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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh yeah, alrighty buddy, I am doing great, dude, how
are you?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm doing really well. Yeah. Yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I was gonna say, I think I was trying to
think back. I think the last time I saw you
in person we were backstage at the nine thirty Club
for the Caps retro party.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh that was a cool night.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That was awesome. Yeah, that was a great night. That
was a great night. Everything is good in Everything is
good in Colzig Land.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Everything's getting land. Yeah, everything's good in the organization. With
Washington and Hershey and South Carolina and a bunch of
our prospects that are, you know, playing amateur hockey. Things
are looking really good for the for the organization.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Hey, can I ask you this? So let's jump into
some hockey stuff and then I'll get back to Kolzig stuff,
but some hockey stuff, like, yes, everything is great in
the organization.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The team is playing unbelievably well. We have two goalies
that are playing, uh, that are playing great. Let me
ask you this though, Olie. When you look at when
you look at Logan Thompson and you look at Charlie Lindgren, right,
and they're splitting essentially every game going back and forth.
When you were playing, weren't you going like sixty seventy
games a year.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, but it's a different time. You know, when I
was doing that, there wasn't quite as much parody in
the league. You know, we had there's a ton of
expansion teams that came in and and so there are
times you knew that even though you didn't maybe play
your best, that you'd still beat the team that you're
playing against. You can't do that nowadays. Every the goal
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has got to be on every game because anybody can
beat anybody. And so I think it's I think it's
great that you've got two guys that can play this way.
You know, they're fresh every night. You know you'll have
a lot more death going in the playoffs. But yeah,
it's not it's not like it used to be where Yeah,
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seventy two seventy three games.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, like I enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I I I rather plan, I'd rather, I'd rather, I
rather wanted to be on the ice than on the bench.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
But that so that that was kind of what I
was going to ask you, is like looking back, like
you would you would go every you'd go all eighty
four if you could like it'd be the greatest be
the greatest night or greatest season for you. If you
were to ask, Logan and Charlie would would But they
both tell you not that there's any animosity towards each other,
but that both of them would go, no, I'd much
rather start every single game and just go every single night.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Kind of percent, because that's the competitiveness in the athlete.
And you know, it's I've always I've always had great
relationships with my partners because I always looked at it like,
you know, listen, there's only two of us on a
team that understand what we go through on a nightly basis,
and and so I was always supportive and and at
the end of the day, it's a coach's decision on
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who plays. I just wanted, you know, I just wanted
to make it hard on the coach to decide by
you know, working hard in practice and and uh, you know,
if my partner ends up getting the start, that I'd
be supportive for him. And that's how I think these
two feel. But given the chance, yeah, they'd love to
be Internet every night because that is the competitive competitors
in them.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Hey and Spencer Carberry's received a ton of credit, and
rightfully so, for how well the team is playing this year.
I mean, Hell's in the top of the NHL. It's
freaking awesome. Only does Scotty Murray get enough credit for
what he's done with these two.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
He does it on our organization. Scotty Murray's very, very
highly thought of, and you know, not only from a
how he handles goalies with a technical side, but how
he deals with them on the mental side, how he
relates to them, and you know how he basically you know,
he can calm things down when it looks like it's
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going to get controversial. And he's such a laid back guy.
I don't know if you spend any time with Scotty,
but I think he's right up your alley. I think
you two could. You could hang out the nine thirty club,
smoke some darts and there we get. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I like Scotty a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I do like Scotty a lot, but like our organization,
he's valuable, Hey, the as a as a goalie coach,
though only like what is like Listen, Scotty's a great guy,
right and but I think even Scotty would tell you
from a from a skills standpoint, He's probably not as
good as Logan Thompson, Charlie Lindgren, Olie Colezigg and other
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goalies that have come through.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And you you do this now when when in working
with whether it's whether it's here, it's in Hershey or
in South Carolina, is being a goalie coach hard?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You know what, coaching just because you were a good
player doesn't necessarily translate to being a good coach. I
mean you've seen that. You've seen that with uh you
know uh. I mean you look at a guy like
Wayne Gretzky and everything he's accomplished in the world. I mean,
his record of the coach wasn't great, right, And and
you look at at some of the great teachers in golf.
