Hurricanes down grunted into a tropical disturbance.

Blue Jacket.

They are insane.

If they think they're gonna win the Stanley Cup, they should be called the strait Jackets, Devils.

They're in the details, not in the playoffs.

Islanders, the firsts in their name is silent, just like their fans, Rangers.

Henry hank Ford should have recalled.

Them when he had the opportunity.

Flyers, Rod Street, Bozos Penguins.

What's the point of being a bird if you can't even fly?

It's like being offishal.

Can't swims, Capitals vetch can't.

Bruins stole their name from UCLA Sabs.

They ruined the.

Game of baseball by introducing saber metrics.

To professional sports.

Red Wings what that poor hungry goose had after tannabe bludgeted with a hockey stick after it innocently knocked on his door with its beak while seeking shelter during inclement weather.

Panthers the organization was creative.

They'd be sponned by Owen's corny and wear all pink uniforms.

Canadians obviously Original six more like Unoriginal six Senators too busy shutting down the government to play hockey lightning.

Everyone knows it doesn't strike twice.

Okay, it's struck twice, but there's no way it could strike three times.

May believe Savid Arounds is nineteen seventeen, and nobody has the heart to tell them that the plural form of.

Leaf is leaves mammoth overheated.

Because of their their wily sweaters, we're not all that breatheable black Hawks.

Whenever their name is mentioned in the Mornings, you know, the twenty four people in the studio begin to giggle uncontrollably.

Avalanche Chevy's bigger, boxier version of an.

El Camino stars.

Rosen is smittening and feels an overwhelming desire to take out his phone snap a picture whenever.

He sees one.

Predators contemplating fleeing the Dateline kitchen while being badgered by Chris Hansen explaining that they d only.

Drove four hundred miles to talk to her.

Wooz what Pa will inevitably have a case of In January Jets, the only win they'll see is in the first three letters of the city they play in Ducks.

Rosen hates their logo because.

It has a.

Because it has a bill on it.

Flaves extinguished Oilers.

Conor McDavid.

Is over raided Kings he thrown Sharks haven't.

Recovered psychologically since Arthur Fonzarelli humiliated them by jumping over them while wearing water skis in a leather jacket.

Crackett with the foundation of their building.

We'll be doing when the fans collectively collapse.

On the Wild sweep them in the playoffs.

Cacks.

Apparently, naming the Canadian hockey team is really easy.

You just say the name of the city and follow it up with a slang term for its citizens.

If they relocate to Iowa, they'll be called the Iowa Islands Golden Knights.

They put the loss in Las Vegas.

They're all, including the Yankees, the Boscos dead opening night.

In so much to get to National Hockey League Opening I mentioned the Bronx Bombers dead.

They've been eliminated from postseason play.

Quarterback controversy continues to swirl here in Minneapolis, golfers try to rebound after a loss to Ohio State when they host Purdue.

The Minnesota Timberwolves.

They're about to begin their season.

They're still in some pre season, but they'll start in a couple of weeks.

With all those topics to get to, I don't know where to begin.

Let's spin the wheel of.

Topic Minnesota Wild.

What was that it said in Minnesota Wild?

This is what a landa done.

That's weird.

I'm not paying this close attention to the wilds.

I once did TENN Tobe take it away?

I heard we had three hours of wild talk.

Fallness basically said it was Ducky and Bunny Radio.

Sure, I would assume.

So if it's Kevin Falmas, he finished so well the season.

He finished the show by the way he I think it must just be the time slot nine to noon where you take a break havn eight minutes of commercials, then come back for one minute of program h eight more minutes of commercial which just kills you and me.

Yes, they have.

In other words, they have a complete and total disregard for the show that follows them.

It's like, we get out on time every single break all nine.

That's what we do because that's what we're supposed to do.

There's a sign what used to hang in here?

Maybe they need to put it back up.

Break at the twelves, the twenty seven's and the fifty two or if you straddle forty two, and apparently they all of.

