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3:01Wait, shoot one in front, and the Horde sounds. The Minnesota Wild get back in the wind column of 5-1 victory over Tampa Bay. Lightning had dropped three in a row in regulation. Customs in the wind, Caprice off the franchise record for career goals of the process, and a much needed win for the wild to wrap up this quick little two game homestand. Welcome back, final hour, 9 to noon, Nordow in for PA. He'll be back tomorrow, normally when we would have the TV voice of the wild in, as in Anthony LePante had Anthony LePante of VX and you can watch him on TV. We play audio of the TV voice of the Minnesota Wild. We didn't have any from last night, Mr. LePante. What happened? Well, I was given an involuntary night off of the national TV guys took the game and so that meant I was just sitting, I don't know, maybe 30 feet from the guys calling it on the radio, watching the game from the booth and I hate having nights off, but everyone's

4:05some wild. I mean, there's worse ways to spend a night off than just sitting at the arena watching the game and it's exciting. It's funny yet. We very rarely watch a game with just the sounds of an arena because I'm either calling the game where I've got my own voice in my head or I'm watching a game on television where I've got somebody else's voice. It's very rare that I'm just sitting in an arena and all I hear is the crowd and the skates and the whistles and things like that. So every once in a while it does, like this is how people watch games, that is what it sounds like an arena at a game. How differently do you see the game? I mean, you think because you're trying to process so much, you're telling the story at a high level like you do on television, but then when you do have to gear completely down, you ever find yourself just calling the game from your, I do absolutely. Get yourself talking. I had somebody ask me that question on social media last night and said, are you able to just enjoy the game or do you call the game in your head? And I responded with both. I enjoy the game, but there are a lot of moments where I just catch myself as the puck goes

5:09in the corner, the names and the jerseys are running through my mind just subconsciously and that's just the way I watch games. And it's different because it's a, in this case, Tampa team we haven't seen yet this year. So I hadn't done any prep for Tampa because I knew I wasn't doing the game. So there were a couple guys that was like, whoa, I'm not even sure who 22 for them is. The guys who have been there for a while, they're just, they're right off the tip of your tongue. So there's a little bit of difference, but I do find myself just, you watch it the same way because it's the way you watch games so often and the little tidbits that pop into your mind that, oh, yeah, the bouldie just did that. It seems to me he's done this and I find myself looking like I would during a broadcast. Is that five games in a row within assist? Is that whatever the little note might be? Yeah. Yeah, I don't think you ever get out of that when you're a play by play guy. That's just the way you watch the game. No, I suppose, I suppose that's, I mean, again, the rhythm and routine you got to have

6:10calling these games just even for one night. It's like, yeah, I mean, it wasn't a little itchy. I was talking to some buddies of mine over the break and they were asking me about the days when I used to coach high school football. I said, I watch football games that way still to this day. I was a defensive backs coach. So I did a lot of our film study on opposing offenses and that's how I watch every time a team breaks a huddle. I'm calling out the formation in my mind to the terminology we used to use at Tatino Grace. Like this is what we called tray X F strong and well, okay, they're tray X F strong. Okay, the X motion, what I like it, you just your brain just goes that way. And it's the same for play by play where you. You just, I don't know that it'll be that I'll ever just watch a game and not be thinking in my mind. Like, oh, it was a line change. Oh, that guy's on the wing this time. He had a different guy in the wing last time and or just, oh, they killed the penalty. I think it seems like they've killed five in a row or some and you just immediately start to think the way you would if you're calling the game.

