Dallas Stars at St. Louis Blues – Preseason Game 5 | DLLS STARS PREGAME

uh signed N Cavaris and Stlars for less than what they signed Capri off for. But who would you rather have? Would you rather give those three for Capri off? Don’t even tell me we’re going. We’re We’re already live. Yeah. When he says we’re live in 15 seconds, I don’t listen to him. I know that’s the problem. This is the DLS Stars pregame show. We’re ready to roll. He even heard his own get ready boys and didn’t didn’t register. So, all right. Well, it’s preseason. dinner over here. Careful with I think tonight might be more fun than on Saturday, which got a little goofy dinner though. They’re eating your clam. Let’s go right now. DLS starts right now. Start already. [Music] [Music] [Music] This is the DLLS Stars pregame show as we get you ready for tonight’s game between the Stars and the St. Louis Blues alongside Craig Ledwig and Sam Nestler and our producer Ryan Vers. I’m Owen Newkerk. Like to point out two things before we get into the action tonight. We just launched our DLLS Dieard sale. Fans now have two ways to join. You can either get in with just a $36, which is a big discount with a limited edition t-shirt of your choosing, or you can step up and grab a limited Branded Bills die hard hat for $59 before they sell out. Either way, you get all the Diehard perks, premium content, event and merch discounts, the membersonly Discord, and more. Don’t wait. Join now at all dls.comintro. And you guys ready for this? Officially announcing now. There was a a leak by our GM Ben yesterday on the Dieard Only Discord channel. So, some of you already know and in fact, we’ve actually sold nearly half of our available tickets. We are doing our first ever official DLS Stars takeover Sunday, December 7th against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Taking the bus. We are I was just gonna say that. Why is there a bus on taking the bus? I mean, we might be busing to the game. We’re all getting on a scooter. I thought we were just going to scooter. Who’s the place? What’s the bar that’s got the bus with the horns on it? You see them in the in the summertime? They’re hauling people around. They got the big horns on the front. Come on, somebody tweet in somebody. Get in the chat because by the way tweeted in. They’re giving people rides from already to somewhere. Adam is in the chat saying, “Loods, hurry up, man.” I don’t even know what that means. Hurry up for what? He’s I don’t know. Maybe you’re late. He’s saying eat your Adam. Adam is chirping you already. Adam, what the hell are you talking about? Hey, L’s had his dinner ready. Those aren’t bad. I’ve only had a bowl of clam chowder today. Is that why you had the chili cheese ones? And I spilled one whole drink in my lap when I first got here. You weren’t here for that part. My hands were soaking wet. Really? It was great. Usually Sam’s the one that spills stuff. I did. I spilled my selter on my laptop. But wait, you spilled tea? Yeah. So, you both spilled. But that was better. That was way more. I was stuck in traffic. You’re spilling stuff everywhere. By the way, uh alt owned now parenthesis Scott S wrote first his bing bong from his supporters club then said, “I changed my name so Owen doesn’t have a hard time with my name.” Because your handle is control alt owned, which again, as Les is squinting, he has no idea what that mean. Sam had to tell us it’s gaming. Sure. When’s when do the Stars play next? Instead of control altdelete, control alt own. When when does the Dallas Stars play next game? Preseason game or regular season game? Uh, tonight. Saturday. Oh, is it tonight? It’s tonight. It’s tonight, too. The game tonight. Hey, Sarah, talk about that. Sarah in the chat asked the asked the party buses question mark. I don’t know. Was that serious? It’s a It’s a It’s a tan colored bus. He was gonna say it’s got like Is that Who’s a Longhorns? Are they uh What color are Longorn? Like burnt orange. Well, and there’s like horns on the front of the big long bus that they give people rides up and down the streets here. What color is it? That could that could have been back in the 90s when we first got here. He’s like I I remember seeing it right after we played car. You want to talk about crazy pregame show? Um freelancers like that has nothing to do with gaming, lol. It’s basic Windows command. Control alt own. I was told it’s because of gaming. Instead of control altdelete, it’s control alt owned. Or it’s for that. You know who’s starting a net tonight for the Dallas Stars by any chance? Apparently. I’d like to hear it from somebody. Well, by the way, no, no, let’s get back to this real quick cuz Kendra’s got a good point. We need more. We may need more tickets for this takeover. Yes. How much tickets we got? We have