Welcome in to the DNBR Avalanche podcast live from the Toyota Lounge.

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And we're joined by guest Bailey Curtis, writer for the hockey news. Thank you for coming on with us, Bailey. Absolutely. Thank you for having me. Yeah, you've got the insider knowledge on all the cane players that are now on the ads. This is the only thing I'm good for, apparently. No, plenty more than that. Plenty more than that on the show. Let's start with that, though, because we brought you on today. We are going to talk specifically about the Carolina imports, and I want to, I want you to give our listeners that may not be familiar with your background a reason as to why you would be familiar with them. Yeah, so first 18 years of my life. I was a resident of North Carolina, lived in the suburbs of

Raleigh and grew up a Hurricanes fan. So I've seen a lot of the guys, or at least two of the

three that we consider imports, I suppose, kind of come through the system and develop and, you know,

find their game, find themselves as players system and develop and, you know, find their game,

find themselves as players.

And it's been a pleasure to kind of watch them grow and whatnot.

And, yeah, used to be a podcast co-host on the Surgecast.

So I've got a little bit of knowledge as far as that's concerned.

Great.

Yeah. I'm looking forward to some of the insights on the guys because I am curious. You know, I think avalanche land, well, absosphere, is that what I call it?

The absosphere last year. Yes, the absosphere. Thank you. So much better.

I think they pretty quickly attached to guys like Nate just and Drury and now Burns here. But I am curious for a little bit of a deeper look on that. Before we get into that, though, some other topics. I did want to start with the news of today. First of all, thank you, Garrett, for becoming a member. Shout out the supporters club. if you want to support us here on YouTube,

spend a couple bucks, support us,

and you get a bunch of cool emotes and emojis that should be fun for the watchalongs this year. Also, an important thing to note, the more people who become more members, the more emotes we can make. That's not a thing where it's like we only have one Aves emo because abs hit like the company is an abs hater or whatever like more members, more emotes,

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