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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Please welcome from your Washington capital. Please say hello to
mister dylon Strom.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Dylan.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hello, Hey, how you doing man?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. How are you? Thanks
for having me on?
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I don't know what your what your off season was,
but boy, you picked up Wednesday night where you left
off last year.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
You were on fire Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We Uh.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
It was my first game in a long time, so
just a little bit of a cobwebs out in the
first period, but got a great pass from my good
friend Trevor van Riemsdyke and made no mistake on a breakaway.
So it was nice to nice to get back out there,
nice to see the fuck going the net and hopefully
can do that a bunch more times during the season.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Hey, let me ask you this, did you did you
have a good off season?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah? I did. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I mean, you obviously want to be playing longer than
you than you than you did, but uh no, I
enjoyed it a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I spent a lot of time with my family.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I was back home and just outside Toronto and Oakville, Ontario,
and lots of golf, lots of time with family, but
for the most part.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Uh enjoyed it and happy to be back and happy
to be uh playing hockey.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hey, is it on?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Do you start getting itchy towards the uh, like when
camps starting to roll around of like like your body
knows this system by now in this routine, Like can
you just start feeling yourself getting ramped up to to
get going again?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I think once you start doing practices where the coaches
are actually on the ice and you start doing some drills,
you start getting back in the mix and remembering what
it was like the previous years and you're ready to go.
I mean, uh, there's definitely a buzz in there and
our in our dressing room, in our arena, and everyone's
really excited.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So it just it just makes it that much easier to.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
To come to the rink every day and and put
the skates on and get out there. So it's uh,
it's been fun so far, and I'm looking forward to
playing tonight and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Uh, you know here down.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The line, Hey, much of a difference between now now
that now that we're into year two of Carberry coach
Carberry's camp. Much of a difference between last year in
this year.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I think it's a little there.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I think you just, you know, everyone gets a little
more comfortable with the more experienced they gain. I think
he knows our team really well inside and out, and
and uh, you know, I think anytime that a coach feels,
you know, comfortable and feels confident, it's it's really easy
to kind of follow directions. I think it's, you know,
he knows what it takes to to get us to
where we need to go, and we're gonna we're gonna
follow right in line. So it's it's been a pretty
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tough there's a lot of skating.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
A lot of uh, a lot of workouts.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But you know, I think everyone's everyone's ready, everyone's excited
to be back playing games, and we're looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Hey, Dylan, let me ask you this kind of a
kind of a two part question if you don't mind
kind of leading up to because training camp starts and
you guys are playing like literally two or three days later,
so there's there's not a ton of time in camp,
and there's a lot of new faces and we'll get
to that in a moment, but like you'll hear the
talk about like, oh, Carberry already knows he wants this
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line combination to skate together or this line combination to
skate together.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Like there was all the talk it was.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Gonna be you, it was gonna be O V and
then and and then the question was who was gonna
be in MANCHAPANI.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Is is is who it ends up being?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Are you guys able to decide in practice that quickly
who's gelling with who? Like, obviously you and OV you
know each other, but you got a brand new guy
coming in.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, I think that's kind of what the preseason's for.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I definitely think if things don't go well in the
in the preseason games, and I don't think it's too
hard to kind of switch up and try some new things.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Line makes changed so much throughout the season that you
kind of as a hockey player, you kind of got.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
To be able to adapt to play with new players.
You know, guys get injured, you know, guys get traded.
You're not winning, so so the coach was switches up
the line. So I think to answer your question, I think,
you know, obviously the coach has a long time to
in the off season to decide what he thinks the
lines are, what's gonna work. So you throw that together
for the first couple of days of camp and then
a couple of preseason games, and if it works, it works,
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and if it doesn't, there's lots more time to try
some new combinations. But I don't think I've ever been
on a team more where a line has stayed the
same the entire year.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Sure, I don't think. I don't think you know.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I think everyone's looking forward to trying the combinations and
then if it doesn't work, you kind of to switch
it up from there.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Because I had no idea what to expect when when
it was announced that Man JAPANI would be with you guys,
And unless you disagree, I thought he's fitting great with
you in ov.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I completely agree with you in both things. He just said,
I had no idea what to expect either. I've never
played with him before on a line. I know him
a little bit through just from being around from the
same area back home, and we had the same trainer
in the summer, so a little bit of familiarity there.