already sold almost half of the tickets. Half of what? Well, that’s up to GM Ben if he wants to disclose the specific number or not. But half of nothing’s nothing. Well, it’s not nothing. I know. How do we know what we have? Wouldn’t that be good information? What would you say if there were four and we’d sold two? What if there were 20? Right. So, anyway, if if you don’t know what the Stars Takeover is for a DLS, it’s you buy a t you get a ticket to the game. You get to come in our studio right here and watch us do our pregame show ahead of time. It’ll be a little earlier then. Wait, hold on. No, no, no. I’m not done yet. I got questions at the end because I thought we were going to a bar. We are. We are. We’re going to Hold on. Hold on. Questions at the end. Billy Bob. So, you have We’re going to Billy Bob. That’s all the way out in Fort Worth. No, I was a varsity. We can take that big bus with the horn. Kayla can drive. She says she’s seedill certified. So, pregame show will be early. Maybe I don’t know. This is not confirmed yet, but maybe like 2 o’clock in the afternoon. It’s a five o’clock game, right? So, we’ll have if anybody that buys tickets to the takeover come up to our studio time for me to do my reading get to watch our pregame show. Then we’re all going to go down everybody that has a ticket and us to Hooters which is down behind us next building for food and drinks. Oh, okay. So, we’re going to have dinner and beverages and then we’re going to go over and all sit together in the upper level the the uh 300 level rowdies to watch Sydney Crosby and the Penguins play the Dallas Stars. Die Hards. Use the code die harden 127 for your event discount because Die Hards get 20% off. All right. All events and merchandise. This this qualifies as an event. All right. Let’s talk about tonight’s game. Let’s because I know you’re clamoring. You’re so excited already. He’s so excited to talk about a preseason game. But as we talked about on the show yesterday, there were a ton of cuts on the roster over the weekend on Sunday. And now, Luds, it looks like we have a pretty much NHL lineup tonight. Maybe a couple of exceptions because there’s still a few guys that we may not be sure on, but go ahead Ryan. We are sure. Are we now? Yep. What’s the What’s the news out of St. Louis? It is what you have here. Okay. So, literally with R2 Huru and Vlad Kolia Chonuk as the extras. Okay. So Luds, with Jamie Ben being injured, if you look at those top four lines that are going to play tonight, that’s maybe Colin Blackwell in there, that’s pretty much your opening night lineup. Yeah. And um again, for me, Bastion’s done a pretty good job. I I don’t think it’s going to be a tough decision. I think he will start with with Blackie in game one, but um this is what I like to see. I mean, I like to see as close to the lineup uh as we’re going to see in what is it about eight days from now or nine days from now. Um, and we’ll see. Uh, you know, we’re I I think we’re I’m curious about probably how Bour does and then I’m curious about Sam Steel, you know, playing up in that that top six up there. So, as far as the forward, I’d love to hear your side of this. If you’re you’re just saying that. No, really though, if you’re Glenn Gooson, you you you just said it right. You have Bastion, you have Blackwell. They’re kind of going to be interchangeable. You think Blackwell has a step up. Do you put Ritzovian above Bastion in that spot to start or do you put him above who? Like would you start your season with Blackwell instead of Bastion here and and otherwise the same or whoever’s the odd man out between Bash who’s our first game against against the Winnipeg Jets. Oh, and then we got Colorado after that, right? And then there’s um you see against Winnipeg I think I would the heavy I would have I would go you would put you take you have Ritz Kovian be a scratch and you put Bastion in Blackwell both assuming that Ritzovian is in over Adam correct or R2uru. Yeah I I I would have Bastion in against Winnipeg. See I think as we look at that lineup I think and I I don’t want to say that because I like Blackie. I’ve I’ve always liked him. I like the way he plays. Um, but I I just, you know, and again, I I think Gully with a new look, new team, trying to be a little heavier, trying to make a statement. Uh, you know, we whatever. I get a hunch that maybe it’ll change, but that they they kind of think that Ritzovian has another level that he can get to. You know, he had a great AHL. I know we talk about this a lot. Take it with a grain of salt because doing something in the AHL does not mean it translates to the NHL. Buds, you’ve been very, very clear about that. But we know what Nathan Bastian is. We know what Colin Blackwell is and we like them for what they are. I just wonder if