Andrew Brunette joins; Deadline fallout
Wow feels like forever since we’ve hung out I’ll explain in a bit but you can probably hear a little bit of the reasoning uh there is a lot to get to today I’m going to give you the
Best team coming out of the trade deadline and who we all owe an apology to and now that the dust is settled the winners of the day are coming your way plus a really fun interview with Nashville head coach Andrew Bernett however it’s in how we position the conversation that makes it even
More impactful we’re back it’s the chirp podcast with Darren Mard boys a mic today so everyone know don’t say anything stupid that’s a disgrace that’s a disgrace what a joke head up oh how’ that feel
Old man what are you going to do you you guys are sensitive over there hello again it’s been a while a couple of weeks or three or four uh I should start by explaining our absence and why today
Conversation has been delayed producer Bob and I have had a couple of health issues we won’t speak for Bob other than to say he is feeling better and Super Bowl Sunday gifted me the flu which
Evolved in a strep throat I know I’m more than 15 years old but it happened and it progressed to a severe case of laryngitis that was a month ago no TV no radio no podcasting no fun but as
You can tell we’re on the back end of that not totally good yet but we’re making some pretty good progress back on TV and I’ve got clearance to do the podcast uh through it all that entire
Month Bob and I sat on a conversation that we had just recorded before getting sick with the entertaining coach of the Nashville Predators each week on the sidelines I would tell Bob this Andrew brunett interview it stands up that went on for days and weeks and then a month and
To my happiness the Predators hot streak has outlasted our respective ailments we earned this episode and Nashville deserves the story of what happened before the heater to be told see the Predators leading score is 19th in the NHL the club only boasts two players with 20 goals at
The time of this recording the team is anchored by a 33-year-old star blue liner and a goalie who has been rumored at length to be a candidate to save another team at the trade deadline under
The guidance of a firste general manager in Barry trotz and a new coach in brunette one that scored the franchise’s first goal a lifetime agoal I don’t know whether people know that about Andrew Brett this roster underwent significant change in the summer alterations that did not exactly
Lead to topend competitiveness in the front half of the campaign that changed a month ago when a dismal performance led to Management’s very public cancellation of a You2 concert at the spectacular new s in Las Vegas players said the right thing coaches and management stood by the move but
It got a lot of attention and at the time with Nashville teetering on playoff inclusion there was a a lot of speculation that this was going to take them out of the mix it was going to derail the season but something else happened everyone raised their performance what I offer today is
The before I spoke with head coach Andrew brunett in the days leading up to the controversy and that led to the subsequent turnaround of the Season that has vaulted Nashville to the edge of being
A top five team in the league Nashville knocking on the door of being one of the best five teams in the National Hockey League on the season right now they have gone from borderline being out of the mix to being a massive legitimate Contender what you’re going to hear in our conversation is
A person who is really comfortable in his role he was was aware at the time the team needed to play better find a way to improve their approach and their production but Andrew berett is also very
Confident Nashville was holding on to the second wild card spot when we spoke they dropped out and today they are up only two positions from being out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs they are Wildcard one but the narrative the feeling around this team is totally different they are one of the
Teams that people are talking about being able to make a long run having moved well beyond the speculation that Barry trotz would sell off pieces that included number one goenda no goals no goals what I love about this interview is being able to connect the incredible streak of success that is
Current happening with the words spoken before the run this isn’t reactionary this is teeing up what was going to happen even though we didn’t know what was going to happen at the time enjoy a little Peak behind the start of one of the most impressive Journeys in the NHL this season here
Is Andrew merett at the time on the verge of going big well I was days from losing my voice you’re right in the heat of it do you look at the standings every day or is it just osmosis
It’s already in there yeah I mean I think a little bit of Osmosis is in there I think I’m not a big I never was as a player you know standing watching um seems like every maybe I think it’s bad luck
Every time I watch the standings too often that it just never seems the work so I’m kind of more of the day-to-day um and if you you win more and you lose you put yourself in a pretty good
Position so but it you’re right it probably it is there for sure you kind of know without knowing if that makes sense it’s hard too right now because it’s so frantic in the Western Conference that if you’re trying to keep up with every game and every possibility uh possible outcome it’ll take
