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Speaker 1:
[00:35] Welcome back to Worst Seats in the House, Michael Russo, Anthony LaPanta. Amazing how a couple games changed the complexion of everything, Anthony, double overtime loss. Wild had plenty of opportunities to end that thing before Wyatt Johnson got his nifty stick on that puck and we'll talk about that in a second. But you know, when you have five power plays, two to take a four, two lead, three to break a tie, two in overtime, and you don't score, you just knew what was gonna happen on that second penalty in a row, that one by Daneli Yurov, dead tired, frozen into the stands and, you know, they get the time out essentially to clean the ice as well. So it just felt like that entire time they were waiting for that PK. It was just a matter of time before the Wild lost that game. And they absolutely did on a great play by Heiskanen, a great play by Wyatt Johnson.

Speaker 2:
[01:30] Yeah, I mean, there's a lot there. And first of all, the momentum swing of the series, I think, is significant. And it's, but it's also the challenge in a playoff series. And I think we talked about this on our first show, but the old saying is in the playoff, sometimes when you win a game, you feel like we can't be beat, we're gonna win the cup. And then all of a sudden you lose a game and you feel like it's the end of the world, the season's over. And the reality is nobody's gonna go 16 and 0 to win a cup. And if you look at the cup winners over the years, almost always they're behind at some point in some series along the way. And the challenge for teams is to remember that just like in the regular season, it's one game. So the Wild lost this game. And I think what will define this team is, can they now come back in game four and let this be no more than just one game and not have it be something that deflates them and carries over to the next game. That's what Dallas did between games one and two. Blown out in game one, dominated in every phase, came back in game two and all day long had the approach that that was one game. We're down one, now we gotta win game two. And now to the specifics of the game, yeah, Dallas is special teams.

Speaker 1:
[02:45] Just on that topic though, the difference between the two organizations is one always does that and the other never does that. Well, I mean, that's just a fact. The Wild have lost eight first round series.

Speaker 2:
[02:56] They have.

Speaker 1:
[02:57] Dallas always loses game one and figures out a way to go to the conference final.

Speaker 2:
[03:01] And that's what I'm saying is that's the challenge now for this Wild team if they wanna be different, which they are. This is the most talented Wild team that they've had. I will add that over the course of the first round losses, we've talked about this before, maybe two where they were, one where they were a favorite for sure, and another where it was a pretty even series going in where Wild had home ice, but that St. Louis Club that they lost to in 22, those teams were really evenly matched. And this is another one. I mean, they're the road team, they're technically the underdog, and some of those series, they were dramatically over matched. I mean, I think about Winnipeg in 18, even Dallas in 16 when the Wild were beat up. This one's different. The Wild match up with this Dallas team, these teams are very evenly matched, and now that is exactly what the challenge is. Can Kirill Kaprizov, Matt Boldy, Quinn Hughes, Brock Faber, Jules Ericssonac, the leadership group of this Wild team, can they show up in game four and make sure that game three is in the rearview mirror, throw it out on the table and find a way to win that game and even up this series? If they can do that, this team can be different. If they can't, then they aren't different. And Dallas, that's exactly the point is that they've been down in these series. It was, I think I shared on the show after game two that when Wes Walz and I were talking before the series and I said, there's just nothing that's gonna happen in this series that this Dallas club hasn't faced before. And they haven't. They were blown out in game one last year by Colorado. They were blown out in game one by Minnesota this year. And now they have a series lead. Their big guys stepped up last night. And yes, Minnesota had all these power play chances. Now, there's some extenuating circumstance. They're without Matt Zuccarello. The power play is not the same without him. They had a couple of power plays early in the game without Matt Boldy as well. So you've got a couple of guys on that top group that aren't the same. Dallas is playing the whole series without hints. So those are the challenges. And Dallas' power play has just frankly been better in this series. It's what I thought the single biggest key to this whole series was, could the Wild stay disciplined as they had been all year? They haven't been able to. They've been giving Dallas far too many power play chances. And then could they at least be even in the special teams? And so far they've not. Dallas has been better.

