0:04 This is The GPL Podcast, part of the Pulltab Sports family. 0:10 Oh boy, Jup makin mistakes, I love it. 0:28 The center picked off by Woog. 0:45 Now, here's Jupiter and Vegoe. 0:52 Jûpe Good evening and welcome to The GPL Podcast, episode number 297. 1:00 Jûpe Good evening, Veegs. 1:02 Jûpe How you doing tonight? 1:03 Vegoe Good evening, doing well. 1:06 Vegoe We're almost through the midway point of the season for the Gophers. 1:11 Jûpe Before we get too far, something, that doesn't happen often, happened last week. 1:17 Vegoe And I think this is a game the Gophers can win. 1:20 Vegoe It's just one game. 1:21 Vegoe They can just focus on one game. 1:25 Vegoe 3-2 win. 1:26 Jûpe You got me all excited now. 1:27 Jûpe I don't know. 1:29 Jûpe I'm going to say. 1:32 Jûpe Overtime win. 1:37 Jûpe We did something right, Veegs. 1:38 Jûpe We did something right. 1:40 Vegoe Yeah, I mean, I picked a win, and then you picked overtime win. 1:43 Vegoe I mean, 100% right on your part. 1:45 Vegoe You didn't throw out a score, so I'm not going to get a point there. 1:51 Vegoe But see, I had one parent come up to me and say, hey, show a little confidence for this team after the Penn State Series and they came through against Denver. 2:00 Jûpe They did. 2:02 Jûpe Well, we've got a brand new guest tonight, don't we, Veegs? 2:05 Jûpe Someone we've never had on before. 2:07 Vegoe Yeah, brand new guest. 2:09 Vegoe I don't know if people who have been following the podcast know how much of a fan we have in this guy. 2:15 Vegoe He gives us a lot of feedback on how we're doing and we appreciate it all. 2:20 Vegoe Sometimes we get updates from the club room. 2:24 Jûpe And well, let's bring him in. 2:25 Jûpe Dan Woog, obviously son of former coach Doug Woog and a Gopher himself. 2:31 Jûpe Dan, how are you doing, man? 2:33 Dan I'm great. 2:34 Dan I reached out after listening to that last podcast. 2:36 Dan I listened to you guys religiously week after week, especially when I'm cutting the grass or driving home from work. 2:41 Dan Catch that one. 2:42 Dan And I'm asking about the Powerball winners from you. 2:44 Dan So just throw it out there. 2:46 Dan But don't let anybody else. 2:47 Jûpe Yeah. 2:49 Jûpe Veegs, we don't get it right out of it, obviously. 2:51 Jûpe I'm gonna flaunt it a little bit when we get the picks right. 2:54 Jûpe And it was only one game, too. 2:55 Jûpe At least it wasn't a series. 2:57 Vegoe So much easier when it's just one game, right? 2:59 Jûpe It is. 3:00 Jûpe It totally is. 3:02 Jûpe Well, Veegs, it was a good Saturday night for the Gophers. 3:08 Jûpe Obviously, they started real well, even though that first period was terrible for them. 3:16 Jûpe They got the lead and they didn't break too much in that first period, even though that was, what, 25 to 5 in shots. 3:22 Vegoe Yeah. 3:23 Vegoe And I think we've talked about this over the year. 3:25 Vegoe This team needed to have moments like that and not let it impact their game, where all of a sudden, they're chasing plays, they're giving away offense to the other team. 3:34 Vegoe You know, you need just to bear down. 3:36 Vegoe And eventually, you know, things can go your way. 3:39 Vegoe You can string a couple shifts together. 3:41 Vegoe Tanner Ludgey talked about this. 3:43 Vegoe He's like, it's not going to be one play that gets us back in this game. 3:45 Vegoe It's going to take a couple and we just got to stick to it. 3:49 Vegoe I think we saw that from the Gophers at Ball Arena. 3:52 Vegoe You know, they got out shot 23-5, I think. 3:54 Vegoe You know, a lot of that's because of the power play time that DU got. 3:59 Vegoe But really, just a nice period from Luca Di Pasquale and just a good defensive effort to weather the storm. 4:06 Jûpe And Dan, that's the key there. 4:08 Jûpe They weathered the storm, yes. 4:10 Jûpe They couldn't quite get out of the period with the lead, but that shot advantage was totally erased in the second period. 4:17 Jûpe It was pretty much even for the rest of the game. 4:20 Dan Yeah, and that's generally when you're on the road, you're trying to weather the storm originally. 4:24 Dan The full energy excitement for the home team, the Friday night start, they're trying to feed off the crowd. 4:30 Dan I know this was a different arena, it wasn't DU Arena, but yeah, sometimes you have to weather that. 4:37 Dan Again, as you guys all talk about, this league is very, very competitive. 4:41 Dan Anybody can win any given night, and if you get hot goaltending, which they had, it could have been a different game otherwise. 4:50 Jûpe It was quite the Luke of performance, Figs, especially in that first period. 4:54 Jûpe It could have been 4-1, 5-1. 4:57 Jûpe The rest of the night, you could tell they were trying to change their strategy by putting a lot more traffic in front of the net to make it difficult for Luca. 5:05 Vegoe Yeah. 5:05 Vegoe I mean, it was a point of emphasis for both teams, I think, is to get traffic to the net. 5:09 Vegoe You get through that first period and really need some greasy goals to get going. 5:16 Vegoe I think we saw both teams get to that part of their game. 5:19 Vegoe I think the other part that was good for Minnesota long-term, you know, they lost Leo Gruba in the first period and they'll be missing him for the Ohio State Series here coming up. 5:30 Vegoe Losing him is a big impact for the Gopher defense. 5:33 Vegoe It allowed Jake and Rombach a little bit more opportunity, John Whipple a little bit more of an opportunity to play and I think those players delivered a good game. 5:43 Jûpe Now, I... 5:44 Dan I was just going to mention, what they were getting, Pritchard's goal, little puck block finally, right? 5:49 Dan The exact, more shoots it from the bad angle, shoots it on purpose, low towards the middle right side of the net, pops out right on Pritchard's stick, right? 5:59 Dan And you have a little puck block like that is huge. 6:01 Dan And I was going to mention that too, Veegs says, some of my, you see all the time, whether it's with the wild, it's that net front presence, right? 6:10 Dan And the guys that are willing to stand there, take the abuse, you know, Hendrickson is not afraid. 6:14 Dan Jimmy Clark is smart. 6:15 Dan He knows that's a good spot to go. 6:17 Dan Lamb does that. 6:18 Dan Eric Sinek does it constantly with the wildman. 6:21 Dan It creates a problem for the goalie's vision, right? 6:23 Dan And then they're trying to figure out how to move, where to move. 6:25 Dan And whether it's across ice from, you know, Zuccarella to Krill or Mooney to Lamb, whoever it is. 6:33 Dan I mean, it causes problems with that guy in front of the net. 6:36 Dan You almost wish there was a stat for that. 6:37 Dan Every time you score on somebody in front of the net, and maybe there is that I'm not aware of. 6:44 Jûpe Well, Veegs, they were only 50% on the kill. 6:51 Jûpe They gave up one goal. 6:52 Jûpe But you know what? 6:53 Jûpe There was only two power plays. 6:56 Vegoe Luckily for them. 6:57 Jûpe Yeah, luckily for them, there was only two power plays. 6:59 Jûpe But it's hard to improve your numbers if you're not in the box as well. 7:06 Jûpe But you have some videos here that I want to bring up and play that the two, just a little segment of each power player. 7:14 Jûpe Can you kind of describe what we've got going on here? 7:18 Vegoe Well, I think what's really been impacting the GopherPellanee kill this year is the plays at the top of the zone. 7:24 Vegoe And where Gophers are getting trouble is they'll start sliding across and you'll have two players try to do the same job. 7:30 Vegoe As you look, two players there try to stop the shot at the top of the point, leaving a flank wide open. 7:37 Vegoe And this is something that's been happening over again a lot. 7:40 Vegoe Here we see Ludky. 7:41 Vegoe He's the player in position to come block the shot. 7:44 Vegoe Lamb needs to fall back here and take away some of the shooting lanes from the flank and get to the net. 7:51 Vegoe And you see here, they both go to the middle, flanks wide open. 7:54 Vegoe Very difficult save for a goaltender. 7:56 Vegoe They get lucky here. 7:57 Vegoe The player misses the wide open net, but that's been something that's been happening in the GopherPellanee kill quite a bit. 8:03 Vegoe Miscommunications at the top. 8:06 Vegoe You know, in your traditional Pellanee kill, you've got your box, you've got your diamond, and you've got your triangle plus one. 8:12 Vegoe And figuring out when you go to that triangle plus one, who is staying with the shooter, and who's falling back to the net, who's covering the flanks with the shot blocking, you know, that's the communication that has to happen. 8:24 Dan And part of it gets complicated a little bit, and which is a good thing to do when you're on the offensive side and the power play is to keep that movement, you know, rotation of their, it might be a 2-2-1 or whatever, a 1-3-1, whatever they're doing on the power play. 8:40 Dan But then, you know, you see it, they're always trying to move a little bit to create that shooting lane too. 8:44 Dan And guys just snap it, if they can get through the net, it's again, net front presence, that causes a problem, but it's the rotation too. 8:52 Dan And like you said, Biggs, all of a sudden that shooting lane is wide open, right? 8:56 Dan There's nobody able to center up on that shot when we're not adjusting properly. 9:02 Jûpe And in the second video, Biggs, it cost them. 9:06 Vegoe Yeah, you know, Devers Power Play has been deadly all year. 9:09 Vegoe We see kind of a similar situation where we have two players here getting out of position, both going to the shot, leaving that wide open lane across and nobody there to block the shot. 9:19 Vegoe You know, that's been something we asked the players, you know, what needs to change? 9:23 Vegoe You know, you got to get sticks in lanes to stop the pass or you've got to take away the shooting lane and take away those shots. 