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Speaker 2: It is timed out to talk some hockey. Excited for this.
Speaker 3: He's going to join us on a weekly basis all
Speaker 3: year long now that the hockey season is upon us.
Speaker 3: Former general manager of the New York Rangers. My man
Speaker 3: has won a Stanley Cup. It's great to catch up
Speaker 3: with Neil Smith once again on the drive. Neil Happy Wednesday, sir?
Speaker 4: How are you happy Wednesday? Well, I'm okay, except you know,
Speaker 4: I live in South Carolina and we took the brunt
Speaker 4: of that hellene that just went through and hit you know,
Speaker 4: western North Carolina, and it hit Greenville, South Carolina, and
Speaker 4: we've been without power since since Friday. So you know,
Speaker 4: a lot of people think I'm in the dark all
Speaker 4: the time, but I'm definitely dark. Now.
Speaker 3: Tell okay, I gotta know what's it been like to
Speaker 3: be in the eye of that storm. I mean, obviously
Speaker 3: I'm keeping up with the news cycle. Super sad. I
Speaker 3: think the last death con was like one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty or something. So what's it been like, Deil, what's
Speaker 3: it like down there?
Speaker 4: It was horrible during the storm. I mean, there was
Speaker 4: so much rain. We're in a mountainous area, so we
Speaker 4: don't there was no chance of flooding us, but there
Speaker 4: it was just a lot of down trees. And then
Speaker 4: when you go around these communities, and I particularly it's
Speaker 4: said when you go into a poor part of the
Speaker 4: community and see homes that have been hit by trees
Speaker 4: and power lines down, and you know that the people
Speaker 4: that live there probably don't have home owarers insurance and
Speaker 4: probably don't have the money to fix the home. So
Speaker 4: that's what's really tough. And hopefully SEEMA can help those
Speaker 4: folks out because it's really sad.
Speaker 3: Goodness, gracious, well, I'm glad you're safe, and I appreciate
Speaker 3: your time today, and I'm excited to have you on
Speaker 3: as a consistent guest to help all of us out her. Yeah,
Speaker 3: for sure, to help out all of us out here
Speaker 3: kind of learn this game. Is we are now Hockey Town, USA,
Speaker 3: and I want to start just generally speaking, Neil, what
Speaker 3: is the preseason in the NHL? What are the points
Speaker 3: of emphasis in the preseason As a guy that was
Speaker 3: a roster constructor that ran teams, is it a combination
Speaker 3: of trying to understand who your young players are, kind
Speaker 3: of helping the vets fit in what ultimately is the
Speaker 3: preseason four mainly in pro hockey, it.
Speaker 4: Actually is to give those players that are on the
Speaker 4: borderline of making it see how they can do within
Speaker 4: that major league setting of playing in some games. Albeit
Speaker 4: a lot of veterans aren't playing in those games. But
Speaker 4: you know, if you've got your player number twenty four
Speaker 4: to twenty five, you know just would be desentiment number eight,
Speaker 4: number nine, goaltender number three or four that you want
Speaker 4: to see how close are they to playing? And the
Speaker 4: preseason is you know, people are playing at full out
Speaker 4: in preseason, as you can see by the number of
Speaker 4: injuries that have happened around the league. So that's what
Speaker 4: you're really trying to judge. You know, pretty much going
Speaker 4: into the training camp who your team's going to be.
Speaker 4: There might be a couple of spots open, but even
Speaker 4: then you know you're talking two or three at the most.
Speaker 3: So so far, Neil, the Utah Hockey Club has looked
Speaker 3: really good in the preseason. Four one in zero should
Speaker 3: fan well, fans should be excited because we're getting hockey, period.
Speaker 3: But in your experience, does a successful preseason oftentimes tell
Speaker 3: a story about what you can see during the regular
Speaker 3: season or is there really not much there?