Up 20 hours exactly exactly and and as as it goes on here you know for us you know I’m kind of looking right now just like a five seven eight game segment for us because I think that you know
We we got three big home games coming up then we go into St Louis who know we’re chasing and then we got you know four Road games in into you know Vegas LA and a back toback so I’m kind of looking
At that little bit of segment at least in in my head um but it really it’s it all changes after your next game and and we’ve been sitting here for 10 days not playing so everything all of a sudden
You you play Saturday and then the message and the ideas are going to change hopefully for the good how do you balance the urgency to keeping the pressure off the guys well I mean I wish I
Knew I wish I had the answer um I think it again I think it’s keeping him the day-to-day moment and and you know I think in our game you know being upstairs managers look two three years ahead
Coaches look several weeks ahead and I think as a player you’re just it’s dayto day in my opinion so I’m trying to stay with what they feel they don’t look too far ahead you know I talking to
Some of our guys today you know even being from being a player you you see things completely different they may not I was just saying I think it probably goes in one year out the other when
I’m saying this is an important game these are big games um because I know as a player you know I’m like yeah yeah whatever coach they’re all big there’s there’s 82 of them you know and I kind
Of said you know if you’re dumb enough to sit in my shoes when you’re done you’ll understand and you’ll get this you’ll get the message a little better that these are Big freaking games you know
And this home ice is really important and um all those things but I think you know looking back at M career I’d be like yeah yeah yeah yeah working on it you know so have you ever caught yourself
While you’ve been saying something a as a coach going those guys are going yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah all the time all the time especially you say it and then you’re walking back to the coach’s office and you’re like yeah that was one of those moments I probably would have made fun
Of I would have made fun of the coach were you that guy uh I think we all are a little bit you know um I like to have fun uh probably pretty perceptive and um felt as a player had a pretty
Good vibe it was going on so yeah I’m I’m sure I would have said for sure yeah yeah yeah but I you know I understood I mean I watched when I played I watched hockey all the time I was probably more up
To date in in the standings and and the you know what every team has and the point totals and and the goals and the power plays and sometimes him as a coach because I think you know I felt as a
Player he had more time you know I was way better at Fantasy Football um I was way better at Fantasy Baseball uh I just I had more time to waste doing those things and I think as a coach I’m kind of
Just worried about my 23 guys and and you know obviously I watch hockey but I’m watching hockey and I’m thinking more about our team than than the than the game I’m watching um so it it never
Shuts off but I had a better idea probably the whole league when I when I was playing not not coaching interesting H if you’ve got time to play Fantasy Baseball you have all the time in
The world if you’ve got the ability to keep up to date with that thing football is a different story you can dabble in it yeah yeah and baseball I you know to that when I was played baseball was
Like a little bit of a you know especially the spring was a little bit of a release um kept my mind same with fantasy football just it kept my mind off a hockey um um you know especially kind
Of crunch time and playoff time for me to sit and watch a baseball game during the playoffs at a night before a game or something was peaceful and relaxing and and enjoyable and and my mind
Worked the counts and worked you know the shifts and the you know why are they doing that why are they doing that um so I think that for me was a great Outlet you know outl like got me thinking
It got me away from the game because I think sometimes the game consumes me too much as a player um and baseball was a great getaway for me so I stayed I love it um I I you know follow it
Still fairly intently but not like I used to like I was you know kind of a little bit nerdy about it who would your your who’s your what position did you focus on with the first pick uh well in
In baseball yeah yeah usually I think you kind of well again you’re kind of a nerd and you try to find the position that maybe you know there’s not a lot of good hitters so obviously if you had the
First pick and and it was a year that you know you you picked the best the best hitter you know but maybe it might Zone in on a short stop when Short Stops weren’t hitting or a third base if
There wasn’t a lot of them and um figuring you can hit you can get the DHS in the first bases later um that kind of thing but usually every draft is a little bit of strategy of what you know
Where you saw the little bit of the outlier and a little bit of hole where you could take advantage of the system is that why you’re a coach because you had that DNA in you um yeah I I think maybe