9:29 Vegoe Because it's a lot to ask a goaltender to be moving all the way across, back and forth on these without help from his teammates. 9:35 Vegoe Because he's looking through traffic here, trying to face this shooter. 9:39 Vegoe You know, it's hard for him to cover this shooter and the one on the backside, especially as he dies behind. 9:43 Vegoe And we've got two guys going to the shooter right there. 9:46 Jûpe Yeah, so you can say they went the pass came across and you could see it clearly that they just both turned that way. 9:52 Vegoe And fortunately, again, this is Paulson and Lamb, you know, two players. 9:55 Vegoe We've been talking about having some issues here on the PK. 9:59 Vegoe You know, it's one part of this team that's really got to change. 10:02 Vegoe We've been asking Bob about this the last couple of weeks. 10:06 Vegoe You know, what the change is here and he's like, you know, one game it's really good for us and then the next it's bad again. 10:13 Vegoe It's just too inconsistent. 10:15 Vegoe And, you know, he said, we're just going to sprint here to the midway point. 10:19 Vegoe And when we get back to the second half, there might be some personnel changes out there. 10:24 Dan And sometimes part of the strategy in Pelony Killers is if you're having problems, you're trying to force them to go one one direction a little bit. 10:31 Dan They go from the top and then it starts going to sidewards. 10:34 Dan That top guy can come in a little bit of a loop. 10:38 Dan So trying to avoid that path back to the middle of the ice danger area. 10:41 Dan Again, there's a lot of rotation that has to go on. 10:43 Dan And again, you know, I think it's going to get better. 10:46 Dan I know it's going to get better. 10:47 Dan You know, I think Steve Miller is as good or smarter probably than all of us. 10:52 Dan So it'll get better and these guys are going to grow. 10:55 Vegoe I do think Brody Lamb had a great weekend. 10:57 Vegoe Offensively, five on five on the power play. 11:00 Vegoe Like he has attributes to his game where he's really making a positive contribution. 11:05 Vegoe It's just been on this PK. 11:07 Vegoe You know, maybe it's just not his feel. 11:09 Vegoe And maybe it can be simplifying for him in the second half of the season. 11:13 Vegoe If they, you know, distribute this ice time to somebody else who can totally focus on their five on five play and their penalty kill and allow Brody Lamb to focus on power play and five on five. 11:23 Vegoe Because I think we've seen the last couple of games, Lamb has been a lot more consistent about driving the net. 11:29 Vegoe Sometimes being that sacrifice on rush chances, pushing the D back into the crease, creating space for passes and then being there for chaos on rebounds. 11:39 Vegoe You know, I think that's really the strength of his game. 11:42 Jûpe Well, we're going to take a look at some of the goals here in a second. 11:44 Jûpe But for those of you listening to the podcast, we highly recommend, go to our YouTube channel. 11:49 Jûpe You could watch us and then you could see these videos and these demonstrations we're doing. 11:55 Jûpe We've been trying to expand more into the video. 11:57 Jûpe Obviously, we've been videoing for a while. 11:58 Jûpe But now, it's not just listening. 12:01 Jûpe You got to watch some of the stuff, right? 12:04 Vegoe Right. 12:04 Vegoe I'm not quite the play-by-play guy, Wally Shaver. 12:07 Vegoe So I'm doing the best I can here in my video breakdowns for everyone. 12:12 Dan But aren't you doing this video for the junior or sports and stuff you're coaching? 12:17 Vegoe Yeah, a little bit. 12:20 Jûpe Well, we'll kind of walk us through here. 12:21 Jûpe Here's that first goal, Veegs. 12:24 Jûpe Obviously, just not a great place for the goalie to put the puck there. 12:28 Vegoe Not a great place, but good place for Tate Richard to drive the far post. 12:33 Vegoe You always talk about that on the rush. 12:34 Vegoe You want a player driving the far post. 12:37 Vegoe Pritchard's there. 12:37 Vegoe He's ready for it, too. 12:39 Vegoe His stick's down, so he's ready to bounce the rebound and a great goal for the Gophers. 12:43 Dan Another advantage to driving that far post and get into the net, whether it's the center drive or the wing, is you got it. 12:49 Dan If you need to chip it down low to keep the play going, you've got guys going forward. 12:53 Dan The other guys are on their heels on the defensive side. 12:57 Jûpe Yeah, it was that worked out pretty well for him there. 13:01 Jûpe And then we've got what is it? 13:02 Jûpe What's the second goal here? 13:04 Jûpe It's going to come up here. 13:06 Jûpe Oh, is this the one where a lamb holds on to it? 13:09 Jûpe Like you're talking about, V, they went to the net. 13:11 Jûpe Look, there's the chance right there for you. 13:13 Vegoe Yep, Jimmy Clark's driving the net on this goal. 13:15 Vegoe You know, great play by him. 13:17 Vegoe He's been a player who sacrificed himself. 13:20 Vegoe Beckett's hold on, Pucks a little bit more. 13:22 Vegoe And you talk about teammates, you know, they're making plays that way. 13:26 Jûpe And this is where, you know, Denver probably made a mistake. 13:28 Jûpe It's three on three. 13:30 Jûpe And they just left him alone at the top, you know, the players going in, two guys took out three guys. 13:38 Dan Yep. 13:38 Dan They didn't adjust over to Jimmy Clark because Jimmy Clark went towards the defense first. 13:42 Dan So we kind of had to honor them a little bit. 13:44 Dan And then Jimmy went to the other D and went to the net there. 13:48 Jûpe And I believe this is Zeemer's goal with a nice drop by Lamb there. 13:53 Jûpe Veegs, we've seen somebody drop passes that go so well in a lot of years here. 13:59 Jûpe That's what had actually worked out pretty well. 14:02 Vegoe Yeah. 14:02 Vegoe Sometimes you have those fancy pants players so they can pull out the fancy pants plays. 14:08 Vegoe One thing about this power play is the rush up the ice wasn't smooth. 14:13 Vegoe You know, usually you see that second guy on the drop pass as they come up in the neutral zone has kind of a clean entry. 14:19 Vegoe Denver does a really good job here of putting pressure at the red line and through the blue line. 14:24 Vegoe And it's a complicated play to gain the zone with possession. 14:28 Vegoe So I think kudos to the Gopher power play, which has really picked it up the last couple of weeks. 14:33 Vegoe I think the last seven games, I heard Wally say they're clicking about 30 plus percent, which is pretty good for power playing College Hockey. 14:41 Jûpe They're like, they're in the twenties, like 23rd or something like that. 14:43 Jûpe So they've, they've gone up pretty quickly here. 14:45 Dan They come in the rush just like they do in zone set up, right? 14:49 Jûpe They do. 14:50 Jûpe They certainly do. 14:53 Jûpe And then we know that Denver comes back in a strong third period, Veegs. 14:58 Jûpe But Minnesota, what a play by Hendrickson behind the net there. 15:03 Vegoe Just really good puck protection. 15:05 Vegoe I think that's what you're looking for out of Beckett and Javon. 15:09 Vegoe Two big forwards who can buy time for their teammates to find space. 15:14 Vegoe And really nice job by Jimmy Clark kind of disappearing up high here away from the front of the net. 15:19 Vegoe Letting Brody Lamb get all that attention and then just reading the space to fall into. 15:24 Vegoe And a great backhand pass by Beckett through the crease, just right on the money. 15:29 Dan One of the angles you could see Beckett looking before he's starting to make that play. 15:33 Jûpe He was. 15:34 Dan To that weak side. 15:36 Vegoe Yeah, you really want your power forward to scan the ice in those situations. 15:40 Vegoe Yeah, the more pictures they can take of the zone, the better. 15:44 Jûpe And then, you know, we've got another power play goal here, Veegs. 15:49 Jûpe Gophers were two for two that night. 15:50 Jûpe That assist right there by Brody Ziemer. 15:53 Jûpe I think that should have been the assist of the week. 15:55 Jûpe They gave it to Beckett, you know, from the University of Minnesota, what they thought. 15:58 Jûpe But oh, 74 here. 16:01 Jûpe Wow. 16:03 Vegoe Yeah, Brody Ziemer can be a special player. 16:05 Vegoe You know, he's got some vision, some skills, some grit, some battle. 16:09 Vegoe This one's a little bit of luck as well. 16:12 Vegoe As he slips it right through the Denver defense. 16:15 Vegoe You know, I think this is going between the legs on the pass and just finds LJ in the right spot again, a player ready to make his own luck. 16:25 Dan And he knew, I mean, he knew LJ was going to be on that side. 16:28 Dan So it wasn't just a giveaway pass, right? 16:31 Dan He knew it just happened to make it through this time. 16:34 Jûpe So they didn't quite weather the Storm of Eag's. 16:37 Jûpe Denver comes back, gets a goal with like 23 seconds left, tie it up, are dominating overtime until Mr. 16:45 Jûpe Moore here by himself, the only shot of the overtime gets the winner. 16:51 Speaker 6 Drop pass, nice move there by Moore. 16:53 Speaker 4 Shot, score, and he wins it. 16:56 Speaker 6 Javon Moore. 16:59 Speaker 4 Gophers winning in overtime. 17:01 Speaker 6 A play by the freshman, Javon Moore. 17:05 Speaker 6 He makes a little dipsy-doo at the blue line, comes in, and he's able to beat Miller to the short side. 17:13 Jûpe So, Veegs, number one, there were a lot of Gopher fans there. 17:16 Jûpe That was a nice pop in overtime, wasn't it? 17:19 Vegoe Yeah, good travel by the Gophers on Black Friday weekend, and get out to Denver and celebrate with the team. 17:26 Vegoe I talked to Javon this week about that goal. 17:30 Vegoe He's very excited, and he feels very good about himself going to the second half. 17:34 Vegoe I think if Minnesota is going to go places the fans want them to go, Javon's got to be a part of that. 17:39 Vegoe He's had a little bit of a slow start this year, but he says he's trying to hold on to pucks a little bit more, make better plays, and use his shot. 17:48 Vegoe We talked to Jack Ramsey about Javon earlier in the year, and he said, this guy can shoot the puck, and he just has to find the right times to do that. 17:57 Vegoe Javon had an earlier rush in the OT where his shot got blocked. 