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Speaker 1 (00:08):
It's Shot O'Connell show.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You're home of the best inside of your use.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Let's get back to woe see from the Murdoch.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Chevrolet Studio of ESPN seven hundred ninety two to one
a f am we go between the Pipes with Adrian Denny,
brought to you by Angora and Aladdin Industries.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Are Utah Mammoth insider.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Adrian Denny's been very, very busy for Mammoth Week, all
up and down the Wassat front and beyond, Little outreached,
Little pr for the Utah Mammoth.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Adrian, Welcome to the studio. How are you? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So see lots and lots of spray sunscreen is what
the message is this week, and so far we've been
lucky up and Logan Saturday had some cloud cover, cloud
cover in Park City yesterday, but Monday night in Provo
I was beaten down and we've got cotton high it's
tonight right, got one height tread Center Ogden tomorrow and
(01:04):
then we've got Enich Slash Theater City on Friday, Saint
George on on Saturday. So we need uh gonna need
to keep uh spraying the sunscreen. The SPF ME it's.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Gonna get You're gonna finish real hot down there in
Saint George.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, that's great. So we're having a blast. It's our
mobile fan fest, going from city to city. Everybody's come,
had a great time. We've got some on ice stuff,
some some learn to play, some hockey clinics and food
trucks and folks can come. We've got photo booths, we've
got face painting, you can make bracelets.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You can play NHL twenty five, We've got that. So
everything is uh unlike PlayStation Xbox. Yeah, we've got stations
uh for for that and so yeah, come out of
Twinning with TANEV is probably our most popular photo booth.
That's a Polari polaroid frame with uh one of one
of his headshots and you can see how you do
(02:02):
nice with a smile. Or President Hockey Operations, Chris Armstrong
stepped into that booth yesterday in Park City.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Love it. That's really cool.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
The biggest reveal that we're going to get to we're
going to get to our start bench cut with Adrian
by the way here in just a second. But we
had a huge reveal for the Utah Mammoth this week
that flew under the radar for a lot of people.
But I have said this on air many, many, many times,
I will die on this hill. One of the greatest
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things in professional sports and one of the most unique
things in professional sports is the artistic expression afforded to
goaltenders through their masks and a reminder from Veggie. This week,
through their pads. Carol Vamalka released the look of his
(02:56):
pads that are just absolutely sick.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I wish there were more of a visual element to
our show.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I wish we were like a Pat McAfee style where
everyone was also watching us so I could put the
graphic up. But he's got the mammoth silhouettes on the
on the pads, on the blocker, everywhere. Just it's an
absolute thing of beauty here, Adrian.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's a prelude, I think to what's really gonna come
And that's his mask. We saw his mask last year
with the Dinosaurs Utah.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
In fact, Veggie, if there's a way you want to
earn some money for a charity that you love, put
that mask up for auction. Your boy's gonna put a
hefty tag on. I will buy that thing. I'm a
big dinosaur guy. Game warn dinosaur painted inaugural season Utah
Hockey Club mask with that theme.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I'm I'm I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Spending some money on that for a good charitable cost.
It was really really cool and it reminds me O.
See at Mammoth, we've got a set of Veggies gear
that you can try on. We don't have the dinosaur mask.
We have the first mask that he wore this season
with the pads and the block or and the glove,
and you can throw that on and uh see how
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it feels. And you know, depending on your size, uh
the nine and ten year olds, it's uh, it's a lot,
but but it'll fit. It'll fit regardless. But yeah, pads,
you see, you see a lot of splotches. You see,
you know, the team's primary colors mixed in on the pads.
But it's not every day. Maybe maybe two or three
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sets of gear in the whole NHL have a you know,
the the full identity and our Mammoth logo that we
unveiled in May to see this on the left pad,
the right pad, the two mammoths if you will, clashing
on on the pads. That's that's pretty awesome and I
and I can't wait to see uh, his mask, because
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if the pads are like this, the mask, my gosh,
take it to another lot.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
The mask is going to be so sick. I cannot
wait to see what it looks like. But Veggie, go
check it out. Nhl Utah's got it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It's a you know.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Brogan Houston, who's a big guest of ours, tweeted it.
I've retweeted it. It's just they're they're beautiful. They're a
thing of beauty and you should take a look at them.
