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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, yeah, here we go. Man.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
It is beautiful, right, I mean it's seventy degrees.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
I mean marcial. But I walked out the door expecting rain.
I really did. It's gorgeous out there.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well it was rain and earlier, but not right now.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
My friend, it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's perfect. And then tomorrow seventy five and just a
slight chance of a stray shower and otherwise it's cloudy,
and so it should be a pretty good Saturday for
us tomorrow. Man, it would be a much better Saturday
if we woke up. While celebrating a win for the
Columbus Blue Jackets tonight, and he is the radio voice
for Columbus Blue Jackets, Bob mcgallaghan joined US now and
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Bobby Max sports. How you doing my man.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I'm doing well. And I got to start by telling
you yesterday I had a speaking engagement. I was talking
to the Westerville Rotary Club. And when I went to
take questions, the guy who raised his hand and I
said yes, sir, and he said, are you the guy
that goes on with Mark Blaze?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You're like maybe maybe nine.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
I said, oh no, it's that time of the year.
I denied it three times. I don't blaming, I said,
I said, yeah, I am, And he goes, well, listen,
I said, well, you know what, I'm going to tell him.
He has one listener, so he'll be happy about that.
I have two because and then another guy said I listened
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to and then somebody else said I did, so I
know there are at least three people listening to us
right now.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
All right, we're going to add one more because my
mom listens pretty much every day, so there's four. So
we're building, and that's the we're going in the correct direction.
That's really what it's about.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Right, Sorry, what'd you say.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (01:45):
But I don't blame Chuck.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Chuck listens by default, he has to. He's sitting here. Choice, Yeah, he.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Is there hearing and listening.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Blazer, Well, I guess you're right that that could that
could be applicable here. You are correct, there, you are correct. Man.
Let's start with the Jackets finally beginning, and I say,
beginning to climb out of a little bit of an
otherwise deep hole that they've been in lately with that
four to three win, which I don't know. Your days
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off sounds like you're doing stuff, so maybe it doesn't
seem like a long time ago. But obviously at the
Islanders we went in a shootout, Adam van Tilley buries
it that puck still may be stuck in that net.
I think at this point too, because I thought that
was hilarious the way it just stayed there, and just
as a reminder to the Islanders like hah, you lose,
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you lose on hoole mice. But anyway, that goalie interference
and no goal at the end with what like nine
seconds left, and then earlier in the game, Elvis took
a stick to the face and yet that wasn't goalie
interfere I was so confused during that, Dude, I didn't
bother texting you during the game because clearly you got
your hands full trying to call all of that. But
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your thoughts on that the way that went, I mean,
clearly we needed something to go our way for once, man.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yeah, And you know, I I'm thankful there was the
the goal that was allowed at the end of the
second period for the Islanders because I think had that
not happened, and had the referees not maybe had in
their mind that maybe we got that one wrong, or
maybe we owe you one or something like that. I
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don't know that what happened at the end would have happened.
You know. That's you know, the Islanders are still mad
about that, and they have reason to be mad about it.
So look, it happens. I've seen it happen too many
times against the Blue Jackets. I'm not gonna you know,
I'm not going to feel bad because they won the game,
because they had to win the game. They had lost
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six in a row. It's the worst time of the
year to get into a slump. And you know, you
hope now that you're talking about climbing out of something.
I don't think they're climbing. I think they have a
foothold now, and it depends on what they do with
that foothold and how they start to climb whether or
not they wind up in the playoffs. And it doesn't
seem like a long time ago. Actually, it's been nice
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this week not to have games, but it's been even
nicer to sit and do some scoreboard watching and see
the teams that need to lose lose all week. Now
it's time to go back to work.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Well Jackets activating Cole cyllinger off ir so that's a
good thing. We know, good Brandson is back. Boone gets
his goal the other night, like you know, I mean,
there's the deflection and help me remember, because man, it's
all going together now. But with regard to Boone, clearly
that shorty that he got was really, oh my gosh.
