Hello everybody. Welcome to another episode of HockBlogger Mornings. I am Brian Nemhouser.

You can find me all over the place at HockBlogger. Today, this episode is only streaming live on YouTube and also on Facebook as a matter of fact.

But good to see folks at Instagram if you're there. Not on

Twitter. So sharing just in YouTube this time for primary live experience. Hopefully that's

cool with everybody. Just had to get this up and add out there because we had a conversation

with John Schneider this afternoon. And it was pretty interesting. And I wanted to share some of what we heard in that

conversation without waiting any longer. I'm going to be heading to the NFL league meeting

gala or whatever it's called here in literally 40 minutes. So we're going to try to get this

all done in that amount of time, or maybe a little bit

less or maybe a little bit more.

We'll see.

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helpful for making it possible for me to give you as good of a amount of see off coverage as possible and so let's get right to it uh there was a bunch of questions asked for john schneider this was just the media that traveled for this event so a small group very informal setting and there's there's just a few things I'm going to share.

I'm not able to share the full audio of the whole conversation.

The people that, especially the reporters that make the trip here at their company's expense,

you know, part of the benefit of doing that is that they get some exclusivity to that audio and to the

sound bites and the quotes that come out of that conversation. But I do want to play a few

sounds, specifically around some of the questions I asked John Schneider, that I think you guys

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