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The Good morning Bucknoders, welcome to the Bucknott's morning 5 here on Wednesday, February 18th, 2026.

I am Dave Biddle.

I'll be joined by Matt Baxendell in just a moment.

Bax is north of the border for a hockey tournament, his son's hockey tournament.

So he's in Canada, so they're probably not being very nice to him because I know the United

States is going to win golden men's hockey and women's hockey, hopefully, hopefully.

Americans actually have men have a tough quarterfinal day against Sweden, but we'll get to Baxe here in a minute. Welcome into the show. I am Dave Biddle, and we're going to go through the 10 most important players on defense for the Buckeyes this year, and not necessarily the most, like the best, although those, it could be that. However you want to define it, the most important. And we're going to go one through 10.

We're not going to go 10 to 1.

We're going to start with the most important.

And let's bring in Mr. Baxendell from Quebec.

How are things north of the border, sir?

Welcome to Canada, Dave.

How are we doing today?

Well, I'll be doing better if the Americans beat Sweden in the quarterfinals at 3 o'clock, 310. Yeah, we've got a surprisingly challenging quarterfinal matchup here with the way the Olympics who have been playing out. I was hoping to see Sweden in the semis at soonest. Yeah, that's the thing. They're going to have to play them anyway. If Sweden was a three seed and Americans two seed, they're going to have to play them in the semis anyway. Might as well play them in the quarters when they had to play yesterday, kind of, against Elvis and Latvia. You know, kind of a little warm-up, but at least they have to play back-to-back where the Americans are up two days of rest. How are everything going with your son up there? How's everything going with young backs and Dell's team? Well, my younger son's team won their first game here at the international

Pee-Wee tournament in Quebec City. It's like the Little League World Series for hockey

for 12-year-olds, if you can imagine that. So they have another tournament game

tomorrow and we'll see how far they can go. So far so good.

Let's go Young Baxendell.

All right, matters of also important.

I don't want to act like what we just talked about is not important.

All right.

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