18:01 Vegoe This one he made a nice move, found some space, was able to execute. 18:05 Dan Don't call me Oliver, right? 18:11 Jûpe Well, Dan, we're having you on because it's going to be the sixth year since your father passing away. 18:20 Jûpe Obviously, beloved among all Gopher fans and hockey fans. 18:27 Jûpe So I'm glad you would come on this week. 18:28 Jûpe I do believe the date is December 12th. 18:32 Dan 14th. 18:33 Jûpe Sorry, my mistake. 18:34 Dan I don't know if that was you or somebody else that said that the same day, like... 18:37 Jûpe It is. 18:38 Jûpe It is the same. 18:39 Dan Like Tom Moore passed away or something. 18:40 Jûpe Yeah, the exact same day, but Glenn passed away in 2015. 18:45 Jûpe Okay. 18:46 Jûpe Two Gopher coaches. 18:48 Jûpe Obviously, a lot of us don't know much about Glenn as a Gopher coach that was before we were born or around that time. 18:57 Jûpe But then, obviously as a North Star coach, that's where I first remember Glenn and then him on the radio. 19:02 Jûpe And then your dad on TV and your dad everywhere else. 19:06 Jûpe Vegs, it's just, what are the chances that two kind of icons died on the same day just years apart? 19:14 Jûpe That's just, it's just strange. 19:16 Vegoe Yeah. 19:16 Vegoe And for me, you know, both of them probably shaped some of my youth. 19:21 Vegoe You know, I would always listen to Gopher radio post games with my dad on the ride home. 19:27 Vegoe We'd walk back to the ramp and we'd hustle to get back so we could listen to Glenn, you know, pick his three stars of the game all the time. 19:34 Vegoe I remember going to a skating camp at St. 19:38 Vegoe Louis Park Rec Center in Samoa would come in there and, you know, give all the kids a head rub and stuff and talk to him and stuff. 19:46 Vegoe And he was quite the personality. 19:49 Vegoe And same with Doug, you know, just growing up listening to his game calls on MSC and all that. 19:55 Vegoe You know, remembering him on the bench when I was a little kid standing on the bench to watch Pat McClelland go on his breakways as he floated in the neutral zone. 20:04 Jûpe Floated? 20:04 Jûpe Oh, you're going to say that to his face when he's on the pod? 20:07 Vegoe Oh, for sure. 20:09 Vegoe For sure. 20:11 Vegoe Yeah. 20:12 Vegoe Well, two great people. 20:14 Dan Well, thank you. 20:14 Dan It's very nice of you. 20:16 Dan And we appreciate that. 20:18 Dan And it's, you know, those are things that take away some of the stings still, you know, all these great memories. 20:22 Dan And you got a guy delivering a package to the house the other day. 20:25 Dan And he's telling me about when he met my dad. 20:27 Dan I mean, this is six years later, almost. 20:28 Dan And he's like, he kind of put the name on the package. 20:31 Dan He's like, oh, are you so and so? 20:33 Dan And I said, yeah. 20:34 Dan He goes, your dad, you know, I was at the Moments. 20:37 Dan That's where the Senior Housing or Memory Care Unit was down in the south side of Buck Hill. 20:42 Dan That's where he was. 20:43 Dan And I mean, he had so many visitors. 20:44 Dan It was unbelievable. 20:46 Dan We're very thankful for all that. 20:48 Dan But he said, yeah, your dad tapped me on the shoulder and said, hey, can you help me put my shoe back on? 20:56 Dan I had no idea. 20:57 Dan He goes, okay. 20:58 Dan And he figures out who it was. 21:00 Dan He tells me about the other day. 21:01 Dan He goes, your dad was so nice to me, he said. 21:05 Dan And it's just one time, one thing after another. 21:07 Dan And again, I feel very lucky. 21:08 Dan And that was kind of his personality. 21:11 Dan I think it's very outgoing, very energetic is the right word. 21:17 Dan But got fired up a few times and might have grabbed his tie once and did that for the referees once. 21:23 Dan And down in Madison. 21:25 Jûpe Oh, I remember that. 21:27 Jûpe I remember that. 21:30 Jûpe I have a story, you know, my friend Jen and I went up to Grand Forks when he would be calling TV. 21:37 Jûpe And it was a gopher sweep that weekend, somewhere in the mid 2000s. 21:40 Jûpe So it turned out well. 21:42 Jûpe So we go to Sugar's. 21:44 Jûpe That was one of the hotel bars. 21:47 Jûpe Who comes in was your dad. 21:49 Jûpe We got to get a picture with the Wooger. 21:51 Jûpe And he knew us because we had seen him up at Suite 5 at after games a couple of times. 21:57 Jûpe Very cheap. 21:59 Jûpe And we got pictures with them. 22:01 Jûpe This one right here. 22:02 Jûpe Look at this. 22:03 Jûpe Look at this fine picture. 22:03 Jûpe I still had some grays. 22:06 Jûpe But I always keep that one out here. 22:08 Jûpe Because we've got podcasts. 22:10 Jûpe I get the Wooger with me. 22:12 Jûpe So he knew that we had a digital camera. 22:17 Jûpe He runs into some old buddies at the bar. 22:21 Jûpe And he comes back over to Jen and says, hey, can you take a picture of my friends and I? 22:25 Jûpe So she gets him in a group, gets him all lined up, takes a picture. 22:30 Jûpe And then she looks at, she goes, Wooger, you got three inches on these guys. 22:33 Jûpe You know, referring to, he was actually taller than all of us, but you got three inches on these guys. 22:38 Jûpe And he pokes his buddies, says, you know, she didn't say where. 22:43 Dan Pretty witty. 22:46 Jûpe And, you know, that's my Wooger story on the road. 22:50 Jûpe I will, there are others, but we can't say all the others, so. 22:55 Dan Yeah, you know, I think most of his players really enjoyed playing for him, honestly. 22:59 Dan I think he had a good balance between, and I had that also in juniors with like a Mike Gensel and Tommy Ward, but, you know, they knew when it's time to get busy and focus, but there's also a lot of laughter, you know, a lot of fun. 23:12 Dan You want to be at the rink. 23:13 Dan You know, you don't want to be, you know, crapping about things. 23:16 Dan And so it's, you know, we might have had a, of age guys might have had a beer on the bus on the way back from a sweep in Duluth, but, you know, he didn't have anything to do with it, but, you know, he was, I'm sure he probably knew about it, but we're of age. 23:29 Dan So especially me, I was really of age throughout this process, but I appreciate it. 23:35 Dan Thanks. 23:35 Dan And it feels good to hear even more good stories. 23:38 Dan I know, you know, we all miss him and I know his grandkids miss him and we've got, you know, seven granddaughters and one grandson. 23:46 Dan So if you need somebody in crunch time, that was me. 23:49 Dan The last grandkid was a boy, Jake, named after his dad. 23:52 Dan So Jake and Wanda, his folks were at, you know, every game they could go to. 23:56 Dan And they were even in East Lansing when we won the playoffs and they kept the Burger King open. 24:03 Dan The light just closed off. 24:05 Dan They were in there celebrating our trip to the Frozen Four that year, but they had them reopen it and they were dancing on tables and they were just having a great time in the 70s, 80 years old. 24:15 Jûpe Well we will always keep the Woogisms page up on GPL with stories that people have told us that they've heard over the years, you know, quotes from when he was on the air and he said something on the air. 24:32 Dan Probably not appropriate at least. 24:33 Jûpe Well, you know, you know how it is, but people can always go to GPL and see these, you know, I actually love this photo right here. 24:42 Jûpe I took that of him when he was doing one of those post-game on ice things a couple of years back, or actually it was with Gorg. 24:52 Jûpe He made Gorg look really bad, look really bad as a goalie on the ice. 24:56 Dan So I loved how they used to do that and they take that little pre-game stuff. 25:01 Dan But then whether it's in between periods or post-game, you know, I think it's a chance for others that maybe aren't as exposed to the game as much to maybe learn some little parts of the game. 25:11 Dan And hopefully that would help somebody else. 25:13 Dan You know, I think that's always in his mind as a past educator and, you know, geography teacher. 25:19 Dan And it was really education first and foremost and teaching. 25:23 Dan And even when he got invited to coach for the North Stars by Pierre Paget, leaving the University of Minnesota, and he turned that down, you know, he's like, no, I like working with the amateurs. 25:34 Dan And so a lot of giving back. 25:36 Dan And we're continuing to do that as much as we can now. 25:39 Dan A couple of scholarships. 25:40 Dan And that was my that was my quick change. 25:42 Dan That's my Gruba hat. 25:44 Jûpe Yeah, I love the Gruba hat. 25:45 Dan They all get better soon, right? 25:48 Dan So, yeah, we've got scholarships for Luke Middlestad and Leo Gruba with our Woog Scholarship Fund and Dalman Fund. 25:58 Dan So it's it feels good. 25:59 Dan There are a lot of great young men out there and feels good to help them and see where they go. 26:05 Jûpe One of the Woogisms that actually Frank Mazzocco talked about during his first retirement party down at Tom Reeds, was talking about the World Juniors. 26:16 Jûpe And back in those days, I used to record all the games and digitize them and put out some highlights until I got in trouble from Fox. 26:27 Jûpe But I did capture the audio that Frank loves to talk about. 26:30 Jûpe And here it is. 26:32 Speaker 1 It's a lot better to fly from Vancouver than it's from Novosibirsk, I'll tell you. 26:39 Speaker 1 The Novosibirsk is just on the eastern part of the Urals, folks. 26:45 Jûpe So obviously misspoke when he said Urals, but that's why we love the Wooger, right? 