A Master At The Video Crafts

Voice of the The Roadrunners Jonathon Schaffer and Co-Host Kim Cota-Robles are joined this episode by Roadrunners Video Coach Brad Krakowitz as they talk about his new role with the Roadrunners and Tucson's recent sucessful homestand to get the team back into the playoff picture. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's five o'clock. Got yours hues day?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Do this?

Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's two sun Roadrunners Happy Out from Fox Sports fourteen
fifty am. Jonathan, Shit right.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
We know the story, but you gotta tell the viewers
that starts. It's so funny.

Speaker 4 (00:16):
It's our usual Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
So I don't know. Maybe we should start implementing some
breakdance pregames during the season and see how that goes.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Right here on Tucson Sports Day yet, Fox Sports fourteen
fifty am.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Fox Sports fourteen fifty am. Our usual Tuesday night get together,
Roadrunners Happy our Office edition. We are all here at
the Roadrunners office off the top of the hour, joining
us video coach Brad Krakowitz of the Tucson Roadrunners. Brad,
welcome to the show. This is your first time on.
How's it going man, and welcome aboard.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
It's great, Thanks for having me appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
So we are in the last stages of the season.
We just went through an absolute gauntlet of a schedule
at home on the road as well. You travel with
sometimes on the road. Just what's the whole season been
like for you? In the in the video coach full
capacity now and yeah, just kind of give us an
overall taste of what you do.

Speaker 4 (01:10):
Yeah, it's been. It's been a lot of fun. It
keeps you busy, for sure. Hockey's hockey season is so
many things go on that you like to be able
to plan for and you expect certain things to happen,
you know, injuries and losing streaks, winning streaks, the ebbs
and flows of a season. But it's been been really busy.
Keeps us going, you know, with call ups, calls, you know,

(01:33):
guys getting sent back down, all that stuff. It's a
lot of fun. It's a lot of work that you know,
we've been doing as a staff, making sure that we're
as prepared as we can be, making sure that you know,
for me personally, that the coaches have all the video
that they need, making sure that we're you know, as
proactive as we can to do pre scouts, making sure
we're being proactive, you know, looking at any stats, any

(01:54):
important numbers that are sticking out to us for an
upcoming game, or trends in our own game. Things like that,
you know, we have to keep an eye on at
all times.

Speaker 3 (02:02):
And we just had a got a huge sweep over
the Bakersfield Condors, great home stand overall, now we're we're
really in the driver's seat for the playoffs. You know,
from your perspective, you're watching the game, you analyzed the
game at a really good job as well. You know,
what did you see in those two games against the
Bakersfield Condors, And what do you think we got to
do in Rockford this weekend to you know, really put

(02:23):
us in a spot to clinch here.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, we just played road owners hockey and it was
it was great to see. You know, we were doing
a really great job of sticking to a game plan
and you know, making Bakersfield's life really difficult. I think
that showed especially in that second game. You know, you
get three goals in the first period, really puts another
team on their heels. And you know, we didn't take
the foot off the gas. I thought that was really important.

(02:47):
You know, we stayed on them the entire game, didn't
really give them any life. You know, there was that
one chance, you know, they score a goal three to
one towards the end of the second period. You know,
maybe they get some juice going into the third and
then quick goal at the end of the period and
their spirits seems, you know, kind of crushed for the
rest of the game. So that was what we wanted
to do and we were able to pull it off.
So yeah, big points against a team we're neck and

(03:09):
neck with World Playoff Spot. It's huge. Gives the guys
an energy boost to just some confidence and knowing that,
you know, we can get to our game against a
team that we're right there with, and yeah, going into Rockford,
the energy feels right.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
The song that I kept thinking about this weekend as
we were playing was don't go Away, Mad, just go away.
I just wanted to just get rid of Bakersfield, get
him out of way, and just like march on. Brad So,
you're originally from Baltimore, Maryland, right, How long were you
living in Baltimore.

Speaker 4 (03:39):
I lived there for about seven years.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
Oh okay, yeah, you have memories of it.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Oh yeah. Most of my family still lives there. So
I go back over summer when I get the chance to.
I'll be there for a good amount this summer.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Okay. And then Bradley Kracko, it's lore. Then you moved
to Tucson.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, so I actually I lived in DC for three years.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
He did.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
Where did you live Southern Maryland? Waldorf?

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Oh? Okay, I used to live in our Okay.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Yeah, yeah, so my stepdad is I was stationed at
Air Force one. Ok So we moved to DC and
then he became Chief Baster's sergeant and I got moved
here to DM Okay. So we moved to Tucson when
I was ten years old, okay, and I have been
here ever since.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
I was stationed at the Navy Annex. Oh no way, yeah,
for like four years, I think, so we were there
for a really long time. Okay, so you're here. Where
did you go to high school?

Speaker 4 (04:26):
I went to Empire High School out in Vail.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Oh, okay, all right, and then you were on the
inaugural Junior Roadrunners high school team right in what year
was that?

Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yes, that was twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, So that wasn't
that I was. Yeah, it was wow. There was a lot.
You know, that's a program that you know, they do
a great job and with the limited ice that you
know they have available in getting a team ready to go,
and we ended up going all the way to the
state championship game, which was pretty awesome. That's in our

(04:57):
first year. Still not entirely over losing that I came,
but who did you play against? You played Desert Vista.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Where's that? Where was that came at?

