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[MUSIC] Shifting gears, changing our attention now to the Dallas stars, one of our favorite teams to talk about, one of our favorite teams to cover, certainly, and a team that always has high expectations. Josh Bogorat is the play-by-play voice of the Dallas stars. He joins us on the program now. Josh, first of all, thanks for stopping by today. Great to see you and how healthy is this team right now? And how close is this team to being 100% health? Because with Dallas, I just want a really, really healthy Dallas stars for this first round, which is going to be insanity. Agreed. So how healthy are they? Yeah. Well, first of all, it's great to be here and good to be with you guys. I promise you, everyone in Dallas really wants a healthy team too, because it's going to be a heck of an opening round, and sure looks like. I don't know how healthy anyone is this time of year, any year, but especially with the condensed schedule. So with that caveat, I think that, yeah, the injury bug has been Dallas pretty hard, and it's been a season-long thing. I mean, you go back to training camp and preseason when it started. And Jamie Ben, the captain, had a collapse lung, and he missed the first 19 games of the season. And then game three of the year, the home opener, Matt Dushane took that shot from Jake Middleton against Minnesota, coincidentally enough. And then he missed most of the first two months. And Tyler Seagan goes down, and he's out for the year. And Miko Ranton, and just working his way back, you're still without radic foxes, you're still without rope-a-hints. Thomas Harley missed some time. It's kind of this long list of injuries, and it's been a season-long play. And I think that if you watch this team on a daily basis, the way I have the way people in Dallas have, it makes what they've done so much more impressive, because they never really faltered out of contending status, even if they had a couple of dips here and there, through all of that, through half of their top six out of the lineup, key guys that wear letters. Big time players, you guys know not all injuries are created equally. But the million dollar question is the one that you asked, and that's as we sit here, what about a week and a half away from game one of a playoff series against what's going to be another Stanley Cup contender in the opening round? You still are without a handful of pretty key individuals. Now, it sounds like there's good news on the horizon, but anytime you're two weeks out, that's the question, because you obviously want to get those guys back as quickly as you can, integrate them into the lineup. Not have necessarily the first couple of games, be playoff games, but I don't know what that's going to look like. It's going to be a storyline to monitor here over five games and ten nights until we get that meeting that you're talking about in the first round. Well, let's talk about that meeting. What's your tale of the tape between Dallas and Minnesota? To me, the fatal flaw for the wild continues to be the middle of their lineup. I just don't understand what Billy Garen's doing and building the team that he built and the Lebroster continues to end up being a donut to the point where he even traded one of his best centers away in the Quinn Hughes deal. Is that a distinct advantage for Dallas? How do you break down Dallas and Minnesota as a first round series? It's good that that's the question that was phrased at the end, because if you ask the beginning, what do you think of the matchup? We might have to go over time and conversations about the playoff format, because that's definitely a hot topic conversation wish. I like it. I like it. I don't have a dog in the list and I don't have a dog in it. So I just want to see like to my earlier point, I can let you finish your job. I just want to see like really healthy teams face off against each other early because if it's like, you know, second round, third round, there's going to be built in excuses and dings and bruises and collapse lungs and broken ribs, et cetera. Anyway, continue. I love. Personally, I like it. It's a fair point. Our last topic, notwithstanding, if you have these two teams healthy, it's the marquee matchup of the open round. It's awesome. Yes. Just so happens that it feels like the central division has brought the marquee matchup of the opening round kind of seasonally. It's an annual tradition. It feels like. But look, the format is what it is and it's going to be fantastic hockey. I do think, you know, the cliches are true. It's a shame that one of those teams is not going to get out of the first round because it's going to cast a pretty large shadow on what was another wise outstanding year for both of them. But as for the matchup that you're asking, I think it's going to be a terrific matchup. And I think it's ripe with storylines. It kind of feels like Jason Robertson and Carole Capriceau have always been mentioned together because of when they entered and, you know, going one, two in the calendar race and each having seasons that has surpassed what the other one has done. And they're going to meet his 40 goal scores. And then you're going to have two of the few teams that have 40 goal teammates because you add boldly and you add Wyatt Johnston into the mix. Miko Ranton is always going to be a story because of who he is and what he did last year. But then he goes up in this playoff series against another central division, a point in after what he did last year against Colorado in that opening round and then Winnipeg in the second round. Jake Gottjur is from Minnesota and is kind of tormented them in his career and been a thorn in their side. It's, I don't think it's lost on anyone. The fact that Bill Geron, who is the architect of Team USA's gold medal winning roster and it's worth pointing out that they won gold and and a huge congratulations because as a US hockey fan and with a guy two smaller kids that got to watch that and that got to be their moment, that was a huge moment for USA hockey. But now Jason