And but yeah, I thought it worked really well. I
think he compliments us really well. I think he's a
really hard worker and he finds ways to get pucks
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back and.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Carry the plug through the neutral zone.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I think all things that OV and I really enjoyed
playing with and and and really need as from a
line mate. So it's definitely been, you know, nice so far,
and I'm looking forward to see how it goes in
games to tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
So you got a bunch of new faces, and I
give the Caps credit. I really like some of the
guys that that we went out and got.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Pierre Luke Debois.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I was very excited that we got him, Matt Roy
is a stud. Jacob Chickrin I was screaming that I
wanted him here before he ended up in Ottawa. Did
you Did you have any history with any of those guys?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, lots.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I actually played with uh, Pierre Luke on the World
junior team in twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen, and we
became friends there, so I've known him for a while
throughout that and also at the World Championships a couple
of years later. So I've known him, you know, for
for a bunch of years now. And I actually lived
with Jacob Chickran funny enough in Arizona when I was there.
We lived together until I got traded and We had
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a great time.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Again, we.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Kell we're both rookies going in the league at the
same time, so it was lots of fun to be
his roommate and we had some we.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Had some really fun times together.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
But I had lots of guys, lots of from filiarities,
and I think it's it's good. It's always to have that,
especially with new guys. So you get to know a
lot of guys throughout the league, but when you when
they come to your team, it's a it's a nice
little breath of fresh air.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And you know, the other line that really impressed me
the going back to Wednesday night when you were playing
the Nick Dwd, Brandon Douhaim and Taylor Radish line, that
line was phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I think it speaks to how good of a player
and a leader Nick Doubt is.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I think he's very underappreciated.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Uh not not by us by any means, because I
know he knows how much he means to us and
we know that, and but I definitely think I definitely
think he's underappreciated throughout the league. I think, you know,
people are are really starting to see it. They already know,
but people are really starting to see how much he
means to our team. You know, you can kind of
put He's played with a bunch of different line mates
and it seems to be the one constant in our
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lineup of him playing really solid defensively. You never have
to worry about where he is in the ice or
or if he's giving up chances.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
He's he's really steady.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He's been doing it for long time now, and that's
it great to have a guy like that in your
team and have a guy that you know, any defensives
on draw, even if he's tired, you know he can
go out there and do it, do a job, and
you know, you love to have.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That in Radish. You know, didn't you play You played
an Eerie with him, right.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yes, I've actually played with him almost my whole life.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
We were on this he's a year younger than me,
but we played in the same minor hockey organization for
seven years in a row, and then we played three
years together and Eerie and his brother was also there too,
so I played all four years.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
With his brother to ago, funny enough, my last year there.
So we've kind of followed each other and now he's
following me here too.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Hey, is it is it easier? I mean, listen, the
Cats are your first team. You've had to walk into
a locker room brand new. Is it easier? Like when
he walks in, is it? I mean and you know
him so well. Does it make it easier being the
new guy and you walk in and you're like, oh
my god, there's my eerie otters?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Dude? Yeah, I think one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Soon, as long as you know people, Like when I
first got to DC, I didn't know anyone besides the
new guys that were coming to the team, Like I
had known Kemper, and I knew Connor Brown and I
knew Eric Gusta said, all the new guys that were
coming to the Caps, and it just makes it that
much easier.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
You don't have to really stress.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You can kind of just you know, you have some
familiar faces that you're that you're okay with going to
talk to, and you you know, going to dinner with
your wives or friends.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So things like that make you just a little bit
easier for transition.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I think Radish has found that that right away, and
then you can find you know, obviously you're gonna find
new friends throughout the team, you.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Know, just help knowing someone that can kind of introduce.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
You to people where you don't have that that awkward
stage of you know, should I go talk to this guy?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You know? Blah blah blah. So definitely definitely makes it easier.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Was there somebody when you first got to d C
and you you you walked in, was there somebody you
were afraid to go talk to?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
No, not not afraid to go talk to? For sure,
knowing what I know now, I would have been a
lot more open than I was. But it took me
a couple of weeks. But like I said, I knew it,
knew a bunch of guys already, so that that made
it easier. But you know, when you when you haven't
met someone like Alexovechkin and and you know, he walks
in the trainer's room and starts making everyone's hand and
making everyone's laugh before before I.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
By, I even got a chance to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
You know, I think it knew it was gonna be
a good fit from the beginning, so made it made
it that much easier.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Just knowing all these guys, uh, now, it made it.
