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1:56If you're too far behind, it's not great, but if it's a close game and you're in it, yes, then you're liking it. And give them credit, man. They have, they're a team that believes they're never out of a game because actions speak out of the words and they show that they feel, you know what? The game's still on. We're still in it. They came back from 18 points to win that game. Yeah, right. Listen, it's not the first time this been going on all year here now. Yeah, you know, whether they, I mean, this was a little bit, you know, of a pronounced, you know, 28, 14 with, you know, the fourth quarter-starting with about 12 minutes left, I think. That's a big one. Like this is a big comeback. They have, they're not doing this every weekend. And you can't start to think you're going to be able to do it every week. No, but what they have done is had a defense that's been able to keep their, keep the game close enough and still winnable. Well, their offense takes quite a while to get going. You know, if you want to find a negative, you could probably could find it in an offense

2:58that has had a lot of crappy first-astas here, right? Like they're kind of playing, you know, 35 minutes of football. This offense on a lot of nights. And I'm not sure that that doesn't come back to bite your J. At some point. Don't you think? It might, but then I counter with, well, did Calgary play like how many off, how many minutes of their offense play? Look at Winnipeg the week before, right? Like there's a last, but Calgary's the last police team. You're not. Yeah. No, but I look at, I just look at that Winnipeg game, who's, Winnipeg's a pretty good team. And it's a, let me pry the fourth best out. They had, they had what, like 50 yards in the second half against the Elks. Yeah. Sure. I agree. Yeah. Like I agree with you, though. Like you obviously would, would not like it to become a trend of, of where you're, you're stubborn. You're told that frequently in the, in the first half. And, but Connor Halley brought up a very good point. Good memory by cons. Because last year, we had Cody Fajrato on the show. And he spoke about how he just, he hates playing it at Macmanitz. He just, he doesn't feel comfortable there. And you'd be on the turf

3:59there, spec, right? Like it's higher in the middle and it, and it kind of goes down. And how many times did he, how many times that he overthrow a wide open receiver yesterday? Yeah. He's not the first guy to say that about that feel that it's, like they're all crowned because you want the water to run off of them, right? Like every field is crowned. It's supposed to be, but apparently according to guys who know, and I'm not one of them, but the guys who play on it will tell you that that Macman field has always been a little bit pronounced. Oh, it's worth it. Yeah. And throw some guys off a little bit. And that's, that's just, you know, I guess I'd call that whole field advantage, right? You know, I don't, whatever. Like that's, but anyhow, listen, like, I guess the other thing, I, you know, I love a team that can look at its issues mid game and solve a lot out of them, you know, like I'm offense, they, they figured out a bunch of, you know, their play calling change in the second half. They made some different, so they, they had different reads. They did different things. Somehow, the pass rush that they Edmonton could not

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6:03And now the Premier League is back, Barry, meaning we've been providing incredibly astute analysis three times a week, wherever you get your podcasts. Barry, with the remaining 10 seconds of this ad, can you provide some astute analysis? I think our solar going to win the Premier League. And there you are for more hot takes like that. Watch your listen to football weekly, wherever you get your podcasts. They figured some stuff out and handled it in the second half, and all of a sudden the quarterback saw a little bit of time that's real. So that's one thing this team's got going on now. If that starts with a coaching staff, no doubt. But it bleeds down to the players who can adapt. And that's, that's one of the, to me, that's one of the signs of a really good football team is they don't have just one way they can win. If all of a sudden they got to shift gears and win a different way, these guys are showing it man. They can win a different way. You, you want to say figure out what way it's going to take to win their winning. And that's a, you can't just buy that at the store. That's something special. Yeah. No, I would agree. And it makes for the rematch, people are excited. The team's

7:05nine and three and clinch a playoff spot with the win on Saturday and gets closer like right now. They're shaping up. If you go three and three BC and win a big after goes six and over to catch you to not have at least one home playoff game. So it's, they've set themselves up here. Pretty good. They're next four games. Calgary, Toronto, Hamilton, Hamilton. You could, you could clinch a playoff spot before those final two games of a, or maybe even clinch a home field advantage. So we'll see where we're going. No, it's not a very good team. No, like, no, Hamilton's not a good team. BC's coming on. And Calgary's, Calgary, I loved, I loved the, Mark Killam's, I just heard a quick quote from after the game. He said, always nice to beat the red team. That's spoken like a true Edmontoni in right there. Yeah. Well, for sure. And, you know, he, he was there for a long time. And I think felt like maybe he got, he got over looked for some job opportunities there and was never given one. So yeah, he always, well, it's like anything. Sometimes the people you like the most, you want to beat the most. That's just. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, he was a, he was a, you have a football player. So he's, you know, he's

