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Frankie Corrado
What up?
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Sean Gentili
What up is the Athletic Hockey show for February 10, 2025. I am Sean Gentili. I'm here with Frankie Corrado and Sean McIndew. Fellas, we've got some breaking news here on the podcast. The Olympics are back. NHLers are back. Have you heard?
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Frankie Corrado
Have we heard?
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Sean McIndoo
Is the breaking news that it's 2026 and not 2025 and that's why the Olympics are coming up.
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Sean Gentili
Did I say 2025? I'm like, oh, for the last 10 on reading the correct date on this, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna blame the person who's responsible for it because I would never do that to producer Jeff for having the wrong date on the. On the show rundown. But I haven't read the correct date in a long time.
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Sean McIndoo
And I, I heard the error and I tried not to point it out. Thank you. Just couldn't. I'm. I'm like a. I'm. I'm like a commenter in the athletic comment section.
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Sean Gentili
How about if I do if and when I Do that again. You guys actually tell me that I've done it so I don't have people in various. In various forms letting me know that I. That I've, you know, that I'm time traveling to the.
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Frankie Corrado
I actually didn't realize. I'm not gonna lie. I had no idea.
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Sean Gentili
Twins. You've. You're. You are excused for not knowing what date it is for the next, you know, three or four years, I think.
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Frankie Corrado
Yeah. So that excuse will run dry.
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Sean McIndoo
Quick, the four nations preview. Here we go. I think Canada wins in overtime.
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Sean Gentili
Can't wait to see what Vince Trocheck looks like in his first taste of international hockey. Fellas, you know this. We are here to preview Canada in Finland and Slovakia, or Slovakia, as you guys probably pronounce it, Germany. And we're going to take a quick look at France and Italy too. This is day two of the Athletic Hockey shows preview of the men's hockey tournament. Laz and Max and Jesse previewed. Usa, Sweden, Czech Republic. This is Swiss yesterday. But I. This breaks my heart. I feel like we get the. We get the bigger assignment here because it involves the Canadian team.
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Sean McIndoo
It breaks my heart that we don't get your view on Team USA because.
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Sean Gentili
Yeah. Going to keep that to myself for the next three weeks.
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Frankie Corrado
We'll find out after the tournament.
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Sean Gentili
Exactly. It's either Bill Garrison's a genius or he needs to be run out of the country on rails. What's it going to be? But, yeah, like I said, you're going to have to wait and see what my thoughts on the US Roster is. This is all Keenan all the time. That's, of course, where we're starting the roster, which we have right in front of us. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna read all of it. Producer Jeff is. Is flashing it. I'm not gonna read all these guys. But I do want to start with the lines, fellas, as we saw on Sunday, we'll see if these hold. Connor McDavid between Macklin Celebrini and Tom Wilson. Nathan McKinnon between Brad Marchand and Nick Suzuki. Sidney Crosby, little, Little known young guy named Sidney Crosby between Mitch Marner and Mark Stone. Bo Horvat between Reinhardt and Hagel. Seth Jarvis and Sam Bennett as the extras. Let's start there. And Frankie, let's start with you. You hear those lines, you maybe see bits and pieces of how it looked on the ice initially. What's your first thought?
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Frankie Corrado
The first thing is it would be so intriguing to have Tom Wilson on a team and Think how is he going to look next to Connor McDavid? Like, for. For so long, it was like McDavid had to have, especially when he was younger, like, could you not get him with someone who's. Who's got some meat and some bite and who grinds and can fight? Like, it's like the old Gretzky Semenko pairing.
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Sean Gentili
Like they were trying to do with Zach Cassian. Right? Like.
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Sean McIndoo
Right.
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Frankie Corrado
Like it was. It was Zach Cassian for a while. It was Milan Lucic. Like, whoever it was. There different opportunities for four players. But now you have Tom Wilson, who clearly has been the best player on the Washington Capitals all season, has been like the driving force behind them this year. So he's having an unbelievable season, who has a lot of experience playing with skilled players. Like, this is a guy that was playing with Ovi and Backstrom when they were together. So why not see how it looks to have Tom Wilson playing next to Connor McDavid? I think there's a. There's a huge intrigue factor there. And I don't know how you guys feel about this, but how we see the lines in game one or practice one, I have a feeling there's going to be so much mixing and matching happening because John Cooper does that on a regular basis with Tampa Bay. And that's, you know, that's Tampa Bay. They're a very good team, but you don't have all the tools and weapons that you have with Team Canada. I think we're going to see, like, we could see a ton of different line combinations here, but I think that one, right off the bat, it's like, I need to see what this looks like because what an opportunity that could present itself here.
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Sean McIndoo
And it. Yeah, that. That is the most interesting one. And you're right. Cooper switches lines up all the time in Tampa when He's got an 82 game season to figure things out and seven game playoff series. In a tournament like this where you get a couple of round robin games and then single elimination, he's not going to mess around. We're going to see changes. So, I mean, Tom Wilson on the first line is fascinating. I could see that lasting maybe five minutes, three shifts.
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Frankie Corrado
Yeah.
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Sean McIndoo
But it could last longer. And I'll say this. If. If we are still seeing that line, if we're still seeing Tom Wilson play that high up the lineup with a Connor McDavid later into the tournament, the tournament's going very well for Canada at that point, because if you can get your 12th or 13th best forward onto a first line, then that allows you to have more than one first line. And I mean, you. You know, you read down that list. That third line is ridiculous. Marner, Stone, Crosby. Good luck touching the puck. If you're the other side, that is. That might be the first line. As far as you know, how. How everything plays out with ice time and matchups and. And who knows what. If Tom Wilson works with Connor McDavid, that's really good news for Canada. I'm not convinced it's going to happen, but I don't mind rolling the dice right out of the gate. Let's see if it clicks. If it doesn't, it's on to the next thing. But if it does, you might really have some.