It made it.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
So so easy just the way they the way they
act with new guys in the team.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It's you know, it's really really nice to have.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
By the way, mentioning the erie Otters, you forget that
erie Otters team that you were on, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Was that team stacked?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, we had a lot of good players, a lot
of NHL players.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I played there for four years, and I think for
over the four years, we have probably I want to
say twenty guys that are playing in the NHL right.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Now, which is a lot for a junior team.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
And I'm lucky enough to play with a couple. I
have played with a couple. But yeah, it was a
lot of fun. We had only CHL team in history
to win four straight fifty win seasons and in the
league where you only play sixty eight games. I think
that that's gonna that's a record that's gonna stand for
hopefully a long time.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
But we we had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
There was Connor McDavid kind of the dead weight on that.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Teams, like the opposite of dead weight.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Hey, so let me ask you this, Like I know,
like obviously there are team goals, right and and and
to a guy.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Everybody on the team will tell you it's team first.
It's team first. It's team first.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And I totally understand that when you when you show
up for camp and and whether it's with Carberry or
or the other coaches, do they set up specific goals
for you for the season.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Dylan, No, not necessarily, like individually. I think.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I know I've talked to Carbury a couple of times
for at the summer, and we just talked about you know,
being a bit more of a leader and and you know,
being a guy that's uh, you know, I think he
really trusts me, which is which is a good thing.
I don't think coach is too much like to do
like individual stats wise with certain guys.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I think you kind of just let the chips fall
where they may.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
But I think it's always good to have a good
communication with your coach, just to know that you know,
he trusts you and he wants you out there at
the right times in the game.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And I think as a player, that's that's kind of
all you can really ask for.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Hey, last two things and then I know you got
to jump number one. I saw your brother Matt. God,
I don't want to say sent down, but just went
back to went back to Hershey.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Was it was it nice having him up for a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It was amazing. I mean, it's it's awesome. It's uh.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I don't get to see him, you know, obviously too
much during the season, even though we're in the same organization,
he's still a couple hours away, so I don't get
to see him too much.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
But you know, when he's here at camp, he he
really has a great time.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I really get to see, you know, a different side
of him, and I don't get to see at home
that often in the summers.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You know, all his teammates are laughing at everything. He says.
He's a pretty quiet guy at.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Home, but when he when it comes to the season
the hockey team, he's, uh, he's a loud guy, and
he he likes to likes to joke around with his
teammates and have a lot of fun. So obviously I'm
super proud of him of what he's done in Hershey.
And you know, hopefully, hopefully one day where we're wearing
a Capitols jersey.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Together, that'd be awesome, that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And then the other thing, Dylan, and I don't want
to be a downer, but i'd be remiss if I
didn't bring it up or playing the Columbus Blue Jackets tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Do you have any.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And and listen the news is it was and continues
to be as horrible as it can be. Did you
have any history with Johnny Goudreaux or or Matthew for
that matter.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Uh, not not too much.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I've just met him a couple of times in passing,
and and uh, you know, I didn't really know him
too well, but even every time I went the ice,
he always says, you know, what's up, Strummer, and and uh,
you know, it's just it's one of those things that
you know, you you don't wish upon it, obviously you
don't wish upon anyone.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
But I just think about, you know, I think about
his family.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I think about you know, he's got a wife and
two kids, and I think we all heard that he's.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Got another one on the third, one on the way. Sure,
I mean, you don't even you can't even put it
into words.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I think about my parents and and what his parents
are going through, and just how much, you know, their
whole lives have been revolved around, you know, their two sons,
and obviously they have other two other daughters, but their
two sons playing hockey, and how much they're life revolves
around you know, their grandkids and and their you know,
their in laws and.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Things like that. So it's just it's absolutely heartbreaking, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I I you kind of run out of words to
say because it's just something that you never want to experience.