they think Ritzcoia may have another level they can get to which is why they’re giving him a shot with Johnston and Bourke on that third round. You’re talking about like tonight. Yeah. Oh yeah. I thought we’re I’m already moved ahead. Yeah. Well, I mean I don’t know if he’s going to make the team yet or not. Yeah, we’ll find that out. If he plays well tonight, he’s going to I think he might have the upper hand. So, we’ll see. Uh look at the defense. It’s going to be basically your starting pairs. Now, Petravic did make the trip tonight. kind of feels like Niels has got to have a better game. He’s Yeah. I mean, he wasn’t very good the other day. Again, not not that he’s playing poorly. I just think that there’s couple little, you know, little spots in there. Um St. Louis will have a obviously a pretty good lineup going tonight. So, um it’s not like playing against a predominantly AHL team that we’ve seen the last couple games that he’s played. So, hopefully he is engaged and, you know, does the right things tonight. And he doesn’t have to he doesn’t have to just not have a bad game. Right. Right. Lquist. We know Petravic’s right there. In my opinion, Petravic’s on this roster. That’s that’s what I think. So, if you’re Neils Lungquist, you need to be better than what Petravic can be. Especially if you’re going to play 24 night minutes a night, you know, or 23 if you’re going to be care. If you’re going to be in the top four, you know, I that’s what I mean. I We’ll see how long that lasts if that’s where it is. We already got a bing bong super chat, so let’s get right to it before we get to our next topic. Bing bang. Burned oils with a Oscar Beck. And you’re after the cup. Two big iron fist luds. What? Two big iron fist ls. Sammy Samzy Noki the toilet handling specialist. And Owen and his eggs that he never gifted me. Wish They’re up in the fridge. They’ve been there since July 3rd. I think they might be expired by now. Wishing you a great 2526 Dallas Star season. And to all the good fellow Stars fans, thank you very much, Burned Oils. We appreciate that as well. Um, he’ll be on that bus, won’t he? Maybe. It’s a good possibility. I don’t know. Freelancer will be there. They just said it. Or he’ll be sitting up in the bar a Let’s talk about uh goalies real quick. Casey De Smith is going to start tonight. Remy Porier will back him up. Don’t know if he’ll get in or not. He said he has the whole game. He’s got the whole game. Okay. So, I mean, this is exactly what he wanted. He wanted two games. Jake said he wanted to. No doubt he’s going to play against Colorado on Saturday. Yeah. And the importance of these ones as as Glenn Goldson’s talked about multiple times is this is going to be a very different game tonight. Not it’s not just more exciting for fans because you have more people that you know and more people to watch. It really is going to change the way the games played. Goldson talked about it being kind of an AHL pacing for the first uh four preseason games here. Boy, that last one sure felt like it. Yeah. So, this should be a little tighter. Should be some bigger bodies out there, a little more of that NHL style. And that’s why to Smith and andure both want these last couple games is to get the feel of that because while you can get a little rust off in those games, you’re not getting a ton as a goalie from those AHL kind of games. I also think Sam the head coach for the Blues is going to want his team to put a good performance in tonight. And Montiel had his have his guys wound up. You know, he’s got, you know, he’s got a pretty good lineup in there tonight, too. I mean, not a full complement of defenseman, but but regardless, um well, let’s let’s take a look at him. Let’s go ahead and show the St. Louis Blues expected Lions tonight, Ryan, if you would. What are your thoughts when you look at this groups? Well, the first thing, well, a couple things stand out for me in this one is the that left winger down there in the third. I couldn’t help but notice Milan Luchich, you know, coming back after got two, three years off. He was a he was a force when he was in his prime with Boston. One of the toughest guys in the league. Um Army’s brought him in for a reason and he knows exactly where he stands. We’ll see how he plays tonight. Uh that top line though I I think that can be a I mean if you look that line if you put them together from last year they’ve got 87 goals combined the top line for the Stars all the big dogs have about 97 or 95 or something like that. So I think this is a line that that Monty’s got together and um it might I mean you when you look at it you could see this being one of his better lines if they decide if they they can play well together. Um but other than that um you know they’ve got some younger guys in there and guys