That one would be more you know kind of always thought of myself more as a you know a builder um I think even when I retired and kind of went upstairs I thought I’d follow the path of you
Know maybe being a manager or you know at some level I don’t know if it was the NHL but kind of worked through the ranks there was assist you know player Personnel did some assists in GM and kind
Of was you know I thought that’s kind of where I’d go because I really enjoyed that stuff I enjoyed the you know I really got into the drafts even as a kid and you know all those kind of things
Uh and again in the baseball and the football so I really thought had a good pulse on on building so kind of thought that’s what I would do I think the coaching part I’m not sure I’m not sure where that
Came from but it uh by accident like how how did it come um I think it you know I think it came you know I was upstairs and you know I kind of tell you know different stories but you know you’re
In rusi or something and or you’re overseas and you’re you know a million miles from from the ice of the team you’re trying to build you’re scouting you’re trying to put things together and you kind
Of miss a little bit of the grind the the you know as a player I think it’s you know I played as long as I had and you when you’re retiring it’s really really hard and it you’re not sure what you
Want to do I knew I wanted to do something in hockey but you’re not sure and you’re not sure what what made where do you find that feeling you know and I think you thought you’d be in the game
And you’re kind of like I said driving rusi to to Quebec to fly out of Quebec City to you know uh to fly out to go somewhere else and you’re like missed the camaraderie and and and you find you
Know you find yourself it was kind of like a a light went on and I said you know I kind of I I’m maybe that’s what I’ve been searching for you know I think we search when we’re retired
We’re searching for that feeling um and not that I really enjoyed what I was doing I loved um The Scouting i l the like I said the building I loved the development um I just felt I was detached and
Kind of wanted to be part of something I wanted to I miss the guys I missed the lock room I miss the The Sounds the smells I missed I guess having a hand in helping right now not two or three
Years down like your reward you know when you’re managing is usually down the line at Le it maybe right and um it’s it’s right there it it’s um you feel it’s instant kind of gratification and it’s
Instant disappointment but it’s it’s kind of what you know right so I think that’s was you know and I was 40 I think five or six six at the time um and I said you know I think I gota got to give it
One more chance and see if that’s coaching is what I’d like um because I I know I’m missing something what is it and and he was able to I guess get out of retirement mature a little bit or see a
Little more clearly out of the fog and and so I got an opportunity with Joel and uh the rest is history I loved it as soon as I went back on the ice soon as I was able to work with players and
And like I said the Instinct gratification and disappointment was something that obviously I love so it’s kind of how it uh making a short story long here but that’s kind of how it you know materialized well you assumed the role in uh Florida and then you associate in Jersey and
Now you’ve got your team in Nashville uh describe the intensity of the part of the season right now where you’re fighting for that wild card spot yeah I mean this is what we play for you know
Kind of the this is the time of year that we as as players as this is It’s goal time we’re we’re in we’re in one and this is why we play so it’s intense but I think that’s what makes it so much
More fun the intensity to me is the is you don’t want to say the drug but is the thing that gets you go brings you the adrenaline of of why we do this is it fun or is it overwhelming I think
It’s fun yeah you know I think it can become overwhelming absolutely ask me in a week we’re just coming off break have you overachieved though this year uh with the organization not not many franchises will make a change to General Manager I know that there special circumstances there with
With David walking away uh you move in h not too many teams will make major changes at both positions and still be in the mix of it yeah I I don’t think we’ve overachieved I think we’ve um
Kind of achieved I mean I think the team you know last year was plus 10 I think 10 games over 500 knocked on the door so you can almost say we’re probably underachieving a little bit uh maybe not
The same Pace as as they were last year well maybe at this year they were but they had that great run so I think we’re you know we’re if you would ask me the start of the year I’d be extremely happy
To be where we’re at so I don’t know if that’s maybe it is a little bit overachieving or just achieving didn’t really answer your where do you got to get better then to close it out well
I think we for me we we’re gonna have to get some secondary scoring um you know we’ve we’ve relied heavily on our Top Line um and probably burden them a little bit and and you know some of our
Young kids some of that secondary group is just not that they’re not creating we’re just having trouble finishing you know a lot of nights and probably a little inconsistent on special teams you know I think on on both sides the power plate kind of got cold so that’s going to have to you