Speaker 1:
[05:26] To your point on the specifics of the series, I mean, you know, on those power plays, I just, it concerns me that we talk about the depths of this team over and over and over again. And they're mad Zuccarello injury away from everything imploding. I mean, that just, first of all, the fact that he might retire after the season doesn't give you hope. That like Kirill Kaprizov can't be always a mad Zuccarello injury away from being absolutely negated. And, you know, for a team that is a, you know, as we all thought a cup contender and still think is a cup contender, the reality is that Vladimir Teresenko didn't work with him. Then you have to throw Bobby Brink on the top line. The power play has been totally inefficient without Zuccarello. It's just, you know, to me, it's not acceptable. Like Kirill Kaprizov needs to show up in these games. And as he's done a lot this year, Anthony, and I know we talk about his points and how good of a year he had and all that stuff. He was a power play merchant for most of the year. At even strength he was not. And I just look at a guy that at some point needs to stop being outplayed by the other team's superstars. And it happens way too often.

Speaker 2:
[06:43] Well, yeah, I agree that I don't think Kaprizov has been good enough in this series to carry that line. And in game one when Zuccarello was playing, those guys were terrific. Games two and three with Zuccarello out, that line hasn't done much. And part of it is, you know, I think the Dushane Robertson line has played really well against him. And part of it is, no Matt Zuccarello. And Bobby Brink, I thought was pretty good last night, but he's not Matt Zuccarello. I think it's a little exaggerated to say that Kaprizov was a power play merchant. I mean, he did score almost 30 even strength goals this year, and he scored 45 overall for the year. And I mean, that's, we look at Wyatt Johnson, who's been ahead a great year for Dallas. I mean, he scored 18 at even strength all year. So it's not, Kaprizov, what do you have, 17? He had 19 on the power play, so he had 26 even strength goals. I mean, that's a pretty good season.

Speaker 1:
[07:37] His expected goals at even strength, though, have not been nearly like the other superstars in the league.

Speaker 2:
[07:43] I don't think he's been good enough in this series without a doubt. But now, again, this game, it's such a fine line. He had a post with a chance to win the game. If you hit a post, you're less than an inch away from scoring. He scores, nobody's talking about this. The Wilder up two to one, and everybody's talking about how close he was.

Speaker 1:
[08:06] But he didn't score.

Speaker 2:
[08:07] He didn't score. Nope, I know. That's absolutely true.

Speaker 1:
[08:09] He had two shots for the second game in a row.

Speaker 2:
[08:12] But it's such a fine line between whether, I mean, look at Jason Robertson had missed opportunities early in the series. Now, in the last two games, he's cashed in. Caril cashed in in game one. He didn't in games two and three. He has to cash in in game four, in my opinion. This team can't ride only the the boldy Ericsson act line at even strength. Dallas has got nothing from their depth guys either. That's been the interesting part of this series is that you made a comment earlier about the Wild becoming deeper. Well, they became deeper with third and fourth line role player type guys. And those guys were good last night. McCarran, I thought, was really good for them. Nick Foligno drew a penalty at a key time. But when you look at the scoring, last night when McCarran scored with an assist from Nick Foligno, it was the first point the Wild had from their bottom six in the series. And Dallas doesn't have one yet. Not a single point outside. I think they only have five players who have a point in the series. So it's amazing how much the top guys have been the difference in this series. What a big part of that has been because so much of the offense has been special teams.

Speaker 1:
[09:23] So how did they solve this issue here? If Matt Zuccarello can't play game four, Anthony, we've seen Tarasenko not work there. We've seen Brink not work there. Do you play a Hunter Haight and move a Ryan Hartman to right wing? Do you just load up right away with Boldy on that line? They've got to figure out a way to get Kaprizov going here. And clearly people are having trouble playing with him.

Speaker 2:
[09:50] Yeah, I don't...

Speaker 1:
[09:50] Or he's having trouble playing with people.

Speaker 2:
[09:52] Yeah, I think it might be more of that. I think what we found from Kaprizov is he needs somebody that drives the pace on his line. And Zuccarello doesn't do it necessarily with his feet, but he does it with his mind and his puck moving. And I don't know that I'd go away from Brink at least yet. I don't know that it's time to throw a Hunter Haight in. I think that might... I could see that showing a little, almost like a panic move.

Speaker 1:
[10:22] I totally disagree. First of all, I just think he's so respected in that room. And I just think that we're... Look, I'm not saying Hunter Haight's Porter Matone, but I do think that teams need to be... We're in an age now where these guys are so different than kids yesteryear. And they play huge, high stakes tournaments. And I just think teams need to be... They need to stop being afraid to play the kids. And he would add a level of speed and skill and competitiveness to this group that right now, I don't see them having in their bottom six. And I'm not saying that you got to play them on a Kaprizov line, but I think, you know...