they’re obviously taking a look at yet and a couple first rounders are getting their first uh kick at the can. I think it’s Stenberg and one of their defenseman uh first rounders from 23 I think he said. So anyway they’re still you know searching for a couple guys. See if they can find a couple holes here and they’re not playing Robert Thomas tonight. Pavo Buchvich Braden Shen. So they can add a few pretty decent players into their lineup. This actually seems a little bit lighter. Take a look at the defense. You mentioned the same thing. Little bit lighter for St. Louis tonight than Dallas. They’ve got another game in a couple of days. Dallas, of course, knowing that they are ready kind of ramping up a little bit, but they will have some of their, you know, Broberg and Justin Faulk will be a be main stays for them. The other guys are the ones that they’re taking a look at. Yeah. Yeah. Like I said, the Lindstein kid is a firstrounder from 23. Um, so and Kessle, we’ve seen a little bit of him. Uh what? Hoffer starting tonight. Hoffer is gonna be in. So yeah, now they don’t have Pareco in the lineup tonight. They don’t have Cam Fowler. Uh young Tyler Tucker who’s 25. Uh but they think Kessle has a chance to make this roster and be part of the seven. So it’ll be well I mean maybe uh they they also have Tory Krug who’s done for the season and I think for his career. Uh it sounds like he was not coming back from that. I think was that he was out. So tough stuff for him. All right, we have some video clips of Gully. You guys talked about a couple of themes and I want you guys to react to those from what he said today. We’ll do that right after the break here on the Stars pregame show here on DLS. Buckle up. Hold that mic. Become a big mentorship reshapes futures, strengthens communities, and drives economic progress. Together, we can change the odds and build a better tomorrow. Bigs and littles hang out a few hours a month doing normal everyday activities like seeing a movie, doing homework, playing games, going out to eat, or just hanging out. Each big and little match is supported by a dedicated match support specialist who is always there to provide resources and support. Enter your zip code on the site to find your local Big Brothers Big Sisters agency in your area and then comp complete the online inquiry form. Upon completion, a Big Brothers Big Sister staff member will contact you. Go to bbs.org/allcity for more information to sign up to become a big today. Lads, you done? Just waiting on you. Thanks, Luds. I appreciate that. Why don’t I talk to y’all playing over there? Why don’t I No, I already did that. Why don’t I talk to y’all about the YouTube supporter club? I can’t pull off y’all. YouTube supporter club is for true sickle level stuff for the real ones. If you join the supporters club, it’s separate from being a diehard. You get all kinds of exclusive benefits like the cool emojis that you’re seeing in the corner there. Um I’m just going to name them off the top of my head. Cowboy, the bing bong, the You want some help? You told me last time the the the Anthony Davis Anthony Unibrow 80. We got so many good ones. Can’t read these. They’re too far away and too small. You would think I memorized them by now, too, but I just let me know. You get plank pop of exclusive emojis. You get the cool badge so that your name stands out in the chat and you get your questions answered because it’s just natural for our eyes to go right to it. And you get some behind the scenes videos from the DLS Stars crew. 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Well, he was This was his answer this morning at the Frisco Morning Skate before they flew to St. Lewis, you know what I’m hoping, be honest with you, I’m hoping we get a few power plays and uh we got uh putting we put some work in this week on our power play unit. Um so, you know, maybe I have to tell Wes McCaulay that we need at least three tonight, but um so, but yeah, that that that’s what that’s what they’re hoping, you know, especially teams and then some of the stuff that we’ve been working on all week um with our coverage and and uh our line rush against stuff. So that that that’s what I’m hoping we we can see in the game. A tuneup. Don’t ask me to comment because he was whispering my ear that Gully’s a good-look guy. My favorite. So I couldn’t hear anything cuz he’s telling me how good the reason why I played that was Yeah. See, he wants to tune up, but he also we’ve got it recorded. What I really thought was interesting and funny was we talked about the power plays. I heard that and then he said, “Hey, I want to work. We’ve been working on power plays. I hope we get a few tonight.” And then he says, “We might have to give West McCauley pull him aside and ask for three or four.” Well, they’re