A sudden, we've been listening to management motions.

Just disregard him.

Like the other show said, yes.

That's what we should do.

He said, the seasons, the season is, he said, the wild season.

It is bright that it all starts tonight.

You do the rhyming thing there.

Bright tonight, I uptight on a site to come to fight, right right right?

I yeah, you know.

It's always we start every every every season here locally with a montage, and it's always only the beginning because it is only the beginning.

It's a peppy little tune by a band called Chicago.

Tend me.

How many bands do you know that are named after like cities or countries or continents.

Berlin, there's Berlin, Europe, Europe, Asia, very good.

Not Chicago, Chicago, Boston, Boston.

Think of country is Alabama?

Yeah, I know there's Alabama.

Yeah, Alabama.

They did love in the first degree.

That's six.

And there are my guesses there are more.

Sure, there are plenty of So we always start to see, isn't with that it's it's peppy, it's upbeat, and it is it's only the beginning.

That doesn't mean anything is going to end.

Uh, that's not It doesn't mean it's going to end bright It starts bride.

The season is bright, doesn't mean we'll end brightly.

But yeah, it starts tonight.

The Wild take on the Saint Louis Blues.

And did you say they are in the gateway city of the Arch.

It's at Saint Louis.

Yeah, Saint Louis.

Our former coach is no longer their head coach.

Right, he's long gone from there?

Who is it, Mike, Yeah, he's long gone from there?

Right?

Yeah?

You know, NHL coaches get recycled so often that you could ask me who the other thirty one NHL coach are and I would probably not be able to answer a whole lot of them because I don't remember which ones on which team anymore?

Is Mike Yo is still a head coach somewhere, I don't believe.

So, okay, he's all done.

I'm sure he's still an assistant.

Yeah sure, oh yeah, sure, God today gone to me.

He's an assistant coach right now with the Ottawa Senators.

Ottawa Senators probably doesn't pay what the head coaching job does, but it's a living, you know, and it beats working for a living too.

So Jim Montgomery, who used to coach the ballin Bruins, is now the Saint List Blues.

You know what?

You know what they call him in the locker room?

Money?

Money?

Oh sure, why wouldn't they?

Uh let me ask you a question.

I will defer to you, and I know we've talked about it.

Well, we have Peak at the Purple next we will certainly talk wild.

I know there was plenty of talk, but basically three hours of that, I believe.

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I was breaking out into a cold sweat and getting hives.

He had the NHL Network on, so it was a replay of a game from last night, and I couldn't take it anymore.

So I had to go to That's what I got on.

Yeah, because at least esp And gives me the crawl, so then I can see it helps me with topic ideas.

Because usually by this time I saw that with you and Rosen yesterday.

Yeah, by this time at the ground, I've run out of things to talk about.

There's really not much going on right now.

So I just wait and I see something that piques my curiosity and then I go ahead and go with it.

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Today, fish Wrap Factory west Side wrote about JJ McCarthy and when he comes back, we'll be able to do the quick passing game.

And I think that's that's sort of dovetails on what Kevin O'Connell said earlier this week and his day after the game news conference.

If you'll remember the quote tend to be.

It was quote he's talking about JJ.

He's had some real moments to grow through this time, meaning the time that he has been on the bench watching Wentz for three games, watching Carson, watching the way Carson's kind of gone through progressions quickly.

Just the value of putting the ball in play even when it's not your first progression end up quote, And that has been part of the problems you've watched McCarthy.

He he seems like other than that fourth quart against the Bears, the other seven quarters almost like a deer in the headlights kind of a thing.

Game goes really fast, right, it's and you know the way O'Connor likes.

O'conna likes to throw the wall down field, and you can't blame him.

He's got two really good wide receivers who can stretch the field in.

Jet and Addie.

So but it's a double edged sword because as much as you'd like to throw out downfield, when your offensive line isn't providing a heck of a lot of protection, it's hard to do that.

