John Hynes previews Wild @ Stars

0:00You're listening to the official Minnesota wild pond cast, presented by Acresher. How's it going? What can you talk about the line-up tonight? I sure can. All right. What do you expect? Brink will come out and Felina will go back in. Okay. The decor will stay the same and the gust will be in there. Cool. They'll go any update on his progress. No. Still lower body day to day. He's at home. He's at home, yeah. Oh, he didn't come on this trip. No. That makes your decision easy. Yeah, exactly. No decision, though. Yeah. We still have Hunsey, but with the lefty righty, so we'll go without Petri in there. Gotcha. Gotcha. Just what have you seen from Petri getting a little bit more of an extended look here? You know, Jeff's, I mean, he's a good solid player. I see, you know, he's big and rangel. He's a good skater. I think he moves the puck well. He defends hard. And he's just got, you know, you can tell he's, he's got good sense. Like, I think he understands how to play the game. And I think he's an efficient player.

1:01How can you use this match up to your advantage, John, just to get this last look so soon before a game won? I mean, you want to try everything as you would or you hold stuff back to not like, how do you manipulate it to your advantage? Well, I think the big thing is you want to go on play. I think when you get in these situations, it's you want to be able to, you got to be able to go ahead, you know, going 100 percent, you want to make sure that you're playing your game and then let the chips fall where they may. So to me, you know, we've played him numerous times. This is a game that's going to be a highly competitive game. So let's go and play it and try to play our best and get two points and then move on. But you're obviously, is it fair that on the pk that you've been kind of trying to work a man where it's on the fly and these own face offs? Yes. Yeah. I mean, is this something that you think that could be as flexible like throughout like the Aussies and with him, you know, his face up? Yes. I do. I think some of it's some of its experience. I mean, it's different, you know, even when you go like, even from international to NHL,

2:03if you have, you know, here you have not there are other good face offs players, but here there's guys that are, like, it's their job, you know, that they're, they study it. I think there's strength. I think there's techniques. I think it's understanding, you know, how to do it and he works at it. Like he is working at it and he has gotten better, but I do think it is hard for at times a young sentiment to be able to be in the face off circle and, you know, there's probably unique circumstances where there are some guys that can do it, but I'm pretty confident that Gary will be, it'll get better as he continues to get bigger and stronger. What do you know about biking? Well, he's a big guy. I know that. Yeah. No, we're excited, you know, he, it's good to have him. I think he's a good player. I saw him come one of the highlights of one of the plays in the other night in Iowa. So I don't know a ton about him other than, you know, he's big, he can skate. Our guys really like him, so I'm excited to see him. And whether he plays in one of the couple games that probably depends on your circumstances. I would think so.

3:03Yeah, yeah. I don't want to ask, you know, how Tony is going to get his name on the name plate? I just saw the jersey actually. Yeah, yeah. It goes all the way. It's a little bend in it. It goes all the way. Yeah. Yeah. You know those ones are they coming. Yeah, yeah. It's not straight across. I've heard. Yeah, it's not straight across. I wouldn't have come over in the front. I would have loved to have been there when Tony heard that you guys were signing that name. I know. It was his reaction. All right, cool. Thank you. You guys good? All right. For an extraordinary advantage in sports, you need a game plan. An extraordinary advantage everywhere else, all you need is Acresher. With a high tech human approach to insurance, cybersecurity and more, Acresher helps you take care of what you care about. That makes winning easy. See what Acresher's extraordinary advantage can do for you at Acresher.com.