And I don't know, they got to create like a
retail item that we can we can you know, like
a foam finger version of this, but instead have the
kids walking around with like foam finger pads on their
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legs or something dressed up like Veggie.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
How about how about Veggie kind of really kind of
preluding our name with the prehistoric dinosaurs last year we
had Mammoth at the same time and he kind of
kind of foreshadowed what what actually happened.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
How about It's great, It's absolutely phenomenal. All right, let's talk.
Let's talk a little start bench cut. I know you
can in prepared for this. The also rans of the
Adam Sandler filmography. I omitted Happy Gilmour and Billy Madison
because those are the classics.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Everyone loves those.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
He's got a bunch of other movies that you look
at and you say, all right, I like that.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I had to narrow it down to three.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I used some metrics of grossing, not even box office
but also streaming, et cetera. By the way, his Hotel
Transylvania movies, he's done three of them, the animated ones.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You've seen any of these? You know what I'm talking about. No,
the voice.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I can't say that I've actually sat down and watched it,
but I've passed through, flipped through, heard the voice. Okay,
so there's three of them, right?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
How much?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
How much money do you think that those movies generated,
all three put together for Adam Sandler's Happy Madison productions.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
This is going to be either really good or really bad.
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh, gosh, a dollar figure you're looking for? Yeah, just
like thirty million.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
One point four billion dollars of revenue generated by those
three movies. They're his top grossing products ever in the
entire catalog. Hotel Transylvania, Hotel Transylvania two, Hotel Transylvania three.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Did over five hundred million dollars for the third.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And by the way, my daughters love it, so I
guess I'm part of that anyway. Crazy right, Okay, So
starting benching cutting fifty first dates, Big Daddy water Boy.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Really excited for your feedback on this. Okay, start Big
Daddy bench water Boy cut fifty first dates.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I love fifty first dates. I'm cutting, Big Daddy. I'm
starting fifty first dates, and I'm benching water Boy.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
For me, it was you can't cut everybody with water
Boy and fifty first dates.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Really, Big Daddy, Big Daddy. I think I actually.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Watched it a couple of times. I think I I
think I had I think I had the DVD of it.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
They're all They're all good, They're all excellent.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Fifty first dates.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Any movie that's got a Hawaiian theme or Hawaiian like,
I'm automatically gonna like it a little bit more because
I love Hawaii so much. By the way, a little
scare last night, the tsunami warnings.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I was going to be in Hawaii this week on
a family vacation, and my brother had some stuff come
up at work in between us, saying Okay, this is
our week and booking the trip and we're like, Okay,
you can't go. We're not going. And so I've been
thinking like where would we be? Would we be have
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been leaving this morning and have to reschedule it all. Anyway, Yeah,
with the tsunami warnings from last night, that had everything
kind of on hold for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I mean there was there was some issues.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
If you saw, I was following along closely because it
was the first wave was supposed to hit at like
I think it was eleven seventeen hour time PM, right,
it was supposed to hit like seven something Hawaii time,
and I'm watching I'm watching the web the webcam, the
surfcam at Bondz Eye Pipeline, which is one of the
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most iconic surf breaks, and that beach no matter the
time of day, time of year, there's always people on
that beach. It was empty because of course, people were like, well,
I'm not going to be on the beach when there's
why may obey empty? The sand that is never empty
was totally empty. People were up on the cliffs watching, waiting,
holding breath to see if this tsunami was going to
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come in and take out.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
If a big, if a giant wave had hit the
north shore like it was supposed to, like the projected one.
That is like, thankfully everyone had time to get out
of the way, but that would have been hundreds of
of billions of dollars worth of damage. Turtle Bay Resort,
all that stuff's up there anyway. Glad it didn't happen.
Shout out to everyone in Hawaii. Obviously a lot of
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you know people here have family out there and stuff.
So huge relief. I've actually do you remember eight years
ago when there was a nuclear missile scare in Hawaii?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Did you ever hear about it?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh, James, if we talked about this on the air before.