And I know, I hope, you know, everyone in the
Columbus is is finding a way to cope with it
in whatever way necessary. And I know THENHL has a
lot of good programs that that people can talk to
and and things like that, so I'm hoping that they're
all they're all coping in a in a in an
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okay manner. And I know that, uh, they know that
we're all thinking about them at all times, and I
know it's not gonna go away for a long time.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
So I did like the I did like what Tortorella
did in Philly of having their dad come out and coach.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I thought that was awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I thought it was too. I mean, it's just a
classy move.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I think it's just you know, for his dad to
get back in the y, especially in Philly. I'm sure
it meant a lot to him, and just you know,
seeing some hockey players and seeing some guys, and I'm
sure everyone was was super nice to him and just
I think it was a really really great touch by
by Twitter.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
All right, so we get back at it tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Hey. By the way, so like you said, you're playing tonight,
you and Ov's line will be going tonight. Do you
and OV have much say in how many games you
want to play in preseason?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Ov maybe a little more than I do.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I'm just kind of I'm just on his line right now,
so I get uh, I got kind of the benefits
that Ovie gets in the preseason, so it's it's kind
of nice.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
No.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I think he usually plays between two or between two
and four, usually usually three.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I think that that's.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
You know, when you played twenty years, I think you
know what it takes to get ready for the season.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
So two or three games and and he's ready to go.
And I expect a great start to the season from him.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Hey, best of luck throughout the rest of preseason.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I can't wait for the real games to uh to
get here, but they'll be here soon enough.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Dylan Strom, I appreciate the time. Thank you, my friend,
no problem, thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I appreciate it,
Please welcome from your Washington capital. Please say hello to
mister dylon Strom.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Dylan.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hello, Hey, how you doing man?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I'm pretty good. I'm pretty good. How are you? Thanks
for having me on?
Speaker 4 (00:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I don't know what your what your off season was,
but boy, you picked up Wednesday night where you left
off last year.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
You were on fire Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
We Uh.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
It was my first game in a long time, so
just a little bit of a cobwebs out in the
first period, but got a great pass from my good
friend Trevor van Riemsdyke and made no mistake on a breakaway.
So it was nice to nice to get back out there,
nice to see the fuck going the net and hopefully
can do that a bunch more times during the season.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Hey, let me ask you this, did you did you
have a good off season?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah? I did. It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I mean, you obviously want to be playing longer than
you than you than you did, but uh no, I
enjoyed it a lot.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I spent a lot of time with my family.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I was back home and just outside Toronto and Oakville, Ontario,
and lots of golf, lots of time with family, but
for the most part.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Uh enjoyed it and happy to be back and happy
to be uh playing hockey.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hey, is it on?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Do you start getting itchy towards the uh, like when
camps starting to roll around of like like your body
knows this system by now in this routine, Like can
you just start feeling yourself getting ramped up to to
get going again?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:20):
I think once you start doing practices where the coaches
are actually on the ice and you start doing some drills,
you start getting back in the mix and remembering what
it was like the previous years and you're ready to go.