due, right? They listen, they had seven against on if you got if you got big Milan in there and Bastion, they’re somebody’s going to take an instrument tonight. I think it’ll might get a little nasty. Hopefully. Hopefully, it’ll hopefully something happens in one of these. I mean, no offense. What else does Milan Luchi do at this point in his career? He creates space. That’s it. And but he’s the only way he can create it if he can get to the pile to create it. Yeah. So, the pile may be leaving and he may be coming. So, we’ll find out. Okay. You you mentioned Sam Steel when we started to talk about the line. I did mention man of steel. Gully was asked about steel and he had an answer about steel and his ability to be that utility. I know about our man of steel. I thought he was very effective in last year’s playoffs and and you guys would all probably agree and um I saw him early in Anaheim. I saw him as a junior in Regina actually, 131 points and then uh you know so first round pick and then in Minnesota I thought he played really really well. Uh he was he was on their top line uh holding that fort for for a while. So um I see him as a Swiss Army knife. Um they can play center, can play wing, he’s a penalty killer. He’s really adapted to really coming into this league as a skilled guy and now finding a great role on the penalty kill. I thought he was fantastic last year in the playoffs. So um yeah. Swiss Army knife is where I see Sam. How important is that for a team to have a guy like that that you can trust because you know not everybody’s going to be available every night. Yeah. That you you need those guys. And and what I again I like about our roster, our team is that just we have more than one of those guys. You know, Sam Sam’s kind of taken the I think a little bit of predominant role, but you know, uh Porky can play left, right, or center, you know, as a as a young player. and and Segi, you know, we’ve talked about he can move around center and wing and left and right. So, we’ve just a lot of those hockey players, it it just allows a coach a lot of flexibility, right? You’re not you’re not worried all the time if you if you have an injury to your captain or anything like that. You’re you’ve got pieces that can fill in for a time being. You know who he reminds me of? I just thought of this just now. Who local kid here? Got a couple Stanley Cups. Blake Coleman. He does. He Steel does. I was just thinking of the way that Sam plays up and down the walls and skates and he, you know, kills penalties and kind of can be an agitator kind of in your side. And I was thinking he kind of reminds me a little bit of Blake Coleman, you know, I Blake a little bit bigger. Not much. Maybe he looks he wears big pads. Yeah. Okay. That’s Yeah. Yeah. Big shoulders on. Yeah. But but I mean but two very good players, good skaters. I mean what they are is they’re good middle six guys. You know what I’m saying? like they’re they’re accountable um defensively. Um Steel’s got some wheels on them. He Steals has got some wheels on him. There’s a um we got a super chat. Luds, this is a Hkin 99 cup year from Stars 26 cup year. Luds, what is the purpose of having Wyatt on the penalty kill when he has the worst plus minus on the team? I’m not a hockey mind. What am I missing? You’re not missing anything. I’m I’m telling you Wyatt is a a good hockey player. Well, he’s a great hockey player obviously, but when it comes to the PK, there’s holes in his penalty killing and sometimes he gets attracted to the puck. We’ve seen him lose some lanes and some at the net, things like that. He He’s one of your top fours. Again, they said the same thing about Mike Madano a long time ago. How why would you put Badano on it? Because here’s the one thing that when Wyatt becomes a little bit older, offensive players have offensive instincts. And what they’re able to do when they’re penalty killers, they can somehow have a six sense where they can read where pucks are going and lanes and they can see them. So they use their instincts and they can pick those pucks off. Wyatt hasn’t quite been there yet, but I think that that’s what they’re hoping for. I mean, Wyatt’s good in the circle. You know, he he’s quick. Um, and the other side of that is when you have 25 and 30 goal scorers that are out there killing penalties, sometimes it puts a little pressure on the power play guys, especially the defenseman, because they can’t take the extra risk because if they do, you know, there’s a chance of that short. One of my favorite things about Patrick Sharp when he was killing penalties, is if you made one little mistake, he’s gone and you knew you were in trouble cuz he he wasn’t getting caught. And also by being a good penalty killer, you’re a better five on five guy because you’re more you