So I was in Hawaii. I had my wife's engagement
ring in my pocket. I was planning on proposing that day. Okay,
we wake up my buddy who lives out there, lets
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me stay in this beautiful rental property that he manages.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's right on the beach. It's like heaven.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Okay, we wake up to effectively, like you know, when
your phone's on silent but it still doesn't wan. It's
like amber alerts or whatever. And it was this government
warning text message saying, hey, in imminent threat, nuclear missile
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inbound from North Korea or something crazy, seek shelter immediately,
And I'm just like, what.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
What the heck is this? It? It? It went out.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Everyone on the island got it, and we were like, okay,
So I called my family. She called her family like,
we don't know if this is legit, We don't know
what's going on, but love you. And it was like,
are we gonna die? And it was all just a
false alarm, obviously, but scary. You hear the stories right
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of the proposals. You can't reach your dad, you are
out to dinner and you forget your wallet, your car
gets towed. That has to be the best, the biggest
nightmare one I've ever heard. I will say this, we
as poeent the proposal itself to the next day because
a little bit too emotionally rattled.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
That's that's not one of those things. All right, let's
take the edge off here a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
All right. Anyway, we thought we were about to die,
so you want to get married? All right?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Back to the matter at hand, Mammoth week happening up
and down. Uh, And you know, Adrian has been a
big part of it players and the sort of outreach
program that we're just now like really starting the drip
campaign of what this team has meant or will mean
I should say to do this community. What do you
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think like as you're on the streets, as you're meeting
these people, as you're sort of like a part of
this education process, where are we at in terms of
like people fully embracing the Mammoth, ready to buy tickets,
season tickets. It's a family thing that they're gonna absolutely
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make part of the sports culture here in Utah.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
My biggest thing so far from Mammoth Week and we've
been the Logan Provo Park City is the first thing.
Everybody there's excited and everybody there it seems like the
highlight of their summer, which it is for us, just
to you know, try on Veggie's gear, go to the
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twinning with tanev Booth and then you've got everybody the
kids inside skating around. So it's just the excitement and
the folks being just grateful that the NHL is here
at Utah.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So that's the first thing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
The second thing, oh see, is that everybody who comes
and you know, we're out at community ice rinks, and
you know, there's it's it's public space, and so a
lot of our people there just happen to be driving
by and see a party going on and and stop off.
But everybody has watched, everybody's listened, Folks have been to games.
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They knew that it was Clayton Keller's birthday yesterday. It's
that people know, and people were a part of year
one and they're excited for year number two. It's not oh,
what's going on here, Oh, Utah has an NHL team,
It's people know, and they've watched, they've listened, they've been
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to games, and they're starving for more.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So I've been I've been setting some over unders for
Utah football for the upcoming season, having a little bit
of fun with that. And since we're on that theme
for now, the Utah Hockey Club now to be the
Utah Mammoth.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Uh there. Their average goals per their goals per.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Game average, I should say last year was was what
just under three We were sitting at two point nine
three per game. There's not a massive gap between where
they're at, you know, twentieth in the league versus the
number one team in the league.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Three three and a half goals per game.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Tampa Bay, Washington they were at three and a half
games three and a half goals per game. Effectively, Where
does this team need to get to to be the
playoff team? We're not talking about them yet as Stanley
Cup contenders. Where does this team need to get to
in terms of goals per game in order to be
where they should be in year five of the rebuild
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and now it's time to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
As we've talked about so many times.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Over three, right, you always want to be over three,
And I think I feel good saying three point two
five goals game is something that is in the reach
for next year. I think are analytics from last season
in goals expected, we had more scoring chances that looked
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like they were gonna be goals than we had goals lost.
And Kraus, as a player that was particularly snake bit
had twenty goal seasons in three straight years, didn't get
there last year. So I think I think we're gonna
see a sizable increase this year. And I'd set it it.
I'd set it it three point oh eight and is
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the is the over under? And I'd take three point
one nine? Okay, thinking thinking in my gut it's gonna
be about three point two five.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Okay, three point twenty five would be good for ninth
in the league in last year. Yeah, we'll see how
it plays out in this upcoming cycle. That's that's enough
to get you at least into the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Is it enough to win you a playoff series? You
think that's that's the biggest thing. It's going from regular
season to playoff mode. And can you adjust in a
seven round, first round playoff series against a team that's.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Been in the playoffs before.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Are you gonna Are you gonna be able to jump
right in and split the first two games on the road, right?
Are you gonna be able to hang with them? Because
it usually takes a year of being in the playoffs
to get that feel, to take that pain to go
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back with it. Be like, okay, now we're ready for
the playoffs. Now, now now we're in playoff mode. Went
to the regular season, had a good regular season, qualified
for the playoffs, had that good first round. But can
we can we push over the top against the team
that's been in the playoffs before to win that series?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So Adrian Denning, by the way, talking Utah Mammoth Between
the pipes here on the Sean O'Connell Show, we haven't
really settled into the rhythm of NHL like we know
the rhythm of college football. Camp starts day NFL football.
