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Things are on fire. But we're fine. We're here. It's Monday. It's cold. It's December. We're also to rather be with talking Hawks on a cold Chicago Monday. Thanks for being with us. Sorry for the late start. We're going to get right two things. Like button, subscribe button, cyber Monday, all that great stuff. We'll get to all of it later on in the show.

But we have a guest standing by, so we want to make sure we get right out to our guests.

I like this fancy title, Manager of Communications and Broadcasting and Ice Hogs

Broadcaster and the person who does everything for the Ice Hogs.

It's Dana Gray. thanks for joining us man

how are you i'm doing well guys yeah that uh that title is uh i want to say it's the best

part of the job but basically it's wear of all hats hand out giveaways put teddy bears

on seats coming up saturday so, but yeah, broadcaster is probably

my favorite part of that. Yeah, that's the most fun, but you got to soup up the title. It's like when

I worked for the Oakland Park District, I was a lawn maintenance engineer. What did it mean? I cut the

grass, but I was a lawn maintenance engineer. It's what I did. I would have that on my placard for the rest of my life. My parents who have a frame photo of me riding a lawnmower. So that's how proud they're on me. So there you go. There you go. Well, we wanted to bring you on. We've been keeping a very close eye on the ice hogs. And two guys in particular, Nicola Artis and Kevin

Gorkinski. And let's start with Nick Lartis who had two goals and an assist in last night's game.

He's got 22 points in 20 games. I think there was a little bit of, I wouldn't say doubt or

concern, but wonder if he'd be able to translate the scoring pace he had in Brantford when he turned pro

and looks like scoring has not been a problem for Nick Arnis.

No, I would say so.

And I totally hear you with the, not the doubt, but certainly the question mark.

I think it's become less of a question mark with guys translating really strong success in the college game to maybe the AHL.

I think that's dumbed down a little bit.

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