December 20, 2023 - Dillon Hamaliuk, Forward

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Episode Transcript

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Luke Combs and Where the Wild ThingsAre on ninety eight point seven. W
OVK The Batley's Country Favorite's Corey kluegearwith you whether you're on the way home
from work or if you're even gettingyour holiday travel ready right now. No
matter what you got going on,we appreciate you tuning in as you make
that great escape from work. Andof course it is a wheeling nailor Wednesday.
Got a player stopping my every week, and this time around it's forward.

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Dylan Hamlick's turned us out by here. So first of all, Dylan,
thanks for taking time to talk today, no problem. And second of
all, very solid weekend for youguys Friday night and Saturday night. And
it had to have felt good becauseIndie's been especially tough throughout the season,
and with the division being as closeas it is, it had to have
felt good to not only win bothof the games this past weekend, but

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win them pretty convincingly too. Ohyeah, yeah, we're starting to heat
up a little bit here and we'rehoping to go on a little bit of
a streak. And yeah, i'dsay we got a bit of a rivalry
with Indy, So whenever we canwin those games. They're huge, any
divisional games huge for us, andespecially on Saturday because it was one of

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those grinded out kind of games becauseCincinnati was it was out shooting you guys
for most of the game. Butwhat does it say about the team to
be able to win those kind ofgames and be able to find a way
to win that way? Yeah,it's huge. It's definitely all a team
effort. We had goats in thenet and he's he's a special goalie for
sure, and he kept everything outof the net, so he helped us

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a ton, But it's all ina team effort and everybody chipped away and
helped out to get that win.Yeah. I was about to say,
especially helps win the ECHL Goalie ofthe Week his goaltending in both of those
games there. But it's like Ilove to say, it's not the shots
on goal, it's the shots endgoal that matter, and you guys were
able to get the most of thosethroughout the course of the weekend. So,
speaking of goals, you've had aknack of finding the back of the

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net this season. The only Nailerin double digits when it comes to goals
here. So what's been able toclick for you so far this season.
Uh, just all my line matesthat are out there with me. I've
been able to find lots of chemistrywith them, and they're the ones who
are helping me have a fantastic yearso far. And just just with that,

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like the chemistry's there with pretty mucheverybody I'm playing with, so it
helps out a lot for me andmakes scoring goals a lot easier. Absolutely
again, Dylan Hammer, look forwardfor the Wheeling Nailors joining me here on
a Wheeling Nailer Wednesday, So onemore game before Christmas time and then you're
back at it for to close outtwenty twenty three with a trip to with

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a trip to India once again,as if you haven't been there enough that
many times this year, and thenyou get to close it out with a
couple of home games. It closedout twenty twenty three, I should say,
with a couple of home games againstNorfik, And it's especially going to
be a tough little stretch here becauseNorfik might have been a pushover the last
couple of seasons, but definitely notthe case this season. So what will
it mean to keep that momentum goinginto twenty twenty four. Yeah, like

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we haven't been well. We've beendoing pretty well, but we haven't been
been winning games very consistently, i'dsay, so, hopefully with these last
two two wins, we can kindof keep pushing forward and get a bit
of a streak going and I thinkthat'll that'll be good for us. But
going in after the break, we'llhave to continue to dial in and hopefully

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we can get a winning street going. Now, speaking of the break,
with Christmas coming up, any holidaytraditions you're looking forward to here, will
you be able to go back homefor holidays? Yeah, I'm going back
home, flying out of Detroit,making it back home. But my luck,
my luck in years past going homefor Christmas hasn't been great with all

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the COVID stuff that was going aroundso and flight delays and all that sort
of fun stuff coming around Christmas time. So I'm hoping I have have an
easy travel back home. Absolutely,any holiday traditions that you're looking forward to,
or or ones that stand out toyou, you know, just hanging
out with the family. We don'thave any like big crazy traditions, but

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usually Gooy's fishing with my dad andfamily for a couple of days when I'm
home, but we only have weonly have through a three day break,
so I don't know how many timeswe'll be able to get out. So
I'm just hoping to spend some timewith the family. Well yeah, well
hopefully at least one time and you'reable to hook yourself a big one there
and I'll get you out of here. On this last question, a little
bit of a fun one here becauseI asked my listeners this yesterday. Put

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yourself in Santa's boots. You're theone that's making the trip on Christmas Eve.
Name me three types of cookies thatyou would want left out for you
whenever you're going to the houses.Well, chocolate chip for one, and
then double chocolate chip and white chocolatemacadeem you know, so heavy on the
chocolate there. Yeah, have youon the chocolate that I cannot argue with

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that one, but I'm a chocoholicmyself there. So, Dylan, thanks
so much for your time, foryour time today. Man. Best of
luck rested away here, especially aswe flip into twenty twenty four, and
hopefully you can keep finding the backof the net there like Kebin, I
hope, so too, thanks forhaving me. So hopefully the Nailors can
keep that good momentum going again.They will be over in Cincinnati Friday night
for their final game before Christmas,and then it's on to Indy next Wednesday,

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and then of course the two homegames to wrap up twenty twenty three
on the thirtieth and the thirty firstagainst Norfix. So make sure you catch
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