Speaker 4: You know what, You've never really been able to judge
Speaker 4: it based on that. But the only thing is I
Speaker 4: will say, Spence, is that every hockey game you go
Speaker 4: into you want to win it. And even as a
Speaker 4: GM president, I mean I didn't like to sit through
Speaker 4: us losing a game, even when it was preseason, and
Speaker 4: even when we didn't have a lot of our regulars
Speaker 4: in the lineup. You just you never want to see
Speaker 4: your team lose. So starting four and one in preseason
Speaker 4: is never a bad thing. It can only be it
Speaker 4: can only be positive. It may not be a complete
Speaker 4: picture of how the rest of the season's going to go.
Speaker 4: But I might add that the fans in Utah got
Speaker 4: to be excited because of the improvements that Doug Armstrong
Speaker 4: and sorry not Doug Armstrong, He's in Saint Louis that
Speaker 4: Bill Armstrong and his crew did this summer. I think
Speaker 4: they made some great improvements to the team. And you know,
Speaker 4: as I had told you in previous shows, I thought
Speaker 4: that the Arizona Coyotes were right on the cusp of
Speaker 4: being a wild card contender. So I think these acquisitions
Speaker 4: they've made have pushed them up. Plus the stability of
Speaker 4: being in Utah this year, knowing that's where they're going
Speaker 4: to be, there's not going to be any rumors about
Speaker 4: moving the team somewhere else like there was for them
Speaker 4: last year. So I'm looking for really good things to
Speaker 4: come out of the Utah team this year.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you about a couple of players here.
Speaker 3: You referenced some of the additions that were made, and
Speaker 3: since you and I last spoke, Bill Armstrong in the
Speaker 3: front office brings in Mikel Sergachev there on that back line.
Speaker 3: He's a young defenseman but has already won a couple
Speaker 3: of Cups. And before the offseason you referenced that you
Speaker 3: thought that they might try to add to the defensive side,
Speaker 3: and certainly Mikhel Sergachev is a player that is now
Speaker 3: he's their highest paid defenseman. Again, twenty six years old.
Speaker 3: He's been really impressive in preseason. What should our Utah
Speaker 3: hockey listener fans know about Mikel Sergachev.
Speaker 4: You know, he's a winner. He's one of those two
Speaker 4: Stanley Cups in Tampa. He's a guy that I was
Speaker 4: surprised that they traded. He did get injured twice last
Speaker 4: year and for lengthy times. That doesn't mean that he's
Speaker 4: fragile or anything like that. That just means that you
Speaker 4: hope that that injury doesn't get it, you know, hurt again.
Speaker 4: But he's he's a very ultra competitive guy and he
Speaker 4: and he's a really good NHL defenseman. I mean you're talking,
Speaker 4: you know, a top four defenseman at the worst. He's
Speaker 4: a top four guy. So that's a great acquisition and
Speaker 4: that's going to definitely strengthen Utah's defense.
Speaker 3: So, you know, we talked about some of these players before,
Speaker 3: but I just kind of want to run run down
Speaker 3: the list here to help our hockey fan listeners kind
Speaker 3: of understand what this team is all about.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't surprise you at all.
Speaker 3: The Clayton Keller, even the preseason, is the leading scorer
Speaker 3: with a couple of goals and he also is leading
Speaker 3: with four assists sex total points. He is not a
Speaker 3: new player at all, but it looks like he is
Speaker 3: on his way to start him in this league. What
Speaker 3: should our listeners know about Clayton Keller?
Speaker 4: What he should know about him is that he is
Speaker 4: a He is a great offensive talent. He's going to
Speaker 4: be probably the best, if not then very close to
Speaker 4: the best offensive player you've got. He enjoys scoring goals,
Speaker 4: he enjoys racking up points. I think on Knights, when
Speaker 4: he doesn't get a point, he's not happy with himself
Speaker 4: and he's not happy with his game. That doesn't mean
Speaker 4: that he puts his points ahead of the team winning.