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Sean Gentili
Tom Wilson's a point for game player. Like, that's just the way he needs to be treated now. He's. He's a guy who's capable of scoring 40 go. Like, I don't want to cannibalize something that I'm going to write that hopefully goes up at some point in the next few days, but I had a bunch of long conversations with Tom Wilson and with people around the Capitals around this, because he had a feeling that this was a possibility. Like, when he makes the team, you know, it's fun to say, what's he going to do with 2 minutes or 5 minutes or 9 minutes of ice time? But I think his track record of playing with elite players and Frankie kind of said this about going back to when he was with Ovechkin and Backstrom early in his career. Like, I talked to him about that at length, and I think he does have a sense of. Of what it takes. A. He's got the willingness to do whatever on any line, period, clearly. But also, like, he grew into it as the third man on those lines. Like, he went from being. He went from. From, you know, his puck retrievals and whatever else. But also he got to a. He knows what it takes to get to a point where a player like Alexander Ovechkin or a player like Nicholas Backstrom is gonna actually trust him. Like, it started out, he was just, I'm gonna. I'm gonna, you know, go win pucks in the corners and get to the dirty areas and whatever. But at a certain point in his time with those guys, he became more. Actually more comfortable with actually a higher degree of responsibility, and those guys got more comfortable playing with them. So I'm. I'm fascinated by this, honestly. And, yeah, if it's something that lasts for more than. More than One trip through the John Cooper line Blender, it's. It'll be, it'll say a lot.
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Frankie Corrado
I think the one that I do find interesting, the way the lines have, have shook out already. And we'll see how this develops and changes that. The McKinnon with Marshand and Suzuki line. And so essentially what you're doing, if this is the way you want to line things up, is McDavid, McKinnon, Crosby, Horvat down the middle of the ice. And like, I have no issue with that. You have all these different centermen. Like, yet you need guys to play the wing that normally play center. But really what you've done, if you, you, you, you've said my three best centermen are going to play center. I'm not going to put them. I'm not going to put Crosby on the wing and put someone else down the middle. I'm not going to put Suzuki to start down the middle because I want Crosby to play with McKinnon. Like you're, you're not going to, you're not going to take yourself out of a position of strength. And so if I look at that, you know, call it quote unquote, second line with, with Marshan, McKinnon and Suzuki, like Suzuki never plays the wing. Never. He's, he's been as like a centerman and all these guys have. Right. But I, and we've talked about this before, but it's worth bringing up since we're talking about this team. His ability to like pick pucks cleanly off the yellow dasher. I think he's one of the best in the NHL at doing it. Like his skills coach in, in Montreal. His name's Adam Nicholas. The Big Cat they call him. He calls it a micro touch. Like it's just these little micro touches on the puck. And Suzuki is one of the best at doing it. So if you're looking for a centerman who can easily adapt to the wing, I think that's your guy. And he's doesn't play the wing, but his skill set lends itself to it. So I think that makes sense. And they've identified that early on.
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Sean Gentili
It sounds like somebody who's got the ability to win those micro touches could. That sounds interesting to me as it relates to Nathan McKinnon coming through the neutral zone with speed. If you have Nick Suzuki doing nasty work along along with dashers, that seems like a potential fit.
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Sean McIndoo
I love the fact that we just took a look at each of the top three lines and we didn't mention Macklin Celebrini. I'll tell you why I love that, because we went from, wow, could this kid actually make Team Canada to like, do they have room for 213 forwards if they take Bedard to. Now he's on the first line with McDavid and everyone's just like, yeah, that's about right. Sure, we can talk about Tom Wilson. We'll talk about it. But yeah, celebrity with Connor McDavid. Sure, why not? That's the other piece of it is, is which one of those guys can stay there the longest? Which one of those guys, like, is it going to be who's going to make the mistake that gets some booted down to the fourth line first? Is it going to be Macklin Celebrini with a turnover or is it going to be Tom Wilson taking the one bad penalty that he's going to be allowed to have before he gets sent to the shadow realm in this?
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Frankie Corrado
Is it a charging penalty? It ain't going to be a hooking penalty.
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Sean McIndoo
No, no, it's not. It's going to be. Who is going to be the guy who takes the penalty in this tournament, the crucial penalty? That would not necessarily be a penalty in the NHL. Is it Tom Wilson? Is that too easy? Hagel, Sam Bennett?
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Sean Gentili
Hegel's a candidate.
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Sean McIndoo
I don't know. Are you allowed to punch goalies in the back of the head in the international hunt?
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Sean Gentili
I think that's frowned upon by the double ihf.
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Frankie Corrado
That'll be an adjustment wearing a Panthers jersey.
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Sean Gentili
Celebrity. It is the. It is. It's been so funny watching him climb his way up the lineup. And the one part you missed, McIntu is like, yeah, he's got that kind of game. You know, they could maybe play him on a like 3C or 4C. It went from like, that was the. That's the step that he's completely first line left wing back on.
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Sean McIndoo
Can McDavid keep up with celebrating my column?
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Frankie Corrado
Well, he's got that, like, he's got that dog in him where he's going to go hound a pock and he's going to pick someone's pocket and like he's really good with his stick. So he'll win some like a lot of these one on one battles. Like the thing about this tournament with Canada is it's going to have a very different than like, let's say a world junior tournament where we're used to seeing Canada's best junior players because there's no easing into this thing for Canada. They don't get like, you know, they don't get Denmark, France to, to see what they got. Like, they're going right into it. They're playing Czechia first game. It's not, you know, it's not like you get this, this long Runway to, to see how things are going to go. So I don't know, I like, I like the intensity that he plays with. And listen, Canada has so much depth. So being able to spread things out and not make it super top heavy, like, that's, that's what they're, they're going to lean on and they're going to weaponize. And if you look at the way all these, these lines shake out right now, you have, you know, let's, let's set aside the celebrity McDavid Wilson line. But if we say, you know, the second line, Suzuki is one of the better two way forwards in the NHL. Like, he'll get Selkie votes this year. Marner has had Selkie nominations in the past. Stone is one of the best, you know, defensive wingers in the NHL. Same with Sam Reinhardt. You know, Hagel's really good away from the puck. Like, you feel like whoever's on, whoever's on the ice, you're safe and there's like, there's a good safety net there.
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Sean McIndoo
There's.
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Frankie Corrado
You're, you're not, you're not rolling the dice.
