Is Pittsburgh Gearing up for PWHL Expansion? + How Sergachev’s Injury Impacts Tampa Bay

The Jeff Marek Show

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🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Jeff kicks off the show with Hailey Salvian of The Athletic to break down Mikhail Sergachev's heartbreaking injury last night against the Rangers, potential PWHL expansion in Pittsburgh, the interest around the league in Chris Tanev, and her story on Jenna Trubiano. Then, Producer Matt Marchese joins Jeff to discuss how Jonathan Quick is stealing the net from Igor Shesterkin in New York (19:20). Later on, Ed Encina of The Tampa Bay Times stops by to share how Sergachev’s injury will impact the Lightning going forward, the team's playoff hopes, and more (29:27)! 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.
0:08.0	And here we go, welcome to it.
0:11.0	An abbreviated edition of the program today only 60 minutes
0:15.0	and be a trade deadline and all but just enough time to get some headlines get
0:21.8	some guests get some context get some headlines, get some guests, get some context, get some perspective on what happened last night and what happens two night and leading into this weekend as well.
0:30.0	McKel Surgechev, exiting yesterday's Tampa Rangers game in a very gruesome way after being
0:34.5	welcome back after missing 17 games. You never like to see stretches on the ice
0:38.8	we saw that you never like to see players cover their face in a towel on the way out.
0:44.0	We saw that as well.
0:45.6	The Black Hawks, who lost last night to the Minnesota Wild, will face off against the
0:49.8	St. Louis Blues in the Winter Classic next year at Wrigley Field talked about that yesterday
0:53.2	that's now official. Brendan Dylan suspended three games for his hit on penguins
0:57.4	forward Noel Achari and Bill Guerin has been named general manager of the United States hockey team both of the
1:05.2	four nations face off and the US Olympic men's ice hockey team the 2026 US
1:11.2	Olympic squad there's also Jack Hughes is back for the New Jersey Devil.
1:15.4	So that is a big one and after Jonathan Quick beat the Tampa Bay Lightning last night,
1:19.7	he is now five wins away folks from passing Ryan Miller as the winningest US
1:25.4	goaltender in NHL history and I think we can all recall back in 2012 when
1:31.2	Jonathan Quick was the best goalie on the planet period and he's still hanging in there and again
1:39.1	To the question of who is the number one in New York
1:47.0	yesterday raised more doubts if your answer is Igor Schisturkin. In the meantime, let's join by Haley Salveian now from the athletic and sports and hockey commentator,
1:52.0	also from the P.L coverage as we've seen before countless times and we'll get into a
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