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Welcome to a special edition of 32 Thoughts to Podcast presented by The All New GMC AT4 lineup.

Elliott, today our conversation with Ureis Laufkowski, future NHLer, right now NHL prospect

and someone who, you know playing for Slovakia was front and center at the Olympics.

The country picked up a bronze medal.

That put smiles on everyone's face.

Seven goals in Beijing.

Top goal score, Vorda Warnett, top three forwards.

In the tournament, he is the MVP, your thoughts on Slavkovsky.

I don't know as much about these prospects as you do, generally Jeff, but how could you

not be impressed with what he did overseas?

How good he looked, how calm he looked, and it was something where you could see he gained

confidence in the interview.

He talks about he didn't have a lot of expectations for what he was going to do there.

But the moment he really got going, you could see it just took off.

He looked fantastic, and you know that there were teams looking at this, just drooling at

the idea that he could be with them next year.

You know, a lot of things you look for in prospects too.

You look for how they play with their club teams, you look at how they play with their

peer group as well, and then you always have to have a look at how they play when it seems

as if they're in a situation where, oh, they might be punching above their weight here.

But I don't know that at any point in that tournament watching him, you said, you know what,

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