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I mean they never really had a golf but they
could dissect and teach a golf slang. So it's all
how you present to the athlete and get them to
buy in what you're selling. And yeah, as a player,
we have we have experiences and from a mental standpoint,
I could probably help out maybe a little bit better
than some guys. But you know, it's to be hard
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pressed to find a guy from a technical standpoint that
that can get his message across, like Scotty Murray.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Hey, Olie, let me ask you this. So when I
was when I was getting some stuff together, I was
thinking back to earlier this season and both goalies and
this meant with zero disrespect towards either one of them,
but they both had a pretty high profile blunder this year.
I mean, obviously ling Grin was the own goal and
Logan's was the was the turnover right in front of
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the net. What was your biggest in game blunder when
you were playing.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Let's see, I remember when there was a home game
where I came out to play the puck. I sprinted out,
tried to fake out, and it might have been in
the Buffal against Buffalo, and I threw the puck right
on his tape and basically had an empty net. But
it was kind of an I mean, it was a
blunder and it was embarrassing, but it wasn't It wasn't
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a game that you know, decided the playoffs for us,
or you know, do or die game. I think it
was when we were rebuilding and you know, we were struggling,
and uh, yeah, it was more just a it was
just a.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Bruise to the ego the But do you did you
smash a stick or anything or were you just like, no,
well that was dumb.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well I think at that point I was I was
a little older, a little more mature, and uh we'd
gone through a lot that year, so I think my
and I think I put the I think I put
my my trainer's stick budget out of wax. So I
kind of I just kind of sunk my head and
slided back to the net.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Hey onie, not not being in a goalie, but as
a goalie when a fight would break out on the
ice or in the locker room, knowing that one was coming.
I'm trying to remember if you and I have ever
talked about this, were you a fan of seeing a
fight break out?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean because because I think if I was,
if I was a positional player, like a defenseman or forward,
I think I would have had that in me just
because of my temper and and I had such a
short fuse. And there are guys that you play against
that you know you wish you could just absolutely grab
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and throttle them, but you know, because of you know,
the position you play, you're kind of hurting your team
by getting kicked out. So no, I enjoyed it, especially
guys that, you know, you look like a Sean Avery.
Anytime that one of our guys could grab him and
give him a throttling. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Because I was going to say I was watching I
was watching something in Henrik Lundquist, who always carried himself very,
very professionally. I've never seen anybody enjoy watching or knowing
a fight was coming like lun Quist. And I saw
an interview with him and he was like, yeah, biggest
fans of of a fight breaking out is an NHL goalie.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Because we don't do it, you know, And uh, that's
that's why we kind of live vicariously through the guys
in front of us. So but you know what, in
all honesty, though, I'm in a way, I'm kind of
glad it's kind of on its way out and there
with all these ct uh brain injuries that that we're
discovering now from guys that are retired, and these the
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suicide rates and all this, it's just it's just not
a good deal. And there's other ways to be physical
in our game. And I think, uh, no, I think
I don't think our game is in any better spot
that it's been lay right now. It's fast, it's talent,
there's skill, a lot of talent. Goaltending is great. It's
just a it's just a fun time to be a
part of and watch NHL Hockey only.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Colzy trivia question, are you ready sure?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What happened? I hope I know this.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Oh, I hope you do too. What happened on November tenth,
two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
No, Rember ten, two thousand and eight, So that would
have been my last year as a Cap.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Would you have moved on by then? Would you have
moved on by now?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
No? You know what? That was my first year with
Tampa playing in Washington, thank you? Yeah. I think it
was three nothing before the first TV timeout.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Jesus christ Ally, you you're good, You're good.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I was kind of fading at that point, but my
team in Tampa was not My team in Tampa was
not good, and the Caps were really good. So but anyway, yeah,
I it was three nothing before the first TV timeout,
and I guess they had they had a tribute video
plan for the first TV timeout. I didn't even look
up at it. I was so pissed off. And I
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honestly still haven't seen it to this day, and I
feel bad because it was an emotional night, and you know,
I was giving an option to It was up to
me if I wanted to play or not, and I said,
of course I want to play, sure, And but I
tell you what, it was the most surreal thing. It
was the weirdest, weirdest thing, getting dressed in the other
dressing room and then starting the game out at the
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other end, and uh, I I almost had something to
hang my hat on. But then he scored late in
the third period there he was able to get a
goal on me, and it wasn't one of his highlight goals,
but yeah, it was. It was a special night in
one way, and a night I just was happy to
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forget about.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Another because I was going to say that that's the night. Yes,
you're You're one hundred percent right about all of it.
