December 27, 2024 • 46 mins
Voice of the Roadrunners Jonathon Schaffer and Kim Cota-Robles caught up with three players: including Peter DiLiberatore, Artem Duda and Dylan Wells at the Season Ticket Member Holiday Party. DiLiberatore does a live taste test of holiday treats fans gave him while all three talk about their offseasons and their jounreys that led them to the 2024-25 Roadrunners team.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
It's five o'clock on yours hues day. Do the It's
two Sun Roadrunners Happy Out from Fox Sports fourteen fifty
Am with Jonathan ship Right.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, we know the story, but you gotta tell the
viewers that starts.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's our usual Tuesday night.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
So I don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
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 5 (00:29):
Fox Sports fourteen fifty am our usual Tuesday Night get
together with a holiday Christmas season ticket member party special.
We're grabbing three players for this episode. We'll get right
on the top of it. Peter Delivatory joined us first. First, Peter,
how's it going man?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The holidays everyone, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Happy holidays. Big stretch for the road Runners right now
coming up. We have a lot of games this coming weekend.
But this is what you're looking forward to for the
holiday break?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And what are you doing for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Actually lived a little too far away, so stick around Arizona.
But I can't complain. It's on the desert. It's nice
out here, so I'll see my parents in a couple
couple of months down the road, so yeah, just hang
with the guys.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
How's it been for you and Tucson this year? You're
living by yourself, you got roommates. How's it been kind
of now that you've because I remember you coming with
us on the PTO and now you're actually starting with
us on the roster.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Just how's it been for you in your second year here?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's been good. Yeah, living next to a golf course,
so that's pretty nice. Get to work on my short yeah,
but yeah, no, it's been good. You know, living out
north Tucson. It's nice up there, so yeah, it's been
great so far.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
How's the how's two soun treating you like? It's hot?
It's hot right now?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Warm?
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Are you okay? I noticed when we went Calgary last
weekend or whoever long ago, it was we're a lot
more tan than they are, which I thought. I don't
know if you guys noticed that. It's kind of awesome.
Are you out golfing every day?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Not every day? Unfortunately our schedule doesn't allow that, but
once a week is good if we get out at that.
So yeah, who's.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Who's the best golfer on the team? Right?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Now that's a good question. I haven't seen everyone's game,
but uh, Ben Benny's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Really, yeah, oh interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Partners with me When we golf together, we don't lose.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
He doesn't look like he golfs every day.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, no, no he does, but he can swing them.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Are you on Spotify or Apple Music?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Spotify? Actually, I just swear that's funny that because I
just switched. Oh did you was Apple? And I switched Spotify?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
So you don't have you had enough time to do
it a rapped? Did you get rapped already?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I don't think so, because I switched like a month
and a half. So even if I didn't get a rap,
it'd mean like I played like a song six times
is the most.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
You know, what does Apple Music do a rap?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Like?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
What are you listening to right now?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
What am I listening to right now? That's a good question,
So don tolliver. Okay, I'm always bumping Gunna. I'm trying
to think what kind of into my m phase too?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Really okay?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Lots of a lot of like before games, car ride
on the on the way to the Yeah. Yeah, so
I can't say the songs or the the artist, but
you know, you play the song. I'll know it's ok
good stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Have you ever been? Have you ever been to a rave?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Never? Really never? We don't have raves and Nova scoti
we have a country fest.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Okay, well I've been to a couple.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Actually, last big one I went to was, Oh gosh, no,
I'm forgetting what's it called.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It's that big one in Vegas. I don't know if
you've heard of it.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Oh, I know which one you're talking.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
That's the race, the speedway or the race. You'll get
the name of it in the moment. But yeah, raves
are fun. Yeah, you have to try to get to
one sometimes.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Maybe one one day, yeah, one weekend?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Yeah, no, right, we had one here in downtown last month.
I can't remember. Do you remember what it's called?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Etc.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Okay, that was the one I was remembering from Vegas.
The one here was Stephen was here.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, dust with the cake, Yeah, yeah, he did awesome video.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
It was literally after a game. Dusty Wind was a
dusk is that was?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yes? That's it? Yes.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Yeah. It used to literally happen a block from my
house before they moved it, and my whole house wouldn't
shake every time.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Well, it sucks like leaving the ice that day because
then you saw the fun happening in downtown.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And you're like, you're going to be opposite.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
We want to be a part.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Yeah, you're going to the opposite way. You're going on
about their long game. But yeah, it was a good time.
Anything that you've been working on, you know as the
season's started. I know we talked to you over the summer,
but how did it go overall, and anything that you've
changed to your game now in year two with the Roadrunners.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, everything at this point in my career is just
you know, fix that, working on everything, all the little
nicks and cranny's. So for me, it was my shot,
my skating, all that kind of simplistic but complicated stuff.
So yeah, just trying to add more stuff to my game,
you know, just little things like that.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Wait, I didn't talk to you this summer. Do you
spend a nova Scotia or I do?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah? For the most part, I'll have a couple of
trips here and there with like some college buddies. Last summer,
I had my fifth year high school reunion my old
old high school. So a bunch of us from my
class went there, met up and that was a good time.
So do those little trips are nice? But yeah, for
the most part saying Nova Scotia, get out on the
boat and.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
None of the guys living from Nova Scotia, right, did
you see any of them at all?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But actually a hunter Drew he comes because he has
ties in Nova Scotia, so he comes through. He came
for a month this summer this past summer, so I
got to see him for a little bit, and then
two summers for that he trained there the whole summer,
So that's how I got to know him before tousoner.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Wait is there golfing? And it was? It sounds so ignorant,
but I don't know, so I'd love the.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Crazy search of Cabin Cliff, top five course in North America.
Really Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Oh okay, yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I don't know what to make you feel sad because
you know you're far from family, but like, how does
it feel to kind of be on the other side
of North America? You know, just being here, you know,
sun sun all the time, Arizona. Your family's in Nova Scotia,
probably cold in the clouds. Just what's the feeling like
and how much are you guys keeping in touch?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, we talk a lot and they always hate me
for it, you know, fi.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Lucky you're by the pool, you know, sitting out in
the sunny.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Cloud, and they're just like, oh you bugger. So yeah
it's funny and always rub that in their face a
little bit. But yeah, it's all jokes. And yeah, obviously
great to FaceTime them, and uh, you know, see him
twice a year or so when they come to visit,
so it's always nice.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Oh so they did come out last season?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Yeah, did they stay out and be with you?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Actually they stayed near Speedway. My dad saw a place
that was next to Costco and he's like, oh, this
must be a great area, just dropping. Yeah, that was
a gift there for the group.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
But if he sees one gun, it is the giving season, right,
share a couple of.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So much, Thank you so much. He's like, unrail, what's
in there?
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Peter?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
We get we're gonna be crispy. It's all looks homemade too.
This is great. Some cookies, muffins.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Do you want to do? What you want to do?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
A taste?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Definitely not in your diet.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
If you can smell this, you don't have need the
whole thing. Just just try one.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I'll explain what I'm meaning then I'll i'll read it.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, let's get one.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
It's smell, the smelling like just the outside smells so good.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, here comes Chris first.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
All right, all right, Peter is trying a lie of
rice krispy right now? Yeah, no, you're good.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Get that was still goodmery?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, how is it?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I'm going to give that an eight six?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Okay, like it solid?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's really good.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Okay, get another one.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What kind of cookie? Do you think this is?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Like? Ginger gingerbread with the glaze? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Is it gingerbread the glaze?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Really, ladies and gentlemen. If you could see his face?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, loving this right now? This is awesome.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Try the thing with the chocolate fudge on top. Yeah,
that thing, and I.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Think you should just try them all.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I'm not a chocolate.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I feel like it's too heavy.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
No, it can be. You know what I love with chocolate.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
You put sea salt on top, like sprinklet you know,
don't You don't have to cook it with it, just
sprinkle some on top.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Game changer.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Is it fudge? It looks like that's heavy.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That's heavy. Don't eat that before game?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
But yeah, that's a that's a nine for sure. Okay,
well not right, that's all I need.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, good thing. Parker Poor isn't here. I don't think
he would be liking all of this right now?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Do you want to hear a joke?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
No, go ahead?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
What does it say when it eats?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I feel like I should know this? What too?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Sorry? Sorry?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
That was good?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
So New Year's resolutions, anything that you're thinking of? Do
you do that? Or no?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Not really?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Really, really you don't. You don't even think about it.
It's okay if you don't, I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Really don't.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, it's okay, I mean it's usually just like the workout.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
More nobody nobody does like you guys.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Already good you work out because you're a professional hockey players.
You guys are already doing like.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know. Okay, okay, because I can already do that
fas pretty well?
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Okay, did you want to do right now?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I loved your I loved your Uh yeah that was
that was Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
They got you? That was awesome. That was really good.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
That was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Did you not know the dance?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
No? They had to explain it to me. That there
explaining to me the dance, and I'll be like, oh,
you got to go and you.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Did it good. But they didn't do it with you.
That was the thing.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I thought I killed him, but no, no, you did great.
I just love that they they kind of left you out.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The yeah, no love, no love.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Pr world out there world.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
So we have Star Wars Night, Swifty Night, Oh my god,
oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, December is the busiest month of the season.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
If you were going to pick a promo night, what
would we do? I think I think we need to
have a Lego night. I would love to have and
like Lego jerseys and like so what I've heard other
teams do is that you bring old legos to donate
and then they clean them and sanitize them and give
them to little kids who don't have any choice. So
I think we should do a Lego night. I don't
(10:33):
know what what like the music sounds like or anything,
but other than everything is.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Like that, I would say maybe a Harry Potter because
we do that rewatching the series. Did we do a
Harry Pottery thing?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We did one last year.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
This year it's Wizards, so we're not allowed to call
it Harry Potter Night anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh I see, I see Mark.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yeah, they got us, which we didn't think they were
because it's just like we're just a Star Wars Night though.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah. Star Wars Night is like our next home game.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
They wars lets that fly.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah, it's because I think every other team does it.