Speaker 4 (05:05):
It was at the Ice n in Scottsdale.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh okay, oh no, at least it was at least
it was an ice facility.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
And yeah, it was a three to two game, and
every time we walked past that rink, like well, when
we have practices up there, we walked past that rink
and I get a little bit of PTSD from that game.
But no, it was It's a great program and there's
great people that are running it, which is the most
important thing.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
How did you get into hockey? Was it something that
you did back east and then picked up here because
it's not easy to get into hockey here. It's very
It's a lot bigger now right than it used to be.
But back then it was. My son is on the
JV team right now, so okay, awesome. Yes, so we're
in Phoenix a lot right now. But yeah, what was

(05:48):
that like for you?

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, so that definitely started in Maryland when I was
living on the East Coast.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Are you a Caps fan?

Speaker 4 (05:55):
I did grow up a Caps fan. Yes, okay, that
was my first team growing up. Utah Hockey Club all
the way right, right, right right, So yeah, that started
back there, and I grew up going to to Caps
games and then moved out here. Had no idea that
there was youth hockey here, and then all of a sudden,
my mom was like, hey, like, let's let's get you

(06:16):
signed up for ice hockey. WHOA, all right, let's do
it hockey. So yeah, she's the best.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
My parents said, you're playing football, that's too expensive.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
My brothers and I all wanted to be goalies too,
so it's it's just never was going.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
To get out on the ice with Jeff. I'm sure, yeah,
to take your first spin. But yeah, so that all
started there and luckily was able to keep playing here,
and yeah, it was great. You know, yeah, I'll cherish playing,
if you know, with that one season with the Junior
Roadrunners and even before that, you know, when we weren't
really a part of a league. We were kind of

(06:52):
playing teams and spot situations, you know, random games up
in Phoenix, you know, with a club, or playing other
high schools and exhibitions stuff like that until we could
get into that league.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Right, Okay, so then you went from playing with the
Junior road Runners to interning with the Roadrunners the next season,
is that right?

Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah? I actually started shortly after that season, me and
one of my old teammates on the Junior Roadrunners. We
were both doing it our senior years a high school.
And then it just came to be you know, you
you're around the rink enough, you meet the right people.
So my eighteenth birthday I sent my papers to intern
with the Roadrunners and worked my way up slowly but

(07:33):
surely over the years.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Now we're here. It's pretty awesome.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
Oh my gosh. Okay, so then you started in hockey
ops and then when did you pivot? Video? Video manager coordinator?
What your job is right now?

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah? So initially, like we started off just doing tracking
time on ice, which is an extension of you know,
the video job, and it all syncs up to the
video system so players can watch their shifts after the game,
and the coaches are able to get you know, right
after the period of time one night's report, okay, just
so they can keep track of, you know, who should
be playing more, who should be playing less, maybe he's
going to be exhausted towards the end of the game,

(08:07):
stuff like that, and just evolved to you know, adding
a little bit more responsibilities. Especially when Jake came in
and became the video coach. You know, he really, you know,
wanted to progress my development as a video coach, so
he started, you know, little by little, you know, putting
more on my plate to where we are now where

(08:28):
this season it was, gave me the keys to the computer,
I guess. And now it's a video coach time.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
And you're also down, you know, in the video room
during every game that you're a present, whether it's home
or you travel sometimes on the road, and there's been
situations this season where you're the last one to tell
the coaches to either challenger player or not got a
big one? What was it in Bakersfield? I think where

(08:55):
our goal was eventually waved off? Talk us through that.
I kind of try to summarize it on the broadcast
at the time, but kind of walk me through a
moment like that, and oull great to the field to
know that you're kind of the last one to say,
got got to challenge that one.

Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yeah, it's kind of cool being the last line of
defense on those things and most goals are going to
stand that get brought up, but you have to check
everything even if there's a one percent chance that, you know,
maybe it was played with the high stick or it
was kicked in like that goal was. You know, you
have to check everything and you have to be really
quick with it because they're lining up ready for the
puck to drop, and I have to you know, analyze it,

(09:33):
take a look, see if it's worthwhile, and communicate with
zax Ortini on the bench to tell him, hey, call
the ref over. You know, we we're going to challenge this.
So that one, in particular, it was a weird play
where the puck was kind of just sitting out in
front and as the Bakersfield player was trying to stop,
you know, he kind of turned his skate made a
kicking motion on the puck. So as they were lining up,

(09:53):
it was real quick, you know, get on the walkie
and tell him, hey, you know you need to challenge
this for a distinct kicking motion. And those those moments
when you're there just reviewing it and waiting are kind
of the worst because you're just sitting there like now
it's out of my control and you're just watching the
same replay over and over again. You're like yes, maybe, yes, no,

(10:14):
Then you start second guessing yourself a little bit, like
how are they going to see this?

Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's your show, we do it. It's like, oh, that
one looked like good. Oh but that one doesn't show
it really as much.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yeah, but you know you can't. You try and do
that as little as possible. You know, you make the call,
we're going to challenge this, and you'd be as decisive
as possible and then try and just wait till you
either hear a crowd cheer or a crowd boot, depending
on where you are and if you're trying to get
a goal on the border or off it. So it's
kind of a hectic thirty seconds that you have to

(10:43):
make the call if that. But it's the pressure situations
that we get paid for, so and.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
The videos that you are using to watch the games
and watch out for any challenge moments or anything. It's delayed, right,
so you're either hearing the horns of the crowd right,
you know, a few seconds before or the goal actually
happens for you, or you know, if you're on the
road kind of vice versa for the other team, how
do you kind of manage that knowing that you're kind
of already getting spoiled you know of the goal without

(11:11):
it happening for you as you see it on your screen.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yeah, you know when we're at home and you hear
the horn go off because there's about a three second
delay from what I'm seeing to what's going on in
the ice, So usually you know the place starting to
develop and then the horn goes off and I just
kind of celebrate real quick, and then I get ready
to mark. But I need to mark for being a goal.
And you know, when we're on the road, it's you know,
pretty quick you hear the horn go off, and it's okay, focus,

