Hockey Day in Owen Sound with Ron MacLean

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Sportsnet's Luke Fox joins Matt Marchese to chat about the Maple Leafs' play of late, Michael Bunting's next deal, the conundrum trying to manage Toronto's goalie tandem, and Kyle Dubas' trade deadline strategy. Hockey Night in Canada's Ron MacLean stops by to preview this year's Hockey Day in Canada taking place in Owen Sound, Ontario, before discussing the Oilers' Stanley Cup chances and fostering individual expression in the NHL (17:24). Next up, Sportsnet's Eric Engels shares his mixed feelings after the Canadiens' win last night, thoughts on Juraj Slafkovsky's rookie season, and expectations for Cole Caufield's next contract (42:30). We wrap up with Friday's Random Player of the Day - Ron Tugnutt! The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.
0:05.0	It is the Jeff Merrick Show, but Jeff Merrick is not here.
0:10.0	He will be back on Monday as he makes his trek back from Owen Sound.
0:15.0	I can ask him about those ring fries.
0:17.8	Luke Fox from Sports that joining me on the line here as he gets ready to take off
0:21.9	to head to wonderful Montreal and I only say
0:24.4	wonderful Montreal because I haven't been there in a while and I think they still
0:28.2	like me there. Luke how are you today? I'm doing pretty well. Yeah I'm always
0:32.1	excited to go to Montreal especially there's not too many places better than the Bell Center on a Saturday night
0:38.9	And I'm not just talking about the Shane show the the leaf tab tabs even though the habs are rebuilding that game is always a doozy and the fact that we've had three fun leaf games in a row starting with that Boston game I'm pretty excited yeah it should be a good I mean
0:54.9	Montreal is gonna have something to play for because I mean they always get up to play the
0:58.0	Leafs and I understand that last night was not pretty for them but it was
1:01.2	pretty for the Toronto may Maple Nation specifically Austin Matthews and I mean it's pretty obvious like the goal the first goal he scored was incredible.
1:09.0	The second one in tight top corner that is Austin Matthews to a tee but it really feels like he's
1:14.1	gonna go on a tear again and dare I say that even after a slow start 50 still in
1:19.8	the cards here for him I'm not gonna rule that out no me neither. I'm not going to rule that out. No, I mean either and I mean I think right now he's on pace for about 44
1:28.9	but he hasn't heated up yet right? He hasn't had one of those stretches where you're like feeling every single
1:35.5	night Austin Matthews is going to put one past the goalie and the fact that he
1:39.8	got two last night speaks to the Toronto Maple Leaf's recipe for victory, right?
1:45.1	They need solid gold tending, which they got, and they need game breakers.
1:48.8	And Austin Matthews is absolutely a game breaker.
1:51.3	The Winnipeg Jets had the control of the play. The puck was in the
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