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

Welcome back to the program, a pair of games on the go around the NHR all this evening.

930 Easter, you can watch a Seattle Cracken coming off that big winning game four facing off against the Colorado Avalanche

No Kale McCar for Colorado no Jared McCann for Seattle watch that one 930 Eastern SportsNet and Sports Net 360. Earlier, at 7 o'clock

eastern you can watch the Florida Panthers try to stave off elimination at the hands of the

Boston Bruins watch at 7 o'clock Eastern on

CBC and Sportsnet.

John Shorthouse with the affairs.

Joins me now from the NHL on Sportsnet and Hockey Night in Canada

handling the microphone duties. John how are you today sir?

Excellent thank you it's good to be back in Boston.

As someone who calls Vancouver Canucks games is that a tongue-in-cheek comment or you come by it legitimately?

No, it's a great city and I've never stayed we're staying out in Brooklyn with like a block from Fen. So unfortunately the Red Sox aren't in town. But, yeah, no, it's, it's, yes, was 2011, an interesting time. Certainly, you kind of, you did things in groups, because when you get that

far into the playoffs, you want to go to the bathroom with a buddy, you want to, you know, you don't want to go to the bathroom with a buddy you want to you know you don't want to

Yeah the hardcore fans so they recognize everybody and I was doing radio back then from the most

part at least in the playoffs you know that when it comes to that high stakes and you know

the chance to win a championship everybody's a target. Yeah.

You know, that is so interesting too,

because if you look at those, if you look at those two teams

and you know, what's happened to both of them since,

it's been a couple of different directions. It's been both peaks and

valleys for the Vancouver connects, but for the Boston Bruins, there's been this

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