#217. The Minnesota Wild Now Buyers at Deadline (with Gopher forward Bryce Brodzinski)

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ties episode 26 217 to7 Kirsten I'm Jessie Pierce right in Fr chanel.com she's Kirsten crawl in-host arena for pwhl and your Minnesota Wild amongst many other things 217 is the episode Kiren just to be clear I was incorrect earlier oh yeah I see that now it is 217 I don't know everything's a blur to me at this point um you know exciting weekend for for your Minnesota Wild a couple late night games couple late night showdowns a couple late night wins we're going to get to all of that and then in

the second segment we are actually checking in on College hockey with the best college hockey team to ever exist in the entire world the goer men's hockey Squad with Bryce brinsky I know a conversation that Kirsten just loves to have each year well it's been a while since they've won a national championship so don't know if I can say they're the best to ever exist wow remind me how many banners St Cloud's hung we can talk about how many championships the Gophers have won in comparison to every o

ther college hockey team in the country if you want to have that conversation and open in case you want to know this is it's it's our favorite argument one of our many arguments I believe we have throughout the course of a season but that's what makes us the Bardon Beauties that's what makes us fun different I think we're probably both on the same page though Kirsten last week we claimed the Minnesota Wild we back now we were coming off a very emotionally High win against the Vancouver Canucks w

here we saw Minnesota to pot 10 now they went on and lost to Winnipeg didn't hate the loss frankly I didn't think they played terribly I kind of expected that to happen but they have since one excuse me two straight they are S1 and one in their past nine capris off's got a point streak going baldi's got seven goals in his past eight Eric sck who was hurt in the Seattle game uh but is expected to be okay he's having a career year how are we feeling are are we still confident that the Minnesota Wi

ld are back like I get nervous saying it out loud but man they're playing some damn good hockey to be fair I never said they were back I said I've liked the way that they've played you said they're back so you got to be definitive in your statement sometimes so I can go one way or another but I don't they're playing really really good right now they are playing really good I'm just confused cuz you said you didn't think that they were going to make the playoffs last I still don't how can they be

back then cuz they're back to the level that we thought they were right like last week it was they're back to the mediocrity maybe right I think that that was the stance that I took but like it's just it's a I hate it I hate watching it cuz it's just I don't know what to make of the team I continue to not know what to make of the team they are still six points back from a wild card spot right now currently occupied by the Nashville Predators with 68 points um but they are also behind St Louis S

t Louis has a game in hand and guess who they play this week kisten they play Nashville and St Louis on the road so it's going to be a big week it is going to be a big week I was going to too you confuse me just as much as this team does I never know I'm just trying to you know stir the pot a little bit stir the conversation I know you are but I'm loving the way they're playing right now I'm very confident as they head into St Louis and Nashville um hopefully Nashville can also have the showing

like they did against Dallas when they had to cancel as Russo tweeted when they had to cancel their trip to the sphere to watch you because they were embarrassed by Dallas 9-2 so let's have another one of those games ooh I did I missed that one that's a I I loved it I thought it was so funny but Nashville's your squad I thought like your second tier I choose the wild over Nashville so when I come down to the two I go for the wild especially when things are as tight right now as they are um you k

now let's talk about why things are going so well let's start with that Top Line which we talked about last year first of all are you okay were you very concerned kind of in a corner when Jewel Eric's neck left the game with a potential injury um I had some Choice words I sent you some texts um wasn't happy no was not happy but I was relieved I didn't Panic too much cuz to be honest I didn't see it in real time I saw the Recaps after cuz I was in St Cloud that night so I wasn't you know I watche

d part of the game didn't see the E injury in real time went on Twitter saw the news immediately was like WTF and then saw also the follow-ups like okay he's expected to be fine so I was like okay so it's honestly for the best that I didn't see it in real time cuz I probably my level of unhinged would have been through the roof I mean that I could see that I think everybody's level of unhen he is having a hell of a year uh so fun to watch him we talked a lot about him in last week's episode so I

don't want to harp too much on it practice was canceled today so I don't have an injury update on him uh injury updates just to clear the air there expect to Felino and Zack be Goan to come back before the March 8th trade deadline with Pat maroon who's been out for a bit yet expected to come back after that March 8th try to deadline let's switch gears quick to the deadline Kiren with the Minnesota Wild playing as well as they are with them seemingly closing in on making a playoff push here I me

an they're playing again good hockey they are getting the points that are needed they're controlling their Destiny for sure do you think this changes Bill Garren's approach now a couple weeks ago I think we were all like you know what just sell whatever or just don't do anything it just you don't need to try to make this team better because they are what they are but we all know Bill Garren and we know how competitive he is we know he's his tongue is probably salivating right now do you think we