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Sean Gentili
Totally. I mean, Hegel's defensive impacts are sick. They were, they certainly were last year. If anybody wants to, by the way, Frankie, Sean, the McDavid or the, excuse me, the celebrity puck hound stuff. You can just Google Macklin, Celebrini and Nick Dowd. Just Google. Google that. It'll be a play that pops up from a game between the Sharks and the Caps a few weeks ago. I think that's the kind of stuff that we're talking about, potentially. How'd that go for Nick person? Huh?
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Sean McIndoo
How'd that go for Nick Dowd? I'm guessing not great. Not Nick Dowd.
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Sean Gentili
Like an established. He is a good NHL player and has been for years. Celebrity made him look like something other than that. So that I watched that one happen live and I had horrible flash forwards to, you know, a game of importance. Regardless, regardless of when it happens.
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Frankie Corrado
Celebrity's got some Datsuk in him in that regard, right? Like the keep away games. Datsuk used to play with guys, no one could ever get the puck off him. He had that crazy paddle of a blade. Like, celebrity's got a big hook. But it looks kind of big when it. When. When he's in these battles and stuff. He's. He's got some. Some of that for sure.
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Sean Gentili
One of my new favorite games is asking coaches about Macklin Celebrini.
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Frankie Corrado
Nice.
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Sean McIndoo
They.
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Sean Gentili
They like. They like talking about him. This will. This will shock you. All right, that's enough about the forwards.
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Frankie Corrado
We. We're gonna move one other. One other thing before. Before.
- [17:20]
Sean Gentili
No, Frank, you're not allowed.
- [17:22]
Frankie Corrado
Jar. Apparently, like the. The Seth Jarvis decision. I don't know what you guys were thinking, but I kind of heard it came down to, like, Jarvis and Scheifele. Like, those were. Those were the two guys that it. That it sort of came down to, which I was a little surprised. Like, I thought. I thought maybe Zach Hyman had done enough to warrant at least getting a look or even getting the spot, to be honest with you. So, yeah, that's. That's kind of what I heard after that. After that selection was made.
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Sean McIndoo
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised. Jarvis over Scheifele. I think that's the right call, partly based on the fact that he's. He was there last year, but, yeah.
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Sean Gentili
He'S a good defense. He's a good defensive player. Question.
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Sean McIndoo
Do you personality to play anywhere else other than with McDavid, or does he become the Chris Kunitz of. Of this team? And if you feel like no, no.
- [18:15]
Sean Gentili
Chris Kunitz slander on this show, my.
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Sean McIndoo
Man, I will not talk.
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Sean Gentili
I will. I will accept no such thing.
- [18:21]
Sean McIndoo
No cousin Chris gets a pass from.
- [18:23]
Frankie Corrado
From.
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Sean McIndoo
From this pod. But it. If not right, Zach Hyman makes the team and he doesn't play with McDavid. Is he playing?
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Sean Gentili
And.
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Sean McIndoo
I don't know. Maybe if the Tom Wilson thing doesn't work, maybe we're all going. You know, who'd look pretty good on that line on the self.
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Sean Gentili
Pretty.
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Frankie Corrado
I think.
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Sean Gentili
I think Wilson's gonna work. I. I don't. I don't know if I'm just drinking. I'm just drinking.
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Frankie Corrado
I think McDavid drinking, he can make.
- [18:50]
Sean Gentili
It work for you.
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Frankie Corrado
Like McDavid.
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Sean McIndoo
Different things, right? Like, we haven't there. There have definitely been times where McDavid didn't have the right line mates and didn't have. You know, you'd like to see more skill around him, but it wasn't like Crosby, like you. You, Sean, you remember, like, they made it out.
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Sean Gentili
Yes.
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Sean McIndoo
He was impossible to play with. Chris Kunitz was the only guy who had solved that Rubik's Cube and could. Could play next to the best player in the world.
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Sean Gentili
I think there was a. I think there was a pretty serious gap in terms of the guys that they actually tried to play him with. Like, they tried to. They try to play him with some. With some guys who are very obviously bad. They just took it to mean that. Yeah, that he's. That he can't. Like, is Crosby particular? Yes. Is. Is it. Does it take, like, a certain skill set to thrive with them? Like, for sure, but that narrative got weird I think, there for a little bit. All right, Is that it? Is that it for the Forest group? Are we moving on?
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Sean McIndoo
I think we're good. As a Canadian, I'd rather not, but sure we can.
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Sean Gentili
Defense. First pair. Shocking. DeVontaves, Kale McCarr, second pair. Josh Morrissey, Colton Pareco, third pair. Thomas Harley, Drew Doughty, fourth pair. In practice. These are all in practice. Of course, we need to continue reinforcing that because God knows it's going to change probably by the time this is. This is released. But whatever. Shea Theodore and Travis Anheim. Frankie. First big. First big thought. When you look at that group, my.
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Frankie Corrado
First thought is obviously Cale McCarr is going to play a lot, and regardless of who is on the decor, he's. He's going to play a lot. I wonder, like, the. If I just stick on the right side of the ice, like the Pareco, Doughty, you know, Sanheim playing his. His offside, like, where does that all land? Like, where does the ice time get allocated? And does it change from game one to game three into the, you know, knockout round? Like, how. How much of a moving target is that? You know, so that's. That's my first thought there. And kind of, you know, looking at this, you know, and let's take the. The top pair aside, right? Like, it feels like, you know, really good puck mover in Morrissey. And Perico, who likes to carry it a lot, you know, Morrissey will carry it as well, but Perico really likes to transport it himself. Harley Doughty, like, I feel like that with any. Any pairing that Doughty is on, that's going to be your. Like, got to be able to put out a fire. Like, that's. That's sort of how I see him kind of being a contributor to this team. And of course, Thomas Harley is a really well rounded defenseman. I think Shea Theodore this year has. Has been as complete as he's ever been. And Travis Sanheim's like a utility guy.
- [21:38]
Sean Gentili
But that theater is healthy, too.
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Frankie Corrado
Yeah, I guess that's my big question is how, you know, underneath Makar, where does, where does the allocated ice time shake out and the importance of all of those guys.
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Sean McIndoo
It doesn't feel like there's a second, third, fourth pair there, as opposed to it's Makar. And then it's one of the pairings that is a Makar, which is not bad. I mean, they got. That's the right guy to build it around. But certainly, you know, you, you look at the forwards, you just talk about depth. When it comes to Canada, it's, it's not there on the back end to the same extent, perfectly good players. But as, as far as like that, that high end of, oh my gosh, we got Sidney Crosby on the third line. You don't. There's nothing close to that on, on the blue line.