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And I feel like, and I don't know, I'm just
a guy who barely knows anything about hockey, but it
feels like and I hope that I'm right that maybe
the floodgates begin to start here and then you know,
where you need him to really start peaking is where
they start peaking now because you have so many different
people who can contribute, and not that the other people
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that were contributing can't, but it takes a little bit
of pressure off of them. I feel like too. Your
thoughts on.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
That, Well, you finally have your full team, and it's
the first time since the beginning of the season that
they've had their full team with Jenner and good Branch
and back Monahan's back in cylinder comes back in tonight,
so they really they have everybody. And look, it's throughout
the course of the season it's been instances like what
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happened on Monday, where they don't play a pretty game.
In fact, the first period that was a one period
game that would have been devastating because they were terrible,
awful in the first period, but they turned it around
in the second and third. I've seen them take situations
like that where they've been not so good but get
a result and then take off after it. So I'm
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obviously I'm hoping that's what happens here. After that game
on Monday night.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
We've got a Vancouver Canucks who they're fighting for their
playoff life as well. Correct.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Yes, yeah, they're on the outside looking in in the West.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, and this is going to be this is going
to be a bare knuckle brawl tonight. I would imagine
it's everybody is going to leave it all on the
ice tonight. This is going to be playoff hockey, clearly
before the playoffs. I mean, we saw that with the
Islanders the other night, and it feels like, now, you know,
the alarm has sounded and for many teams, and these
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are two teams that the alarm has sounded like a mofo,
and so we're going to see I would imagine we're
going to see it all left on the ice tonight.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Man, No, you can imagine all you want to, but
I've got to see it to believe it, because we
didn't see it in the Islander game in the first period.
I mean, if every game is the most important game
that you play this year, look at the game in
Pittsburgh last Friday night. They did not play Blue Jaggets hockey.
They got blown out of that one, and they started
the game on Monday the exact same way. So I
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hope you're right. I hope it is playoff style hockey.
And for the Blue Jackets, it has to be that
from the very beginning of the game. You've got the
the Caducks coming in here. They beat the Islanders after
the Blue Jackets left town the other night, and they
put up five on them, So look, they can score.
They've got good players. Quinn Hughes is, I would say,
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he's there's Zach Karensky. Someone say, well, he's better than
Zach Warensky. He's he's one of Norse Trophy. But you
know you're going to have two similarly similarly matched teams
here tonight. I think this one comes down to goaltending.
So many are going to from here the rest of
the way out but it does have to be a battle.
The Blue Jackets have to play like they've played at
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home all year.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
So yeah, and luckily it is at home. It's on
home ice tonight seven o'clock.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
We lucky up until the last home stand, right, I
got shut out twice, and you know, I mean there's
nothing's that guarantee now, right, and everything He's got to
be earned, you know, Dean Everson has said that from
the beginning of year as far as your ice time.
But now as a team, if you want to get in, look,
their teams have opened the door. I mean Montreal loses
last night and Philadelphia scores six on them. Thank you
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John Tortorella for getting fired and sparking that team so
they could get six. You know, you had the Islanders lose.
The teams that needed to lose have lost in the
last three days. But it doesn't matter if you don't
take care of your own business, right.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
I hate this. This is the part where they're they're
still not even or are they in charge of their
own destiny? I mean that's the next question with regard
to the playoffs. I mean, we still need a bunch
of other stuff to happen in addition to us winning,
because man, what a horrible position to be in.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Well, you've got the Rangers have played two more games.
Montreal has now played one more. You have that game
in hand, so you know, you get a win tonight,
you're going to catch up with them. You've got the Islanders.
You get to play head to head one more time
before it's all said and done. So yeah, yeah, you control,
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You control your fate, you control where you're gonna be.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Hey, but I just I listened to you and Mark talk.
I'm still trying to learn the game and the nuances
and so forth. But as far as the process is
there a like like before a football game and the
coach goes in and gives that talk and everybody becomes
iron man and we're in this together. And just that
pump up thing. Is that a thing in hockey or
is everybody kind of like their own man on the ice?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Now, it's a thing. It's a thing right before the game.