Speaker 2:
[11:06] Well, I mean, but that's the question we're asking, is what do you do to get Kaprizov going? And I don't think you can go into a game loading up and try to win with one line, not against this Dallas club. I really don't. I think you've got to have two lines. I wouldn't want to mess with the Boldy Erickson-Eck-Johansson line. I think that line has been good. So if you're talking about who do you play with Kaprizov to get him going, well, the answer's not Tarasenko. The answer's not Danilya Urov. I don't think the answer is found in the bottom six on this roster. So you're down to Bobby Brink, or else, to your point, trying to start throwing somebody else in the lineup that hasn't been there yet. And I just don't think, I'm not sure that right now, I'd look at Hunter Haight and say he has, even in the, and I like Haight. I think he's got a chance to be a good player. I think he's shown some flashes, but it isn't like he hit the ice like you throw out Porto Mortone. And I know you're not saying he's that type of player, but the difference is they threw that guy in and he immediately was on the score sheet. That's not what's happened to Hunter Haight when he's played.

Speaker 1:
[12:07] At the end of the year, he was great the last couple of games that he played, and he ended the year on Karen HL.

Speaker 2:
[12:14] But look at what he did over the course of the NHL. He had one goal in what was it? Ten games, nine games, ten games. I mean, that isn't the guy who came in. If he had played in those eight, nine games, and I agree with you, he showed some flashes, but he also had some games where he absolutely was invisible. And he isn't a guy that I think demanded a chance. That's all. I think there's just a difference there. So to me, I think I would go brink one more game with those guys. And, you know, I mean, this was a, this was a game that the Wild lost the game. And they're now in a tough spot in the series where they, I mean, it's not a must win, but it's a nearly a must win in game four. But they lost the game because they took too many penalties and Dallas scored three times on a power play. You still went to double overtime. So I don't think you look back at it and say, it isn't like you lost a game seven to one where you generated nothing all night. This is a game that could have been won, maybe should have been won. And I'm not sure that the answer is a major lineup shuffle for the Wild. I just think it's a team that they have to find a way to cash in when they get the opportunities. They had the better, they had the power plays that you mentioned earlier in the show. They had the puck the whole first overtime, outshot them 8-2. Dallas never really had a chance. They just didn't cash in.

Speaker 1:
[13:38] It really is amazing. You give up two shots in a 33-minute stretch before that first of the back-to-back Dallas power play chances in overtime, and you lose the game. It's just, I don't know, it's so Minnesota Wild, it's not even funny.

Speaker 2:
[13:56] But you also look, and I'll go back to a what-if type question. You think about that, there were so many big plays for the Wild in this game, that if they had won, that's what you'd be talking about instead. Killing off the five on three and then McCarran scoring right out of the penalty box. Withstanding the cheap shot by Jamie Ben on Matt Boldy and not letting it derail your game. Boldy coming back and absolutely, like he was like a superhero shot out of a cannon in the second period. He was just absolutely dominant. The Wild got a lot of bad breaks in this game and yet still were an eyelash away from winning the game. And if you win that game, those are the kind of things you're talking about. And that's what I'm saying is the challenge in a playoff series is not to forget about those things. Those things were all critical parts of this game. And you have to be able to take those and then look logically ahead at game four and say.

Speaker 1:
[14:51] But from a fan standpoint, let's just talk a fan standpoint.

Speaker 2:
[14:54] They're not going to do that. From a fan standpoint, it's different.

Speaker 1:
[14:56] Yeah, but I mean, I'm aware of what the fans are thinking. The reality that we live in is that-

Speaker 2:
[15:01] Well, that's the reality for the fan, not for the guys inside the room. I'm trying to talk about the guys inside the locker room.

Speaker 1:
[15:08] At some point, this organization has to show that it is different. And we're not at a, it's not like what if this, what if that? They didn't do it. They had two chances to take to win the game. And the collection of their players again failed. Absolutely. To turn that game, they had a chance to turn a 3-2 lead into a 4-2 lead twice. Matt Boldy had a chance to turn into a 4-2 lead on shorthanded. They didn't do it. And they wind up falling on their face again. And that's just a reality. And if this, they go on to lose this series, that is gonna be what we talk about. That they gave up the form but were used and nothing changed.

Speaker 2:
[15:50] Right. And I'm not, I don't think you're listening to what I'm saying.

Speaker 1:
[15:54] I'm listening. I'm listening to you again saying that if they'd score those goals, we would be talking about it.

Speaker 2:
[16:02] They did it.

