Beyond The Pond: Sean Goldsworthy, Mark Moser, Tony Scott, Marcus Foligno

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3:05Enough. Enough. Enough. I mean, you know what it's actually. It's very comfortable. I thought you were going to call and say, why don't you just take today off. I'm sick of hearing you. No, I would never do that actually. I say that off the year all the time, but never to myself. No way. Hi, Kevin. How are you? It's been a good week for you. And I want to get over to it. We've got, we're jammed for the next two hours. And so we don't have a lot of time for Golden Gofer and College Hockey. This week we'll make a men's next week, I promise. So I do want to get into the gofers. But let's get the joy of your life out of the way right off the bat. We had a jam the yesterday and your squad is back battling for a title. Yeah, it's going down his own. And to the Heaving Blue Jackets, poor from their bench, go and greet their senior gold tender, Gavin Lampere and they celebrate the fact they got past the Matamidae Zephyr's 4-2 today on semifinal Friday. They're off to the championship game

4:05and we'll be looking for their first state title since 1973. Can they get it done here at Grand Casino Arena? It's going to be awesome tomorrow at noon in St. Paul. That'll be today in a couple of hours, Patrick. Are you excited? You know what? I'm happy for those kids. They made it last year and they were awfully, awfully young in their first time there in a world. I think that since 2011 or 12. 2011, yeah, yep. And so I think you learned something from year to year and they all came back. And so I think they learned, I think they learned from it. And they got an awfully good team, but but so does world. And I think it's going to be a great game today. And I'm looking forward to it from my coach. Good for you. It's a rematch from 1996. The blue jackets have advanced to the title game three times.

5:08They've won two of them in 1952 and 1973. They fell short in 1996. Was that a championship game? They lost five three to the world warriors who ended up taking it. And I think the first foray into class A, the split section stuff coming out of that tier stuff. The you and Tony were talking about last year. Do you remember anything about that 1996 game? Uh, zero. I don't know what happened yesterday. Yeah, I'm with you. You know, I mean, sometimes it gets a lot and a lot of, a lot of years in between. And unless you were living it and a part of it, you kind of don't remember some of that stuff. I don't know where you are on that. But I'm 100% like that. Yeah. And so, um, but we can talk about the here and now. And, um, you know, having got a lot of talented, talented players, young players, some seniors that are really, really good. And, um, and same goes for, for, um, for world. I mean, they could have just said, okay, we're done. You know, down to nothing after one against Delano.

6:09And, uh, minute 28 into the period. They score three goals. I mean, it was crazy. Yeah. It's great. Good. Both good games yesterday. And, um, so looking forward to today. So much fun. Both games, I think, will be epic. World against having noon right here on the fan. And on the KFN plus later on tonight, Halvi will be behind the mic for Minotanka and more. How is Halvi? Where is Halvi? Halvi's not doing so well. Let me tell you something. He, uh, he lacks energy, typically. But he's, like, below his typical energy level in a big way. He's, he's struggling. He's taking a couple of extra hours today to sleep it off and hoping that he'll be able to gut it through tonight. You know, I, I quite frankly, I don't, I don't know how he does it because he has to get up for the morning show. Yeah. And that's, he's probably getting up at three in the morning. Yeah. Something like that. Yeah. And then, and then working for you at the, you know, with a wild. Yeah. Um, those are some awfully long days.

7:12They can be. Yeah. And maybe it's catching up to him. I saw his face last night as we were calling the, uh, the semifinal Friday on the single A level. He was here hanging around and ended up sitting in the Bobcourts radio center on a comfy chair. Yeah, I have no idea. I think he, he thought he was needed here, which he probably wasn't. But then he ended up staying for the double A. And so anyway, I mean, he's not doing so well. Hopefully he'll get some sleep and he'll be back tonight. To call, uh, he wasn't going to miss it. He's got Minotank against Morehead. I said, I haven't looked into either of those two teams. I have not studied their numbers, but you are struggling to do it. If you need me to do it, I will tell me now, he says, no, it's just one game. I'll give to Roy. And that was an exact impression. Are you going to be working that game with him then or? No, I'm doing the single A with Danny Ryan at noon that Danny Ryan and Halvi will do the games. Oh, because you got that. I have wild. Nope. That's tomorrow. Yeah. I got a free night and I'm actually coming down here. Oh, I'm actually coming out. I'm going to watch the double A championship game in person.

8:15I can't wait. And I don't have to work. Not far ahead said I'm not going to have any type of a soundtrack. I'm going to be surrounded by fans. It'll be great. And this will parlay nice into a week of hockey for me, not only all the high school stuff and the wild sprinkled in there as well. I was at three in Marina at Miriyuchi earlier this week. Yes. I picked the wrong game to go to Patrick. That Thursday game was a stinker and I was sitting there watching it. It was not pleasant. One of the most disappointing disappointments for me all season long was that game because you want to play the spoiler. You know, when you're playing a team that is going for a championship in the league. And you want to build off what you did, you know, splitting with the number two team in the country in Michigan. And so you're thinking, okay, you know what this is going to be a heck of a series. And the Thursday night game was, you know, I was, I was really upset after just because, you know, the effort wasn't there.

9:17And I, it was, it was, it was just really disappointing. But as I said on the broadcast last night, Kevin, I said, I don't care if they win or lose tonight. I just want to see some fight, some effort that's seen your night, you know, get your seniors out on a good note and they played, played really well last night. Yeah, you got your wish. What, what, what a turn of events. Yeah. And you know, when in a shootout, they were down a goal and, and, you know, tied it up, you know, later in the game. And so that was good to see in that, and that will make them feel good going into the playoffs starting on Wednesday at Penn State. A lot of cool moments from last night. And again, such a turn of events from Thursday to Friday, like you said, they get to go out, if close out the regular season on a high note, they get the shootout win strangely enough. Suddenly they won three straight via the shootout, but a cool moment last night for the senior goal tenders, Zach Wies gets the start, makes a save and makes way for it to pass

10:19about that. That's a pretty cool moment. You know, think about it. Four years this kid, four years of going to practice every day, not missing one on the road, going to the morning skates to skate with the guys who weren't shooting up that night and taking their shots and stuff. Never one complaint. Always a great teammate. I mean, terrific, terrific kid. And you know, Bob surprised him with the start last night. And I told Bob before the game, I said, you know, I don't care. I hope you play him the whole game while he played one minute, made, made the one save and they, you know, they pulled him, you know, and he was fine with that. We interviewed him after the first period, but it was, he's, he's just a great story and a great kid and epitomizes, you know, what it means to play, you know, at Minnesota. Yeah, pretty neat. A great idea. And I guess you're taking credit for it. So a great job on that path of feeding that to Mr. Montzko and you put the kid in and

11:21it was awesome. You know, I mean, I mean, I, I, he, Bob, it told me that he was going to start him. I know. Wasn't your idea. I'm just kidding. Yeah. Yeah. And I said, and I, you know, after Bob told me that that he was starting, I said, well, I hope you play him the whole game too. Yep. And that went over like every other suggestion I make to the coaching staff. You were immediately showing the door. Well, they just say, you know, head upstairs. Yeah. And I'm like, you know, they're kind enough to let me in, but, you know, yes. But it's time to leave the room. You leave the room. I got you. Give me your 30 second synopsis, a little preview of the big 10 tournament. The golfers have Penn State. That single elimination. Correct? It is. And, and, you know, the, if there were any team that the golfers would want to play in the first round, it is Penn State. Oh, good. They are reeling. They've got a couple key players out. They've given up 12 goals in this past weekend against Wisconsin. Yeah.

12:21The previous week, they won it over time and lost to Notre Dame, who is at the bottom of the league. Notre Dame is playing better, but, but there are team that is, is reeling right now. So it, you know, if, if the Minnesota that played last night shows up in plays like that on Wednesday, they will be Penn State. They will be Penn State. But, you know, I, that, that's your, your guess is this good of mine, which team is going to show up. Are you going to Penn State? I am going to Penn State. I am leaving Tuesday. Should we win, Kevin, just, you know, for next Saturday's show, should we win, we will stay on the road and go to either, you know, Ann Arbor or, um, uh, East Lansing. And so we'll, we'll have to see how that plays out. That would be a good problem to have. I hope that comes up. All right. Yeah. Anyway, we got to squeeze in that first break. Your buddy, Sean Golds, where are these going to do? Goldie.