Everyone does Star Wars Night. But then once you try
to hit the Harry Potter they say no.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Like they don't want they don't want their name out there,
like they don't want to.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I guess copyrighted.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I guess not.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
But yeah, so I think it's called like Wizards Night, Witches,
Wizards and Witches.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, so it's gonna be really similar.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Wait, so you're watching Harry Potter right now? Where are
you at?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Just finished the fourth one?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I don't know that is what happens in the fourth one?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Jesus, I'm not going to spoil it.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Was there a tournament? Is there a big gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Spoil it now? People watching that?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You're right if people can be listening.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
For sure night now?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Yeah, it only came out twenty years ago. For sure,
I've never seen Harry Potter. Oh god, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, so he would be technically spoiling.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It for me. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Have you seen Star Wars?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I've seen. I'm a huge Star Wars, big, big Star
Wars nerds.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Are you a Star Wars fan?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I like Star Wars? Yeah, I wouldn't say, like I
rave about like I know all those I watched it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, I know everything.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Do you have a favorite character.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Darth Vader or Slash Annakin, Captain Rex he's like a
cold Trooper.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
That's a very specific choice.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, I don't know, you know your stuff. Yeah, I
don't know who Captain Rex exactly, no idea, Like I'm
not I'm not saying you're not a fan, but like
the ordinary fans will be like, who's Captain Rex?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And then like diehard fans like me Captain Rex. Yeah,
yeh yeah see that's a big stable.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
But do you have a favorite character Yoda? Like yeah, well,
did you watch any maybe? Baby? Yeah, I love did
you watch.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Any of that?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I watched the God what's it called? It's the Fat Like,
what's that show called?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
That series?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
The Mandalorian?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Mandalorian? Yeah, I watched that with baby. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Yeah, that's yeah, that was a good one. That was
that was that had some funny stuff in it, like
not typical Star Wars funny stuff in it.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, good little bit stuff.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Yeah, I think I think so too.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It was good.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
It was good at first, and then it kind of
it kind of you know, I love Grogu though. Grogu's awesome,
And it was crazy because Mandalori came out, like when
covid started, so it's like kind of that weird or
it was like, no, it was the first show of
Disney Plus. That's when Disney Plus came out, and it
was like the first full streaming service of Disney And then.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
All right, kim let's interview Johnny about Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I'm scared question. I don't we don't.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
I don't have I don't have the knowledge that he
has Star.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Wars interview me for once. Yeah, that would actually be nice.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Wait, why don't you wear a costume to Star Wars night?
Like everybody wears a costume. That's like one of our
biggest nights of the year.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I don't know. We wanted to. We wanted to, uh
last year. I think Adrian said no.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Folloween agent said no, So we could. I'd be kind
of cool. Maybe I should, or maybe get like a
Star Wars tie at least how about tie the tie.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
There you go? Or maybe the suit okay, or the
shirt shirt?
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Oh, just do the whole costume.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Something called money. Unless you can rent anything, you can
renders it.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Right, Yeah, yeah, okay, we need you.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Guys have convinced me I'm the worst. I'll get that.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I'll be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Okay. I'm for you, Peter for coming on the show
with us today.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I'll go one perfect.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Okay, you have anything else?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Anything else? Do you have anything for us? Any questions
for us?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Thanks for having me? Happy holidays?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Yeah, well go enjoy the rest of the party, have
a great time.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
And don't forget your books.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yes, here, and you guys can guard it.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Oka, I'm gonna put your name on it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Good call perfect. I have a bunch of sharpies literally
to my right.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
There you go, Oh, there you go.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You got one.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I will keep guard. We won't eat anything.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Well, feel free.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Actually, thanks for the life taste testing of course, Peter.
Thanks so much.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Thanks Peter.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That was Peter dilibatory.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Everybody when we come back, rather going to be getting
Artum Duda or Dylan Wells wherever we can find next
at the Christmas recording live from our season ticket member
holiday party. Joining us next defense been number seventy eight,
Artam Duda Ardam. How's it going, man, how's your how's
your day? And how the how's the week's been leading
up to the holidays.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Oh, it's been good.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Uh we had practice and uh yeah, just ressed. Everything
is great preparing for next games, Aredam.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
This is your first time in Tusuner, the first time
in the United States? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Uh, that's my fourth Oh, okay in the United States.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Okay. Have you ever been this far west before or
is this the first time?
Speaker 7 (15:38):
No, I've been into Sun last year. Okay, two times. Okay,
So I'm pretty familiar with weather and team and.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
The Okay, fantastic. So tell us a little bit about
how you ended up here. What is hockey like. We
learned a little bit about hockey in Russia from Igor
when we talked to him a few weeks ago. What
was your experience like coming up playing hockey in Russia.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Yeah, I finished hockey school in Russia and started playing
for a junior team. I played for them for two years,
and then I wanted to play in NCY Double A
last season, but I couldn't due to unfortunate circumstances. And
then yeah, I just like I almost I lost half
(16:30):
of the of the season. I played twenty seven games
for Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada, so yeah, and then
I signed a contract with entry level deal with UTAH.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
So when you say hockey school, what age was that
and how long? How long was hockey school? Like when
did you decide that you were going to be serious
about hockey? How old were you?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
All my life I wanted to be a professional hockey
player and playing West league in the world. And yeah,
probably from ten to eighteen. My hockey school was from
ten to eighteen. Yeah, that I think it's like beginning
(17:21):
of my hockey career. Yeah, and yeah, I had no
doubt about moving forward in hockey.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
And yeah that's it.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah. Are you're so we're coming up on the holidays
here really quick? Is your family able to come out
for the holidays to be with you.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
No, it's too complicated for them. They need to get
a visas and difficult flights and so no.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
No, the boys are going to be doing something right,
because it sounds like it sounds like not a lot
of parrots are able to come this holiday season.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Probably.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Yeah, I think some guys maybe will go home, some
will stay year, but we will come up with something
I don't know yet.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah, did you celebrate hockey with the team? No, No,
you didn't do I was curious if you had a costume?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You you said hockey or Halloween?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Halloweend said, did I say hockey?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah? You said? You said did you celebrate hockey with
the team? I was confused about that question.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
I got too much hot chocolate in me. Yeah, did
you celebrate?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Okay, so did your goodness?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Okay, did you? But so you celebrate hockey with the
team too, But like, did you wear a costume?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yes? I was shrack and my wife was filana.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Oh maybe we can see a picture of that afterwards.
I would love to see.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
How long have you and your wife been married? When
did you guys first start dating? What's that journey been
like with her by your side? Just kind of working
your way up to the best league in the world.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Oh yeah, we met at school. I was fifteen, she
was seventeen.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
So wait, but that was only like five years ago, right,
Because you're twenty right now. Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Yeah, we married it in June this year. Thank you,
thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
So she's one of my biggest support in my life
and my hockey career and the Yeah, every time I
get home after practice or after game or after trip,
she always she always supports me, tells me something that's Yeah,
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it's unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Wait, what's your name, Artem Artem? Yeah, okay, oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Thank you, Laton.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
You just stopped by to give you a kiss. It's
beautiful because it's the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
All right.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Do you guys have do you an Artem have a
spot in Tison that you like to go? Anywhere that like?
Is that you found it nice?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Every day off go to different hiking spot. So I
just I search in the map hiking spots nice. Yeah,
and it offers a lot of options and yeah, we
just don't pick a random spot. Yeah, and go watch
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some views, some trails. It's pretty nice.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
And you live kind of the perfect spot for all
the hiking exactly too.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Some where it's warm. What was your experience like coming
last year?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Because I remember seeing you, you know, on the road
tips from time to time and seeing you around. You
know what was that like coming first here and getting
to know the guys, getting to know the coaches and
the city. And now a year later, you're now playing
every night for the team, as you know, one of
the important defensemen for the team. A.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Yes, when I when I understood that I can't play
for Maine University of Maine in n C Double A,
the Twoston road Runners invited me to uh to get
used to it, like how how it works to to
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meet coaches team? And yeah, when I got here, I
had lots of practices with the team and with coaches
one on one, and that was so important for me
to understand the principles of HL hockey, to understand the
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level of hockey, to talk with coaches, UH, to meet
the guys.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
UH.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
So yeah, I think that experience helped me a lot
to play, to pray to play right now, and yeah,
I made it so much easier for me to adopt
after I came in UH September this year, and.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
You you haven't played a lot of games, as you
said before, how did you, you know, just kind of
keep getting the as much live game reps as possible
and how did you prepare for a season like this
to where now you're playing at a constant pace.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
I played twenty five or thirty games for Team you. Yeah,
that helped me a lot too. But during the summertime,
I just I don't focused. I didn't focus about like that.
I didn't play. I just keep practicing, keeping workout, getting
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myself better. And yeah, I don't know, just I'm a
hockey player. I've been playing hockey all my life. And
missing half of the season. Yeah, it's a pretty big time.
But I adapted and everything is good.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
And yeah, your English is so so good. How long
have even speaking English?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
I started speaking since I got to us in twenty
twenty three in Maine.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
That wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
It was one year and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Okay, Wow, that.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Is so.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
To do that. That's amazing, that's fantastic. What is your
hockey nickname? What do the boys call you?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Boys call me artie or dude?
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Oh okay, yeah, that's what I didn't know if it
was going to be more or less complicated than your
name is already. And then what kind of music do
you listen to off the ice? And then what kind
of music do you like to hear when you're on
the ice.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Off the ice. I listen to every kind of music
except rock on the ice.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
What do you mean on the ice?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Like when we're playing music during warm ups? What do
you like? What song do you would you want to hear?
If you could pick a song.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
H something energy, I don't know, not boring.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Not like em or because you don't like rock. Do
you like country music?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I met country music in Maine first time, and it
was like something weird for me, But now yeah I.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Fell in love.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Oh really yeah, country music.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Is so good.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
But if you are asking about warm up, I would
not listen country. And yeah, yeah, something something more more energy.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
More energy, like I'm trying to think of like an
energetic song that we play. It is a lot of
just like how.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Like song like we go out on the on the
eyes after before a national anthem, like wow, yeah you know.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah that's a good one. Okay, yeah, you know wow, Okay,
I like that. That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Okay, that's good to know. All right, Well, if you
think of any songs you want to hear during warm ups,
let us know and we'll play your song. Yeah, yeah,
you got any other questions?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
This is great?
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Do you have any questions? For us Ardou. Well wait,
going back to your hiking trails, do you have a
favorite hiking I meant to ask, do you have a
favorite hiking trail that you guys are like, yes, this
is the spot?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Not yet, not yet. I visited maybe three or four.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
That's more than I have, so I have.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Spots to visit.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Yeah, and maybe after the season I'll tell you you.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Have you guys seen any wildlife when you've been out
on the trail, wildlife like snakes or have alena or coyotes.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
We saw hair o oh, like a rabbit, like a yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
With the big with the big ears. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
yeah those are good luck.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Have you seen any roadrunners?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Yes? At my apartments?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
You really?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Yeah? I have a video.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Oh you have a video of the road runner?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Was it a big one?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I don't know. I can show you.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Only because roadrunners when you see them up close. I
used to work in a building out buy where you are,
and in my office it was one whole window and
a road rorner came up to the window and they
look like dinosaurs up close, like they don't look like
real birds. They're very very Maybe it was no, probably was.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
A weird one.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Yeah, the one that looks like a dinosaur.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That's that's crazy. What's actually? I do have a question.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
What's been like the biggest culture shock moment for you
since working I started working, since coming to like the
North America?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Like, is there something you saw?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
You said you fell in love with country music, but
is there anything else where you're like, wow, I did
not know they did this year.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Sorry, pretty broad question.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
But about culture?