You know when training camp and OTA's and all that
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stuff are this time of year for the Mammoth players, coaches,
front office staff. Obviously you're very busy right now doing
this Mammoth Week. What does it look like for the
guys who are actually going to be skating right now
in late summer.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
So they're on their own, they're working out, they have
the plans that the performance teams giving them, so typically
looks like whether they're spending the summer here or back
in Minnesota, Toronto where they're from, it's wake up, skate,
work out, and just stay in shape. A lot of
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guys will take a week or two off when the
season ends and then back to work and it's pretty
much a Monday through Friday schedule, just like during the season,
the training and the skating, except in the summer for
the hockey guys. And then that's where they add in
plenty of golf in the afternoons.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Oh golf.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
So many professional athletes that's like they're outlet I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I'm so glad. I'm so glad to hear you say that.
I don't it's because I'm terrible at it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Fully, I fully admit that if I was any any
good at it at all, I'm sure I would like
it the way that most people do.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But I'm terrible. The whole thing just makes me uncomfortable,
all of it. It's fair, all of it. So I've and
nobody ever, nobody ever has that same sentiment as youth.
So I feel good hearing that last.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Thing before I let you go that we we were
talking about, you know, one of the great stars in
the NBA, Luka Doncic is it seems like finally taking
his body seriously right, and the question of whether that's
because of the influence of Lebron James or it's because
it's a spie body. He's mad at the Dallas Mavericks,
so he's showed them all right, you don't think I'm serious.
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I watched this whatever kind of doesn't matter. The results
are there. He's lean, he mean, and it creates a
conversation about professional athletes and taking care of their bodies.
And again we're new ish to the NHL, So what
does that look like for a lot of these guys,
Because in the NBA, yes it's a contact sport, it's
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not a collision sport. The schedule in the NHL is
as demanding, but the actual game itself has to be
a lot harder on your body. I see so many
hockey players when I'm like that guy probably has a
beer during intermission and eats a hot dog. But then
I don't think you can actually get away with that anymore.
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So the players that you've talked to, how close you
are to all this? What does that look like for
NHL players? How much time, effort, energy, money goes into
taking care of the body. Yeah, it's in the last
five ten years in everything, the sports science has just
gotten I don't want to say over the top, but
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so next level. Like I remember ten fifteen years ago
with the Grizzlies in the ECHL, and it's a different level.
But you hear stuff. You hear coaches be talking like
so and so's out of shape. I can't believe this. Right,
we're forty games in and so and so's still out
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of shape. And I haven't heard any of that in
the last five ten years because it's so so dialed.
They're being paid so well and the team is giving
them such a detailed plan that take the week or
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two off and then you're back to work. But it
has been a long long time since I heard a
coach a trainer at GM under their breath, you know,
because because you talk off the record and you hear stuff.
It has been a long time since I've heard anybody
say anything about a hockey player coming to camp out
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of shape or being half half the season, And how
is so and so still out of shape. I don't
even know how that would be physically possible to be
out of shape halfway through a season. I I do
see how you could come in off the golf course
and just be like, I'll play my way into shape.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
We see that in the NFL all the time. You
see that.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I think in the NBA there was a lot of
conversation around around Jokic that way, and around Doncic that way, so.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And and and with this team this year in training camp,
in particular, if someone was to say to come to
camp and not be ready to go, not be able
to play in game action at what they were last year,
they're going to be put on waivers with the intent
of being sent to the AHL, because that's there's there's
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gonna be, guys, as there is every year the plate
in the NHL last year across the board, all thirty
two teams come to camp, are what they were last year,
and don't don't make the team end up on waivers
and get said to the AHL.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
All right, we're up against the break here, So thank
you again for coming in. And uh, if you get
wind or get to see Veggie's new mask before the
rest of us, yeah, make an agreement just between us.