Speaker 4: I don't mean that at all. But you need a
Speaker 4: Clayton Keller on your team. You need that go to
Speaker 4: offensive guy that on a night when your team's not
Speaker 4: going great, that he comes up with his points, his
Speaker 4: goals and pushes you into a w and maybe he
Speaker 4: really didn't deserve it. So he is looking towards starting,
Speaker 4: he is looking towards being an all star in the league.
Speaker 4: And again I think he's just a great young player.
Speaker 3: Bill in the front office made a couple of other acquisitions,
Speaker 3: so let's get into some other names here.
Speaker 2: John Marino is another.
Speaker 3: I mean, Sergyev was kind of like the offseason prize,
Speaker 3: but what should our listeners know about another new player?
Speaker 4: And John Marino a veteran defenseman and a guy that's
Speaker 4: going to add to the of the depth of your defense.
Speaker 4: He's not going to be Sergachev, He's not going to
Speaker 4: be a highlight reel guy for sure, but he's going
Speaker 4: to be somebody that's been in the NHL quite a
Speaker 4: long time and is going to be able to really
Speaker 4: bolster the defense so that you it's going to be
Speaker 4: a police defense is going to be a part of
Speaker 4: the game in Utah that you're going to have a
Speaker 4: lot of confidence in. You're going to go into games thinking, well,
Speaker 4: there's no way that they're just that we're going to
Speaker 4: be messing up defensively and getting scored on every night
Speaker 4: because we're not very good defensively. You are going to
Speaker 4: be good defensively for sure, because you've got a good
Speaker 4: defensive cores in Utah. To start this whole franchise with.
Speaker 3: So Ian Cole, It's interesting because I wanted to get
Speaker 3: your take on this. This is a young team, right,
Speaker 3: but Ultimately, you do want to and the Jazz are
Speaker 3: doing this. They're bringing Patty Mills and some other vets,
Speaker 3: but the Jazz, you know, ultimately are relying on their
Speaker 3: young players to carry them towards the future. Sure, even
Speaker 3: called thirty five years old, what do you make of
Speaker 3: that signing having kind of a grown.
Speaker 2: Up in the room.
Speaker 4: I think he's just that they're trying to stabilize the room.
Speaker 4: You know, it's the young guys that are going to
Speaker 4: add the energy and then and they're going to add
Speaker 4: the foot speed and they're going to chase pucks. And
Speaker 4: it's going to be the older guys though, that particularly
Speaker 4: in the room, that have experience and that can play
Speaker 4: still obviously that they're still good NHL players, but they're not.
Speaker 4: They don't have the foot speed that the younger guys
Speaker 4: do they They they maybe get more tired on back
Speaker 4: to back and and two and two three games and
Speaker 4: four nights in that situation, then at a thirty five
Speaker 4: year old is going to get more tired than a
Speaker 4: twenty one year old for sure, But they're going to
Speaker 4: stabilize those young guys. When the young guys get too excited,
Speaker 4: get too off the you know, jumping off the deep end,
Speaker 4: they're gonna say, wha whaaa, wait a minute here, And
Speaker 4: that's why you need those older guys, those guys that
Speaker 4: can settle the younger guys down.
Speaker 3: What is realistic to expect from some of these young
Speaker 3: draft picks right out of the gates. It's different in
Speaker 3: pro hockey than it is in the NBA when if
Speaker 3: you're drafted in the lottery, if you're drafted, drafted in
Speaker 3: the top five, you're expected to play right away, and
Speaker 3: you're paid like you're gonna play right away, generally speaking,
Speaker 3: because I know you've been without power. What would you
Speaker 3: tell our hockey fan listeners out here what to expect
Speaker 3: from the young players? How much do we expect them
Speaker 3: to play right away? What does the development process look
Speaker 3: like and such?