Speaker 6 (26:42):
What about like the food?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh, that's a good one too.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I prefer okay, yes, because here for the for this fad.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Chemical, do you?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
When you do?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You cook at home a lot?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Are you making Russian food at home as much.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
As pasta can? But most of the time my wife okay, awesome, Yeah, and.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
She cooks everything in Russian from the Russian kitchen, so
like not kitchen, like Russian food.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Is there any specific like grocery stores so you have
to go to get that stuff?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Whole foods?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Yeah, Whole foods and Coastal Oh that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Costco makes sense because Costco has everything.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
I guess. So I lived in Japan for a while
and I could not go to a normal grocery store
to like make the food that I wanted to eat,
Like I had to find special grocery stores because like
I want to make tacos and you're not finding thirtys
in Japan. So yeah, do you have any questions for us?
Artem anything for us. I don't want to put you
on the spot.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, I just put you on the spot.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
No, thank you. I just want to say thank you
for interview.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Yeah, it's good to talk to you. We haven't you
haven't had a chance to talk to you before now, so.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Good conversation, So thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, perfectly.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Well, yeah, thanks so much for coming on and go
enjoy the rest of the party. Man, We appreciate it,
and enjoy your goodies too. Yeah, yeah, I enjoy the goodies. Yes, Ardam,
thanks so much. Man, appreciate When we come back, we're
gonna go find Dylan Wells and yeah, see if we
can spot him and we'll bring him back. Courting live
from our season Take a Member Holiday Party.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Third player of the.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Night in our last segment as well, Number thirty two
goaltender Dyan Wells.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Dylan, it's so good to have you back here.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Man.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
You've been back for quite some time. How's your how's
it been adjusting back here to Tucson? And yeah, just
how's everything going?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Really well, I mean, obviously having some familiarity last year,
it's nice.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, you're good, You're good.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, it's been awesome though. I love my time here
last year, and obviously any opportunity I get to be
here is awesome. So just taking it the stride and
making the most of it.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
How are things going? New gold goltending coach this year,
Jeff Hill? How's it going with Jefflake? Was it a
big adjustment? Is he was? He going to Alan to
visit you guys and talk through everything, and he was.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Yeah, he came down probably two times when I was there,
and it's been awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I really like him. I think he's doing some great
stuff here.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
I feel like at the pro level you get used
to working with a lot of different goalie coaches and
a bunch of new faces.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
So it's been great working with him.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
He's an awesome guy, and yeah, I mean we've all
built a great relationship with him, So I really like him.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
We got him a couple of weeks ago in our show,
and just we talked about just the death that we
all have in our goaltendings positioning. This season, we got
you back on the contract, Addam and Stauber re signed
Vilal to have Anton Thorn. Still, what's it been like
to just work with that group of guys, you know,
in the off season at training camp and then this
year as well.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
You guys keep in touch.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
You guys have like a group chat together that you're
always keeping in touch with.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
How's that all going?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, it's been great.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Maddie and I obviously are good friends being at tandem
last year, so I mean all summer I was talking
to him and then really nice to see him at
training camp again, and then Thorty and I were partners
in Allen and obviously you know him from last year.
I mean it's a really deep, strong group even I
mean I played with stops in Rockford two years ago,
so I knew.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Start right, Yeah, together right of course in Rockford there.
It's awesome.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
He's also he's another really good guy, really good goalie
obviously having a great year.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
So I mean it's great. We all push each other.
Speaker 8 (30:14):
Everybody wants to get better every day and play at
the highest level possible. So I think with having good
competition and good friendships inside that it's been awesome.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
What was it like living in Allen? Uh, weren't playing
with the Americans? Uh, you know for the first start
of the season. What's that city like?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
You know?
Speaker 5 (30:30):
What was it like playing in the EHL and just yeah,
you know, still getting better every day and getting the
reps in for to play goalie.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Yeah, I mean the city is great. I mean it's
basically it's just outside of Dallas. And a couple of
years ago as well, I spent some time in Dallas
with the Stars organization. Yeah, I played in Texas and
then I was up blackasing with the with Dallas there
for the playoffs, so a little familiar with the area,
which was nice going into it.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
And then do some guys down there too. So it's
been going well.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I mean, you just want to play games and get
better and obviously reach your end goal playing in the NH. Also,
everybody has a different path and he's trying to make
the most of mine and do what I can here.
So it's been it's been good.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
If Matthew Volalta was a dog, what breed of dog
would he be?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Straight to it.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
That's a good question, thank you.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
I came up with it all about myself.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
I'd like to say maybe a golden Retriever. I think
maybe the whole Goldie Union would be Golden Retrievers.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
But I don't know. You tell me, what do you think?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Hmm, I'm trying to think he does give golden retriever.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I would say golden retriever for sure, would be.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Like a golden doodle, because no, maybe not no.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Maybe a doodle you think. No, I think he's more
of a retriever.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, maybe a yellow La
La Yeah, Labrador, maybe a Labrador Retriever because they're like
kind of a little bit more chill, but like still
super friendly, you know. But you're definitely a golden retrieve.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I've been told that's why I came head.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Not to give personal anything, but I'm like in the beard, man,
I don't think. I don't think you had it last year.
And remember when I first saw you back, it's like,
oh my gosh, don't well, it's grew a beard. Yeah,
when did that come in? Was that summer thing or
is it when the season started?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
No, honestly, is past month. I don't even know. Wow,
I began at Yeah, but I feel like I've never
grown one in my life really.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, if you didn't see you one in last year.
Speaker 8 (32:14):
One time when I went on a deep playoff run,
I grew a beard that was yep. I was probably
twenty three, so I didn't have much.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Of a beard. But right, I've never experimented with it.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
So I've tried it, and I've gotten some positive feedback,
so I might have to keep it.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Wait, just from your girlfriend or from other people.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
A lot of people have been noticing just because I
don't usually have one, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
But Meg likes it.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
So it's she is she hearing Tucson too, which is
for the time, Okay, perfect, she is.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
So she's been with me this year, which has been great,
and she's happy to be back in Tucson as well.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, she loves it here.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Yeah, So how does that work? You know, just with
moving around so much? Is she just coming with you
wherever you end up at? Like, was she with you
and Alan to start the season and then now obviously
you just that year with Tucson.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
Yeah, she wasn't Alan for a little bit. It's kind
of it's tough. Obviously, we're both Canadians, so right also
has a job and a life at home, so of course,
I mean you just try to balance it. She comes
here for extended stays when she can, and she'll go
back home for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
So she's here right now, which is great. I mean,
I love having her here.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
It's awesome, and yeah, it's it's definitely a challenge, but
it's worth it.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
I gotta talk about I gotta ask you about your
your new mask. You haven't worn it yet, but it
looks sick, you know, with the Utah blue and then
the coyote on it. What was that whole what was
the whole process of getting the new mask?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Like?
Speaker 5 (33:28):
And I don't even think we asked you about your
your your mask that you got before with last season
as well, because I think you attributed it to your
dad who's a musician. So yeah, what's the whole mask
making a process like for you?
Speaker 8 (33:42):
Yeah, I mean it's it's really fun. I'm a bit
of a gear nerd, so I mean I love the
design process of it and everything that goes into it.
The Utah mask is kind of just a spin off
of my twoson one that I had last year. Yeah,
I'm obviously still wearing that while I'm here, and it
does have the coyote on it. I kept him from
last year, but up, yeah, it's this one's pretty basically.
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I mean, I have the mountains in the snow and
it's kind of supposed to be like a winter snowstorm,
and the coyote is supposed to be played as a
goalie a little bit.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah, it's got a Canadian winter.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Like he has like a he has like a mask too,
holding a mask.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
It's supposed to look like he's kind of up in
the mountain and his goalie helmet.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Everything.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
The one last year was based off my dad a
little bit. He's a drummer obviously. I think we've talked
about that before. So I have Coyote on one side
playing a drum kit. I played the drums growing up too,
and then the other side is the Roadrunner playing a guitar,
which I played the guitar. So it's kind of just
a cool, like dad sound thing and I like it,
so I kept wearing it, and it just goes with
the colors better. So that's why I haven't really broke
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the Utah one out too much. But I wear it practice.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I want to see you.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
I haven't seen it you put it on socials or anything.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Well, I did repost it one time on social.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Did you.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yeah, I can tell you.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
I love try to find it too, because I know
it's posted somewhere. Do you plan on wearing that mask
at all or do you want to keep it just
with the road Runner one for the time being.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
I'll probably keep the road Runner one during games and everything.
It just looks better with the jerseys.
Speaker 8 (35:05):
But I wear that one in practices, and I mean
every year I try to get base my helmet off
the NHL team of course.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
One day when I retire, I think it'd be pretty
cool to look.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Back, yeah, right, like just a collection of it all.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
I think I have like eight NHL team helmets now,
just from all the different organizations I've played on. It's
just still through the years. And then I have four
or five from junior as well. So my parents have
probably fifteen helmets sitting at their house right.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Now, ready for those to leave, but they can't made.
At one point, I'll do something cool with all of them.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I never wanted to give you like crap at all.
About it.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
But last year you had the Dallas Stars bask for
so long. Yeah, and it's like when he's he going
to seedge like and then once you got that, once
you got that helmet, I was like, Oh that was
worth the way.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, it's a sick look.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
I don't know what it is, but like your helmet
kind of looks like has a different texture.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah, is there something with that? Like how do you
ask for that kind of texture?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Because it's like yours is not shiny and Matthew Vololtas
is shiny.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
How does that go?
Speaker 8 (35:58):
It's just a matt finish. So the guy who paints
my helmet's Dave Art. He does a lot of he
does a lot. Yeah, I follow. It's kinda I leave
a lot of it up to him. I kind of
give him my input. Over the past couple of years,
I've started kind of contributing more to the sketch.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
When I was younger, I just kind of said do.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Whatever, Yeah, because it's like I don't know what I want.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
I've kind of gotten involved a little more and it's
it's a fun process. But I think the matt looks cool.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
The shiny I've had.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
I had the shiny mass all growing up, and I
think the mat is just a little cleaner.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
I don't know that I think it is. I think
it's yeah, like Maddie's.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
Is great too, and it's shiny, so I mean both ways,
you can't go wrong. But I really like it. So
we'll see if it comes out in the near future.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
But yeah, I would love to know.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
The Dallas one was cool.
Speaker 8 (36:38):
I wasn't expecting to be in that one as long
as I was, but obviously the way it was worth it.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Dusty, Yeah, have you and Dusty done your usual like
because you used to grab Dusty and like this.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, I get them a little bit.
Speaker 8 (36:54):
Yea every time when I'm backing up here and he's
walking by, trying to give him a little high five
or whatever may be.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
So wait, is this it is that?
Speaker 3 (37:01):
It? No? No, no, that's not I can find though.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Sorry everyone, I'm going through social media.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Posts a lot, Yeah, he posts a lot.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
But Dylan, are your Is your family coming for the holiday?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Uh? Not planned? Right now, I'm going to try and
go home and we play habbits. No Christmas?
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Yeah, oh that's right.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
At least we're in Canada before Christmas exactly, guys close
enough can exactly.
Speaker 8 (37:24):
So it's a direct flight back to Toronto right after
that game and then go home.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
For Yeah, some guys are getting right after the game, right, Yeah,
what what time do you plan for a flight like that?