All right, Yes, you take a picture of it, you
send it over, Send it over.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I will, And it's it's it's hard to do that
because these companies that do the painting and stuff, there's
always leaks. They all have their own Instagram accounts. It's
like they scoop the player with the mask and I
think we just saw it with the pads.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, well you got it. You gotta get the clicks.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Yeah, it makes sense, but the second I see it,
I'll get it over.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Love that.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Thanks for coming in as always, appreciate your time. Thanks
so see, thanks for having me in.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Between the pipes.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Adrian Danny brought to you by Angora and Aladdin Industries.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
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Let's get back to woe see from the Murdoch.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Chevrolet Studio of ESPN seven hundred ninety two to one
a f am we go between the Pipes with Adrian Denny,
brought to you by Angora and Aladdin Industries.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Are Utah Mammoth insider.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Adrian Denny's been very, very busy for Mammoth Week, all
up and down the Wassat front and beyond, Little outreached,
Little pr for the Utah Mammoth.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Adrian, Welcome to the studio. How are you? Thanks?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
So see lots and lots of spray sunscreen is what
the message is this week, and so far we've been
lucky up and Logan Saturday had some cloud cover, cloud
cover in Park City yesterday, but Monday night in Provo
I was beaten down and we've got cotton high it's
tonight right, got one height tread Center Ogden tomorrow and
(01:04):
then we've got Enich Slash Theater City on Friday, Saint
George on on Saturday. So we need uh gonna need
to keep uh spraying the sunscreen. The SPF ME it's.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Gonna get You're gonna finish real hot down there in
Saint George.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, that's great. So we're having a blast. It's our
mobile fan fest, going from city to city. Everybody's come,
had a great time. We've got some on ice stuff,
some some learn to play, some hockey clinics and food
trucks and folks can come. We've got photo booths, we've
got face painting, you can make bracelets.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
You can play NHL twenty five, We've got that. So
everything is uh unlike PlayStation Xbox. Yeah, we've got stations
uh for for that and so yeah, come out of
Twinning with TANEV is probably our most popular photo booth.
That's a Polari polaroid frame with uh one of one
of his headshots and you can see how you do
(02:02):
nice with a smile. Or President Hockey Operations, Chris Armstrong
stepped into that booth yesterday in Park City.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Love it. That's really cool.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
The biggest reveal that we're going to get to we're
going to get to our start bench cut with Adrian
by the way here in just a second. But we
had a huge reveal for the Utah Mammoth this week
that flew under the radar for a lot of people.
But I have said this on air many, many, many times,
I will die on this hill. One of the greatest
(02:33):
things in professional sports and one of the most unique
things in professional sports is the artistic expression afforded to
goaltenders through their masks and a reminder from Veggie. This week,
through their pads. Carol Vamalka released the look of his
(02:56):
pads that are just absolutely sick.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
I wish there were more of a visual element to
our show.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
I wish we were like a Pat McAfee style where
everyone was also watching us so I could put the
graphic up. But he's got the mammoth silhouettes on the
on the pads, on the blocker, everywhere. Just it's an
absolute thing of beauty here, Adrian.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's a prelude, I think to what's really gonna come
And that's his mask. We saw his mask last year
with the Dinosaurs Utah.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
In fact, Veggie, if there's a way you want to
earn some money for a charity that you love, put
that mask up for auction. Your boy's gonna put a
hefty tag on. I will buy that thing. I'm a
big dinosaur guy. Game warn dinosaur painted inaugural season Utah
Hockey Club mask with that theme.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I'm I'm I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Spending some money on that for a good charitable cost.
It was really really cool and it reminds me O.
See at Mammoth, we've got a set of Veggies gear
that you can try on. We don't have the dinosaur mask.
We have the first mask that he wore this season
with the pads and the block or and the glove,
and you can throw that on and uh see how
(04:15):
it feels. And you know, depending on your size, uh
the nine and ten year olds, it's uh, it's a lot,
but but it'll fit. It'll fit regardless. But yeah, pads,
you see, you see a lot of splotches. You see,
you know, the team's primary colors mixed in on the pads.
But it's not every day. Maybe maybe two or three
(04:35):
sets of gear in the whole NHL have a you know,
the the full identity and our Mammoth logo that we
unveiled in May to see this on the left pad,
the right pad, the two mammoths if you will, clashing
on on the pads. That's that's pretty awesome and I
and I can't wait to see uh, his mask, because
(04:56):
if the pads are like this, the mask, my gosh,
take it to another lot.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
The mask is going to be so sick. I cannot
wait to see what it looks like. But Veggie, go
check it out. Nhl Utah's got it.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It's a you know.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Brogan Houston, who's a big guest of ours, tweeted it.
I've retweeted it. It's just they're they're beautiful. They're a
thing of beauty and you should take a look at them.
And I don't know, they got to create like a
retail item that we can we can you know, like
a foam finger version of this, but instead have the
kids walking around with like foam finger pads on their
(05:31):
legs or something dressed up like Veggie.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
How about how about Veggie kind of really kind of
preluding our name with the prehistoric dinosaurs last year we
had Mammoth at the same time and he kind of
kind of foreshadowed what what actually happened.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
How about It's great, It's absolutely phenomenal. All right, let's talk.