And Ov ends up scoring that night on you, which
then puts you on the list of goalies that he
is that he has scored on. Now that we've had
a little separation time, only is it knowing knowing where
Ov is in, knowing that he's going to break the record,
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Is there is there is there something cool about being
on that list when you combine it with you're also
great friends with the guy.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I think he's nothing about what he's doing right now
is cool. Three years ago, you know a what when
he first came in, we knew he was going to
be a generational player, a great player, uh, somebody that
was going to have an impact on this organization. Now
to the extent the impact he's had to the whole
d m V area and the NHL, maybe not, but
what he's doing now. I thought that that that goal
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record by Wayne Gretzky was unbreakable with the way the
game's played now, how good the goaltending is. And then
all of a sudden, the conversation came up three years
ago that he's so many goals within reach. And then
you're doing the math and you're like, oh my god,
if he continues his pace, he's going to get it.
And then he's he had such a great search of
the season this year, got hurt, and then he's taught,
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oh boy, got the rail. But he came back and
he thought, I was scored again last night, and I've
got to try to find my find the calendar and
kind of pick when he's gonna do it so I
can be in attendance. But it's it's it's great. Yeah,
he scored on me, but uh, the best part was that,
you know, I was here for his first three years.
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I felt like I was a big brother to him,
and we said, we've had a great relationship since, and uh,
I'm just so happy for him. I think it's it's phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I'll say this, I've seen the two of you together.
I don't know if there's anybody who busts his balls
more than Olie Cole's egg.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah. Yeah, you know I did that early to keep
him grounded. But you know, as his as his English
got better, he his ball busting skills are pretty good.
I remember he signed a jersey for me and and
uh he said, uh, onlye uh, I know you're not
happy when I score and you try not to break stick,
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so only let.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Me ask you this. So, so tomorrow night is one
of the era nights, right, and they've they've done a
really good job. It's the it's the anniversary of the
of the team. You know all of this. I'm not
telling you anything you don't know, so it'll be you.
It'll be Peter Bondra, Sylvan kote Kali Johansson, Joey Jo
You and and Mark to Noordy. Will that be awesome
for you to go out there and they'll do like
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the put drop and you and Bondra have like the
the duo Bobblehead together, like and and I just think
back to you saying like you were playing for Tampa
and you came back and they had the tribute video
and you kind of were like and I didn't even
watch it, and maybe things weren't going well well tomorrow night,
Like is doing stuff like that? Do you enjoy doing that?
And and and kind of feeling what you meant to
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the team for all the years that you were here.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I do you know when I came when we came
back in October for Opening Night and they had that
whole big production to the fiftieth, it was just something
that you're not used to be a being a part
of it. What the half of those did that week
was just over the top special. Every every alum left
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left that that wee feeling like a special group of guys.
And now to come in and be here specifically for
our dot com here the team that went to the
Stanley Cup Finals in ninety eight. You know, I haven't
seen Joey Juno since we played. I haven't seen Marktinorti
in fifteen years. You know, it's always great seeing Cali
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and Bomzai and Coco and it's just it'll be a
fun It's going to be obviously, be a fun night. Unfortunately,
there's gonna be a little bit of somber hanging over
the building with everything that happened at DCA on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Sure, but.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It'll be a good weekend for us and then just
reconnecting and having good stories and and then having a
fun night and hopefully I'll win against Winnipeg.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Right And listen, I like every one of those guys, right,
and and the guys like only I think back to
ninety nine two in two thousand and one when you
and I got to know each other and all of that,
and the Brendan Wits of the world and and Nika
Leishan and Connor Walchuck and z Nick and that the
whole run. But if you go if you go back
to that era of the Caps, you were the big
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by and by leaps and bounds, the biggest star on
the team.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Uh yeah, that was a different era, you know, I
said bons, I was right up there, and absolutely I
had a great, great supporting cast to I mean we
had we had a really solid team, We had great
coaching with Ron Wilson, and uh, you know, I think
we underachieved, uh for that team that we had. Yeah,
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we went to the finals of ninety eight, but then
after that, we really didn't do a whole lot and uh,
you know, I felt there was a lot of left
from that from that era to be given. And but
that's hockey, and uh you know, uh fortunate to still
consider or to still be part of this organization, be
part of that Cup run in in twenty eighteen and
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hopefully another one this year.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Will anyone ever were number thirty seven within the Caps organization?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I don't know. I don't know. I know the trainers
are reluctant to hand it out. Not that I don't
know if anybody's ever asked for it, But I don't know.