Because there's just so many bearing that. I hope that
doesn't but there's just like, you know, what have you
going to overtime? Well the game goes longer than usual?
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Yeah, but like, yeah, what's that? What was that planning? Like, like,
what time is it at?
Speaker 8 (37:47):
I think we play it too, so I think the
flight is around eleven PM.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Okay, So yeah, if you said like seven, I'd be like,
oh yeah, a little worried about it.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
It's gonna be a late one.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
Get at like seven o'clock the next morning. So usually
Christmas break you're running on.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Plans are made for sleeping right exactly.
Speaker 8 (38:05):
So I did it last year from San Diego and
it worked out. It's always nice to go home. I
did it one year where I didn't go home at
Christmas time just with the schedule not working out.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
It's tough.
Speaker 8 (38:13):
Every year since then, I've tried to make it home.
I think it's nice to see the family. It's a
nice little reset.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Yeah, and your birthday is right there too, right, so
to get your birthday presents.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yeah, My birthday is usually a week later, so we
usually have games on my birthday. I don't really get
to see anybody, so it's nice to get a little
Christmas birthday celebration all in one.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:30):
That's awesome. Okay, Wait, I have a question. If you
were going to be on a reality show that was
about you taking an RV trip around the country with
three other guys on the team, who would you want
to go.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
With an RV trip?
Speaker 6 (38:42):
Yeah? And who would be driving? And you can't pick Maddy?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Are you talking like who would have the best time
with or who would be the most entertaining?
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Who would be the most entertaining?
Speaker 3 (38:50):
I'd probably bring Curtis Douglas, Ryan McGregor. Those two kind
of come in a package, I really do. Probably Travis Barron.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Oh that's a good pick.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah, that'd probably I three.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
And who's driving? Who do you think is the best
driver out of the three of them?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
I think probably Mirror Bear. I don't think good good comedy.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
You'd have to sign a lot of waivers for that.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
For sure. For sure, I think it'd be a fun
we should we should test it though.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Oh my god, can we can we get the road runners?
Can we get a.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Get them on r V? Yes, send them somewhere, send
them off, yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
Can we do that?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
I think it on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
I mean we drive home Arizona, so were basically convoy
across the country. Were just in separate cars.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
But what's the because we talked to so many guys
during the summer of a lot of guys going back
home to Toronto, what's the one city that you passed through,
like every guy's pastor, I forgot what it was like
an Indiana.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Do you guys pass through Indiana?
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Right, I think it was somewhere weird.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
Yeah, we passed through Indiana, passed through Michigan, Okay, pass
through Saint Louis, I believe.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Do you stop anywhere?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah, you have to to get some sleep.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
Oh no, very sorry some question I meant sorry, do
you stop anymore? As in, like, you know, let's say
you want to hit somewhere for a day and say like, oh,
I've never been to the city before. Let's see, what's
like have you done that before? I've past I want
to get home.
Speaker 8 (40:16):
It depends on the situation, the time of year, everything.
When I played in Bakersfield, I made some trips out
of it, Okay, explored California a little bit before driving.
Last year, obviously we finished a little later. And yeah,
I think you're usually pretty excited to get home for
the summer. You haven't seen everybody, and obviously you've got
to start training a couple of weeks after.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
So yeah, you want to spend.
Speaker 8 (40:35):
Your time off at home usually, and once you start
the drive, it's nice to just kind of bang it
out as fast as you can, obviously chiefly, but yeah, no,
I think we stopped twice last year on the way home.
We stopped in New Mexico somewhere, and then Saint Louis maybe,
oh wow, and then Michigan and then we were home.
So it is a long drive. It's like forty forty hours,
(40:55):
forty two hours.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
My car has seen some miles on it.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
But yeah, sure, what was the whole process like of
signing the one year deal to come back to the
road Runners?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
You know, just how did that go?
Speaker 5 (41:07):
And did you kind of know once the season ended
that you wanted to come back to the organization.
Speaker 8 (41:11):
Yeah, I mean I think very early I knew that
I really liked it here and I really liked the guys,
and obviously they were trying to bring a lot of
us back. Yeah, I mean when I had word of
the opportunity, I wanted to take advantage of it. And
you know, I love playing here, I love being in Tucson,
So it was a no brainer for me, and it
seemed like a good opportunity. So obviously, the year before
that was tough. I didn't have a deal going into
(41:32):
the year, and it was the first time that I
was kind of faced with that situation. So, I mean,
signing early is nice. It's reassuring you know where you're
gonna be and kind of go through summer and train
for you know what you expect to happen. So year
before that was different, and going through that you don't
really want to experience it too many times in your career.
But yeah, no, I was really happy to come back
and I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
You're kind of part of that group of like Peter
Deliberatory Late and more even Austin Bigyanski too. But Biganski
was with us when the season had started. You're part
of that group where guys came, you know, around that
Thanksgiving time and you know, earned your contracts and now
you're back with us, and just you know, I think
we've asked you this so many times, which is what
was that journey like coming on the PTO right by Thanksgiving?
(42:17):
You know, just kind of being thrown into the net,
and then earning that contract and now you're just kind
of like one of the main staple guys here.
Speaker 8 (42:24):
Yeah, I mean the situation at the beginning, obviously it's stressful.
I mean, when you get older, you realize that this
is your job and this is how you make a living,
and I mean every year before that, you're kind of
I signed right away and I kind of knew where
I was going to be, and going through that last
year of not really knowing. I went to camp and
Nashville with the Predators and then was in Milwaukee and
didn't really know where it was going to go and
(42:45):
didn't really know if that was kind of the end
of the road or what was going on. So you
questioned a lot of things, and you kind of you
stress a little bit, but I mean you just got
to trust that it's all going to work out, you
kind of bet on yourself. And I went to Idaho
at the beginning of the year and had a really
good start to the year and kind of proved to
myself that when your back's against the wall, you can
still make something happen. So I'm really happy to be here.
(43:05):
I mean, obviously I'm happy with the way it worked out.
I'm sure a little bit of luck is involved with
being in the right place at the right time, and
you know, yeah, I couldn't be more thankful for how
it's worked out.
Speaker 6 (43:14):
And people say, because I've talked, I've talked to a
few of you guys about staying mentally healthy because this
is a really emotional job. It seems like it could
be it could be, you know, and every job has
its stressors and can be difficult, but this comes with
so many variables in it. And so I've you know,
talked to people like, Okay, how is so and so
managing their mental health? And what I hear a lot
(43:36):
is it's the job, you know, and but how but still,
how do you do it? Like how are you okay
in that headspace where like if I was in a
situation where I was being put on waivers, I would
have a mental breakdown.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Yeah, you know, it's.
Speaker 8 (43:50):
Not easy for sure, and I feel like when you
haven't kind of lived it, it's tough to explain to people,
if that makes sense. Yeah, for me, you know, a
lot of it's just balance. I mean, it's like any job.
It's a work life balance, you know. I come to
the rink and you do your job, and you do
it to the best of your abilities. But then you
got to find something away from the rink that makes
you happy and brings you joy, and like playing guitar,
(44:13):
Like playing the guitar, I like cooking, you know, anything
just to kind of get your mind off the game. Obviously,
you want to be at one hundred percent when I
at the rink. And I think a lot of it
comes from maturing too, as you get a little older.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
And yeah, this is my seventh year pro.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
Now.
Speaker 8 (44:25):
When I was younger, maybe I didn't handle it as well,
but you kind of have to experience it and live
through it to learn the right way to handle it.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
So yeah, I think I've done a good job of it.
Speaker 8 (44:33):
I mean, I'm happy with where I'm at now and
I've found some balance, So I think that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 6 (44:39):
I think so too. So going back to cooking, what
are you cooking? Are you actually, like legitimately a good cook?
Speaker 3 (44:45):
I mean, I don't know, you'd have to ask Meg
or something, but I would say I'm a pretty good cook.
Speaker 5 (44:51):
I think it kills a lot of time in the
season if it makes you feel better. A lot of
guys on this team stay they can't cook, they do yeah,
So if you're one of the ones that can't cook,
that's good.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
And I enjoy it. I really enjoy it. I think.
Speaker 8 (45:03):
I mean, living on your own for so long, you
kind of you're forced to learn how to cook, and
then when you start cooking, you obviously want to do
a better job than what you're currently doing. So I
would say I'm a decent cook. I don't know, I'd
need some people to do a test for that, but
I enjoy it.
Speaker 6 (45:16):
So what's your favorite dish to cook for Meg? And
does she have a favorite dish that she likes you
to cook her.
Speaker 8 (45:21):
I mean it's pretty basic, but I would say steak.
I'm pretty good at cooking a steak.
Speaker 6 (45:25):
Yeah, Okay, everything that goes with it.
Speaker 8 (45:27):
So we kind of tag team on that one. And
I'd say steak's the easiest. I flipped through some cookbook.
I actually bought a new cookbook probably a month ago
that I started playing around with, and Meg likes some
recipes from that.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
So I can't share all my secrets.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
But.
Speaker 8 (45:43):
Secret formula like penn A La vodka, but it's some
different ingredients. I don't do dairy and I don't do
creak or anything, so this one is it's a little different.
I'm going to keep it a secret as to what
goes in it, but it's really good and I've got
some good reviews on it.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
So i like it.
Speaker 5 (45:58):
Well, Dylan, I think so much for coming on again.
We appreciate it. Uh really happy that you're back and
uh yeah, enjoy here in Tucson.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
We love to have you.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
Thank you, appreciate you guys having man.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
And that was this week's special episode of the Tucson Roadrunners.
Happy our show. We will see you next week. Thanks
for listening once again,
It's five o'clock on yours hues day. Do the It's
two Sun Roadrunners Happy Out from Fox Sports fourteen fifty
Am with Jonathan ship Right.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Well, we know the story, but you gotta tell the
viewers that starts.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
It's so funny.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It's our usual Tuesday night.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
So I don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
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 5 (00:29):
Fox Sports fourteen fifty am our usual Tuesday Night get
together with a holiday Christmas season ticket member party special.
We're grabbing three players for this episode. We'll get right
on the top of it. Peter Delivatory joined us first. First, Peter,
how's it going man?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
The holidays everyone, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Happy holidays. Big stretch for the road Runners right now
coming up. We have a lot of games this coming weekend.
But this is what you're looking forward to for the
holiday break?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
And what are you doing for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Actually lived a little too far away, so stick around Arizona.
But I can't complain. It's on the desert. It's nice
out here, so I'll see my parents in a couple
couple of months down the road, so yeah, just hang
with the guys.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
How's it been for you and Tucson this year? You're
living by yourself, you got roommates. How's it been kind
of now that you've because I remember you coming with
us on the PTO and now you're actually starting with
us on the roster.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Just how's it been for you in your second year here?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
It's been good. Yeah, living next to a golf course,
so that's pretty nice. Get to work on my short yeah,
but yeah, no, it's been good. You know, living out
north Tucson. It's nice up there, so yeah, it's been
great so far.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
How's the how's two soun treating you like? It's hot?