're going to see some movement before that March or on that March 8th trade deadline for the Minnesota Wild as Bill Garen looks to maybe help this team truly make it into the playoffs yes I do think we will I've kind of had that feeling all season long too especially as it's gotten closer I don't know I've always said I don't know what it's going to be but just knowing Bill Garen and his style he's never one to just sit back and not do anything we always have said he's always plotting always sch

eming something in the back of his mind if I had to say right now any Wild players I know the two names that are really speculated right now the dewis um I would say probably duim is more likely to be dealt somewhere than Connor der um personal opinion but if I were to see anyone go it would probably be one of those to derer is a restricted free agent coming up this offseason doy an unrestricted free agent so odds of keeping him in general probably not great if you're expecting to have him walk

in the offseason anyway you're right that's collateral right there Pat maroon was another name that was tossed around do you think the injury has hurt that speculation or do you because again he is a guy that epitomizes a playoff run right he's a guy that you want to think that's why Bill Garen went and got him in the off season was to say hey this guy knows how to how to win and I think he's a a coveted factor a coveted role in a lot of teams do you think Patty SL big rig SL Patrick is uh a pot

ential continues to be a potential for trade bait no I have always had the thought again I keep being like I always thought I don't I don't know why it keeps coming out of my mouth like that but I have had the feeling because the speculation been going around for a while I haven't thought he's going anywhere I felt he's sticking around and I think definitely the injury he has had not being showcased not playing in the weeks that he's been out I think that definitely hurts the chances of him bein

g dealt somewhere else and also Bill Garren went the offseason picked him up signed him to Minnesota one if we're taking the personal player perspective into consideration he has a family he's got kids I don't think after already making one move earlier this season that he's going to want to move upro his family a second time that's kind of a personal feeling that I have just kind of trying to put myself in a players's position but also too I don't see Bill Garen wanting him to be a player when

he went out and got him to be another one kind of at the trade deadline to be more Expendable the only I I honestly go so back and forth on it because you're right I think he's one of Billy's guys right and we know how Billy feels about his guys and I think Pat maroon is that which is fine the reason I could see him being tradable is because teams would want a player of his caliber and he's had a really good year up until the injury I think he surprised all of us by playing in areas and and gett

ing some goals and showing more skills than I think we anticipated him too so I could see some teams maybe coming in not knocking and and looking for that and and looking for his veteran presence but yeah ultimately I think him being one of Billy's guys and especially you know on the flip side if Garen thinks this team is destined to make the playoffs then yeah you want him on your team so Bill's not going to give that up so it's very I hate to be so wishy-washy but I am I'm so like being here b

eing here being here being here because I could see it really shaking out either way but you're right I think the injury probably hurts any teams that were possibly looking the dewis I would agree uh Mark Andre flurry was another name that was brief discussed it sounds like in a recent conversation he had with Joe Smith of the athletic that flurry does in fact want to be here and again I think we've talked about it that has to be with the family you bring up the family aspect Kiren and how you k

now you don't want to uproot and Mark Andre flurry is a family guy so that's where I've always kind of stayed steadfast I don't think flurry is is going on where unless he really wants to go somewhere right it's it's Mark Andre flurry's decision to make yeah and I think Bill Garren even also mentioned that like at the trade deadline h it's it's his call I think people have kind of put words in his mouth for him all season long um just kind of speculating like at the trade deadline flurry's going

to want to go play somewhere else he has nothing else left to prove in his career he has what three Stanley Cups he's won multiple vzna trophies he he's going to be a Hall of Famer like he has nothing left to prove I think he's really happy in Minnesota and also too he said that like this is his team so I don't think that was really an option I didn't see it that way anyways leading up to this point but also too take this as you will I have heard he also kept is keeping his kids in Minnesota fo