I don't know. It's I'm not an old new sentimental guy.
I mean, if there's there's say a kid from Hershey,
that's that's played great, He's learned thirty seven and he
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comes up here and he's superstitious. Yeah, I'm not about
keeping that from him, but so far nobody has.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Hey, so in your role only working with the working
with the team, is it? Are you You're not goaltender
specific right? Aren't you dealing a lot with making sure
that everybody's kind of ready to be And maybe maybe
it's dual roles of ready to be a professional and
kind of learning from somebody who went through it and
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how to make that adjustment from being a kid who
was playing you know, juniors and now you're playing you know,
now you're playing in the AHL, or you're playing in
the EHL and making that transition into the NHL or
just into a higher level where you're you're a paid athlete.
This is your job of working with them? Or is
it kind of a dual role?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It's turning into more of a dual role now. It
was that that was my role. I was teaching these
kids how to be pros and not necessarily just with
the goalies, but with everybody. But our our our group
has grown, our development group. I mean we've added Brooks
or pic and Jim Slater and I know everybody knows
Brooks and the type of professional he was, and people
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aren't that familiar with Jim Slater because he was with
a different organization, but he's he's right out of the
same mold as Brooks and and so you know, we've
got three guys down the organization that can really help
these kids become professionals. And so we're all kind of
in our own lane when it comes to specific positions,
but we're also as a group kind of overlooking everybody,
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so that there's four three, four different opinions on one player,
so that you know, if I have a biased opinion
on a player, then you know, I got the three
other guys to kind of offset what I think. And
and so we really work well as a unit, and
I think we're looking to even get bigger with some
other guys that recently retired.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Hey, Ollie, is it would it would it be harder
for I mean, the game has gotten so young, there's
so many kids that are playing right now. Would it
be harder to come in as an eighteen or nineteen
year old? I'm talking about just mentally, not skill wise,
but mentally now then it would have been, you know,
in the early two thousands.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Honestly, I don't think so. I think these kids I mean,
you see it. You're seeing all the other professional sports
that these young kids come in and they're they're dominant
right away. Like you look at golf, you look at
some guys in the NFL, some kids in the NBA.
I think what these kids have access to. I think
the training they get the younger age, they're just wired
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a little bit different. I don't know if it's an arrogance,
an entitlement, a cockiness, whatever it is. They're not as
in awe as we were when we first came in,
and in some aspects that's a good thing. They're kind
of naive and they just come in and play hockey.
And but from a physical standpoint, that's that's the big thing.
If if they're if they're physically if they're built like
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a man, and they have the mentality, you know of
a grown man and a maturity, yeah, then it's the
jump is fairly easy. But for a lot of these kids,
they don't have that physical ability yet because they're playing
against some very strong individuals and it's just easy to
get knocked off the pocket. You're you know, if you're not.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Not physically strong, well, listen, Olie, I hope that you
have a great time. Tomorrow night the celebration. I can't
wait to be there. I'll be there. The celebration is
going to be not it's the UH dot Comcap's fiftieth
anniversary night. UH only will be there, UH, Peter Bondra
will be there, Sylvan Kote, Kelly Johansson, Joey Juneau, Mark
to NOORDI U you get the oly in Bandra bobblehead.