13:21I can't wait. Yeah. All right. So we'll take the break. He's coming up next. Uh, we got to go for stuff out of the way. Well, maybe we can get back to it here as the show rolls on. But like I said, we're jammed. Uh, we're going to talk the NHL trade deadline and a big match up coming up for the wild tomorrow. The wild going to Colorado to take on the Atlanta. That's a one o'clock puck drop from ball arena that played by play voice of the first place. Colorado. Avalanche is Mark Moser. He'll join us in about 20 minutes or so. Top of the hour. Marcus Filippino. He's got a family reunion coming up here with the Minnesota wild. Bill Garen has a trade deadline. One guy's brother. Is Brett handling that one? Are you and I off for that? We, we, I'm fired up about it. I think that'd be great. I love both of them. We should definitely do that. It's always fun to talk to Marcus Filippino. You know, let's get a say before we go to break now, Brett's got to deal with two leaders. Oh, my God. I love both of them. Wait till Nick takes a dumb penalty and I got to do anything in the offensive zone. Oh, my God. I can't wait. That should be a lot of fun. Tony Scott, by the way, will be along in the second hour as well with his typical youth

14:25hockey hub update and lots going on, of course, with the boys state high school hockey tournament. But let's get that first break out of the way. When we continue, we're going to be joined by the head coach of the Minnetonka skippers. Sean Goldsworthy is next. I'll be on the pond. That's another try for Minnetonka, but the nobody knows where it is. And then another opportunity for the skipper shot score, cash party, cash is in in the Minnetonka skippers are headed to the state championship. That was the sound last night on the fan, Zach Halverson, Danny Ryan, call an overtime winner for the Minnetonka skippers. They're back in the state title championship game coming up tonight at seven o'clock. Kevin Falmson, Pat McElady, pleased to be not joined now by the head coach of the Minnetonka skippers. Mr. Sean Goldsworthy, congratulations on the victory last night, Sean, and welcome to be on the pond.

15:25Oh, good morning. Thanks for having me and a great time of the year. One of my, one of my favorites, Goldie, you always have been and what a team you have this year. A little different, right? I mean, you've got, you've got balance throughout your whole lineup and it's not like one guy sticks out for your team. Yeah, I would agree, Pat. We, you know, recent teams that we've had down here and wanted, we were built, you know, a little differently. We had some really dynamic forwardsected fill up the net. We know whether it's Bobby Brank or Jivon Moore or Hagen Theroles, and we just had a lot of really good players that could get up and down. This team has built differently. We're built from a goal line out and a really good defenseman, great net. And then our forwards are really interchangeable. We just keep coming at you in waves. Take us through the overtime last night, Sean. If you can, the game itself, you had to rally from two, zero, and three, one, Devisejia end up winning it in overtime.

16:27Cash Hardy is going to get credit for the goal, but that was a nice little set up by Aronson, too. Yeah, those, those two have kind of thrown a nice little niche with Liam Schultz there on that line. And I thought we just had really good push as the, as the night went on. Our guys, I thought kept getting stronger. I think our bench kept getting deeper. And the, the ice started to tilt and we were playing downhill. And I thought it was just a matter of time. We can't go crumeting some shots. And then if, if we just keep hunting, we're going to get some turnovers. We did get a turnover and then, you know, Max, they just made a great backhand pass to Cash in the slot there to finish it off. Well, I tell you what, I, you know, I, I know you don't like to single out, you know, a, you know, a player, players on your team, but that's second line of yours in this tournament as, as really been, I mean, fantastic for you. You know, you mentioned Aronson, Schultz and Hardy, you know, Hardy only being a sophomore.

17:28That's the kid who's got a ton of potential, huh? Yeah. He's got a little heart rate, a kid can finish and he's been doing it all year. So if you've been paying attention to us, that's how we kind of all we operate. But you know, we, we really don't see, you know, a first, second, and third line here. I know that's a cliche pad, but we've been playing 11 forwards all year. We've been playing 6, 7, D all year. You know, I think it has more to do with just that current matchup as it goes through. Very gently and Ethan Sturgis and Cooper Ran, I'll seem to take on other teams, maybe so called top lines, which might create some mismatches for us. But we're not, we're just not afraid to play any of our lines against anybody. So I think we've been doing it all year and it's work. There are some, you know, nights where the skill set gets a little bit higher and we might have to put our defense in certain situations. But, you know, I think whoever gets that mismatch is going to score because in the section final game against Chan Aston, I, you know, our other line, so called third line for a

18:30lot of people, you know, they ended up having three or four goals. But you said that your team's built from the goal out. That tells me you are pretty happy with your senior goal tender, Chase Gerdy. Tell me about him. 20 saves in the victory last night and helped secure the trip to the championship game. Yeah, I mean, Chase has just been outstanding all year. We think he's been the best going to state from top to bottom. He's played everybody, you know, just had his statistics show it, whether it's safe percentage or shutouts or anything. And he allows us to play with really tight gap and skate. If somebody does get behind us or, you know, he's able to make some saves, that's been really good. And he's a kid that's kind of come through the program and kind of figured it out. You know, we played a full year at JVS and sophomore and really didn't get the net last year either as a junior and then just kind of stepped up and took over from day one. Give us kind of a preview then of tonight. We know you've got a good team and you just illustrated some of the highlights on your squad.

19:31You're going up against the defending champs here and more ahead. They're no slouches either. What are you guys up against tonight, Sean? Well, they're, they have elite talent. These kids, you know, first off and foremost, most impressive with John and his staff is, you know, all those kids came back. They had opportunities to skate in the SHL and maybe play somewhere else, but they came back as a group and that's hard to do, especially after you've already won it, right? So those kids came back as a group. They're really talented. They remind me of our team, you know, two or three years ago on the power play. They're balanced. They got finishers. They move the puck very flat and pressed, but they have a lot of talent. We saw them early. I thought they were the best team in the state to start the year. We were able to go up and bite them in December, and I think you're seeing the two of us teams at this point here. What's your message to the teams, I mean, to your team, I should say, going in, there's going to be 20,000 people there.

20:34What do you say to calm them or to get them ready for a game of this magnitude? Well, not too much, you know, we try not to deviate from what we do. I think at this age of their careers, the more you change things, they get unsettled, and they get off script a little bit. So, you know, we're just going to state of what we do and play vertical and get North. As for emotions, like, that's all part of it. I think we're past that, you know, playing in a tough game and over time last night, you know, we think the toughest schedule in the state, you know, and you got to get through a diner a couple times. And why is that idea? Our whole conference we're trying to allow it. And we won that conference, you know, pretty outright this year. And feel really confident that that prepared us. And then our section, final game, and so my finals are just as equally as intense. So we've seen full halces before. We've seen, you know, a lot of noise and hopefully we won't be too distracted tonight. More than 150 wins behind that skipper's bench in your ninth season there with Minnetonka.

21:36You've coached a ton of hockey. So two of us, John Amerman, therefore the more headspuds, take us behind the curtain a little bit. And the state of coaching in the state of Minnesota these days, in your mind, John. Well, I just think the level of play is just a really, really high end, you know, I've written in a John Harington at the women's final four on not Thursday afternoon. I took a watch my daughter and John and I were laughing in the con course and he said, jeez, Goldie, I just, I just don't know if I'd even be able to play. And I said, John, the level of play that the league players have always been here. But it just seems like the depth of high school hockey up and down is just, it just keeps getting better. I tell you what, like the community based models working really well in Minnesota. If you get outside of our little cocoon here and you get nationally or even if you just get in other areas of North America, everybody keeps pointing to our model. And I think we just have to stick to it because in every community, you have a good coach in every community, you have, you know, a top power play of, you know, a couple centers,

22:41you have some defense that play 20 minutes a night and a number one goal. And I think eventually we just get to showcase what we do. And that's probably what I'm most proud about is when we can put together a state tournament team and get here and showcase what a community based model looks like, it's, it's just awesome. Yeah, we're doing it right in Minnesota and it's not right in other areas of the country. Like you said, you mentioned high elite top talent. I don't want to take you away from the moment at hand because you've got a game to prepare for tonight. But there is other hockey going on in the world, including in the national hockey league. They just completed the NHL trade deadline and you're already alluded to this kid in Bobby Brink helped you bring a title to Minotaka in 2018. And Sean, he's coming home. He's going to be a member of the Minnesota Wildmead as a wild debut last night. What do you remember about Bobby Brink and what are the wild getting in this kid now? Thanks a lot of years later and I was a pro. Well, we saw him at the beginning. You know, I can tell you this, he's in the elite town, he's in the elite hockey sense.

23:44It took me about maybe 30 minutes in the first practice to realize that he was going to be a special player and they have a brain that can play in the NHL. And I just think the rest of his game had to kind of come together and it certainly didn't last three left here and went to Denver and then moved on. So Bobby's just an awesome person, first and foremost. He loves hockey. I would imagine he's watching highlights right now and trying to get settled. But he just enjoys hockey and being a great teammate. You know, we have some really fun memories. I mean, he's just got a quick wit to him. He's a great locker room guy. Just everything about Bob is going to settle in really well and I think once he does, I think the wild are going to be really happy with him. I don't know if you heard the quotes from Bill Gehr and he was asked about him coming home and playing for the hometown team. He says, that's great. He's here to work. He can have his buddies and his parents and his friends. Stay away from Goldie. Go to the ticket. The box office. Tell Sean Goldsworthy. Go get his own tickets. You're here to work. You're not here to take friends on Lake Minnetonka.