Speaker 1:
[16:02] So we're talking about that.

Speaker 2:
[16:04] Right. But what I'm saying is that I'm not saying that it doesn't matter that they lost the game. I'm saying the challenge for a team in a playoff series is not to overreact and panic after you lose a game. The challenge is to change it in the next game. Right now, we don't know the answer to that question. Is this team capable of being different? I happen to think they are, and I think they're capable of winning game four, but they have to show that. They have to prove that. Until they do, then we don't know the answer to that question. So I'm just trying to say that from inside the room, you have to be able to look at the game as a whole. It's what Dallas did after game one. They came out and said, look, a whole bunch of things went wrong in that game. We have to make some adjustments. We have to change, but there was zero panic. There wasn't an iota of panic inside that room. It was, to a man, we weren't good enough. They were a matter of fact. They came out and changed it in game two and played differently. Can Minnesota do that in game four? I don't know. But I'm just saying, like the, to say that, well, the only solution is if we throw this guy in the lineup or make this dramatic change, I don't know if that's the answer because I think there were a lot of good things in the game last night that as a coach you have to be able to look at and say, well, what was the breakdown? Breakdown was you gave them eight power play opportunities. You can't, that can't happen. The five-on-five game, Minnesota was certainly as good or better than Dallas most of the night, but you can't give a team with that kind of firepower eight chances on the power play. And if that doesn't change, I don't see how this series changes. If it does, if Minnesota goes back to what they were all year, which was one of the most disciplined teams in the league, they were fourth in the league in the fewest power play opportunities against, their last among the 16 playoff teams so far. You have to be able to get back to that. And that's what I think the challenge is. And I asked Ryan Carter this last night. These penalties last night were not because of emotional, physical altercations after whistles. They were all stick penalties, or most of them, both sides. And I just asked him, I said, is that just, is it because the pace of the game is just faster, the intensity of the moment, the how much is on the line on each play? I'm not sure what it is, but for whatever reason, neither one of these teams can stay out of the penalty box right now. And, and Dallas has cashed in better than Minnesota. So I think the Wild have to, if Dallas gets four or five power play chances again in game four, I think we're probably going to be talking about a team that's down three games to one, going back to Dallas.

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Speaker 2:
[22:34] It is concerning, but I'm, again, I'm not saying that, I think it's yet to be determined if this is different. That's all I'm saying. This collection of players has to show that they're different. I mean, they're different in that they have Quinn Hughes. They've never had him here before. That makes this team different, without a doubt. They're just different. But they have to prove that they're different in this spot. And I also want to make it clear. I'm not just saying to look at only the positives from Game 3. I'm saying you have to be able to look at it objectively. There were positives, but there were also things that are concerning. One of them, the biggest one, is the discipline. That has to change. And then I think you have to find a way to clean some things up on the penalty kill because it's not a coincidence that Dallas continues to score on the power play. Now, they're a terrific power play. They were second best in the NHL, set a franchise record. They were the number one combined special teams team in the NHL. So this is not, this isn't like you're getting lit up by the special teams of the Seattle Kraken. I mean, you're getting lit up by the best special teams in the NHL, but you knew that coming into the series. So you knew you had to keep this game at five on five, at four on four, and play it that way. And the Wild haven't been able to do that so far. So I think you have to be able to look back at these things, not just the positives, the positives and the negatives, but then just not overreact to what the end result was. Instead, look at the specifics of what wasn't good enough along the way, because there were some things that were really terrific. And in the Boldy's play was outstanding. Jule Erickson-Eck was an absolute beast last night. 27 face-off wins, took 40 draws, and was an absolute animal against Dallas' best players. I mean, you look at the Johnson-Rantinen line, they generated almost nothing at even strength, and a lot of that was playing against Erickson-Eck's line. So there's some things there where you can say, all right, well, that gives me reason to believe that game four can be different, but the things you have to clean up are the things that are most important.

Speaker 1:
[24:42] What do you make of Marcus right now? You know, he has a turnover on the second goal by just, again, not putting the puck on that. He made a really horrific decision by trying to pass it toward the blue line to make care of him. You know, he doesn't get the clear before the year-end penalty. Yeah, Marcus. You know, like, did I say Joe Hanson?

Speaker 2:
[25:01] No, you just said Marcus, and I was making sure which one you were talking about.

Speaker 1:
[25:05] You know, the turnover there, you know, he didn't get the clear before the year-end penalty. You know, obviously, the puck on the White-Johnston goal first deflects off him. And, you know, it just seems like, man, we're not seeing the best of him.