- [22:33]
Sean Gentili
It's still, it's still wild to me that Colton Pareco is, is the right side guy on, on the second pair. And that's, that's, that's no knock on him, but just seeing it spelled out that way is kinda, kinda kind of wild. And then. Well, Frankie, you mentioned it too. Sandheim's on his, on his offside in that, in this particular alignment. It's interesting.
- [22:54]
Frankie Corrado
Well, listen, I, I think if, if we evaluate the blue line and so many times we want to talk about who's not there, there's a good trust level with all these guys, right? Like, you can roll all of these pairs on the ice and feel like, okay, maybe you're not going to hit me a home run every single time you're on the ice, but I feel like I trust all you guys and that's important.
- [23:21]
Sean Gentili
Whereas you can, you can name Evan Bouchard here if you want.
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Frankie Corrado
That's okay. That's what we're saying, right? Like who's, who's the guy that doesn't make this team that has played unbelievable and is putting up a ton of points and makes sense to be, you know, realistically your next go to guy under Cale Makar. But is the trust level there the same way? It is. It feels safe is what I'm saying. Like the Team Canada D core feels safe. And if you're a coach, you get the warm and fuzzies and you feel like there might not be a lot of risk being taken outside of Makar, but it's not risk because it's Cale McCarr. He's one of the best in the league at doing what he does.
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Sean Gentili
Is it not why you potentially bring Boucher and I'm, I'm not, I Don't want to get into the Bushard debate because it's. I'm tired of, I'm tired of hearing for sure. I feel like I'm down the middle on it too. That's the best argument for bringing him, though, is like, he's Makar insurance. Like, if, if Makar is fine. Sit. You know, he's not, he's not in the lineup. But if, if some, if something happens, you want to have some kind of replicable skill set there. And Bouchard, for all his warts, I think, comes closer than most. I don't even, I don't even know if I would do it. I'm not even sure if I, if I would pull the trigger on it if I were the decision maker. But I think that's the most compelling argument in favor of actually doing it.
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Frankie Corrado
Yeah, what I would, what I would say on that is if, you know, we're creating a hypothetical that's clearly not there, but if.
- [24:44]
Sean Gentili
Yeah, who couldn't go?
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Frankie Corrado
Whatever. You needed someone to run your first power play unit. It's Josh Morrissey for me, anyways. Like, he runs a really good power play. And then. So then. But you think about it after that. Okay. And this is stupid. I don't even know why we're talking about it, but Drew Doughty historically has run a power play for a long time in the NHL. Doesn't run PP1 for the LA Kings. That's a five forward unit. Shea Theodore, he knows how to run a power play. Except Vegas totally does a five forward power play with Mitch Marner at the top. You know, so you start going down the list, you're like, okay, it's pretty much Josh Morrissey, I think, if, if you know that. But that's, that's a hypothetical that doesn't really exist right now.
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Sean Gentili
Yeah, we're, we're like, do it. Do they need, you know, plan F on this? Like, it's, it's, it's not, it's not worth going that far, but it is, it is kind of interesting.
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Frankie Corrado
Basically, that's what we're talking about because the decor just feels like you made the safe selections that you trust. And maybe that's not a bad thing. Maybe that, that's the winning recipe. Who knows?
- [25:49]
Sean Gentili
Who are you starting in net? We'll just, we'll just, we'll go, we'll go right here. Both you guys. Is it, Is it Bennington? Is it. Is it Logan Thompson?
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Sean McIndoo
In game one, I start Bennington and the, the hook is Mike Keenan esque, as Far as how quick I'll make a change. But yeah, I probably, I probably start him and then we see how it goes. And then, and then you give Logan Thompson start number two and then you make a call for the last game.
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Frankie Corrado
I'm the same way. I'm starting Bennington first because keep in mind the first game is against Czechia.
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Sean Gentili
So like concern that is not part of the, is not part of the.
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Frankie Corrado
I, I think it's not a concern. I think it's, it's a revealer. It lets you know exactly where he's at. Whereas if you had to play, you know, one of these lesser teams, I don't know, he could be, he could not be. You're going to know after 60 minutes if he's got it or not. So that's why I'm okay with doing that. And if he doesn't, then you're going to someone else and you're pivoting. That's the guy that carries it. But if he plays well for you, he's locked in. Killer instinct is on. It's not the guy that we, we've seen throughout, you know, 50 something games with St. Louis this year. I think it's a no brainer just to hash it out right away, see.
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Sean McIndoo
Where he's at if he's good in game one. Frankie, do you just go back to him in gate two and say you're just going to be our guy?
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Frankie Corrado
It's a good question. I might want to get someone into the rotation.
- [27:16]
Sean Gentili
You got it. You got to get Thompson.
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Frankie Corrado
I think you got to get someone in. Yeah.
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Sean Gentili
The odds of him, of Bennington making it through the whole tournament without needing a rest for one reason or another is slim.
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Frankie Corrado
Well, keep this in mind. You have Switzerland in game two and you have France in game three. You got to feel comfortable going to another goalie for either of those games. Right.
- [27:42]
Sean Gentili
Canada's going to give, Switzerland's got enough guys where that's, it'd be a quasi representative game. Like France is just like whatever, like. We'll talk, we'll talk about them shortly.
- [27:54]
Sean McIndoo
Get right game.
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Sean Gentili
Yeah.
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Sean McIndoo
Two games haven't gone.
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Sean Gentili
Yeah. All right. We're going to move on actually. We're going to, we're going to hit a break here. We're going to talk about Finland first thing, first thing after, first thing after the break and then we're going to have our metal picks and other kind of big picture stuff in segment three. So stick around, we'll be right back.
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Frankie Corrado
There.
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Sean Gentili
Mikhail. This is Rupa Hints between Mikhail Granland and Miko Rantanen. Sebastian Ajo between Arturia Lekkanen and Tuvotarovinen. Anton Lundell between E2. Lister Rhinen and some combination of Capo Caco and Kasperi Kapanen. Eric Halla between y' all Armia and Ellie Tolvanen and then y' all Kiveranta as the extra. There's obviously, fellas, there's a big hole at the top of that depth chart. Of course, Alexander Barkov is out as he has been for the last several months. I don't know about you, but it's still very. That's the first thing I think of when I see Finland's roster. It's the first thing I think of when I see their depth chart. It's the first thing I think of when I see their line combos. And I'm wondering if that's a similar boat that you guys find yourselves in.