24:46We're certainly not going to distract Bob and he doesn't seem to listen to the noise he never did. If you grew up in the brain called sold with Andy around the house, he's got a lot of TV idea there. So I was kind of a little bit of a reserved person, you know, like I said, he's got quick wit. But he's above the noise. He's certainly coming back to try to go in a Stanley Cup. He's not coming back to Minnetonka. Well, love it. We look forward to seeing Bobby Brink in a wild uniform again, but we're really looking forward to the showdown at centerize tonight. Grand Casino Arena between the skippers and the spuds have the time of your life there is Sean. And thanks for doing this here on a game day. Appreciate it, guys. Yeah. Really, really thankful for the opportunity to kind of a showcase high school hockey in this area. This is always the best time of the year and you guys do the job of helping that happen. Yep. All the best goalie, all the best. Take care. See you, Pat. Yeah. But there you go. Sean Golds. We're the head coach for the Minnetonka skippers. 150 plus wins behind the bench there for the section two double eight champs.

25:50Seventh trip to state their Patrick and their two time champs. They won it with Bobby Brink in 2018. They did it again in 2023 and they got their work cut out for it. They're going to get it done in 2026. Minnetonka is good. More heads pretty darn good as well. Yeah. You know, you, you know, you can play during the regular season and this game is different Kevin. Just like any, any championship game, you get, you get to this game and you don't know the nerves of the kids. You know, it's different. It's so much different than the regular season. But it regardless, tons of talent going to be a great game. I couldn't handicap, but I think two, two evenly matched teams, which, which it should be in a championship game. So it should be, should be great. Yeah. For sure. And we'll get more into that with Tony Scott later on in the youth hockey hub. And I'm sure more went when we get ready for the high school hockey tournament, the championship Saturday, the class 80 title game coming up at noon and then later on tonight at seven

26:50o'clock, it'll be those skippers and spuds. You can hear it on KFA and the plus. Let's take a break. And then when we continue, we'll turn our attention to the NHL. We got a big match up coming up tomorrow in Denver, the wild taking on the avalanche, the first place Colorado avalanche and they're heating up again. They've won four straight. They got a rally last night. They got the victory in the shootout. So why don't we take a break, Patrick? And then we'll talk to Mark Moser, the play by play voice. My question. Why weren't they on a heater? They did take a little bit of a dip, though, you know, going into the Olympic break. I mean, a little bit. No, they lost more than that, but there was a time where we thought would they ever lose again? I mean, they had like one regulation loss at ball arena for a good chunk of the year. And you know, they came back to earth a little bit, but they're heating up again. Yes. So we'll talk about that and more with Mark Moser next on Beyond the Pond. Triple doings, all right, that was late in regulation last night in Big D, the avalanche

28:08tie it and end up getting both points via the shootout. And the guy calling that that highlight was a man by the name of Mark Moser, play by play voice long time, play by play voice of the Colorado avalanche. Moge, that's Pat McElady. I'm Kevin Faulness. Thanks for taking time out of your busy Saturday. I know who you are. I wasn't last night. You guys got the late goal. You guys the, the avalanche scored late, ended up pushing past regulation. Like, you know, we talk all the time about heavyweight battles. We got one coming up tonight to the boy state high school hockey tournament, but when you talk about the top two teams in the central division, Colorado and Dallas going toe to toe, it looked like it lived up to the billing. Wait, wait a second. Don't answer yet. Mark. I apologize that you have to endure this. I appreciate it. I don't know. I just thought I'd let you know it's it's not me, Mark. It's not me. Yeah. Okay. Now you can answer the question. I know exactly, I know exactly how you feel you do what you can on a daily, but I do it

29:08every week. Yes. With this guy. Yeah. Exactly. Okay. Go ahead. Hey, honestly, real quick before the game last night. Man, I saw that there were like 1000s and 1000s of people trying to get standing room only tickets to the high school hockey tournament. That's awesome. Man, that looked, that looked really crazy, really cool. I tell you, Mark, like I said, the championship game is tonight at seven for the double lay. That's the big schools. The single lay will be at noon. I'm not sure what to expect for the single lay. It'll be a good crowd. But I'm guessing there's going to be standing room only 20,000 people at Grand Casino Arena for the tilt between Minnetac and Moorhead tonight. And Mark, just to give you some perspective, there have been season ticket holders to this tournament that have had them for over 30, 40 years, it's crazy. There is a waiting list for season tickets of over 12,000 people. I mean, that's a popular, this tournament is year in and year out.

30:10Yeah, it's awesome. I was just on the plane last night. I saw that line and I'm like, good God. That's an addition to the people who are already in the building. So good luck to everybody. I'm sure it's going to be awesome there in St. Paul. You guys, Pat, you heard me last night getting crazy. Obviously, that goal by Natuskin with under 14 seconds left and they could put a second back on something like that. But I just think it's probably indicative of how important it is to finish number one in the stupid division. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's an absolute blood bath. And equally, guys, I don't know how you feel about it. I know that things are cyclical, but you know, but it's hard for me to stomach, you know, two of the best teams in the league going ahead and around number one and one of them being knocked out. Now, again, on purpose, this is not like, hey, you know, and eight came up in Biddle One or a seven bit or two or something like that. You know, a team got goal lead for six games or whatever it may be. You know, you're purposely trying to bounce a team out, you know, it's hard.

31:15I think for any fan based on losers in that first round, like the last two to Dallas and that game seven, and you know how good both those teams or both of those teams could, you know, perhaps go all the way. It's tough. And Minnesota is really, really good. So if you're an avalanche fan, clearly avalanche themselves, you desperately want to stay in that number one spot. So getting an extra, I mean, getting a point last night in the game, that extra point inside the shootout was absolutely critical because this division, the top three teams for bonkers, the three, you know, three of the best, if not the three best teams in the entire league. Hey, Mark, let me ask you this, you know, we all know how good a player, Nathan McKinnon is, you know, arguably could be, you know, could be the best player in the world. It depends who, you know, what you, what, what a person's feelings are on McDavid and celebrating and whoever else you want to throw in there. But, but my question is it just seems to me like when I watch you guys, and I watch

32:15Nathan, he just seems like such an unbelievable leader that, you know, and I don't know what it is about him, but it just seems like everybody on that team just feeds off of what he does and how hard he works and all that is, would that be a fair assessment to say he is just, he's a phenomenal leader. Absolutely. I think that honestly to me, it's more like his, his pure focus on winning is something to behold. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's impressive. And I think if you're on the avalancher, you come to this team, you can't help. I mean, you've got your own habit, you're on whatever's, but you can't help it, but, but, but gleam things that make him so good and he puts in the work. Yeah. And it's everything encompassing, you know, his entire life to try and win. Don't be time for boating.

33:15And, you know, I mean, I'm sure listen, I'm, I'm, he enjoys life, don't give me wrong, I'm sure. But, but right now he wants to win, you know, and he desperate to do that. And you know, whatever comes with it, whether it's a heart or whether it's a rocket or, you know, whatever comes with that, it's, it's incredibly valuable to have a guy like that on the team. I know other teams have had that and you'll die, see how they operate, but it makes them so good. Well, they're naturally God given talented. So that, that's one thing, but then to be the best, I mean, there's a lot of talented guys I've seen come through this week, boys, and you have two and you're like, man, this guy could have been a top 15, top 10, maybe top 20 player of all time, he just wanted to win, you know, or he wanted to win bad enough, I guess, but this guy desperately wants to win. And then his game speaks for itself, he's so powerful, you know, he had just attacked the ice like crazy and the production is there, you know, every night, every night, it's a nightly thing. Yeah. He just keeps going and going and going.

34:15Do you see extra? Sorry, Pat. It's such a talk about McKinnon. Was he extra salty coming back from the Olympics? I know our version of it. We've got three Americans on the Minnesota Wild roster. You got Brock Nelson over there, but it felt like McKinnon took that exceptionally hard the Canadians falling short and over time to the Americans and especially missing the wide open net. I was, I'm just wondering if that put a burr under his saddle and we're getting an extra angry version of Nathan McKinnon. Well, there's always some sort of a focused angry version of McKinnon on the ice kev. It made me have, I mean, it very well may have. I don't, I don't notice anything different about him in terms of his demeanor or his prapper is game on the ice for the abs, but golly for those guys, you know, you try to think, you know what, just a couple of Canadians that have ever played the Olympics before and everybody else is brand new and they desperately want to win. And you know, our guy Devon Tave stopped by, you know, he held up the paddle there and they go on and so on. So I'm sure, I'm sure it's things.

35:16You never know how many kicks of the can you're going to get. You know what I mean? I guess you just never know what the future is going to hold. So if you can't get it done at that particular time, then it's painful. We do have a little medals on the abs and brought Nelson the war out native and he kicks in major, but so, you know, the eight guys, once he the Olympics, guys came home with the medal. That's pretty darn good. Hey, I want to go back to the leadership and I'm just always curious. Do you think a lot of what Nathan took or has learned to as a leader came from Sydney Crosby because their friendship is very tight as we all know, growing up in the same area and such. How much of that do you think he has learned from Sydney Crosby? I think probably a lot of that and again, you're talking about one of the greatest of all time in your good friends, plus you have one in your room.