26:54 Vegoe Hardly wonders, is that a little tongue in cheek or was it a misspeak? 26:58 Vegoe You know, so that's just you never know what the Wooger, I never know. 27:02 Jûpe Oh, and then I captured another one that's that happened. 27:06 Jûpe We all remember the famous three game series in Mankato when they ended up three over time games. 27:14 Jûpe But the Wooger did drop this during one of those games. 27:19 Speaker 1 Everybody in the building standing, some people in a wheelchair. 27:22 Jûpe Everybody's up. 27:27 Vegoe That's a great paints the scene. 27:29 Vegoe Yeah, your page. 27:31 Dan People should go there and read some of those stories behind there. 27:35 Dan Oh, North Dakota one, when you're pulling up on the bus and they're throwing snowballs at your bus. 27:39 Dan And he's saying he'd pay you for that sign, that gopher sign because it's misspelled. 27:45 Dan You know, and send the guy 25 bucks, but it's like $3 really. 27:49 Dan And the guy complains about it. 27:52 Jûpe That story is in there. 27:53 Jûpe That story is on the page. 27:54 Dan It's more accurate in there than it is out of my mouth. 27:58 Jûpe So right before the broadcast here, I saw Gopher Game Notes posted some stats on you, Dan. 28:05 Dan That's been a short clip. 28:08 Jûpe One of them is this. 28:11 Jûpe You're one of six Gophers to score your first goal in overtime. 28:17 Jûpe Jim Carter, Tom Benelli, Russ Anderson, Dean Williamson, Dan Woog and Jake Peranto are the only Gophers to ever score in overtime. 28:25 Jûpe It was part of our opening clip was your goal in overtime. 28:31 Jûpe I've got the full video here. 28:32 Jûpe I'm going to play that, but not just you, but if some people watch towards the end when they're doing the rouser, you might recognize a current GPLer. 28:43 Jûpe Let me see if you can figure out who it is. 28:46 Speaker 4 3-12 in the overtime. 28:49 Speaker 4 Rosick out to center, picked off by Woog. 28:52 Speaker 4 Relate ahead to Feeblecorn, centering it. 28:55 Speaker 6 Here was Shepard! 29:15 Speaker 4 By those South St. 29:16 Speaker 4 Paul boys, know how to put it in the net in overtime. 29:19 Speaker 4 Danny Woog, 3-2 Minnesota. 29:22 Speaker 7 Oh, what a goal was it. 29:24 Speaker 7 It was, it was a presence of his mind to fall down to that puck as we're gonna see it again, but watch some of the jubilation that takes place. 29:31 Speaker 7 As the Gophers have won in overtime, Frank, you just mentioned they had two big victories. 29:35 Speaker 7 Now they've made three. 29:36 Speaker 7 It's been the us and her heroes that have come through in the overtime. 29:40 Speaker 7 But Danny Woog's scoring perhaps what could be its most memorable goal of this career as he puts it in the top shelf. 29:47 Speaker 7 A big victory for the Gophers as they go on to win and get two important points in those WCHA standings. 29:54 Speaker 7 His first goal of the season. 29:58 Speaker 4 And career for the freshman. 30:02 Speaker 4 And you don't think Papa's happy? 30:05 Jûpe So there's your career first goal, that overtime goal. 30:08 Jûpe And if you guys didn't recognize that last kind of fan shot there, Sean Sullivan, Grey Eagle himself, many, many years ago with his wife there. 30:22 Jûpe I think Sean's gonna, I think Grey Eagle's gonna be retiring here soon from, so. 30:28 Jûpe But he's been a GPLer since everything began. 30:31 Jûpe So it was, I saw that video. 30:33 Jûpe I'm like, I couldn't believe how I spotted him. 30:35 Jûpe Because it was definitely him and his wife. 30:38 Jûpe So you had the first, you know, one of six Gophers to score your first goal as an overtime goal. 30:43 Jûpe But then look at Gopher Game Nodes also puts out that most assists on other players' first Gopher goals. 30:52 Jûpe You're tied for second with six assists on Gopher's first goals. 30:56 Jûpe You assisted Dave Larson's first goal, Casey Hankinson, J Mosier, Eric Rasmussen, Mike Lyons, and Dave Spear. 31:07 Jûpe It's hard to read it. 31:08 Jûpe It's small. 31:09 Jûpe Yes, I know, but... 31:12 Dan I like all these goals against North Dakota. 31:15 Jûpe We have three of them. 31:19 Jûpe We thank Gopher Game Nodes. 31:20 Jûpe He put this out right before our show started. 31:22 Jûpe So I had to make sure to get this on here. 31:26 Jûpe That's a lot. 31:27 Jûpe I mean, Hank Rasmussen, Spear, Lart. 31:30 Jûpe I mean, wow. 31:31 Dan You think I was on the first line or something? 31:35 Jûpe What, you weren't? 31:36 Dan I'm sure I was a fourth shift up if we didn't get any power plays against us. 31:40 Dan But no, I mean, these are all great guys. 31:42 Dan And the first one on the list, Dave Larson there. 31:45 Dan He's a great story because he's a South St. 31:47 Dan Paul guy, just like I grew up, too. 31:49 Dan We played youth hockey together. 31:52 Dan But our dads played youth hockey together in South St. 31:55 Dan Paul. 31:55 Dan And then they ended up, you know, Dave and I, Larson, he had like three overtime winners or something in college. 32:01 Dan I mean, he had the hot stick in overtime. 32:04 Dan But he ended up, we played junior hockey together at St. 32:06 Dan Paul Vulcans and then the U. 32:09 Dan And our dads played at the U together also. 32:11 Dan So it was kind of a pretty awesome opportunity that we, you know, all got to participate in and great family. 32:18 Dan And, you know, it's kind of like you guys, everybody's got to have a nickname. 32:20 Dan And his dad's a book, you know. 32:23 Dan Mine's Boomer, you know, from the old days. 32:26 Dan But it's a great, those are great, great memories. 32:29 Dan And I love those clips. 32:30 Dan Actually, I see those on YouTube. 32:32 Dan You know, when I'm, if I was traveling for work and I'm in a hotel or something, I just pull up the YouTube and my dad's sister, Hetty, way back in the MSC days, especially, and then Fox, took those VCR tapes and she cut out all my shifts and put all this into one and then, I had all these discs. 32:53 Dan I mean, the hours and hours and hours that she spent, it may sound egotistical, but it's still, it's probably one of the best gifts I've ever received. 33:00 Dan And partly because I say, God, I wasn't very good, or that was a dumb play, or wow, that looked like I scored my 16th goal of the season. 33:07 Dan No, that was number one, you know, but yeah, pretty, pretty awesome. 33:12 Dan Great memories, very, very fortunate. 33:15 Dan Again, I'm sure the goalie had no clue where I was going because I didn't either. 33:19 Vegoe There's no book on you, right? 33:20 Speaker 6 No, no, no. 33:24 Jûpe Marriott Schminner, he wants to bring back the Bumblebee jerseys. 33:26 Jûpe Did you like those Bumblebees? 33:29 Dan You know, I didn't really care. 33:30 Dan I mean, some of the kids and guys get into that these days. 33:33 Dan To me, I don't know, as long as it's got the M or the Minnesota name on it, that's all that meant to me or the Gopher sign. 33:38 Dan And, you know, from the old ring, because I'm old enough that I played a game in the old Marriott Schminner with all the light coming in one side, right? 33:47 Dan And then it's slanted yellow ceiling on the other. 33:50 Dan And we'd skate on Sundays when we were little kids. 33:51 Dan We'd get out there and have some open ice. 33:53 Dan And that was when Dean Talifas was around and some old names that were on the original coaching staff. 33:58 Dan And so many good ones have come through there with, you know, again, Mike Genslow is one of my all time favorites. 34:05 Dan Super intense, but also a big kid. 34:08 Dan You know, we have him for our Vulcans. 34:10 Dan And sorry if I'm getting off track here, but we know you're great. 34:13 Dan When Stan Hubbard, Channel 5 News owners, they own the St. 34:17 Dan Paul Vulcans Junior Team and dad coached there in the early 70s, early to mid 70s. 34:21 Dan So that's when we were born. 34:23 Dan He was actually coaching there and he had a great story. 34:28 Dan Some of his teammates told me about to our players told me about. 34:32 Dan And so there was Frank Cerattori was one of his goalies and Mark Mazzellini. 34:37 Dan And Mark Mazzellini, he's uptight about everything, probably what's on his dinner plate, whatever it is. 34:42 Dan He's a great coach, great hockey mind. 34:45 Dan You couldn't relax around him, but great hockey coach. 34:49 Dan And so they're in the national tournament and they are stacked. 34:52 Dan Rusty Welch's team, who's end up being my high school coach at South St. 34:57 Dan Paul's from Hastings. 34:59 Dan He's telling us about, yeah, your dad got wind in the third or late in the second period, they're up nine to nothing in a national tournament. 35:06 Dan So they are just stomping on somebody. 35:09 Dan And they listen, they hear coming down the end of the bench, the goalies, Cerattori, Mazzellini, chirping at each other. 35:15 Dan And they find out that it was going to be somebody had to buy dinner. 35:20 Dan You know, the other one who lost the bet, whoever got the first shutout. 35:24 Dan Well, it was going pretty darn good at that time for one of the goal tenors. 35:27 Dan I don't remember which one. 35:29 Dan But as soon as my dad got wind of it as a coach, next shift at whistleblows, next shift up, you know, four guys, you go out. 35:37 Dan Waste like, hey coach, we need another guy. 35:38 Dan Nope, we don't. 35:39 Dan They don't score, three guys go out. 35:41 Dan Coach, we're short two guys. 35:42 Dan No, we're good, we're good. 35:45 Dan They got down to, I think two players and the team finally scored against them to break the shutout. 35:50 Dan Can you imagine what the parents would do these days? 35:53 Vegoe Both against average. 35:57 Jûpe Wow. 36:00 Dan You know, a lot of great memories and again, very thankful and I don't know if you guys, you know, sometimes you guys are talking about the junior hockey and, you know, I was a benefactor of that. 36:11 Dan You know, I got to play two years and so I was older coming in. 36:13 Dan And again, it's different because your friends are already into college two years, three years, basically. 