Robertson is going to go against his team in the first round of the playoffs with probably a decent sized chip on his shoulder. And that's going to be a storyline to watch. What the future, you guys were talking about Quinn Hughes earlier. What does his future look like and does this postseason and a long run or a lack of one play a role in it? And so not only are you taking two of legitimately without hyperbole the best teams in the national hockey league and facing them against one another, but you're adding these storylines too. Oh, by the way, Dallas and Minnesota, they kind of have an intertwined history of the themselves. I have no doubt that within 20 minutes of that first game, we're going to hear Norm Green's name coming from the crowd at the building in St. Paul. It's, I mean, if you are a hockey fan and I know everybody tuning in is, present company included, yeah, it's fantastic. It's fantastic hockey. It's fantastic drama. It's fantastic storylines. And however this thing goes. It's going to be worth watching from game one through however long it finishes because this is, I mean, this is a match up that for so many reasons is fascinating. The Norm Green Cup, right? Like that's that's that's the I'm glad you mentioned Norm Green like my hockey history. How is like, oh, Josh. Oh, yes, I just love it. So here's another one. I'm here for you, man. No, listen, listen, I'm at the point where it's like, hey, it's a Norm Green Cup. And like, if you want to really add more spice to the chili here, only one team is allowed to wear green after this. Wow. Do you want to put green on the line? Either Minnesota keeps it or Dallas keeps it for the green on a pole map. Green. Look at you. It's like there wasn't enough already there. You want to add, you want to add the cherry on top to this. One team is where it has these two teams. One team is where purple next year. Josh will it be Dallas will it be no, but you know, like, and here's another thing for like one of my favorite players in league is Wyatt Johnson. I'm glad you I'm glad you mentioned is this the quietest 41 goals in the NHL this season. I was like, who's got like the quietest stats? This one's got to be right up there. Barely in the market. Sure. But outside barely a whisper about how good a season he's having. I think I think it might be honestly. It's so unassuming. 25 of them have come on the power play. He's he's inching into pretty like rare fight territory when you look at that. And I think I was kind of people forget he's 22 years old because he's been in the league for four years and he hasn't missed the game since he came in. I think he's kind of just been this name that if it's not necessarily one of the marquee names from a national standpoint in both countries, then it certainly is right on the outside of it. But he's 22. How many guys haven't even started their career at the NHL level by the time they're 22 and what he's doing? And he just keeps ascending, you know, as a 19 year old, he looked the part as a 20 year old, he looked the part. It's three straight 30 goal seasons. And now 40 and you don't really know where the ceiling is. The thing is he kills penalties. He plays on the power play obviously with 25 leading power play goals. He can play in the middle of the ice, he can play on the wing. You know, I was talking to him about his power play run this year. And he said that in his entire career and he was obviously a standout all the way up through the amateur ranks and was part of that weird COVID missing. L. C. and when he was with Windsor. Yeah, but in all of his time at whatever level it was, whether it was international or whether it was juniors or whether it was the NHL prior to this year, he had never been the net front guy on a power play. This was the first time. And he's been historically good, literally, historically good, said in the franchise record and who knows where's it going to stop. And I think that's a testament to how intelligent he is. And we always talk about these, you know, intangibles and what can't you teach and what can you teach. And I think he is such a smart player. He is so impressive in how he plays the game, how he thinks the game, his skill set speaks for itself. But the fact that you can move him around at a young age and put him in different spots and just have him not only look like he belongs but excel. Maybe to a tune that nobody else in the league is doing. Yeah, I think that it's impossible to shower enough praise based on what he's done at this point in his career. And I without a doubt would say it's one of the more quiet superstar seasons in the league. [MUSIC] Everybody was disappointed last year when the team went out like everybody, all the players, everybody coaches management. It seems as if Wyatt Johnson almost like really took it personally. Like what I kept hearing was the question he kept asking, I was like, what am I doing wrong? Like what do I need to do? How do I need to play in the playoffs? Which is why for me in this opening round, he's the most interesting player because he's the one that's like completely self aware. He knows what happens last year in the playoffs. And he has gone sort of out of his way to understand and to try to change how he plays. So he can have more success. You know, some guys be like, I ran up against a tough team anyway, some regal time. But he like almost like took it personally. Like that was the sense that I got. Did you get that from from Wyatt Johnson to that was a sense that I think away from all of it. Yeah, I think he's always looking to improve. And I think that he knows even at this early stage of his career that he is a go to player on a Stanley Cup contending team. So, you know, it's great for us to talk about his age and showcase that, but he doesn't really care. He knows he knows where he is. But I also think it's worth going back a couple of years ago because in his three seasons, he's gone on three runs to the conference finals. So he's no stranger to postseason history. Last year was a rough playoffs. And there's no way of about it. And he he