Good evening everyone.

I'm excited.

I'm excited.

And even a hockey mom, I'm excited.

excited.

A trefier of Trissis sousois.

With the fifth overall selection in the 2024 NHL draft, the Montreal Canadians are proud to select Ivan de Mido.

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There is no merit today. He went home on Friday night on the red eye, so you're about to see how valuable he is.

This will be a bit of a different podcast, no conversation, just some rambling about what we saw and where I think

we're going.

First of all, great event, great draft.

I honestly wonder if there's going to be any conversation out of this about do they really want to decentralize the draft.

This was unique. It was the sphere. Saline Dion, Michael Buffer, all that great stuff.

They really did an incredible job keeping the Salindian appearance private. I don't think the full Montreal table knew that she was

coming out and the word after was it was basically sad that if it got out she might not come so great job keeping the

secrecy that was a crazy moment a lot of fans had a great time I told everybody who I could that they should go to the top of the sphere,

level 7, and look down because I know a lot of us are used to being in arenas high up just the slope it was the steepest one I'd

ever seen it's a spectacular view it's great for the screen.

And I don't know if they can duplicate this ever again,

but I did wonder if people would say after that,

are we sure we want to get rid of the centralized draft and even if they do

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