Saginaw Spirit GM Dave Drinkell on Memorial Cup Win + Former Panthers Captain Brian Skrudland Joins the Show
The Jeff Marek Show
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, still to come on the show, straight ahead, top of the hour. |
| 0:13.7 | We will talk to you, Brian Scroodland, former an original Florida Panther, also Stanley Cup champion, scored the quickest |
| 0:20.7 | overtime goal in the history |
| 0:22.3 | of the Stanley Cup playoffs, nine seconds, folks beat that. |
| 0:27.5 | Standing by for Dave Drinkle, general manager of the Saginaw Spirit. |
| 0:30.4 | In the meantime, a couple of the QODs. |
| 0:34.0 | Today's quick QOD is your favorite Stanley Cup final and why. |
| 0:56.1 | This is a good, we got a few of these. Jason, Padden, Penguins with the Red Wings, 2009, loves seeing Crosby achieved greatness for the first time. Youngest Captain de Hoist Lord Stanits. This is a bunch of things on 2009 that I want to get into. In the meantime, let's talk about this year. Let's talk about the Memorial Cup. and let's talk about Saginaw host team for the Memorial Cup. And the winners of this year's edition of the Memorial Cup. Their general manager is Dave Drinkle. He joins me now. Dave, how are you? And congratulations. I'm doing well, Jeff. Thank you very much. It's been a pretty special time here in Sagina. a fun few days and couldn't have scripted it any better. |
| 1:11.3 | Okay, let me ask you, should I whisper today or are we okay? |
| 1:16.7 | No, you can talk. |
| 1:17.9 | I am great today. |
| 1:19.2 | No, for sure. |
| 1:20.2 | I would imagine, I was going to say, like, I imagine, like, the celebrations must have just been, must have just been outstanding. |
| 1:26.7 | Like, it's always great when must have just been outstanding. Like, |
| 1:31.3 | yeah, it's always great when the host team does well. Like, even just, like, I've always said this about this format, you really hope at every edition of the Moro Cup that the host team gets, |
| 1:36.8 | at least gets into the final because the place is electric and your building was the same. Like, |
| 1:42.7 | the minute your team stepped on the ice on Sunday, like I wasn't there, but I would |
| 1:47.6 | imagine like the minute the game starts, so the guys get on the ice, there must have been |
| 1:52.3 | like a buzz or an electricity that was palpable for the players, for the coaches, and |
| 1:57.3 | probably the general manager as well, true or false? |
| 2:00.3 | No, very true. It's pretty hard to describe, to be honest, I think ever since we won the semifinal game on the Friday night, the buildup going into Sunday kept getting bigger and bigger. And the event park before the game, the food truck alley was just packed with people, and I was walking around before the game and you could feel the energy kind of build up. And when warm-up hit, the place started filling up and getting packed. And it's the loudest I've ever heard of junior building. It was electric. You couldn't hear yourself think on the ice after the championship. It was just such a special moment for everybody. The community showed well and really came to support the event. |
| 2:36.3 | And it was great that we could end up being the winners for them. |
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