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Frankie Corrado
Well, think about this, okay? They don't have Barkov and for sure he would be the guy who eats up the lion's share of the minutes down the middle of the ice. But when I look at it lined up that way and I think Anton Ludendell is still their third line center and then I realize Anton Lindell was the third line center for the Florida Panthers when they won the Stanley cup and I'm like, they're actually like, you know, of course Barkov's a massive loss, but they're still pretty strong down the middle of the ice. The fact that he has to be the third line center like so that's, I think they're, they're still appropriately slotted. They would be way better with Barkov, but I think that just goes to show you, you know, the depth that they have in the top three. Of course it falls off with, with Eric Hala, but that's just kind of the, that's the reality of the Finnish team as opposed to Canada or US where you know there is going to be a little bit of a discrepancy from the top guys to the bottom guys sometimes.
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Sean Gentili
Right. Whereas if you, if you were Barkov hints Aho Lindell is, I mean I'm.
- [34:04]
Frankie Corrado
Not going to really.
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Sean Gentili
Am I, am I taking them to beat Canada? I don't know about that. But that's, that's as good a center depth as you're going to find in a non North American international team like, like ever potentially that, not to, not to overstate it but you don't, you don't see that sort of stuff frequently.
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Sean McIndoo
So you don't see it. But it really does underline the difference between the two North American teams up front and the European teams. Especially in this tournament with no Russia, it's, yeah, you've got a guy as your third line center who's a very good third line center in the NHL. Canada has Sidney Crosby as their third line center. I mean at the end of the day it's, there's not a team in this tournament that looks great if you take their single best player away like you do with Barkov from Finland. So, but especially here you see guys start moving up the lineup and, and you know, it's, there's enough here on a good night to beat anybody, but it's going to have to be a really good night for Finland to, to be able to trade with a Canada or a usa.
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Sean Gentili
And it's like with Canada too and the United States, there's that extra layer if you're talking about center depth where it's like, okay, if Sidney Crosby gets hurt, what do you do? You Macklin celebrating? I don't know. Nick Suzuki Bennett, United States. It's like if Jack Eichel gets hurt, what do you do? Jack Hughes top six minutes, like that's fine here it's for Finland. It's, you know, if, if, if Barkov or hints or whoever. Like if it, that's when stuff gets hinky is you're like okay Ericala. Yeah. Is that, does that work in it? And it, that's it.
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Sean McIndoo
Right? Like if, if we had, if, if Barkov was on this team, we'd be looking at this roster going. You're going to need 25, 30 minutes a night from Barkov to have a chance. And if, boy, if he ever got hurt, they'd be done. Well, I mean he's hurt and it's, it's. They're not done. They don't, don't put in the newspaper that I said they were done because I don't know, I don't need that throwback.
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Frankie Corrado
They're not done. But they need, they need to be a very hard team to play against and I think that that leads into the back end who, where you know they're, they're going to have to rely on their top guys more than ever for sure.
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Sean Gentili
In there it's, it's Esalen Dellen, Miro Heiskinen is the top pair. Oli Mata and Henry Yokoharyu as the second pair. Nico Mikola and Rasmus Ristallinen as a third pair and then, and then Letton and Martin Paulo as the fourth pair. Letting in of course is. Or Letnan is the lone non NHL player on the roster. Which is you know, unfortunate, unfortunate for the one or two north Finnish defenseman, you know, playing high end ball in, in North America to get cut out there. But, but, but Frankie, I think you kind of led into this like what is, what is the forward group mean for you know, the, the especially the Lindell Haskin in pairing because they're gonna get, they're gonna leaned on so much.
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Frankie Corrado
It's 30 minutes a night for those guys. Right. Like call it for what it is, you know. I think if you're looking at Nico Mikola and Ristalainen is probably going to end up being your second pair. The way the minutes get dispersed and then Olimara and Yoki Haru like they're going to play, they're going to play third pair of minutes but against the really good teams whether it's you know, USA or Canada, like yeah, you're not getting usual third pair match.
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Sean Gentili
Third, third pair minutes against Canada gets you Sidney Crosby and right.
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Frankie Corrado
So like that's that, that's why like the, the Lindell Haskin and pair, they're going to be out there for half the game. They have no choice. And you know I would Say in years past, maybe there's a, a little more of a backbone in net for Team Finland, but UC Soros hasn't had a very good season either. So, you know, you're, you're asking. I think you're going to be asking a lot from a few guys with this Finnish team.
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Sean McIndoo
I do like UC Soros as a potential. Oh yeah, that guy from this Olympics. Because we, you're right. Like two years ago you would have said that's, that's your strength. And it hasn't looked like it this year. And you know, with injuries, it's, it probably has to be him. But now how good has he been? Hey, he could, he could get lit up. It would be true to form for, you know, how he's played a lot of nights the last couple of years, but still pretty good goalie. Our buddy Jesse Granger always points to the, the goalies on bad teams and says, you know, it's, it's never the goalies fault, it's always the team in front of them. Nashville has been up and down. This is going to be a better team. I mean, if we're sitting here two weeks from now going. UC Soros kind of emerged as one of the big stories of this tournament. That doesn't shock me. He worries.
- [39:12]
Sean Gentili
He's still only 30 years old. I feel like we, I mean, small goalie, a lot of miles on the odometer. He's played a whole bunch of hockey over the last five or six years, but I think people talk about him like he is, you know, got one, one foot in retirement here. At times it just. That goes with the territory when you're playing on a stinky team like he, like he has been. It's gonna be interesting. Next up, Slovakia. This is the, it's fair to, it's fair to say that this is the. Your Ice Loft Coffee show, right? That's, that's the name, the name brand guy on. In the group of forwards, obviously we see Pavel Ragenda who's, who's done some good stuff for the Sharks. That was him finishing that crazy play from Macron celebrating on Nick Dow that I mentioned earlier. So shout out there. And then Martin Harvey from the Washington Capitals, Eric Chernak. There's. These are representative NHL players kind of dotting, dotting the line up there. And I think it's, you know, good on Slovakia because 2014 was kind of a mess for them. I think they, I think the 12 year gap without NHL players, you know, in this tournament has, has done them well because I. I think they're closer to being relevant, you know, now than they would have been in 18 or 22.
