Penguins win streak over

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Hey sports Porchers, it's your
hockey Jesus and I'm back with

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analysis of the Pittsburgh
Penguins game this afternoon

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versus the Calgary Flames.
Well, Pittsburgh Penguins fans,

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This is why I love the game of
hockey.

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You can look at a game and be
like this should be an easy win

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for a team tonight.
This afternoon it should have

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been the Pittsburgh Penguins
against the Calgary Flames.

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Calgary comes in with the worst
power play in the NHL.

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They don't have their best
scorer in Coleman.

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They haven't won yet in 2026.
Dustin Wolf is out their best

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goalie so they got the backup
Devin Cooley in.

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They played last night.
Calgary's on A4 game losing

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streak.
They're 18 and 26 coming into

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today and the Calgary Flames
beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 2

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to one.
And a really, really kind of a

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spirited game.
It it's really weird when the

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East Coast plays against the
West Coast and the game is just,

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you know, it's actually was
pretty animated from from the

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second period, really from the
end of the first period on.

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I think the bad news really
happened when the Pittsburgh

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Penguins announced that Brian
Russ is going to be out

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day-to-day.
That jumbled up two of their

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four lines.
And that's a problem for the

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Pittsburgh Penguins right now
because they still got some

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relatively new players.
Remember Chinikov, Sony in his

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fifth game, Gino's back, you
know, for the first time for for

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his third game.
So they're still trying to

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figure out those lines.
And for some reason, when they

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bring Kevin Hayes in, Oh my God,
I wish Kevin Hayes never played.

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But I get it.
Mcgrory's out.

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Rust is hurt.
Hayes is last man standing, so

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he's got to play.
But they will not put him in the

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fourth line.
They're not going to mix up the

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fourth line.
So instead, they put Hayes on

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the third line.
They move Novak to the first

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line.
So now you're messing up two

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lines.
I don't really like that play by

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Muse.
He's going to have to figure out

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something when these mystery
injuries happen.

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Russ probably got injured his
foot when he blocked that shot

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the other night.
I don't know if that's true or

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not, but to me that's probably
what happened.

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Probably, probably he's feeling
some bruising from that.

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But yeah, so when that when
Hayes, when Hayes comes in, the

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first thing he does is he
commits a penalty.

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He wasn't really too much a
factor on the goals, but I just

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don't like the way when he comes
in, he just messes up

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everything.
You just can't plug him in the

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somewhere.
And I, I'm just at a loss of

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words because I don't like the
guy.

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I don't like the I wish he was
not on this team, but he is and

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we have to deal with it.
Let's look at what happened in

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the first period.
Honestly, the first period was

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all Ryan Shea.
What is he doing?

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He's he's waiting to send the
puck across the zone on the blue

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line.
And, you know, basically it's a,

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it's, it's a, it's a, it's a
breakaway goal 1 nothing one

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nothing right away.
And it got chippy at the end of

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the first period, like I said,
and the chippiness continued

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into the second.
There was a power play at 11:30.

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And that's the other thing with
Brian Rust out, you know, he

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does kill penalties.
He is on the power play.

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So you got to fill all those
positions.

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You know, Raquel's out there
killing penalties in in in lieu

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of Rust.
Honestly, Raquel hasn't killed

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penalties first at all.
He looks a little lost out there

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and you can tell, you know,
maybe what I'll do is I'll show,

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I'll show a little preview of
that tomorrow.

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He just is not skating when he's
out there, which means he

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doesn't really know where to go.
So he's just trying to keep, you

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know, a spot empty from a pass
getting through.

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They didn't score on the power
play today.

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Calgary did not.
So that wasn't a big deal, but

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just did it looked disconnected
the whole the whole game.

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It looked disconnected.
Penn's power play was over 3

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tonight, but they look good.
The power play did look good.

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I think the third in the third
period and really not a lot of

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shots going into the second
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I think it was like maybe 12:12
to 10:00 or something like that

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going into the third period.
And then right away in the third

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period, Calgary just said, OK,
we got to win a damn game.

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Because you know, they're,
they're, they're just not a good

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team.
They're not going to make the

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playoffs.
But I think they just wanted to

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show that they still have faith.
And I did watch them the other

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night against Montreal.
They do play with some spirit.

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They're they're not, they're not
a team that doesn't have talent.

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They're not a team that doesn't
go out there and and play hard.

