Okay, so you know when you were a kid and you know the parents go out of town for the weekend and you tell them you're going to behave and be nice to not break everything and smash things and turn the whole house upside down. That's kind of how I feel when I take off for a couple of days and turn the recreation over to

Matt Marquesne, who by the way, as I always do, thank you so much Matt for filling in

for me all I was gone.

Was in rally for a couple of days doing interviews.

You'll see those pop up on various pre-game shows as the conference final rather gets underway in earnest tonight.

It is the Carolina Hurricanes hosting the Florida Panthers game one.

Pre-game 730 puck drops just after 8 at PNC Arena.

So I had a chance to talk to Brent Burns, Sebastianahoe, Jacob Slavin as well. A lot of different angles, a lot of these different pieces. You'll see them in pre-game shows popping up as that series advances. But one specific interview, so I was

down there alongside Christine Simpson who was doing in interviews with various Florida Panthers players and also interviewed both head coaches.

Now, Christina's gem.

It's a treat to work with her.

We're really glad that we have her on our side working with this year at Sports

Night and Hockey Night in Canada. And you know for my money and it's always good to

watch Christine work because she's very well prepped and researched and presents very

well. She did an interview with both Rod Brendan Moore and Paul Maurice. Now, as we speak, if you're listening to this live, they're cutting this

together for broadcast a little bit later on. I'm hoping to play a segment of the interview with Rod Brendan Moore from yesterday afternoon.

Lance back at Master, do we have that audio?

Do we have it, Lance? Okay, we got that. Okay, great. have that

okay we got that okay great so let me set this up for a little bit so this is Christine Simpson in conversation with rod brindamore and the brindamore conversation is a wide-ranging one at times is very emotional.

And at this point of the interview, this is Christine Simpson talking about the relationship

between Rod Brindamore and his old coach Paul Maurice, who now he's

coaching against, and one of the things that's always been an issue sort of out there between these two is it was you know

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