A Proposal for the NHL’s Eichel Problem

32 Thoughts: The Podcast

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🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The news pods are back! Jeff and Elliotte kick off this episode by previewing the upcoming “All or Nothing: Toronto Maple Leafs” docuseries on Amazon Prime (00:01) as they had the opportunity to screen it before its release on October 1st. They then discuss the ongoing Jack Eichel situation in Buffalo and wonder if the NHL should get involved (19:00), provide some updates on the contract negotiations between Vancouver and their high profiled RFAs (28:10), what’s happening with Travis Hamonic (30:45), Seattle plays its first game in franchise history (32:00), Brady Tkachuk and the Senators continue talks (36:00), questions in New Jersey as they deal with an unvaccinated player on their roster (38:00), the Blues lock up their GM and make a trade with the Sens (45:00), Arizona hires John Ferguson Jr. as their assistant GM (47:00), and Elliotte attends his first NHL game in his backyard in a very long time (50:00) Music Outro: Adult Oriented Pop – Distant Alarm Listen to the full track here! This podcast is produced and mixed by Amil Delic, and hosted by Jeff Marek and Elliotte Friedman. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	Welcome once again to 32 Thoughts, the podcast Jeff Merrick alongside Elliott Friedman.
0:08.7	Elliott, before we get into a lot of news, we would like to send our support to Jalen
0:14.0	Smerrick.
0:15.0	Yeah, for those of you who didn't see it, Jalen Smerrick's a player.
0:19.2	He's from Michigan, but he played in the Ontario Hockey League and he plays in the Ukrainian
0:23.7	Hockey League and he was the victim of a brutal gesture during a game on Sunday.
0:31.0	And I think a lot of us are wanting to see what exactly is done with this.
0:35.1	Is there a suspension?
0:37.0	And I don't even want to describe it, say what happens.
0:39.9	It's so bad.
0:40.9	I don't want to give any air to that, but you know, we just want to say we support them
0:44.3	and we hope the penalty and the punishment is severe because it needs to be.
0:48.9	Nice player.
0:50.1	A couple of games playing with the the Ashua generals when he I think it was there one
0:54.0	maybe two years in the OHL and yes, to your point, full support to Jalen Smerrick.
1:00.6	Things to get to on today's podcast, we're going to go over some Michael stuff, Hughes
1:04.4	Patterson, Kachak.
1:06.3	That's on the board.
1:07.3	We should mention and have a discussion about John Ferguson in Arizona, the New Jersey
1:11.9	Unvaccinated Players, some news at a St. Louis, but first all or nothing.
1:17.8	The Toronto Maple Leafs piece put together by Amazon, I'm about 30 minutes shy of
1:22.0	completing it.
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