Speaker 4: Well, then, one thing you don't want to do with
Speaker 4: a young player if he's not ready, don't put him
Speaker 4: in the lineup and think that, well, he'll get ready
Speaker 4: while he's in the lineup, because that doesn't happen. You
Speaker 4: want to send him back to junior or you want to,
Speaker 4: you know, in a case of when he's over eligible
Speaker 4: to play in the miners, to go into the minor
Speaker 4: leagues and not jump into the NHL too soon, because
Speaker 4: this is like spense. If you put a young guy
Speaker 4: in the NHL too early, it would be like taking
Speaker 4: a tenth grader and saying, Okay, we want to put
Speaker 4: you into Harvard and just we think you're ready for Harvard,
Speaker 4: and you know, the kid's a tenth grader. He's not
Speaker 4: ready for Harvard yet. Now, some brilliant tenth graders, they
Speaker 4: might be able to get by as a freshman at Harvard,
Speaker 4: but most can't. They need a couple more years. And
Speaker 4: that's the same thing in the NHL. And you can
Speaker 4: really hurt the development of a player if you go
Speaker 4: if you put him in too early. So I think
Speaker 4: everybody's just got to be patient with the young the
Speaker 4: eighteen year olds, and don't expect that many are going
Speaker 4: to play in the NHL right away. There's going to
Speaker 4: be as you know, Celebrini's going to play for San
Speaker 4: Jose this year. Unfortunately he got hurt against Utah, but
Speaker 4: he's going to play in the NHL this year and
Speaker 4: probably be one of San Jose's very best players. But that's,
Speaker 4: you know, a very high franchise pick on a very
Speaker 4: poor team and that's something totally different than Utah.
Speaker 3: Utahd used their sixth pick on Teage again again, will
Speaker 3: excuse me. And you know his dad, Jerome, who obviously
Speaker 3: a Hall of Famer, what do you make of I
Speaker 3: know you haven't seen him play very much, and chances
Speaker 3: are he's not going to play a lot. He did
Speaker 3: play the other night, had an assist. But what would
Speaker 3: you tell our listeners about kind of this family tree,
Speaker 3: this pedigree between Jerome and his son teg You know.
Speaker 4: I don't know their relationship. I imagine it's good, but
Speaker 4: I can speak to the character of Jerome again, the
Speaker 4: captain of the Calgary Flames for so long, and such
Speaker 4: a leader and fearless and played during a very tough
Speaker 4: era and and battled it out every night and then
Speaker 4: turned around and was polite to everybody and signed autographs
Speaker 4: all night, and I did anything that was asked of him.
Speaker 4: And I'm sure that this z apple hasn't fallen far
Speaker 4: from the tree, meaning Teach is going to be just
Speaker 4: like his dad, And I'm sure he wants to emulate
Speaker 4: his dad, and he wants to make his dad proud
Speaker 4: of him, So I'm sure he's going to come in
Speaker 4: and have a lot of the same qualities that Jerome had.
Speaker 4: How he plays, I don't know whether he be better
Speaker 4: off well tough to be better offensively than Jerome, really
Speaker 4: be a different type of player than Jerome, I don't know,
Speaker 4: but obviously the scouts thought enough of him to take
Speaker 4: them where they did, and he's certainly got great bloodlines
Speaker 4: having Jerome mcginnler. There's nobody who can say a bad
Speaker 4: word about Jerome mcginnler.
Speaker 3: Connor Ingram is the goaltender out this way, and I
Speaker 3: just turned twenty seven, so he is still somewhat young
Speaker 3: and had a solid year last year. What's your expectation
Speaker 3: as far as growth year over year from the goaltender
Speaker 3: out here Connor Ingram?
Speaker 4: He's had a really good part of his career. Now
Speaker 4: he's at the age when you know they should be
Speaker 4: taking that step into solidifying themselves as a number one goaltender,
Speaker 4: as a go to guy, as a guy that goes
Speaker 4: in against all the tougher opponents. He's right there in
Speaker 4: his age bractal, and he should be able to do that.
