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Okay, Chris Tann of officially A, ready for it, Matt Markeesie?

Game time decision.

GtD.

Leon Bischel says, be ready.

Get in gorilla position.

Get a push-up position, as your gym coach used to always say. Dollars to donuts, knowing Chris Tanniv. He's probably going to play tonight. Do you say game time decision to Chris Tandive, even though I saw him walking around at Edmonton Mall with a walking boot on? You say game time decision to Chris Tand hannah what's going to happen i i was pretty

confident that he was going to play yeah blocking shots with his face don't be surprised don't be surprised

don't be surprised coming up on today's program brian lawton stops by here in a couple of moments

from n hl network will i kick off the show by the way no 32 thoughts pod this morning

elliot had and everybody loves hearing media complain about travel, I will give it to

Elliot, the worst travel experience yesterday.

Yeah, no, no, no, the worst travel experience yesterday.

The timeline that on my timeline with all the people that were trying to get places yesterday,

not great.

Trying to get to Dallas.

Mike Kelly is going to stop by as well. Kelly did that great rundown on T&T the other day with Wayne Gretzky, the 1987 Canada Cup and Gretzky's underlying numbers in it. Not that we're going to regurgitate that but I want to throw a couple of other ideas at Mike Kelly. Like make work projects that I tried to do with Shane it yesterday on the program. We'll throw those of Kelly today. Ed Giovannowski as well. We'll talk about the Florida Panthers, who now Matt Marquesi are one game away from once again being in the Stanley Cup final after a big one yesterday. It seems as if the idea if you're the Florida Panthers is, hang in there in the first period, play 50- with the New York Rangers, and then just wear them down. Yeah, turn on the burners and off you go. Holy smokes. Like I know to make the argument, et cetera, they could have won every game. The series could be over, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But really it's kind of true. Just wait for Shasturkin to make mistakes. By the way, from the hockey hipsters desk to play the game yesterday, Nico Mekola at the end, holding the puck against the boards for 10 seconds, just driving the Rangers and their fans crazy. Like you could do absolutely, like as a fan you're watching that, you're at MSG, you know, your team has just made it a one goal game and all of a sudden the puck's in your zone and Mika is like, I am going to kill all the momentum here. Yeah. This puck is going nowhere other than right here along the boards. Panthers players loving it. Paul Maurice loving it. Everybody else is hating on it in the rank because it just don't care great play at the

end but is that a hockey hipster player is that i feel like that's an old school hockey love kind of

play you're right because i'm like there's an appreciation for that play because you have guys

literally sticking your feet all over you guys all over you the fact that he kept it for as long as he did is super impressive.

Well, he's kind of a large man.

Kind of, yeah.

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