And a happy Monday on this Christmas Eve Eve.

Dan Grasse, Pat O'Keefe, holding it down until 7 o'clock tonight.

Then it's Nick's basketball coverage.

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Anthony Pusick, Tom Bauer, producing the program

today on the heels of a Devils 5-0 blanking of the New York Rangers, and boy, the blue

shirts can use a holiday break in the worst way, which they will get. Pat, how you doing,

my friend? Long time, no chat. How's things? Long time, indeed. Pumped to be with you for the

next few hours. Happy about that. You know, you mentioned it's a happy Monday, and I'd like to

kind of drill down a little bit on that. And I'm curious, you know, who among those listening

to us right now actually is happy about the state of their team right now because as you just said that was that was a sad

post game show you just went through i mean i don't know how you put a happy spin on that one or a

positive glean i mean really and truly i mean they go to the locker room it sounds like a funeral

you got chris crider getting scratched as a healthy scratch before the game today and if you're

peter i mean look i understand it's a holiday break you get get away from things and, you know, you got roster freezes

and all that stuff. I mean, if you're the Rangers, I mean, Pat, 12 shots on gold today.

Twelve. I don't know that I've ever seen a team in more desperate need of a break, a force break as it is with the Rangers over the next few days.

But, you know, thank God. I mean, I know they're asked the question, what can you ask in those

locker rooms? And you and I have been part of those post-game shows. A lot of sad ones over the years,

my friend. You got to ask something if you're the reporter in the clubhouse after they were trying to, you know, hone in on the, is the break coming at a good

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