights #nhl #nhlnews #hockey #nhlhockey #nhlplayoffs #nhledits #nhldiscussion #nhlmemes #nhldraft #nhlallstar #hockeylife #hockeynews #hockeymemes #nhlhighlights #icehockey #sports #hockeyislife #nhlbruins #hockeyplayers #hockeyfan #hockeyplayer #hockeyedits #stanleycup #nhlawards #hockeygame #hockeyboys #hockeygram #hockeyfights #nhltrade #nhltrades
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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 AKA hockey
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she wrot and I am coming at you with
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episode 23 and I kind of can't believe
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I've done 23 episodes I'm excited for
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any and all of you that listen or watch
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uh thank you anyway so this is the
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morning of the Predators game it's
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Thursday wild are gonna play the
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Predators tonight uh and you know what
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we're coming off of a good game against
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the
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capitals we're on a pretty good run
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right now and you know I I looked back
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at we have played the Predators one time
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this season so far and that was the
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night beat them six to one that was the
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night that der got his
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hattick so you know and actually handed
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up he had a hat trick plus an assists he
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had four points I'm ass I didn't look it
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up but I'm assuming that's probably a
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career high for derer um or matching a
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career high and I just I feel like you
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know can derer do that again wouldn't it
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be great if he went out there again and
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scored another
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hatrick I think it'd be great um gipson
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was in net for the first Predators game
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he'll also be in net tonight so flurry
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is still out but this morning at
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practice John Heinen said that flurry is
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day today and kind of made it sound like
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he could be back for
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Saturday um so we'll have to kind of
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just watch and see how that shakes out
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uh wallstead is still up here in
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Minnesota you know he's not gonna play
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they're not going to put him on the ice
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unless they have to because again flurry
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is going to be back soon but I think it
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is cool to let walstead just just have
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the experience of being up here uh I I
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don't remember where I heard this but I
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remember hearing that having wallstead
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spend time with flurry and guson um like
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in training camp and when they went to
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Sweden it was almost kind of an eye
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opener for him to see exactly how they
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uh prepare themselves and how they treat
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themselves um you know what they eat how
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much they rest all of that kind of stuff
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maybe stretching or you know he just see
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what they do it really kind of helped
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wallstead shape more of what he does as
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a young goalie now so even just having
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him sit up here on the bench I feel like
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you know because it's only what this is
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maybe the third game I think he's been
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up here U because it's only kind of a
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short amount of time I feel like it is a
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good experience for him to to be at
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that you know still at the NHL level but
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just watching and kind of seeing what
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guson is doing in the net
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um so that night the last Predators game
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we also had Marcus Felino fought uh Shen
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and then okay I tried to find apparently
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big physical scrums do not make the
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recap highlight reels because I tried to
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find this um at the end of the first
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period there were like four penalties um
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two of them were Capri off and Baldi and
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and then two of the Predators uh players
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and they were all for roughing
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and so I was trying to find like okay I
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don't remember like what was this scrum
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what was going on apparently those do
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not count as part of the Highlight Reel
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which I think is a little disappointing
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uh I did not watch though to see if
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fighting actually ends up on the
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Highlight Rael I'm assuming maybe not
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who knows but this was also the game
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where uh we had that really great Jake
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Middleton goal that backhand up over the
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goal Ender Far Side just that was kind
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of the start of midy is an offensive
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player now you know like like that
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really kind of kickstarted this nice
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little career high goals run that he is
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on and speaking of that there are quite
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a few players who are working on career
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high years again and it's kind of
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amazing that I mean this keeps happening
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and I know everyone oh the wild aren't
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good oh they suck oh they're M they're
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mid but you know what actually I feel
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like with the salary cap issues which we
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all are very aware of it's still like
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developing these players who are not
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rookies you know so I'm talking about
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like Jake Middleton I'm talking about
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Conor duer I'm talking about Brandon Jan
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you know where they just keep kind of
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getting better or even jul Ericson e you
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know he's had kind of a like every year
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or career year so it's just been nice to
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watch that and I did love Middleton did
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an interview with uh the great Kevin
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gorg and they that was the one where
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they were promoting the tarps off ticket
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package which I would love if any of you
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got one of those I would just please
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post a picture because I just think
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they're so funny and I love the idea
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that I I would love to shake the hand of
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whoever came up with that idea I feel
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like I also said that last time and I
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don't care I will say it twice because
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they deserve two
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handshakes but in the interview Uh Kevin
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gorg was like hey well Middleton I know
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you know you're on a career year and
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you're on Pace for double digit goals
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and Middleton just kind of laughed and
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he was like let's just go for number
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eight and I love that because he's not
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changing his game in a way that's bad
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you know like he's adding to his game
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but he is still doing all of the other
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things that he normally does so he's not
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like hey yeah I want double- digit goals
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let's go for it he's like you know what
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if it happens it happens I'm doing what
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I need to do and he really has been so
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much fun to watch uh when Middleton came