Speaker 2:
[25:21] No, I think he's probably frustrated. I think we saw some of that with the penalty against Harley in Game 2. Just some of that, the emotional stuff, you know? I mean, I know that I listened to Matt Duchenne in the postgame last night after his version. I didn't hear what Marcus had to say about that play where Duchenne fell on top of him. And, you know, but you could tell he was running hot after that. And, you know, he's been such a terrific leader for this wild club throughout his career. And, you know, right now, he just, it seems like the intensity of these games against Dallas has made it tough for him to play with the same kind of discipline he plays with most of the season. But that's a part of all of this. The Wild, they have to find that. And he has to find that the rest of the way in this series.

Speaker 1:
[26:15] Yurov, you worried how the lasting effects of this. I mean, you know, I don't think he was very good last night, even before he had another play that was almost very similar, that he almost messed up on a play where they were hemmed in for a while. I mean, you know, there's another one. I mean, I know you don't want to take them out and create that narrative, but, but, you know, there's one where you could change him with a hunter hate.

Speaker 2:
[26:39] Well, that to me would make a little bit, there's a little more possibility of that. The only thing about Yurov is that his game is so good, so responsible in his own zone. And I know he took the penalty last night with throwing the puck into the crowd. And, you know, but those are the kind of things that happen when you start to get fatigued toward the end of a game, end of a shift. And, and it was a tired mistake. It was a tired mistake. It was. And, you know, Boldy's was just a kind of an unfortunate when he fired at the length of the ice.

Speaker 1:
[27:06] Right when he got it. You know, I covered Bryan Ralston do the same thing in Dallas one year. Right when he got it, it was like, I almost saw it before it happened. Like, oh boy, because he just, he just air mailed it. It was.

Speaker 2:
[27:20] But the, the, the Urof thing is a little more interesting. I was worried about his ability to compete on the faceoff dot. And boy, you know, I didn't look at what the final numbers were last night, but at one point in the second overtime, Eric Sinek was like 27 and 12, and the rest of the team was like 14 and 34 or something like that. And Urof was a part of that. So, you know, again, I don't know that I'd make that change right now. You got a guy who has proven himself over the course of the year to be a guy on whom you can depend in your own zone. I don't know if throwing Hunter Haight into a spot like that is the, is the right answer at this level, at this point in his career.

Speaker 1:
[28:01] Ryan Hartman lost 16 of 22 faceoffs last night. Yurov lost seven of eight.

Speaker 2:
[28:07] Yeah, and so let's just stop on the Hartman thing for a minute because, you know, the easy thing to point to on that line is, say, Kirill Kaprizov's your superstar. He's not making anything happen. Well, when the center on your line is, is winning 25% of his draws, so you're starting without the puck each and every shift against a pretty good possession club. That's not the easiest thing to pile up points when you're in that spot. Now, I'm not just saying, oh, you lose a face off, that means you don't score on that shift, but it does make it more difficult without a doubt. And that's a factor. And then of course, not playing with your regular wing. I think you have to remember those kinds of things when you look at a player and say, he's not doing anything right now.

Speaker 1:
[28:52] Fair enough. Absolutely. And good math knowing it was 24%, not 25%. Just last week, before we wrap up the show, let's talk a little bit about Dallas Mira Heisginen, you know, he comes in and we talked about before the series, how if he doesn't play, it changes everything for Dallas. And he's had a miraculous recovery, you know, from the injury that he sustained against the wild in the last regular season game. Last night, 43 minutes, obviously has the play for the winning goal. I believe he blocked five shots in the game, you know, had had a bunch of shot attempts in the game. He's just, and he defends so well.

Speaker 2:
[29:30] It's unbelievable.

Speaker 1:
[29:32] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[29:32] And there were so many times last night where after an icing, Minnesota's got an offensive zone draw, a chance to exploit a tired group for Dallas and they'd win a draw and immediately the defensemen go to the bench and Heisginen and Lindell jump back over the wall and here you go again with those guys against either the Kaprizov line or the Boldy line. I mean, I've been a Miro Heisginen fan for a long time. And he was taking one pick after Kale Makar in that draft. And I know that's, or one pick before Kale Makar. I mean, and there, I've heard some times like, oh, just think if Dallas had taken Kale Makar, I'm not sure this team's better with Kale Makar. And that sounds crazy to say, but what he's gonna does for them is so different from any of these other elite defensemen. It's different than what Quinn Hughes brings to Minnesota. It's different than what Kale Makar brings to Colorado. You mentioned his minutes. Look at how many of them were on special teams last night. He quarterbacks their first power play and he's the first guy out there on every penalty kill. It's amazing what he does for that club and the little subtle stick on the puck plays, chips along the wall, things to disrupt opportunities for Minnesota. I think you could argue right now that he's been the best player in this series and he won't get that kind of attention because people will remember the guys with the goals, they'll remember maybe a goalie with big saves, but Miro Haskin to me has been the reason why Dallas has won the last two games.

