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I'm Ryan Lambert from the thing you're listening to.

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And you're in Puck soup.

Before we get to playoff previews, which obviously

are going to take up the glut of the podcast today,

because we all know that you want us to you know prognosticate all of

the series and whatnot. We should probably talk about a story that is almost like a

perfect puk soup story if it had any pop culture

relevance. It's a story of analytics and catiness between the Arizona Coyotes and

general manager John Chaca.

All right, I'm going to stop you right there.

It's not a story about analytics.

Well, listen, let's begin there. I know that there's been some pushback from the mainstream media,

the lame stream media as I call them, that John Chaco was never really embraced by the

analytics community when in reality he was never really embraced by the

analytics community. Like there was always the sense of like him as a snake oil salesman.

The analytics community didn't feel like he proved his, showed his work.

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