r school next year so take that as you will I don't know what to make of that but that is what I have heard plot thickens uh you know the other thing excuse me pardon me Kaden's just going to chime in but Mark Andre FL has made the playoffs every year of his career he doesn't know what that's like so maybe there's something there who knows I can understand if there were speaking of Mark Andre flurry I want to get into the goal tending Tandem and how I was critical last week and they heard me as

they tend to do and now we're back with them playing some pretty dang good uh excuse me I why do I keep seeing pretty dang good that's like my phrase of the week like it's my thing like they're playing some dang good hockey uh but the goalies are good but first Mark Andre flurry certified Swifty how are you today we had a lot of people who immediately Let The Bard down Beauties know that Mark on flurry quoted Taylor's Swift postgame saying just shake it off were you very excited to know that the

re is another confirmed Swifty in the room I'm just happy I mean I shouldn't be surprised Mark Andre flurry great guy respects women he gloves Taylor Swift so I mean it's just confirming women like I guess did we were we worried that he disrespected women no we weren't but like there's like this whole thing like and I'm maybe going to stir the pot by like saying this but in the community the Swifty Community there's a lot of men very vocal about not liking Taylor Swift her ruining football blah

blah blah so I feel like it really says a lot about a man when he's like yeah like Taylor Swift references her like even if you're on the side of like Brock Faber where he's like I don't listen to her but I definitely respect her success like it says a lot about a man the way he talks about Taylor Swift so that's why I said flurry respects women I get it all right that makes sense like I get I get what you're saying we needed to clarify that yes um and the continued confirmation of Jonas Bro and

being a swiy also carries on I apolog I need to publicly apologize to Kirsten for not alerting her of the further confirmation that the Minnesota Wild made on their social media this is like the fourth time now and everyone's like is he though and I'm like it's they've tweeted about it like four times now like this is God I just need to I need to like pick his brain about this he needs to come on the podcast that's all and it just it needs to just once and for all get it out there I just need t

o know his favorite song yeah like there's a whole I have so many questions yeah I I don't know why I still just struggle I we've been told many times you asked him and he said yeah I like Taylor Swift he literally told you yeah I like Taylor Swift and I'm just like huh why is it so hard for you to believe I don't I don't know I don't know why bra you to your face and also the wild have tweeted about it so many times it just feels too perfect maybe that's it he's a perfect man what do you what d

o you want what do you want him to say wow um going back to the goal tending Philip Guston looked absolutely phenomenal in the win in Edmonton on Friday night before flurry goes flurry has won four of his past five starts allowing two goals or fewer in three of those four Philip guson made 41 saves and E easily one of his best games of the season um again though there's the problem of consistency this is why I'm so inconsistent in my analysis is because this team is so damn inconsistent and I do

n't know what to do yeah you confuse me more than this team does quite frankly can we but can we guarantee Philip gson can continue to perform this way I guess that's where is your concern level with that because coming into the year I think we were all like apprehensive if he can you know duplicate what he did last year and do it with more games now obviously he's been injured a little bit this year there's been injuries throughout the team which obviously changed things in front of you as a go

alie I I haven't seen enough of the good to believe that Philip guson is going to be like this to round out the rest of the regular season I guess I think as of late I have seen more of the good from him and I think a lot of that is to do if I am to speculate he probably is feeling more healthy than he was after coming back from that injury cuz we had discussed we didn't think he was fully healed from what it was at this point I think he's finding his Groove again like I have more confidence in

Mark Andre flurry and him performing well night and I like it's been a really good year for flurry I think like there's been a couple rough starts but for the most part I think he's really found a good Groove because he's had to again when Gus was out I mean he was the guy and he stood up to that task and not that I'm surprised because he's still Mark Andre flurry but again he's on that tail and of of his career I just but I then I don't know if that means who's your number one if you had to nam

e a number one are you saying Philip gustofson as your number one no I would say with the way flurry's been this season I would probably say flurry I'm more confident I agree in that by saying I feel better about flurry because Gus has been inconsistent this season but I think as of late he's like I mentioned finding his Groove again but I still have more confidence in flurry like I feel the team and I you know just I'm going to go into this week trying to find out the answer I feel the team thi

nks Gus is number one and flurry's number two I don't know if they're viewing it as a direct 5050 tandem maybe more so lately cuz they are playing that way but again there's been a ton of back to backs as well I'm going to go with Mark Andre flurry is my number one as well I don't think Gus is my number one he hasn't been my number one for most of the year so what do you wait till he calls you out on that he does love to do that sorry I I nothing nothing against you I just I've seen more out of