So you sort of have to mix and match, and when it's not successful, I think part of that falls on the coach and the play calling, because if your offensive line isn't able to provide that protection, you can't try to force those.

Those long, developing pass patterns.

Now with Wentz, as O'Connell pointed out there, he's whatever you think of him as a quarterback.

He certainly isn't one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

We get that, but having that veteran savvy he does know I can't stand back to all day.

I got to get rid of the football.

And if that means, you know, the first progressions, you know that in inner football talk, aren't they I got to get the ball to somebody.

I got to get it out of my hands because if I don't, I'm going to get sacked.

And we don't want to.

We we we can't afford.

You can't a sack is it could be it basically in most cases just snuffs out a drive before it even gets a chance to begin.

You can't be losing.

Yeah, they just kill you.

And so now I would hope that.

It is year of watching Donald last year he would have learned that, you know, I mean, he's you know, you know, uh O'Connell's saying that these last few games that JJ's had an opportunity to really see the value in getting rid of the ball, even when your first progression isn't there.

And I thought he did that last year too.

I would have thought he would already figure that out.

But if that, if if there's more teaching moments that need to happen, then it's it's better that that they're happening without him on the field.

Learning the game while you're playing is more.

You know, it's for me.

Lor you've heard me say that.

It's you can watch all you want, but you got to get out there and actually play right.

And he watched for an entire year because he was injured last year.

And then we saw and it doesn't look like a and again he's just darting his career.

But he wasn't very good those first two games.

But hopefully he does see the value.

He picked something up from Wentz in that if I'm back there, I can't hold the ball forever.

I have to get rid of the ball and then you can't force it into place as you saw last week.

No you didn't because it was Detroit.

Detroit was playing the bungles and Browning was just I mean he was forcing it into places.

Yeah, and he was last week against Detroit.

I mean just in an effort to get rid of the ball, he'd hang on to it and then he would throw it.

And I think Detroit had two.

Or three interceptions.

You just you can't do that.

And so.

Because McCarthy's going to be the guy.

There's no question about that.

Whether now we've been talking all week, last couple of weeks.

As a matter of fact, you know, I don't think by the wait before you move on, you mentioned the Bengals and Browning.

Yeah, do you want to do you want to know the craziest set of the NFL so far this year?

What is it?

Jamar Chase has more tackles than Michah Parson.

Yeah, I saw I saw something about It wasn't that one, but it was something about you know, it was about the It was about the tackles by by Jamar and it was more than he had catchers or something like that with some other stat.

Like that, Jamar Chase has five tackles this year.

Think about it.

Actually that came be right.

It looks like Parsons says eight.

So wherever I read that was wrong?

Well, anyway, there have been a solo tackles.

Yeah, there have been a number of different Yeah, he has.

More tackles than solo tackles than Michael Parsons.

Yes, Like I say, I've already heard a couple other comparisons.

Jamar Chase has had more tackles than and then there's been some comparison to somebody.

So so yeah, so I I you know again, I don't think any of us know for sure.

I don't even know if the head coach knows for sure who's going to start against Philadelphia.

It sounds to me that by everything they are saying they wanted to be McCarthy, they are going to force feed McCarthy.

And I guess you know, we've debated this, you me Rose, and we've we've we've we've had emailers weighing in it.

It seems to me it's on the emails.

I don't know if it's fifty to fifty, it might even be sixty forty in favor of just playing McCarthy no matter what happens this season.

This season, I think people feel like the season's already gone.

Even though the vikings are three and two and if the playoffs started today playoffs they would be in but I think people are ready to see what they what we have with McCarthy, and they have that that's the case, that that's fine, because I mean, eventually you do have to play him.

I mean, even if you think to yourself right now, if you're going, wow, he was really overwhelm those first two games.

Once it's played, okay, And you know I read that that that line from Mark Craig fisherp Factory west Side when he said he said something like new rule and he said, if you knew what Wentz did in the final drive of the.

Who do we just beat Cleveland?

Cleveland?