It's hot right now?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Warm?
Speaker 6 (01:43):
Are you okay? I noticed when we went Calgary last
weekend or whoever long ago, it was we're a lot
more tan than they are, which I thought. I don't
know if you guys noticed that. It's kind of awesome.
Are you out golfing every day?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Not every day? Unfortunately our schedule doesn't allow that, but
once a week is good if we get out at that.
So yeah, who's.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Who's the best golfer on the team? Right?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Now that's a good question. I haven't seen everyone's game,
but uh, Ben Benny's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Really, yeah, oh interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Partners with me When we golf together, we don't lose.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
He doesn't look like he golfs every day.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Yeah, no, no he does, but he can swing them.
Speaker 6 (02:24):
Are you on Spotify or Apple Music?
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Spotify? Actually, I just swear that's funny that because I
just switched. Oh did you was Apple? And I switched Spotify?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
So you don't have you had enough time to do
it a rapped? Did you get rapped already?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
I don't think so, because I switched like a month
and a half. So even if I didn't get a rap,
it'd mean like I played like a song six times
is the most.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
You know, what does Apple Music do a rap?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Like?
Speaker 6 (02:46):
What are you listening to right now?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
What am I listening to right now? That's a good question,
So don tolliver. Okay, I'm always bumping Gunna. I'm trying
to think what kind of into my m phase too?
Speaker 6 (03:02):
Really okay?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Lots of a lot of like before games, car ride
on the on the way to the Yeah. Yeah, so
I can't say the songs or the the artist, but
you know, you play the song. I'll know it's ok
good stuff.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Have you ever been? Have you ever been to a rave?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Never? Really never? We don't have raves and Nova scoti
we have a country fest.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Okay, well I've been to a couple.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Actually, last big one I went to was, Oh gosh, no,
I'm forgetting what's it called.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It's that big one in Vegas. I don't know if
you've heard of it.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Oh, I know which one you're talking.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
That's the race, the speedway or the race. You'll get
the name of it in the moment. But yeah, raves
are fun. Yeah, you have to try to get to
one sometimes.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Maybe one one day, yeah, one weekend?
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Yeah, no, right, we had one here in downtown last month.
I can't remember. Do you remember what it's called?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Etc.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
Okay, that was the one I was remembering from Vegas.
The one here was Stephen was here.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, dust with the cake, Yeah, yeah, he did awesome video.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
It was literally after a game. Dusty Wind was a
dusk is that was?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yes? That's it? Yes.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Yeah. It used to literally happen a block from my
house before they moved it, and my whole house wouldn't
shake every time.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
Well, it sucks like leaving the ice that day because
then you saw the fun happening in downtown.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
And you're like, you're going to be opposite.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
We want to be a part.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Yeah, you're going to the opposite way. You're going on
about their long game. But yeah, it was a good time.
Anything that you've been working on, you know as the
season's started. I know we talked to you over the summer,
but how did it go overall, and anything that you've
changed to your game now in year two with the Roadrunners.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, everything at this point in my career is just
you know, fix that, working on everything, all the little
nicks and cranny's. So for me, it was my shot,
my skating, all that kind of simplistic but complicated stuff.
So yeah, just trying to add more stuff to my game,
you know, just little things like that.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Wait, I didn't talk to you this summer. Do you
spend a nova Scotia or I do?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah? For the most part, I'll have a couple of
trips here and there with like some college buddies. Last summer,
I had my fifth year high school reunion my old
old high school. So a bunch of us from my
class went there, met up and that was a good time.
So do those little trips are nice? But yeah, for
the most part saying Nova Scotia, get out on the
boat and.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
None of the guys living from Nova Scotia, right, did
you see any of them at all?
Speaker 3 (05:15):
But actually a hunter Drew he comes because he has
ties in Nova Scotia, so he comes through. He came
for a month this summer this past summer, so I
got to see him for a little bit, and then
two summers for that he trained there the whole summer,
So that's how I got to know him before tousoner.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Wait is there golfing? And it was? It sounds so ignorant,
but I don't know, so I'd love the.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Crazy search of Cabin Cliff, top five course in North America.
Really Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Oh okay, yeah, I don't want to.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
I don't know what to make you feel sad because
you know you're far from family, but like, how does
it feel to kind of be on the other side
of North America? You know, just being here, you know,
sun sun all the time, Arizona. Your family's in Nova Scotia,
probably cold in the clouds. Just what's the feeling like
and how much are you guys keeping in touch?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Yeah, we talk a lot and they always hate me
for it, you know, fi.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Lucky you're by the pool, you know, sitting out in
the sunny.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Cloud, and they're just like, oh you bugger. So yeah
it's funny and always rub that in their face a
little bit. But yeah, it's all jokes. And yeah, obviously
great to FaceTime them, and uh, you know, see him
twice a year or so when they come to visit,
so it's always nice.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Oh so they did come out last season?
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Yeah, did they stay out and be with you?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Actually they stayed near Speedway. My dad saw a place
that was next to Costco and he's like, oh, this
must be a great area, just dropping. Yeah, that was
a gift there for the group.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
But if he sees one gun, it is the giving season, right,
share a couple of.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So much, Thank you so much. He's like, unrail, what's
in there?
Speaker 6 (07:03):
Peter?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
We get we're gonna be crispy. It's all looks homemade too.
This is great. Some cookies, muffins.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Do you want to do? What you want to do?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
A taste?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Definitely not in your diet.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
If you can smell this, you don't have need the
whole thing. Just just try one.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I'll explain what I'm meaning then I'll i'll read it.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, let's get one.
Speaker 6 (07:20):
It's smell, the smelling like just the outside smells so good.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
All right, here comes Chris first.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
All right, all right, Peter is trying a lie of
rice krispy right now? Yeah, no, you're good.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 6 (07:34):
Get that was still goodmery?
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, how is it?
Speaker 3 (07:42):
I'm going to give that an eight six?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Okay, like it solid?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's really good.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Okay, get another one.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
What kind of cookie? Do you think this is?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Like? Ginger gingerbread with the glaze? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (07:54):
Is it gingerbread the glaze?
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Really, ladies and gentlemen. If you could see his face?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, loving this right now? This is awesome.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Try the thing with the chocolate fudge on top. Yeah,
that thing, and I.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Think you should just try them all.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I'm not a chocolate.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I feel like it's too heavy.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
No, it can be. You know what I love with chocolate.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
You put sea salt on top, like sprinklet you know,
don't You don't have to cook it with it, just
sprinkle some on top.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Game changer.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Is it fudge? It looks like that's heavy.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
That's heavy. Don't eat that before game?
Speaker 3 (08:29):
But yeah, that's a that's a nine for sure. Okay,
well not right, that's all I need.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, good thing. Parker Poor isn't here. I don't think
he would be liking all of this right now?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Do you want to hear a joke?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (08:45):
No, go ahead?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
What does it say when it eats?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I feel like I should know this? What too?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Sorry? Sorry?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
That was good?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
So New Year's resolutions, anything that you're thinking of? Do
you do that? Or no?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Not really?
Speaker 5 (09:09):
No?
Speaker 6 (09:10):
Really, really you don't. You don't even think about it.
It's okay if you don't, I'm just curious.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Really don't.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
Yeah, it's okay, I mean it's usually just like the workout.
Speaker 6 (09:20):
More nobody nobody does like you guys.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Already good you work out because you're a professional hockey players.
You guys are already doing like.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know. Okay, okay, because I can already do that
fas pretty well?
Speaker 6 (09:37):
Okay, did you want to do right now?
Speaker 5 (09:39):
I loved your I loved your Uh yeah that was
that was Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
They got you? That was awesome. That was really good.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
That was fantastic.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Did you not know the dance?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
No? They had to explain it to me. That there
explaining to me the dance, and I'll be like, oh,
you got to go and you.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Did it good. But they didn't do it with you.
That was the thing.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
I thought I killed him, but no, no, you did great.
I just love that they they kind of left you out.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
The yeah, no love, no love.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Pr world out there world.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
So we have Star Wars Night, Swifty Night, Oh my god,
oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Yeah, December is the busiest month of the season.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
If you were going to pick a promo night, what
would we do? I think I think we need to
have a Lego night. I would love to have and
like Lego jerseys and like so what I've heard other
teams do is that you bring old legos to donate
and then they clean them and sanitize them and give
them to little kids who don't have any choice. So
I think we should do a Lego night. I don't
(10:33):
know what what like the music sounds like or anything,
but other than everything is.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Like that, I would say maybe a Harry Potter because
we do that rewatching the series. Did we do a
Harry Pottery thing?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
We did one last year.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
This year it's Wizards, so we're not allowed to call
it Harry Potter Night anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Oh I see, I see Mark.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Yeah, they got us, which we didn't think they were
because it's just like we're just a Star Wars Night though.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah. Star Wars Night is like our next home game.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
They wars lets that fly.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah, it's because I think every other team does it.
Everyone does Star Wars Night. But then once you try
to hit the Harry Potter they say no.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Like they don't want they don't want their name out there,
like they don't want to.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I guess copyrighted.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I guess not.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
But yeah, so I think it's called like Wizards Night, Witches,
Wizards and Witches.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, so it's gonna be really similar.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
Wait, so you're watching Harry Potter right now? Where are
you at?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Just finished the fourth one?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
I don't know that is what happens in the fourth one?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Jesus, I'm not going to spoil it.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Was there a tournament? Is there a big gonna.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Spoil it now? People watching that?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
You're right if people can be listening.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
For sure night now?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (11:38):
Yeah, it only came out twenty years ago. For sure,
I've never seen Harry Potter. Oh god, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Yeah, so he would be technically spoiling.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It for me. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Have you seen Star Wars?
Speaker 2 (11:48):
I've seen. I'm a huge Star Wars, big, big Star
Wars nerds.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Are you a Star Wars fan?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I like Star Wars? Yeah, I wouldn't say, like I
rave about like I know all those I watched it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Yeah, I know everything.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
Do you have a favorite character.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
Darth Vader or Slash Annakin, Captain Rex he's like a
cold Trooper.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
That's a very specific choice.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, I don't know, you know your stuff. Yeah, I
don't know who Captain Rex exactly, no idea, Like I'm
not I'm not saying you're not a fan, but like
the ordinary fans will be like, who's Captain Rex?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And then like diehard fans like me Captain Rex. Yeah,
yeh yeah see that's a big stable.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
But do you have a favorite character Yoda? Like yeah, well,
did you watch any maybe? Baby? Yeah, I love did
you watch.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
Any of that?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
I watched the God what's it called? It's the Fat Like,
what's that show called?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
That series?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
The Mandalorian?