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I know you guys will be doing a Q and
A only. I hope. I hope you enjoyed as much
as people will enjoy seeing you well.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I definitely will. Thanks Mal
Oh yeah, alrighty buddy, I am doing great, dude, how
are you?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I'm doing really well. Yeah. Yeah, it's been a while.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
I was gonna say, I think I was trying to
think back. I think the last time I saw you
in person we were backstage at the nine thirty Club
for the Caps retro party.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh that was a cool night.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
That was awesome. Yeah, that was a great night. That
was a great night. Everything is good in Everything is
good in Colzig Land.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Everything's getting land. Yeah, everything's good in the organization. With
Washington and Hershey and South Carolina and a bunch of
our prospects that are, you know, playing amateur hockey. Things
are looking really good for the for the organization.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Hey, can I ask you this? So let's jump into
some hockey stuff and then I'll get back to Kolzig stuff,
but some hockey stuff, like, yes, everything is great in
the organization.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
The team is playing unbelievably well. We have two goalies
that are playing, uh, that are playing great. Let me
ask you this though, Olie. When you look at when
you look at Logan Thompson and you look at Charlie Lindgren, right,
and they're splitting essentially every game going back and forth.
When you were playing, weren't you going like sixty seventy
games a year.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, but it's a different time. You know, when I
was doing that, there wasn't quite as much parody in
the league. You know, we had there's a ton of
expansion teams that came in and and so there are
times you knew that even though you didn't maybe play
your best, that you'd still beat the team that you're
playing against. You can't do that nowadays. Every the goal
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has got to be on every game because anybody can
beat anybody. And so I think it's I think it's
great that you've got two guys that can play this way.
You know, they're fresh every night. You know you'll have
a lot more death going in the playoffs. But yeah,
it's not it's not like it used to be where Yeah,
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seventy two seventy three games.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah, like I enjoyed.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I I I rather plan, I'd rather, I'd rather, I
rather wanted to be on the ice than on the bench.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
But that so that that was kind of what I
was going to ask you, is like looking back, like
you would you would go every you'd go all eighty
four if you could like it'd be the greatest be
the greatest night or greatest season for you. If you
were to ask, Logan and Charlie would would But they
both tell you not that there's any animosity towards each other,
but that both of them would go, no, I'd much
rather start every single game and just go every single night.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Kind of percent, because that's the competitiveness in the athlete.
And you know, it's I've always I've always had great
relationships with my partners because I always looked at it like,
you know, listen, there's only two of us on a
team that understand what we go through on a nightly basis,
and and so I was always supportive and and at
the end of the day, it's a coach's decision on
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who plays. I just wanted, you know, I just wanted
to make it hard on the coach to decide by
you know, working hard in practice and and uh, you know,
if my partner ends up getting the start, that I'd
be supportive for him. And that's how I think these
two feel. But given the chance, yeah, they'd love to
be Internet every night because that is the competitive competitors
in them.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Hey and Spencer Carberry's received a ton of credit, and
rightfully so, for how well the team is playing this year.
I mean, Hell's in the top of the NHL. It's
freaking awesome. Only does Scotty Murray get enough credit for
what he's done with these two.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
He does it on our organization. Scotty Murray's very, very
highly thought of, and you know, not only from a
how he handles goalies with a technical side, but how
he deals with them on the mental side, how he
relates to them, and you know how he basically you know,
he can calm things down when it looks like it's
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going to get controversial. And he's such a laid back guy.
I don't know if you spend any time with Scotty,
but I think he's right up your alley. I think
you two could. You could hang out the nine thirty club,
smoke some darts and there we get. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I like Scotty a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
I do like Scotty a lot, but like our organization,
he's valuable, Hey, the as a as a goalie coach,
though only like what is like Listen, Scotty's a great guy,
right and but I think even Scotty would tell you
from a from a skills standpoint, He's probably not as
good as Logan Thompson, Charlie Lindgren, Olie Colezigg and other
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goalies that have come through.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
And you you do this now when when in working
with whether it's whether it's here, it's in Hershey or
in South Carolina, is being a goalie coach hard?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
You know what, coaching just because you were a good
player doesn't necessarily translate to being a good coach. I
mean you've seen that. You've seen that with uh you
know uh. I mean you look at a guy like
Wayne Gretzky and everything he's accomplished in the world. I mean,
his record of the coach wasn't great, right, And and
you look at at some of the great teachers in golf.