pay attention to the details a little bit more. So Wyatt becomes that two-way, you know, two-way forward. Again, Wyatt’s what, 22 23 years old? 23, I think. I mean, when you when you see Wyatt, I mean, let’s look in the crystal ball when Wyatt gets, you know, some some reps in the PK and he gets to be better on that and does all the other things he does. Let’s see what he looks like when he’s 25, 26. I was wrong. He’s only 22. Doesn’t turn 23 until May. Okay. Didn’t he turn 21 during the 21 during the playoffs? And and Wyatt is the guy that plays the most minutes. I mean, until Mico came here, he was he was the top minute forward every night. Um, next one is a follow-up question to the Sam Steel answer when asking about Steel plugging in for Jamie Ben on the power play. And Gully’s response came down, I clipped a little bit of what he initially answered, which is, “No, I want Sam to play his game, not try to play Jaime Ben’s game.” But then he followed up with a really interesting thing about personnel on the power play. What I like about the power play is when you add different pieces into the power play, you’re adding in different players skill sets. So that if you’re watching that now, you should as a coach take advantage of their unique skill sets um when they come into there and not just say, “Hey, you’ve got to do this job.” So um you know, if he if he’s not equipped with that job, you you want him to to do what he does best. Um, and I think that gives your power play a little bit of unpredictability. So, um, we we like that part of it. And, you know, we also have Rants that, uh, you know, if we have some good power plays, he might stay out a little longer and then you’ve got a different look with kind of a blended group. Um, so all that stuff again is for me is important because it it keeps the other teams that are heavily pre-couting you off off balance a little bit. So, I love that it seems such simple elementary coaching to say coach the players you have, not the players you want or the expect. You can’t just take this piece and try to wedge it into this space. You’re not putting square pegs in round holes, right? Yeah. And Gully’s just saying he’s got a different he’s got a different toolbox. There’s a couple different tools that he has that someone else may not. And and you want him to be that because one of the things that Steel does is he never stops skating. Very similar to Wyatt. I think on the power play, he’ll be a guy that can hunt pucks down, too. And he’ll go to the front of the net and he’s got some some quickness, you know, and you talk about Renon a couple extra minutes. One thing about Renon is you’re never going to see Renon being one of the guys on their breakout if they use the the drop pass or if they’re going to use a double man swing. Very rarely do you ever see Renon in the picture. Nope. So, all he’s doing is he’s going from the goal line or the half wall and offensively to about the blue line. Yep. That’s it. So, he can stay out there. Yeah. And when he plays, he doesn’t generally move all over the ice. He hangs out in his neighborhood. You know, you know, he’s to the the left side of the goalender or to the right side as you’re looking at the goalender. He hangs out in that area. Makes great passes, makes great plays from there. So, he’s got more gas in his tank. Well, Sam has been talking a lot about 1A versus 1B, Harley and Hasten and who plays on what. And Gully answered a bit about for his coaching history, he’s never really had two good units like this. It’s usually been one stacked. you know, probably the only team, every every team that I’ve been on, there’s really a predominantly one unit and uh um even going back into Vancouver with the Sedines. Um but uh it is nice to have somebody nipping at your heels. And what again with this roster, um I’m not This is probably the closest I’ve ever seen, if you wanted to call it a 1A and a 1B unit, they and and that’s good. you know, uh, the first day we practiced, I think, uh, Rants, that unit scored four goals in the little thing and then yesterday they didn’t, but but the second unit scored in live fire. So, that little push is always helpful. And, you know, one of the things is you guys can’t seem to get your communication and your signs down. He writes worse than I do, which is I wrote really I took really a lot of time to write that, too. What did you write? I wrote predictable versus unpredictable. Thank you. That’s the drop that you should have at the right time. That was about what we’re talking about. The good thing about having two units is that they can have two different looks, you know, and they they do things differently. It it’ll be interesting with the Hastkin versus the Harley, you know, things like that. Which guy plays in what unit, you