(11:35):
let's see if there is anything we might need to
look at. But Starts is great at you know, any
time he thinks that there might be a chance, before
I even see it, you know, he'll be on the
walkie saying, hey, can you check that, So then I
know right away, okay, something's about to go in and
I can look at it in real time, just to
buy me a few extra seconds, which you know, could
end up being all the difference in the world to

(11:55):
being able to make the right call before you know
they're ready to drop the puck. So it's we have
a great operation with that. The communication over the walkie
is great, and yeah, it's it's interesting when you have
it spoiled for you a little bit. But sometimes it's
a little more exciting because you just hear the horn
go off at a random moment and you get all
happy downstairs, we're scoring awesome.

Speaker 2 (12:14):
Wait, so you don't watch the game live at all.
You're you're tucked back in the in the belly of
the TCC watching everything on video.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
Yep, I'm in the coach's office watching it through the
feed that's coming through. So I have watched zero seconds
of Roaders Hockey live this season, which is but it
gives me a different perspective on watching the game and
how I'm I'm watching it in a way different way
than the coaches are. They're checking all the game scenarios,
they're matching things up, you know, who were they putting out,

(12:42):
They're checking you know, individual guys. They're hearing everything that's
going on on the ice, whereas I'm kind of that
bird's eye, well not really bird's eye because I'm below
everybody else, but you know, kind of the eyes in
the sky, so to speak, and.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
You're in the helicopter I am, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (12:54):
I see everything, so it's you know, looking more from
a structural perspective, you see more what's going on that
way as opposed to you know, the coaches. They're super
involved in the individual players and the matchups and stuff
like that.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
What's your relationship like with all the coaches and especially
also Jake Wagman, the director of Hockey Ops, who's kind
of I guess your your boss, considering what's your relationship
like with all them and what's it been like working
with them at this you know, kind of near full
time capacity.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
Now, Yeah, it's it's great. It's obviously it's.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Tell us what you want to sell.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
They don't.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Know.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
Everybody's great. You know, we we have a great environment
down there, and we're all very much on the same
page of you know, dedicated to winning. But we love
the game so much. We love what we do, so
we're very quick to have fun at what we do
and you know, we love joking around in the office.
But you know, we're I think POTSI has done a
great job of creating a culture where we know when

(13:51):
it's time to be serious and when you know, we
can get work done and joke around at the same time,
or you know, we're telling stories or you know, pulling
funny clips up to throw them on a stuff like that,
just to keep things light. Like you know, these seasons
are they're a grind and if you're going in every
single day, locked in and you know, just not having fun,

(14:11):
not enjoying what you're doing, it can probably get miserable,
I would imagine. So it's great. And you know, Jake
is Jake's one of one. He's awesome. You know, He's
given me a lot of opportunities, and he's you know,
just showing me as he you know, is in more
of a managerial and operational role. Now he's showing me

(14:32):
more of that stuff, you know, where he was showing
me how he was doing video. So he's great. You know,
we have a great office and a great staff, and
I'm very honored and blessed to be a part of it.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
You are lucky. It does seem like a very good
corporate culture. Yes, and I have worked for companies where
it's not good corporate cultures. So you are incredibly lucky
for sure. Super Yeah.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
Oh no, you just hear so many, you know, horror
stories about things that are going on in coaching offices
and how coaches are treating other staff members, other players,
and for this to be my first taste of what's
what I'm getting into, and this is my my entryway.
It's like, oh my gosh. You know, it's a blessing,
yes that I have this group, and I felt comfortable

(15:16):
right away being in there.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
So it's aper important question. When is your birthday?

Speaker 4 (15:20):
February twenty fifth, Oh.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Happy late birthday.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
Wait, so your pisces?

Speaker 4 (15:26):
I think?

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Okay, yeah, so MANYI there's a lot of pisces.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
I don't I should know that you should?

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Yeah, no, us those players don't know.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
So okay. Kevin Connoton's birthday is two days before you,
and then Light Moore's birthday is two days after yours.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
Kid's really big on their birthdays.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Yeah, I need to know. There's so many pisces on
this team.

Speaker 3 (15:47):
It was his birthday today.

Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah, the guy's doing it was Yeah, he got a
nice little serenade at practice. He led the stretch out
circle after practice and the guy is saying them a
nice little happy birthday.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
And Parker actually sent me a photo. Also in his
TV screens in the gym, he put old photos of
baby Artem.

Speaker 4 (16:08):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
That's gorgeous, so so so wonderful. I don't I don't
know if you get a chance to see that, but okay,
so good to know that your birthday. Yeah, I'm a
huge I'm a huge Zodiac person. I just wanted to know.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Does that check out? That I'm a Pisces. I have
no idea what a Pisces even mean.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
So you Pisces are known for your dreamy nature, deep empathy,
and artistic flare. Pisces men have a deep well of
emotion within them and tend to be extremely reactive when
their emotions were high. They wear their hearts and their sleeves,
and they have a great deal of emotional intelligence. You
knots Morsey Loots, Let's Dougie Booch and Johnny and.

Speaker 4 (16:53):
And the shave Dog. You know I think that checks out?

Speaker 2 (16:56):
You think?

Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yeah, I think artistic flair is something I'm working on.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Sometimes you have to grow into it, you know, like
it's not all there right when you're born, Like sometimes
it takes a minute.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
I know I knew you liked your details when you
would ask me like, hey, what jerseys are we wearing?
And I'm like, Katina's why and you said, like I
like to make things more Katina esque when I'm when
I'm getting stuff together and I'm like, okay.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Oh yeah, yeah. The visuals that we put out for players,
you know, I like to before going with the purple
or the red. I like to just make that match
my brain a little bit.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
The players like, the players like the colors they do.