I mean, uh, there's definitely a buzz in there and
our in our dressing room, in our arena, and everyone's
really excited.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
So it just it just makes it that much easier to.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
To come to the rink every day and and put
the skates on and get out there. So it's uh,
it's been fun so far, and I'm looking forward to
playing tonight and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Uh, you know here down.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The line, Hey, much of a difference between now now
that now that we're into year two of Carberry coach
Carberry's camp. Much of a difference between last year in
this year.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I think it's a little there.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
I think you just, you know, everyone gets a little
more comfortable with the more experienced they gain. I think
he knows our team really well inside and out, and
and uh, you know, I think anytime that a coach feels,
you know, comfortable and feels confident, it's it's really easy
to kind of follow directions. I think it's, you know,
he knows what it takes to to get us to
where we need to go, and we're gonna we're gonna
follow right in line. So it's it's been a pretty
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tough there's a lot of skating.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
A lot of uh, a lot of workouts.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
But you know, I think everyone's everyone's ready, everyone's excited
to be back playing games, and we're looking forward to it.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Hey, Dylan, let me ask you this kind of a
kind of a two part question if you don't mind
kind of leading up to because training camp starts and
you guys are playing like literally two or three days later,
so there's there's not a ton of time in camp,
and there's a lot of new faces and we'll get
to that in a moment, but like you'll hear the
talk about like, oh, Carberry already knows he wants this
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line combination to skate together or this line combination to
skate together.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Like there was all the talk it was.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Gonna be you, it was gonna be O V and
then and and then the question was who was gonna
be in MANCHAPANI.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Is is is who it ends up being?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Are you guys able to decide in practice that quickly
who's gelling with who? Like, obviously you and OV you
know each other, but you got a brand new guy
coming in.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, I think that's kind of what the preseason's for.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I definitely think if things don't go well in the
in the preseason games, and I don't think it's too
hard to kind of switch up and try some new things.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Line makes changed so much throughout the season that you
kind of as a hockey player, you kind of got.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
To be able to adapt to play with new players.
You know, guys get injured, you know, guys get traded.
You're not winning, so so the coach was switches up
the line. So I think to answer your question, I think,
you know, obviously the coach has a long time to
in the off season to decide what he thinks the
lines are, what's gonna work. So you throw that together
for the first couple of days of camp and then
a couple of preseason games, and if it works, it works,
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and if it doesn't, there's lots more time to try
some new combinations. But I don't think I've ever been
on a team more where a line has stayed the
same the entire year.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Sure, I don't think. I don't think you know.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I think everyone's looking forward to trying the combinations and
then if it doesn't work, you kind of to switch
it up from there.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Because I had no idea what to expect when when
it was announced that Man JAPANI would be with you guys,
And unless you disagree, I thought he's fitting great with
you in ov.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
I completely agree with you in both things. He just said,
I had no idea what to expect either. I've never
played with him before on a line. I know him
a little bit through just from being around from the
same area back home, and we had the same trainer
in the summer, so a little bit of familiarity there.
And but yeah, I thought it worked really well. I
think he compliments us really well. I think he's a
really hard worker and he finds ways to get pucks
(04:45):
back and.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Carry the plug through the neutral zone.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I think all things that OV and I really enjoyed
playing with and and and really need as from a
line mate. So it's definitely been, you know, nice so far,
and I'm looking forward to see how it goes in
games to tonight.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
So you got a bunch of new faces, and I
give the Caps credit. I really like some of the
guys that that we went out and got.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Pierre Luke Debois.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I was very excited that we got him, Matt Roy
is a stud. Jacob Chickrin I was screaming that I
wanted him here before he ended up in Ottawa. Did
you Did you have any history with any of those guys?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, lots.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I actually played with uh, Pierre Luke on the World
junior team in twenty sixteen or twenty seventeen, and we
became friends there, so I've known him for a while
throughout that and also at the World Championships a couple
of years later. So I've known him, you know, for
for a bunch of years now. And I actually lived
with Jacob Chickran funny enough in Arizona when I was there.
We lived together until I got traded and We had
(05:45):
a great time.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Again, we.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Kell we're both rookies going in the league at the
same time, so it was lots of fun to be
his roommate and we had some we.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Had some really fun times together.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
But I had lots of guys, lots of from filiarities,
and I think it's it's good. It's always to have that,
especially with new guys. So you get to know a
lot of guys throughout the league, but when you when
they come to your team, it's a it's a nice
little breath of fresh air.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And you know, the other line that really impressed me
the going back to Wednesday night when you were playing
the Nick Dwd, Brandon Douhaim and Taylor Radish line, that
line was phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
I think it speaks to how good of a player
and a leader Nick Doubt is.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
I think he's very underappreciated.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Uh not not by us by any means, because I
know he knows how much he means to us and
we know that, and but I definitely think I definitely
think he's underappreciated throughout the league. I think, you know,
people are are really starting to see it. They already know,
but people are really starting to see how much he
means to our team. You know, you can kind of
put He's played with a bunch of different line mates
and it seems to be the one constant in our
(06:51):
lineup of him playing really solid defensively. You never have
to worry about where he is in the ice or
or if he's giving up chances.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
He's he's really steady.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
He's been doing it for long time now, and that's
it great to have a guy like that in your
team and have a guy that you know, any defensives
on draw, even if he's tired, you know he can
go out there and do it, do a job, and
you know, you love to have.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
That in Radish. You know, didn't you play You played
an Eerie with him, right.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yes, I've actually played with him almost my whole life.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
We were on this he's a year younger than me,
but we played in the same minor hockey organization for
seven years in a row, and then we played three
years together and Eerie and his brother was also there too,
so I played all four years.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
With his brother to ago, funny enough, my last year there.
