Welcome to Michigan Hockeycast 7.11, where we basically replayed the previous series against Wisconsin, but also went to Wrigley.

Thank you. Alex, you texted me yesterday, Sunday afternoon, and threatened to be surly on this podcast.

Are you feeling surly?

Not today because of the Lions Vikings game.

So that overcame like the Michigan meltdown on Friday and then the poor start on

Sunday and so you you're not as surly I wanted a little bit as surly well they

spicy Alex there there's a there's a vibe to that well they were able to battle back in the hockey

game and then the football game went pretty well.

So then I was like, okay.

So if people are tuning in for Surly Al, then you're disappointing them?

Pretty much.

Do you have any Searle deep down inside that you can give us?

Probably when we get through the discussion of the Friday game.

When we finally admit that they won't take all six points in South Bend next weekend?

Okay.

Well, so the first thing I want to talk about in our opener is...

We do this every couple of years every time this comes up, but outdoor hockey games.

You're generally out?

Uh, not really a big fan, generally speaking.

NHL, college, football stadium, baseball stadium doesn't matter, just the whole thing.

So it kind of depends.

Like, as a TV sort of thing, the camera angles are bad.

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