Speaker 4 (17:31):
Yeah, it's I never had that kind of OCD with things,
but this year, like, I think this job has really
made me become a bit of a stickler with things
like that. And I'll get you know, colors aren't exactly
right or you know, the visuals I put out. I
think that's mostly taking pride and you know, your body
of work. But at a certain point, it's kind of like, Brad,
it's okay, let it go.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Let it go, Brad. What do you love about hockey?
And then what do you not love about hockey?

Speaker 3 (17:58):
That's a good question.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
I will be asking this for the rest of the
season because I like this question a lot.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
I think, I mean, there's a lot of ways to
answer what you love about it. I think the thing
that I love the most about is just how fun
it is, and skating is fun, Watching it is fun,
there's hits, there's scoring, there's speed, there's it's kind of
got everything you would want in the sport. Yeah, I
guess what I don't love about it is the smell

(18:24):
of equipment when you take it off.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
It's such an easy answer.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
I'll probably the good.

Speaker 4 (18:30):
But it honestly like, at a certain point, as bad
as it smells, it almost becomes like a welcoming smell
because you know what it means.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yes, you know exactly what you're talking.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
You're like, Okay, this smells awful right now. However, but
right I know this means I'm either about to get
on the ice or I just got off the ice.
Whatever it is. So it's nice in that sense where
you're kind of like a hockey time, but then you're like,
oh wait, it smells so bad.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
I just bought a industrial strength bath bomb for hockey
equipment for my son's hockeyment. I'm so ready for it
to be here because it's not a good place that
we were so close yeah the end of the seasons,
so oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:07):
That was Yeah. I had to leave all my gear
out in the garage if I brought any piece of
it in the house. Besides like watching my jerseys. It was.
It was a tough day in my house.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Can I keep going?

Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well?

Speaker 3 (19:19):
I got one? Okay, I got one.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
So you mentioned earlier group of Caps fan as we
all know in the hockey world, Alexandro Vechkin just broke
the record of most goals scored all time? What was
that like watching that for you? Just, you know, as
you grew up watching this guy, so we become a
legend and now he's, uh, you know, maybe the best
of all time, who knows, But yeah, what was that

(19:41):
like watching that for you?

Speaker 4 (19:43):
It was really really cool, you know, like because I
started watching hockey when I was six or seven years old,
which is right around when the Caps started making the
playoffs and becoming a threat every year. And I like
to think of it, you know, you're as a kid,
you grow up and you know, watch different sports, and
you watch a baseball game, you watch a football game,
you watch a hockey game, whatever. And the hockey that

(20:03):
I'm watching was one of the most unique players to
ever play. And he's the most entertaining player of our
generation for sure. So it was very easy for me
to gravitate to hockey in that sense. So yeah, it
was super cool and kind of hard to like really
describe what it is because I wasn't around to watch
Wayne Gretzky play, but pretty much, you know, you get

(20:24):
into hockey and it's like, Okay, Wayne Gretzky has every
single record and he will until the end of time.
Everybody's fighting for a second place, and you just kind
of accept that it is what it is, and all
of a sudden, it's can he do it? No, he
probably won't, Canny, No, he probably won't. Well, oh, maybe
he's going to do it this year, and then he
breaks his leg and then he still does it this year.

(20:44):
It's just it's incredible to watch as somebody who appreciates
the game, and having that been what I grew up
on makes it a little more special for sure.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
What do you think is your greatest talent?

Speaker 4 (20:55):
Ooh, my greatest talent video coaching.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
John.

Speaker 4 (21:02):
I would love for that to be my greatest talent
one day, I we think, do we want something like
outside the box?

Speaker 2 (21:09):
Yeah, go for it. It's just unhinged unhinged talents.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Well, I can't say that one.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
I don't know. Drawing a blank here, do you know
what I can pivot?

Speaker 4 (21:27):
You think on that okay, I'll think and get back
to you.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, and then let me ask you. What do the
boys call you?

Speaker 4 (21:34):
Mostly Brad? Oh really yeah, mostly just Brad across the board,
which I don't mind. A couple guys call me cracky
Maddie V. Shortly before he called up. Every time you
would see me would kind of yell the crack man
in my general direction, which is funny. When I was playing,

(21:55):
like I would go by like I would get crack
a lot. Yeah, so it was weird not hearing that
around here. But I don't, you know, I can't choose
my own nickname, so whatever is born with it, Like
if it's just Brad, if it's Cracky the crack man,
you want to still.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Call you the crack man? Will that make you feel.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
We'll bring it back.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
Yeah, I'll leave that if you guys want to, and
it catches on, and the more power to you.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
I would say, the best part of working, you know,
getting to know that the players a lot more and
stuff and traveling the team is like when they develop
a nickname for you and it just sticks. Like everyone
calls me Shafe now, and yeah it's it's pretty go
to Shafer Shafe. But It just makes you feel like
you're you're part of the team, you know.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
Yeah, it's just it's just a cool little thing. Yeah,
it makes you feel like you're a part of it.
It's fun. You know, there's a lot of great things
about being in the day to day and even you
know nickname is side just you know, getting to know
the guys. We have a great group and everybody's you know,
pretty quick to you know, after a day off, you know,
just make some quick small talk. Would we do? How
bad did I play golf yesterday? You know, like whatever

(22:59):
it may be. Yeah, it's a it's a great group
and it's fun to be a part of for sure.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Okay, if the boys were hot sauces, who would be
the spiciest hout sauce and who would be the mildest
hot sauce? In any characterization that you choose to make,
in what that means.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
Any characterization. Okay, I have a feeling calling somebody a
mild hot sauce is a little insulting, but I'm not
gonna let that hold me back.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Well.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
I feel like Ben McCartney wouldn't want anything more than
mild hot sauce.

