Can Vegas Wrap Up the Cup?

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Jeff is joined by Ryan Huska, new Head Coach of the Calgary Flames, to chat about his new role, the transition from assistant coach to head coach, and if the Flames need to name a captain. Hockey Night in Canada's Craig Simpson weighs in on the importance of Sergei Bobrovsky in a potential closeout game, the impact of Vegas’ depth and the consistency of the Golden Knights’ fourth line (18:14 ). Ian Mendes of The Athletic weighs in on the sale of the Ottawa Senators, if the process resulted in helping the NHL find other prospective owners, and how quickly the sale could be made official by the NHL (37:04). Vince Mercogliano of USA Today wraps things up with a discussion on the Rangers officially hiring of Peter Laviolette as head coach, how the fan base has reacted to the news, and what needs to improve on the ice in the Big Apple (53:12). 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.
0:07.0	Welcome back to the program.
0:09.0	Don't forget top of the hour Craig Simpson from Hockey Net in Canada.
0:12.0	We'll talk about Game 5 tonight, the biggest
0:13.3	golden nights looking to close out against the Florida Panthers. Ian Mandez on the Ottawa
0:18.0	senator's sale to Michael Ann Lauer and Vince McCogliano from Lohut.com and USA today on the the impending signing
0:26.1	we're just waiting I suppose Peter Lavielette with the New York Rangers
0:30.2	yesterday's coaching news revolved around my next guest. He is Ryan Huska, the new
0:34.8	head coach of the Calgary Flames. Ryan, thanks so much for being here today.
0:38.7	How are you 24 hours after the big press conference?
0:41.6	Yeah, I'm well, Jeff. thank you very much and thank you for
0:45.2	having me on the show today. Well the pleasure is mine and a lot to get to here and I want to I
0:51.7	want to talk about the word loyalty here in a couple of
0:53.9	seconds because when I look at your career that's the one thing that amongst
0:56.7	other sort of stands out to me but what was it like yesterday I mean this is something
1:01.9	that you know coaches dream about. There's only
1:04.3	32 of these jobs as we keep hearing as well. What's that feeling like? And, you know, when you first, you know,
1:10.8	found out that you got the job got the job who were your first
1:13.8	thoughts too yeah that's it's funny that you brought that up I mean I've
1:19.2	driven from my host to the arena now for five years.
1:23.4	And it's the same thing.
1:25.6	You pass the same people, you pass the same buildings and the traffic,
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