If you do that in your last drive and win the game, go nine of nine and drive the team eight yards and win the game, then you should keep your job.

And I tend to.

Agree with that.

But you know, how long do you keep him in there?

I guess if he keeps winning.

But then I understand the other side of the corner, people go, well, we still don't know what we got on JJ McCarthy.

Well, you know, we'll find out sooner or later.

But that'll all starting Carson Wentz doesn't prevent JJ McCarthy from ever playing again.

That's exactly right.

So we'll just see how it goes, how it plays out.

But yeah, I think what the biggest thing mcarthy needs to do is he's got to get rid of the football.

You can't stand back and you can't force it into places, and you got to you got to realize games played pretty fast at this level if they and and I don't know if the offensive lineup, which should get better after the bye week, right because we think Jackson will.

And I don't know it's concussion.

Guy is going to be out for a while, right he's but I would assume so.

And then O'Neill, you have to remind me we talked about yesterday he is.

So I don't know if he's got a chance to come back by by uh by the Philly game, But we'll find out.

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No Mark Rosen today.

It's Vikings bye week, so it is for Mark Rosen as well.

He will be out.

We'll be back on.

Next Tuesday.

P r Pible spread swing will will happen at one thirty today.

Rosen is given his picks, either in writing or verbally to Tannabe, so he'll pick for Rosen and then Deuce.

Will join us.

As well.

So that's coming up at one thirty this afternoon.

Timmy, are you familiar with Greg Wishnisky.

You know who that is?

Yes, I think ESPN Hockey guy, Yeah.

ESPN Hockey guy.

He I just decided, you know, because as as the season begins, we always like to make our predictions.

How do you think the local team will do?

And so all I googled was NHL predictions and that's the first one that came up.

And here's what wish Nisky writes.

And I want you to tell me what you think about this.

The Wild will spend one hundred and thirty six million to keep Carill Capriso through twenty thirty three thirty four bold prediction.

At some point during that run, the Wild will have built a Stanley Cup contender around here.

O average you can see the broad strokes of it now.

Brock Faber and Zee boyam anchoring the defense.

Yes, Per Walstead as the franchise goalie.

Offense up front from Matt Boldi, Danilla Yurov and is Marco Rossi officially not going to be traded.

Point being that this feels like a transition year for the Wild.

I'm not a.

Huge fan of their offensive depth beyond Caprice off assuming he remains healthy, which he better be because with him limited to forty one games last season, the Wild were the worst five on five team offensively in the NHL, with expected goals percentage twenty ninth.

That was a reason they finished minus eleven in gold differential last season, second worst among all playoff teams.

That's his synopsis.

He does not have them making the playoffs this year.

Does transition season?

I know you're the jolly Green Giant.

We just had fallness, basically saying the future is bright.

I think he thinks we're bringing a Lombardi Trophy here.

What do you think of the Wild this year?

You know, again, we all know injuries this and that, but if they stay relatively healthy, Caprice so plays the whole year.

What's your expectations.

Yeah, I don't know if transition is the word, just because I think they're going to comparable to where they have been previously, Right, I don't know if they're they're going in a direction.

But I made the point the other day that you know, Bill Garrin and Craig Leopold have basically publicly said, hey, we have a five year plan.

This is year three of the five year plan.

So that would lead you to believe that this is not the year that they are ready to contend for Stanley Cup.

And it makes sense because they are littered with the young guys in their lineup.

Right, you're off is a rookie.

Ogrin has seen the NHL, but he's you know, he's he hasn't played enough, so he's he's a rookie.

Booyam, even though he played three games in the playoffs last year.

Is a rookie.

Your check has a small amount of action.

You know who the goalie might be when they do get to a cup might be Valstad, who's barely played at the NHL level.

So when you are going to and they're playing Hunter Hat in the lineup tonight, who's making his NHL debut When you have that many players that you're hoping to get contributions from.

Those guys just don't typically contribute year one.

I would love for it to happen.

