This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.

And good afternoon and welcome once again to the program.

Glad to have you aboard today.

A little bit of a shuffle right off the top and a couple of

moments normally we talked to Elliot Friedman from 32 thoughts in hockey night in

Canada but moments before we hit the airways here's what I get from Frege where is it where is it where is it where

is it oh here it is Campbell and walk him and five scramble mode so he's gonna be talking to Colin Campbell and Stephen Wacham.

Elliot will be aboard. It'll be at 135.

So in 90 minutes time we'll get the full wrap he will have talked to everybody and we'll have had the full full

the full understanding of what happened in day two with the general managers meeting in Florida. You know day one was an interesting one. We're going to get into a couple of different things there.

One of them, the idea of making cut-resistant technology mandatory and grandfathers, so new kids

coming in have to wear it. But the old stubborn guys don't don't essentially is what we're getting to

Coaches Challenge was discussed. Yes expanding Coaches Challenge both for high sticks and puck over a glass. Like we're heading this way right?

You can't get the toothpaste back in once you started to, you know once you

started down the coaches challenge route I guess you have the technology to use it

We're probably heading towards more stoppages in the game while we try to figure out what really happened and you know the horrible thing

for the sport of hockey is it keeps on getting faster and harder and harder to

officiate so if you think we're all done with the coaches challenges and we're not going to add them to anything else

Just look at how the game is played

Look at how fast it is look at how sudden it is. Look at how sudden it is. Look how chaotic it is. And say to yourself,

well they already have the technology. Someone will make the case that in fraction X or game situation Y should be a coaches challenge or should have coaches

afforded the opportunity to challenge it. It's coming. All I'm saying is it's coming. It might not be

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