So we've kind of followed each other and now he's
following me here too.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Hey, is it is it easier? I mean, listen, the
Cats are your first team. You've had to walk into
a locker room brand new. Is it easier? Like when
he walks in, is it? I mean and you know
him so well. Does it make it easier being the
new guy and you walk in and you're like, oh
my god, there's my eerie otters?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Dude? Yeah, I think one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Soon, as long as you know people, Like when I
first got to DC, I didn't know anyone besides the
new guys that were coming to the team, Like I
had known Kemper, and I knew Connor Brown and I
knew Eric Gusta said, all the new guys that were
coming to the Caps, and it just makes it that
much easier.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
You don't have to really stress.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
You can kind of just you know, you have some
familiar faces that you're that you're okay with going to
talk to, and you you know, going to dinner with
your wives or friends.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
So things like that make you just a little bit
easier for transition.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
I think Radish has found that that right away, and
then you can find you know, obviously you're gonna find
new friends throughout the team, you.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Know, just help knowing someone that can kind of introduce.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
You to people where you don't have that that awkward
stage of you know, should I go talk to this guy?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
You know? Blah blah blah. So definitely definitely makes it easier.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Was there somebody when you first got to d C
and you you you walked in, was there somebody you
were afraid to go talk to?
Speaker 4 (08:42):
No, not not afraid to go talk to? For sure,
knowing what I know now, I would have been a
lot more open than I was. But it took me
a couple of weeks. But like I said, I knew it,
knew a bunch of guys already, so that that made
it easier. But you know, when you when you haven't
met someone like Alexovechkin and and you know, he walks
in the trainer's room and starts making everyone's hand and
making everyone's laugh before before I.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
By, I even got a chance to talk to him.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
You know, I think it knew it was gonna be
a good fit from the beginning, so made it made
it that much easier.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Just knowing all these guys, uh, now, it made it.
It made it.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
So so easy just the way they the way they
act with new guys in the team.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
It's you know, it's really really nice to have.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
By the way, mentioning the erie Otters, you forget that
erie Otters team that you were on, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Was that team stacked?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, we had a lot of good players, a lot
of NHL players.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
I played there for four years, and I think for
over the four years, we have probably I want to
say twenty guys that are playing in the NHL right.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Now, which is a lot for a junior team.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
And I'm lucky enough to play with a couple. I
have played with a couple. But yeah, it was a
lot of fun. We had only CHL team in history
to win four straight fifty win seasons and in the
league where you only play sixty eight games. I think
that that's gonna that's a record that's gonna stand for
hopefully a long time.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
But we we had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
There was Connor McDavid kind of the dead weight on that.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Teams, like the opposite of dead weight.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Hey, so let me ask you this, Like I know,
like obviously there are team goals, right and and and
to a guy.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Everybody on the team will tell you it's team first.
It's team first. It's team first.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
And I totally understand that when you when you show
up for camp and and whether it's with Carberry or
or the other coaches, do they set up specific goals
for you for the season.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Dylan, No, not necessarily, like individually. I think.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I know I've talked to Carbury a couple of times
for at the summer, and we just talked about you know,
being a bit more of a leader and and you know,
being a guy that's uh, you know, I think he
really trusts me, which is which is a good thing.
