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There were some of those up by three early payouts, I think last night.
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Oh, they're ever did not take long.
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Yeah, if you had the abs money line, you had the abs last night with bet three, six, five,
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it took about four minutes.
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Four year for your bet to go through.
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Avalanche led five, nothing after the first period.
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En route to a nine, two,
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dropping of the Calgary Flames.
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How many times have they scored?
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Oh, I mean, it's gosh, at least once today.
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They have those games happen, guys.
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I'm just excited that's game one.
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Oh, he's freaking great.
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I did like the fact that we were on the prime talking.
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And we said how, you know, the one thing about the Flames is,
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they don't get blown up.
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They're going to show up and we're going to add tails off.
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They're going to be there through thicketh it.
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Yeah, I can also cursed kale.
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He got hurt last night.
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Got hit by Klapka, took a couple turns and then did not return for the third.
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That being said, the score.
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He put up three helpers, but yes, he was in discomfort.
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We're hoping that he's fine.
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Teas and peas to our good friend, kale McCarr.
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But yes, not into the final.
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A lot of McKinnon and natious and
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Codri and some Kalker colleagues.
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Codri, Jack, did we miss the Codri goal?
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Like we are like, yeah, do.
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Yeah, there was a lot of things that could have been forecast against the former team.
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Yeah, he's going to score twice.
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And the Victor Olipson one would have paid two.
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Yeah, let's get punched into face for
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not making that bet.
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I usually do the bets.
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So I appreciate you stepping up when I was.
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Although, what happened in Vancouver last year?
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Yeah, you had Vegas new coach.
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They're going to win.
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Did they win by two?
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Vancouver was a bit or one.
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Nothing and two one.
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And with an empty net or Vegas one by two.
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Hey, those empty nets, man.
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They still don't know what you're paying.
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I'm telling the empty net goals.
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The most underrated goal that the thing in the game.
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Did you use AI to figure that out?
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It's all my years of studying the game.
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Like a veteran hunter out there.
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I'm a hunter who's rotten.
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So he goes over here.
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Got a seal for thing.
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Watching it last night.
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And it does two, nothing.
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Of course, there goes wolf incomes.
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Cooley five and all right.
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Well, you do appreciate that for a team
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that is near the bottom of the league in standings.
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This does not happen very often.
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It happens all the friggin time.
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They get their doors blown off on a near-nightly basis.
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The most recently Saturday.
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I believe at the dome.
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Yeah, just there on the grass.
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The flames are usually right there.
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They've lose by a couple.
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But the efforts usually quite good.
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Oh, the down by three.
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And then score three.
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A couple of short-handed goals.
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Hey, all of a sudden,
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this thing's tied at three going into the third.
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They find ways to make it close.
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So I don't know what we,
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I don't know what we saw last night.
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And I think you saw a team that's really effing good.
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So that you styled in that lost their last game at home
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and said enough of that.
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We're going to play some hockey.
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The other thing that has happened all year.
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But it's been with the last seven games.
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Is that this team sucks on the road?
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And this team's really good at home.
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Yeah, and I don't understand that.
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That doesn't mean I,
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I don't disagreeing with the statement.
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But it doesn't make sense in my head.
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How, yeah, it's confusing.
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I say there's change in coaching,
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but it's not that much.
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No, like they're twice as good at home.
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They're a 602 team at home.
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And they are a 303 team on the road.
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That's worse than the Kanox.
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Like when they go on the road.
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Like everybody's feeling good about themselves.
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But like to see them go on a heater at home
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and everyone freak out, it's natural.
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They're like they still got a six game road trip.
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They've been awful on the road.
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I don't know what the odds would be or the numbers would be.
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Half those teams that they beat over the last
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played in Edmonton the night before.
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And they were more excited to play in Edmonton
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and have a way better effort.
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So a lot of cultural capital than they did.
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Yeah, there's that too.
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When you're, if it's a back-to-back in Alberta
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and you see the back-up in Edmonton sees the starter,
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it's not everything.
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It doesn't explain all the results.
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But there's a reason that Vasolevsky's the starter
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and UNICEO Hansen makes nearly a minimum
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and has a job in the NHL.
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But I don't think that it was just bad effort
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or being on the road that ended up costing the 92 loss last night.
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I think it has a lot to do with that upper end talent.
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Zoom zooming around the ice.
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We talked about the Codra Fit 2.
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Like it seems like that's sorted better than it was out of the gate.
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Their power play was the worst in the NHL Dino.
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I think three weeks ago you brought that up.
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Yeah, it's certainly not that anymore.
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It's jumped up the last couple of weeks for sure.
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Which felt inevitable.
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And you had some new pieces.
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Like where does Codra slide in here?
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You know, Landis Cog is now back.
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It's like a back-to-back in Landis Cog route.
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Yeah, Leckman came back a couple of games ago
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Yeah, he's, it's weird with him.
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They're better with him.
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You just feel like it was,
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oh, it's nice that he's back.
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It's a good habit in the room.
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But he does change things for them.
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And we talked about it.
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I think he does take some stuff off of Nathan's plate.
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To get him has to, there's less he yet needs to worry about
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that suddenly just kind of gets thrust upon him
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when Landis Cog isn't around.
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Whether it's media, whether it's just
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on ice shit, room stuff, that sort of thing.
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So, yeah, and then we've also watched this Colorado team just sort of,
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like, would they have three or four regulation losses into January?
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Like, at some point, you're like,
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can we get to the playoffs here?
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And now you're in that final, okay,
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two weeks in change in the regular season.
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We got a cranking up, fellas.
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They weren't going to finish with the worst power play
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in playing 500 hockey.
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They're going to get rolling here.
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They know what's up.
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