Arda Ocal Talks Bruins Goaltending + Has the Drouin Experiment Failed in Colorado?

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Matt Marchese kicks off the show with Lightning Insider Erik Erlendsson, who dives into what to make of Tampa Bay's hockey club. They discuss Victor Hedman’s offensive numbers, how the goaltending has been able to handle the workload with Andrei Vasilevskiy out, Steven Stamkos’ future in Tampa Bay, and more! Then, ESPN’s Arda Ocal joins the show to discuss the Oilers' struggles and some goalies they could potentially target on the trade market (18:02). Later on, they discuss the Bruins not skipping a beat despite losing their heart and soul in Patrice Bergeron, how the young guns have been able to full the void, the team's elite goaltending, and more. Meghan Angley of DNVR wraps up today's show with a chat about all things Avalanche (48:44). Meghan and Matt discuss her conversation with Joe Sakic and Peter Forsberg earlier this week, Mikko Rantanen’s unique abilities, whether or not it is too early to say the Jonathan Drouin experiment has failed, and more. 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	This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.
0:12.0	Welcome back to the Jeff Merrick Show. Matt Marcasy filling in Radio Network.
0:14.0	Welcome back to the Jeff Merrick Show. Matt Markasey filling in for Jeff today and tomorrow.
0:17.0	He will be back on Monday.
0:19.2	Off to Lake Placid.
0:20.4	Off you go, Jeffrey. Good luck to his son this weekend.
0:25.0	We're going to turn our attention to Tampa Bay Lightning right now and who better to talk to than a man who has covered the team for a long time and knows all
0:33.0	the ins and outs and we'd like to say where all the bodies are buried but we won't
0:35.9	do that. Eric Erlinson from lightning insider.com joins us. Eric how are you today?
0:40.8	I'm good you know it's funny you say that you know there used to be a rumor that
0:43.9	the arena here is built on top of an old Indian burial ground so maybe I do know
0:48.8	where the bodies are maybe you know it's it's funny so a Jeff and I have this ongoing thing because we both used to work at a cemetery and I've always used the thing like whenever my daughter gets old enough I could always say listen pal or whoever I know I know where to bear you and nobody
1:06.5	will find you I know it sounds very mafia is but I can always use that but anyway on
1:12.3	a much more happy note
1:14.0	it's a year of turnover for the lightning you know a lot of new faces
1:19.0	but the stars remain the same and you know
1:22.0	leading the charge and no pun intended there
1:24.5	Nikita Kucharov 22 points and 13 games and you know the funny thing about this is and
1:30.6	you and I had this conversation last year about Kucharov in the level he was playing at.
1:35.2	People always seem surprised. It's like, oh my God, look at the year Nikita Kucharov is having.
1:39.5	But this has been the kind of rate he's been playing at since 2016, 2017. Why are people so surprised that he's this
1:46.8	good all the time? I don't know. I mean he's been around long enough to
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