You were not first. I was already there and then had to go tell the kids to be quiet

downstairs playing Fortnight by the way. All right so this will be a quickie pod to get your

week started right or get your week started with information and get your week started

your week started Elliot Friedman with a soap opera update.

As we record this podcast right now, it is timestamp 738 Eastern on Sunday evening.

In the background of my office here, the Chicago Blackhawks and Florida Panthers are tied at

bagels. But in so far what has been the move of the night has been also

the cheeky smile of the night as Keith Yandall had this Voltarian smile on his face as he was introduced as a Florida panther.

What is, to the best of your knowledge, Elliot, the latest on Panther Panthers Coronation Street.

Wow, that's quite a reference.

Excellent reference, Coronation Street.

I married into a British family, what can I say?

So what I think happened is I think the players got involved.

This is me kind of unspooling how all of this happened in my view. Let's go back to the return to play. Florida opened up against

the islanders and they got their butts kicked. And they were terribly, terribly disappointed in the way they played there.

And there's been a general feeling that it's too easy for those guys in Florida and they had to make it harder on the team,

increase the pressure on the team internally because there isn't as much pressure

playing hockey in sunrise in the area and I think even the

players themselves like I heard the exit meetings from the players were pretty

honest you know were not good enough and they weren't just

talking like we have to be better, we have to be tougher to play against, we have to be

better defensively, we're simply not good enough and I

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