7:12Good one to sit for last night though. How about that? The five one throttling and, you know, how weird matchups can be the wild. I mean, lightning got kutcher off and Vasilevsky, they're hoisting cups. The whole thing while kind of got the lightning's number over the last handful of years. They do. It's been really for, I don't know, a decade, maybe. And we've talked about it a lot when we make the swing through Florida because now recently Florida's had success. But for most of about a eight to 10 year period, Tampa was the better team. And yet the wild would always seem to play better in Tampa than they did in South Florida. And it didn't matter which team they played first. They'd go down to South Florida and they'd wind up in an eight to six game against the Panthers. They'd go up two nights later against a cup contender in Tampa and they'd tighten things up and beat the lightning. And I thought last night's game was I really thought they kind of got back to their game in the St. Louis game, even though they lost the game and they didn't really do much offensively. The first two games out of the break, they were not played in the way the wild want to play.

8:15They won in Denver, but they gave up 47 shots. They run over in Utah and gave up 37. That's not the way the wild are going to win if they're going to win in the postseason. These last two have looked a lot more like wild hockey and I don't know. I think last night it was 25 shots. Maybe I think St. Louis only had 24 and it was 25, 22 and shots last night and that's kind of more than I think the St. Louis game might have been 24, 23. So it was it was more the style of game the wild want to play. And we're playing when they were at their best when they had that run through December where they were playing as well as anybody in the NHL. They weren't winning games six to five. The occasion where they scored their way out of trouble, but most nights it was, they were winning three to one, three to two and I know the game against St. Louis the other night. In fact, it was the first time the wild had lost in regulation when allowing three goals or less all year. They were the only team in the NHL that hadn't lost a game in regulation that way. That's their recipe. They know if they hold teams to three, they're going to be in the game.

9:17And they've especially since the Hughes edition, they've found some ways to win games in other fashions like the last game one into the break in Nashville where they won six five. But that's not you're not going to beat Dallas and Colorado in a best of seven, try to win game six to five. Seeing Brodeen back healthy and just what that looked like last night. I mean, we know what favor and hues can do. But when you start deepening out the rest of the blue line, I mean, that is going to lend to the credence to the idea of we can absolutely keep teams. We can keep the kutraves of the world. I know we got a goal last night, but all the same very minimal opportunities. We can keep teams. We can keep our boot on them a little bit with the depth and the health, thankfully, on the blue line. Well, when Minnesota's healthy, they're to me, I'd take their top six, even say top seven defenseman over any in the league, a set of Hughes and Faber that they can defend. They can also create offense and then you've got Spurgeon and Brodeen when they're just allowed to play together. There aren't very many that shut people down like those two guys do.

10:21Last year when they played together, they were the stingiest defensive tandem in the NHL. And they weren't allowed to play together at length, just because of the way the rest of the decors shook out, but now with the addition of Quinn Hughes, you can put those two guys together and they'll shut anybody down. And then when you've got a third set that's got Jake Middleton and Zach Bogosian, you've got something. And Middleton has played in the top four most of his time with Minnesota. You throw him down as your number five guy. There aren't many teams that have got a number five that can compete with that. Bogosian brings a sturdiness and a more skating than what people give him credit for at this point in his career. And then Damon Hunt as a number seven who has proven to be a valuable asset to this club. I don't think there's another team in the league that's got a seven one through seven that compares with those and they bring a little bit different dynamic now because the Hughes and favor tandem, Hughes and favor tandem.

11:22They're not just making plays offensively and I know they can and they are favor scored again last night. He's in the top. I think he's in the top seven in the NHL in terms of goals by defenseman, Hughes in the top four points by defenseman. But as we saw in the Olympics, Brock Faber's still the man when you need to shut somebody down. He was the guy in the five on three power play for Canada. He was the one defenseman on the ice when it was time to go up against the best. It was he and Jacob Slaven that were out there to try to shut people down. He still has that in him. And then as I mentioned, Spurgeon and Brodyne with their skating and their ability to close on people, they're just there's not a better defensive shutdown pair than those two guys. So I really love the way their blue line is set up right now. Maybe Heinzi's PK success in the Olympics can rub off on our favorite hockey team, huh? Well, maybe we talked about this a little bit yesterday on a podcast with one of your favorite beatwriters in town. And the question was asked that you've got the guy coaching the penalty kill in the Olympics