Let's talk a little start bench cut. I know you
can in prepared for this. The also rans of the
Adam Sandler filmography. I omitted Happy Gilmour and Billy Madison
because those are the classics.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Everyone loves those.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
He's got a bunch of other movies that you look
at and you say, all right, I like that.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I had to narrow it down to three.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I used some metrics of grossing, not even box office
but also streaming, et cetera. By the way, his Hotel
Transylvania movies, he's done three of them, the animated ones.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You've seen any of these? You know what I'm talking about. No,
the voice.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I can't say that I've actually sat down and watched it,
but I've passed through, flipped through, heard the voice. Okay,
so there's three of them, right?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
How much?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
How much money do you think that those movies generated,
all three put together for Adam Sandler's Happy Madison productions.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
This is going to be either really good or really bad.
What do you think?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Oh, gosh, a dollar figure you're looking for? Yeah, just
like thirty million.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
One point four billion dollars of revenue generated by those
three movies. They're his top grossing products ever in the
entire catalog. Hotel Transylvania, Hotel Transylvania two, Hotel Transylvania three.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Did over five hundred million dollars for the third.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
And by the way, my daughters love it, so I
guess I'm part of that anyway. Crazy right, Okay, So
starting benching cutting fifty first dates, Big Daddy water Boy.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Really excited for your feedback on this. Okay, start Big
Daddy bench water Boy cut fifty first dates.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I love fifty first dates. I'm cutting, Big Daddy. I'm
starting fifty first dates, and I'm benching water Boy.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
For me, it was you can't cut everybody with water
Boy and fifty first dates.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Really, Big Daddy, Big Daddy. I think I actually.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Watched it a couple of times. I think I I
think I had I think I had the DVD of it.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
They're all They're all good, They're all excellent.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Fifty first dates.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Any movie that's got a Hawaiian theme or Hawaiian like,
I'm automatically gonna like it a little bit more because
I love Hawaii so much. By the way, a little
scare last night, the tsunami warnings.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I was going to be in Hawaii this week on
a family vacation, and my brother had some stuff come
up at work in between us, saying Okay, this is
our week and booking the trip and we're like, Okay,
you can't go. We're not going. And so I've been
thinking like where would we be? Would we be have
(08:48):
been leaving this morning and have to reschedule it all. Anyway, Yeah,
with the tsunami warnings from last night, that had everything
kind of on hold for a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
I mean there was there was some issues.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
If you saw, I was following along closely because it
was the first wave was supposed to hit at like
I think it was eleven seventeen hour time PM, right,
it was supposed to hit like seven something Hawaii time,
and I'm watching I'm watching the web the webcam, the
surfcam at Bondz Eye Pipeline, which is one of the
(09:25):
most iconic surf breaks, and that beach no matter the
time of day, time of year, there's always people on
that beach. It was empty because of course, people were like, well,
I'm not going to be on the beach when there's
why may obey empty? The sand that is never empty
was totally empty. People were up on the cliffs watching, waiting,
holding breath to see if this tsunami was going to
(09:45):
come in and take out.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
If a big, if a giant wave had hit the
north shore like it was supposed to, like the projected one.
That is like, thankfully everyone had time to get out
of the way, but that would have been hundreds of
of billions of dollars worth of damage. Turtle Bay Resort,
all that stuff's up there anyway. Glad it didn't happen.
Shout out to everyone in Hawaii. Obviously a lot of
(10:09):
you know people here have family out there and stuff.
So huge relief. I've actually do you remember eight years
ago when there was a nuclear missile scare in Hawaii?
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Did you ever hear about it?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Oh, James, if we talked about this on the air before.
So I was in Hawaii. I had my wife's engagement
ring in my pocket. I was planning on proposing that day. Okay,
we wake up my buddy who lives out there, lets
(10:42):
me stay in this beautiful rental property that he manages.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
It's right on the beach. It's like heaven.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Okay, we wake up to effectively, like you know, when
your phone's on silent but it still doesn't wan. It's
like amber alerts or whatever. And it was this government
warning text message saying, hey, in imminent threat, nuclear missile
(11:09):
inbound from North Korea or something crazy, seek shelter immediately,
And I'm just like, what.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
What the heck is this? It? It? It went out.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Everyone on the island got it, and we were like, okay,
So I called my family. She called her family like,
we don't know if this is legit, We don't know
what's going on, but love you. And it was like,
are we gonna die? And it was all just a
false alarm, obviously, but scary. You hear the stories right
(11:44):
of the proposals. You can't reach your dad, you are
out to dinner and you forget your wallet, your car
gets towed. That has to be the best, the biggest
nightmare one I've ever heard. I will say this, we
as poeent the proposal itself to the next day because
a little bit too emotionally rattled.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
That's that's not one of those things. All right, let's
take the edge off here a little bit.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
All right. Anyway, we thought we were about to die,
so you want to get married? All right?