Know I think that’s partly by really relying on one group of guys that are producing so it’s dried out a little bit and the PK’s been kind of start off poorly and it’s kind of been up and
Down you know through the stretch so for us that scoring isn’t doesn’t come that easy you know we we can’t we have to be really tight in those two areas how much are you and Barry talking about potential deadline Acquisitions um I think we’re we’re constantly communicating you know I think
The relationship we have I think we’re we see things very similarly um we’re always talking um we’re kind of again that that segment weal talked a little earlier these next eight games are kind of going to let us know where we’re at a little bit and let Barry know where we’re at
And fortunately we’re going to have some tough decisions to make um so but we’re you know we’re again we’re on the same page and sometimes I’m like I don’t really want to hear that you
Know are you able to laugh that off with him like or you or as a when he’s your boss you like gota keep your m no I think he I mean Barry has got a good sense of humor I think we’ve had history
Together um and I think yeah I can laugh he’ll laugh it off too you know he’ll say hey sorry but you know but you know and and I’m understanding I think that a little bit of Lucky part for me
Is I I was upstairs you know and I did some a lot of the things that went on upstairs and I understand how that works um I think it’s really I think for me it’s a great asset that I
Did spend time because I think organizationally you have a better clearer understanding of of of why they’re doing some things and and why you know the youth or the waivers the all those different little things that as a coach I don’t think if you were not upstairs you wouldn’t understand
Um so I understand the business up there and I understand how it works um so I think that’s helped me understand or comprehend what they’re but Barry sing and and and why without you know I’ve been around a lot of other coaches that you know gets really upsetting it gets a little
Triggering um where I where I get because unfortunately I was had to do some of those things how’s Barry the same or different as your coach as he is your general manager I think Barry
I mean I had Barry when when I was n or 20 and he was a young coach you know s back 31 years ago I guess um he was a little bit more volatile as a coach um as he is a manager I think you know
Years of doing what he’s done and the success he’s had I don’t say mellow him CU he does I can see that little twinkle in his eye and I know that’s you know probably get out of the way you
Know not a good day to catch up with him okay we’ll do this later yeah his ey gives a little bit of a twinkle and I’m like I gotta get out of here I’m not gonna talk with that one but it
Doesn’t happen quite as frequently as it as it used to happen when when we were younger um but the great thing about him is he he’s been in the Tren obviously he’s been in the trench as whole C
So he understands a little bit of the Cadence of the coach ing um you know after games or certain times there’s not those blowouts he gets his point across but it’s without the emotion in
It I think after games a lot of times there’s High emotion on both sides um so he understands that so I think for a coach that’s you know is is really a br blessing and I’m grateful that that’s he’s
He’s had that experience because he understands that part of it um but again like I said I stay away usually when when there’s a twinkle what’s your coaching style how would you describe it oh boy um good question never really thought about it um I think my coaching style is pretty simple
You know really simple I just well a couple things I want to have the puck um and when I don’t have it I want to get back as soon as possible I want to have fun and there’s all kinds of goals into
That you know there’s all kinds of things that go into that um you know I think you you follow sort of your core values where you’re authentic um in that you know certain things like I I
Believe and I you know I believe in compassion you know I believe in um communication I think today’s player especially today’s player um it’s it’s a and that took that I mean that I’m still
Not great at but that was such a hard skill to learn um and when I first coached in Minnesota you know understanding today’s player you know I really in the communication part I had a hard time
Listening you know it was it was hard to listen and and kind of validate um because I think you know maybe I was in the old school of the you know the coach that just laid it down and why do that
And it’s just it’s just different now now it’s a little bit more of a a partnership um instead of a dictatorship I guess you can say so I think I’ve had to learn that and I think I’ve gotten
Better at that but that was that was a tough one you know because I I would say well why you know either they’re they have their own opinions what do you mean you have an opinion oh I want you to
Do this you know so I think we I learned um so I think that communication and that’s for me that’s the listening part for me was was the hard one still is I mean I still catch myself not listening
I’m like you got to listen um so I think you know those are you know and I think compet competition obviously is one of the big values like I love to compete and I try to instill that with our group