12:24was the same guy who's coaching here. It's not an exes and all this thing. It's not a system. It's not a structure. US penalty kill when 18 for 18 against the best players in the world, including that key five on three kill against Canada. And you've got some of the same people. Matt Boldy's a big part of the penalty kill here. Brock favors a big part of the penalty kill. I think Minnesota early in the year struggled with some of the details in it. And because of that statistically, they're probably never going to get back to where they'd like to be over the course of the season. But right now that kill's been really good over the last nine games. I think it's 87% right now. And if they're going to go anywhere in the playoffs, the kill has to be has to be at that level. It's got to be elite because it's been their undoing in the playoffs the last couple of years. Last year against Vegas, it was fine. But the years before that against both Dallas and St. Louis, it was the penalty kill that was their undoing in those series.

13:25They can't win in the postseason without a kill that's somewhere in the 82 84% range. And lately it has been, I think, they've got the personnel part figured out now. And I think it's a kill that should be evaluated maybe on the second half of the season rather than the overall numbers just because they were so bad for a stretch early and we're getting saves early that has just put him in a spot where it's it's never, they're not going to end up in the top 10 in terms of penalty kill, but it might be a top 10 penalty kill when the playoffs start. And you know, Bill Garen getting and not heat, but I think he was criticized when he was building that roster for the Olympics and bringing it back to our favorite team, whether it's Robbie Fabry, being added to the mix and now Michael McCarran and I just kind of seen as that news was was released yesterday. Some people are kind of scratching their heads like, I can't what, huh, that wasn't the predator. I wanted. With Stamcoast, et cetera, but you know, when it comes to whether, you know, McCarran

14:26and his face off ability, you saw just a little smidgen from Fabry last night, a few shifts, but what nine, 10 minutes on the ice, maybe, but just kind of seen a little spunk from him. You can kind of see similarly the roles that these guys might play in a series in the postseason, potentially. Yeah. And Fabry was a no risk deal cost him nothing. Let's take a shot at a guy who has proven himself to be able to score in the NHL a little more than the guys like Tyler Pitlick, Ben Jones, who had been filling that role for Minnesota. He's got over a hundred goals in the NHL, I get five seasons where he was double figures. And I mean, he's not going to be an impact top six guy at this point in his career. But he's a guy who's at least proven he can score in the NHL. McCarran is a little bit more of a personality guy and I don't know a ton about him personally. I don't even remember that I've talked to him, but I watched the end of Burnett's press conference in Nashville after their game last night, talking about the McCarran trade.

15:27And you can just tell how disappointed he was to lose McCarran as a guy as a person and as a part of that team and certainly a team that's in their spot where they've been pushing to try to get back into the playoff picture. And now all of a sudden their management decides it's time to move some parts. There's going to be some sadness and disappointment. Bruno has passed. He was passed. And you can tell, but you could also tell with McCarran that it was a, this is a guy who brings a lot more than what the numbers say he brings and we're sad to see him go. I could be the, the sign of maybe some other deals where that there might be another deal in place where it's a player that now McCarran takes that spot. Like as Felino's out of the lineup, so it could even just be a short term. Hey, we absolutely need another guy who can bring some physical, some physicalness to the game. His face officer have been very good over the last four seasons. I think he's about 54% he's a right shot face off guy, which has been something Minnesota

16:30has been lacking. So there's a lot of reasons why he might be able to help fill a role no matter what happens with another move. I still really would be surprised if there's not another somewhat more significant deal in the wilds future here before the deadline. I'm Friday. Yeah, the thing that struck me and I, I have too much NFL on the mind sometimes, especially with free agency around the corner, but you hear that he's dealt. I think it was like a second round pick was going to be a free agent this summer. And that just like instantly thinking, wow, that's a lot to give up for a guy that's almost kind of a rental at this stage. But, you know, whether it was the things that I've read on them and the reporting done by your favorite beat reporter for the Minnesota wild and he's America's favorite blogger as Kevin Faulness would say, I would never say that about Mr. Russo, but, but there is that that glue and the other elements, the physical nature of the game, thank goodness for the face offs like you kind of got to read through it a little bit to learn more about the guy, but you kind of understand maybe that again, that role that he could play on this

