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

Doug Waite coming up at the top of Howard Sioux.

Very much looking forward to talking to him and Drew R Amanda, sharp dressed man.

He best dressed man in hockey media.

With all due respect to everybody else,

you're all beautiful, you're all beautiful, blah, blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah.

No one's got true, Amanda Beets.

In the meantime, we're on the Vancouver Canucks page and something that I encourage everybody to read because

A it's a great piece and two it's really informative and three it's informative because not

telling you exactly what's on his mind when you ask the questions.

And in this case, Ian McIntyre asked some very excellent questions of Jim motherford

and it's all available at

Spartesnet.

Do yourself a favor read this thing.

Ian joins me now Ian how are you?

I'm doing well Jeff thank you.

Thank you for the lovely plug. I'm glad we're starting with

hockey and you weren't going to hit me this morning with Shakespeare or Tennyson or

Walt Whitman like my last tier. Well, you know, I can, yeah, well, you know, I can, we can go rhyme of the ancient mariner.

Uh, if you want to water, water, water everywhere. All the boards did shrink water, water and already a drop to drink but let's

stick to hockey you're right but I am impressed I have to say it probably shows a certain

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