36:16I can't tell you guys what Gabriel and Scott means to this hockey club and, you know, he's now got Dully. I think 13 points is last 13 games. So he's starting to heat up. He had that entry in early January, but back of time for the Olympics, he's playing really good hockey, but you know, the kind of perseveres, but what he is as a leader in the room, as the room around the guys, you know, on the ice, I think you can't help over all these years, but to have some osmosis go. You know what I mean? Not only to Nate, but to Kale and everybody else around. And these guys are all individually, I think, pretty on the ball, dudes, but forgot like need to be, you know, around probably Sydney all the time, but, you know, you learn how to be a pro, I think, because he was a, you know, a young guy coming into the league, and he was a young hot shot and so on, and he found his game back waiting in the late October of 2017 that Skyrocketed him to superstar them. And it's just the way I think you handle yourself, you handle everything, you handle the media,

37:18you know, you have a balance in life, and I think it's probably a really healthy good thing because it's just simply one of the best I've ever seen as a player and as a leader and good, good, good for having spent it. If anything is rubbed off on, it's only in a positive way for sure. Take us through the NHL trade deadline from the Avalanche standpoint, a couple of bodies granted together. I was wondering when you're going to get to that, well, we got it, it only took an hour and 40 minutes. Well, well, let's get into it. Nazum Codri is, once again, a member of the Colorado Avalanche, plus you add Nick Waw. How have the Avalanche evolved in the last 48 hours? Kevin, it's huge. I mean, look at the middle. I mean, you've got McKinnon one, Nelson two, what, Dadry three, Waw Ford, you move a lot of the wing and keep Jack Dury at the four. I mean, up the middle, you are as stacked as any, I mean, you're more stacked in any team in the league right now. You're as, I mean, maybe as stacked with the way these guys are playing as any group

38:20have ever seen. You know, I mean, it's pretty, it's pretty incredible. You were here at a time, of course, when Sackick, you know, was a one-see and Farrsburg was in the middle as well and you're like, wow, it's pretty, pretty awesome. But I mean, this is, you know, this is a really deep team up to God. I look at Cadre and I look at the production of him in Calgary and I think we all can see that when you come back to a team like the Avalanche, I just think that it's going to be better. Same with Nick Waw, who had a real dip this year, being dealt to the Toronto Maple Hs. But I just think that's more of a symptom of the teams they were on as a whole rather than where their game is. So I know that Ab's fans are incredibly happy, getting Nelson Cadre back. He was an unbelievably good player when they won the Cup in 22. And even before that, and he's stoked to be back to guys in the room are incredibly happy to have him back. So this is, you know, this is, this is a big deal. And you know, I think it all started honestly, guys, when Billy Garen goes and gets Quinn

39:20Hughes, that's gigantic. I mean, that's an earth-shaking type of situation in the West and especially in the central division because he is one of the best on planet earth. And so when you go in to get him and the wild improved by a goal per game and they keep winning and winning, you're like, okay, you know, they believe they can do it. You know, it's almost like an arms race, you know, in Dallas, it's Tyler Myers, they get bunting and they do everything what they could do. But nonetheless, this is an incredibly tough division. And so when that first deal goes down in December, you have time, but you're, I'm sure you're thinking yourself, we wanted to improve it anyway at the deadline or before the deadline and holy cow, they just got Quinn Hughes. So you got to do something and he's a stud. We all know what a stud he is and it's going to be just ways for quite a long time, dude. I mean, like I said, how long is the, you know, the central going to be like this, I guess we'll go up and down a little bit, but I don't know, another five, six, seven years. I don't know. You know, these guys to play well into their mid-30s now, so there's a long way to go,

40:25a lot of runaway. Ultimately, you know, when it comes down in the playoffs, it's a goalie stealing a game. It's making a unbelievable save to let you win a game or whatever. How comfortable are you with the abs goal tending situation? And who do you think in the West has the best goal tender that could potentially steal a series? Well, you know, that's a great question. Yeah. As far as the abs are concerned, you know, when you look back when they won in 22, Darcy Kemper wasn't the best goalie on the planet, but he didn't have to be. Right. He had plenty of, plenty of offense, plenty of, you know, guys in front of him are playing great hockey. And I think that that wedge wood and blackwood are better now. McKinsey Blackwood had a difficult night last night, no doubt about it. But when you look at their numbers, they're two of the top five goals against the entire league. Both state percentages are in the 19s and they're just both really, really good.

41:27You know, they support each other. They both want the net. I'm sure. But it's, you know, they're just both really good goalies. And I think that that you've seen at the past where maybe teams played different in front of one goalie as opposed to another guy a little bit more. And even whether it's conscious or not, you're like, hey, man, we can't attack like we normally will. We got to get a help our guy out here in the team plays at the same in front of both these guys. And they go, go, go. So I think the abs are incredibly comfortable. Listen, what you guys have there in Minnesota is pretty damn good to me. You know, and I'm sure by the way, did not play very well last night, abs beat in glove hand on more than one occasion, but he's great as we know. So I don't know. I just think these three teams are the best. I mean, I look at the one to punch in many same with the abs and the case you dismiss, by the way, has a goal against average that to the top five in the league is a backup in Dallas. So it's like holy crap. What don't these teams have at this point, right? Yeah, talking to Mark Moser play by play voice of the Colorado Avalanche while they're

42:29at ball arena tomorrow pregame at 1245 puck drops just after one o'clock right here on the fan with Joe O'Donnell and Alex staylock calling all the play by play action. As we were getting ready to talk to you, Moser, I told Pat, you know, this Avalanche team is heating up again. And he said, well, do they ever cool off? I think it's fair to say coming into the new year from into 2026. They sputtered a little bit, right? I mean, they had two regulation losses going into January 1st. And now believe me, they're running away with the division, they're running away with the conference and everything else, but they did cool off a little bit. Does it feel safe to say that they're finding their traction again? Yeah, I think so. Dallas went through that. I know you guys had a little bit of a skid there too. Yeah, but it was coincided, it was coincided, Kev with Devon Taves got hurt in Kerala. I know. And then the very next night, landed Scott toe picked at full speed and crams into the net, right? So he's out for a month. So both of those guys missed a month and I think it coincided with that.

43:32That's that's part of it. So you're missing, you know, two incredibly key players. Naturally, I think you're going to, you know, you're going to hit some skids sometimes. How do you maintain that kind of play and that focus, you know, for 82 games? I think it's humanly impossible. That's another thing. Plus. I can't tell you how many times the power play has had an opportunity to tire win a game and they, they don't do it. You know, the power play before the Olympic break was the worst in the league. And it's crazy. It's crazy for a team that's by far and I say by far, the best five on five team in the league in terms of goal scored and goal differential and all three periods and so on. If the power play has been a real bug, but that being said, since the Olympic break had been pouring it in. So yeah, I think they've, I think they found their, you know, they're footing there a little bit. You know, the high scoring team in the league at about four goals per game. They just got a lot going for them and now the train line is over and everybody can

44:32sort of take a deep breath and focus on the task at hand. It's all systems going. I think part of that too is a team that's been there and done that for the most part with that leadership group. So they, you know, they know at what level they need to be at and when they need to be at that level. Okay, Mark. Kevin says I have one question, one more question for you, but I actually have two. Okay. Okay. Cool. But we have to have you don't let him run the show, man. Oh, I know. I just, I, I mean, I'm a cog in the wheel, whatever Kevin says I do. Okay. Okay. Question and question are really, you know, I don't know how to even fridge land a scog. Okay. Great leader, great player. How he came back from what he went through. Can you walk us through that and, you know, I mean, it was just, I thought he was done. I think everyone thought he was done and here he is and he's playing at such a high level. I mean, yeah. Talk. What a game.