17:33team. Well, I think that's true, but I also think it's a second round pick is a, especially if you're going to be picking toward the end of the second round, no, I know this was the second round, pick a couple of years out because the wild have already traded the next few. But you're talking about something that might be four years down the road, five years down the road before that player makes an impact in the NHL. And right now, this is a team that I believe has, it's not just a this year window. So McCarran, he's a this year guy because he is a free agent, but I think you're looking at a, at a team and a roster that's built for about a three or four year stretch here where they expect to be one of the teams to beat in the Western conference. And you look at the core that's locked up and Capri Sov in favor are here for the long term, but Eric Sinek, Gustafson Boldy, you're talking about three, four years with all of those guys in place. Hopefully there's an extension for Quinn sometime this summer and he becomes a part of that.

18:36Because now with that core, this isn't just a, let's, we got to push all in to try to win right now this spring. This is a, let's make sure that with the assets we have to trade that were smart about them that were prudent with them because the assets are limited. They gave up a lot to get Quinn Hughes. So everybody has been well documented what they have left that they can use as a trade chip. That trade chip to me or those trade chips really will likely and should be used on somebody that could be here for all three or three or four of these years where this windows open. The NHL's a fickle thing in the playoffs because as I've said this a lot of times over the last few years that I think when you start to look at what Bill Garen's plan was going back to the buyouts of Praesian suitor. It was, it was designed to this season be ready to compete. And when you say ready to compete, it isn't defined by whether or not you win in the first round of the playoffs. They're going to face one of the best five teams in the NHL in the first round of the playoffs,

19:37whether it be Colorado or Dallas. It's almost assured that that's what's going to happen. You could lose that playoff series and it doesn't mean the plan failed. The plan was intended was to give you three or four years where when teams look at the West and they say, who are the three or four teams that are the teams to beat in the West and are the wild one of them? Because then you've got to get great goal tending. You've got to stay healthy. You got to catch a couple breaks. Maybe the key call here or there throughout that run has to go your way. You could be the best team in the league. And if one of those things doesn't happen, you still get knocked out. But over the course of three or four years, there's got to be a couple of years where those things fall your way and you see a team that makes a run in the West. And I think that's what you're looking at with this wild roster right now. Well, and with this roster and with the trade deadline two days from today, you mentioned it. You wonder if maybe this isn't there might be a more significant move between now and the deadline. Vinny, Vinny Trochak, of course, has been heavily reported on and talked about and

20:41just people are almost surprised he's not here yet. How, how surprising would it be given what you mentioned, that window? Is there any chance it doesn't happen? Well, yeah, there's a chance for sure there's a chance it doesn't happen. And I think when you start to look at this goes back to what I was just talking about with the three or four year window, maybe the fit the best deal for this spring isn't that top six first line center, big splash deal, just because of what the price tag might be. Maybe that's this summer. And that's when you really use these assets you have left and everybody knows the assets you're talking about. We've got yes per fallstead, you've got the nilly year off, you've got a first round pick in 2027. And I hate to even throw those guys names out because I have no idea who's been mentioned in what trade. But these are from an outside perspective, it seems obvious. These are the significant chips and I should throw a Charlie Stramel in there as well, who's had an outstanding year at Michigan State.