wasn't the only one, but it's not like he hasn't proven that he can play in the moment because if you flash back two years ago, when the route really wasn't any easier, you know, we're talking about the central division bracket. They had to go up against the defending cup champions in Vegas. And they had to go up against the prior defending cup champions in the Colorado Avalanche before they met the Oilers for the first time. And why it let him in goal scored and he had a double digit goal scoring campaign. So he has big time playoff performances on his resume. And what he's done, everyone talks about me go Ranton in for good reason last year. I mean, the seven game series against Colorado was, you can make a movie out of it and feel like there's no way it was real. But it was Wyatt who scored the tie breaking series winning goal. It was the goal that made it three to before Mico finished the hat trick for the empty netter. The year before that when it was game seven against Vegas, two one stars win. Why it was the guy who opened the scoring and made it one nothing Dallas. You go back a couple of years even before that. And when they played Seattle in game seven, it was Wyatt who scored a huge goal in the third period, almost individually coming off the corner and giving the star some breathing room. That wound up being the series winning goal. So last year was rough and there's no excusing that. But I also think when he's looking at it, he's not thinking, man, I have to break through in the playoffs. He's thinking, I've got to do more of what I've done prior to last year. But just like everyone else, it's not going to come easy because like we're talking about, you're going to have a pretty hungry and pretty good team standing on the other side of the ice. And we like to see around here. We'll hand it over to Greg on this one. The other teams allowed to try to the other teams allowed to try other teams allowed. Yeah, I've heard that once you're. All right. Well, last one for me, like I wanted to you mentioned the three trips to the conference finals and it was a guy that took part in all three of those trips, name of Pete DeBor, who is now the head coach of the New York Islanders. I wanted to get your reaction to Pete, taking over a team with four games left in their season. And also like a dude that was going to have his pick at the litter, you know, he was standing in front of the NHL coaching buffet chooses the islanders. What do you think of that? Yeah, I was candidly I was surprised and not surprised that he got a job and not surprised that he got a job this season. I kind of thought it would happen at some point. I definitely thought it would be earlier than April. It's kind of crazy that there have been these two coaching changes at the time teams and playoff spots. I know the islanders, you know, just fell on the outside, but there's still four games left. When Pete's 10 year end Dallas ended, I think everybody realized you look at his resume and he was going to land somewhere. And to your point, he was going to be able to call his own shot. I didn't necessarily see this coming, whether it was the timing of it or whether, you know, it was the location. But, you know, I think it's a crazy commentary on the league and the profession. I know that when Pete was in Dallas every time there would be a coaching change. And then he would get asked about it at the time as the head coach of the stars. He would sometimes like go on a pretty entertaining soliloquy about what it's like to be a coach because. Yeah, because it's crazy and I find, you know, some sense of irony that his his now arrival on Long Island is I find myself amused at what his reaction would have been if it was him being asked about it on the outside and someone else went in because. I mean, that's about as crazy and surreal a situation as it gets, but he's got a lot of good pieces over there. I know it's kind of fallen off the tracks a little bit at the end. I think that if you're a coach and you're looking and you get to build around shaper and what he's done and some other guys it's going to be nice looking down at your bench and having that name to call as long as you can. I think he's going to do good things over there because I think he's a good coach. I don't I don't know what four games looks like I know the new coach bump. I don't know if it applies to April and I don't know if it applies to a playoff. Chase like this because we've never seen it before, but regardless of how this year ends once he has a chance to kind of dig his claws into the season and start with them. I expect expect he'll have success there because he's definitely been a successful coach wherever he's gone. Shaper, Serokin, Barzal, Horvat. You got your blue line, you got your goalie, you got your centers. That's a really, really good start for Pete to board. Josh has been a lot of fun. Let's do it all again when the Dallas stars beat the Minnesota wild and get to keep the green. Sounds like a plan. Just in case the guys are tuning in, I'll make sure I tell them that you've added till what's on the lane. Yes, green. It's like your it's your version of money on the board. Yes, exactly. We'll make sure they all know about it. I insist on having a green background. I love the color green. It relaxes your eyes, other sports have it. I think there needs to be more green in the NHL, but here I am taking one team away from one of my favorite colors. But nonetheless, Josh, thank you so much for stopping by and sharing your expertise. We really appreciate it. Thanks, man. Yeah, it was a pleasure. Thanks, guys. Have a good one. I can't get out my head. I'm styling visions day to day. 'Cause you can call it all right. I went to the dark man. He's gonna give me a little medicine. I'm like nothing, that's fine. I'm not against those methods but new. Kiss me myself and I'll be scoffing fixed in my mind. You want to break it? I turned out to be the same thing. I feel more bad getting out of it. Kissing out of it. I don't think it's gonna try to do anything. I've been on the dissent well-known.