Speaker 4: And he certainly had an impressive year last year, a
Speaker 4: year that you know, you and I have talked about it. It
Speaker 4: was tough to judge a lot of stuff based on
Speaker 4: last year's Coyotes team because you know, they were playing well,
Speaker 4: everything was going great, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: it gets out that they might be moving to Utah,
Speaker 4: and it seemed like they couldn't. You know, you're playing
Speaker 4: in the little college arena and all these rumors are
Speaker 4: swirling around, and it seems like that seemed to take
Speaker 4: them down. But with Connor Ingram, I think they've definitely
Speaker 4: got a number one goalie. How good he becomes is
Speaker 4: up to him, but he's at that age when he
Speaker 4: should be able to take that spot and run with it.
Speaker 3: So we've seen Dylan Gunther and Logan Cooley playing together.
Speaker 3: Gunther's a right winger. Logan Cooley, who joined the show
Speaker 3: this week, is a center. But they're both really young.
Speaker 3: I want to ask you though, about the decision to
Speaker 3: sign Dylan Gunther to an eight year contract that's not
Speaker 3: even allowed in pro basketball. He has played really well
Speaker 3: in the preseason. Both these two youngsters look really good.
Speaker 3: How commonplace Neil is an eight year deal in pro hockey.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say something, Unfortunately, it's very common now and
Speaker 4: when I say unfortun because I just don't believe in
Speaker 4: giving eight year contract. But having said that, Bill Armstrong
Speaker 4: and the rest of the GMS are sort of sunk
Speaker 4: because that's the standard for that type of player, that
Speaker 4: age player, that young player. He's coming off his entry
Speaker 4: level contract, and if he's a guy that you want
Speaker 4: to hold on to and you want to make sure
Speaker 4: that he plays his career with the Utah Club, you've
Speaker 4: got to sign him long term because that's what everybody
Speaker 4: else is getting. And if you said to him, I
Speaker 4: really only want to give you a three year contract,
Speaker 4: then they would say back here, well, we'll just let
Speaker 4: our contract expire and take our chances when it's going
Speaker 4: to expire. So they've sort of got you in that sense.
Speaker 4: There's thirty two teams. There's not enough great enough great
Speaker 4: players to go around. So those players that you do have,
Speaker 4: like Gun there, that you know you want on the
Speaker 4: team for the for their whole career, you're sort of
Speaker 4: on bended knee at that point.
Speaker 2: If you're the GM, tell us what you know about
Speaker 2: Andre Tourney.
Speaker 3: They call him Bear and he's been kind of a
Speaker 3: fun character out here to get to know what sort
Speaker 3: of coach is he what sort of style of play
Speaker 3: does he like to play?
Speaker 2: And what do you know about the head coach out
Speaker 2: this way, Neil.
Speaker 4: I don't know him personally, And again I'm going to
Speaker 4: say that by judging him by what he had with
Speaker 4: Arizona in the first few years that he was coaching
Speaker 4: isn't fair. I think that you can really tell a
Speaker 4: lot about a coach once they you know, once their
Speaker 4: team is in a position where they can actually coach
Speaker 4: them and make a difference. If you don't have the
Speaker 4: player personnel, you know, you could have a god as
Speaker 4: your coach and he can't get into the playoffs. But
Speaker 4: once you've got the player personnel, then the real skill
Speaker 4: set of the of the coach comes out. And I
Speaker 4: think with Andrey, he's got that team now. I think
Speaker 4: that he had it last year to that certain point.
Speaker 4: He you know, he's well liked, that's for sure. The
Speaker 4: players like him. There's there's nothing, there's no problems there.
Speaker 4: So this will be a good test for him this
Speaker 4: year in the first year in Utah.
Speaker 3: So of course, you know, we like winners out here.
Speaker 3: We have a pro basketball team that's always been very good.
Speaker 3: They've never won a championship, but they've been very competitive.
Speaker 3: Just broadly speaking, Neil, what should expectations be, Should it
Speaker 3: be okay, this is a playoff team.
Speaker 2: Should it be okay?