I don't think coach is too much like to do
like individual stats wise with certain guys.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I think you kind of just let the chips fall
where they may.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
But I think it's always good to have a good
communication with your coach, just to know that you know,
he trusts you and he wants you out there at
the right times in the game.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And I think as a player, that's that's kind of
all you can really ask for.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Hey, last two things and then I know you got
to jump number one. I saw your brother Matt. God,
I don't want to say sent down, but just went
back to went back to Hershey.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Was it was it nice having him up for a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
It was amazing. I mean, it's it's awesome. It's uh.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I don't get to see him, you know, obviously too
much during the season, even though we're in the same organization,
he's still a couple hours away, so I don't get
to see him too much.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
But you know, when he's here at camp, he he
really has a great time.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
I really get to see, you know, a different side
of him, and I don't get to see at home
that often in the summers.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
You know, all his teammates are laughing at everything. He says.
He's a pretty quiet guy at.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Home, but when he when it comes to the season
the hockey team, he's, uh, he's a loud guy, and
he he likes to likes to joke around with his
teammates and have a lot of fun. So obviously I'm
super proud of him of what he's done in Hershey.
And you know, hopefully, hopefully one day where we're wearing
a Capitols jersey.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Together, that'd be awesome, that'd be great.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
And then the other thing, Dylan, and I don't want
to be a downer, but i'd be remiss if I
didn't bring it up or playing the Columbus Blue Jackets tonight.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Do you have any.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And and listen the news is it was and continues
to be as horrible as it can be. Did you
have any history with Johnny Goudreaux or or Matthew for
that matter.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Uh, not not too much.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
I've just met him a couple of times in passing,
and and uh, you know, I didn't really know him
too well, but even every time I went the ice,
he always says, you know, what's up, Strummer, and and uh,
you know, it's just it's one of those things that
you know, you you don't wish upon it, obviously you
don't wish upon anyone.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
But I just think about, you know, I think about
his family.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I think about you know, he's got a wife and
two kids, and I think we all heard that he's.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Got another one on the third, one on the way. Sure,
I mean, you don't even you can't even put it
into words.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I think about my parents and and what his parents
are going through, and just how much, you know, their
whole lives have been revolved around, you know, their two sons,
and obviously they have other two other daughters, but their
two sons playing hockey, and how much they're life revolves
around you know, their grandkids and and their you know,
their in laws and.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Things like that. So it's just it's absolutely heartbreaking, you know.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I I you kind of run out of words to
say because it's just something that you never want to experience.
And I know, I hope, you know, everyone in the
Columbus is is finding a way to cope with it
in whatever way necessary. And I know THENHL has a
lot of good programs that that people can talk to
and and things like that, so I'm hoping that they're
all they're all coping in a in a in an
(13:31):
okay manner. And I know that, uh, they know that
we're all thinking about them at all times, and I
know it's not gonna go away for a long time.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
So I did like the I did like what Tortorella
did in Philly of having their dad come out and coach.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
I thought that was awesome.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
I thought it was too. I mean, it's just a
classy move.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
I think it's just you know, for his dad to
get back in the y, especially in Philly. I'm sure
it meant a lot to him, and just you know,
seeing some hockey players and seeing some guys, and I'm
sure everyone was was super nice to him and just
I think it was a really really great touch by
by Twitter.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
All right, so we get back at it tonight.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Hey. By the way, so like you said, you're playing tonight,
you and Ov's line will be going tonight. Do you
and OV have much say in how many games you
want to play in preseason?
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Ov maybe a little more than I do.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
I'm just kind of I'm just on his line right now,
so I get uh, I got kind of the benefits
that Ovie gets in the preseason, so it's it's kind
of nice.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
No.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I think he usually plays between two or between two
and four, usually usually three.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I think that that's.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
You know, when you played twenty years, I think you
know what it takes to get ready for the season.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
So two or three games and and he's ready to go.
And I expect a great start to the season from him.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Hey, best of luck throughout the rest of preseason.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I can't wait for the real games to uh to
get here, but they'll be here soon enough.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Dylan Strom, I appreciate the time. Thank you, my friend,
no problem, thank you, thanks for having me.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
I appreciate it,
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