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Back to the matter at hand, Mammoth week happening up
and down. Uh, And you know, Adrian has been a
big part of it players and the sort of outreach
program that we're just now like really starting the drip
campaign of what this team has meant or will mean
I should say to do this community. What do you
(12:41):
think like as you're on the streets, as you're meeting
these people, as you're sort of like a part of
this education process, where are we at in terms of
like people fully embracing the Mammoth, ready to buy tickets,
season tickets. It's a family thing that they're gonna absolutely
(13:02):
make part of the sports culture here in Utah.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
My biggest thing so far from Mammoth Week and we've
been the Logan Provo Park City is the first thing.
Everybody there's excited and everybody there it seems like the
highlight of their summer, which it is for us, just
to you know, try on Veggie's gear, go to the
(13:26):
twinning with tanev Booth and then you've got everybody the
kids inside skating around. So it's just the excitement and
the folks being just grateful that the NHL is here
at Utah.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
So that's the first thing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
The second thing, oh see, is that everybody who comes
and you know, we're out at community ice rinks, and
you know, there's it's it's public space, and so a
lot of our people there just happen to be driving
by and see a party going on and and stop off.
But everybody has watched, everybody's listened, Folks have been to games.
(14:10):
They knew that it was Clayton Keller's birthday yesterday. It's
that people know, and people were a part of year
one and they're excited for year number two. It's not oh,
what's going on here, Oh, Utah has an NHL team,
It's people know, and they've watched, they've listened, they've been
(14:31):
to games, and they're starving for more.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
So I've been I've been setting some over unders for
Utah football for the upcoming season, having a little bit
of fun with that. And since we're on that theme
for now, the Utah Hockey Club now to be the
Utah Mammoth.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Uh there. Their average goals per their goals per.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Game average, I should say last year was was what
just under three We were sitting at two point nine
three per game. There's not a massive gap between where
they're at, you know, twentieth in the league versus the
number one team in the league.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Three three and a half goals per game.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Tampa Bay, Washington they were at three and a half
games three and a half goals per game. Effectively, Where
does this team need to get to to be the
playoff team? We're not talking about them yet as Stanley
Cup contenders. Where does this team need to get to
in terms of goals per game in order to be
where they should be in year five of the rebuild
(15:35):
and now it's time to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
As we've talked about so many times.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Over three, right, you always want to be over three,
And I think I feel good saying three point two
five goals game is something that is in the reach
for next year. I think are analytics from last season
in goals expected, we had more scoring chances that looked
(16:04):
like they were gonna be goals than we had goals lost.
And Kraus, as a player that was particularly snake bit
had twenty goal seasons in three straight years, didn't get
there last year. So I think I think we're gonna
see a sizable increase this year. And I'd set it it.
I'd set it it three point oh eight and is
(16:24):
the is the over under? And I'd take three point
one nine? Okay, thinking thinking in my gut it's gonna
be about three point two five.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Okay, three point twenty five would be good for ninth
in the league in last year. Yeah, we'll see how
it plays out in this upcoming cycle. That's that's enough
to get you at least into the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Is it enough to win you a playoff series? You
think that's that's the biggest thing. It's going from regular
season to playoff mode. And can you adjust in a
seven round, first round playoff series against a team that's.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Been in the playoffs before.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Are you gonna Are you gonna be able to jump
right in and split the first two games on the road, right?
Are you gonna be able to hang with them? Because
it usually takes a year of being in the playoffs
to get that feel, to take that pain to go
(17:26):
back with it. Be like, okay, now we're ready for
the playoffs. Now, now now we're in playoff mode. Went
to the regular season, had a good regular season, qualified
for the playoffs, had that good first round. But can
we can we push over the top against the team
that's been in the playoffs before to win that series?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
So Adrian Denning, by the way, talking Utah Mammoth Between
the pipes here on the Sean O'Connell Show, we haven't
really settled into the rhythm of NHL like we know
the rhythm of college football. Camp starts day NFL football.