Mark Andre to say hey I think kind of clear cut I think it's fair I just your goalie criticism is funny I don't know why we all know I have no skill in goal tending I couldn't even get up on the pad so I it's almost better it's getting there we're rounding the corner of healing so I'm proud to I'm on uh it's more of a day-to-day situation I think versus a week to week which it prior was cuz we're two weeks into this now so that's good we're we're going to start practicing with the team tomorrow

it's it's going to get better we appreciate that thank you for your concern well tomorrow's a game day so you can't really practice with the team tomorrow yeah no that's how I'm going to like I'm going to get my reps in with the interviews you know work my way into the inside of the scrums it's it's what I do um before we get to the week ahead with your Min before we get to Bryce brinsky and chat a little bit of gopher and college hockey and more about Brock Faber too of course um I want to talk

about Matt suc Carell I feel like he's kind of I don't want to say an unsung hero I think everybody knows what Matt zukar is capable of but you go back say Saturday's game against Seattle for assist he has 50 points in 49 games this year um he had 67 points in 78 games last year he's got 11 goals 39 assists this season Matt suc Carell Minnesota continues to just squeeze the best juice out I don't want to call him a lemon I don't mean to say it that way but they do they're squeezing the very bes

t of him out in his waning sounds like he's a dog about to get put down in his waning years but like I don't know what it is I do you think Matt zcell has kind of been underrated a little bit this year or he hasn't gotten the praise that you're giving Capri offs and Baldi and X but he's been such a dominant force and one who's been healthy too for the majority of the season to be fair I don't think baldi's been praised this season he's been heavily criticized because he's been very inconsistent

all year long I would say zuk Carell maybe he has not gotten the praise he deserves because he's been that consistent like night in night out he for the most part does everything right so I guess it's not as noticeable um he's been there maybe not as big of a score as we've seen from him in the past but being there helping make plays with the assists he's been there all season long um so definitely I think it's gone a little unnoticed just because it we haven't seen like when we've seen bad game

s like I mentioned from baly it's noticed with zuk Carell it's just he's just there I mean not like I say that kind of sounded bad saying like he's just there no he's been doing the right things consistently yeah yeah I think that's probably a really good point I think it is is just a consistent which it's funny because I go back to the beginning of the year and nobody was consistent outside of Brock Faber and Jewel Ericson X so I will criticize Zuki a little bit there CU he was in that grouping

of like hey freaking do something yeah at the beginning he was quiet yeah like and everybody was right I mean it wasn't just him certainly but I don't know I just feel like you know I don't know we've talked much about zuk and kind of what he's done not just on the line with kill caprisa either obviously being moved to a second line and getting things going there so it's it's kind of exciting to see he's having another really really strong season which I'll admit it coming into this year I was

like you know what I think zuk Grill is finally going to fall off the cliff he's going to get hurt he's going to be you know blah blah blah and I was wrong I was wow that's big of you I know I was wrong damn it hate that hate when that happens uh let's take a peek at the week ahead before we take a break and get to Bryce brazinski Kirsten we already predicted the game for tomorrow Tuesday today against Carolina Hurricanes at St Paul then they head to Nashville on Thursday they are at St Louis on

Saturday first of a back toback before they come back home against the Sharks on Sunday in St Paul what are you thinking for the week um I think they're going to win them all honestly I do I really do I'm feeling good right now with where at all regulation wins or we looking overtime I wouldn't be surprised if one of them went to overtime probably you know I'm going to say St Louis St Louis okay I think they're going to come out hard against Nashville there's a lot on the line and like I said I