I would love for that to be expedited.

But odds are though, that group of five is going to be much better two three years down the road than they are right now, and so if they are not ready to contribute right now, then you're still looking at a team that does have some high end players and could be competitive, but they're not going to have the depth.

You know, caprice off alone.

I know we can't do the if he's healthy or not, but when he wasn't healthy, they were one of the worst offensive teams in hockey last year.

When he was healthy, they were great.

They could score.

As long as guys in the top six are healthy, they should be able to put up enough offense.

I'm not convinced the depths guys are going to be able to do that, specifically because of the youth there.

But Capriceov's arguably a top five player in the league.

I think Matt Boldie's gonna be a superstar.

Hopefully Rossi takes another step.

Ericsonnack is a very quality top six center in this league.

So they have some pieces in the top six, you'd like to add another guy or two to really get yourself a shot, or even just to give yourself some depth on a to give yourself a third line that can score.

But then once you start getting injuries to some of those guys, then all of a sudden, you go from hey, a solid offensive team, do a bad offensive team very quickly.

But it's gonna hard, be hard to imagine in twenty twenty five that those young players are going to be like NH already right out of the gate.

I'm going to make a I'm going about to say something controversial that's interesting.

I'm going to draw a comparison with the young guys to the Minnesota Twins in that you have five young guys you talked about, yeah, and with the Twins every year the pull that pocket protectors will write that, you know, preseason story about been talented lineup, got a lot of young guys, our farm system is really good, and they'll they'll rattle off all the names, and we know the names.

We've rattled him off ourselves.

Miranda Larnic, Royce Lewis and then.

Yea Walner Julian is one of those.

One time for.

Julian, then the brooks Lee and then uh and you know, and and and the list goes on and on and on and oftentimes.

You know, of those guys we just mentioned, none of them have blossomed into a uh uh, a superstar for sure, but none of them have really played where you go, I can count on this looks like a guy as long as he's happy here and stays healthy, we can count on this guy to be in the lineup for years to come, right We we've not established that.

And you know, the same goes with the wild of those five guys, just odds are one, maybe two will turn out.

This guy's a mainstain in the lineup.

They played there there there were really they're a quality player.

They might not be amongst the best in the league, but you can't not.

There aren't many all star teams in hockey, right in any sport where every single position is filled.

So then you have to hope that at least a couple of those guys.

And you know, I asked you about them the other day, and like you said, it's just it's just really it's really hard to predict which.

Guys will become, you know, main stays in the National Hockey League and perform at a high level.

Well, not only of those five, are you you know, Let's say, let's say two of the five are going to be main stays.

Right, of those two, it's not likely both those guys are mainstays this year, right, yes, right, So it's probably like two of them will will be hits.

And that might be two three years from now, probably not going to happen this year.

And there are depending on young guys this.

Year, right and again by by hook or by crook.

You know, you you hope that they do develop great and things happen.

And as we know tennebe, you know, it can really carry a team a long way, not just during the regular season, but the postseason.

Is good goaltender, if your goaltender is really good, it covers it.

It's like I'll make a golf analogy, A really a red hot putter can cover.

Up for a lot of other mistakes on a golf course, right.

Sure, I mean today speaking of Wheeler topic, through three holes, I was on pace to shoot sixty.

I made a six foot.

Par put On one I made a forty five foot birdie put on two and a fifteen foot birdie put on three.

Wow, I'm two wonder that the Laggers trail two under through every three holes.

Tendabee is on pace for one twelve under sixty on.

A par seventy two.

I ended up shooting seventy nine because the putter did stay hot and I got leaky.

Had a couple of all hybrid clubs.

But the putter can cover up for a lot of saying where goaltender would be I would say would be the comparison.

If you got a hot goaltender, you know you played hell when I was a boo doockey goaltender.

I can't tell you how many teams, how many times I bailed our team.

My former teammates aren't going to be real throat with me.

