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Jay Zawoski with Greg Boyson and Mario Tirbossi. It is a big day in Blackhawks history. They have

officially, just moments before the show began, have named Luke Richardson, the 40th head coach

in the history of the team. We're obviously going to get into that. We're also going to be

joined by Chris Peters of the Daily Faceoff. My favorite draft analyst, I think he's fantastic.

We're just over a week away from the NHL draft, so I've got to start thinking about

that too.

So a lot to get to today, but fellas, we had Friday show to react to the news.

Right.

Actually happened as we were recording, but now we've had a weekend to sleep on it and

part of it today, and they made it official. Where are we at? We weekend to sleep on it and part of today and they made it

official. Where are we at? We still feeling as optimistic as we did on Friday? Yeah, I think now that

it's official, we've gotten, you know, we've gotten a word from Kyle Davidson and Luke

Richardson about the higher and the direction and what they want to establish within the team.

Yeah, it feels good.

I think the words that we were getting about Richardson from around the league from

Montreal as well, all indications were that, you know, he's a great person, a great coach,

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