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They played really hard tonight
and they did play hard against

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Montreal.
It's just that I think if you

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can take the game away from them
and the Penguins didn't today

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that they're going to stay in
it.

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And that's what happened.
They got a good, they got a good

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goal at the beginning of the
third period.

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It really was the screenshot on
Sheila.

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Sheila wasn't bad tonight
actually.

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He kept them in the game after
that because they kept coming.

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They could have had another goal
or two for sure. 6 to nothing

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shots in the third period and
the Penguins just couldn't get

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it started.
Once they did get started, they

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did get a goal, but it got waved
off near the end of the third

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period.
Sid got pushed into the goalie

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and honestly, you know, when it
comes down to that, that goalie

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interference, you might as well
toss a coin because you don't

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know what's going to happen.
Sid clearly got pushed into the

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goalie and the goalie got
knocked down and then Novak kind

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of spun around the back of the
goal and knocked it in and they

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just blew it off right away.
I hate that you can't, you can't

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challenge that play either.
So it's just, you know, I guess

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it's just bad puck luck for the
Pens tonight.

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The other thing is the Pens did,
they just didn't look good.

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They just didn't look good.
All they weren't, they weren't

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crisp.
When the Penguins are good,

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they're getting the puck out of
the zone, they're crisp and

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tonight they were not.
And honestly, I think some, if

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you look at back at this game
and you see Calgary come out the

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way they did, they are a big
body team.

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They've got a lot of 6 foot
guys.

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They take up a lot of space.
They're not fast.

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They're not a fast team.
Last year Pittsburgh Penguins

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problems was to speed.
This year, it looks like their

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problem might be bigger, bigger
teams that kind of just take up

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space.
And when the Pittsburgh Penguins

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trying, you know, move into the
spaces that they want, they're

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just running into these guys and
they're falling over.

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Honestly, I didn't, I didn't, I
didn't like the way I don't like

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the way Calgary plays.
They they're they're big, but

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they fall over a lot like that,
that penalty in the in in the

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third period where somebody got
a tripping penalty.

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Maybe it was Gino, the guy just
fell down and at the end of the

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actually, but after Gino got
after the goal was scored by

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Chinikov and Gino come over to
celebrate and he knocked the guy

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down, the guy felt like he was
like shot by a a 44 magnum or

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something.
You just crumbled to the ground

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and that's ridiculous.
I'm sorry.

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But you know what?
If you're a big guy and you're

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crumbling like that, you're
just, you know, crocodile tears

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for that guy because he he
didn't.

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Chino pushed him over and it was
a penalty.

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But but that's the way the
hockey goes.

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You know, the hockey God
sometimes smile down upon a team

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that shouldn't win.
And tonight that's what happened

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this afternoon.
The Calgary Flames get a

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probably a much needed win.
I don't think they're making the

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playoffs, but they did get a win
tonight, their first win of

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2026.
It comes against the Pittsburgh

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Penguins.
My Pittsburgh Penguins, they

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probably deserve the win.
Pittsburgh's got to figure out a

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way to play against these big
these big teams and hopefully

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they can get the lines back
together.

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Don't know if Russ is going to
make the trip to Boston

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tomorrow, but that's right.
Pittsburgh plays the Boston

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Bruins tomorrow.
Rather would beat the Boston

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Bruins and regulation and lose
to the Calgary Flames because

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Calgary's in the West Coast and
we need to we need to stay ahead

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of teams in the East Coast.
This afternoon.

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I watched some of the game.
Boston did take care of the New

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York Rangers pretty handily 1:50
or something like that.

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So hopefully they scored all
their goals tonight.

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Boston did.
They had two guys who actually

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had hat tricks, which is hasn't
happened for them since the

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depending on whether you're
talking about the home or in

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general since the 40s or the
1960s.

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So Penguins get the Bruins
tomorrow.

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Hopefully they can shake this,
shake this off, and they'll be

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in action tomorrow.
So hey, if you like what you're

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hearing, I'm the hockey Jesus.
I'm here after every single

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Pittsburgh Penguins games.
Me and my buddies, we do a call,

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a show called the Sports Porch.
We're here live on Monday

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evenings at 7:00 PM.
But I'm here live after every

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Pittsburgh Penguins game.
I'm here giving it to you about

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the Calgary Frames.
Tomorrow, I'll be back giving it

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to you about the Boston Bruins.
So hey, until then, I don't know

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if you're a football fan, enjoy
the football and if not, enjoy

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the hockey because you know, I
will be.

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I'll see you tomorrow.