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and on the ice off the ice everyone
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loves
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Middleton and this kind of rolls right
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into I have started building
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building that sounds like I've just been
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doing really intense work um I started
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building an Ultimate Guide to Minnesota
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Wild
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lore and this is like I knew it was
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going to take some time but this has
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taken this is taking more time than I
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thought it would and I think it's
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because as I'm writing it I keep
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remembering things you know I went into
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it just kind of like oh yeah we've got
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um Capri off with his little teddy bear
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we've got uh you know the
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obviously Middleton you know tarps off
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we've got all that stuff but it's like I
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just keep remembering things and so I'm
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almost to the point where I'm like do I
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build a different page for every player
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and then just link them all like on a
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main page is that too
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much and I'm you know I'm only really
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deep dive into the Minnesota Wild Vibes
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so I would love to know if any of you
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know if
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other fan bases have this much lore in
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their
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team is this just a Minnesota state of
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hockey thing I mean obviously every team
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has some you know every team has some
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but
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again the wild is just it's
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extensive so I am toying with going for
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multiple pages and the only tough part
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about this is that I cannot simply work
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on the lore I have to also write all of
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the other stuff
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so but I'm trying to get it out uh we'll
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see we'll see what I can get
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done and then I most of you probably saw
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on one of my social medias that I had a
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really exciting day yesterday I know
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there are quite a few people out there
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that wonder about um writing about
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Hockey being a hockey journalist and I
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think it's funny because I don't
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necessarily I guess this is probably
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totally impostor syndrome but I do not
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really like necessarily think of myself
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that way I don't know what I think of
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myself as but I got an email saying that
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I had been you know I had credentials
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and that's the first time I that this
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has happened now to be fair I've only
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been writing about
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hockey let's see I started a year ago
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actually and then I didn't really pick
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up the pace until probably September so
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September October November December I'm
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in kind of my fifth month of like really
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hardcore
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and my editor for inside the rink was
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like well do you want to write about the
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pwl I was like yeah for sure you know
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like it's fun I really want to help
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promote this league and the team and so
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he had put in for credentials and I just
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kind of like
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surprise it was only a couple hours
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before the game and so I was just like
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so nervous I got there I got my own
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press badge and I was just kind of like
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are you
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what like again impostor syndrome
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100% everybody has it
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um but I was like shaking like as I was
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trying to you know figure out how to get
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up to the Press Box where do I sit what
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do I do I was
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shaking and I hope people did not see
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that cuz they be like what is wrong with
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this with this lady like who is she how
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did she get
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credentials but I guess I kind of
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covered it up well because there was
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another writer who was a couple seats
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down from me and it was also her first
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time but after the game she asked me
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like oh how do we get down to the press
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conference and I was like I don't know
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it's my first game and she was like oh
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really I thought you knew what you were
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doing so I put on a very confident face
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which is good for me because I feel like
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I do not have a confident face so we
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will see but yeah I got to go down into
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like the bowels of Excel Center for a
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press conference I mean it was just it
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was so cool it was a really cool
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experience and so I mean if other people
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are out there and you want to be a
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writer um hockey
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writer honestly the only thing I can
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tell you is just grab hold of
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opportunities because that is what's
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happened for me I've literally had
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opportunities dropped in my lap and I
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have grabbed on and just run with it
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um yeah and you know what that's that's
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actually good life advice for anything
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in general if you have an
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opportunity jobwise um going on a trip
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joining something a club A team do it
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you know if you actually wholeheartedly
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want to do it grab hold of it and go you
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know you can't just you can't sit and
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you know back and forth
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sometimes you just have to commit and if
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it doesn't work it doesn't work but if
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it does work it's
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amazing and I mean I have a
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whole backstory of like throughout my
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adult life these kind of opportunities
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and I'm not going to bore you with it
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right now but I mean for me it has
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spanned multiple jobs career Fields um
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yeah just grab hold of things anyway
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back to
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pwhl um I love the Vibes of a pwhl game
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because even though there are less
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people I feel like they are can be just
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as loud as a full rink for the
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Wild and I know people are going to you
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know jump on that and be like no they
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can't how can they be the same as like
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15,000 people okay obviously not but the
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excitement it just builds to where you
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would think there were more people there
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and I love that The Vibes are so um
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almost like party like between the puck
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drops you know so like commercial break
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everyone's dancing everyone's singing