Speaker 3 (23:32):
Okay, okay, they don't listen to this. I'd be shocked
if they did.

Speaker 4 (23:36):
I would tell this to his face.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
I don't know, I don't mind.

Speaker 4 (23:40):
I guess Dougie would for sure be the spiciest.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Okay, that's the second spiciest.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
He's a he's a character. He's awesome, like walking around
and you can hear him when I'm upstairs filming practice.
You can hear him chirping his own teammates during practice,
and you know he's he's got some pretty good one liners,
you know, in meetings and after after after games, when
Potsy's going in and delivering you know, his final message.
He's especially you know, when the vibes are good and

(24:07):
we're winning and you know, or he's just having fun
at practice. He's he's a character, for sure.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
I love it. I love it when he gets a
penalty of it because he comes into the box and
he's always so loud. He's got so much to say
about what is happening. Even if there's nobody in the
alternate box with him, he's still chirping like it's crazy.
It's so much fun to listen to the guys who
are on comms with me. Sometimes I leave my calm
open just so that they can hear him. And because

(24:33):
he's loud too, and he's you know how far away
from from me is he He's pretty loud. So yeah,
I'm a big fan.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Going back to what you said earlier too about Potzy,
like keeping everybody you know relaxed as much as possible,
you know, where you know, you know, keeping the vibes good,
but then also knowing when to be serious. I feel like,
and you can probably vouch for this, I feel like
this past week in at homestand it was just like
the tone was so serious, right, like everyone was so
ready for those games, and then once we beat Baker,

(25:00):
feel it's like you kind of let a little bit
of a cygh relief. I know, we got Rockford and
we got four more games left, but what was this
the whole locker room, like you know, in that four
game homestand where we knew like this this is important.
This can change our season for the good, or it
can all just go bad and we can be in
a really tough situation.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
Yeah, you know, it felt like the spirit was right,
you know, all week, even you know, you come off
a pretty long road trip with really interesting travel where
you're playing three games and four nights and three different
cities in California and then you're flying back. You don't
really have a day off. You're right back at practice
into four games and six days and they're huge points

(25:39):
and it would have been really easy for the guys
to you know, feel sorry for themselves and you know,
let whatever they're feeling and you know, oh, maybe I'm
tired or you know, I got home and I decided
to not take care of myself the right way and
felt like everybody was, you know, on a mission.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
You know.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
When they came in and it was weird. We were
kind of like, as these guys like ready to play,
Like what's what's going on? Kind of hard to get
a read on them, but it was very much like,
we know what we have to do. They came in,
they were chipper. They love what they do and they
love being around, you know, being in the culture, being
at the rink. And when it was game time, they
showed up and everybody was ready to go. And it

(26:16):
was like that for all four game nights and it
was great. You have to tip your hat to the
guys for you know, getting the right mental you know,
frame of mind coming into four huge games where it
would have been really easy to point the travel that
you just had and the schedule that we've had and say, oh, well,
you know, you can make an excuse pretty easy. You know,
we traveled, and you know we lost that game, and

(26:39):
you know, you, Kyla Yamamoto and Maddy Vee get called
up and it's pretty easy to you know, feel sorry
for yourself in that way. And the guys didn't. They
went right back to work. They were excited about the
challenges that it brought, and they attacked it and we
came out with six out of eight points and you
love it.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
What was it like having Yamamoto back for that one game?
Right gets He assigned to US mid game on Saturday,
played with US on Sunday, had a great game, helped
us get a huge sweep over Bakersfield. Now he's back
with the Utah Hockey Club. Heard an interview of Andre
Turney earlier today, just explaining that, well, the road Runners
are in the playoff hunt too, They're trying to get there.

(27:16):
We wanted to help them out, and you know, now
Yamamota is going to try to help Utah make a
push for their playoffs. But what was it like to
just have them back for that one day? And how
much of it just shows that Yamamoto is a team player?

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Right?

Speaker 3 (27:27):
You know, he had to travel, however much longer it
took him to get here, whether it was overnight or not,
I had no clue. And to come in day of
play a game and then leave again, how much does
that show he's a team player and how much he
just wants to help the guys win.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
It's awesome.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
You know.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
It would have been really easy for him to not
want to do it, or you know, just want to
stay up in the NHL and have a bad attitude.
But he came in. First time I saw him on Sunday,
he had a huge smile on his face saying hello
to everybody, and you know, kudos to him. He cares
about the team, and he cares about the guys in
the room, and you know that we're battling for our
playoff lives right now and he wanted to come down

(28:04):
and help us out. And he was here for I
think less than twenty four hours just to come down
and play a game and get called right back up,
and it was it was pretty awesome for him. To
have the willingness to do it and the right attitude
to do it. And he's, for my money, the best
player in the American League when he's down here, and
so just getting him back it's it's awesome that he

(28:25):
wanted to be here and you know, he wanted to
help us out, you know, even for the one game
he had the chance to do it. I think it
says a lot about him, you know how much he
loves the game. And I think it says a lot
about the room also, and just how easy it is
for guys to you know, fall in love with the
guys and you know they want to play for each other.
So it was awesome to see.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
I feel like that's a topic in the locker room.
I feel like I for the team is the locker
room guy. It's just in the locker room full of
locker room guys. Yeah, like everybody's for the guy next
to them. I feel like we could talk about that
all day, but I'm gonna pivot away from that and
ask you, have you ever or would you ever pick
up a hitchhiker.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
I have never, I probably wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Your parents are probably going to listen to this.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
So yeah, Mom, I definitely wouldn't. I'm trying to think, like,
I don't know. I guess if this hitchhiker looked like
they needed more of like an ambulance than like a.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Hitchhiker, so it's situational.

