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Welcome into the Madhouse Chicago Hockey podcast.

This is Jay Zawaski.

James Nevo is not by my side, but with me in body and mind and spirit and Kankakee. We are sponsored by Triple Threat Sports, Fry the Coop, and the Sinsen Law Group.

Fully acknowledging the awkwardness of this whole thing, James, where we are in the middle of a giant scandal, yet the Blackhawks remain playing hockey.

So I just want to put that out there.

We know, we know it's weird.

It probably feels weird being the first Madhouse podcast where we're breaking down a game while this is all going on. But we're going to get to

everything. First half will be the game. Second half will be the Kyle Beach situation. We're going to get

to both. But I just want to sort of acknowledge the awkwardness of things right off the hop.

Yeah, it's obviously kind of been a weird week for us.

I know that we obviously had a really emotional, really kind of passionate reaction to the news when it broke on last Tuesday when they released the report.

And obviously, Jay and I have kind of talked about it

on social media and kind of talked about it amongst ourselves. It still does feel very odd,

kind of switching gears and going back to kind of watching hockey mode, I guess. It definitely was

it was very awkward, the first game and it has continued to be so but obviously there is

stuff on the ice that we want to talk about and we would be remiss if we didn't talk about the off

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