Three, two, one. Oh my goodness, good morning, good afternoon. Whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic day my name is

Zach Schamler to strong opinion sports episode 355 welcome in I am calling this

episode my m-h-h-h-ho playoffs extravagant and it's um

We're recording in the middle of round one you'll hear about my plan for the

NHL playoffs down the road. I'm gonna try to record a podcast about every round kind of a recap of round one, and then a preview of round two.

Like, between every round we'll do that.

I am recording this in between two episodes, so interviews.

So what you'll see in this episode is two long-form interviews. So what you'll see in this episode is two long-form interviews, one with Nathan

Shield, a guy who I love. I view him as a hockey expert. I want to introduce him to you. He's

phenomenal. And by the way, him and I his conversation, we had never talked

in person at all, and you know, even, well I guess never talked at all, let alone face to face,

you know, on throughout a, through a camera before our conversations so I thought

we started a cool and we got warmer as it went on and then also we had a delay

where I would say stuff and then there's a delay then he would start talking and I think it

took us about 10 minutes before we figured it out but man I I'm really proud of that

it's a great conversation I learned a lot I had so much one I think we talked for like an

hour I mean we really had a great time then later

After that interview I'm gonna do an interview in about an hour

with a really good friend of mine Austin Cram who is a he's got an

mama podcast he's really really cool and I he is the person who introduced me to

hockey when I was a kid his dad had season tickets and they used to take me to go watch

hockey games and I it's where I fell in love with the sport of hockey and I gotta be

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