Speaker 3: They should be in the mix at the end for
Speaker 3: a playoff spot or maybe even something beyond. What are
Speaker 3: your expectations from a thirty thousand foot view for the
Speaker 3: Utah Hockey Club this year?
Speaker 4: My expectations for them are clearly that they should be
Speaker 4: in the battle all year to be at least in
Speaker 4: the wildcard spot. So that means they're battling in those
Speaker 4: top eight spots all year and to get into that
Speaker 4: eighth spot at the very least. If they are a
Speaker 4: team that isn't battling for that eighth spot, I'd be
Speaker 4: very disappointed. Based upon what they did last year, based
Speaker 4: upon their acquisitions, I would be very surprised if they weren't.
Speaker 4: I did a show on NHL wrap Around, and we
Speaker 4: did the best off season improvements in the league, and
Speaker 4: I gave Utah honorable mention. Now we only did four
Speaker 4: teams and they got honorable mention, meaning they were five
Speaker 4: or six along with Saint Louis. That's pretty good. There
Speaker 4: were four obvious ones when you think about Nashville, when
Speaker 4: you think about New Jersey and Vancouver, but it was
Speaker 4: Utah actually, and Saint Louis and quite frankly Chicago, who
Speaker 4: I don't think will make the playoffs, but he's improved
Speaker 4: during the offseason. But I think the Utah should really
Speaker 4: be kicking at the door to be in the playoffs
Speaker 4: next year.
Speaker 3: You brought up Chicago, Neil, You're sorry, sure, sure, sure, yeah,
Speaker 3: we got you. Since you brought up Chicago, let's dig
Speaker 3: in because that's the first game. And I still every
Speaker 3: time I say next week, the Chicago Blackhawks are going
Speaker 3: to be in town, I just started laughing because I
Speaker 3: never thought I'd say the sentence. But they're landing here
Speaker 3: to play Utah Hockey Club in the a nogural game.
Speaker 3: The home opener tell us about Chicago the first opponent
Speaker 3: for Utah Hockey Club next week.
Speaker 4: Well, they're going to be. You know, Connor Badar is
Speaker 4: their headliner. They have made a lot of acquisitions during
Speaker 4: the summer to take themselves from a doormat team to
Speaker 4: at least a team that's going to give other teams
Speaker 4: in the league trouble. Uh, They're They're not gonna be
Speaker 4: an easy w for anybody this season. And and they
Speaker 4: got a new captain and Nick Calino, who was there
Speaker 4: last season by the way, with them, and and that's
Speaker 4: a that's a good pick for them of a captain.
Speaker 4: Uh Marazik will probably be in net that first night.
Speaker 4: I think you're going to see an exciting team. It's not,
Speaker 4: as I said, it's not gonna be a pushover for
Speaker 4: Utah that first night. But anytime you can see Connor
Speaker 4: Badard play, it's it's it's a it's a good night
Speaker 4: because this guy is a is a tremendous young player.
Speaker 4: He's very small, but he's like a little buzz saw.
Speaker 4: He can He's got tremendous skill.
Speaker 2: All Right, Neil, before I say you lose, who do
Speaker 2: you like in the West?
Speaker 3: Who are the teams that are Utah Hockey Club fan
Speaker 3: listeners should be watching out for As far as the
Speaker 3: cream of the crop out here in the Western Conference,
Speaker 3: I think the.
Speaker 4: National Predators made it and enormous improvements in the offseason.
Speaker 4: They're an older team, but they don't care. They seem
Speaker 4: to be wanting to play. They're going for twenty five.
Speaker 4: They're not going for twenty seven or twenty eight, meaning
Speaker 4: twenty twenty eight or twenty twenty seven. They're going for
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five. I think they'll be very good. I
Speaker 4: think Vancouver made some improvements and they were already good
Speaker 4: last year. And of course you're always going to want
Speaker 4: to make sure that you have tickets to go and
Speaker 4: see Utah play against Edmondson and you get to see
Speaker 4: Connor McDavid, you get to see a dry Tidle and
Speaker 4: Zach Hyman. Those three guys are tremendous along with the
Speaker 4: rest of their team. I mean they went to Game
Speaker 4: seven in the finals, so there was a reason for that.