21:41If these are your four main assets, if you maybe use one of those to add a piece for this year that helps you this year and they're close. I mean, they're in the top five in the NHL right now this we're not talking about a team that has no chance. They're in the hunt right now. But if the price tag on a guy that isn't somebody who you see helping you for all three or four years is multiple parts of these multiple pieces of these assets. It's probably not worth it. Maybe the bigger pieces available this summer and you say, all right, let's make the let's make the deal for a middle six center right now that might be enough to make us a legit contender in the West and therefore to win the cup this year. So it wouldn't shock me if there wasn't a major deal like one of the guys you threw out there earlier from Nashville. But I thought Billy Garen to give a press conference the other day. I don't know if you guys carried it or listened to it. But it was I thought his last answer was the most interesting.

22:44There are so many teams right now that are on the bubble in both conferences. He was asked that as the standings change by day and all of a sudden the team wins two in a row and they're a point out of the playoffs and then they lose two in a row and they're outside. You got into the point where you've targeted a player, maybe even had the framework of a deal in place and then all of a sudden that team standing is changed and he said, yes, that's happened. So imagine how many potential deals might be out there with teams where it's okay. If you guys are to lose three in a row, this guy's on the table, what would it look like? Imagine how many contingent deals to say deals makes it sound like they might be further down the road than that, but contingent potential deals. If things don't go well for you, what would it take to get this guy? And then sometimes when you have to have a second trade in place because let's say it's a deal that's a major deal and you're trading one of your goal tenders. Do you have a second deal in place to bring a goal tender back and all of those potential

23:48deals that balls that you have to keep in the air until that last minute when all of the sudden the team says, all right, we know we're out, we're ready to deal. And now bang, bang, bang, you got to have these other things in place. It's such a complex trade deadline that I think because of so many teams still being in it, we're going to see a flurry of activity Thursday and Friday. We're like last year, a lot of the deals were made a week and a half in advance of the deadline. Teams were a little more secure in their spot. This year there's so many that are still wondering, are we good enough? Are we close enough? And even if we did get in, is it worth it? I think that you're going to see a significant number of deals late and it wouldn't shock me at all if Minnesota was highly involved. And it wouldn't surprise me too much if it was a, I don't want to say lesser deal because that makes it sound like the player they bring in is a lesser commodity or lesser player. But just not the big splash kind of trade that I think some people just assumed was going

24:49to happen. A great example of that too and you nailed it perfectly. Just think about McCarran, Nashville comes out of the break. They win that first one. They lose the next three. Right. There are only five points out of a playoff spot. Now that five points is a lot. I get, I get that in hockey terms and with the three point game and such, but they just basically rage quit. Right. Right. You know, we're out. We're done. Right. And that's what, that's I think what goes back to what we're talking about with Andrew Burnett's reaction. They had been pushing hard just into the break. They were playing better hockey and all this, they're within two points of a playoff spot. And there were all these guys that if they were out, is this guy available? Is this guy available? Is this guy available? And now in a span of two days, they lose a couple in a row and bang yourself over. You're five out and there's three or four teams between you and that final spot. So it's, it is amazing how fast things can change. And I think it's a, it's a, it's a fascinating time. It could be, would be a fascinating time to be a fly in a wall in a GM's office and,

25:51and be able to listen to all those potential conversations that this team just got beat. Now all of a sudden, who's a Columbus the other night, blew a four goal lead. What if they lose that game? They ended up winning it over time if they lose, they're probably in a spot where even though right now they're holding a playoff spot, would they, if they, if they get beaten that game and all of a sudden are five points out instead of two points out and it's amazing how fast things can change. Man, you see the capitals lose a third or a fourth in a row and you just, you're, you're a, you're a, might you say disenfranchised general manager sitting in a suite, the, the final horn sounded players have just gotten back to the dressing room, see that phone star ringing. Right. And then you start to think about it like if you're Nashville, let's say you get in and it's a first round date with Colorado. Yeah. It's a part of you and you hate to be a defeatist because anything can happen at hockey, but you'd be, is it really worth it? Right.