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I mean they never really had a golf but they
could dissect and teach a golf slang. So it's all
how you present to the athlete and get them to
buy in what you're selling. And yeah, as a player,
we have we have experiences and from a mental standpoint,
I could probably help out maybe a little bit better
than some guys. But you know, it's to be hard
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pressed to find a guy from a technical standpoint that
that can get his message across, like Scotty Murray.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Hey, Olie, let me ask you this. So when I
was when I was getting some stuff together, I was
thinking back to earlier this season and both goalies and
this meant with zero disrespect towards either one of them,
but they both had a pretty high profile blunder this year.
I mean, obviously ling Grin was the own goal and
Logan's was the was the turnover right in front of
(05:50):
the net. What was your biggest in game blunder when
you were playing.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Let's see, I remember when there was a home game
where I came out to play the puck. I sprinted out,
tried to fake out, and it might have been in
the Buffal against Buffalo, and I threw the puck right
on his tape and basically had an empty net. But
it was kind of an I mean, it was a
blunder and it was embarrassing, but it wasn't It wasn't
(06:19):
a game that you know, decided the playoffs for us,
or you know, do or die game. I think it
was when we were rebuilding and you know, we were struggling,
and uh, yeah, it was more just a it was
just a.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Bruise to the ego the But do you did you
smash a stick or anything or were you just like, no,
well that was dumb.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Well I think at that point I was I was
a little older, a little more mature, and uh we'd
gone through a lot that year, so I think my
and I think I put the I think I put
my my trainer's stick budget out of wax. So I
kind of I just kind of sunk my head and
slided back to the net.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Hey onie, not not being in a goalie, but as
a goalie when a fight would break out on the
ice or in the locker room, knowing that one was coming.
I'm trying to remember if you and I have ever
talked about this, were you a fan of seeing a
fight break out?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean because because I think if I was,
if I was a positional player, like a defenseman or forward,
I think I would have had that in me just
because of my temper and and I had such a
short fuse. And there are guys that you play against
that you know you wish you could just absolutely grab
(07:35):
and throttle them, but you know, because of you know,
the position you play, you're kind of hurting your team
by getting kicked out. So no, I enjoyed it, especially
guys that, you know, you look like a Sean Avery.
Anytime that one of our guys could grab him and
give him a throttling. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Because I was going to say I was watching I
was watching something in Henrik Lundquist, who always carried himself very,
very professionally. I've never seen anybody enjoy watching or knowing
a fight was coming like lun Quist. And I saw
an interview with him and he was like, yeah, biggest
fans of of a fight breaking out is an NHL goalie.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Because we don't do it, you know, And uh, that's
that's why we kind of live vicariously through the guys
in front of us. So but you know what, in
all honesty, though, I'm in a way, I'm kind of
glad it's kind of on its way out and there
with all these ct uh brain injuries that that we're
discovering now from guys that are retired, and these the
(08:34):
suicide rates and all this, it's just it's just not
a good deal. And there's other ways to be physical
in our game. And I think, uh, no, I think
I don't think our game is in any better spot
that it's been lay right now. It's fast, it's talent,
there's skill, a lot of talent. Goaltending is great. It's
just a it's just a fun time to be a
part of and watch NHL Hockey only.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Colzy trivia question, are you ready sure?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
What happened? I hope I know this.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Oh, I hope you do too. What happened on November tenth,
two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
No, Rember ten, two thousand and eight, So that would
have been my last year as a Cap.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Would you have moved on by then? Would you have
moved on by now?
Speaker 2 (09:21):
No? You know what? That was my first year with
Tampa playing in Washington, thank you? Yeah. I think it
was three nothing before the first TV timeout.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Jesus christ Ally, you you're good, You're good.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
I was kind of fading at that point, but my
team in Tampa was not My team in Tampa was
not good, and the Caps were really good. So but anyway, yeah,
I it was three nothing before the first TV timeout,
and I guess they had they had a tribute video
plan for the first TV timeout. I didn't even look
up at it. I was so pissed off. And I
(09:58):
honestly still haven't seen it to this day, and I
feel bad because it was an emotional night, and you know,
I was giving an option to It was up to
me if I wanted to play or not, and I said,
of course I want to play, sure, And but I
tell you what, it was the most surreal thing. It
was the weirdest, weirdest thing, getting dressed in the other
dressing room and then starting the game out at the
(10:20):
other end, and uh, I I almost had something to
hang my hat on. But then he scored late in
the third period there he was able to get a
goal on me, and it wasn't one of his highlight goals,
but yeah, it was. It was a special night in
one way, and a night I just was happy to
(10:40):
forget about.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Another because I was going to say that that's the night. Yes,
you're You're one hundred percent right about all of it.