8:10been trying to beat the red team for a long time. But listen, that's just, that just puts a lot of win in your sales. You come off that by and you go into Calgary and not just win, but win the way they dated, you know, coming back and overpowering Calgary on their own field. That, that wins. Obviously, two points in the standings, but more than that, even, don't you think? Yes. Yeah, I do for sure. Um, the, uh, the orders are now rookie camps a few days away. And then you've got main camp, although get going, medicals a week today, three weeks from today. The regular season goes. It's a, it's a real short period spec. So I want to ask you when I wrote the article today about Zach Hyman, because I've been hurting, I've seen and reading and Bromley's about Zach Hyman getting older. And I'm like, what do you talk about Zach Hyman? Yeah. He's getting older. He hasn't slowed down at all. Like he was excellent last year after he got up to pace, uh, after, you know, his injury. And even he played the season basically with his wrist, uh, in a, in a, in a, in a, like a soft little caster in a lot of the games, just because his, his full range of motion

9:10and strength wasn't there yet. But like Hyman, to me, is, is a no brainer on this team. Like, to play with McDavid, unless they're going to load up the dry subtle line at times to do it. And even then sometimes, uh, Hyman will play with those two. But like I still view Hyman as a third best for it on this team. And I don't even think it's close. Yeah. I know. I'm with you. Uh, I think like, Lyssa, he's a, he's still a 40 goal player in my esteem, you know, given a healthy season. Uh, I mean, again, I don't think people realize how, you know, less than 100% he was last season, right? Yes. You know, he messed up that. I mean, he dislocated that wrist and, and he took it into the season, missed training camp, missed the start of the year, came back and played. He always had a taped off. And I mean, I heard you say, did he have 30 goals between, uh, December, something in the end of the year? Yeah. So that's, I mean, it's a 30 goal guy. That's huge in, in today's game. And this guy's, there's no question. He's coming back this year healthy.

10:11And the thing you got to remember about him is his career started late. You know, he wasn't in the league. It was 18, 19. So I don't know how many NHL games he's played, but 34 for him. There's no problem. He's totally fit. He's a good lifestyle. Like, I got no problem with 34 year old Zach Kym and whoever it was. And you see it every once in a while, that tweet about when they signed them, there's something tweet out there that this was going to be the worst contract in history. Then that's not really, I don't know who did it anymore, but I keep seeing it once a year. Like that, he couldn't be more wrong. This is turned out to be one of the best contracts in national hockey league right now. Yeah, I think he's played, he's played over 700 games because no last year he played his 700. So I think he's like 75 or somewhere around there. Give or take. I don't know the exact number, but yeah. Okay. No, not some of you concerned with no. Lock left. Yeah, lots, lots left. Um, do you see any, like if you had to pick today for your surprise player for the orders, who would it be? I think it's going to be putt Coleson. I think this is your putt Coleson takes a leap offensively. That's what I think. I think he's had all the

11:18tools and all the everything. But I think he's going to, I think the puck's going to go in fall in this year. That's what I think. What do you think? Who's your guy? Putt Coleson. A lot of people would expect him to have a good year. Um, who needs more last year? How do goals get last year? I think he got 19. Yeah, I think he gets to high 20s. High tonnies. Okay. 27. 28. Yep. Um, my surprise player on the oilers is going to be Colton doc. Okay. I think Doc's going to get double digits and goals. And he brought a lot of energy to this team last year. And I think he'll do it again this year. And so bigger body, a little bit of tenacious style. And I think it's something that the organ, I think the team really needed it last year. And I think there it's going to be more beneficial this year. I think if he could do all the things you're talking about, the orders are going to be a way better team for it. You know, he brings toughness. He brings some attitude. He's fast. We can

12:21get there and he's big and when he hits you, you feel it. Uh, and if you're telling me that he's let's say he gets ten goals, even. You're telling me he's going to spend all his time on the boastly of fourth line, some on the third. But if the oilers can come up with a couple or ten goal, third liners, that's going to make him a better team because they haven't had much of a threat from down there in the last few years. Have they? No, no, not at all. Spank. Have yourself a good one. We will chat a little more on the the Labor Day and some other NHL news tomorrow. We're going to go to Boston next on the Fraser Mitten contract and how that might impact that voice next contract. All right. Sounds good. Hi, my fan Max here. Barry's here too. Hello. And now the Premier League is back. Barry Mini will be providing incredibly astute analysis three times a week wherever you get your podcasts. Barry, with the remaining ten seconds of this advert, can you provide some astute analysis? I think our solar going to win the Premier League. And there you are for more hot takes like that.

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