Speaker 4: But those three teams in the West I think are
Speaker 4: superior teams.
Speaker 3: All right, Neil, before I say you lose, we have
Speaker 3: a lot of new hockey fans out here. We have
Speaker 3: a lot of hockey fans out here period. That building
Speaker 3: has been jam packed for preseason action.
Speaker 2: They're looking for content.
Speaker 3: You've got a great podcast for our listeners out here.
Speaker 2: Where can they go find all your work?
Speaker 4: Well, it's called NHL Wrap Around and I host it
Speaker 4: with my buddy Vick Moron, who's an encyclopedia memory of
Speaker 4: the NHL. But you can get it on any podcast platform,
Speaker 4: and we like to ask very interesting questions and have
Speaker 4: great guests and not be doing what everybody else is
Speaker 4: doing in the media. We're consider ourselves hockey guys that
Speaker 4: are asking other hockey guys about what they think. So
Speaker 4: I think anybody would find it interesting and you'll learn
Speaker 4: things that you didn't know before you turned it on,
Speaker 4: and that's our goal.
Speaker 3: Neil, Thank you, sir, Stay safe out there. Thanks so
Speaker 3: much for the time, and you're really thrilled to have
Speaker 3: you along.
Speaker 4: Two things I got to say to you before you
Speaker 4: run goe is you got to say that I'm a
Speaker 4: prophet the way I said that it would be called
Speaker 4: the Utah Hockey Club. Yes, sir, seventeen years ago, weren't
Speaker 4: you with me in not seventeen years ago, twenty seven
Speaker 4: years ago? Weren't you with me in the Miami Arena
Speaker 4: with your dad when we were playing in the playoffs
Speaker 4: against the Florida Panthers.
Speaker 2: Let's see twenty seven. Yes, I'm good memory. I had
Speaker 2: forgotten about it.
Speaker 4: Wow. And here's a great story for you.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 4: I ratted you out to your dad about drinking mountain dew.
Speaker 4: You were drinking mountain dew, and I said, Deeve, I
Speaker 4: thought you weren't supposed to have any caffeines. And he said, well,
Speaker 4: he's drinking that. That's not a that's not coke. I said,
Speaker 4: Mountain Dew has more caffeine in than any drink you
Speaker 4: can find. And he went, oh, my goodness, and he
Speaker 4: pulled you away. So all these years later, I still
Speaker 4: remember ratting you out on the on the caffeine, Neil.
Speaker 3: That was the beginning of a long, slippery slow my friend.
Speaker 3: But I do you remember that, good memory. I haven't
Speaker 3: thought about that in a long time, so now I
Speaker 3: know it was you. It caused the Mountain Dew.
Speaker 2: To be ripped away from me.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was sorry to say. I gotta admit it.
Speaker 4: After twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Years, All good sir, Thanks so much for the time.
Speaker 3: Excited to have you on all year long.
Speaker 4: Can't wait to be on next time.
Speaker 3: The great Neil Smith, general manager of the Rangers. He's
Speaker 3: going to a former general manager of the Rangers, the
Speaker 3: chief scout for the Red Wings. He's gonna join us
Speaker 3: all year long. I bet my dad wishes it was
Speaker 3: still Mountain Dew. I'm just gonna leave that there. Did
Speaker 3: you hear that story.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was routed out for drinking mountain dew when
Speaker 3: I was like sixteen or seventeen years old.
Speaker 2: Back in the day.
Speaker 3: I never knew was Neil Smith who told my dad
Speaker 3: so funny, I think, just at the beginning of so
Speaker 3: many letdowns from my pops.
Speaker 2: Love you dad, all right.
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