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Frankie Corrado
Yeah.
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Sean Gentili
You guys have any thoughts on. On the. Well, on the forward group, we'll start there.
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Frankie Corrado
I think the one player that's not in the NHL that probably should factor in pretty heavily for them is Thomas Tatar. Like, on the. On the international stage, playing for Slovakia. Like, I get it. Didn't have an NHL job this season, but on that team, I would think there's going to be a pretty big leadership role for him, and he should be relied on pretty heavily.
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Sean Gentili
But you're right, he was named. I think he got to see.
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Frankie Corrado
Right.
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Sean Gentili
Officially as of. As of Monday.
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Frankie Corrado
So. And the other thing that comes to mind is how young they are. Right. Like, divorce is a young player. Possibil is a young player. Regenda's young.
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Sean Gentili
Like, didn't even mention Nemech.
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Frankie Corrado
Right. Like. And then you go to the back end and there's some. Some more young guys as well. So I think they're just. They're. They're not. I'm going to call them inexperienced because a lot of these guys play international hockey. They have to based on, you know, Slovakia's kind of situation. But they're. They're a young team, and they're going to have to lean on the Tatars and the Slavkovsky of the world to go up against the best.
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Sean McIndoo
Yeah. If we talked about international hockey the way we talk about the NHL, we refer to this as a rebuilding, and it could be. It would be one that could. Could be feisty. But there's. I mean, you talk about 2018, 2022. Sure. But go back further than that. Like, there. There's no Marion Hosa here. No, there's no Zaden Ochara here. There used to be those pieces where you go, you know, between that and then, you know, they'd have a Yaroslav Halakit net. You'd go, boy, if he gets hot, this could get dicey. And look, you can say that about their goal is. You can say that any goalie in the tournament, he gets hot enough, he disrupts the entire thing. But there's. There's. There's not a lot here that. That makes me think that there's an upside into the metal contention or anything like that. I think it's gain some experience, they'll play well. They'll. They'll be a hard out, but they'll be out relatively quickly.
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Sean Gentili
It's because they don't have the goalie like that's.
- [42:45]
Sean McIndoo
Like NHL golden.
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Sean Gentili
That's why, that's why we can't take them all that seriously. You know, for our, for our purposes on shows like this as a potential metal candidate. Right. Like if you talk about Switzerland, you can only say like Akira Schmidt has, has been pretty good this year for the, for the Vegas Golden Knights. You know, you go up and down the, up and on the rosters of these teams, like a lot of times there's at least one guy that's got enough NHL pedigree where you can squint and, and see it. And I, that's just not the case with it with these guys. There is no Yaroslav Halak.
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Frankie Corrado
Right.
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Sean Gentili
There is no, you know, factor there that we've seen from Slovakia. Honestly, like going back to, going back to 2014, 2008, on and on. Like there was always a guy there. You were like, yeah, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe. I don't, I don't necessarily see it this time around, unfortunately. Let's talk Germany. The German roster is really interesting. There's some superstars at the top of it obviously. We got Leon Drai Seidel and we've got, we've got, we've got Tim Stutzler and we've got Moritz Cider. Like there, there are name brand guys at the top of this that seem like they're certainly capable if nothing else and making them interesting and making them someone worth watching in the preliminary round. Right.
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Frankie Corrado
The discrepancy between the top players and even just the second best or third best guys is completely wild.
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Sean McIndoo
You're right.
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Frankie Corrado
You have two of the best forwards in the NHL in Draisaitl and Stuartsa. You have one of the best defensemen in the NHL who's having a Norris caliber season in Moritz Sider. And then you know what? My, my big takeaway here with team Germany is this. There's some guys out there for revenge like Dominic Calhoun, former NHL or former Edmonton Oiler. He's out. He's going to get some revenge. Tobias Reader, former NHL actually played for the Oilers as well. Coyotes like Toby's going to get some revenge on some people. Former teammate of mine, Lucas Reichel, former first round pick of, of Chicago who's playing in the AHL and Abbotsford maybe, I don't know. Like I just, I kind of look at it. I'm like there's some guys that have been in the league, in the NHL and now they're, they're going to have a chance to play against their guys, you know, their former colleagues if you want to call them that on, like, a world stage, and maybe they get a little revenge, get back in the mix. That's. I don't know that. That's kind of what I thought of.
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Sean Gentili
It's. Justin shoots, by the way, in the forwards group. This is not there. He's. He's missing a letter there. There is no positional change for Pittsburgh Penguins legend Justin Schultz.
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Sean McIndoo
Yeah, I thought breaking some news there. You know why?
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Sean Gentili
Because I looked at the roster and was. I was just. I was taken aback.
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Sean McIndoo
I love Leon Draisaitl part of this team. You know where the first time I ever heard of Leon Drai Seidel was years before he was drafted. I did one of my YouTube breakdowns of. And you guys are probably both maybe a little young for this, but in 1992, Canada and Germany, in the Olympics, went to a shootout. And it was, I think, maybe the first time that there had been a shootout in the Olympics or one of the first, and people lost their minds over it. And this was the Eric Lindross team and all of this. And Canada ends up winning in the shootout. But one of the shooters, I remember being like, yeah, who's this guy? And somebody was like, oh, that's German legend Peter Draisaitl. And by the way, his kid's gonna be drafted in a couple years.
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Sean Gentili
Pretty good.
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Sean McIndoo
Keep an eye on him. He's something else. And I was like, oh, yeah, this. I'll keep an eye on this German prospect. I'm sure he's gonna be something.
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Sean Gentili
Well, German flag. German flag bearer. Seidel. Did you guys see the. Do you guys see the gear he was wearing at the. At the opening ceremony? I think it was hilarious. It was a. It was like a poncho. I don't think there are arms in it. It was. It was. It was incredible.