know, again, if you’re playing with Harley, you know, he’s a shooter first and seems to defer a little bit more. Um, but yeah, I mean, I think anytime you can have two different entries coming up the ice to get in, you know, into the offensive zone and have a look where you’re using the half wall on one side, then you use the bumper in the middle or you’d go from a diamond to two defenseman up top. You throw different looks at penalty killers because then they’re going to know what you do anyways, but the players have to decide on the PK side, okay, now we’re facing this one, you know, and again, it’s just given something else to think about. Even if there’s a split-second reaction to recognize that, that might be the delay that gets an opening and causes some chaos. I I do think and and because the comparison there or the non-comparison about Jamie Bennon and Sam Steel, yes, nobody’s going to take away what Jaime brings. There’s different things that Jaime brings to his game, but when when it comes to the power play, nobody moves Jamie from in front because I think part of it is because they they’re afraid or they don’t want to. They’re not really interested in doing that. But Jamie, you watch Jamie and we we’ve seen enough play. Jaime gets to the top of the crease. He looks behind him. He looks where his feet are and he doesn’t move. He knows he’s not in the crease. He plays a really good net front presence. He’s got good hand eye. Um so and that’s I I think I would love to see that on both groups. And maybe that’s where Sam Steel I don’t know if they would use Steel on the half wall. Maybe he can be that that Jamie Benike on one of those units. Jamie’s also great at when someone does come try to move him, he finds a way to get that stick right between the legs. Yeah. very very no. You’re not gonna do that. This last I had is more of a something that we could talk about during the week on a regular show, but I thought it was really interesting because I want you to respond to this. Yeah, the games are uh but if you could see yesterday in practice, I’m dialing down practice a little bit. I want to get more in an NHL rhythm rather than and out of the training camp rhythm. So, um you know, those hour practices are going to go by the wayside quite frankly uh with this schedule. So, uh, yesterday I think was 38 minutes and then, you know, as we go here after tonight’s game, tomorrow will be another short one. Uh, we have a day off and then, you know, we’re we’re going to get on an NHL schedule here. Um, and get out of this training camp schedule. If you listen to any networks that are talking about the season and things like that, every coach is talking about this and mainly it’s because of the compressed schedule because of the Olympics. You know, there’s going to be 20ome days off in that one pocket right there. until everything is compressed in the beginning and everything’s compressed at the end. They have to find places to get some rest for some of these guys and they can’t practice for an hour plus and everybody says, “Oh, an hour doesn’t seem that long.” For hockey, if you want to be at any temp tempo or high pace, an hour is a very long and especially at the beginning in the first month, month and a half, there’s going to be a lot of standing around because you’re going over positioning where you should be on the ice and things like that. I’m getting the the whirly bird over there. So, I guess it’s it’s been a half an hour. We can be done shut down. thoughts about what your last things you’re looking for as we get ready for preseason game number five. I I’m I’m looking for nils. I I’m going to watch nils and see how he plays tonight. And you know, I’m always keeping an eye on Bourke, but but I think you want to just see how the flow of the game goes with these guys cuz they’re one game away from starting regular season. Sam, yeah, Justin Rovian, this is a big I mean, Glen Goison said straight up he’s not completely erasing everything that’s happened in the preseason, but the game the two games here are going to be more important in his mind against NHL. All right, he pulled his mic away. It’s I think I talked the whole show. I was trying to get something in here. For Sam, for Ryan, I’m Owen. Thanks for watching. Make sure to get in that chat. Sign up for the supporters club. Get those tickets. Stars take over. They’re going fast. Come watch a hockey game at the AAC with us. That’s why we got to wrap it up cuz he all the things. We’re going upstairs. We’re going to go watch Lud eat about five more bags of Fritos, some pretzels, and a hockey. We’ll be right back here for the postgame show here on DLS. I believe that they are going to crush these guys tonight. I do. [Applause] Like the mayor.

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