So the thing is, though I bailed him out many many times, the thing is here historically, and that doesn't mean the twenty twenty five twenty twenty six goalie tandem can't do it historically with the wild I feel like we've always had solid gold ten.

I don't feel like we've had steel games goaltending, okay, right, Like it's we've just always been pretty good defensively and they should be well.

It depends on how the young guys played this year.

But assuming Brodean is healthy, which it doesn't look like he's gonna play to night, but he's getting close Brodein and Spurgeon and you know, obviously brock Faber and Middleton.

I mean, you gotta and who knows they're gonna get out of booyim.

You got a solid core four there with potential with some young guys, it should be a pretty decent defensive team.

But I don't know.

If Gustafson is a Hey, I'm gonna win games for you, he might not lose games for you.

Let me ask you a question.

What if the Wild were to get out to a two zero.

Leaps and I think it's best in Saint Louis keep the things scoreless for as long as possible.

No, I like that thinking too.

I've heard that somewhere before in the Blues.

You know this wish nisky guy.

He also listed Central Division standings, Lance Stars, Mammoth, Jets top.

Four and then he's got to the Wild after that, and then the Blue.

So the Blues the Mammoth seemed to be kind of that trendy Yeah, they've been They've been bad for a long time and they are starting over the last year or two.

You know, they've When you are bad for a long time, you end up drafting high quite a bit.

And you know, they've had Clayton Keller there not for a while, who's in his prime.

Logan Cooley, who went to the University of Minnesota has been there now for a couple of years.

So they kind of be the trendy by the way.

Their uniforms are awesome, are they really?

Yeah, the Kracking and Mammoth.

Like typically, whenever there's been new logos, new team names, new Jersey rebrands, I don't like them.

Yeah, Kracking and Mammoth have just knocked it out of the part.

Are the are the mammoths?

Is like?

Is it like their jersey like for like wooly ye.

Like, because that's what I would they do have a wooly mammoth type logo.

Well, I if they kind of have like blame Bengals colors to a certain extent.

If I was a fan of the Mammoth, I would just call them the Woolies.

That's what I'd be calling.

I wish.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, and I bet.

I bet I wish they would have been the yees.

I bet there are people that are just calling him, you know, because it's you know, the mammoths comes from a wooly mammoth.

So I guess there's some people that are already are.

Calling them the world were dressing up like a wooly mammoth.

Yeah, and there will be people that will be calling them the woolies, just like you know with the Vikings, some people call them the Norsemen.

You know, you you you come up with.

Other I still don't know what a wild is.

I don't think they know what a wild is either.

We don't have an identity.

That's her problem.

We don't.

This text message says sorry, I swallowed my own saliva to cough there all for not.

If we can't fix the power play, is that still a problem with our club?

The power play?

It seems like we talk about it every or that goes back to the power kill, the penalty kill.

The penalty penalty kill has been bad for a while.

That needs to change more than the power play.

Okay, the power play will go as far as your player, your good players are healthy, okay, right.

I I don't have the splits in front of me.

I would imagine the power play was much better when Caroka Priest soft played last year compared to when he didn't play.

Yeah, that would make sense.

But you know, if you want to look for how can the power play get better, it does look like ze Booyam is going to be running the top of that power play right on the gate.

Hopefully, you know, just from a zone entry standpoint, he's going to help get the puckett of the offensive zone.

And you know we're still gonna be stuck with all lefties because we always have all lefties in Minnesota.

But hopefully he doesn't just defer to the veterans all the time and take some shots from back there.

But they have some pieces to make the power play work.

Here's what I'll tell you.

For me, I think what's really underrated and what could really help.

I think the crowd can be a major influence on the power play.

And as long as they continue to say shoot, shoot, shoot, and then the team the team listens, and then and then they follow that lead, I think we'll score more because you cannot score if you don't shoot.

You can use that next time.

The TENE.

Fitzgerald set sail shoot me.

I don't know, because I just love shooting.

You know, it's going to get me going, yes, and then then the emailers or the texters are going to chime in.