And in in different areas and always a little bit of a competition always um you know we’re you know having fun which is another one the joy of the of and joy I guess in in my values is not everybody
Gets confused that that happy happy is just the byproduct of doing something you love and and enjoying the process enjoying you know it’s going to be a grind and it’s easy to say but I think if
You can you can have that kind of mentality going in that it is that is what that’s where the fun is the Fun’s not just like the result the Fun’s the process and I try to have those a little bit
Of value so I don’t know if I answer your question what my style was I try to stay true to myself but I think I try to Encompass those true those those I think in my core values or ideas and bring it
Into a connection you know I think being connected um on the ice off the ice with your group and and it follows all those values that kind of I listed so that’s kind of my my Approach and my style um
But so are you a players would you put yourself as a players coach because there’s there’s part of what you said would say that you’re you’re more hardliner too yeah I wouldn’t say I’m a hardliner I think I’m Fair um I think I’m there’s expectations um but I I want to do it
Collaboratively like we’re together in this um I’m going to push you you’re not always going to like what I have to say I’m not always going to like to have your say but it’s going to be open it’s going
To be honest and we’re going to have fun doing this and I’ll try to make as fun as possible or as enjoyable as possible and you know I always say’s no better you know game in the world to to
Be able to be a part of and play and I just try to keep that with that being authentic about how I treat people so I I don’t I would say more of a players coach but I think there’s it falls in
Different areas and such a cliche word player coach I think but I don’t think people realize the fun factor and how it can influence a team and and people just assume you’re a professional athlete you’re having the time of your life but it it takes a certain group to to really bring out
Some enjoyment some teams don’t have fun at all no I know and I’ve been on those teams um and I’ve and somebody said well it’s only the good teams that they have fun I said no I I some of the teams
That weren’t very good are awful teams that I had a lot of fun and the group had a lot we weren’t very good but we had fun and we each other and we were connected and I still see those guys later in
My life and career and I can’t wait to see them I mean that’s sort of what I feel like obviously the winning is great but it’s it’s kind of the journey and the people you meet and the connections you
Have in the game to me is what I hold dearest does juice Yaro say more than no goals that we see in the commercial all the time not really I think he get him going I kind of get him going on soccer a
Little bit so he soccer yeah so we who’s your team well it varies whoever’s kind of winning um no I think think I I enjoy yeah I mean probably like about Tottenham um you know I think probably
Just like for a longer time um you know I I like pep so you Barcelona into Byron into Man City I always follow his teams um Liverpool you know with h the Clopper there I kind of get a kick
Out of him and read up he’s the best yeah I I love so I I just I they’re probably no team just more the game you know I I think I think the game is really interesting and kind of uh it’s something
Even tactically that you know I’ve read up a lot on and uh you know follow you just it’s kind of funny I was watching I think it was Brighton and um I know it was n inham or Crystal pal it was a
Game like maybe two weeks on a Saturday and you know I’m kind of losing my hearing a little bit so like the game was on and my wife hates when I watch sports and that’s all I really watch and she
Yells at me to turn it down so I turn it down you know I just start why you know kind of watching the game and to see the you know and these aren’t even topend teams to see the the tactics and and
The triangle and it was almost like a was it Ted lasso when he’s wide I don’t know if you watch Ted lass the Bulls the triangles it’s almost like it was a weird moment and it’s kind of similar to
When you watch hockey sometimes when you know you see all these just different movements and space creating and and just really for that five minutes I was just talized by screen I was just couldn’t
Keep my eyes off and I said it was a Ted lassle moment I guess but it’s just amazing how the the parallels together right like the the SP all sports but you know sometimes look at that with
Basketball too watching basketball and and seeing how they clear out space and how they do these you know the motion the movement and I’m like oh I get a pen out and I write that’s not a bad idea
For the power play or um but it was amazing I just had it off a lot of times you get you know even in so well I find myself in soccer because you know when I have it on I’m kind of listening more to
The announcers I’m watching the ball but when the the volume was off and I was just watching the kind of dazing out watching the the movements the whole field right the whole field exactly I think
I get when when the announcers is on I’m kind of following the ball you know um and then when it was off for that you know amount of time I was following all the movements and which I try to