36:18 Dan And so when you're out and they're got real jobs, you're not there yet. 36:22 Dan But you know what, if you have this opportunity like, you know, to wear that kind of jersey, you know, I'll wait a few years to get on with a real career. 36:32 Dan But it's, the junior hockey is amazing. 36:34 Dan The competition is crazy good. 36:37 Dan You know, you got to basically play two years to play in Division 3 now. 36:40 Dan They don't really want to recruit you otherwise unless you're a special talent that just doesn't have the desire to play Division 1. 36:47 Dan I've been up to Saskatchewan twice already this year and I ran into actually Brett Larson at the airport in September. 36:54 Dan So he was heading up to scout, you know, he's St. 36:57 Dan Cloud coach. 36:57 Dan He was heading up to scout at Prince Albert, so north of Saskatoon. 37:02 Dan So my steps... 37:03 Jûpe Oh boy, there's nothing up there. 37:05 Dan No, no, no. 37:08 Dan There is a ferry that goes across the water. 37:10 Dan So we went to one of the games, the Warman Wolverines, a new program that steps on Hudson plays for. 37:17 Dan In the Billet family, who he lives with, said, hey, jumping with us will ride to the game over to Humboldt. 37:20 Dan You know, the whole history of the bus crash and that's not... 37:25 Dan We leave Saskatoon, we go about 20 minutes, all of a sudden we're going down the hill. 37:29 Dan Looks like we're going into the river. 37:30 Dan Nope, stop there, wait for the ferry to come over, pick up six cars and go across and then we get to the game. 37:37 Dan You know, it just doesn't happen around here. 37:39 Dan You know, it's pretty amazing. 37:41 Dan You know, there's so much out there, you know, so many. 37:44 Jûpe But you think, Veegs, Dan playing two years in juniors wasn't normal back then. 37:51 Vegoe Not for Minnesota players, really. 37:53 Vegoe It seemed like Minnesota didn't have as many junior players as other schools did. 38:00 Vegoe What was that process like? 38:01 Vegoe How many teammates did you have that played a year or two juniors on the teams you played with? 38:08 Dan Bobby Dustin played before the season, I think maybe one extra year. 38:12 Dan Dave Larson, there was the Hillman brothers, did some junior hockey. 38:17 Dan Mike McGillpine, another teammate of South St. 38:19 Dan Paul, our dad for friends too. 38:21 Dan He played a year or two at the Gophers and then after juniors, moved on. 38:25 Dan The McMorrow kid, his dad, the one from Denver, his dad was my left wing in high school. 38:31 Dan Then junior hockey together, one national championship together. 38:34 Dan Guys that were on Duluth, Sitlow and others too. 38:36 Dan But no, it wasn't many. 38:38 Dan I mean, again, Checos and Crowleys and Trebles, and they weren't all doing it. 38:45 Dan It was different too. 38:48 Dan Now, you got that draft. 38:50 Dan In that day and age, it was the Vulcans had first did on players from certain teams. 38:57 Dan So they had the rights to the South St. 39:00 Dan Paul kids, to some of the Kennedy kids, Chris Markstrom, I don't remember that, Wyzeta, Derek Rolofsky, Edison, where Joe Disick was from, his goalie there, who went to BU. 39:14 Dan It was quite a bit different now. 39:15 Dan Again, that was the only main league that was out there in the United States. 39:19 Dan So, now there's all those. 39:21 Vegoe I remember about that time, I went and saw the Ted Brill tournament, where you have a lot of high school seniors playing an end of the year tournament. 39:30 Vegoe And I remember just seeing USA's Jell Scouts everywhere there. 39:33 Vegoe Cause at that time, a lot of players weren't tied to anywhere. 39:37 Vegoe And I don't know if a lot of the USA's Jell coaches had seen all these players that were playing in this weekend. 39:43 Vegoe And I just remember being such a Minnesota fan growing up. 39:48 Vegoe I knew about the USA's Jell. 39:50 Vegoe I played in the Mike Foley Summer Hockey School. 39:52 Vegoe And Mike Foley always had tickets to the Vulcans to give away to the players of the day. 39:58 Vegoe And we just kind of didn't know. 39:59 Vegoe And now it's just like, that's the path. 40:02 Vegoe You have to go and you have to have success there before you advance. 40:06 Dan When with the Vulcans, we played it. 40:08 Dan All our home games are Sunday nights. 40:10 Dan So I think that was partially planned for all the college scouts to come in, go to their college games on the weekend, Sunday, watch ours, then fly out, because we're close to the airport and everything, versus going to Waterloo or we played Thunder Bay, they kicked the crap out of us physically. 40:27 Dan But you learn, you do those grinds and you toughen up and you get stronger physically. 40:32 Dan You got that time to grow and develop mentally as well. 40:36 Dan We had one game down in North Iowa, North Iowa Huskies down in Mason City and it was great. 40:42 Dan We had Tommy Ward and Mike Gensler, our coaches and Ward was down at Shattuck St. 40:46 Dan Mary's been there forever now. 40:48 Dan He's a staple there and great coach. 40:50 Dan He was a great baseball player too. 40:52 Dan But we were winning five to two in the game. 40:57 Dan But in the second period, we got a little skirmish. 41:00 Dan Me and Dave Larson, another guy, and it wasn't a major fight or anything, but it was enough, we got kicked out. 41:05 Dan So it was five to two going to third period. 41:08 Dan We end up losing in overtime. 41:11 Jûpe Oh, boy. 41:12 Dan Yeah, and that didn't make Gensel happy, and everybody started coming off the ice, heads are down and get into the locker room, and he said, take your skates off. 41:23 Dan The guys start taking their helmets off. 41:25 Dan He goes, no, only your skates. 41:27 Dan Get in the bus, we're going now. 41:30 Dan We got back to the Funsburg Arena at one in the morning, and it was a crisp practice. 41:36 Dan The three of us, we were laughing because we had already showered up. 41:39 Jûpe Oh, boy. 41:43 Dan But you learn to hate losing, maybe as much as you love winning sometimes. 41:47 Dan You kind of get the rewards of it. 41:49 Dan You can play cribbage and so forth and make some new friends. 41:52 Dan And it was a great experience. 41:54 Dan And the Hubbard family now brought that down to Albuquerque, New Mexico. 41:57 Dan They've got two different levels of the NHL and the NH3. 42:00 Dan And again, just a passion for the game and for developing people. 42:05 Dan It's awesome. 42:07 Jûpe All right, Veegs, we need to get to your top 20 here real quick. 42:10 Jûpe But before that, we need to talk about Gateway Fiber, Veegs. 42:15 Vegoe Yeah, Minnesota, where the state of hockey and a bad Internet connections, like a bad line chain, slows everything down, causes chaos, might even lose the game, especially if you're short handed, because you had two idiots get in a fight and put you down going into the third period. 42:30 Vegoe But Gateway Fiber is here to keep your nets gating at full speed. 42:33 Vegoe They've been taking on big cable for years and have come to Minnesota offering faster speeds, better reliability and customer service that doesn't sit in the penalty box. 42:42 Vegoe Gateway Fiber is just another provider. 42:44 Vegoe They're on your team. 42:45 Vegoe Visit gatewayfiber.com or call 888-201-4339 to see if Gateway Fiber is available in your area, because life's too short for bad air net. 42:59 Jûpe All righty. 43:01 Jûpe Veegs, your top 20 this week. 43:03 Jûpe You still have the Badgers up top, don't you? 43:07 Vegoe I do, because those Wolverines are just dirty players, even though they beat Harvard and won in overtime. 43:13 Vegoe You know, Wisconsin didn't play. 43:15 Vegoe I had Wisconsin ahead. 43:17 Vegoe I think they've maybe played a little bit tougher schedule, perhaps. 43:21 Vegoe I'm not going to make too much about the Wolverines beating Harvard and going to OT. 43:26 Vegoe You know, they did go to OT against the Crimson. 43:28 Vegoe So, you know, that's probably something they didn't expect to have happen this last weekend. 43:33 Vegoe You know, Michigan State also recovered from being swept by Wisconsin. 43:37 Vegoe They go and sweep Colgate. 43:39 Vegoe Nice weekend for them. 43:41 Vegoe I think we've got a big series coming up this weekend with Sparty and the Wolverines. 43:46 Vegoe So that should be must see TV this weekend. 43:49 Jûpe North Dakota, Western, still strong there, Duluths. 43:53 Jûpe It's Big Ten and NCHC till number nine there, Veegs. 43:58 Vegoe Yeah, I mean, I just don't know what to think of the East. 44:01 Vegoe You know, very inconsistent. 44:03 Vegoe You know, Quinnipiac goes to overtime with Holy Cross. 44:07 Vegoe You know, that's not a very impressive win for them there. 44:10 Vegoe And then they play Stonehill. 44:11 Vegoe So kind of a down week there for the Bobcats and Rampact Old. 44:16 Vegoe Northeastern picked up a win against Brown. 44:18 Vegoe I like the Huskies, but we'll see what happens. 44:21 Vegoe I think the Beanpot will be crucial for Northeastern to kind of get some momentum this season. 44:27 Vegoe But it's just hard to know what to make of ECAC and Hockey East. 44:30 Vegoe You know, I listen to the USCHO guys break it down. 44:33 Vegoe And they're like, oh, watch out for Dartmouth and watch out for Harvard. 44:36 Vegoe Watch out for Union. 44:37 Vegoe And, you know, I think only one of those teams is going to make the tournament at the end of the year. 44:41 Vegoe So I'll be watching out for one of them. 44:46 Jûpe Minnesota State keeps creeping up as well there, Veegs. 44:50 Vegoe Yeah, they've they've had a good weekend here sweeping northern Michigan. 