Shoot, try to get me going more.

Shoot, shoot shoot.

I still remember last year in the playoffs, zeb Booyam, fresh out of the University of Denver, playing in like his first ever playoff game, and the puckets to the point we're yelling for him to shoot.

It's like, come on, guys, shoot shoot.

There's almos a Hobe Baker winner over here.

I'm just telling you it's going to be if you don't shoot.

Just let them calm down and relax like a hockey player.

Let me ask you a question.

Just answer yes or no.

If you don't shoot the puck, can you score?

Well technically you could, but unlikely.

It's right, So there you go.

So you have to shoot.

Get them.

Quit the little fancy passing back and forth and trying to make oh look at how we can look, how we handle the pocket, the way we can throw it.

You know, we can go.

Is it tape to tape?

Do they say that?

How do they say it?

Question?

For you?

Yeah?

I know, I'm really on the obscene side of this logic here, But if the whole goal is just to shoot because you can't score if you don't shoot it, When you have the puck at your own blue line, should you just shoot?

Well, no, there's there's some nuance to it.

You want to get to an area where you get to a quality shot.

Well one year when you're in if you're just feeling, you got to just and then you get to deflections and the weird bounces in.

The puck lite.

What if no one's there for the deflection at that time, then you got to hold on to it till you get someone to get third deflection, find some new players.

What's fast?

What if the shooting line is that open?

You got you just shoot?

Shoot?

The more you shoot, the better you do.

This one, says Faullness, introduced to guests, saying he wanted to talk about the aren't wild and also the glory years?

Is that a pest that I somehow missed the wild glory years?

They had a glory year, they had a glory year.

Yeah, I don't remember that.

I don't remember the glory years of the Wild.

And it's a twenty five year anniversary.

Bit because it's okay there, it's the Wild twenty five year anniversary, so everyone's doing like they're all twenty twenty five Wild teams.

One uh one trip to the finals?

Did they have a final finals?

Right?

One trip to the co That was back in three though it.

Was one of our least talented teams.

Yes, was that three oh three?

That was the year and that was.

Uh who was a coach then?

And remind me Lamaire was kind of really just defensive conservative just is that.

Was his what was his Yes, I mean Jacques Lamaire won multiple Stanley Cups as the New Jersey Devil's head coach, and he basically, I don't want to say invented, but perfect did the neutro zone trap where we're going to clog everything up in the neutral zone and make it a challenging for you to get to in the offensive zone.

So, yes, he was a defense first coach, but he also liked players that played with speed, Like he kind of revitalized West Wallas's career, who didn't know how much more of a chances he had at playing in the National Hockey League.

He kind of liked having the fast, speedy guys that could also, you know, attack you and be aggressive, but be able to get back and be a respect If you weren't responsible defensively, you're gonna have a hard time finding the lineup.

So he believed, I guess had defense wins championships.

Yeah, just like me I and they worked for him.

Yeah, it worked for him with and that was with the Where where did he win those titles?

New Jersey, New Jordan with the Devils.

Okay, well that's the.

Thing too, you get you could look back at the first five six years of Wild Hockey and go Jacques Lamira was one of the best coaches in hockey, but he almost was so good that you're you're your organization never got off to the start that a expansion organization should because they are almost too competitive.

Where they weren't getting you know, you didn't go that three four years of getting top five picks and building up, you know, chances of getting stars because they were they were always good enough to at least be you know, a middling team under jacqueslamer So they never bottomed out.

I shouldn't say never, but they also didn't hit on the draftics they had.

So he's the reason we only had a glory year rather than glory year.

Yeah.

So he was too good of a coach that the Wild werey mediocre team and they weren't Bottoming hi Ount and getting top five picks where you have shots at, you know, the Sidney Crosby's of the world and the Patrick Kines and the Jonathan Tow's and the Connor McDavid's, those types of players we weren't never getting a shot at because we were too high in the drift or too low in the drafting, whatever you want to call it.