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Mandalorian? Yeah, I watched that with baby. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
Yeah, that's yeah, that was a good one. That was
that was that had some funny stuff in it, like
not typical Star Wars funny stuff in it.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, good little bit stuff.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Yeah, I think I think so too.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It was good.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
It was good at first, and then it kind of
it kind of you know, I love Grogu though. Grogu's awesome,
And it was crazy because Mandalori came out, like when
covid started, so it's like kind of that weird or
it was like, no, it was the first show of
Disney Plus. That's when Disney Plus came out, and it
was like the first full streaming service of Disney And then.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
All right, kim let's interview Johnny about Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
I'm scared question. I don't we don't.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
I don't have I don't have the knowledge that he
has Star.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Wars interview me for once. Yeah, that would actually be nice.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Wait, why don't you wear a costume to Star Wars night?
Like everybody wears a costume. That's like one of our
biggest nights of the year.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I don't know. We wanted to. We wanted to, uh
last year. I think Adrian said no.
Speaker 6 (13:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Folloween agent said no, So we could. I'd be kind
of cool. Maybe I should, or maybe get like a
Star Wars tie at least how about tie the tie.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
There you go? Or maybe the suit okay, or the
shirt shirt?
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Oh, just do the whole costume.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Something called money. Unless you can rent anything, you can
renders it.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Right, Yeah, yeah, okay, we need you.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Guys have convinced me I'm the worst. I'll get that.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
I'll be disappointed.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Okay. I'm for you, Peter for coming on the show
with us today.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
I'll go one perfect.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Okay, you have anything else?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Anything else? Do you have anything for us? Any questions
for us?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Thanks for having me? Happy holidays?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Yeah, well go enjoy the rest of the party, have
a great time.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
And don't forget your books.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Yes, here, and you guys can guard it.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Oka, I'm gonna put your name on it.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Good call perfect. I have a bunch of sharpies literally
to my right.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
There you go, Oh, there you go.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
You got one.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I will keep guard. We won't eat anything.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Well, feel free.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Actually, thanks for the life taste testing of course, Peter.
Thanks so much.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
Thanks Peter.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
That was Peter dilibatory.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
Everybody when we come back, rather going to be getting
Artum Duda or Dylan Wells wherever we can find next
at the Christmas recording live from our season ticket member
holiday party. Joining us next defense been number seventy eight,
Artam Duda Ardam. How's it going, man, how's your how's
your day? And how the how's the week's been leading
up to the holidays.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Oh, it's been good.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Uh we had practice and uh yeah, just ressed. Everything
is great preparing for next games, Aredam.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
This is your first time in Tusuner, the first time
in the United States? Is that right?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
No?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Uh, that's my fourth Oh, okay in the United States.
Speaker 6 (15:33):
Okay. Have you ever been this far west before or
is this the first time?
Speaker 7 (15:38):
No, I've been into Sun last year. Okay, two times. Okay,
So I'm pretty familiar with weather and team and.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
The Okay, fantastic. So tell us a little bit about
how you ended up here. What is hockey like. We
learned a little bit about hockey in Russia from Igor
when we talked to him a few weeks ago. What
was your experience like coming up playing hockey in Russia.
Speaker 7 (16:04):
Yeah, I finished hockey school in Russia and started playing
for a junior team. I played for them for two years,
and then I wanted to play in NCY Double A
last season, but I couldn't due to unfortunate circumstances. And
then yeah, I just like I almost I lost half
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of the of the season. I played twenty seven games
for Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada, so yeah, and then
I signed a contract with entry level deal with UTAH.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
So when you say hockey school, what age was that
and how long? How long was hockey school? Like when
did you decide that you were going to be serious
about hockey? How old were you?
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
All my life I wanted to be a professional hockey
player and playing West league in the world. And yeah,
probably from ten to eighteen. My hockey school was from
ten to eighteen. Yeah, that I think it's like beginning
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of my hockey career. Yeah, and yeah, I had no
doubt about moving forward in hockey.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
And yeah that's it.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
Yeah. Are you're so we're coming up on the holidays
here really quick? Is your family able to come out
for the holidays to be with you.
Speaker 7 (17:38):
No, it's too complicated for them. They need to get
a visas and difficult flights and so no.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
No, the boys are going to be doing something right,
because it sounds like it sounds like not a lot
of parrots are able to come this holiday season.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Probably.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
Yeah, I think some guys maybe will go home, some
will stay year, but we will come up with something
I don't know yet.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah, did you celebrate hockey with the team? No, No,
you didn't do I was curious if you had a costume?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You you said hockey or Halloween?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Halloweend said, did I say hockey?
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah? You said? You said did you celebrate hockey with
the team? I was confused about that question.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
I got too much hot chocolate in me. Yeah, did
you celebrate?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Okay, so did your goodness?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Okay, did you? But so you celebrate hockey with the
team too, But like, did you wear a costume?
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Yes? I was shrack and my wife was filana.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Oh maybe we can see a picture of that afterwards.
I would love to see.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
How long have you and your wife been married? When
did you guys first start dating? What's that journey been
like with her by your side? Just kind of working
your way up to the best league in the world.
Speaker 7 (18:53):
Oh yeah, we met at school. I was fifteen, she
was seventeen.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
So wait, but that was only like five years ago, right,
Because you're twenty right now. Yeah, that's amazing.
Speaker 7 (19:05):
Yeah, we married it in June this year. Thank you,
thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:12):
So she's one of my biggest support in my life
and my hockey career and the Yeah, every time I
get home after practice or after game or after trip,
she always she always supports me, tells me something that's Yeah,
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it's unbelievable.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
Wait, what's your name, Artem Artem? Yeah, okay, oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (19:41):
Thank you, Laton.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
You just stopped by to give you a kiss. It's
beautiful because it's the Christmas spirit.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
All right.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Do you guys have do you an Artem have a
spot in Tison that you like to go? Anywhere that like?
Is that you found it nice?
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Every day off go to different hiking spot. So I
just I search in the map hiking spots nice. Yeah,
and it offers a lot of options and yeah, we
just don't pick a random spot. Yeah, and go watch
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some views, some trails. It's pretty nice.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
And you live kind of the perfect spot for all
the hiking exactly too.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Some where it's warm. What was your experience like coming
last year?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
Because I remember seeing you, you know, on the road
tips from time to time and seeing you around. You
know what was that like coming first here and getting
to know the guys, getting to know the coaches and
the city. And now a year later, you're now playing
every night for the team, as you know, one of
the important defensemen for the team. A.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
Yes, when I when I understood that I can't play
for Maine University of Maine in n C Double A,
the Twoston road Runners invited me to uh to get
used to it, like how how it works to to
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meet coaches team? And yeah, when I got here, I
had lots of practices with the team and with coaches
one on one, and that was so important for me
to understand the principles of HL hockey, to understand the
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level of hockey, to talk with coaches, UH, to meet
the guys.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
UH.
Speaker 7 (21:38):
So yeah, I think that experience helped me a lot
to play, to pray to play right now, and yeah,
I made it so much easier for me to adopt
after I came in UH September this year, and.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
You you haven't played a lot of games, as you
said before, how did you, you know, just kind of
keep getting the as much live game reps as possible
and how did you prepare for a season like this
to where now you're playing at a constant pace.
Speaker 7 (22:16):
I played twenty five or thirty games for Team you. Yeah,
that helped me a lot too. But during the summertime,
I just I don't focused. I didn't focus about like that.
I didn't play. I just keep practicing, keeping workout, getting
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myself better. And yeah, I don't know, just I'm a
hockey player. I've been playing hockey all my life. And
missing half of the season. Yeah, it's a pretty big time.
But I adapted and everything is good.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
And yeah, your English is so so good. How long
have even speaking English?
Speaker 7 (23:03):
I started speaking since I got to us in twenty
twenty three in Maine.
Speaker 6 (23:09):
That wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
It was one year and a half ago.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Okay, Wow, that.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Is so.
Speaker 6 (23:15):
To do that. That's amazing, that's fantastic. What is your
hockey nickname? What do the boys call you?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
Boys call me artie or dude?
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Oh okay, yeah, that's what I didn't know if it
was going to be more or less complicated than your
name is already. And then what kind of music do
you listen to off the ice? And then what kind
of music do you like to hear when you're on
the ice.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Off the ice. I listen to every kind of music
except rock on the ice.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
What do you mean on the ice?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Like when we're playing music during warm ups? What do
you like? What song do you would you want to hear?
If you could pick a song.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
H something energy, I don't know, not boring.
Speaker 6 (24:04):
Not like em or because you don't like rock. Do
you like country music?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
I met country music in Maine first time, and it
was like something weird for me, But now yeah I.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
Fell in love.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Oh really yeah, country music.
Speaker 4 (24:24):
Is so good.
Speaker 7 (24:25):
But if you are asking about warm up, I would
not listen country. And yeah, yeah, something something more more energy.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
More energy, like I'm trying to think of like an
energetic song that we play. It is a lot of
just like how.
Speaker 7 (24:40):
Like song like we go out on the on the
eyes after before a national anthem, like wow, yeah you know.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Yeah that's a good one. Okay, yeah, you know wow, Okay,
I like that. That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
Okay, that's good to know. All right, Well, if you
think of any songs you want to hear during warm ups,
let us know and we'll play your song. Yeah, yeah,
you got any other questions?
Speaker 4 (25:03):
This is great?
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Do you have any questions? For us Ardou. Well wait,
going back to your hiking trails, do you have a
favorite hiking I meant to ask, do you have a
favorite hiking trail that you guys are like, yes, this
is the spot?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Not yet, not yet. I visited maybe three or four.
Speaker 6 (25:19):
That's more than I have, so I have.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Spots to visit.
Speaker 7 (25:23):
Yeah, and maybe after the season I'll tell you you.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Have you guys seen any wildlife when you've been out
on the trail, wildlife like snakes or have alena or coyotes.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
We saw hair o oh, like a rabbit, like a yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
With the big with the big ears. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah,
yeah those are good luck.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Have you seen any roadrunners?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
Yes? At my apartments?
Speaker 6 (25:49):
You really?
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Yeah? I have a video.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Oh you have a video of the road runner?
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Is it?
Speaker 6 (25:53):
Was it a big one?
Speaker 4 (25:55):
I don't know. I can show you.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Only because roadrunners when you see them up close. I
used to work in a building out buy where you are,
and in my office it was one whole window and
a road rorner came up to the window and they
look like dinosaurs up close, like they don't look like
real birds. They're very very Maybe it was no, probably was.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
A weird one.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Yeah, the one that looks like a dinosaur.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That's that's crazy. What's actually? I do have a question.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
What's been like the biggest culture shock moment for you
since working I started working, since coming to like the
North America?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Like, is there something you saw?
Speaker 5 (26:29):
You said you fell in love with country music, but
is there anything else where you're like, wow, I did
not know they did this year.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Sorry, pretty broad question.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
But about culture?
Speaker 6 (26:42):
What about like the food?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Oh, that's a good one too.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
I prefer okay, yes, because here for the for this fad.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Yeah, you're not.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Chemical, do you?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
When you do?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You cook at home a lot?
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Are you making Russian food at home as much.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
As pasta can? But most of the time my wife okay, awesome, Yeah, and.
