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Welcome to 32 Thoughts the Podcast presented by the all-new GMC AT4 lineup Elliott

Do you know what everybody got well almost everybody in the NHL got in 2008 at the draft a free t-shirt?

They got defenseman. Let me read you a list here whether it's true doubty or Zach Bogosian or Luke Shen or Tyler Myers or Eric Carlson or Michael

Delzato or Jake Gardner or John Carlson or Justin Schultz or TJ Brody or Jared Spurgeon

Or our guest on the podcast today Alex Patrangelo

When I say the name Alex Patrangelo, which ums your mind right away

First of all as you were doing that I was thinking of Oprah you get a car and you get a car and you get a car

You get a defenseman and you get a defenseman LA Atlanta Toronto Buffalo Ottawa everybody gets a defenseman

When I think about Alex Patrangelo, I think about a winner

Stanley Cup champion

Olympic gold medalist and one of the best players in the league that we don't really know a ton about right true

He likes to keep his private life private like you can divide us into two categories Jeff the people who like to put our lives out there

And the people who don't and he's definitely in category B but you know for a great player

I've always found him to be a little bit understated, but I've always liked his game and I've always liked

The way he goes about his business

They had a game this year in Toronto where they got wiped out and

They were really banged up at the point and there were two ways to look at that game

One way with way would look at it was he really had a rough night

But the way I thought about it was here was a player a star player a key player on his team

Who realized his group was really banged up and he was thinking I'm gonna try to do things to give us a chance

And he was all over the ice trying to make plays

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