Speaker 4 (29:26):
Yeah, like I would probably then step in or maybe
just like call dine one one for them. Maybe, Like,
I don't know, it just depends on the situation. But
if it was a very normal looking person sticking their
thumb out on the side of the road, I'm probably
blowing right by and not thinking twice about it.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Okay, that makes sense. Okay, So I was a practice today,
asked around about you a little bit because you don't
have a huge you don't have a huge footprint. And
when I google your name, what I heard back was
that you were allowed snore.

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Guess who told me that that would be? It was
either Aiden or Parker who said that, which one probably Parker. Yep,
Well we were we were roommates one trip.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
To get you some breathewrighte strips for your notes.

Speaker 4 (30:16):
Well, yeah, we were roommates one trip and he told
me the next morning that I was snoring very very loudly.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
You didn't store when we know, wait you did, never
mind you.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Just oh wait, what's this situation? When did y'all.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
We we roomed in h in Henderson during gem show.
It was like Jake asked me, like, hey, if Brad comes,
because he's room with you, because you know, we had
a lot of you were there too, We had a
lot of people. Yeah, of course, and it was great,
but yeah, you were kind of you're quite the snore
well of.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Strips.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Well, so, so Parker told me that I snored very loudly.
And I never told you.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
I'm a bad friend. I'm the bad friend. I never
told you snored.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Well, I told Parker, if I am snoring loudly and
it's bothering you, just throw something at pillow, throw whatever,
I'll get it and I'll take care of it. And
I did not snore one time that night. So I
thrive under pressure.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
Apparently you're subconscious, Yeah on it.

Speaker 4 (31:09):
Yeah, so I have no idea how that happened. I
guess it was lucky.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
So that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (31:15):
It is, so you should have thrown something at me, Johnny.
The moral of the story is the.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Moral of the stories. You need to come with a
warning sign for anybody that I.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
With you, I'll get it tattooed on me, so it's
you won't miss it.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
Give you got anything else?

Speaker 2 (31:31):
Of course, I have a million questions. Have any more time?

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Let's do two more questions more?

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Okay, how long do you think you would last in
a zombie apocalypse?

Speaker 4 (31:44):
I think I do? Okay, Okay, like I could probably.
I'm not a slow guy, like I can run, push,
came to shove, and I did play hockey and I
played baseball as a kid. So if I have something
to swing, i'd be okay.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Okay, So you need a stick.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yeah, okay, stick bat, anything metal or even like a
really long two by four I could probably do some
damage with. Okay, I'm looking around Johnny's office and seeing
if there's things I can You.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Want to use my giant Adrian uh Adrian cutout that
sits behind me, or you want to use the Aku
Ratu jersey frame that I'm finally going to be shipping
out tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
I don't think I could bring that jersey frame around?

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah, maybe not, but yeah, I think no. There's lightsabers
right behind you there you go.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
Yeah, I would.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
I think I do lightsabers swing. Those are my office
just a full of random stuff. It's it's so funny.
I just have random stuff in your.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
I do, okay, middle of the pack. I don't know
what the timeline is for a zombie apocalypse, but no
me either, Like I I'm for sure not one of
the first ones to go. I can promise you that.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Who on the team would be one of the first
ones to go? Because I know I think, I think
I know who would last for a while, But who would.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Who would one of the first ones to go?

Speaker 2 (33:02):
I think it's I think my answer would be Maxie.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
He's a very sweet kid, just such a kid. He's
a that's a good answer.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
The best, He's the best.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
That's a good answer.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
I don't feel like he would defend himself too much,
like because he would like it would hurt his heart.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
You know. Oh my gosh, I could see uh just
trying to think who would have the worst survival skills?
Like who cannot get out?

Speaker 4 (33:29):
Like I don't know, I don't know much about his
survival skills, but my gut tells me that Sam Lipkin
wouldn't do great.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
I could also see Wags maybe Nonza not thriving in
that situation either.

Speaker 3 (33:46):
Oh, man.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
Tell him to listen, listen to this episode.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Tell him I dragged him on the on the Happy
Hour Show.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
All right, I think wait, was that one question? Or
do I get another question? Do I get one more?

Speaker 3 (34:00):
More?

Speaker 2 (34:00):
One more?

Speaker 3 (34:00):
I think that was one question?

Speaker 4 (34:02):
What do you?

Speaker 2 (34:02):
I know the season is a grind and when you're
in season, like you're probably working nine million hours a week.
And I'm not exaggerating, but what do you do for fun?
Away from away from the team.

Speaker 4 (34:13):
I've been getting into golf this year.

Speaker 2 (34:15):
Are they making you? Is the team making you go?

Speaker 4 (34:17):
No? I'm making myself do it. I want to be able.
It's such an important part of like the off season,
like everybody goes golfing.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
We're golfing this off season.

Speaker 4 (34:25):
We are. I'm still working on my short game for sure.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
What's your what's your course that you're going to right now?

