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See website for details. Carolina Hurricanes have now won two in a row. They are going for a third consecutive win tonight against the National Predators, something they have done once this year. They have won three in a row.

They have not won four in a row. Luke Tkach of the News and Observer, man who knows his thing or two, a thing or two about the sport of hockey. He joins us as he does every Friday. What was what impressed you about last night versus maybe Tuesday? I you know, I think it was I thought the team game was a little better, but I feel like when you when you have a goalie who's making saves and we saw this Tuesday night for sure, that I wrote this Thursday's paper at the team game flows from that and a lot of their problems not just on this road trip, but this season have stemmed from not having confidence in their goalies and they just got worse and worse and worse until it kind of reached a breaking point to me in that third period in Calgary, but but obviously there, you know, there there were other sort of pitfalls along the way, but a tight game, you know, a 2-1 game late.

You need to go in to make some saves and obviously could check out bid. You know, hurricanes probably should have been up 5-1 if you count the chances that Jarvis and Kokie me had him and that's that. But that's that's the way it is, right? You lose that game 3-2, right? And you're talking about how your goalie needs to bail you out.

You win that game 5-1. No one's talking about the goalie, but it's the same game. And I think there's just you could see it in Ottawa.

You could see it in Detroit. They've rediscovered a little bit sort of what makes them click, what makes them good. Goal-tending is a big part of it, but it's also sort of getting over that hump and saying, okay, you know, this isn't going to be a crisis.

This isn't going to be a catastrophe every night. I think by the Edmonton game, you know, Rod Burnham were saying, you know, we're on our way to losing 50 to nothing. There was a mentality in that room and you could see it in Calgary that, you know, we can't win. You know, we're just no matter what we do.

We can't win. Then people start cheating and then the gaps open up. Perkins, as you know, have to play a certain way to be successful. It's the way they're built. It's their culture.

They're not built to go sideways. They're built that go straight up and down and apply pressure on people and they're going to give up a chance or two. They need their goalie to make a saving and the last couple games, you know, period to check out has done that and you've seen it spill over.

Into every aspect of the game. The other part of it, Adam, and I, this has nothing to do with goal sending, but it's kind of like the great Eastern Western barbecue compromise to, you know, the great folks at picnic and their, their, their compromised sauce. The hurricanes have figured out how to have a tomato-based Western sauce and a vinegar-based Eastern sauce by going 11 and seven and playing Jalen Chatfield and Tony D'Angelo. This is really the straightest point between to the straightest line between two points is or whatever.

It's a straight line in the opposite direction. They've solved the great defensive conundrum by playing both. I would stick with 11 and seven till it stops working. That's easier wall as long as Andre Stretchnikov is out, but I really feel like that's the format that works best for the team right now. Yeah, Rod doesn't like it and I know and I mean, I know this for a fact he doesn't he does not like it, but he's also not going to change it as long as they're winning and they won the last two with 11 and 7. Tony is an improvement to the power play and even in subtle ways when I was scored the power play goal in Ottawa. It was Tony's just I guess a little head fake and his ability to walk the line of the blue line that created the room for Aho to fire the shot. Now, he's better at that than anybody else on the team. He's better at that than Burns better that than Slavin who actually is I think good at walking line, but you don't really necessarily love him on the power play, but Tony is good. It's also one of the best passers really I've ever seen.

I mean Tony's got incredible vision for that. But you know, he has other problems, but I also like his attitude when he's not being bad defensively, which frankly he can do that. I like the way he plays. I like his tenacity. Again, he's a super smart player. So yeah, it's good now Rod doesn't like it and he'll stick with it until it doesn't work anymore. But ultimately when Svech comes back Jalen Shatfield will remain the partner for Dimitri Orlov.

They still need to get other guys going. Jarvis had the hat trick of how did you not score that? He had at least three of those probably five.