45:33You know, when you come into the season and he hadn't played steady hockey for three years, you know, five, you know, it's all adrenaline, you know, and you're in the post season. Okay. Fine. But then you got to get back to, you know, regular hockey, hey, you know, game, practice day. Yeah. Travel. Yeah. You're leaving town. You're leaving, you know, the wife and kids at home. And you know, it's all that stuff. Then you're playing a regular NHL schedule in the back to back start to come because it's an Olympic year. So it wasn't the hottest that starts for him, but he's playing really well right now and he's playing that North South game in front of the net game that he is so good at. God, I'm not, I didn't know how to describe it. I mean, it was three years off the ice. No guys ever come back and played NHL hockey from this, you know, and, and, uh, Lonzo Ball was doing it in the NBA, but, you know, and they were about five weeks apart, I think, with their surgeries. But every time he kept trying to come back, you know, it was a lot of them beginning. So on the finally you get down, I think to the realization that if you want to have

46:34any shot at coming back and being a true NHL player, you've got to have this surgery. So they take the neopart, they scrape out all the old, uh, you know, all that old cushion stuff on the inside, but, you know, the car was replacement and then they put a dead guy in there, right? So from what I understand, it's, it's not just any dead guy like if Kevin killed over tomorrow, they couldn't just, you know, take me and say, all right, it's just not, it's got to be, you know, it's got to be the right parts. Yeah. Yeah. Join the club, Kevin. I think we both know that, uh, no, but, you know, I mean, it's got to be the right contours and it's got to be physically a match and got to be, you know, everything's got to be a match. It's, uh, and then you got to put the leg back together and then you got to rehab that leg and then you've got to, you know, hope there's no pain and so on and so forth. I mean, I think the odds of success of having a normal life and being a dad and, uh, basically with your kids and, you know, Jeb's King and, I mean, that, that was probably 99%. But being an NHL player, you know, in the way I look at it now, I'm not, you know, nobody's

47:36worried about the knee anymore because it's, it's basically like it's a new knee, you know, you put, you put the car loads back in there and, you know, it's, it's a new knee. So it's not, I mean, any injury to that knee would be like a new injury. It's not going to re-injure the old, the old situation. So it's been remarkable. I mean, it's been crazy and, uh, you know, we've been here every step of the way, but to watch and be able to come back and I don't know how many guys would have the determination to do that. I mean, three years off the ice and say, eh, I'm going to keep on going and think a lot of you guys probably want to just hung it up, but he wanted to keep going and for another opportunity and because he loves the game and he's been a huge factor. I mean, when you look at record with him in and out of line of this year, it's massive. It's really, really important. Okay, next one, uh, we talked about the av's moves. Um, what did you think of the wild moves? I know Billy Garen, the big thought here was trying to, uh, acquire a number one center wasn't able to pull that off, but he brought in some pieces, McCarran from Nashville,

48:40Brink from Philadelphia. And Nick Filino reunited with his brother, um, Marcus, uh, you know, what are your thoughts on what the wild did as we move closer to the playoffs? Well, I think the, the huge thing to sit everything in motion. I mean, that was a brilliant move by Billy Garen, who I think is an excellent GM. And then, uh, beginning Nick Filino in, uh, he's in in him to care. And these guys are so tough to play. Yeah, right. I mean, I don't know how it felt for, for wild fans watching McCarran play the wild, but he was in Nashville, but you got this gigantic human being whose motor is always going. You're like, are you serious? Yeah. This guy, I mean, and what I'm not he's producing doesn't really matter because you notice them on the ice. Right. But the wild fans, let me tell you, you know, I mean, yeah, the wild fans will think if he doesn't score two, three, four goals, you know, it's going to be, oh, what do we get this guy for? And not seeing the big picture of what he brings the game in ways and everything needs

49:43guys like that. They affect the game in ways that maybe won't show up on the score sheet. He's that guy, Nick Folino's that guy, I'm sure he and his brother are going to love playing together. And honestly, Bobby, you know, I, I like him, you know, he's obviously a former D. Pioneer. So I'm always going to root for those guys and everybody there in Minnesota knows how good. Former D. Pioneer's all right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was always fun beating them. Anyway. You know what? That's for everybody. God. I don't have a conversation all day about the old WCHA. Yeah. What the flip and big 10 actually went to a big 10 conference. All that pisses me off. Yeah. That was the best conference in college hockey by a mile. Yeah. Don't pick that skating. I really like what those guys bring to Minnesota, which is why it's just going to be so tough. I mean, I think from my perspective, having lived it last year and even before, you know, we got to finish one and let two and three just beat the snot out of each other through

50:44seven years because it's a very unenviable, unfun position to be in. We have two of the best teams going head to head and round number one. It's just it's really, really hard. I know you've got to get through everything. Get that good for the lead. Good to see you. Yeah. Pretty crazy stuff. Hey, I know you're on the television tomorrow, so I'm sure you're going to start putting your makeup on now. I'm not a national team. It's national team. Oh, it is. You're right. Kevin, you're so good. I apologize. You know, I apologize. You don't have to. I understand. Yeah. I know what I'm getting into. Yeah. Put your weight on you in your head and, you know, absolutely. You're a good man. Thanks for doing this. Enjoy tomorrow off then and we'll be working on the radio side, at least for the wild broadcast. Dude, this game tomorrow is going to be rad. I mean, yeah. Life that came was maybe the best game of the league so far this year, I felt like it was awesome. I think tomorrow could be the same kind of story. These two great teams, man. I hope you're right. All right, Moj. Thanks, buddy. Really appreciate it, Mark. Take care. There you go. The play by play voice of the Colorado Avalanche.

51:44Mark Mosher. Yeah. He's off tomorrow. He loves it. He loves it. He loves it. Oh, man. And you can hear it in the passion in his calls. Yeah. You know, if there's never been a good call against the Avalanche, you know, he's the same way. And I know that's a. He reminds me of you a little bit. Yeah. Exactly 100%. And he already meant that we got in a goal or no goal or interference. Yeah. You still. You still believe it. I do. As a matter of fact, and we can get into that at some point, but not right now. We can start right handed shot. White side circle. There we go. Conor McGay. This is the radio version. Stayed made by Volstead. And he celebrates like he's won the Stanley Cup. He has not. He has not. That's the radio version of Mark Mosher out there in Colorado. They're not a fan of the Volstead celebration. That's too bad because they got to see it once this year. While the beat them two of three and they'll get a chance to take three or four if they can get it done tomorrow. We got to scramble the break. We got another guest coming up here in a matter of moments. You guys were talking about the Felineal brothers.

52:45They're reunited. We're going to talk to one half of that duo. Next, it's the moose when we continue on Beyond the Pond. He's. Just like his brother, he's an A plus human. And, um, you know, his experience is the way he, the way he plays the game. Um, you know, his character, all those things. Uh, he brings a lot to the table for us. for us and you know the whole story with the the felinos I mean it's it is a great story it's cool that they reunited but we got Nick for Nick and for what he brings to the table. While General Manager Bill Gehrin talking about one of the many moves that he made over the last few days brings in Marcus Felineau's brother Nick Felineau the trade with the Chicago Black Box second

53:47hour continues here for beyond the pine trying to track down Nick's brother Marcus and if we can track him down we'll throw him on the line. Would you think of that move in particular Pat let's go through some of the moves the wild made of the trade deadline. Haven't even been able to talk about him other than through Mark Moser. So let's start with that one Nick Felineau now a member of the Minnesota wild. Well you find out what kind of person he is. Well first of all you know what type of guy Marcus is wonderful wonderful person wonderful family and I saw the interview that Nick did on you know with butcher grass in Ferraro yesterday and I tell you I mean you want to talk about class professional you know a guy that that that wants to win that knows how to win that knows what it takes to elevate your team and we'll do whatever it takes. Well sounds like Marcus right and to have not you know not only Marcus but Nick now I think it that move in particular was I thought

54:50a tremendous move. Yeah I mean a character guy and give him an opportunity to chase the cup. I'm excited to see those two in action once you know Marcus gets off the shelf and back healthy and ready to roll that'll be pretty neat. Bobby Brink. Yeah I see him last night for the first time. Yeah I did not see the game Kevin you know obviously there's work in but you know he's a he's a really talented kid. They drew him in the top six Patrick Marcus Johansson not available. So he's skated with Juilliard Sinek and Matt Boldy on the quote unquote second. Oh they played. Did you watch or well yeah I watched yeah no I mean look I mean it's one your radio though you know but well Joe described it real neat. Yeah I'll put it that way. Okay I think he looked good and you know and and we'll get into McCaring here in a minute I thought he had more of an impact of course on the game but Bobby Brink I think is going to be another one low class you're you're giving up David you're a check which you gave a

55:50lot to get him into a wild uniform. Yeah and then basically you trade him to Philly in exchange for Bobby Brink. You know he rolled the dice here he's a former second round pick back in 2019 by the flyers and a kid that's got a ton of upside and especially be plays in your top six wow. Yeah you you put him with with some good players I think you can I think you can produce and you know you listen when you and why like the most Kevin is that as you go into the playoffs you know how banged up a lot of these guys are you know going into it during the playoffs and and to have extra bodies around I think is going to be so important to winning and going on people don't understand how difficult it is to win the Stanley Cup and and winning 16 games and battling every night and so the more depth you can have in your lineup is is is better for you before we move on to the other moves again

56:56you send Bobby Brink you get Bobby Brink from Philadelphia send David you're a check the other way disappointing that didn't work out I think they had high expectations a hope more than anything for what he could develop into and you know as Garen said yesterday with the addition of Quinn who he was he probably just got boxed out more than anything without a doubt and you know sometimes you you have to make those moves I I give Bill Bill Garen a lot a lot of credit because you know what um cheer check is probably an NHL player eventually well he probably is now okay um I I truly believe that it just wasn't going to happen with this team yeah so it wasn't going to happen with this team so he said you know what I'm not going to you know waste this kid and I want to give him a chance and he's going to get a chance and fill it there's no question about it so I I like that from a human perspective for your your check and you know he's he's got a lot of potential there's