44:57 Vegoe You know, we'll see what the CCHA has at the end of the year. 45:01 Vegoe Minnesota State can stay hot. 45:03 Vegoe You know, they can maybe get an at-large bid and not have to win the tournament, but they're going to have to play really well. 45:09 Vegoe You know, the CCHA didn't have a great out-of-conference schedule this year, so they're kind of leading the pack. 45:17 Dan When you got a hot goaltender, you can make it do some damage to their trip, that Alex Tracy kid. 45:24 Vegoe Yeah, Luke Strand has a system that really supports good goaltending. 45:27 Vegoe You know, they don't have to do a ton. 45:29 Vegoe They have to make that initial save, and they have a lot of help. 45:33 Vegoe I think we've seen the Mavericks over the years prop up their goaltenders who can make that big first save. 45:41 Jûpe Anything else you want to talk about the gigs? 45:43 Jûpe Colorado College back in there, Miami back in there, because obviously we know Miami had a strong start, then faltered a little bit, but now they're back up there for you. 45:51 Vegoe Yeah, they won two games at the Friendship Four. 45:54 Vegoe RIT, who's a good Atlantic team, Union, who's one of those dangerous teams in the ECAC that UCHO likes to prop up, but they've had a good start. 46:07 Vegoe Give their program a lot of credit. 46:08 Vegoe They brought in a lot of new players there, and they're trying to change the culture. 46:13 Vegoe We'll see what happens when they get in the conference play, because it's not going to be easy for them going forward. 46:19 Jûpe Well, hopefully, they're not the bottom of the league, like they've been for a while. 46:23 Jûpe They've been kicked around for quite a while in the NCHC. 46:27 Vegoe Yeah, it's been a rough go for the Brotherhood of Oxford. 46:32 Vegoe Just outside the top 20 is probably Minnesota. 46:35 Vegoe You know, there's still one game below 500. 46:38 Vegoe They did get the win over Denver, but it wasn't over time. 46:41 Vegoe You know, as we talked about, there's a lot of good things going on for Minnesota right now. 46:45 Vegoe But they really need some wins here this weekend. 46:48 Vegoe I've been looking a little bit at the MPI compared to Cratch and Parawise. 46:53 Vegoe And I do think the rankings in MPI weight that home road stuff more than ever before in these rankings for determining the tournament. 47:04 Vegoe And you look at the Gophers, they've played four road games, I believe, this year. 47:09 Vegoe So that's not helping them in the MPI where I think they're still in the 30s. 47:14 Vegoe So winning these games at Ohio State coming up this weekend, really critical for them. 47:19 Vegoe You know, they're going to have to get some wins here in the Big Ten on the road, I think to boost their possibility of making the tournament. 47:25 Dan January is going to be a back to back to back. 47:28 Jûpe Oh boy, a nice gauntlet. 47:29 Dan Michigan State, and it's going to be a great opportunity to right. 47:33 Dan I mean, to move yourself up and take care of your own business. 47:36 Vegoe Pressure is a privilege. 47:38 Dan Isn't it amazing how things change? 47:40 Dan The VUs way down here to BC is kind of middle of the package. 47:45 Dan Northern Michigan, what? 47:46 Dan Winless. 47:48 Jûpe Oh, yes. 47:49 Dan Nineteen ninety one national champions. 47:51 Dan My brother was on that team. 47:53 Jûpe I was going to ask you about that. 47:54 Jûpe That was my next question, actually. 47:57 Dan Yeah, he actually didn't play. 47:58 Dan That was the one at the old St. 47:59 Dan Paul Civic Center with the clearboard. 48:00 Dan Yeah, he actually didn't play. 48:02 Dan He played more than half the games that year as a freshman. 48:05 Dan But when you have, yeah, Mark Buffay had 20 goals score on your fourth line, you know, Dallas Drake, Billy Pye. 48:12 Dan Billy Pye. 48:13 Dan What a great name to Brad Blanka. 48:16 Dan I mean, all these guys had great NHL careers or strong ones anyway. 48:20 Jûpe And but he still gets bragging rights, doesn't he? 48:24 Dan He does. 48:24 Jûpe Does he still rub it in? 48:28 Dan He never brings it out. 48:29 Dan He never brings it out. 48:30 Dan But he's got the old competitiveness like my dad had. 48:35 Dan We play like tomorrow morning. 48:36 Dan You guys are going to keep me up past my bedtime, which is fine. 48:39 Dan We play every Tuesday, Thursday mornings at 630 and Eagan. 48:42 Dan We get out there and just get a good sweat, have some laughs. 48:47 Dan But, you know, Northern Mission is near and dear to my heart because that's where I got my only hat trick against. 48:54 Dan I'd never scored a hat trick growing up, and I got one, I think it was my junior year at Mariucci. 49:00 Dan We won those games, I think, 10-0 and 7-0. 49:03 Dan But the great part about that is I get my first ever hat trick. 49:07 Dan I'm feeling great, feeling good, you know, not at the time thinking, yeah, maybe I'll be player of the week, right? 49:13 Dan But I didn't even play the next game. 49:15 Dan Saturday night, coach sat me, somebody else got hit. 49:20 Jûpe What a jerk of a coach would do that. 49:22 Dan Family favoritism there. 49:25 Dan You know what's the right thing to do? 49:26 Dan Well, maybe not. 49:27 Dan Yeah. 49:30 Vegoe It almost feels like probably having your dad coach is like the opposite of favoritism because they have to do it a little differently. 49:39 Vegoe What was that like throughout your college career? 49:42 Vegoe The relationship is obviously a little bit different. 49:44 Vegoe We've seen lots of siblings where one will play for their dad and one wants to go somewhere else for a different experience. 49:51 Vegoe We see that a lot in college hockey. 49:53 Dan I think Lucia had that too. 49:54 Dan Didn't you have a kid that went to Notre Dame too? 49:58 Dan When they were talking about Tony Lucia being possibly recruited there and I sent Donna Noah just saying, I've been there, lived through this situation. 50:08 Dan If he's good fit, don't shy away. 50:10 Dan If he wants to play there. 50:12 Dan Tony was a strong contributor, held his own for sure. 50:17 Dan I'm again fortunate that I maybe stats wise, held my own more than I thought I ever would, but take good pride in being a role player too. 50:26 Dan You want to block shots, you want to be on that penalty kill, give the Bonnens and Crawleys and we go up on these guys, the opportunity to rest maybe a little bit so they can be ready to go their next shift. 50:37 Dan So that was a little bit of my strategy. 50:39 Dan I knew I wasn't at the high end of my group. 50:41 Dan If I go out there and even a buddy of mine, Eric Ruud, who's coaching at St. 50:45 Dan Cloud, I think now assistant there and he's in the San Francisco Heights rivalry. 50:49 Dan But that's the greatest part about it. 50:51 Dan We all respect each other as the years go by. 50:55 Dan But I would try to grab him and try to mix it up with him and a bunch of players. 50:58 Dan So hopefully I'd go to the box for two minutes, but their best defense would go to the box for two minutes. 51:03 Dan I thought that was a great trade off for us. 51:06 Dan I'm always trying to think through that a little bit. 51:09 Dan Normally a pretty good trade off. 51:13 Dan But some great, great times. 51:15 Jûpe Yeah, that would still get me though. 51:18 Jûpe If my brother was coming up to me and said, oh, look at this ring I have that you don't have. 51:22 Jûpe Oh, that's just a little, just knife right in there. 51:27 Jûpe But what a national championship game that was. 51:30 Jûpe That's still one of the craziest games ever. 51:34 Dan Triple overtime, eight to seven, McEacher and he's got three Gs. 51:37 Dan And unbelievable what talent was out there, that BU Northern Michigan game. 51:46 Jûpe How was your dad during that game? 51:48 Jûpe Was he just full on cheering or was it tough for him? 51:51 Speaker 4 Or how about you? 51:53 Dan Well, again, we had that scenario, cause we're in the same league then, right? 51:57 Dan Northern Michigan, Minnesota, right? 51:59 Dan Well, who else is in this game? 52:01 Dan Mom is, right? 52:02 Dan So, she got her two boys playing against each other. 52:06 Dan I actually got him once. 52:07 Dan I was on a four check into the off zone. 52:09 Dan I went like this and kind of went up and caught him off the chin, my brother. 52:13 Dan Not that I was trying to, but he was wearing green and white. 52:19 Jûpe Well, yeah. 52:21 Dan I got beaten up so many times by trying to throw the hit. 52:24 Dan But if you can dislodge the player or steal the puck, wherever it is, that was what I felt was my job. 52:30 Dan But mom was asked how many times when we go playing, and she's quoted by whether it's the old Charlie Walters or maybe Greg Wong, those old names. 52:41 Dan Wonger. 52:42 Dan And well, who are you cheering for, Jan? 52:46 Dan Well, I'm cheering for who gets the paycheck. 52:51 Dan Jan's not making me any money. 52:53 Dan Steve's got a scholarship though, so that's good. 52:56 Dan But hopefully, Doug continues to get a paycheck. 52:59 Dan So, you know, flight attendant job doesn't pay great. 53:02 Dan Coaching job, I don't know if I sent you that picture the other day, $52,000 was the salary for my dad back mid late 80s or something. 53:10 Dan And again, that was probably a lot of money at the time. 53:13 Dan We got a $2,200 bonus if you won the WCHA Championship Playoff. 53:19 Dan And maybe that's how we got to go on spring break, you know. 53:22 Jûpe Vage, didn't you have to remind Matzko of a bonus that he missed? 53:28 Vegoe Yeah, because they had the tie breakers on like point percentage instead of Wisconsin. 53:34 Vegoe Like, yeah, so the raw points. 53:37 Vegoe And if they would have like done it just a little bit different, Minnesota would have gotten the title instead. 53:42 Vegoe And he would have gotten the paycheck and he hadn't even thought about it. 53:46 Jûpe So, yeah, but that was also like a 30 grand check though. 53:50 Vegoe 30 grand. 