Kokaniemi only had two of them. Yeah, but that was that one down the middle. You got to finish that one somewhere other than the goalie's belly.

If you're going to do all that work playing tic-tac-toe with yourself between two defenseman down the slot. That was a great one more other than right in the breadbasket. It was a great move. I actually give him a lot of credit for the move. I thought the the one where he was given the puck and he was wide open in front of the net. That to me was the more egregious miss, but we can probably pick knits all day about that. I love the thing if you're going to go through all the efforts of doing all that work to get through there, you know, get get believe yourself something to show for it. Right.

This is not this is not a show your work math quiz. It's like fumbling at the one on the way into the end zone after really fighting all the way in from the 10 on a kickoff return, right? You get tackled at the one on a kickoff return. What was the point? Anyway, let's get the six anyway. All right. Um, you're I don't know that you and I have talked about this. Well, I think we I think we did a little bit Duke and Manny Diaz.

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He went back with a great coordinator of Penn State. Not a lot of those guys get second chances and I'm I get that everybody's willing to sort of give him an asterisk for his time in Miami, but I also think it works both ways. Like if you can't work at my if it doesn't work in Miami with all the resources and everything you have how is it going to work at Duke where you have a lot less of everything and it's a much more difficult job that said there haven't been a lot of guys who have made it work at Miami this generation. So maybe that shouldn't be held against him as I wrote. Look you go 16 and 9 at Miami in the ACC get fired you go 16 and 9 at Duke you get a statue next to Wally way.

So certainly the bar is going to be a little lower here. He knows how to win at the highest level. He knows the ACC he's coming, you know from a program where he built a great defensive Penn State if he gets the right staff around him and leave the program then, you know, he certainly got a chance to be successful. This is not a program that's in the state of dire state of needing a coaching AED slap to its chest the same way. It was when David Cutcliffe was hired and when Mike Elko was hired.

There's a lot in place now. The expectations are higher, you know Diaz is starting from a sort of higher step on the staircase than either of those guys did so he's got advantages. They didn't have I think the most important part for Duke was when they started interviewing guys, you know, they felt like Manny Diaz was a cultural fit that he was a fit for the university that he understood that at Duke excellence is expected in everything including football and that's not just an athletics thing. That's a campus thing and I think you know when you find someone like that who kind of has the right vibes, you know, that's the guy you want to hire the other guy, you know, a couple other guys. I thought who are out there who Duke might take a look at, you know, one of them the Jason I can't remember her same summer all the coach at Troy and I'm thinking the Tulane job. So maybe that's a guy who chose to Wayne over Duke or maybe Duke didn't like or whatever. It's I'm not going to fault anyone for choosing Tulane over Duke. There's certainly pros and cons for both but Manny Diaz is a guy who clearly wanted to be at Duke. I think sometimes that that does matter that this is a guy who's kind of seen what it's like at Miami got moved out while he was still coaching and now has the opportunity to apply those lessons somewhere else.

So I'm okay with it. I was I was honestly underwhelmed at first but I see what Duke is going for and I think you know, man, it'll be interesting to see if Mandy Diaz could sort of pick up where Mike Elko left off. Should Notre Dame have to pay a penalty for continuingly taking ACC football players? I think if they like ACC quarterbacks so much they should join the damn league. Finally I honestly Adam I think the ACC should have put a gun to Notre Dame said as a part of the Stanford Cal SMU expansion vote and said if you have a 20% partner are going to vote and advocate for something this earth-changing you need to be in the league.

So either get in or get out before we vote on this. I absolutely would have put that gun to Notre Dame said and use that as an excuse and if they want it out then let's negotiate an exit and you go and we you know, maybe we only add SMU or whatever ends up happening but Notre Dame pushed and pushed for that still only 20% in the league. I just don't understand why the ACC won't force that issue especially with the NBC deal coming up for renewal now was the time but obviously that they're just content to sort of keep doing Notre Dame's homework and keep giving Notre Dame a ride home from school and hopes that they'll get a kiss someday.