26:51Right. Is it or would be be better from the owner like some games they do for sure, and that's not a small thing. No. I mean, you're talking millions of dollars if you open the gates a couple times for home games, but at the same time, if you don't take advantage of some expiring contracts with a chance to rebuild your system, yeah. Are you selling yourself short for the next six, eight, ten years? Exactly. So that you have to take advantage of those opportunities when they're there to replenish your farm system. Let's do this. Let's pause. I got a few more wild and NHL related questions for you. It's Anthony LaPanta, your TV voice of the Minnesota wild at an off day, but he's back at it. A little vocal maintenance for for the Vox is he heads to Vegas this weekend, a big one with Colorado, some fun games around the corner, but we're also watching state high school hockey tournament. Hibbing in Dodge County getting after it, and it's scoreless, it was seven and changed left in the first period at Grand Casino Arena, a hockey heavy nine to noon right here.

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32:31for his period for and change remaining top seeded Hibbing Chisholm, scoreless with Dodge County at Grand Casino Arena, how much do you dial into the high school tournament on yearly basis? To call it, of course, he used to broadcast for it, but now just kind of chill and enjoy the weekend. Yeah, a little bit. It's weird. In fact, I had the thought as I was walking out of the arena last night, because because I wasn't new in the game last night, I went and sat in the broadcast booth and it was set up for the 45 broadcast today and it just, it made me think about all the years that I spent on there. And it was 15 years in a row. I called the tournament either on radio or TV or both. And it was, but now it's been, I believe it's been 21 years. I think 2004 was the last turn. I might have called a couple of games here there for KFN over the years when they would do the final or something. Yeah. So maybe a couple of games in the last few years, but we did high school hockey night on fire. And then I placed you with halving.

33:32That's what we did. Oh, man, that is a, that's a painful thought to think about. Yeah. We love that. Yeah. And you're going to get four, you're going to get four games of them tomorrow right here. Whether it's the fan or it's the plus, they should say as well. But I love high school hockey, and I still follow it. I call the games whenever I can on hockey day. It was even just a couple of years ago. We tried to bring back high school hockey night on, on fan dual sports in that work. And I did maybe eight or 10 of those games and, and I told them when they were thinking about the project and I said, look, any game or the wild or home and I'm off, I'm in. And I just love it. I haven't followed the class A teams quite as much this year, double A. I followed a little bit and part of it was because I was doing the, the outdoor game on for hockey day Minnesota. So I was at least a little tuned in. I'm excited to see the double A tournament this year because I think the, I think the top four teams could all legitimately win the tournament.

34:34And that's not to say any of the four are locked to win in the first round. I think the gap has shrunk a little bit this year where for a few years there, it felt like it was pretty clear. The top couple teams were the top couple. Yeah. But now I think when you look at minute talk, A Dina and more had the one, more has the two seed, but those three are the top three seeds. And I don't know as much about Rosemount as the four, but I know they beat a pretty good same time as Academy team in their final, but those top three, the games they played against each other this year were terrific. Their sectional tournaments were terrific. And you had a really high scoring team and more had, you had a Dina team that, that had to win a couple of really close ones in their sectional tournament, got a hat trick in the section final to beat. Why is that? I love the minute. The minute talking might be the deepest team in the tournament. So I think the, the double A teams, the double A feel to be great. And I usually try to stream it when we're on the road. It'll be a little tougher this weekend because we're in Vegas. So it's the games are, are because we're a couple of time zones away.

35:36It might be a little more challenging. But normally when we're in the press box somewhere, I'll have it streaming and watch it. It's, we have to be on the road by definition because they're using the, the wild Zarina for the game. So I haven't even had a chance to go down and watch him in person very often lately. So I'm, I'm left to stream him during wild broadcast quite often, but I do follow it. Yeah. I, I follow, I follow the tournament specifically. It's tough with, with everything we do on the fan to pretend that I'm just the elite high school hockey mind. But here's what I do now is that more heads got a calling on the team. Joey calling. They've got two. They have exact, yes. They do still have two. Don't think. Yeah. But, but Joey, I think he was hurt earlier in the year. Just an absolute high end of high end and, and I just, I'm thinking Matt calling. It's in the blood. So it's got to be a Spud's conversation. Well, they, they, and I know they've got, I, I looked, maybe a, we, we, we, we, we, we, a week or so ago when they were going into their section tournament, I think they might have had four 20 goal scores, maybe it was 25, I think it was 20 goal scores that they had. They're, they might be the highest scoring team in the tournament and you look through