53:51 Vegoe It's, you know, it's gone up since the 80s. 53:56 Dan I got a chance to see Bob two summers ago. 53:58 Dan I think it was up till, you know, he's got a place up by Gull Lake up there. 54:03 Dan And we're in Pequot Lake. 54:04 Dan It's been there since 1934, my dad and his dad and so forth. 54:08 Dan That's our family group there and my brother. 54:09 Dan And they got the next door cabin too now. 54:11 Dan And, and, but I was on the jet skis with my wife, Danielle, and we're going through the little channel. 54:16 Dan We went on a Niswa Lake route off of Highway 371. 54:19 Dan We're little shopping areas. 54:21 Dan And we're going through a channel and like, gosh, this guy in front of us in this pontoon, man, damn, I wish he would get moving a little bit. 54:26 Dan He's chugging along and there's another couple in there. 54:29 Dan And finally, he slows down. 54:31 Dan He kind of comes to a stop. 54:32 Dan So I weave around. 54:34 Dan Again, it's in the no wake zone. 54:35 Dan But I weave around and I go, hey, Bob, what are you doing? 54:40 Dan What's he doing? 54:41 Dan He's stopping to talk to Reed Larson. 54:43 Dan You know, it's such a small world, you know, small world and so many good people. 54:48 Dan And I watched some clips of Reed Larson the other day from, I think it was in 1975, again, on YouTube, a national championship game against Michigan Tech. 54:57 Dan And boy, he was a heck of a player. 55:00 Jûpe Oh, yeah. 55:01 Jûpe Oh, yeah. 55:03 Jûpe Well, before we get into OSU this weekend, we're going to talk about some of the other things that you've done in the past year. 55:11 Vegoe And I'm going to start with a little bit of a little bit of a quick summary of what we've done in the past year. 55:17 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:18 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:19 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:20 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:21 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:22 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:23 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:24 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:26 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:26 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:27 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:28 Vegoe We've done a lot of things. 55:29 Vegoe Go to Marshmallows, Cubs got you covered. 55:31 Vegoe If you're still looking for those, you know, seasonal apples and caramel dips, go in that produce section, they're all right together. 55:38 Vegoe So Cozy Night Inn is like a number one thing to do here coming up. 55:43 Vegoe So Cub has the flavors that make fall or winter, if you like fall or winter. 55:47 Vegoe So swing by your local Cub, stock up on all your seasonal favorites, because nothing says fall in Minnesota like comfort food from Cub. 55:54 Vegoe Shop happy. 55:57 Jûpe All right, of course, we thank Gateway and Cub for sponsoring The GPL Podcast. 56:02 Dan Well, Cub Foods is about a mile down the road here, if that, for my house. 56:06 Dan And with six kids, Daniel and I have six kids, and we've got Ellie, Carlin, Jake, Hudson, Haley, we're there two, three times a week. 56:14 Dan You know, it's you're running out of bread. 56:16 Dan We're going to make a run for it. 56:17 Dan You need some donuts. 56:18 Dan Let's go. 56:19 Dan You know, so I got that on autopilot. 56:22 Jûpe Cub is Boomer approved. 56:26 Vegoe Yeah, I live here in Northeast. 56:29 Vegoe I'm a mile away, so it's just a simple little walk, hopefully to pick up things and get them back up the hill. 56:34 Vegoe So great little spots. 56:38 Jûpe Ohio State this weekend, Veegs, they started pretty good. 56:41 Jûpe They were in your top 20 for a little while. 56:44 Jûpe Are these I don't think believe they're there anymore, are they? 56:46 Vegoe No, they're not there anymore. 56:48 Vegoe You know, they they've struggled just a little bit here down the stretch. 56:52 Vegoe You know, they got beat up pretty good by Michigan this last weekend where I think Michigan scored like what, seven goals on them one night and five the next. 57:01 Vegoe So tough, tough start to them here. 57:03 Vegoe They just lost two games in OT at Arizona State. 57:06 Vegoe And when we're talking about the Gophers playing Ohio State, the Gophers really only get one practice coming back from Denver. 57:14 Vegoe I don't know if people listen to the availability, but they got stuck in the airports for a little bit as, you know, the first night their pilot timed out by like four minutes. 57:24 Vegoe They had a plane where they didn't have enough staff to fly out. 57:29 Vegoe They had another one with the naVeegsation thing went out. 57:31 Vegoe The pilot said that's the first time in 29 years that's happened. 57:35 Vegoe So they didn't get back until late Sunday night. 57:38 Vegoe And then they took Monday off and they had kind of a light practice on Tuesday. 57:43 Vegoe And then they flew out Wednesday today. 57:46 Jûpe And they had practice when they got there. 57:48 Vegoe Yep, they had practice when they got there. 57:50 Vegoe So tough week. 57:51 Vegoe Bob said, luckily for Minnesota, they've played a couple teams that play a similar style. 57:57 Vegoe Notre Dame, LIU play kind of that neutral zone, 1-1-3. 58:02 Vegoe I think that's what we'll see this weekend with the Buckeyes. 58:05 Vegoe Rolex often has these teams that have to learn the systems a little bit throughout the year. 58:10 Vegoe And they're always getting better as the year goes on. 58:13 Vegoe So, it's going to be a tough match up for Minnesota. 58:16 Vegoe You know, you hear the term rock fight quite a bit with the Gophers for this weekend, and that's what they're going to have to execute. 58:22 Jûpe Just to quickly jump in here, Andrew Carlson talking about Reid Larson, cracked my dad's sternum with a slapper in high school. 58:33 Jûpe Ouch! 58:35 Jûpe Wow! 58:36 Jûpe That's a crack your sternum on a slapshot? 58:41 Jûpe I may want to, of course, next time he came down on the ice, he probably backed away quite a bit, or all players would. 58:49 Jûpe So, Ohio State, did you ever get to play against Ohio State? 58:53 Jûpe You probably never did, did you? 58:55 Dan No, no, we never did. 58:57 Dan You know, there's a number of teams, you know, that we wouldn't, we would have played then, not now. 59:01 Dan You know, Alaska, Anchorage, those trips were kind of fun. 59:04 Dan Sometimes we'd leave Wednesdays to go up to Alaska and I know one time we went through, I think it was Seattle, stay the night there, continue down the next day, the bus pulls into town. 59:15 Dan We see two rinks on the outdoor rink, side by side, a bunch of kids playing out there. 59:20 Dan And my dad said, hey guys, let's go grab our stuff and get out and have a little practice time. 59:24 Dan So we hit the outdoor rink in town and all the kids kind of gave us one rink and then they all mingled together and played together. 59:31 Dan And again, tried to create a fun environment there. 59:34 Dan But no, we didn't get a chance. 59:36 Dan I mean, that. 59:38 Jûpe Yeah, they were in CCHA. 59:39 Dan Yeah. 59:40 Dan Yeah. 59:40 Jûpe And you would have been part of the College Hockey Showcase, though, which was still one of my favorite. 59:48 Jûpe That's what started the rivalry with Michigan for me. 59:51 Dan Yeah. 59:51 Dan And I hate it. 59:52 Dan I hate it when you talk about the Michigan because I was in that game on the bench trying to figure out what the hell just happened. 59:59 Vegoe Phrasing Jupe, phrasing. 1:00:02 Jûpe Hey, it's I was talking about the College Hockey Showcase, not the overtime loss with Mike Legge. 1:00:10 Dan Thanksgiving Showcase. 1:00:11 Jûpe Yeah, that was it was so fun because it first started at all the big readings. 1:00:15 Jûpe You know, you're at Civic Center, you're at Bradley Center, you're out at Lewis, Joe Lewis and there was big crowds. 1:00:23 Jûpe I mean, I remember one year there was at St. 1:00:26 Jûpe Paul Civic Center and I think Bonnen won it late in the game and it was packed house. 1:00:31 Jûpe Eighteen thousand people for Michigan, which we hadn't really seen much in the previous decade since they had left the WCHA. 1:00:41 Dan Yeah, in all those days with Brendan Morrison and Mike Blake and Marty Turco in goal. 1:00:48 Dan And I mean, they had some phenomenal players, you know, phenomenal players. 1:00:53 Jûpe So I think that's Veeks. 1:00:54 Jûpe That's always going to help me with teams like Michigan and Michigan State because those were great games during the season. 1:00:59 Jûpe They didn't feel like exhibitions at all. 1:01:02 Jûpe Ohio State, we still need to I think we still need some bad blood with Ohio State before it becomes more of a real rivalry in hockey. 1:01:10 Vegoe Yeah, Ohio State is one of the teams where it just kind of seems like difficult games, but not anything that's approaching rivalry. 1:01:19 Vegoe I think one of the big problems in this matchup is that the fan support for the Buckeyes just isn't quite the same as some of these other programs. 1:01:26 Vegoe They don't have a Children of Yost group to follow them around. 1:01:31 Vegoe So I think that's always been challenging. 1:01:33 Vegoe I think with this weekend, it's going to be a little find-your-own-juice kind of stuff for the team. 1:01:40 Vegoe I think for Minnesota, it's going to be important for them to generate their own energy and have two productive games with a short turnaround, probably a building that won't be very full. 1:01:52 Vegoe It's going to be a challenging environment, a game that's going to be a rock fight, and it's going to have to take some discipline. 1:01:59 Dan Yeah. 1:02:01 Dan Again, it's got to come from within. 1:02:03 Dan When you're going the road, when it's kind of a quiet arena, you can't feed off the negativity of the arena. 1:02:08 Dan Like you could maybe at Wisconsin with the Badgers and telling you what that people you are. 1:02:15 Dan My mom quit going to Wisconsin. 