've always said I feel the wild there it was there it was again I always have said this why do I keep saying that I've always said it always said it the Wild play their best hockey when their backs are against the wall right now they're trying to creep into that wild card spot Nash St Louis ahead of them must win games so because of that mentality I think they're going to take them all yeah I it's not because I'm trying to disagree with you I just I I get so nervous although let me point this ou

t if they win in Carolina I got I nailed my prediction for this week um because you just said that it's not going to happen I know I'm nervous about San Jose and I shouldn't be but also I look at it as you go back the Ducks game you go back to Buffalo like teams that they should beat they've struggled against so I'm going to a and Addison Revenge toour how or Nico Sturm revenge tour I forget about Nik Sturm yeah yeah he was part of that too n he I don't think he has that dog in him like that tho

ugh definitely doesn't have that dog in him he's got Kon I think takes names oh yeah I can't wait to see Kaylin Addison mhm awkward awkward Turtle I'm here for it yeah uh they're gonna lose to I think they're gonna lose to San Jose unfortunately I'm g go two oh it'll be an overtime loss I'll give him a point okay to okay that's what we're going to go with let us know what you guys think again let us know any comments suggestions all of that good stuff um we're going to take a quick break when we

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oss goals today start your weight loss Journey the livia way joining us this week Bryce brodzinski a two-time bees guest now welcome back Bryce how how are we doing today good yeah it's been a little while junior year was the last time I was on here so it's been a little bit good to be back though I mean you were high request we requested you very highly because you are you you're kind of funny I don't know if you know that you're kind of funny so good for you that's a that's a prop to you yeah

well it's not hard with some of the guys on our team some of the guys on our team aren't very funny so kind of have to be at the top of the list who's the least funny like who is there somebody that tries to be funny or are most of the guys just pretty chill and quiet on the roster this year I don't know I think some of the guys that try to be quiet are the funniest because when they speak up every once in a while always something super funny so um I guess we don't have any that that aren't funn

y at all but some of them that try a little bit too hard I won't I won't get the specifics on who they are though who who would you say is the best locker room personality kind of going along the same note um I don't know we got a lot I mean it's it's kind of a a pick and choose kind of day who's going to be the one speaking up a lot so um I mean Jackson Nelson anytime he wants to say something is always super funny and um my favorite guy to talk to is actually Aon hugan just cuz like he wheneve

r he speaks up it's always something super funny and um you know he might not even be in the conversation you'll hear him giggling in the background because he's listening to your conversation so uh he's definitely one guy that I like to to hear laugh in the locker room and a quick followup to that too where do you rank in that mix I don't know I think it's I'm kind of I think I'm in the middle because I think half the team thinks I'm funny and half of the team thinks I'm stupid for some of the

stuff I say so um yeah I would probably rank myself somewhere in the middle how has the team in the locker room really chemistry come together to help what you guys are doing on the ice and the season just give us a quick breakdown of how my gopher squads because I know that drives Kirsten nuts when I when I the Gophers hey it probably drives his family nuts too Sint Cloud State family it's not just me just drives my Dad nuts I think he's a he's a Sint Cloud guy and everyone else in my family ju

st likes playing hockey so yeah that's fair just that so but yeah I mean our our chemistry's been great I mean it's um you know kind of when I first got here it was kind of more clicks where it was like you kind of stayed with your age group and now it's everyone hangs out with everyone so um yeah it's been really good I mean a lot of the freshmen are are fitting in super well and um you know super you know they mangle all the time and so um yeah I've been loving the group that's coming in with

the way that things ended last year how much hunger is there and is there any boiled over kind of frustration because it had to have been one of the more heartbreaking losses in certainly in your career but with some of those other guys too cuz I know it's one that Brock Faber now with the Minnesota Wild still says man I I just can't get past that one once in a while yeah I mean it sucked I mean it's um you know kind of it kind of makes you question why you love the game a couple of times and so

it's it was you know there's that 50% I want to get back at it because I want to get back in that position and that 50% like gosh that sucks I feel sorry for myself so um it's you know it was a tough hump to overcome and um you know it's it took us a little bit little while and you know once we kind of did it um you know was all steam ahead and so um yeah it kind of took a little bit before you kind of you know remembered why you love the game and um you know once you did it it was kind of back

to normal in business as usual and taking a look just kind of at the college hockey season we're getting real close to March almost tournament time where would you evaluate where your team currently sits I think we're in a good spot I mean um you know based off what we did the first half I think we're um you know putting ourselves in a good spot right now it's um you know if we would have kind of kept going on the trajectory that we were first half we would have been in a pretty bad spot and so