And Ov ends up scoring that night on you, which
then puts you on the list of goalies that he
is that he has scored on. Now that we've had
a little separation time, only is it knowing knowing where
Ov is in, knowing that he's going to break the record,
(11:02):
Is there is there is there something cool about being
on that list when you combine it with you're also
great friends with the guy.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I think he's nothing about what he's doing right now
is cool. Three years ago, you know a what when
he first came in, we knew he was going to
be a generational player, a great player, uh, somebody that
was going to have an impact on this organization. Now
to the extent the impact he's had to the whole
d m V area and the NHL, maybe not, but
what he's doing now. I thought that that that goal
(11:33):
record by Wayne Gretzky was unbreakable with the way the
game's played now, how good the goaltending is. And then
all of a sudden, the conversation came up three years
ago that he's so many goals within reach. And then
you're doing the math and you're like, oh my god,
if he continues his pace, he's going to get it.
And then he's he had such a great search of
the season this year, got hurt, and then he's taught,
(11:54):
oh boy, got the rail. But he came back and
he thought, I was scored again last night, and I've
got to try to find my find the calendar and
kind of pick when he's gonna do it so I
can be in attendance. But it's it's it's great. Yeah,
he scored on me, but uh, the best part was that,
you know, I was here for his first three years.
(12:15):
I felt like I was a big brother to him,
and we said, we've had a great relationship since, and uh,
I'm just so happy for him. I think it's it's phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I'll say this, I've seen the two of you together.
I don't know if there's anybody who busts his balls
more than Olie Cole's egg.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah. Yeah, you know I did that early to keep
him grounded. But you know, as his as his English
got better, he his ball busting skills are pretty good.
I remember he signed a jersey for me and and
uh he said, uh, onlye uh, I know you're not
happy when I score and you try not to break stick,
(12:57):
so only let.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Me ask you this. So, so tomorrow night is one
of the era nights, right, and they've they've done a
really good job. It's the it's the anniversary of the
of the team. You know all of this. I'm not
telling you anything you don't know, so it'll be you.
It'll be Peter Bondra, Sylvan kote Kali Johansson, Joey Jo
You and and Mark to Noordy. Will that be awesome
for you to go out there and they'll do like
(13:18):
the put drop and you and Bondra have like the
the duo Bobblehead together, like and and I just think
back to you saying like you were playing for Tampa
and you came back and they had the tribute video
and you kind of were like and I didn't even
watch it, and maybe things weren't going well well tomorrow night,
Like is doing stuff like that? Do you enjoy doing that?
And and and kind of feeling what you meant to
(13:40):
the team for all the years that you were here.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I do you know when I came when we came
back in October for Opening Night and they had that
whole big production to the fiftieth, it was just something
that you're not used to be a being a part
of it. What the half of those did that week
was just over the top special. Every every alum left
(14:07):
left that that wee feeling like a special group of guys.
And now to come in and be here specifically for
our dot com here the team that went to the
Stanley Cup Finals in ninety eight. You know, I haven't
seen Joey Juno since we played. I haven't seen Marktinorti
in fifteen years. You know, it's always great seeing Cali
(14:29):
and Bomzai and Coco and it's just it'll be a
fun It's going to be obviously, be a fun night. Unfortunately,
there's gonna be a little bit of somber hanging over
the building with everything that happened at DCA on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Sure, but.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
It'll be a good weekend for us and then just
reconnecting and having good stories and and then having a
fun night and hopefully I'll win against Winnipeg.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Right And listen, I like every one of those guys, right,
and and the guys like only I think back to
ninety nine two in two thousand and one when you
and I got to know each other and all of that,
and the Brendan Wits of the world and and Nika
Leishan and Connor Walchuck and z Nick and that the
whole run. But if you go if you go back
to that era of the Caps, you were the big
(15:14):
by and by leaps and bounds, the biggest star on
the team.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Uh yeah, that was a different era, you know, I
said bons, I was right up there, and absolutely I
had a great, great supporting cast to I mean we
had we had a really solid team, We had great
coaching with Ron Wilson, and uh, you know, I think
we underachieved, uh for that team that we had. Yeah,
(15:40):
we went to the finals of ninety eight, but then
after that, we really didn't do a whole lot and uh,
you know, I felt there was a lot of left
from that from that era to be given. And but
that's hockey, and uh you know, uh fortunate to still
consider or to still be part of this organization, be
part of that Cup run in in twenty eighteen and
(16:01):
hopefully another one this year.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Will anyone ever were number thirty seven within the Caps organization?