You know, football it's once a week, and hockey it
can be three or four times a week. So not
every speech is a New Rockney speech. Right. There are
those in the playoffs, or there are those at big
times of the year. Where a coach will go in
and try to deliver that kind of a speech. But
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there's you know, every game, they go out, they warm up,
they come back, and as they're preparing to go out
before the opening face off, there's there's a meeting and
the coaches in the room and and he's talking. So yeah,
that that part is there, But like I said, it's
not you know, just ten or twelve times a year.
They're doing it every almost every day, every other day anyway,
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So it's not as uh, there are only select ones
that are as inspirational and stand out above the other ones.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Man.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
As you mentioned against the Islanders, I mean, they came
out very sluggish and they down team.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
That talk in between periods wasn't ay after the first
period was inspiration.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Previous to the game though, it was like I was
in here going, yeah, man, they're they're contenders, they're going
at it. Look at these guys they're all together and
then the and I just I just wondered if there
was any kind of inspirational process that they have.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Apparently not for that game, but they founded by the
second period.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So hey with uh, you know, with good Branson now
back and now we know Cellinger and look, Monahan was
involved a lot in the Islanders game with regard to
there was a lot of assists and so on. I
mean these guys, I mean, they haven't really played, like
you pointed out as a whole team as like the
whole team is back. They haven't played together for a lot.
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So it's just like riding a bike, right or do
they still they still got to try to find you know,
exactly where, you know who's doing what. I mean, you
can look at it all on paper, but to execute
it is another thing.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Well, it's like getting back on your bike and riding
through a road full of potholes, right, yeah. And because
they it's not the physical, it's not them physically. I
mean they're they're cardios good, they're they're in shape. But
when you're out there skating by yourself, the thing that
you cannot recreate is guys trying to hit you as
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hard as they can. You know, the timing the practice,
no practice moves as fast as a game move, right,
so it takes a while to get your timing back.
And you know, I thought those guys did a good
job of that. The other night you mentioned Sean Monahan
wound up with two assists, Like you never even left
the lineup. That was Branton didn't get as many minutes
as he normally would because they were they were so
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looking to score late in that game that you know,
he's a defensive guy, he's not an offensive guy, so
so he was he was getting pushed aside a little bit.
But that's that'll be fun. That'll come back because the
plan is, it's an ingenious plan nobody ever came up with.
Get a lead and be holding it. He's going to
play a lot.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Yeah, because he's defense, which makes sense. I guess, yeah,
you're right. Well, there, no, there's no question out of
what do we have fourteen games left, twelve twelve games
left out of the twelve they gotta win. Well, I
don't know about that. Well yeah, right, yeah, I mean
as far as predictions go, blah blah blah blah blah. Right,
because clearly other parts of this can they can falter
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coming down the stretch as well. But again, we don't
want to have to rely on anybody else to crumble.
So there's got to be a whole lot of wins.
Let's just put it that way, right, Moving.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Forward, eight or nine is bad.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, yeah, that's the thing we'll be looking for. Man, hey, tonight,
he's gonna be calling me. He's a radio voice for
the Columbus Blue Jackets. Man, Bob, you're going to be
hearing me. I'm not going to be in the arena,
but you will hear me from home screaming. And I'll
probably be texting you too, because it's Friday night.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I believe you said the other day, I didn't text
you because you're in the middle of it. When is
that ever?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Suck? Well?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I would have wanted an actual answer the other night,
and I thought, no, yeah, well, yeah, we didn't have
any you write no answers there. I meant to your text,
but I know exactly what you mean. Man, Well, we'll
be listening for sure. And Bob, thank you very much
for jumping on with us. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Have a good game tonight, all right, boys, have a
good weekend.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
See you too. All right, there he is.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
You're not one of those people, are you? My text
is the most important thing in the world. People absolutely,
Oh my gosh, text me once. I'm like, hey, I'm
about to go into surgery. They said, can you text
me later?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
No, joke, Yeah no, When you come out of your drugs,
text me later back