I think we've kind of turned things around and you know we're getting good at the right time and just kind of you mentioned turning things around what do you think was the turning point for you guys from earlier this season to now yeah I think uh you know first half I think everyone was kind of um you know you had guys like Logan and Matthew n and you know snugger having you know 60o season so you kind of get that feeling that you're going to have to you know kind of repeat on that I know stugg

y kind of um you know was gripping a stick a little bit tight thinking that he had to do that again otherwise it was a failed season and um you know once they started just playing to win and everyone kind of bought into the systems it was it was less about getting points and more about winning games and that's when our points started to happen and that's when we started to get good you'd mentioned a couple names that are familiar now on the NHL scene who do you cheer for so if you've got Arizona

versus the wild are you still cheering to your you know Hometown State team are you cheering for how do you cheer for the different teammates that are now spread out through the league I think it's more I want the game to be seven to seven and they both have seven points so no I don't I don't cheer for specific teams I'm I'm more so cheering for players so um you know wherever all my buddies are that's where I'm cheering that is definition I just want everybody to have fun like that is it's lik

e a a total mom answer when both our kids are on different teams see I would choose I would pick a kid like didn't your mom had to your mom secretly picked one of you kids she was like you know I I think my mom well it was different when me and Eon played e was at St Cloud so my dad picked St Cloud so my mom picked Minnesota stuff because she knew it even out but um I don't know I think she just wants wants both people to score when the other person isn't on the ice and she'd be happy that seems

fair how about take a sec too to just kind of talk about your family Dynamic I got to know Eon at St Cloud because we were there at the same time Johnny a little bit it's got to be fun just having a hardcore hockey family yeah it's super cool I mean it's um you know in the summertime you don't have to kind of find friends that are are working out and where they're going to be working out you kind of do everything with your family and so um yeah it's been good I mean uh Michael finally retired s

o he's back at home now so it's kind of good being able to have somebody close and somebody home for Christmas it's been just me for a little while so um but yeah I mean always having somebody somebody's always on TV to go watch and get a go home and my mom's got four TV set up to watch all my brothers so um yeah it's always good to see them well and Michael married a hockey superstar in and of herself with with Danny now she get in on the the hockey chirping and and games that I'm sure you guys

play frequently when you are all together yeah I mean it's always her that I'm texting whenever we're gonna go and do a family skate to see if she's coming so um yeah it's um even when she would come skate with us and it'd be you know 14 pros and her on their you wanted her on your line just because you know that she was going to make the best plays out of all of them so uh yeah it's it's definitely cool having her in the family and as you guys have grown too and you know kind of we talk about

sibling rivalries when you're younger and just kind of maybe throwing a sibling in net to take shots at him how has that evolved the older you guys gotten um I mean I'm bigger than probably all of my brothers know and they still decide to pick on me just cuz I'm so much younger than them so I mean it's it hasn't really changed it's just more so now that um you know they kind of know that I won't do anything to them just because I'm still honestly kind of scared of of at least Michael because he

kind of picked on me the most growing up but um yeah it's more so turned into um you know it's kind of jokes now where back in the day they might have actually kind of wanted to pick pick on me a little bit or no it's just kind of it's all fun in game so um yeah I mean it's it was honestly good that they did that I mean it it taught me the right way to be and um you know definitely grew our friendship as we got older were you snitching on them though when they did do something wrong because that

that would be another reason that they would have to just be extra hard on you like Bryce was always telling Mom on us yeah see I would tell my mom just about every single time and my mom would yell at me to get tougher so there was nothing I could do anyways so H yeah they there there was them a lot of help especially in in some situations where I think my parents kind of knew like hey just toughen up where it was more severe situations they might step in but it wasn't too often that it was se

vere I was kind of a whiner as a kid Ry was just out here fending for himself that's amazing well you know since we're talking about kind of chirps and and wh I don't think whining is the right word we talked to one of your friends Brock Faber um trying to get some inside dirt and and Brock is a very nice young man right he's not telling us a whole lot he did say I really really need to ask you about summer softball and why do you think that you can only hit home runs and why are you not okay wi

th doing anything other than home runs and dingers he uh well I think the problem is that he doesn't like to hit home runs well doesn't like to hit home runs but he can't hit home runs unless we have all the wind in the back and I've always been a guy that's like why am I going onto the rink if I'm not trying to score a goal or why am I going to softball if not trying to hit a home run I I think it's uh it's more so like kind of funny to see people's reactions especially like last summer there w