57:59no question about it so the other big move that they made at the deadline uh bringing Michael McCarrion I take it you don't think your check as a NHL player I'm not saying that I think what he did he just did he know I said eventually I said that not now and that's that we're talking about and that's why he was in Iowa um and and that and the fact that he couldn't you know overstep any of the top seven that are currently up here yeah I think the the future uh should be bright for David you're a check the problem is that flip speed that's the thing that I know in the NHL you can't fake that and he's got a world-class shot yeah I mean the kids got a hammer yeah but he can't skate on an NHL level and I think that's the part that's going to be trouble for him so we'll see what happens yeah we'll we'll go from there um but I didn't want to talk about uh Michael McCarrion like I said it had a big impact on the game last night six foot six two hundred and thirty two pounds a guy that it can win face-offs he can also play the wing uh he can kill penalties and he's a tough guy and you you want to have a guy in the shadows when someone

59:04takes a run at a Brock favor a Matt Boldy uh Carl Caprice off of Quinn Hughes you better think twice when you got a guy six foot six two hundred thirty two pounds uh patrolling your your bench yeah and and and I hope the wild fans um understand he was not in he was not brought in to be a um offensive juggernaut for you he can contribute no question about it but you know I go into you know last year which drove me crazy about uh Brazil right yeah yeah yeah oh man yeah oh he's got a score you know this that amount and then you know and he's terrible well you know he's had a pretty good year in Pittsburgh this year by the way yeah and and so and so but guys are brought in for a reason to do a certain job and um and this kid uh McCarrion is brought in for the reasons that you eloquently stated good penalty killer wins draws this tough

1:00:08can skate and so if that's that's why you you know that's how you build a championship team and um and so I just saw wild fans understand that yeah so and the other move was Jeff Petry I I'm not sure how much playing time he'll get I guess he sees as you play this year I don't know I got to look at his uh he was hurt I know I mean wasn't he hurt uh I don't know uh I'll look it up and I don't think he sees the ice unless something unforeseen happens uh to the top group because I think you know and I know Mosul loves his Colorado avalanche and there's an argument to be made a who's got the deeper blue line but I don't know one through six that there's a better blue line international I agree with you what the wild have put forth so I agree and and Petry I'm sure is a heck of a guy but unless something tragic happens I don't think he sees a lot of ice time between now and whenever the uh wild season comes to a conclusion uh you know we had been speculating a lot about what the wild were going to do in and around the trade deadline um I I thought it was

1:01:11just a matter of time before Vinnie Trollcheck ended up on on Minnesota sounds like uh they were asking the christuary apparently was asking a little bit too much uh for the return yeah I I think and and you know the the big carrot out there was just for what yes how do you pronounce it you do it again no I don't have to see you can tort your face when you say false dead oh yes yes per yes per false dead yes per false dead false dead that's right okay I want to get it correct I don't want to call them false dead no you prefer you'd call them though brick the great wall of same plow there he was a couple of bricks missing with these days so I you know he was never going to be involved in the in the ranger deal I mean there's no reason for that to happen when they have the best goalie in the world in shesterkin so uh you know and I don't know what what hey you were floating out something that maybe shesterkin would be involved in the deal well uh no here's

1:02:12where your twitter feed has said something about here if he's available don't you go get him here's what I tweeted and I got hammered for it and I and and I'll stick to it I'm if if shesterkin was made available yeah not just to us out there right yeah I think any team in the league would be crazy except for probably Tampa and uh uh who else anyway um any team would be crazy not to see if they could get him yeah and I'm one of them because what do you win within the in the playoffs Kevin yeah hot gold tender and someone said well we need a face off guy more than a goalie well that very well you know our goalies are fine I have no issues with their goalies but you but they're not the number one goal tender in the world and if you can get that can you imagine if if he was the goal tender for the minnesota wild you know the fear that that would put

1:03:18in other teams in the league with what we have oh my god and so I'm just saying if he was out there I bet you my bottom dollar that bill garen would have said I'm going to make you an offer for him yeah that's all I'm saying and if if some butts were candy and nuts every day would be Christmas you can use that one I appreciate that all right uh I do I do see what you think I get you know I'm not saying I don't like um a gust or wall said I think they're great and they've been great they're playing great but um we're talking a level that is above that and um and a guy has some experience and and so that I didn't say let's go out and get them and trade these guys you know I just said if you were available let me ask you this um what I thought is if there was a big move to be made maybe false that would be involved but I was pretty sure uh Charlie streamals um days

1:04:23a member of the ministerial organization would be numbered and yeah and going on thursday and witnessing that blowout at three in marina at mary uchi that's the one thing I started looking at as that game were on and five one became six one became seven one uh he's legit what what did you see from that two games set and and actually watching them as he continues to develop on the college scene man amongst boys that's very close to being ready to play in the national hockey league very close I talked to Adam nightingale their head coach before the game and he flat out told me Charlie stramel is the best player in college hockey and I don't know if I could disagree with him um really he's he can you know what he's big and strong he doesn't lose draws and he can skate and he's got uh knows uh uh uh iq the game that is off the charts um man I I can see why other teams will do on him I mean what that's so close he is when you talk about

1:05:28if you would ask me if you were to ask me um let's say okay they're they're they're they're they're set one two three of the middle and you needed uh afford the fourth line guy um and it was between sturm and him or whatever yeah he's he's in he's in my line up interesting yeah imagine imagine saying that three four years ago that this was going to be the trajectory of this kid because he was buried and he has that change he goes in place for nightingale there and becomes a spartan app love to tell you I know what exactly happened there patrick but everything just went dark here I not literally they're still playing the third place game and by the way modemita indelano tied at three goals a piece with a minute left to go in regulation uh but whatever my connection

1:06:29here everything just went dead and next thing I know I'm getting text from uh Brett Blake Moore saying when's going on may tell me heard so well we made it through it anyway are you with me patrick oh Kevin oh jeez oh you're back okay you scared me hi i patrick hi oh all right you know Brett told me to do that no don't do that that's not funny I even a little but Brett told me too so yeah you know I listen to the unbelievable yeah even as a little tummy all right we're still trying to track down Marcus flayno there's a good chance he's working I'll trying to work his way back from injury we might get him in the last half hour yeah and then we'll see uh so we'll table that for now let's turn our attention to boy state high school hockey tournament because we got our weekly segment with our buddy Tony Scott of youth hockey hub and youth hockey hub dot com good morning Tony how are you guys doing today hi Tony you sound very reserved it's gonna be the hardest to start this is my hardest to sign in maybe of the year is

1:07:32doing this entire thing with pat of in the team the state final how are we gonna do this Kevin why they're gonna be talking a lot about him would be my first guess Tony I'm it's a good guess I'm very reserved I'm you know what I am I'm just I'm excited for what I believe will be an excellent game today how's that for you these are my two fake these are my two favorite kids you know from the from the other minister throwing a little wrap me and me and who me and who they play the game the right me and who don't gather it's a fun it's gonna be a greatest game of the year let's say two teams play I'm a kid I'm a kid at heart you're not a kid you're the opposite of a kid I'm a kid at heart are we talking about the swans and brothers well you name it we could talk about all I'm Gavin Anderson the hot front brothers with a couple of years in both these teams it's gonna be a fun match up today how about this one and and I'm getting a little pushback and I might be a little bias but I think the best player

1:08:35in the tournament is Whitaker Rewards he's so good man are you reading my notes Pat are you reading my notes aren't you well I read eleven points in his last six games and those aren't easy games the kids are just really blossomed in the last half of the season I and I say that because when I look at games Tony when I'm analyzing games I I look at guys that are the engine of their team their offense what makes that team go and to me he's that guy you know Gavin Anderson may be that guy for Warro too right and and so I think you're right you know and and and you know the double a there you know certainly a number of players but man that that kid reminds me of Scott Perone of it that's like that's a really good comparison the they both play forward or D

1:09:35yeah they're kind of all over the place uh Whitaker heard a couple of years ago in the summer and really struggled last year he played a lot last year but he didn't get as many minutes as this year I feel like he's finally coming into his own and he was one of the best youth players in the state as a as a pv and ban so no one's surprised at the success but uh he's really starting to come on it's fun to watch so break down the noon match up for us you got hivine going up against Warrode what's the strength of hivine what's the strength of Warrode and how do you see that one playing out and again we're going to hear that on the fan starting at 12 o'clock noon on FM 100 point through the fan well I think one of the keys of the game is the goal tending you know lamp here's been their goal y'all year where patrick tendees just starting to get his his groove on and I think that's the key to the game and can patrick kennedy match gavin lamp there both teams to score goals both team have offensive defense then it's going to be a fun game I'm I'm guessing it's going to be a five four six five types shoot out today agran casino I think you're right you didn't