Anyways but it just kind of was kind of amazing to see actually so I think that’s you know but with juice it’s fun to you know getting back to juice it’s fun get them and I think that was you
Know as a player to connect with the Europeans and different you know groups soccer was a real Bond and so I tried to because I want to learn about them I I was able as a player to really
Follow you know the soccer you know Paul stazz we used to watch all the time together and um that kind of got me into it a little bit and you know total football and I think Total Football kind of
Responds a little bit to to to hockey you know how Yan kro made everybody player reposition I think that’s I think as we going here I think you’re seeing that with defenseman right defenseman skate just as good as any forward in the league right now and my generation we I couldn’t skate
Backwards you know but you’re seeing all these and and the dman couldn’t handle the pucker skate forwards but now they’re just you know you get the the used brothers and the game’s kind of evolving that way I feel um which I find is very interesting and it’s kind of why I you know
Started reading a lot about it um but yeah anyways have you adopted some of that thinking into your approach Beyond just the scribbling maybe power play moving over yeah yeah I think you there’s a
Little bit of it yeah yeah yeah a little bit and and you can say you know do you tell Barry that you got that from from football or did you just say I got this idea uh well I’m would probably
Divulge where I got it from I’m freaking nut do matter dou gu he’s like what huh yeah yeah I I mean I think there’s certain things tactically for sure um you know I think when you see you know KS
Teams play and the Gang and pressing and and how they it almost reminds me a little bit of Carolina you know a little bit how they play that they’re they’re up in your face and they’re you know you
Can almost say a little bit of Total Football there too you know in a way but Minds me you know Carolina reminds me a lot of the you know the gang impressing where they’re in your- face like
The defenseman’s all the way down to the sometimes into the you know goal line where they’re pressing and they’re just keeping you in so I think you see some tactics there you need the Personnel to
Do it um and that’s where I think like where the the evolution of our game and how good defenseman skate and how long they are and how they can handle Puck they can play different positions
You know um I remember talking with Rick Wilson this is going back uh 10 12 years ago I don’t know if you know Rick Rick was a long time yeah coach with I coached with him in Minnesota and we would
Just sit there and he he had that where’s the game going and this is third you know 13 years ago and we had spur and broin and Dumba and scandella and we had all these mobile Ryan Suter mobile D you
Know and we’d kind of sit around and have a coffee or a beer and and and talk about like you know I think it it’s going to you know the defenseman position might kind of be a hybrid position you
Know you might see a you know 131 or a 23 or you know and we’re kind of seeing a little bit of that um but it was funny we went back that long ago and obviously Rick lo I mean he he’s a real sharp
Hockey mine but just that conversation and and to see it kind of evolve like we were just kind ofing and wasting time or something and you right on the money and we were he was right I mean he you we’re
Not there quite yet I don’t think but we’re you know we’re getting there which is is really really interesting how has Nashville change from when you were there as a player scoring the first goal to
Now coming back as a coach well it’s I mean you’ve been here it’s blown up you know it it it uh it’s never ending growth everywhere I mean you see cranes all over the place so it times I missed a
Little bit of the small town feel like when I was here 25 years ago and there was a little strip and um there’s no not as much traffic and but I think for the city it’s great it’s very you know there’s
Everything here it’s popping um and I think what for me the how the game’s grown here you know when we first got here where they were you know they all had headsets and they’re explaining offside
And what p and there’s no youth hockey there was none of that now you see it you know you see these youth hockey teams are in you know the Carnival Quebec tournament when my nephews playing even 10
Years ago they’re in Toronto they’re so it’s grown and I think every credit to to David credit to the the Predators and credit to all the players that were the Jersey I think we really promoted the
Game um so it’s a lot different you know there’s they understand the game a lot better there’s there’s a lot more I guess Hockey talk in the city it it it’s kind of neat how it’s transformed in 25
Years and it’s turned into a you know there’s I don’t know how many rinks now there was no rinks I think when when I was here that it’s uh you know pretty good cool to see it evolve as it has
How many more visitors do you have popping in to see you guys or say hey I’m coming into town then maybe some other stops yeah yeah yeah they didn’t want to come to Minneapolis or Minnesota that
Often I don’t in the winter I’m not sure why yeah yeah no it’s yeah everybody wants to come here yeah it’s so much fun um so do you have a point total that you have to achieve you don’t have to
Tell me uh you probably wouldn’t anyway uh but do you have that number where you we got to get to that yeah yeah yeah and do you have to be uh really ahead of pace or is it a good comfortable