Speaker 4 (34:32):
Me and my buddy play up at Rolling Hills on
the east Side a lot. It's kind of a shorter course,
but it's great for just practicing stuff on.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Is that the one that's super desert y in between
the greens and the fairway? Okay? I love that one. Yeah,
that one's crazy.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
Yeah, And there's that one, and then fred Ink is
pretty similar to it. There was this There's one course
that I actually thought was awesome. It's called Corey Pines
that's up in towards like Mariano Oral Valley area. Oh yeah,
and the time one time I've played it, they had
an electric golf cart, which I thought was cool until
it died on the sixteenth hole, which was not very fun.

(35:05):
But yeah, that's mostly what I'm trying to do. And
then like I'm a big I love other sports so
big into football and baseball, which is baseball season just
came up and Johnny and I were able to hit
up the Padres opening day game while we were saying go,
which was a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Last minute I love the last I loved that was
last minute too.

Speaker 4 (35:25):
Yeah. It was like eleven o'clock in the morning and
game was at one. I just decided to go. It
was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
If you ever go play El Dorado, my cousin is
the pro, one of the pros at El Dorado. So yeah,
you know you're on the.

Speaker 4 (35:38):
Team, Okay, I well for sure.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah, he's awesome.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yeah that's good to know. Yeah, Hi, Luke, Luke my man.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Shout out to Luke. Well, Brad, thanks so much for
joining us. Man. I know your your schedules chaotic and
busy as always, but we appreciate your time. Good luck
the rest of the way, and let's get it done
in Rockford.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Of course, that's right, let's do it. Thanks.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
That's so with Brad, thanks for joining. When we come back,
we're gonna preview this week against Rockford and I have
some playoff clinching scenarios for your two son Roadrunners rolling
on here. We just had video coach Brad Krakowitz on
the show. Kim, just great talking to Brad. He's a
he knows his hockey, he really does. He knows his hockey,
knows the boys, he knows what he's doing. And yeah,

(36:20):
Glad he's a part of the team.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Yeah, he's one of those behind the scenes people that
people probably don't recognize when they see him in the arena,
but the knowledge that lives in that man's head is very,
very interesting. So I'm really glad that we were able
to talk to him today.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
So, Kim, just a little bit ago, you wanted to
talk about that interview that you had with ardham Duda.
It's his birthday today.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
Yeah, he's twenty one.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Finally, he had a fantastic game against Bakersfield. You talked
to him after the game, and you had a really
good question and you can explain it to the fans
what happened. It was awesome.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
So Artam had a great game. He got the first
goal of the game and then he ended up with
an assist. And so I think he's tied. He's behind
and Robbi Russo, him and Maxie I think are tired
for points.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Ye right now they are ye.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
I was so excited to talk to him, but I
haven't had a lot of interaction with Ardam, so I
wasn't really sure what his responses were going to be.
But Artam, anybody who sees him on the ice never
If you google Artam Douda and try and find him smiling,
good freakin' luck, it does not exist. He does this
little kind of like little smirk thing, so it's really
hard to gauge, you know, what he's feeling. And when

(37:26):
I figured out that I was going to be interviewing him,
I wanted to know, especially coming off of such an
insanely productive weekend. I asked him, I said, you know,
I know you're a serious. You're a serious person. But
did you have fun this weekend? And he gave me
just this most beautiful response I've ever heard.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
Let's play right now. I have fun every.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Single do you really?

Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Okay, well, you never smile.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
That's why I play hawking. No, everything, everything fun is
in my soul, so I don't show it to the crowd.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
That's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
Yeah, yeah, okay, keep in mind I'm having fun every game.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Okay, good to hear, good to hear. Enjoy some well
deserved time off and we'll see you soon.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Yeah, can I can? I ad one one thing?

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Yeact Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Today's my sister and dad's birthday. Oh sir, Yeah, I
dedicate my goal today and bure win to them.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
I love you guys. Are they back in Russia right now?

Speaker 4 (38:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Okay, all right, that's beautiful, Thank you so much. Good game.

Speaker 3 (38:26):
Thanks so, kim ardam do that twenty eight points, Zuber's
at twenty nine, Russo's at thirty one. We're closely getting
three different defenseman at thirty points. That's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
It's insane.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
That's good with especially with two of them being your
kind of like futures of the Blue Light, right, Maximilian
Zueber's in his second season, Artam Dudas in his rookie year,
and you got Russo at thirty one, who's you know,
established himself as a great hockey defenseman in this league.
And it's just it's a lot better of what the
scoring we saw last year. Dude. The blue line still

(38:58):
did a good job, you know, defending the creed. It
it was kind of our success. But now that you
have guys who can score from that blue paint, even
on your boochies had a solid season, you know, getting
he has three goals on the year as well, you know, right,
and you know Lambrue's developing well, cannot It's been a
good addition. It's kind of exciting to see what the
future of this blue line can be, and especially going

(39:20):
into next year as well.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
It is a lot of fun. I think anytime you
have an offensive d line, that's just really really exciting
because not they're doing two jobs. When you think about it,
you know, they're only having to do one job, but
when they're out there also producing goals, it's just you
never know who is going to score. You never know
where it's going to come from. I actually went back

(39:42):
and it was watching some some of Artems had fighting
five goals this season, watching some of those goals, some
of them were surprised to him. They were as much
of a surprise to him as they were to the goalies.

Speaker 3 (39:53):
So it's a surprise. Just that look on his face.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
The same, it's the same flat face, like I said,
if you haven't And the.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
One he got the other night just barely got through
the goaltender Brochu right it like, and we weren't even
sure if it was tipped by Paganski. He was right
in front, and in that situation kind of have the
wait to see who exits who and who goes into
the fist pump line first. And it was Ardem do this.
So it was kind of a bit of a weird
one shot it front, with pressure all over me, kind
of just throw it to the net and it got it.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
Yeah, And I mean that's what it's all about, right,
especially after the games on Tuesday and Wednesday, which were
kind of you if you looked at the shots on
goal early in the game, it was there wasn't a
lot of offensive action happening. So to see that change
into the weekend and just the chances that they were
willing to take to get the puck to the net.