Speaker 7 (27:09):
She cooks everything in Russian from the Russian kitchen, so
like not kitchen, like Russian food.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Is there any specific like grocery stores so you have
to go to get that stuff?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Whole foods?
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Yeah, Whole foods and Coastal Oh that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Costco makes sense because Costco has everything.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
I guess. So I lived in Japan for a while
and I could not go to a normal grocery store
to like make the food that I wanted to eat,
Like I had to find special grocery stores because like
I want to make tacos and you're not finding thirtys
in Japan. So yeah, do you have any questions for us?
Artem anything for us. I don't want to put you
on the spot.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yeah, I just put you on the spot.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
No, thank you. I just want to say thank you
for interview.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Yeah, it's good to talk to you. We haven't you
haven't had a chance to talk to you before now, so.
Speaker 4 (28:01):
Good conversation, So thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, perfectly.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Well, yeah, thanks so much for coming on and go
enjoy the rest of the party. Man, We appreciate it,
and enjoy your goodies too. Yeah, yeah, I enjoy the goodies. Yes, Ardam,
thanks so much. Man, appreciate When we come back, we're
gonna go find Dylan Wells and yeah, see if we
can spot him and we'll bring him back. Courting live
from our season Take a Member Holiday Party.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Third player of the.
Speaker 5 (28:23):
Night in our last segment as well, Number thirty two
goaltender Dyan Wells.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Dylan, it's so good to have you back here.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Man.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
You've been back for quite some time. How's your how's
it been adjusting back here to Tucson? And yeah, just
how's everything going?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Really well, I mean, obviously having some familiarity last year,
it's nice.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, you're good, You're good.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, it's been awesome though. I love my time here
last year, and obviously any opportunity I get to be
here is awesome. So just taking it the stride and
making the most of it.
Speaker 6 (28:50):
How are things going? New gold goltending coach this year,
Jeff Hill? How's it going with Jefflake? Was it a
big adjustment? Is he was? He going to Alan to
visit you guys and talk through everything, and he was.
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Yeah, he came down probably two times when I was there,
and it's been awesome.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
I really like him. I think he's doing some great
stuff here.
Speaker 8 (29:09):
I feel like at the pro level you get used
to working with a lot of different goalie coaches and
a bunch of new faces.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
So it's been great working with him.
Speaker 8 (29:16):
He's an awesome guy, and yeah, I mean we've all
built a great relationship with him, So I really like him.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (29:21):
We got him a couple of weeks ago in our show,
and just we talked about just the death that we
all have in our goaltendings positioning. This season, we got
you back on the contract, Addam and Stauber re signed
Vilal to have Anton Thorn. Still, what's it been like
to just work with that group of guys, you know,
in the off season at training camp and then this
year as well.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
You guys keep in touch.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
You guys have like a group chat together that you're
always keeping in touch with.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
How's that all going?
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, it's been great.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Maddie and I obviously are good friends being at tandem
last year, so I mean all summer I was talking
to him and then really nice to see him at
training camp again, and then Thorty and I were partners
in Allen and obviously you know him from last year.
I mean it's a really deep, strong group even I
mean I played with stops in Rockford two years ago,
so I knew.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Start right, Yeah, together right of course in Rockford there.
It's awesome.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
He's also he's another really good guy, really good goalie
obviously having a great year.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
So I mean it's great. We all push each other.
Speaker 8 (30:14):
Everybody wants to get better every day and play at
the highest level possible. So I think with having good
competition and good friendships inside that it's been awesome.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
What was it like living in Allen? Uh, weren't playing
with the Americans? Uh, you know for the first start
of the season. What's that city like?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
You know?
Speaker 5 (30:30):
What was it like playing in the EHL and just yeah,
you know, still getting better every day and getting the
reps in for to play goalie.
Speaker 8 (30:36):
Yeah, I mean the city is great. I mean it's
basically it's just outside of Dallas. And a couple of
years ago as well, I spent some time in Dallas
with the Stars organization. Yeah, I played in Texas and
then I was up blackasing with the with Dallas there
for the playoffs, so a little familiar with the area,
which was nice going into it.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
And then do some guys down there too. So it's
been going well.
Speaker 8 (30:55):
I mean, you just want to play games and get
better and obviously reach your end goal playing in the NH. Also,
everybody has a different path and he's trying to make
the most of mine and do what I can here.
So it's been it's been good.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
If Matthew Volalta was a dog, what breed of dog
would he be?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Straight to it.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
That's a good question, thank you.
Speaker 6 (31:14):
I came up with it all about myself.
Speaker 8 (31:17):
I'd like to say maybe a golden Retriever. I think
maybe the whole Goldie Union would be Golden Retrievers.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
But I don't know. You tell me, what do you think?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Hmm, I'm trying to think he does give golden retriever.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I would say golden retriever for sure, would be.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
Like a golden doodle, because no, maybe not no.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Maybe a doodle you think. No, I think he's more
of a retriever.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, maybe a yellow La
La Yeah, Labrador, maybe a Labrador Retriever because they're like
kind of a little bit more chill, but like still
super friendly, you know. But you're definitely a golden retrieve.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
I've been told that's why I came head.
Speaker 5 (31:53):
Not to give personal anything, but I'm like in the beard, man,
I don't think. I don't think you had it last year.
And remember when I first saw you back, it's like,
oh my gosh, don't well, it's grew a beard. Yeah,
when did that come in? Was that summer thing or
is it when the season started?
Speaker 3 (32:04):
No, honestly, is past month. I don't even know. Wow,
I began at Yeah, but I feel like I've never
grown one in my life really.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Yeah, if you didn't see you one in last year.
Speaker 8 (32:14):
One time when I went on a deep playoff run,
I grew a beard that was yep. I was probably
twenty three, so I didn't have much.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
Of a beard. But right, I've never experimented with it.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
So I've tried it, and I've gotten some positive feedback,
so I might have to keep it.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
Wait, just from your girlfriend or from other people.
Speaker 8 (32:28):
A lot of people have been noticing just because I
don't usually have one, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
But Meg likes it.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
So it's she is she hearing Tucson too, which is
for the time, Okay, perfect, she is.
Speaker 8 (32:40):
So she's been with me this year, which has been great,
and she's happy to be back in Tucson as well.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Yeah, she loves it here.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Yeah, So how does that work? You know, just with
moving around so much? Is she just coming with you
wherever you end up at? Like, was she with you
and Alan to start the season and then now obviously
you just that year with Tucson.
Speaker 8 (32:57):
Yeah, she wasn't Alan for a little bit. It's kind
of it's tough. Obviously, we're both Canadians, so right also
has a job and a life at home, so of course,
I mean you just try to balance it. She comes
here for extended stays when she can, and she'll go
back home for a little bit.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
So she's here right now, which is great. I mean,
I love having her here.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
It's awesome, and yeah, it's it's definitely a challenge, but
it's worth it.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
I gotta talk about I gotta ask you about your
your new mask. You haven't worn it yet, but it
looks sick, you know, with the Utah blue and then
the coyote on it. What was that whole what was
the whole process of getting the new mask?
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Like?
Speaker 5 (33:28):
And I don't even think we asked you about your
your your mask that you got before with last season
as well, because I think you attributed it to your
dad who's a musician. So yeah, what's the whole mask
making a process like for you?
Speaker 8 (33:42):
Yeah, I mean it's it's really fun. I'm a bit
of a gear nerd, so I mean I love the
design process of it and everything that goes into it.
The Utah mask is kind of just a spin off
of my twoson one that I had last year. Yeah,
I'm obviously still wearing that while I'm here, and it
does have the coyote on it. I kept him from
last year, but up, yeah, it's this one's pretty basically.
(34:02):
I mean, I have the mountains in the snow and
it's kind of supposed to be like a winter snowstorm,
and the coyote is supposed to be played as a
goalie a little bit.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Yeah, it's got a Canadian winter.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Like he has like a he has like a mask too,
holding a mask.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
It's supposed to look like he's kind of up in
the mountain and his goalie helmet.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Everything.
Speaker 8 (34:20):
The one last year was based off my dad a
little bit. He's a drummer obviously. I think we've talked
about that before. So I have Coyote on one side
playing a drum kit. I played the drums growing up too,
and then the other side is the Roadrunner playing a guitar,
which I played the guitar. So it's kind of just
a cool, like dad sound thing and I like it,
so I kept wearing it, and it just goes with
the colors better. So that's why I haven't really broke
(34:41):
the Utah one out too much. But I wear it practice.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
I want to see you.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
I haven't seen it you put it on socials or anything.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Well, I did repost it one time on social.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Did you.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Yeah, I can tell you.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:53):
I love try to find it too, because I know
it's posted somewhere. Do you plan on wearing that mask
at all or do you want to keep it just
with the road Runner one for the time being.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
I'll probably keep the road Runner one during games and everything.
It just looks better with the jerseys.
Speaker 8 (35:05):
But I wear that one in practices, and I mean
every year I try to get base my helmet off
the NHL team of course.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
One day when I retire, I think it'd be pretty
cool to look.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Back, yeah, right, like just a collection of it all.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (35:15):
I think I have like eight NHL team helmets now,
just from all the different organizations I've played on. It's
just still through the years. And then I have four
or five from junior as well. So my parents have
probably fifteen helmets sitting at their house right.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Now, ready for those to leave, but they can't made.
At one point, I'll do something cool with all of them.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
I never wanted to give you like crap at all.
About it.
Speaker 5 (35:36):
But last year you had the Dallas Stars bask for
so long. Yeah, and it's like when he's he going
to seedge like and then once you got that, once
you got that helmet, I was like, Oh that was
worth the way.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yeah, it's a sick look.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
I don't know what it is, but like your helmet
kind of looks like has a different texture.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Yeah, is there something with that? Like how do you
ask for that kind of texture?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
Because it's like yours is not shiny and Matthew Vololtas
is shiny.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
How does that go?
Speaker 8 (35:58):
It's just a matt finish. So the guy who paints
my helmet's Dave Art. He does a lot of he
does a lot. Yeah, I follow. It's kinda I leave
a lot of it up to him. I kind of
give him my input. Over the past couple of years,
I've started kind of contributing more to the sketch.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
When I was younger, I just kind of said do.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Whatever, Yeah, because it's like I don't know what I want.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
I've kind of gotten involved a little more and it's
it's a fun process. But I think the matt looks cool.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
The shiny I've had.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
I had the shiny mass all growing up, and I
think the mat is just a little cleaner.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
I don't know that I think it is. I think
it's yeah, like Maddie's.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
Is great too, and it's shiny, so I mean both ways,
you can't go wrong. But I really like it. So
we'll see if it comes out in the near future.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
But yeah, I would love to know.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
The Dallas one was cool.
Speaker 8 (36:38):
I wasn't expecting to be in that one as long
as I was, but obviously the way it was worth it.
Speaker 5 (36:44):
Dusty, Yeah, have you and Dusty done your usual like
because you used to grab Dusty and like this.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Yeah, I get them a little bit.