as one where we kind of ran out of home runs but we were winning by enough so I just kept hitting home runs to get out these because I thought it was super funny um but some of the guys on the team don't think it's very funny anymore so yeah I might I I think I might be off the team this summer now just because I kept doing that too much were you bat flipping too and like doing the cocky you know saunter over to First and around no it was it was the the cocky I've been there before I think that

that kind of got the fa so um no I think he he was always he was actually probably my favorite softball player to play with just because you kind of he made everything thing look a lot harder than it actually was on the baseball field so Brock not so good on the diamond is what you're saying really good but he made it look really hard so yeah no he he actually had a the like becoming wild came to our game and he had that diving catch in the Outfield to win the game against uh like besser team in

the playoffs so I mean he he's he's just so athletic that he makes those plays but he sure does make it look hard what do you think he so you mentioned he makes sallard do you think he's better hockey player or softball player oh I mean he makes hockey look easy but I did make him fall in practice my junior year so that was probably like the highlight of my career so I remember I faked middle and went wide and he fell over might probably caught an edge or lost an edge or something but I'm going

to say that it was my move that made him fall over and I think it was probably like two and a half weeks that I let him hear it that that happened at practice so I might have to text him and bring that up again I was just about to say do you remind that of remind him of that from time to time just keep it in your back pocket I might have to I'm gonna put it in my text app and then close out my app so next time I go in there it's goingon to be in there I would hang your hat You' mentioned a grou

p chat where you guys get to chirp faves which I'm sure you guys are certainly talking smack amongst all of you but the facial expressions we have firsthand seen this and I will send this over your way BR so you can you can see it too Kirsten was talking about Taylor Swift as she tends to do and again it was a classic Brock Faber like huh okay and like just didn't know what to say didn't know how to react not rude at all by any stretch of the imagination but I just play it in my head over and ov

er again because it was so funny it was just so it was just so Brock that's a common thing that he's had since College I imagine yeah yeah I mean it's it's funny we have uh we went on like a golf trip last summer it was kind of all the all the golfer guys from you know years past and so we had probably you know 15 to 20 of us so every time that that someone sees the picture on on the internet they'll send it in and there was one last week he had like four different screenshots of him doing it an

d like eight people sent it in at the exact same time when when it went on the internet it was so funny there was all different pictures it was it was really good you I'm you know I'm not going to lie I literally saw that exact same post where there was a frame of four different Brock facial expressions Kevin gorg yeah so funny but he's like looking in all different directions wideeye and yeah he's he's a different character he's really funny I almost want to ask him do you think it's like the c

ontact situation you know cuz he wears glasses so much and like sometimes I feel like his eyes are extra wide when he's not wearing glasses like you don't get those expressions when he's got the Spectacles on yeah I mean I think my my senior year maybe last year maybe my junior year we had an interview together and um I was telling you guys about the hair in his face he he kind of had I think got his glasses on in that one and he was kind of widey so I think it's uh well he does it in between pe

riods a lot so it might just kind of be a thing to get his eyes going and I don't know if it his context or what but it's definitely funny every single time that we see it yeah I was going to say when we had Brock on the podcast last season when he was still with Minnesota and the facial expressions he was giving he was wearing glasses and I I'm still convinced he thinks I'm crazy he does I I he does and you know what I embrace it I think it's funny yeah he's funny meanwhile I cringe and uh I do

n't know whatever speaking of quick Bryce what are your thoughts on Taylor Swift I don't mind her personally I I don't know I sort of I think it's funny how like because I I never like you could probably ask anybody like I don't get upset about anything like people like Johnny senson he was my roommate he like would try to do things that bothered me knowing that like nothing would bother me and so like he would always kind of start arguments and do all these little things just to try to get me g

oing yeah like little pet PE things or like I need example try to do things that would like annoy most people like you would like there's only one thing that I don't really like and it's when people like come into my room and leave my door open when they leave so like he would do that but I like wouldn't say anything to him even though it would like annoy me and he like hates that like nothing would really fire me up but yeah I think it's like super funny when people get upset about things that

don't matter at all and so like people seeing people like get upset that like Taylor Swift's like kind of the face of the NFL now is like kind of funny to me so like it doesn't bother me at all it's it is hilarious do you hear Taylor Swift on the ox in uh in the Gopher room this year uh no not really actually it's it's been kind of well Connor Kur runs our Ox so it's really really bad music so I think Kaylor Swift actually has pretty good music so it hasn't been on there yet I was gonna say that