1:02:16 Dan She couldn't go there anymore. 1:02:19 Dan When I was playing, she just said, I can't take it, but not to say I have some great friends that played for Wisconsin too, in North Dakota and St. 1:02:26 Dan Cloud. 1:02:27 Jûpe Oh, yeah. 1:02:28 Dan So hockey fraternity stretches, but I mean, they have plenty to play for. 1:02:33 Dan So there's there's don't have to say a whole lot to say, here's what's at stake with these games, you know, and I don't know who says that, you know, the ones at the beginning and just the important ones at the end are right. 1:02:43 Dan So they're all important, you know, and we need the winds back. 1:02:46 Dan We need the winds back. 1:02:47 Jûpe I mean, I'm just going to say, it's going to you win two games this weekend, it puts you in contention right back up there in the Big Ten race. 1:02:57 Jûpe It also fulfills kind of those winds on the road that you were just talking about earlier. 1:03:03 Jûpe So this is huge. 1:03:04 Vegoe Yeah, that's what I was going to get right back to is the Gophers need some road winds for their MPI. 1:03:10 Vegoe It's weighted heavier in this new format and this new math, you have to win a little bit on the road. 1:03:17 Vegoe I think one of the things the coaches always talked about is they didn't want teams buying their schedule and buying their way in the tournament and buying regionals. 1:03:26 Vegoe They're trying to put some levers in to neutralize that a little bit. 1:03:30 Vegoe So it's really critical for Minnesota to win. 1:03:32 Vegoe I think Ohio State is going to be one of those teams in the bottom half of the Big Ten. 1:03:36 Vegoe So these are probably some of the easier road winds potentially. 1:03:40 Vegoe I told Bob, Ohio State probably doesn't have the record that they want. 1:03:45 Vegoe He's like, I don't look at their record. 1:03:48 Vegoe I guarantee you some of the players have peaked at the standings and peaked at the schedule and know that this isn't a team that's had a lot of success, but that's not going to matter. 1:03:56 Vegoe You know, they're going to have to play their A game. 1:03:58 Vegoe This is a team that can't outscore their mistakes very often. 1:04:02 Vegoe And I don't think Ohio State is going to let you do that either. 1:04:06 Dan They're well coached. 1:04:07 Dan You know, Rolloc's been around the block for decades. 1:04:10 Dan And, you know, it's just they're going to keep building. 1:04:12 Dan Like you said, I think they get better as the year goes on too. 1:04:15 Dan And I think Minnesota is on that same path. 1:04:16 Dan And, you know, I'd expect to have pretty tight games this weekend. 1:04:19 Dan And I think they had who was at Penn State on the ropes, I think Ohio State or somebody, and then let them in late. 1:04:25 Dan And then they got scored on later again or something. 1:04:28 Dan So, I mean, like I said, any given night, any given night, you got to bring your game. 1:04:33 Jûpe What's your pick, Veegs? 1:04:35 Jûpe What are the point distribution this weekend? 1:04:39 Vegoe I think the Gophers get five points this weekend. 1:04:44 Vegoe It's not going to be easy. 1:04:45 Vegoe I think one of the games is going to OT, and they're going to drop one of the points there. 1:04:48 Vegoe But I think they do get an overtime win, and they do get a regulation win. 1:04:53 Jûpe Five points. 1:04:54 Jûpe That's a successful weekend, I would say. 1:04:56 Jûpe What do you think, Dan? 1:04:58 Dan I was actually thinking the same thing, but I know, Joobs, you're the one that predicts everything right too. 1:05:05 Dan So, I guess I can't go with the same, right? 1:05:08 Dan But that was what I was going to go with. 1:05:09 Jûpe You can do whatever you want. 1:05:11 Vegoe You can get specific, you can say which night. 1:05:13 Dan A win in an overtime loss. 1:05:16 Dan Oh, four points. 1:05:19 Jûpe I'm even more negative. 1:05:20 Jûpe I think it's a split. 1:05:22 Jûpe I think I'm, hey, sweep somebody on the road, and then you'll get me on board. 1:05:31 Jûpe It's just, Veegss, we've seen it. 1:05:33 Jûpe We just haven't seen that consistency. 1:05:34 Jûpe It was different last weekend. 1:05:35 Jûpe It was a one-off game. 1:05:39 Jûpe So right now, I'm saying split. 1:05:40 Jûpe I'm glad. 1:05:41 Jûpe I don't think Mote is watching live, otherwise he would have gone after me, but he'll go after me later. 1:05:47 Jûpe So I'm saying split, but I would definitely be happier with something better. 1:05:54 Dan That'd be great going into the break, and some guys getting ready to go off to other teams with the World Juniors, and that's going to be awesome. 1:06:01 Dan We're going to go to at least one of the USA games, and at St. 1:06:06 Dan Paul, and at least one Canadian, because my step's on the dual citizen, so we're going to go to a Canadian game too, while he's still in town. 1:06:13 Dan So love it. 1:06:15 Dan We're lucky we're in Minnesota. 1:06:16 Dan We've got all this hockey to go to or to coach, as these does too, and I did 12 years of that, and a couple with the boys, a lot with my girls, Elliott Carlin's teams, and it was a highlight, and to be able to give back like you're doing too, it feels good to get respectful kids that are hopefully they're learning more about other life lessons. 1:06:40 Dan Things aren't always going to go your way. 1:06:43 Dan You know, that was one of my dad's. 1:06:45 Dan Kind of towards the end of the years, we had them with our U12A team, and we called them their unofficial advisor, consultant to our team because he had two granddaughters. 1:06:56 Dan He had Olivia and Carlin on the same team because we had come up combined in different organizations, Enveral Heights and Eagan for the right numbers to have an A and two Bs, have the right one of goalies, all those challenges in youth hockey that aren't so fun. 1:07:08 Dan But yeah, it was pretty awesome to see them get a chance to come to the locker room after you're upsetting number one team, Andover in the cake eater tournament after he comes in, puts his arm around the gate. 1:07:24 Dan And one of the best parts about that was the Andover team was number one all year basically, and their parents bought them donuts because they were expecting to win that morning against us. 1:07:33 Dan But when they didn't win, they gave the donuts to our locker room. 1:07:37 Jûpe Hey, that's pretty good. 1:07:39 Jûpe That's pretty good. 1:07:40 Jûpe I like that. 1:07:41 Dan But you know, so like Hank and Casey, he's helped coach over the years with his daughters, too. 1:07:46 Dan I mean, there's a lot of guys. 1:07:48 Dan I'm not sure if Jeff Mowen, Jesse Bergliaz coach. 1:07:50 Dan I mean, a lot of guys we played with got involved. 1:07:53 Dan You know, and that's great because again, good quality people that know the game, hopefully can help develop these kids, too. 1:08:01 Dan And not necessarily focused exactly on winning and losing is developing and having a great experience. 1:08:07 Jûpe Well, thanks for coming on the show. 1:08:09 Jûpe Are you ready for some overtime with us? 1:08:11 Dan I'm ready. 1:08:12 Dan It's more than five minutes, right? 1:08:15 Jûpe I hope so. 1:08:16 Jûpe Yes, it will be. 1:08:18 Jûpe But definitely thanks for coming on. 1:08:20 Jûpe We had a lot of great stories and we're going to have more stories coming up in overtime. 1:08:24 Jûpe But a really big thanks for you to come on the show. 1:08:28 Dan I appreciate it. 1:08:29 Dan I enjoyed it. 1:08:29 Dan I love listening to you guys. 1:08:31 Dan Like I said, I'm religious every week. 1:08:33 Dan You guys got great people on there. 1:08:35 Dan I just want to make sure if I talk more than Pat Micheletti cut me off way sooner. 1:08:40 Jûpe No, that's not possible. 1:08:42 Dan I text him and it's awesome. 1:08:43 Dan He's doing better obviously with his health situation. 1:08:46 Dan I sent a note to him the other day too. 1:08:47 Dan And again, even though our ages are this hard, I grew up in it. 1:08:53 Dan I mean, I grew up in 1986. 1:08:56 Dan So when dad started coaching, I was in middle school or so, and we were there every weekend. 1:09:02 Dan Every weekend we're there and tickets were only about $7 too. 1:09:06 Jûpe But I wish that was still the case. 1:09:08 Dan Great, great, great experience at Old Rink. 1:09:10 Dan I do miss it. 1:09:11 Dan I think it was a great ice sheet and walking up those stairs, you know, still would give you chills to say so. 1:09:17 Jûpe Yeah, and Nick Angel will disagree. 1:09:19 Jûpe He hates those stairs, any stairs. 1:09:25 Dan Nick could get on the stair master a couple of times. 1:09:27 Dan I know, I've seen that. 1:09:30 Dan Nick's the best, Nick's the best. 1:09:31 Dan And I'm so excited about what he's working on, you know, with the- 1:09:34 Jûpe We'll get into that a bit in overtime here. 1:09:36 Dan It's awesome. 1:09:37 Jûpe But thanks for coming on. 1:09:39 Jûpe That is going to do it for this episode of The GPL Podcast. 1:09:43 Jûpe This is kind of our half season end. 1:09:46 Jûpe We'll be back in January with a brand new show. 1:09:50 Jûpe So make sure you come back for that. 1:09:52 Jûpe We may be doing some things for the World Junior Tournament. 1:09:55 Jûpe Not sure yet. 1:09:55 Jûpe Might be just do quick little shorts for the Junior Tournament. 1:09:58 Jûpe We'll just have to wait and see. 1:09:59 Jûpe But for those of you watching live right now, stay tuned for overtime. 1:10:04 Jûpe And for the rest of you, we'll catch you in January on The GPL Podcast. 1:10:21 Jûpe If you are watching on YouTube, hit that subscribe button and get notified each time we go live or post a video. 1:10:27 Jûpe If you listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, please rate our show and leave a review. 1:10:38 Jûpe For those of you watching live, you know what's next. 1:10:41 Jûpe It's Vegoe's Beverage of the Week. 1:10:45 Jûpe It's time for Overtime.