James Reimer's Pride Night Decision

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Satiar Shah of Sportsnet 650 Vancouver hosts in place of Jeff. Producer Tristan Marchegiani hops aboard to take a look around the league and decipher the true Cup contenders and the top dogs in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Next up, three-time Stanley Cup champion and Devils analyst Ken Daneyko focuses in on the top defenders in the NHL and breaks down the ins and outs of playing the position at a high level in today's game (23:47). Afterwards, host of Hockey Prospect Radio on SiriusXM and PHD candidate Shane Malloy joins the show to share his perspective on scouting prospects, before weighing in on if Connor Bedard is ready to make the leap to the NHL level (50:43). Finally, The Athletic's Corey Masisak discusses goaltender James Reimer's decision to not take part in San Jose's warmups during the team's Pride Night celebration (01:16:45). 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.
0:07.0	Welcome to the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network and Satyarshaw from Vancouver filling in for Jeff Merrick and he's got some work to do.
0:18.0	He does a lot of stuff. Jeff Merrick at 32 Thoughts Podcast alongside Elliot Friedman and of course, Hawking and Canada very busy man and the content you crave on the 32 thoughts podcast doesn't create on its own.
0:30.0	It needs well thought out ideas time set aside working towards creating the content you want
0:36.4	So that's what Jeff Merrick's up to today. So I'm here today to discuss all things
0:40.1	National Hockey League across the Sports Net Radio Network.
0:44.0	And we usually have Elliot treatment in the first segment, but unfortunately he had to bail.
0:48.5	Now I know Elliot, I'm seeing him tomorrow in Vancouver because we're both hosting the Canucks for
0:53.7	kids telethon as telethon night in Vancouver so I'll give him a piece of my mind
1:00.9	when I see him no it's it's all good I know Elliot has something to do so he's not going to make it for the first segment.
1:05.0	We have a lot to get to here on the show today, so I look forward to discussing all things
1:09.0	defense in New Jersey Devils and how the game is trending with Ken Danico
1:13.4	former National Hockey League Defensman knows a lot but the New Jersey
1:16.5	Devils he's going to join us coming up at 930 coming up at 10
1:19.2	we'll continue a theme on defense with drafting defense and building front offices with
1:24.3	Shane Malloy and then at 1030 Corey Masaac is going to join us the athletic from the
1:29.1	San Jose sharks coverage and of course we all know James Reimer declined to wear a pride
1:35.2	Jersey on the weekend and of course a big topic of conversation and we'll discuss
1:40.6	this quite a bit more, especially when we have
1:43.4	quarry on to get the sense of what happened in San Jose, what it all means
1:47.8	moving forward, and of course the fallout from that decision. But the thing
1:52.2	I wanted to say about it before we get to it a bit more in-depth at 1030 I thought
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