So he is he out of the league.

Yes, he did.

Yeah, he's out because he.

Just age right, just aged out.

I decided I've had it.

Yeah, I've been around a long time.

He's a hockey genius.

Can we lure him out of retirement?

I mean, I like I like Hines, but I don't just like Hines.

Actually, I don't know what what age Jacques Lamire is at this point.

But he was a hell of a player too, I don't I don't know if him in a Caprice apage along.

He was a hell of a player.

Oh yeah, played for the Hall of Famer, played for the Canadians.

Yeah, he's eighty years old now.

Yeah, I guess once you when you get to that, I mean it's like it.

Means you could still he's got the good life.

Now, yeah, you could still coach.

I mean there's not really an age limit on coaching.

But yeah, once you've just well, the game has changed a lot since he coached, So I don't know if you'd be able to adjust to that or not.

Uh so you're I guess.

And your final prediction?

Do you think?

Are we a fringe team?

Yeah?

Yeah, they're okay, last one in, last one out kind of thing.

Okay, like the March madness when they project the brackets and then they'll have like the last four in, last four out projections.

I think they're going to be in that range.

Yeah, I'd love to be surprised.

I was surprised last year when you know, mid December we're talking about them being the second best record hockey.

That happens.

Yes, I don't like the The fact that we already have some injuries to start off the season is not encouraging with Zukarello and looks like Sterm might miss up to two months now.

Two months, yeah, six eight weeks.

I saw you see lower or upper I don't even remember and.

They Yeah, that's still one of the oddest things.

And I guess I think you've told me.

The logic is, if you guys, you don't want to let anybody know the exact a body part that's hurt because the other team will trying to.

Cheap shot them.

Ye, yes, let's target them.

Yeah, target them.

But yeah, they never tell you it's just either lower or upper body.

So there you go.

So then so then we're always we never have an idea when these guys are coming back.

Yeah, we do know this.

That ros and things.

Though the wol he's he can't predict the while because of the possibility of injuries, so it's just too hard to predict where how they'll do.

But he he's firmly convinced that the Wolves will.

Finish second in the in the Western Conference finals, even though you can't predict injuries in the NBA either, But he's got them as Uh.

The best is he thinks they were second in the West last year just based off of getting the conference final, but the regular season they were not.

Yeah, and that was that's you know that that barely got into sixth last year.

Yeah, for the almost playing the playing game I mean it went down to the wire.

Yeah.

For me, what I want to see from from the Wolves, I just want to see them uh as professional.

Well, yeah, be consistent.

Who is who's that former Vikings players?

No, no, no, it's the one that says mundane Tuesday.

Yeah, and then then we have.

One more Chris Hovans.

We need to be consistent as well.

Nd thing.

Yeah, well that's not whole vand hops.

The one that goes it is Bandwagon.

It really is.

Guys are laying out the line.

I think it is the other guy you mentioned.

Yeah, that's who it is that you just.

Got to be consistent.

Think of it, man, I really am.

I'm fed up with I'm fed up with all the crap that I hear.

I think it's Bandwagon, I really do.

Man, these guys lay it on the line.

These guys are in the training room, man, guys laid on the line.

Man, they lay online.

Sometimes it doesn't that one.

I don't know what and you know it's Chris Claiborne.

Chris Claiborne.

That's I'm sorry.

Well, and you know, getting back to that, we used to the whole band thing.

It just sounded funny.

I just loved it.

He is actually the one thing I will agree with the whole band.

I think in the National Footballague, most of the time, guys are laying it on the line, you.

Know, and sometimes it just you're just you're not as good as the other team.

Sorry.

You can't always be the best team every Sunday.

Sometimes you can't even be the best team every other Sunday.

Sometimes you can't even be the best team every.

Third or fourth Sundays.

Sometimes it just works out that way.

Just hopefully the vikings.

Laid on the line against Philadelphia that's coming up in a couple of weeks.

We'll have that game for you on this radio station.

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