Welcome to Puck Soup.

I am Sean McAnew from The Athletic, and it's just me right now.

Solo for the first little bit, different format this week, because

Ryan is on a well-deserved break, a little bit of a vacation, but it's a working vacation.

And so the second half of today's show is going to have lots of Ryan, but the first half is

just me. Here's how it's going to work today. You're going to get, to start with,

you're going to get me on my own for about as long as anybody can handle listening to me

talk, which experience tells me is maximum half an hour or so.

So that'll be the first half of the show. And then we're going to send it over to Ryan.

And Ryan has got a really interesting feature where he's sitting down with a guy named Mike McMahon.

And they're talking about these rule changes in the NCAA that you've heard about. You've

heard Ryan and I talking about. They're going to drill into the details. Now, Mike has been described

to me as if you took Pierre LeBron and Chris Johnson and Ellie Friedman and Darren Dregor

and all your favorite insiders and

mush them all up together into one guy. And then that guy was all about college hockey. He's the

ultimate NCAA insider. And he's going to be sitting down with Ryan. So I mean, as far as this

big, huge change that's

happening in the college hockey world and as it relates to Canadian Jr. and the development

paths that affect so many players on their way to the NHL, I don't know that you can get two guys

who know college hockey better than Ryan and Mike.

They're going to walk you through it.

And that's going to be the second half of the show.

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