36:39their season and it's a lot of seven to two, eight to three. I mean, they can score with the best of them. And now they'll be challenged by the teams like Edina and Tonka, but I know they, they've, they've played those teams during the season, had good games with them. And I think it's a, it was usually kind of a contrasting style with the, with the way those teams play. Usually the, the teams from the Western suburbs are a little deeper defensively, have had great goal tending and sometimes more head will come down and, and have the high end offensive talent. Going all the way back to the days when Matt was playing for more head and I, I called the tournament when Matt was there and I, I remember, I, I'll never forget his dad was coaching and they played Duluth East in the, in the tournament. That was the, the year that Dave Spear had, Patrick throughout the tourney. And I remember talking to Terry Colin after the game and he, Matt Colin wore number seven for more head and, you know, I walked down. He just said, he looked at me, he just said seven was the best player on the ice and, and

37:42I said, I know you're a dad, but man, it was hard to argue. He was just such a, I loved watching him play. He was just such a, he played from goal line to goal line and, and you could just tell he was going to be a terrific player went on to the unbelievable career that he had in college in the NHL. And it, but it was, his dad was such a proud dad, but also one of my favorite coaches. He just was a, I only see him at the tournament every year a couple times during the, they'd come down for holiday tournaments. But every year when he'd come down, he'd chat with me like we were lifelong friends and was, I just loved seeing him back in those days when he was coaching. Well, that's awesome. And this year's crop gets the chance to make their own memories. Time for a couple more here with the most thing, with Feline out. Do we know how long he's going to be out? How worried are we? Well, worried anytime that you lose a guy of, that brings what he brings. Yeah. I know he hasn't had the offensive success this year that he's had the last few and his games looked a little off. He was fighting through some injuries early in the season.

38:45This is unrelated to that from what I've heard. So I mean, you're always concerned. And you know, it's a, he's a guy that's a tough guy to replace with what he brings on and off the ice, a physical player ability to kill penalties, ability to change games with momentum type shifts. So I haven't really pushed too hard. We weren't doing the game last night as we've talked about. So I wasn't, we didn't have our broadcaster meeting with John Hyne. So I haven't really heard much. I'll probably find out more this weekend when we go to Vegas from him, but it's anytime you get a guy at this point in the season that, that comes out of the lineup for an injury you're concerned. I don't think from what it sounded like they thought it was a, something that was going to hold him out that would impact postseason. Yeah. And the wilder and a look, they've got a little bit of luxury in that, you can say whatever you want. They're going to be in the playoffs. Everybody knows they're going to be in the playoffs. There's almost no way that, that mathematically enough teams could pass them to knock

39:47them out. These games down the stretch are critical. If they have aspirations of getting home ice in the first round or even catching Colorado and winning the division, which they're still an outside shot, this weekend probably tells you whether or not that's possible. They need two wins this weekend. They do to have that even be within the realm of possibility. Last thing for you and it was actually related to your answer there, John Hines, you know, when we talk about the Olympics and experience and thing, you know, Matt Boldy's confidence sky high off of that, that otherworldly goal in the gold medal game and, you know, taking bits and pieces and growing and maturing and learning from the tournament. What is a guy like John Hines potentially learned from that experience as he eventually comes back to the bench? We can joke about the PK, but just in general, just what a guy like that might take as he moves forward leading the charge here. It's an interesting question and I think it's a, there's a couple prongs to the answer. And one is, I'll start with the players because West Walls was the one who brought it up

