Okay, everyone, there's a full podcast with Jeff and I recorded Thursday afternoon, but after

the games of Thursday night, there were a couple of things I wanted to drop in. Just remember,

one of us stays up all night to watch the end of the West Coast games and one of us doesn't.

And the guy who doesn't is getting his beauty sleep. That's Merrick. A couple of things I just

wanted to mention from Thursday night's games. First of all, if Arizona and Toronto meet in the

Stanley Cup final this year, the coyotes are going to be the favorites. Four times in the 2022

calendar year, once in January, once in March, once in October, and now on December 29th,

the coyotes beat the maple leaves head to head. It's been quite a year for the coyotes at Mull of

Arena. They've beaten Colorado there. They've beaten Boston there and they've beaten Toronto there now.

They have a winning record and there are people who get upset when I talk glowingly about

the Serena because they don't like the overall situation. But the fact is, it's a thing. The

coyotes play very well there and I never would underestimate the pride of an NHL player. It's very

clear that Arizona's got that chip in their shoulder mentality and coach Andre Ternay has done a

great job of manifesting that. It's a unique place for games. There's no doubt about it and

Arizona is turning it into something, something where they're very difficult to beat and Toronto

was another example of that on Thursday night. Jack McBain, pretty interesting story. Merrick was the

one who was on top of this last year and I wanted to give him credit for it. He was a Minnesota

pick who told them he wasn't going to sign there and was going to go to the open market. Toronto

kid Arizona traded for him, his rights and signed them and he really had a huge night with a couple

of goals and fighting Dryden Hunt who was making his made-belief debut. One of the things I wanted to

add, we do talk about Jacob Chekran later in the podcast. He's a point of game player. He's doing

everything he needs to do to get traded. After we recorded the pod, I had someone who told me that

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