Mackie Samoskevich joins the show fresh off changing his number!

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Mackie Samoskevich joins the show fresh off changing his number! Samo informs us on what it's like playing for this team, and what he did with his time with the Stanley Cup.

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00:00what's up man going on he's got the new digits going on over here he's uh gonna hop on mackie

00:07samiskevich

00:08there we go

00:12we are we are live we are live mackie samiskevich we got a we got a michigan party here leroy

00:22let's go all levels we winning yep yep yeah it's as if you didn't have him uh confident enough

00:32with the football championship a couple years ago now he's got you as stanley cup champion he's

00:36feeling he's feeling himself oh yeah oh you should what uh you switched the number this year i did

00:41what uh what went into that um i grew up wearing it um felt like i could do it this summer and

00:49a little cachet yeah a little bit cachet um and then i think i tried to last summer but i was

00:54just a little too late with it um so i made sure to do it this year and i grew up wearing it my sister

01:00older sister wear it wore it growing up and um i looked up to her my my whole life so um thought

01:07i'd keep it going that's pretty awesome man yeah it is um so how was your summer because you know

01:14the older guys kind of do summer a little bit differently because they've been at it for a while

01:19yeah but you got a lot of energy yeah right so how long before you got back into it um

01:25not too long actually we i stayed in the gym pretty pretty quick um i think the week after

01:34parade uh we were back in the gym um right away but on the ice we waited for a bit um needed some

01:42time off there and i don't think i started till i think late july and into august um it's important

01:50just to stay off the ice it's not it's not even close i gotta get on the golf course gotta experience

01:55all the other things so um yeah it took some time off it was nice so going to the gym and running and

02:01it's a different animal to getting on those skates for sure you can't it's it's even it's like hard to

02:07explain like you could do so much in the gym but then you get on the ice and you still

02:11feel like crap like it's crazy um it's uh something about you know how unnatural the skating stride is

02:19and um you know it's weird but uh you try your best and obviously the best you can do in the gym it'll

02:27obviously help on the ice but um yeah what uh what did you lay out for yourself this summer like you

02:34came out like gangbusters last year um but you know this the start of your career where you're

02:40getting to the fold of this really good team what do you what are the expectations you put on yourself

02:44to come into this year um i think just keep doing what i'm doing i don't think i have to change much

02:49um you know obviously just keep doing what i'm doing offensively i think that's uh that's what my

02:58skill is i think are what i'm really good at and then obviously defensively being there too because

03:04you know everyone else is is dialed in on that and i think that's what makes us so good is that

03:09um there's not one guy on this team that's just solely focused on offense and um you know it's it's a

03:17six-man unit out there and um definitely hard to play against as you've seen so yes yeah for sure

03:23was there uh would you did you surprise yourself with like how much you picked up at the level like

03:30just the production that came right away like was there an adapt adaption to the speed of the game

03:34yeah for sure um i think it took me a little bit obviously the games two years ago helped a lot i

03:41think it was only a couple um that helped just kind of get my feet wet and just kind of experience what

03:47it's like and then last year just kind of knowing what it was like from the year prior just was able

03:54to kind of get myself ready in that summer and um kind of knew what what to expect and um you know

04:00took i think a couple games but you know i knew you know with the players around me and the coaching

04:05staff and all this that they'll they'll help me get to where i want to go and um you know i felt like

04:11it was pretty seamless is that was that a change for you everybody playing uh being on ice having to

04:16play defense the way these guys do uh maybe a little bit to the level these guys do it's it's

04:22sick right it's crazy it's really impressive and um they're they're at the top for for a reason and

04:29um you know maybe maybe in college or maybe high school you know maybe a couple guys are stretching

04:37the zone a little better but not here that's for sure you um you took uh the cup back to your

04:42hometown uh you want can you tell us a little bit about it uh yeah it was a great day

04:46um definitely a day i remember my whole life um took it to uh the local rink i grew up playing at

04:54and saw all the coaches that i grew up playing with it was super cool all the old friends and

05:00um all the families that uh i was around with the my whole life so it was really cool doing that and

05:06then took it to uh sandy memorial too which was um really cool i thought uh thought we'd just do that

05:14just because they didn't get to you know experience uh you know stuff we were get to experience so it

05:20felt like we should should have done that and um super thankful we were able to so um then finished

05:26the night off with a brewery at night of course how many breweries went in the cup oh god too many

05:34that cup is drank all over the world yeah oh yeah does the keeper of the cup look exhausted when he's

05:41around you guys is he is like does he look like he's like gotta keep it sit like where is the

05:46keeper of the cup when you have the cup he's within five feet of you all night does he tap you

05:54yeah exactly no like actually like that's his job so um does he have the white gloves on at all times

06:00no no i just picture i picture you get ready to do something crazy because it's hockey hockey

06:05players are just and he's getting ready to do something the guy taps well yeah exactly or if

06:11someone if i'm not there and someone walks up to the cup and like tries to pick it up he's stepping

06:15in there he's ready for it you know like he's they're dialed in and um you know but their job

06:22is so cool i think um being able to experience all the parties that go on and um you know just try to

06:28treat him as well as possible just because what he's doing is is so nice so well man hey that's a

06:34that's a hell of a first full season that's a congratulations and uh we're looking forward

06:39to watching you too uh with the cats man thank you appreciate it maggie samuskevich joining us here

06:44at florida panthers

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