This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sportsnet Radio Network.

Welcome back to the program.

So the come top of the hour.

We'll talk to Aaron Ambrose from Team Canada, thrilling, six to five overtime victory yesterday against the United States in Utica at the Women's World Championships. Also, Jesse Granger at the bottom of the hour from the athletic talking about the Vegas Golden Knights. In the meantime, our next guest is Jim Nell. He's a general manager, of course, of the Dallas Stars, top team in the ultra-competitive Central Division and look poised to do some damage in the playoffs jim nil joins me now jim

how are you today thanks so much for doing that yeah hi jep it's great to be on your show thanks for having

oh the pleasure is all ours here trust me um curious as the season winds down here and you know we

head into into the postseason um your team distinguishesishes itself as the top dog in the central division.

All season long, you know, we wondered, you know, which one was going to pull away from the pack,

and it's your Dallas stars.

I don't know if you set expectations for the regular season or you just look at the season as a whole

and you'll judge it at the end.

But if you divide it into regular season and a whole and you'll judge it at the end.

But if you divide it into regular season and post-regular season playoffs, what were your expectations for the regular season for this team based on what you saw

training camp?

Well, it's, you know, I mean, it's a long year.

The regular season is a ground in the schedule, and a lot of factors come into play.

You know, there's injuries, there's schedules, there's travel, things, and stuff.

And our biggest thing is we just want to be consistent all year.

And that's where I'm pretty proud of the, you know, the coaches and the players

and the staff, medical staff, and everybody else. We've been very consistent. You know, we haven't

had any big five, six, seven game losing streets. I think we've lost three in a row once,

and that was it. And there was some overtime losses or not. So we really, whenever I was a little

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