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Welcome to checking out the competition.

Minnesota Wild.

We are joined by friend of the pod, Thomas Williams, who is site manager for hockey wilderness, and also contributor to Broad Street Hockey.

So he knows both of these dumb teams. Thomas, how are you doing?

Good, good. How are you? I'm honored to be a friend, honestly.

Yeah, friend of the pod. Thomas is actually walking through downtown Toronto recording this

podcast which for some reason makes me very happy you could have the aesthetics

of all this construction I'm coming up on a tractor love that all right so this is the first meeting between the Flyers in the wild I'll see Yeah. All right.

So this is the first meeting between the Flyers in the Wild all season.

I guess, like, high level, what's been going on with the Wild this season?

So I feel like it would be, they kind of enter the season without any expectations.

Like if they were to completely

bottom out I wouldn't be surprised but then if they were to suddenly be one of the best teams in the

league I wouldn't be surprised either it's very like in the middle whatever happens and luckily

they kind of started to go towards the ladder it would be they were kind of consistently a top

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