I also want to mention that last night I got home at one in the morning and there was a skunk on

the street and you know normally when you drive up and you get out of your car the skunk runs away.

It didn't. It just stayed there and looked at me and that's what I realized that the rodents are

about to take over the world. Elliot, do you know what time of year it is? It's September. We just

passed the solstice. But more specifically as we say in the Atlantic, it's preseason hockey time.

It's the time of year where we say things like Dylan Holloway looks like a player. Matthew

Phillips is looking great with the flames. Marco Rossi is a safe bet for the wild. Lucas

Stostal is standing on his head in Anaheim and did you see Vincent Arsano handed to Adam Clapka,

the big six foot eight giant for the Calgary flames. That's the type of conversation we're having

this weekend Elliot. And I for one love it. I know it's all the preseason, young kids. Let's see

what happens when they get into mixing with the vets a little bit later on when some cuts come.

But I always love this time of year. Just for some conversations, you look back on you say,

yeah, maybe we're a little premature with our pronunciations about players. But welcome to

32 Thoughts the Podcast. Freege alongside Merrick and our man Amel Delech play in the key boards as

always. You got to work a couple of preseason games. Ottawa and Toronto on Saturday and he

takeaways from you. Jake Sanderson's really good. Shocker. I know he went minus two, but he's

excellent. That kind of looks like a player. First of all, I can't tell you how excited I was to work

on Saturday that double header. I'm really excited for the start of this year. I really have good

feelings about the quality of play that we're going to see this season. So it was great to be back.

I do have a rule and my rule is I don't care what happens in the first week of the preseason.

Because I think the players who really matter don't start to care until the second week.

So I'm very careful about making any big declarations after one week of the preseason. Aside from

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