Speaker 2 (16:07):
I don't know. I don't know. I know the trainers
are reluctant to hand it out. Not that I don't
know if anybody's ever asked for it, But I don't know.
I don't know. It's I'm not an old new sentimental guy.
I mean, if there's there's say a kid from Hershey,
that's that's played great, He's learned thirty seven and he
(16:28):
comes up here and he's superstitious. Yeah, I'm not about
keeping that from him, but so far nobody has.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Hey, so in your role only working with the working
with the team, is it? Are you You're not goaltender
specific right? Aren't you dealing a lot with making sure
that everybody's kind of ready to be And maybe maybe
it's dual roles of ready to be a professional and
kind of learning from somebody who went through it and
(16:59):
how to make that adjustment from being a kid who
was playing you know, juniors and now you're playing you know,
now you're playing in the AHL, or you're playing in
the EHL and making that transition into the NHL or
just into a higher level where you're you're a paid athlete.
This is your job of working with them? Or is
it kind of a dual role?
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It's turning into more of a dual role now. It
was that that was my role. I was teaching these
kids how to be pros and not necessarily just with
the goalies, but with everybody. But our our our group
has grown, our development group. I mean we've added Brooks
or pic and Jim Slater and I know everybody knows
Brooks and the type of professional he was, and people
(17:40):
aren't that familiar with Jim Slater because he was with
a different organization, but he's he's right out of the
same mold as Brooks and and so you know, we've
got three guys down the organization that can really help
these kids become professionals. And so we're all kind of
in our own lane when it comes to specific positions,
but we're also as a group kind of overlooking everybody,
(18:03):
so that there's four three, four different opinions on one player,
so that you know, if I have a biased opinion
on a player, then you know, I got the three
other guys to kind of offset what I think. And
and so we really work well as a unit, and
I think we're looking to even get bigger with some
other guys that recently retired.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Hey, Ollie, is it would it would it be harder
for I mean, the game has gotten so young, there's
so many kids that are playing right now. Would it
be harder to come in as an eighteen or nineteen
year old? I'm talking about just mentally, not skill wise,
but mentally now then it would have been, you know,
in the early two thousands.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Honestly, I don't think so. I think these kids I mean,
you see it. You're seeing all the other professional sports
that these young kids come in and they're they're dominant
right away. Like you look at golf, you look at
some guys in the NFL, some kids in the NBA.
I think what these kids have access to. I think
the training they get the younger age, they're just wired
(19:04):
a little bit different. I don't know if it's an arrogance,
an entitlement, a cockiness, whatever it is. They're not as
in awe as we were when we first came in,
and in some aspects that's a good thing. They're kind
of naive and they just come in and play hockey.
And but from a physical standpoint, that's that's the big thing.
If if they're if they're physically if they're built like
(19:27):
a man, and they have the mentality, you know of
a grown man and a maturity, yeah, then it's the
jump is fairly easy. But for a lot of these kids,
they don't have that physical ability yet because they're playing
against some very strong individuals and it's just easy to
get knocked off the pocket. You're you know, if you're not.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Not physically strong, well, listen, Olie, I hope that you
have a great time. Tomorrow night the celebration. I can't
wait to be there. I'll be there. The celebration is
going to be not it's the UH dot Comcap's fiftieth
anniversary night. UH only will be there, UH, Peter Bondra
will be there, Sylvan Kote, Kelly Johansson, Joey Juneau, Mark
to NOORDI U you get the oly in Bandra bobblehead.
(20:13):
I know you guys will be doing a Q and
A only. I hope. I hope you enjoyed as much
as people will enjoy seeing you well.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
I definitely will. Thanks Mal
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