Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of Hockblogger mornings.

I'm Brian Nemhouser.

You can find us on TikTok, Instagram, Apple Podcast, Spotify, all those places at HockBlogger.

And lately, you guys have been going crazy.

I think we were up to like 18th or 15th in the football category on Apple Podcasts

ahead of like all these national shows.

It's unreal.

So a big reason for that is our guest today, Matt Hasselback, who's been joining us all

season and was just extended.

Extended into the postseason. this is a big announcement for everybody

matt how you do it i'm great i need to subscribe when i don't think i subscribe to like all those things

like youtube maybe i do i don't know i got i got to i got to check all my uh check that stuff uh

i think you're going to say char Cross got extended. I got extended.

Yeah.

No, that was, you were like, you hit me.

I'd be like, hey, we didn't talk about this. You want to keep going into the playoffs? I'm like, bro, I'm planning on doing this in Santa Clara. What are you talking about? Let's go. Let's go. It's been an awesome year. I mean, just to think where the Seahawks were.

I mean, I do like other, you know, shows like national type stuff and people who'd ask me at the beginning of the year, like, you know, who are the teams that you think, like didn't make the playoffs last year? No one's counting on, you know, and like, like, you know, there's some harder ones. Like maybe the Patriots I believed in. I believe in Brable. but like this was an easy one this is a 10 win team with the top 10 defense last year a quarterback that like if you take away the name and the

face and the you know just you just watch the football the number nameless faces on the jersey

played awesome football last year in the same offense it's's like, this is an easy one. But to think

the one seed, like, that's, that's pretty incredible. I don't know if people realize how big that is.

That is so, so good, so good. Well, I'm going to ask you about how big it was, but first,

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