1:10:37pick the winner though oh I always pick against hivine but today's the tradition going back to me yeah I think you do that because I'm um because we're talking but yeah stick it to that whatever Tony I here's why I do it I picked against him I'm on to my my state tournament podcast and after the banquet all the kids from hivine came running up we we're going to prove you're on and they did wait until since then anytime I got a prediction segment hivine I'd pick against them for good luck for this so one of those podcasts that I was going to be on and never was you're coming on and maybe we can even get your driver Alex to come on you let's get his take on some collage hockey takes yeah let me ask you about the uh hang on is your phone going on right yeah no I don't know what that is wasn't going to be easy Kevin I told

1:11:38no not at all not at all not at all so we're saying it's going to be a close one tonight high scoring affair uh come down to the goal tenning I think it'll be fun the seven o'clock game as well we we had uh shan golds were the on to drop the puck on the show earlier and that's going to be a heavyweight battle too you got more head against minotaka man that's going to be a fun one too I think it's going to be great it you know they played earlier like December 18th up in more no December 20th up in more head talk to one that one four to two this one's going to come down against more heads forwards against talk as D this is going to be best on best both teams have great goal tenders uh who's going to win the talk as D or the more head forwards if it's a high scoring game it's obviously more of the game to win if it's a low scoring game talk will be hoisting the third state championship what do you like about this match up patrick went when you break it down and and also talking to uh shan golds were the well I like the depth of of minotaka and that you know they play the same way they they try to grind it out with you um I I who boy you

1:12:43know I think if if more head can you know when you have superstars you know up front and like like more head does I think if they don't get frustrated and I think it'll be a game of can minotaka frustrate more head enough to get them off their game um I kind of give a little nudge to minotaka but you know it's going to be a great game it's could be only that's both teams should be here they've earned the right to be here and um let's almost come forward to it yeah it should be a blast and that one's coming up at seven o'clock tonight you'll hear that on kf a and the plus if we can get out of bed and uh get him feeling better getting a little Tylenol he'll be alongside Danny Ryan here seven o'clock on kf a and the plus 96.7 FM in the twin cities metro area and of course you can also find it on your free i heard radio app uh the youth I talked a lot about this with uh Danny throughout the course of this tournament uh Tony the

1:13:46fact that these these youth teams coming up and as they become these high schoolers they had a lot of matchups uh growing up didn't they not only for the double a matchups but the single a these teams should be very familiar with each other it's crazy I remember the uh there was a game uh in woodbury in 2022 where hiping was the number one team in the state the one i was telling about and warrow beat him uh knock him off in the first round the next year giving beat warrowed in the state final down in new all and the day before that in the double a semi-final Joey Cohen goes barred down in double overtime to be the minotaka so all these teams today are very very familiar with one another yeah looking forward to the action what else you want to squeeze in here what's going on at youth hockey hub dot com to get ready for a championship Saturday and then beyond because there's more than just ice going on that uh your workload never ends no we have the state youth tournament starts next Friday all over the state this year thank you minnesota hockey

1:14:46for making them all separate state tournaments so we'll ten of our photographers all over the state covering the state tournaments rozo but debt uh more ahead you name it will be all over the state next weekend this week we'll be getting ready for that we'll be recapping the state tournament our high school stuff and we'll be getting ready for the uh state youth tournaments on 10 minutes point Scott over podcast and stuff like that on my chase sounds great at some point we please have pat michael eddy on one of your 84 podcasts please oh I'm sure he'll get to me after it's gonna happen yeah you know you have a no book page right Kevin yeah and you know top to bottom and yeah you know to do list whatever well you're on the bottom of that list keep looking yeah yeah you might have to turn to page three or four but to be Tony I love yeah I know someday it'll it'll happen it's gonna happen fast and you know trust me thanks Tony enjoy the day you're the best you are the best Tony thank you guys have a good day you Tony Scott youth hockey hub

1:15:47youth hockey hub dot com doing great work for us all you're long and that would not change no championship Saturday I did get a text from the moose he's loose he was stuck in a workout so he promises me that's who was calling on the other line while we were talking to Tony Scott and completely distracted me so let's take a break Patrick and then we'll finish up the show not only with Marcus flina but we'll try to squeeze in some bread Blake boys break away break away that's next time be on the pond final for a into the final hour of beyond the pond on championship Saturday Kevin fallness along with pat michael eddy and it is our pleasure well worth the weight if he asked me to check in with wild forward Marcus flina Marcus good morning good afternoon and good night how are you sir oh do I owe you guys a couple hundred bucks for that lately time I'm sorry about that yeah well and you know Kevin will take mine Marcus no listen hey I thought you I

1:16:50thought you I've misconstrued it I thought you were charging us a hundred dollars for saying we'll call you in ten minutes so I like the way this song better no no no you guys said eleven final five and I was in lullaby and so that's that's how me no no worries whatsoever I like it said well worth the weight one half of the flino duo now reunited here in Minnesota you find out at the trade deadline brother Nick is coming and becoming a member of the Minnesota wild your reaction to it and how excited is the flino household excited that's the biggest thing I mean just feel like Chris was born it's just to have this you know a dream of chasing the NHL as a young kid and being an NHL's your brother and now having to be on the same team as the simplicity we've been through we're both excited everywhere our family is ecstatic and you know I say that now we'll see what it will see when it's like in a couple weeks when I'm around my brother 24 seven but it's it's awesome I mean just a the caliber of person a player that

1:17:54we got but together they go together we'll open the member of one mark as I you know I'm that you're knowing you as long as I have um and knowing the the type of person you are in the type of family and I mean and then to hear your I what I was telling Kevin I watch the interview that Nick had with with butcher grass in Ferraro yesterday and I honestly got it almost brought a tear to my eye just the class that he has um and which would you would you know all of this so but I'm just reiterating it and you know I mean he said I felt like I left my little brothers in in Chicago young team there him helping those guys and and then him saying you know what I'm gonna go to Minnesota I'm gonna talk to the coach he's gonna tell me what I have what what my role is and what I'm gonna do and guess what I'm gonna do it and I'm gonna do whatever it takes to help Minnesota when when a Stanley Cup I think that I mean it just it was just awesome just

1:18:59an awesome interview you know and in your family speaks for itself and anyway those are just my thoughts no yeah no I you know what next you know next played a long time and and um you know you get you get the type of leadership and stuff I mean we get a lot of our father and watch him have played and have coached mostly and um just you know we understand that what it takes to win in the league you got to be selfless and takes away a long time and it's been a leader on for a long time now and um to get the field of room and we're lucky to kind of have been they're growing up in a hockey locker room for so long and um we understand what it takes and and uh you know there's just it you know where to win it can't be about you gotta be about the team first and and Nick is uh first me you know exemplifies that every day he's been he's been through a lot of uh screw the situation he's been in the playoffs for a long time and and um you know in Chicago recently he's helped the uh he's trying to rebuild and you know that's a lot of tough days

1:20:03when you're going through things like that and and set it with authenticity and trying to help guy like with art and a lot of young kids kind of find the ground in which they have now and and uh he did the point of his career where you know it's it's exciting time to go chase a cop and um i'm just fortunate up to be on a team that has put ourselves in a great position to go do that to contend and um you know if there was just a no brainer come join join us with me being here and and doing it together so uh we hope we're we're really small and big uh you know come at the end of the season here we definitely want to talk about how your team has evolved over the last few months for sure and even over the last couple of days but the other guys in the room they know what you're all about and i think they have a pretty good idea what Nick is all about but what are they going to learn about Nick Folino as a teammate now that he puts that wild uniform on finally you know first thing i'm on ice stuff i mean Nick brings it i mean he's a very solid player he uh he's physically he can play our roles and uh you know he's he's going to get everything 100

1:21:07percent from them i mean he can uh a little bit of a Swiss army and i found when you come to our team because you know that's that's what kind of the role that we have open the depth chart is this i think when we build with Michael Macarin and Nick and uh you know he's been up for obvi Fabri and uh you know Bobby Brink i think it's a a lot of guys that can just wait and and play in great situations so um you know you're going to need everyone in the playoffs and i think that's Billy's you know preparing for war and uh we know it's not going to be an easy road right we got Dallas or Colorado and um you know we're just we're built for him i think we're mentally built for us um Nick's Nick's uh you know plays that right that way plays the right way to achieve the game um you know he's a he's a physical body that that seven game series um nowhere on yet so uh that's what you're gonna see and then off the ice with stuff that you know what made him such a great leader is just how vocal it is i'll include everyone i would love to be around the guys and