You know when training camp and OTA's and all that
(18:04):
stuff are this time of year for the Mammoth players, coaches,
front office staff. Obviously you're very busy right now doing
this Mammoth Week. What does it look like for the
guys who are actually going to be skating right now
in late summer.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
So they're on their own, they're working out, they have
the plans that the performance teams giving them, so typically
looks like whether they're spending the summer here or back
in Minnesota, Toronto where they're from, it's wake up, skate,
work out, and just stay in shape. A lot of
(18:42):
guys will take a week or two off when the
season ends and then back to work and it's pretty
much a Monday through Friday schedule, just like during the season,
the training and the skating, except in the summer for
the hockey guys. And then that's where they add in
plenty of golf in the afternoons.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Oh golf.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
So many professional athletes that's like they're outlet I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
I'm so glad. I'm so glad to hear you say that.
I don't it's because I'm terrible at it.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Fully, I fully admit that if I was any any
good at it at all, I'm sure I would like
it the way that most people do.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But I'm terrible. The whole thing just makes me uncomfortable,
all of it. It's fair, all of it. So I've and
nobody ever, nobody ever has that same sentiment as youth.
So I feel good hearing that last.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Thing before I let you go that we we were
talking about, you know, one of the great stars in
the NBA, Luka Doncic is it seems like finally taking
his body seriously right, and the question of whether that's
because of the influence of Lebron James or it's because
it's a spie body. He's mad at the Dallas Mavericks,
so he's showed them all right, you don't think I'm serious.
(19:55):
I watched this whatever kind of doesn't matter. The results
are there. He's lean, he mean, and it creates a
conversation about professional athletes and taking care of their bodies.
And again we're new ish to the NHL, So what
does that look like for a lot of these guys,
Because in the NBA, yes it's a contact sport, it's
(20:18):
not a collision sport. The schedule in the NHL is
as demanding, but the actual game itself has to be
a lot harder on your body. I see so many
hockey players when I'm like that guy probably has a
beer during intermission and eats a hot dog. But then
I don't think you can actually get away with that anymore.
(20:39):
So the players that you've talked to, how close you
are to all this? What does that look like for
NHL players? How much time, effort, energy, money goes into
taking care of the body. Yeah, it's in the last
five ten years in everything, the sports science has just
gotten I don't want to say over the top, but
(21:01):
so next level. Like I remember ten fifteen years ago
with the Grizzlies in the ECHL, and it's a different level.
But you hear stuff. You hear coaches be talking like
so and so's out of shape. I can't believe this. Right,
we're forty games in and so and so's still out
(21:23):
of shape. And I haven't heard any of that in
the last five ten years because it's so so dialed.
They're being paid so well and the team is giving
them such a detailed plan that take the week or
(21:45):
two off and then you're back to work. But it
has been a long long time since I heard a
coach a trainer at GM under their breath, you know,
because because you talk off the record and you hear stuff.
It has been a long time since I've heard anybody
say anything about a hockey player coming to camp out
(22:06):
of shape or being half half the season, And how
is so and so still out of shape. I don't
even know how that would be physically possible to be
out of shape halfway through a season. I I do
see how you could come in off the golf course
and just be like, I'll play my way into shape.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
We see that in the NFL all the time. You
see that.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I think in the NBA there was a lot of
conversation around around Jokic that way, and around Doncic that way, so.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
And and and with this team this year in training camp,
in particular, if someone was to say to come to
camp and not be ready to go, not be able
to play in game action at what they were last year,
they're going to be put on waivers with the intent
of being sent to the AHL, because that's there's there's
(22:58):
gonna be, guys, as there is every year the plate
in the NHL last year across the board, all thirty
two teams come to camp, are what they were last year,
and don't don't make the team end up on waivers
and get said to the AHL.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
All right, we're up against the break here, So thank
you again for coming in. And uh, if you get
wind or get to see Veggie's new mask before the
rest of us, yeah, make an agreement just between us.
All right, Yes, you take a picture of it, you
send it over, Send it over.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
I will, And it's it's it's hard to do that
because these companies that do the painting and stuff, there's
always leaks. They all have their own Instagram accounts. It's
like they scoop the player with the mask and I
think we just saw it with the pads.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Yeah, well you got it. You gotta get the clicks.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
Yeah, it makes sense, but the second I see it,
I'll get it over.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Love that.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Thanks for coming in as always, appreciate your time. Thanks
so see, thanks for having me in.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
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