40:53to me the other day and I had thought about it, but not in the way he put it. When you look at this wild team that we've been talking about for a decade, that what's it going to take to get over the hump, win in the first round and advance in the playoffs? This core hasn't done it, right, I mean, there are a few guys who are a part of those series wins against Colorado and St. Louis, but not very many. Most of this core has been knocked out in the first round every time they've been there. Now all of us, and they've tried to bring in veteran guys who have won different ways to bring winning a winning culture inside that room. Now you've got guys in Hughes, Bully, Faber, who won? Wasn't a Stanley Cup, but it was a gold medal and I'm not sure there's anything closer to winning a Stanley Cup than a gold medal. So he said, that's going to bring a little swagger and confidence in there. And now I'll go back to your question. I think when you have the coach that's gone through it, it brings the same kind of

41:55swagger, but also the same kind of confidence in knowing what it takes, watching another coach, how he handles an intermission talk with teams in a gold medal game. They had to play three elimination games and two of them went to overtime. That's essentially three game sevens in a row. And you had to go to overtime and two of them. How did guys handle it? How did the other coaches handle the interaction with the players? How did they handle game time adjustments, those kind of things? And now I'll make it specific to John Hines because I think that's one of his main strengths. When he was out of a job last, he went and spent time with other coaches just to see how they did things. See if there was anything he could learn to make himself better. And there aren't a lot of coaches who do that kind of thing. He took trips out to spend a week with different teams and just guys that he knew from his time in the US development program. So he's had different experiences as a coach than most head coaches in the NHL.

42:59He's had, he's not the most experienced head coach in the league, but in terms of overall coaching experience, he's got to be right up there. And I just think he's a cerebral guy with that where it's a no stone unturned kind of look. And now he's been and Bill Garen, same thing. He's around all the other general managers in all these meetings, building your roster. They both take things from these other guys and John Hines is a sponge when it comes to that stuff. And so I really think it's a, it might not be something you can quantify, but it's very real. I think it's going to help this club in so many ways to have been a part of that from GM to coach to players. There aren't many other teams that had guys at every level that were a part of that gold medal that right now are looking at heading down into the Stanley Cup playoffs as contenders with guys that just experienced what they did. That's awesome. Thank you for hanging out with me today anytime and excited to see you back on TV and

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48:09Of course, Johnny Krasinski, Wild Coach John Hines, but during this, this most recent stretch, Wild TV Vox, Anthony Lapanta in studio. This is always for providing some content and some fun conversations. Nine to noon. PA is going to be back tomorrow. And heavy talkers there, Ben Lieber, expecting him in studio, Olivia King. We're going to break down now the high school hockey tournament. I got a text from Jim and Golden Valley. It'd be nice if you would give a warning before you give the hockey score. Some of us recorded and we'll watch it when we get home from work, maybe just a five second spoiler alert, and then he said he was changing the station. So I'm sorry to Jim and Golden Valley. I can tell you we're watching it's in the first intermission, Hibbing Chism in Dodge County. I guess I'll just tell you that it's competitive. It's competitive at the rate. Is that fair? Is that a spoiler? I think there's probably more people driving around that want the live update than anything

49:13than a DVR. But that's just my two. My five second spoiler alert, Jim, and all involved five, four, three, two, one. It's corpus at the break, and it has been evenly matched and now you're free to listen again. But with Lieber and in the mix tomorrow, we will continue to break down. By the way, I was out of my mind earlier, the Kyler Marie thing. He still owed money from the Cardinals. So I wouldn't he just sign. It's all offset sign for the veteran. And minimum with the team of his choice, cards on the hook. And maybe he's in maybe he's in purple in a week. And we're going to have to continue to to work our way through that a week in advance. As I said, it feels like it's either Kyler or it's Geno Smith. What a world Vikings fans. That's what we have to look forward to as we continue through this thing. But again, thank you so much, not just to Brett producing, but all our guests today. Thank you for listening to the fan PA back in the saddle tomorrow.

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