Pace I think it’s got to be a comfortable Pace a little bit little the pace we on about a month ago I think we you’d feel pretty good about it yeah you know so we got to get back back to that
Pace and I think for our group like we you know we’ve left so many points on the table you know so we can’t leave anymore you know there’s games you know just even overtime losses like we’ve had
So many one goal kind of games or we’re up 32 late and don’t get anything out of it or to nothing get nothing out of it or down stor all the way back tie it and give up a late goal you know um where
We just a little bit maturity at different times especially that first 205 16 games where we left stuff we left stuff I thought the last month a little bit um and then we had two really good
Months in between so got to get back to you got to find a way to get a point you know and and that’s going to be crucial for our group I you you run through those games and I know exactly which games
You’re talking about it’s like wow and and those those stick with you they’re painful um th this is awesome I I always find it hard to actually get talking about the specifics of the game with you
Because we get chirping about uh everything else uh so I really appreciate it Bruno heyy no problem love being on you do great work thanks buddy we’ll see you when in Vegas okay sounds good shouldn’t admit this at least uh on something that is official uh carrying the shield of of the National
Hockey League but Andrew Brett is one of the top five guests we’ve ever had on this podcast he’s been a two-time guest but I just love how one he’s fun he’s great but he’s also not afraid to embrace
Things like these soccer influence and he doesn’t keep that hidden he talks about it publicly and it offers so many different Avenues to go around at least as as an interviewer he is an absolute treat you’re not pulling things out you’re exploring uh conversations uh with Andrew brunett big soccer
Fan so am I uh love my uh Bourn withouth cherries of the English premiership who actually pulled off one of the great comebacks in uh EPL history the other day rallying from three goals down
To win a game 43 a massive second half it was so much uh fun to watch at least from a supporter of the winning team it reminded me of what happened between Florida and Dallas in the National Hockey
League now comebacks of multi- gos a little more common in hockey but still Dallas was up 3 nothing on the Florida Panthers a potential Stanley Cup Final preview and it was the Florida Panthers that
Rallied back and won that game in what I refer to going into it as the buddy bll because the two head coaches are great friends going back to uh junior hockey days in petore and Paul Maurice
Neither guy has won a Stanley Cup behind the bench this could be the year for one of them and it was Paul Maurice who was on The Winning Side of things in the most recent clash and I
Think Florida’s for Real uh ironically this team that was coached by Andrew Bernett a couple of years ago is having similar success at has under Bruno but has undergone a massive transformation to be a more competitive team in the spring this isn’t even the same team that made the stand the
Cup Final last year this team is much much more prepared for a Deep Run they’ve changed it the Special Teams are good they’re bigger they’re hard to play against way more structured uh goal tending is outstanding uh and they have Elite goal scores the ads were good this year they
Boosted their roster and the Panthers are the best team in the National Hockey League right now Vegas pulled off the highest profile moves at the trade deadline Tomas hurdle and Noah hannahan both went to the Stanley Cup champions hurdle in the second year of an 8-year deal with San Jose was traded
And he hopes to return from a procedure on his right knee before the start of these playoffs he is rejuvenated one of his best lines was I was the tallest guy in San Jose now I’m looking up
To everybody in Vegas Noah Hanahan is partnered with Alex petrangelo for an alpha pairing on the golden kns right now Vegas is much healthier after adding a player to the lineup five games in a row including Jack eichel who is back Jonathan maraso is closing in on the team goal scoring record
And the golden kns just look look more like the Stanley Cup champion that host hoisted the Stanley Cup last spring than they have in a long time this year since they boled from the gate and were so
Effective uh at the start of the Season uh they look very good can they catch Edmonton for a home ICE position that will be the goal coming down the stretch I believe based on the gap between Nikita cucha this will be slightly controversial but I do believe the gap between Nikita COV and
The second highest point producer on the Tampa Bay Lightning right now COV should win uh the heart trophy for MVP I I’ve never bought into the whole most valuable player to his team angle in
Fact I would just shove it to the side I would pile on I would kick it out the door it bugs me uh that somebody would be more valuable to their team instead of just being the best player in the
League it bothers me that that’s even part of the language it gets Tred out every year and I shoot it down every year but this time around it’s so obvious in Tampa and for this one year I’m