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having fun cameras you know it's just
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exciting whereas I feel like sometimes
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at the Wild game yeah people have fun
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there obviously I have fun there I've
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told you about that before but it can
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feel very like intense you know very
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like intense in like an aggressive way
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was kind of how I um explained it in my
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recap that was published this morning
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and I will link my recap in the show
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notes if anyone wants to read it
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um but I don't know it feels different
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and I think it's because there are so
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many girls hockey teams that come
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together and what an amazing experience
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for them they come together with their
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friends they've all got their like
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matching jerseys on and for many of them
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it's probably the first time they youve
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seen a professional women's hockey game
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and it's such a good
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experience everyone is there because
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they really want to be there and they
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really care about women's hockey the
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attendance last night was 5,0
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And1 and again I'm sure people would
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scoff at that but you have to remember
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it was a Wednesday night like just a
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random middle of the week Wednesday
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night and for people who say that nobody
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watches women's
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sports 5 ,000
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people I I mean they can only build from
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there now
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unfortunately they did pick up their
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first regulation loss which was tough it
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was kind of a tough game to watch they
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they actually put 42 shots on goal and
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the other teams Montreal's goalie was
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just amazing like standing on our
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head they only managed to get one goal
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Montreal managed to get two so it was a
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pretty close tight
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game and um again fun to watch even with
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a
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loss so and unfortunately the other
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thing is that the loss kicked them down
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in the standings because coming in
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Minnesota was number one in the
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standings and Montreal was number two
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but now it's reversed so but again it's
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only that was the fifth game of the
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season for Minnesota there is so many
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more to go and I'm excited again just to
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see it build I do like that they are
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allowed to be a little more physical in
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the pwl than they have been in other
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leagues and other places because
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physicality is a part of hockey and I'm
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not going to get into the whole like
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fights no fights debate that's kind of a
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separate issue but just physicality
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needs to be a part of it it's hard to
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play hockey
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without you know that other physical
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element without pushing somebody off the
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puck without you know pinning them to
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the board so that you can get it I
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mean I I think it does make it more
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exciting to watch
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also so
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um I will hopefully be going as media
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for more games
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um I actually didn't
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ask because uh it was just it felt like
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one of those like don't look a gift in
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the mouth so I don't know but I guess I
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will just find
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out um and uh with that being said we're
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also working on getting a few like
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single game media passes for me for the
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Wild and I would love to see um how that
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compares to
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pwhl Media I obviously I know it's like
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more intense and there's yeah it is what
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it is um let's see there's just a few
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more things that I want to say before we
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wrap up first of all I have my own merch
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now which maybe you have seen and I'm
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really excited let me tell you I so the
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shop has actually been up for a little
16:37
while but I wanted to order some of the
16:41
stuff myself because I didn't want to be
16:43
like hey buy these shirts and then have
16:45
them be like not good quality but let me
16:47
tell you both I got a sweatshirt and I
16:49
got a t-shirt and I'll show you I'm
16:51
actually wearing the T-shirt so sorry
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for anyone who's listening to audio but
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I'm going to stand up and you're going
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to see my
16:57
shirt
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and um it says hot girl Hockey Club
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because we're all in the hot girl Hockey
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Club um and we have stuff that says that
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which I know not everyone wants to wear
17:09
that that's fine we also just have with
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my logo and her Wildside hockey podcast
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on there um the t-shirt is really nice
17:17
and soft it's long you know I always
17:20
like when it's a little bit longer the
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sweatshirt is super comfy cozy I ordered
17:24
that like two sizes bigger than I
17:26
normally would because I wanted it to be
17:27
just big you know like oversized and
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it's again so comfy and good quality so
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um there is one more thing I'm going to
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do here and again this is not a um audio
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thing so you'll have to bear with me but
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I will keep talking for anyone who's
17:45
just listening we have a new partnership
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at inside the rink with Ticket Master so
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uh if you are looking for tickets to
17:54
anything not just hockey you know this
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can be concerts or anything that's sold
17:57
through ticket MK master um I would love
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if you would use our link because we are
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trying to find ways to just help support
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18:09
our um writing and you know just the
18:12
site in general so I now have on the
18:14
screen uh a slide with a QR code and
18:19
that is a way that'll take you to with
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our like affiliate link to Ticket Master
18:24
and this is actually good for 30 days so
18:27
if you click in to this link and then
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you purchase tickets within 30
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days it will help support um our show
18:36
and um all the other shows on the inside
18:38
the rank Network so um we have a couple
18:41
of other affiliate things I I'm not
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going to throw them all at you right now
18:45
but I will link other ways to support
18:48
the show in the show notes because
18:52
um yeah we just we enjoy what we do and
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we want to uh keep doing it
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so anyway um thank you all for watching
19:03
my content I once again I'm I'm rambling
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I'm I should just I should just
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stop I'm just I'm really grateful I'm
19:12
really grateful for everybody who takes
19:16
in my content I'm just really grateful
19:19
for all the opportunities so um until
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next time hopefully the Predators game
19:24
goes well tonight pwhl plays back Tob
19:27
backs on Friday Saturday on the east
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coast and the wild also plays Saturday
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so there are plenty of games coming up
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I'm going to have to make like two more
19:37
episodes for all of those games so um
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until then you are all beauties and
19:45
everyone is a part of the hot girl
19:47
Hockey Club see you next time
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