(40:43):
It's heartening. It's heartening to see that when no matter
where it's coming from on the ice. But so having
Brad's insight into that, because that's all he's focused on.
Where you are watching the big overall game and I am,
you know, kind of anticipatorily ready for penalties and goals
and so kind of writing everything down that is that
it's happening. We all come from such different perspectives on

(41:04):
the game. So yeah, this this weekend was just exciting.
I am interested to see what happens in Rockford this weekend.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
There is actually going to be a lot of interesting things. So, Kim,
before before our show, I spent some time looking at
playoff clinching scenarios. You heard that, right, folks. The road
Runners can actually clinch. And again it's only because like
you swapt Bakersfield, you didn't give them a single point.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
Right.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
There is a There are four scenarios that we clinched the playoffs.
So bear with me here because my penmanship is really
bad and I kind of got a little crazy, got
a little crazy with it, Kim. Okay, Okay, So Scenario
one Tucson sweeps Rockford. Bakersfield loses two of their next
three in regulation or one of those can be an

(41:53):
overtime loss.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
When are their next three? Are they?

Speaker 3 (41:56):
So? They have one tomorrow night Tomorrow night against the
Henderson's Silver Knights, and then they have a couple this weekend.
But interesting about their schedule. They're playing three different teams
in these three different games, so they're doing what we
did kind of. Yeah, so Henderson Tomorrow nights and then
they got San Diego on Friday, Coachella Valley on Saturday.

(42:16):
I think that San Diego Coachella Valley stretches tough. San
Diego has been really good this second half. Coachella Valley.
They're a good team. They're a playoff team, and they're
still trying to secure a homemice advantage for the first round.
So that's interesting. To keep an eye on Henderson. We'll
see what happens. I mean, Baker's Field's in a bad spot.
They've lost some of their top players, they have god
call ups, you don't have their top goal even though

(42:37):
Brochho's been solid. You know, you can only start a
goalie so much, and he stretches. Kim so now just
like us when we went through that gauntlet of a
schedule and now we finally get four games over the
two weeks. Now bakers Field's getting their gauntlet right now
and we just beat them twice. So two of the
next three games can be lost, you know, at least
in regulation. One of them could be an overtime. So

(42:57):
pretty much Condors if they only get three point in
these next three games, right if we sweep them and
Baggersfield loses those games, because Kim, even though we're up
five points on the Condors, technically you can say six
because we have a tie break over them. More regulation
wins for the road Runners, which I didn't even realize
the regulation wins are actually shown on the league's standings,

(43:17):
and this is crazy. We have twenty nine regulation wins
on the season. Baggersfield only has nineteen, whoa, nineteen of
their twenty eight have come to regulation, and then we
have twenty nine, so we don't even have to worry
about that, Like that's and that's the first tiebreaker, not
even you know, winning percentage to anything. That is the
first type break.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
OK.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
So we're essentially six points out of the Condors because
they need to get a point over us.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
That's really getting into the mats. So I love that
that scenario one. Scenario two is we split Rockford and
then Bakersfield loses their next three with only one of
those needing to be like kind of an overtime. So
it's like, as long as baggers Field doesn't get three
points in these next three games or over three points,
and we are able to at least get a win

(44:05):
or split Rockford or get three out of four possible
points against Rockford as well, then we are going to
the playoffs. And then, of course the most basic one
would be we win these two games, bigger Bakersfield loses
the rest or loses these next three in this week.
So that's all the games in this week. You're you're
kind of now your head like you're trying to get it.

(44:26):
I know, it's a lot.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Well no, no, no, yeah, because it all makes sense. So
there is a possibility that we we could clinch by
Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Yes, that's pretty much what I'm saying. Yeah, if you
if you sweep Rockford and baker s Field just loses
next the next three in any capacity, we're in the
condors lose two of the next three and are just
not able to just get enough points. And I think
it's just a three point threshold. That's what's crucial for them.
They need to get over three points in these next

(44:53):
three games for them. But we need to find a
way to get points against Rockford, whether that's either split
or straight up sweeping them as well.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Right, Okay, so there you go. So no pressure, no pressure,
no pressure, nothing. But at the end of the season.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
But the thing is is ki and we're on the
driver's seat, right. It's just we got we control our destiny.
Now it's our playoff spot to lose. And uh that's
that's just it. You know, the pressure is still on us,
but uh, we'll continue to roll ahead. Kim, before we
went to break, you signaled me, don't go to break
yet because you want to say something. And I said,
oh my bad, what's up? Because what did you have?

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Because they started looking at stats and I was looking
at plus minus uh artam Duda is plus eighteen right now,
which is leading the team and is an insane number.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Okay, Kim, Okay, I thought you would like that.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
I did like that because yeah, because Kyler is plus
fourteen and he's the next person down on the list
for plus minds. I like that isn't insane, That is
a that's a really good stat He's he's yeah, killing it.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Killing it will kim uh looking forward to this weekend.
Those are the scenarios for the road Runners. All in all, though,
no matter what happens, gotta find ways to win against Rockford. Yeah,
because whatever happens the Bakersfield you know, whether they win
a good amount of games this week or not, it's
our playoff spot to lose. Now we're on the driver's seat.
We're gonna keep pushing ahead and with a Midwest series

(46:10):
now up against the Rockford Ices. We'll see you this
weekend in Rockford, Illinois, and have a great rest of
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