1:22:07um bring that positive edge to the dressing room where it's all about winning and i know he's so excited you go well i know that for one thing's for sure this this team has evolved over the last few months the uh blockbuster bring queen hues here has made this a destination you've been on some good teams here in in your time with minnesota uh marcus you 15 years in the nhl nine now incredibly with the minnesota wild and you've had some good teams but you've never been loaded like this going into the postseason how excited are you to get these final whatever it is 18 19 20 games of the regular season done and get to postseason hockey where you guys are loaded for bare man yeah you know what you said it um i've been on there's there's been so great teams over my nine years here and uh you know this is this is a a game that yeah i haven't been on it it's it's special it's talented the mentality of it it's just uh you know we hope that we just you know be quick and at the right time and go from there but

1:23:08it is it is the best team i've been on since being a minnesota and we've always had that work ethic that kind of culture over you know no nonsense and you come to work come to you know players players organization always known as a hard work team and team that's never easy night and uh but right now i mean if you add quen hew it changed a lot of things it changed the dynamic of our offense it just changed the confidence and a lot of guys knowing you have a guy that can help you get out of a hole and and you know our goalies are playing great the defense i think is probably probably the defense of chorus what you look at mostly is gotta be out there with one of the best of the league i think if you look at a team that that has success you're gonna look back at the defense and just like yeah there's there's a reason why we we we what we could do so it's a national group and we just we just hope that we can you know do something specialist here don't get too specific but i know you're dealing with something here you're on the sidelines but if this doesn't motivate you to get well fast i don't know what will the guy listed as week to week

1:24:12they said it's not season ending so we will see you at some point do you have any type of a timeline just something for the moose fan club to hang their hat on yeah you know if there's something you have played tomorrow but uh so it's uh it just something that's been aggravating me a little bit it popped up over after Olympic break unfortunately just in the kind of uh states we had to get back and um just something i need to settle down i hope to be back you know within two weeks max so it's just something that uh i just wanted to correct but rather than dealing with it in the most important time of the year yeah deal with it now it you know luckily we're in a position where um you can take a little bit time off to do that um and then jump in with the guys and and and till good going to the post season what happens now to the flinel faceoff with it has that come to an end regardless or is that still a thing even though you guys are sharing the same locker room well i think i wanted for sure because you take so i uh it was no you know what it's been awesome to be uh able to do what we've done

1:25:15with the flinel faceoff we all the you know the ph l p a so so much just kind of letting us kind of be the the machine behind it all raised it all upon this um all for a great cause but you know and right now i think we're just gonna we'll keep it going for sure i think we're i think for us we just get a really enjoyment of a raising funds but be bringing out the people that uh you know are battling cancer and going through cancer going to hard times or family members stuff like that and having them come to a pistol wild game and getting to meet us and meet them and and swap some jerseys and and we think it's so it's so exciting being able to do that so um we want to keep this thing going we want to raise as much funds as we can and um it just just knowing by default i i want to one of the competition you did for the record nick was at 50,000 i just looked it up this morning nick was at 50,000 and uh brother marcus 86,000 that's raised for breast cancer research uh that's awesome you guys have done a great job in in waving that banner uh that brings me to this and and i'll let you go on this note what what mama say to all this

1:26:17the fact that you guys are going to play on a team together in the national hockey league on a real high level what would she have said to this moment oh yeah i went too long i was talking about his mom james of course she left us way too soon uh i can't tell you this if you want more information on the fullenal face-off it's simple just do a google search there there's a big long website that i you know the v foundation whatever the easiest way to do it is just google it fullenal face-off if you want to contribute to either marcus or nick like i said they've raised a ton of money already and it all goes to a great because not only the james fullenal foundation but uh help raise money for breast cancer research so good to talk to him and i'll let you say i think uh nick fullenal is gonna fit in like if he's anything like marcus which it seems like he pretty much is great sense of humor great dude on and off the ice i think he's gonna fit in here perfectly well let me tell you uh minnesota is going to be difficult to play against um you know the the bottom six now has got some beef and

1:27:20guys who can skate and you know and when you have those two things kevin it you know minnesota when you look at it probably has enough scoring and uh and now you add uh the players that they've added i i like the makeup i really like the makeup kevin yep it should be uh fun like i said this guarantees nothing the problem is you got the toughest division in hockey at top three like we talked about with mosaire they're monsters so no matter what you do you still got to get past Dallas in the first round then you probably have to climb the mountain that is the collaredal avalanche um but still like but cameo said kevin the team and in that they've ever had in france i say history what um those teams are thinking we have to get through minnesota yep you're right you're right and and that's the unfortunate part it shouldn't be like that no uh and it's really in the playoff i mean yeah and when you think of it you you know you have let let's say it's minnesota Dallas in the first round, just for whatever. Okay. And then you lose one of those teams and your second round. It goes, I mean, the first round is, is the round that people watch

1:28:26because you've got great teams. But then the second round, you got, okay, I don't know. I don't know, right? Yeah. It all depends with an upset. And so I don't know, not, I want to wait is the way to go. I agree. And it sounds though, the, the most stubborn person on earth is one Gary Batman and a lot of respects. And he's, he's, this is his hill, man. He's going to die on this hill. And he's, he's not going to budge from it. So this is, apparently the way it's going to be as long as he's at the helm. We got about 10 minutes left in the show. And we've gone this long. We haven't done Brett Blakemore's break. We have to squeeze them in. Yeah. Let's go. Let's go. Brett, fire it up. Come on, Brett. Let's go. It's time for Brett Blakemore's break away. Almost like five minutes, but we'll make it work. And now, Blakemore's break away. By the way, I can't remember who they were playing. It was Delano and Matamita. I Matamita won in overtime. The third place game.

1:29:28And that's going to push everything back a little bit between Warrode and Hibbing. We were talking about when the puck will drop, it ain't going to be new. And so there'll be some time in the next half hour, most likely. So why is that Kevin? Why is that? Why is what? Because Matamita? Why are they delaying the game? What? Well, they had to do this metal ceremony. Now they're warming up. And it's still 21 minutes left on the clock before they even resurface. So it's looking closer to 1230. So anyway, go ahead, Brett. Let's start with some positivity, guys. A ton of good moves, including the Flino one that we just talked about at the deadline. Yeah, there wasn't a big splash. But we can do that in the summer and say the resources for that. What was your, if you had to pick, is there one move out of all of them at the deadline? That you're most excited about? Kevin, you can go first. I will go first. I'm excited about a couple of them. I like the upside of a Bobby Brink. And you really, you know, you don't get it. It's not even a gamble. If it works out, great if it doesn't. Well, you didn't give up all that much. But I'm actually very excited about Michael McKeran. I know you had a goal in an assist last night, but I liked the full package of what he can

1:30:30deliver on that fourth line, maybe with the Flino brothers at some point. That's the one I'm most excited about, Patrick. Well, I, I, I think that you have to look at it from a perspective of, okay, we didn't get the number one center and quite frankly, it was, was there a number one center out there? I don't think so. So that being said, I'd like to pivot that Billy Gehran did. And I think he thought, you know what, we have Capri South, we have Boldi, we have Hughes that generate so much offense. And now, you know, to get through the grind of the playoffs, they added some beef. And, but not just beef in itself, beef that can play. That's what I liked about it. All right, a little bit negative. The Eurocheck era was over. What was your favorite David Eurocheck moment? It could, I mean, they gave up a first rounder. They gave it Damon Hunter. They ended up getting back anyways. But a first round pick, I get, you can

1:31:31throw away a second or a third. You know, one's the last time one of those is really stepped in and been, I mean, Capri South is the obvious outlier. But throwing away a first round pick for Eurocheck and you get back, bring who we like. But do we feel like this is maybe one of the worst, like bottom five moves in Bill Gehran's 10 year because he did really well this deadline. But that's a move that he looked back on and go, yeah, probably wouldn't have done that. Well, you have to look at the, at the time that it happened and what the need was for Minnesota, let's not forget. Eurocheck was a number six pick overall in the draft. So it's not like you're trading a number one for, you know, some fifth-round pick or whatever or a player. So I think their thought process was we can accelerate him and he didn't accelerate to the level that warranted top four minutes, you know, or, yeah, yeah, top four minutes. And so, you know, it didn't work out. Not every deal is going to work out. And so I

1:32:35deco that. It's unfortunate. Let's not forget to, you know, let's look at it from a Charlie Stremel standpoint. Remember when they drafted him? Oh my God. This kid's terrible. Why do you? What a terrible job. Now he may end up being the steal of that draft. So, you know, I don't know who it was. If it was a Boudreau or a Lamar, but they were, at the time they were talking about Matt Dunbaugh, they said, you don't know what you have in an NHL defense event until they play like 500 games in the NHL. Well, Eurocheck hasn't even scratched the surface here. So we'll see. I'm not saying that you're going to bury him, but right here right now, he was not ready for the scene. Right. And you know what, Bill Gurren basically admitted his mistake in Delta. I don't know if he's a mistake, but regardless, they cut ties and they get, they bring him. You're so extreme. I'm not, but I'm extremely excited about him. You know what you're getting like. Brett Blakemore's breakaways. You're getting like him. I know. All right. We got to go Patrick. We'll talk to you next week.

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