Speaker 8 (36:54):
Yea every time when I'm backing up here and he's
walking by, trying to give him a little high five
or whatever may be.
Speaker 6 (36:59):
So wait, is this it is that?
Speaker 3 (37:01):
It? No? No, no, that's not I can find though.
Speaker 6 (37:05):
Sorry everyone, I'm going through social media.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Posts a lot, Yeah, he posts a lot.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
But Dylan, are your Is your family coming for the holiday?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Uh? Not planned? Right now, I'm going to try and
go home and we play habbits. No Christmas?
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Yeah, oh that's right.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
At least we're in Canada before Christmas exactly, guys close
enough can exactly.
Speaker 8 (37:24):
So it's a direct flight back to Toronto right after
that game and then go home.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
For Yeah, some guys are getting right after the game, right, Yeah,
what what time do you plan for a flight like that?
Because there's just so many bearing that. I hope that
doesn't but there's just like, you know, what have you
going to overtime? Well the game goes longer than usual?
Speaker 2 (37:42):
Yeah, but like, yeah, what's that? What was that planning? Like, like,
what time is it at?
Speaker 8 (37:47):
I think we play it too, so I think the
flight is around eleven PM.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Okay, So yeah, if you said like seven, I'd be like,
oh yeah, a little worried about it.
Speaker 3 (37:56):
It's gonna be a late one.
Speaker 8 (37:57):
Get at like seven o'clock the next morning. So usually
Christmas break you're running on.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Plans are made for sleeping right exactly.
Speaker 8 (38:05):
So I did it last year from San Diego and
it worked out. It's always nice to go home. I
did it one year where I didn't go home at
Christmas time just with the schedule not working out.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
It's tough.
Speaker 8 (38:13):
Every year since then, I've tried to make it home.
I think it's nice to see the family. It's a
nice little reset.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
Yeah, and your birthday is right there too, right, so
to get your birthday presents.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yeah, My birthday is usually a week later, so we
usually have games on my birthday. I don't really get
to see anybody, so it's nice to get a little
Christmas birthday celebration all in one.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (38:30):
That's awesome. Okay, Wait, I have a question. If you
were going to be on a reality show that was
about you taking an RV trip around the country with
three other guys on the team, who would you want
to go.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
With an RV trip?
Speaker 6 (38:42):
Yeah? And who would be driving? And you can't pick Maddy?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
Are you talking like who would have the best time
with or who would be the most entertaining?
Speaker 6 (38:48):
Who would be the most entertaining?
Speaker 3 (38:50):
I'd probably bring Curtis Douglas, Ryan McGregor. Those two kind
of come in a package, I really do. Probably Travis Barron.
Speaker 6 (38:58):
Oh that's a good pick.
Speaker 3 (38:59):
Yeah, that'd probably I three.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
And who's driving? Who do you think is the best
driver out of the three of them?
Speaker 3 (39:04):
I think probably Mirror Bear. I don't think good good comedy.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
You'd have to sign a lot of waivers for that.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
For sure. For sure, I think it'd be a fun
we should we should test it though.
Speaker 6 (39:20):
Oh my god, can we can we get the road runners?
Can we get a.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Get them on r V? Yes, send them somewhere, send
them off, yeah.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
Can we do that?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (39:28):
I think it on the weekend.
Speaker 3 (39:31):
I mean we drive home Arizona, so were basically convoy
across the country. Were just in separate cars.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
But what's the because we talked to so many guys
during the summer of a lot of guys going back
home to Toronto, what's the one city that you passed through,
like every guy's pastor, I forgot what it was like
an Indiana.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Do you guys pass through Indiana?
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (39:50):
Right, I think it was somewhere weird.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
Yeah, we passed through Indiana, passed through Michigan, Okay, pass
through Saint Louis, I believe.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Do you stop anywhere?
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah, you have to to get some sleep.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
Oh no, very sorry some question I meant sorry, do
you stop anymore? As in, like, you know, let's say
you want to hit somewhere for a day and say like, oh,
I've never been to the city before. Let's see, what's
like have you done that before? I've past I want
to get home.
Speaker 8 (40:16):
It depends on the situation, the time of year, everything.
When I played in Bakersfield, I made some trips out
of it, Okay, explored California a little bit before driving.
Last year, obviously we finished a little later. And yeah,
I think you're usually pretty excited to get home for
the summer. You haven't seen everybody, and obviously you've got
to start training a couple of weeks after.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
So yeah, you want to spend.
Speaker 8 (40:35):
Your time off at home usually, and once you start
the drive, it's nice to just kind of bang it
out as fast as you can, obviously chiefly, but yeah, no,
I think we stopped twice last year on the way home.
We stopped in New Mexico somewhere, and then Saint Louis maybe,
oh wow, and then Michigan and then we were home.
So it is a long drive. It's like forty forty hours,
(40:55):
forty two hours.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
It's insane.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
My car has seen some miles on it.
Speaker 5 (40:58):
But yeah, sure, what was the whole process like of
signing the one year deal to come back to the
road Runners?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
You know, just how did that go?
Speaker 5 (41:07):
And did you kind of know once the season ended
that you wanted to come back to the organization.
Speaker 8 (41:11):
Yeah, I mean I think very early I knew that
I really liked it here and I really liked the guys,
and obviously they were trying to bring a lot of
us back. Yeah, I mean when I had word of
the opportunity, I wanted to take advantage of it. And
you know, I love playing here, I love being in Tucson,
So it was a no brainer for me, and it
seemed like a good opportunity. So obviously, the year before
that was tough. I didn't have a deal going into
(41:32):
the year, and it was the first time that I
was kind of faced with that situation. So, I mean,
signing early is nice. It's reassuring you know where you're
gonna be and kind of go through summer and train
for you know what you expect to happen. So year
before that was different, and going through that you don't
really want to experience it too many times in your career.
But yeah, no, I was really happy to come back
and I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (41:54):
You're kind of part of that group of like Peter
Deliberatory Late and more even Austin Bigyanski too. But Biganski
was with us when the season had started. You're part
of that group where guys came, you know, around that
Thanksgiving time and you know, earned your contracts and now
you're back with us, and just you know, I think
we've asked you this so many times, which is what
was that journey like coming on the PTO right by Thanksgiving?
(42:17):
You know, just kind of being thrown into the net,
and then earning that contract and now you're just kind
of like one of the main staple guys here.
Speaker 8 (42:24):
Yeah, I mean the situation at the beginning, obviously it's stressful.
I mean, when you get older, you realize that this
is your job and this is how you make a living,
and I mean every year before that, you're kind of
I signed right away and I kind of knew where
I was going to be, and going through that last
year of not really knowing. I went to camp and
Nashville with the Predators and then was in Milwaukee and
didn't really know where it was going to go and
(42:45):
didn't really know if that was kind of the end
of the road or what was going on. So you
questioned a lot of things, and you kind of you
stress a little bit, but I mean you just got
to trust that it's all going to work out, you
kind of bet on yourself. And I went to Idaho
at the beginning of the year and had a really
good start to the year and kind of proved to
myself that when your back's against the wall, you can
still make something happen. So I'm really happy to be here.
(43:05):
I mean, obviously I'm happy with the way it worked out.
I'm sure a little bit of luck is involved with
being in the right place at the right time, and
you know, yeah, I couldn't be more thankful for how
it's worked out.
Speaker 6 (43:14):
And people say, because I've talked, I've talked to a
few of you guys about staying mentally healthy because this
is a really emotional job. It seems like it could
be it could be, you know, and every job has
its stressors and can be difficult, but this comes with
so many variables in it. And so I've you know,
talked to people like, Okay, how is so and so
managing their mental health? And what I hear a lot
(43:36):
is it's the job, you know, and but how but still,
how do you do it? Like how are you okay
in that headspace where like if I was in a
situation where I was being put on waivers, I would
have a mental breakdown.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Yeah, you know, it's.
Speaker 8 (43:50):
Not easy for sure, and I feel like when you
haven't kind of lived it, it's tough to explain to people,
if that makes sense. Yeah, for me, you know, a
lot of it's just balance. I mean, it's like any job.
It's a work life balance, you know. I come to
the rink and you do your job, and you do
it to the best of your abilities. But then you
got to find something away from the rink that makes
you happy and brings you joy, and like playing guitar,
(44:13):
Like playing the guitar, I like cooking, you know, anything
just to kind of get your mind off the game. Obviously,
you want to be at one hundred percent when I
at the rink. And I think a lot of it
comes from maturing too, as you get a little older.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
And yeah, this is my seventh year pro.
Speaker 4 (44:25):
Now.
Speaker 8 (44:25):
When I was younger, maybe I didn't handle it as well,
but you kind of have to experience it and live
through it to learn the right way to handle it.
Speaker 3 (44:31):
So yeah, I think I've done a good job of it.
Speaker 8 (44:33):
I mean, I'm happy with where I'm at now and
I've found some balance, So I think that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 6 (44:39):
I think so too. So going back to cooking, what
are you cooking? Are you actually, like legitimately a good cook?
Speaker 3 (44:45):
I mean, I don't know, you'd have to ask Meg
or something, but I would say I'm a pretty good cook.
Speaker 5 (44:51):
I think it kills a lot of time in the
season if it makes you feel better. A lot of
guys on this team stay they can't cook, they do yeah,
So if you're one of the ones that can't cook,
that's good.
Speaker 4 (45:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:00):
And I enjoy it. I really enjoy it. I think.
Speaker 8 (45:03):
I mean, living on your own for so long, you
kind of you're forced to learn how to cook, and
then when you start cooking, you obviously want to do
a better job than what you're currently doing. So I
would say I'm a decent cook. I don't know, I'd
need some people to do a test for that, but
I enjoy it.
Speaker 6 (45:16):
So what's your favorite dish to cook for Meg? And
does she have a favorite dish that she likes you
to cook her.
Speaker 8 (45:21):
I mean it's pretty basic, but I would say steak.
I'm pretty good at cooking a steak.
Speaker 6 (45:25):
Yeah, Okay, everything that goes with it.
Speaker 8 (45:27):
So we kind of tag team on that one. And
I'd say steak's the easiest. I flipped through some cookbook.
I actually bought a new cookbook probably a month ago
that I started playing around with, and Meg likes some
recipes from that.
Speaker 3 (45:39):
So I can't share all my secrets.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
But.
Speaker 8 (45:43):
Secret formula like penn A La vodka, but it's some
different ingredients. I don't do dairy and I don't do
creak or anything, so this one is it's a little different.
I'm going to keep it a secret as to what
goes in it, but it's really good and I've got
some good reviews on it.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
So i like it.
Speaker 5 (45:58):
Well, Dylan, I think so much for coming on again.
We appreciate it. Uh really happy that you're back and
uh yeah, enjoy here in Tucson.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
We love to have you.
Speaker 3 (46:06):
Thank you, appreciate you guys having man.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Thanks so much.
Speaker 5 (46:08):
And that was this week's special episode of the Tucson Roadrunners.
Happy our show. We will see you next week. Thanks
for listening once again,
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