I I know you and you and I think differently. I think Notre Dame even the the way they are associated with the ACC. I think it's still a net positive for the Atlantic Coast Conference. I think they add enough and if they never join a league they never join a league. I think ultimately they won't have to join a league because we're going to end up in some sort of a a professional version of college football where the conference is almost don't matter anymore. You're simply going to be football brands individually football brands. I believe over time and it won't matter even if Notre Dame joined the ACC tomorrow.

I think we're headed for that anyway, so it would be short-lived well. I do think Notre Dame adds a lot and I think the ACC's gotten a lot out of the football partnership on my concern is more that Notre Dame is helping direct the future of the ACC when the what's best for the ACC and what's best for Notre Dame in a football world may be completely different. I just don't think that's I think the ACC made a mistake there and Notre Dame should get a 20% vote and I then I would be okay with that. They should have if they were going to force Notre Dame's hand it would have been during the pandemic when Notre Dame played in the league for the year it should I mean, but honestly, I'm I'm okay with the arrangement as it is. I would rather Notre Dame be in the league, but the the arrangement does not bother me. I understand why it bothers you or why it bothers other people.

I'm not criticizing it. It just does not I mean Notre Dame is who they are. They they in their in their minds believe they are better than everybody else and that's part of the reason why they won't join the Big Ten because they won't be treated special. I don't blame Notre Dame.

This is not to me. This is an ACC issue. Not an Notre Dame issue. I mean I wrote that like you can't blame Notre Dame for acting in its own interest.

That's you know, like blaming the raccoons for getting in your garbage if you like the lives unlocked. It's just you know, but I just don't know that it's in the ACC's best interest to have Notre Dame acting on the ACC's behalf in order to name his best interest those two things especially in football, maybe not in other sports, especially in football, which as you know drives the bus and College athletics today are not congruent and I think it's been to the league's detriment. I think when you look at the leadership and management of the league, Notre Dame's influence has not been benign.

It has been malignant. I let me add one quick thing like maybe a minute left federal judge, a district court judge in West Virginia has told the NCAA that your restrictions on second time transfers were putting a 14-day window. The NCAA has come back and said anybody who plays when we win this con when we go back to having these restrictions be out at our discretion.

If you play your eligibility will be damaged. What are your thoughts on the NCAA's reaction to this because I find it comical learn to take a loss. The NCAA has never learned to take a loss which is why it fought the Alston case to the bitter end, which led led to a one of the historic Supreme Court loss that included the Kavanaugh concurrence which laid out the law laid out the roadmap for exactly the lawsuit that the Attorney General filed and won the temporary restraining order on I think the temporary restraining order will be extended. Yep, I think it will it will last but the NCAA should just say we are not going to hold this against anyone from an eligibility standpoint because of the uncertainty because in the end it's about the athletes and their education, but no the NCAA can't do that.

It insists on taking more L's every chance it gets very very typical. I would have thought I would have expected more from the Charlie Baker administration feels like a Mark Emmert play. I would not I would not again Charlie Baker is taking the taking direction from University presidents and they are all dialed in in, you know in having control I guess but this will lose and honestly that proposal that Baker came up with last week that will also it'll never see the light of day because it'll never be voted on before the athletes are declared employees by the federal courts and that's where we are headed and everybody's going to have to deal with it. It's because of Mark Emmert's lack of vision that the NCAA they could have handled this. They could have nipped this in the bud 10 years ago by seeing the future, but they didn't all they saw was how can we keep all of this money for ourselves and keep it out of the hands of the athletes.

That's what they saw and that's why we're where we are. Are you going to the hockey game tonight, sir? I am not I have some personal engagements to attend. But yeah, no, I had my had my say in the paper after the Ottawa game and I think that still stands up is pretty accurate. All right. I'll I'll see you soon if I and if I don't marry. Yes, you as well.

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