This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the SportsNet Radio Network.

Welcome back to the program.

So to come, Jason Buckel, at top of the hour.

There's a lot of our prospecting work along with Sam Cossentino.

It's been a couple of days of books in Buffalo

I love Maddie by the way

because when we get to Buffalo to interview the prospects

Michelle Mathought thankfully was leading the whole thing

because she can actually speak properly

the Queens now the kings English

so it was good that she was leading the whole thing

and then the three shaved apes me sam and bookes started barking out stuff to the prospects

but books has a background as a you know amateur scouting director with the florida panthers

and previously with the national predators as well there's a there's a certain tone and perspective that when you're with the Florida Panthers and previously with the National Predators as well. There's a certain tone and perspective that when you're with a team,

you take with the, it's kind of aggressive, sometimes pretty aggressive.

Like it's really interesting watching Jason Bucla go into what I like to refer to as team mode

when he's interviewing the players. I would think that there's a lot of, like you just, you've been doing it for so long that you just can't get out of that space. It's great. No, but for the work that he does, though, too, like he needs to know all that kind of stuff. So it's good. Anyway, Brooks comes aboard in the top of the hour, top of hour two. Doug McLean at the bottom of hour two as well, lots of Florida Panthers stories there. In the meantime, can we get to Gretzky? Do we have it ready? I hope so. Let me do a little preamble here. I am so impressed. I think we all are at how great a broadcaster Wayne Gretzky has turned into.

The way that his analysis works on TNT is fantastic.

I think they do a great job of presenting Gretzky as here with the final word.

The closer. The big of the closer, right? Like the last word is going to Gretzky as here with the final word. The closer.

The big authority, the closer, right?

Like the last word is going to Gretz.

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