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Frankie Corrado
Like, Draisaitl playing on the Oilers, where, you know, he's got some of the best players in the world around him. He could. He could catch you with a bit of a snarly face sometimes. Right? Like, puck isn't where he wants it to. Goes off after a shift, and he's not feeling it. Like, you could see. You could see it, and you can read it off of him. I'm so curious to see how that looks with.
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Sean Gentili
See how he looks with void text to koiak or he's like, if he's.
- [47:10]
Frankie Corrado
Down there, Michaelis is throwing something into his shin pads. Like, what's he looking like coming off?
- [47:17]
Sean McIndoo
He's waiting for the Connor McDavid one timer pass. Yeah, yeah, maybe doesn't quite come.
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Sean Gentili
You're not getting that from Alexander L. Playing for Manheim. Sorry. Sorry, Leon. Yeah, I don't know, man. I. I think, I think Germany could be good tv, honestly. Just because, just because of dry side all cider. We did. I. Philip Grubauer is playing well. He was playing well for the Seattle crack. And that's kind of a little bit of an X factor. If he looks like he knows what he's doing in net, I don't know. I can imagine, I can imagine them being relevant over the course.
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Sean McIndoo
I'll say this, I like this team more than on paper than the Slovak team, which I think, I think I agree. That'd be the first time that I would probably say that for a team outside, you know, what was the big six or the big seven, that, that you would point to a team like Germany and say, I think on paper they're actually better than one of those teams.
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Frankie Corrado
They got the stars that Slovakia used to have.
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Sean Gentili
Yep, yep, yep. All right, let's touch on France real quick. Couple names, you know, in that, in that group. Pierre Edward Belmar, who played for, God, five or six NHL teams over the course of his career, was in the league with Seattle just, just a minute ago, honestly. Alex Texier from the Montreal Canadiens. Those are the two name brand guys who played significant amounts of North American hockey. Stefan Dacosta as well. Is there anything, Frankie, you're familiar to some degree with some of these dudes based on a past life. What are we thinking here?
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Frankie Corrado
My first thought is Johan Auvitu going to rock the white skates again because he used to have those white skates go elite analysis and the Oilers. So like, is he still a white skates guy or has he gone to the, you know, all dark skates? We'll see. We'll see. And then Stefan Da Costa, who's been playing, it feels like for a century he's been playing for the same team in the khl. Ye Katerinberg, which is like, when you go to Europe, I feel like there's two ways it goes. And I know I'm kind of clumping the KHL in Europe altogether, but there's guys that jump around teams, you know, they go to a different place, different places, a million different places, get a paycheck here, paycheck there, or they just lay down roots in one spot and they like it and the team likes them and they never leave. And this guy is just in Yakaterinburg and that's It. So listen, they're. They're going to be in tough. Like, they're. France is the team that replaces Russia in this tournament. So, you know, you have to know what they are going into this thing. They're going to be in tough.
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Sean Gentili
So what you're saying is you didn't want to lay down any roots with Dinamo Riga of the khl.
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Frankie Corrado
I found out. I found out I wasn't being asked back to Moto in Sweden via Instagram. Like, cool. They just like said me and all the other imports and a couple of the Swedes, it was like, thank you for everything. I was like, I texted our little. Our import group chat. I was like, hey, I guess we're not going back.
- [50:27]
Sean Gentili
Okay. Okie dokie.
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Sean McIndoo
You guys never already unfollowed and blocked?
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Sean Gentili
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're finishing up, boys, appropriately with the Italian team. Chris Johnson wrote a pretty interesting story about the method for putting this team together. Not a lot of. What's the word I'm looking for here? Not a lot of heritage names. Like, these are all guys who have roots, who have roots in, in the league and have played, played in, you know, played a significant amount of hockey for the Italian national team. That and only that is the reason you are not seeing a defensive group led by Frankie Corrado, clearly. What do we have any thoughts on. On that group? I know, I know Thomas Larkin's a name that some of us are familiar with. You know, this is. It's going to be fun to watch just because it's always good to see host nation teams get involved. That's always, that always makes for, yeah, Compelling, compelling theater. But is there, is there anything beyond that worth watching? Frank?
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Sean McIndoo
So.
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Frankie Corrado
So I hope they hang in, like, I hope they hang in the games. And if producer Jeff can just flash up the roster again, for me, there's. There's a couple of things worth point here. So the players that you see that play for either HC Bolzano or HC Valposteria, they're Italian cities, but they play in the Austrian League. So that's the way that, like the Italian program has been able to strengthen itself a little bit by playing in the Austrian League. And those are the two cities that have teams in the Austrian League. And then the other thing is where you see, you know, Lugano or Ambry Piotta, those are teams that play in the Swiss League, right? So those are like, that's an even higher level, but they're in Switzerland, they're not in Italy, but chances are they're Italian communities. So you get some Italian players there and I understand what they like, I understand what the Italian program they really adhered to. You have to play your two years in Italy and you have to kind of play a little bit with the national team because there's a lot of guys who have been devoted to this team and have helped kind of, you know, bring it along and play every year. So. But there are some Canadian guys, you know, most notably Alexander Patan, that's Nick Patan's brother. Nick Patan of course, used to play for, was he drafted by Winnipeg and then played for Minnesota at one point. And then Dylan Diperna, he's actually from around here in Toronto. He, he played for the Kitchener Rangers. He's like a Mississauga Rebels guy. So there are some Canadian guys and. But the big name, there is actually a big name on this team, if you can believe it or not. It's the goalie Damian Clara, who plays in Sweden in the shl. That's a big deal for an Italian kid to be playing in the top league in Sweden. He's a second round pick of Anaheim. So that like, that very well could be like the best Italian born player to ever come out of Italy at some point. So that would be the, the, the one kind of big name that they do have.
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Sean Gentili
Second rounder in 2023 too. He's 21. Six. Six. Okay, let's go.
- [53:42]
Sean McIndoo
All right, that's there, there's your guy.
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Sean Gentili
Who's going to, I'm paying attention.