Converted to that thinking Nikita COV has 40 more points than the next highest scorer on the Tampa Bay Lightning who’s Bren Point who’s a pretty good hockey player 40 more points and he’s challenged
Ing for the Art Ross trophy he gets my vote Dylan Lin should also be in the mix at least when you take into account what’s happened to Detroit since the captain’s been out the Redwing stumble and
Freef fall has opened up to the likes of Buffalo and the Islanders to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs in the Eastern Conference no uh nothing against the Red Wings I would love to see them
Back in but there’s a part of me that’s kind of cheering for the New York Islanders simply for the possibility and it’s not a guarantee but there is a chance of a ranger Islanders first round and
We should all gather together if you want to do it individually you can if you can’t make our meeting but we should all gather together next week at 8:00 uh on on Wednesday and offer an apology to
The Buffalo Sabers they were left buried under 8 ft of snow no chance one of the disappointing teams at the start of the we expected Ottawa Buffalo Detroit to all challenge uh only Detroit got into that mix well Buffalo’s there they’re within Striking Distance maybe too little too late
Will it be more heartbreak coming up a point shy like they did last year uh but but they’re they’re in this thing and it proves that you shouldn’t just shove somebody uh to the top of the uh shelf
In the back corner of the storage room now I’m guilty of it I owe them an apology the Buffalo Sabers are making noise right now in the Eastern Conference also want to tell you before we go here
Uh NHL Productions and NHL backstory has released a brand new podcast and it’s titled Tales from the deadline which takes listeners behind the scenes and into the frenzy of one of the most significant and anticipated days on the NHL calendar it has grown to Epic Proportions where everybody follows
The National Hockey League in the lead up to the NHL trade deadline the weeks the days and the hours going up to that trade deadline it is grown from in and around 1980 that gets uh a lot of the credit for inspiring the International Hockey League trade deadline and now it’s become the
Leader of all the major sports of uh of this day and uh other sports are starting to fall follow what the National Hockey League has done with its trade deadline uh so NHL backstory Tales from the deadline will offer uh listeners an opportunity hear from those most intimately involved in trade
Deadline operations like current general managers Ken Holland with Edmonton staning Camp Champion with Detroit uh Billy Garren runs the Minnesota Wild Tampa Bay’s Julian Breeze who swung multiple deals as part of the back-to-back championships with the bolts and from a couple of decades ago
Lunan uh Mike Smith uh was a general manager with Winnipeg uh that’s where I got to know Mike and Neil Smith won a Stanley Cup and pulled off all kinds of deals to propel the New York Rangers in 1994 to the Stanley Cup Championship uh the audience is also going to hear firsthand
Accounts from former players Brett Ashton who was traded what 12 different teams uh played for in the National Hockey League and flyers executive Jay Snyder uh players like Mike singer who appeared in more than a thousand games and uh and a dozen different teams uh he’s going to stop
By uh singer’s wife Carla and son Cole who now plays for Columbus offer their perspective from the family side and then you’ve got guys like Mike camer and Matt J Shane being notified mid game of their trads uh at the deadline how about the infamous Eric Lindros tradeit involving the
Quebec nordes we’ll dive into that a little bit it’s so it’s NHL backstory and Studios podcast uh that uh offers you a wonderful look at Tales from the deadline it’s available wherever you get your podcast uh I got a sneak preview of it one of the benefits of working uh with the National
Hockey League and it’s awesome the different names that you’re going to hear Ray Bor is in it uh Barkley goodro Blake Coleman part of that Tampa Bay Lightning championship in 2020 so uh massive names and then you’ve got uh some of the names uh that are complimentary pieces that pushed
Teams uh over the top uh enjoy it I can’t wait to get your reaction and Bob and I would like to say we’re open for your best wishes uh your well wishes your get better soon get back to 100%
Soon uh send us a note on Twitter Instagram wherever you want to get it in contact with us uh we’d appreciate it because it’s been a long grind it’s been uh it’s been a battl
Man and uh Bob and I we’re back and we’re hoping to be 100% very soon uh thanks to Andrew Bernett thanks to you for sticking with us and reaching out and uh checking in on us and we can’t wait
To get back to a a great uh weekly visit with you as we move our way towards the Stanley Cup Playoffs uh thanks for listening we’ll talk to you next week on the chir podcast with Darren Mard
Daren is back and is joined by Nashville Predators coach Andrew Brunette (6:02). Brunette talks about the Predators season thus far, being in the playoff hunt, working with Barry Trotz, his coaching philosophy and his approach when communicating with players. After Brunette, Daren goes through the trade deadline moves and breaks down the teams he thinks positioned themselves best for the stretch run and the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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