's my challenge to you is to just surprise everyone steal the ox play one song um but what kind of songs are blasted in that go for locker room um it's such a weird mix because like half of it is Conor Cur like rap music that like three people in the locker room like and then somebody like Justin CL will like yell at him to play country or like throwback country or something and then um it'll be like John Mayer or something on so it's like a really weird mix of like things 90 97% of the people l

ike and things that 3% of the people like do you have just one person in control for the entire season or how does that how do you designate the DJ uh it's usually whoever just gets to the ring first and like wants to hear music so it's like if no one's playing music whoever's there just kind of gets on it and so I mean it's it's usually everyone's kind of too lazy to do it because you don't want to be by your phone and changing music all the time where kthy wants to hear his music all the time

so he's always in there doing it do you guys want to hear a fun Side Story that I just heard the other day so you're talking to Ryan Hartman about different protocols and how the league is kind of changed you know going off a John torella is comment about young players whatnot he had said when he was in Chicago Maran and HOSA was there and a young player like a kid they had just drafted C comes into the locker room and HOSA was in charge of the ox in the locker room right the kid comes in unplug

s it and plugs his in doesn't say a thing and all of a sudden hosa's like what the hell is that and like he's like who are you and like he literally looked at the kid he's like who are you I don't even know you and Hartman was like needless to say he uh he didn't make the team the next year or whatever like he was down in the a after that night so now that is living in had rent free like don't touch the ax at any level right such a power move we kind of tell the Freshman to stay away from it jus

t cuz we don't know what kind of music they like but like we realistically never enforce it but they also never really break that rule so yeah um yeah it's it's it's pretty it's pretty much counter curth just because no one else wants to do it and he's willing to do it but I think we're kind of cracking down on him getting on the ax he's got to get better he's got to step up his game I'm sure yeah he's got to step up or get out of the way you got to put together a playlist then if you know just

put together a little something I have like a 300 song playlist but it's like only music that I would like I think so like what what are we vibing into it's like I have like a 300 song playlist and there's probably like 20 different genres in there it's just like I'm like a lyric guy so like I don't like really care about like voices or like beats I just like if the lyrics are good like I really like those songs so yeah um yeah I kind of have a a playlist with a bunch of different songs I love t

hat what would be your goal s song say you you guys make it to the national championship game again which I'm cheering for you to do here in St Paul coming up in April what would be your big goal celebration song or what's the winning song that you're playing um I don't know we have uh so Rett pitlick brought in Honey for like one of our first games after Christmas and like was like passing around because like Honey's like really good source of like energy and um everyone was calling him like a

worker B because like he worked super hard so we were like calling it worker B so like we everyone in the locker room we call each other worker bees now and so like after the song when we win we play I'm a bee and like that song like I'm a bee I'm a be that time yeah so that's kind of been our win song and it's kind of been piggybacked off R pitlick bringing us all honey in the locker room so um yeah I mean we call we call Rett the worker be and we're all um you know just bees in the Beehive so

um yeah that would probably be our song this year this sounds like a perfect t-shirt in the making it honestly would be pretty good should talk to sodas stick about that we should get that rocking and rolling uh before we let you go predictions for the rest of season I know you guys have your bye this week uh but what are you looking forward to the most in the coming weeks as you do start to wind down the regular year and look toward uh hopefully the Frozen Four in St Paul I mean just sort of ge

tting another chance to win another game so um you know kind of ear on out just hopefully win every single game the rest of the year simple as that yeah right forget about St Cloud they're not making it anyway we could you want want throw another CH to St Cloud un they won their tournament last year so I mean there's always a chance they're they're the ones that take down until they they lose all you have to do is get into the tournament they're currently up there in the pair wise so I'm just sa

ying well that's like uh UMB like how many I think it was my the year before I came into college so 2018 2019 they're like they got in like 2% got into the tournament and won the National Championship so it's all it takes Jesse that's right go gos uh anyway thanks Bryce as always for joining us you're the best good luck the rest of season enjoy this week off and uh we'll check in with you soon I'm sure awesome thank [Music] you [Music] near