Speaker 1:
[31:02] 21 minutes of special teams time last night for Miro Haskin.

Speaker 2:
[31:06] It's half the time he was on the ice. And the other number that's interesting to note is, so again, this goes back to the way you have to look back at the game. Dallas had 36 shots on goal last night. 18 of them came on the power play. They had 18 shots on goal when not on the power play in four and a half periods. So I don't think you look at that and say that you're in trouble in any way. They scored three power play goals, they scored four total. I think the things that Minnesota can take from that game is that at five on five, they did defend Dallas pretty well. They matched up pretty well with each and every line they had. It was just that they didn't score on the power play. Dallas did, and they took too many penalties.

Speaker 1:
[31:52] What's that sound like? 2023 all over again.

Speaker 2:
[31:55] It does sound like 2023. And that's, but the difference I think in 2023 is that Minnesota wasn't necessarily the better team five on five. They were just, they were competitive five on five. Here, I think they have been the better team at even strength throughout this series, but the, I just, I never would have thought coming into this series that the Wild would be sitting here in this spot having been shorthanded this many times through the first three games. I really thought this team understood what had happened to them in 23. They understood the way it affected them even last year against Vegas. And they had been so disciplined all year that I expected we would see something different. And so far we haven't. This, I still believe there's gonna be a long series. But that has to change or it's not going to be.

Speaker 1:
[32:42] Game four is at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. The best news of last night was a 7 p.m. Tuesday night start. Not an easy two-pup drop.

Speaker 2:
[32:53] I do like that. I'm excited about that. I actually, I have some better news for you because I know that you just seem to take pride in anything that challenges others. So you will now be very relieved to know that Ryan Carter and I are going to fly commercially to Dallas and back for game five.

Speaker 1:
[33:14] Wow. What time?

Speaker 2:
[33:16] I don't remember what time I booked my flight.

Speaker 1:
[33:19] I think maybe. I hope you're on mine.

Speaker 2:
[33:22] I'm not flying Delta. I know that. So probably not. I think I'm sometime in the morning on Monday.

Speaker 1:
[33:30] Yeah. By the way, you finish all those berries last night because nobody else was allowed to have berries in the press room.

Speaker 2:
[33:37] They had an entire tray of berries.

Speaker 1:
[33:39] And you took them all.

Speaker 2:
[33:41] No, I took a decent chunk of the raspberries and a few strawberries. Only about four blackberries. They weren't very good last night.

Speaker 1:
[33:49] I know you don't believe in jinxes, but you might believe in this one. When I came up to you and I said to you, I brought three plums, one for each over time. And that is... I ate those plums last night.

Speaker 2:
[34:00] Yeah, it was...

Speaker 1:
[34:02] Don't you think that the Wild Depressed Box needs to stop getting rid of the coffee and all the stuff in the third period, just assuming the game is going to be over?

Speaker 2:
[34:13] Well, I never drink coffee during the game, so I didn't really pay attention to that. I switched to tea.

Speaker 1:
[34:18] But nothing was there.

Speaker 2:
[34:19] Yeah, it's... Well, I think the... All of a sudden, there's a few more media members here than are around during the season, so it disappears a little more quickly. But I'll work on those guys for it. Maybe we'll get you a little curing pot to just sit next to you, so you can make sure you're properly caffeinated. Yep.

Speaker 1:
[34:37] Just so everybody knows, John Heinz is available this afternoon, and then they'll practice tomorrow, so you will be seeing Heinz quotes today, but so we'll get injury updates. We'll try to get to the bottom of how they can get Kaprizov up and running here. Game four, Saturday, 4:30 PM. Thanks for this latest edition of Worst Seats in the House. Thanks to our incredible sponsors, Aquarius Home Services, your local authorized dealer for Connecticut Water Treatment Systems. Our newest two sponsors, Great Clips and StretchLab, and of course, OnX Maps. Thanks everybody.