- [53:46]
Sean McIndoo
Some team. But I, you know, what I want to see is, I'm really curious to see what the crowds are like, especially for this team because you know, home ice advantage in hockey when you've got a hot crowd behind you. And I could, I could imagine it both ways, right? I could imagine this being the story of the Olympics. Let's go watch this team sport and we're just going to watch team Italy make 50 saves and throw a few hits and you know, try to get, try to get a win over, over one of these teams. Or it could be like, let's just sit back and you know, we're not really sure what's going on here and you know, we're, we're just watching them get pumped. But man, an underdog hockey team with a great crowd can be a lot of fun. So fingers crossed there, there could be something here. But it's, it's a tough group. They're not in with Canada or the U.S. but they're in with three of, of the teams that are are going to be have a lot of NHL guys, so it's, it's going to be tough.
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Sean Gentili
I'm furiously trying to buy a Damien Clara jersey as we speak. Well, can it can it get here in the next in the next two days? About to find out. Fellas, we got one more segment to go. We're talking medals, we're talking mvp, we're talking goalies and what have you. That's coming up next. Stick around.
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- [57:11]
Sean Gentili
All right, fellas, we're back. Time to make picks, time to make predictions. We love doing it, only we love being held to our words and having thrown stuff back in our face after, after a couple weeks. Frankie, Corrado, Wait. How should we do this? How do you guys want to do this? Just count to three and then, and then say our gold medal fix.
- [57:33]
Sean McIndoo
I was gonna say you guys go first and then I'll go and choose a team you guys didn't choose just so that we don't wind up all three of us saying the same thing.
- [57:43]
Sean Gentili
All right, Frank.
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Frankie Corrado
I'm going to take Canada. I'm going to take Canada. I think there's too much firepower to try and win a game. One nothing or two one against them. That's my reasoning. I feel like I don't. And we talked about this before. I feel like it boils down, boils down to Canada versus US And I feel like the US Left too much firepower at home to try and slow down Canada and win a one nothing or two one game. So I am taking Canada to win the gold medal.
- [58:16]
Sean Gentili
Sean McIndoo, who is your gold medal pick?
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Sean McIndoo
That, that kind of was. I was hoping I could sneak it through there. I, I do think it's Canada. I am, I'm more scared of the United States than maybe I should be or maybe others would be. But I mean, that is. Team USA has brought a team designed to beat Canada. So I, I really feel like it's, It's. I don't see a lot of scenarios where, like, Team USA gets a bronze. You know, it's, it feels like it's either gold medal game or bust and bust is. Is in play. But I will, I will take Canada over the U.S. and give me Sweden as the, as the bronze medal. And now, Sean, as per prediction rules, you can't take Canada, so the quiz.
- [59:05]
Frankie Corrado
Master won't allow it.
- [59:07]
Sean Gentili
I'm sticking with what I said in our extremely official athletic predictions that we submitted on a Google, Google form last week. I'm going United States, like, fine. Like, just for, just for the sake of, for the, for the sake of conversation and for the sake of the show, I'll pick the United States and I will do this because this, this will lead me directly into the next two categories. I am doing this in spite of how he's played so far in the regular season. And I'm certainly doing it in spite of how he's played over the last multiple postseasons. We're going to see some, we're going to see some tricks from Conor Helbuk. I think that's what's going to happen. Like, I'm trying to. I'm trying to, like, game theory this out and find a way that, find a way that the, that the US Pickles stand up. I, I am. I, I think he's gone in energy conservation mode over the last few months and he is. And he is prepared for the task. So do I think they have the strongest roster? I do not. I think that. Hello, Buck is, Is, you know, the X factor and. Yeah, sure, why not? He's gonna, he's Gonna put up a 9.48say percentage over the course of the next couple weeks.
- [60:23]
Frankie Corrado
Listen, the thing is, we don't actually know it's a prediction, so why not? Like, you're, you're allowed to predict it. And I predict that the tournament MVP will be Sidney Crosby. This is going to be the send off for Sid. The send off for Sid.
- [60:41]
Sean Gentili
He's never going to, he will never play hockey again. No.
- [60:43]
Frankie Corrado
Maybe last Olympics. Let's. Right. Like, is he going to be playing at 44? Is he going to be playing at 40? Like a 43. 44 maybe. It's hard to count them out, but I think this is maybe, you know, this is the last time he gets to play at the Olympics. Who knows? I'm. I'm obviously not counting him out, but that's how I'm phrasing it. The send off for Sid picking a.
- [61:06]
Sean Gentili
Third line center to be named MVP are. Yeah. Interesting.
- [61:09]
Sean McIndoo
Is Sidney Crosby the Team Canada gm the next time we're at the Olympics.
- [61:14]
Frankie Corrado
Advisor pin in that one.
- [61:16]
Sean McIndoo
Let me go for mvp. Give me Cale Makar. For a lot of the reasons we talked about. He's going to be playing a lot of minutes, wearing a lot of hats. And on a Canadian team where the offense up front should be spread out, I think it's quite possible we see Cale McCarth very near the top of the scoring chart on that team. And that's how a lot of awards get picked. And defenseman doing it at both ends, I could see. I don't think that'd be a real tough sell.
- [61:46]
Sean Gentili
So if you folks are keeping track of this. The two Canadians took Canadians. The American took Americans.
- [61:50]
Frankie Corrado
All right.
- [61:51]
Sean McIndoo
Bunch of homers. This is easy.
- [61:54]
Sean Gentili
We need, we need more Finnish representation on the podcast. Clearly, because it's the only way they're gonna break through. Thank you boys for. For doing this. Thank you for recording the Wednesday show on a Monday to be released on a Tuesday, which I think think is technically. Technically what we just did. And enjoy the games. We'll talk very soon. You will certainly hear from us over the course of the next couple weeks. Dear listeners, thank you for listening. As always. Dom and Jesse have the next show on Thursday. That is after the American game versus Latvia. Enjoy it and we'll be back next week.
- [62:35]
Sean McIndoo
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Sean Gentili
Really?
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Sean McIndoo
At a playground?
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Sean McIndoo
Wow, your search can really get that specific.
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Sean McIndoo
And you just put in your info and boom, car's in your budget.
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Sean McIndoo
Honey, you can really have it delivered.
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Sean Gentili
One sec, sweetie.
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- [62:57]
Frankie Corrado
Mommy's.
- [62:58]
Sean McIndoo
I think kid is walking up the slide. Kyle.
- [63:01]
Frankie Corrado
Again?
- [63:01]
Sean Gentili
Really?
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