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Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

The Flying V: EP 19 - New Jack City with The Athletic's Michael Russo

Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

Ryan Mead and Greg Kaplan

Sports News, News, Sports, Hockey

4.5686 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

A post-Olympics episode of The Flying V is here! Vince Mercogliano is back discussing the Olympic hangover, what gold for Team USA means moving forward, and an update on the health front as the Rangers get set to return. Plus, fresh from Italy, The Athletic's Michael Russo joins the show to discuss what its like to cover the games, how team building played a role in Milan, and the never-ending Vincent Trocheck-to-Minnesota rumors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Babe, it's Gem.

0:02.0

Just voice-noting you because I'm so busy.

0:05.0

I can't even type right now.

0:06.8

I'm working on that big presentation for my new launch.

0:10.3

I'm making it on Canva Mobile like you suggested.

0:13.1

And it's making everything iconic.

0:16.6

So it's a bit noisy, babe's mabts is going off.

0:20.3

Anyways, I'm going to ping the presentation to you now

0:23.5

so you can see what I mean.

0:25.1

Yeah, madame.

0:26.0

Got to go, hon.

0:27.3

Thanks for introducing me to Canva.

0:29.3

Love you. What is going on, New York Rangers fans, and welcome to episode 19 of the Flying V podcast.

1:07.7

I'm your host, Vincent McCogliano of the Athletic, and we are back getting ready to roll as the Olympics have concluded and the NHL season is getting ready to resume.

1:12.6

By the time you hear this podcast, some games will have been played. The Rangers will return to play on Thursday night against the Philadelphia Flyers at Madison Square Garden.

1:18.2

But of course, the hockey world is still buzzing. I'm still buzzing. I'm sure a lot of you are

1:23.6

about an unforgettable Olympic tournament. We talked last week about how exciting those games were.

1:30.1

At the time, we, I think, had just finished the quarterfinals when I last recorded or were still

1:38.1

in process, I believe. Actually, I remember recording before the U.S. game started because I wanted to

1:42.6

watch. And we were talking about the thrilling

1:44.5

game that Canada had played against Chequia earlier that day. Well, it kept going. It did not

1:50.4

disappoint at all from there. The U.S. had a thrilling game that day against Sweden. Overtime.

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