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Okay, welcome aboard.

Normally we do a cold open style, but we're going to kind of throw things a little bit to the wind a little bit here

here today.

It's going to be a different kind of day here on the program.

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Across the Sports Net Radio Network or on 360 or on Sports Net now, you're listening to the podcast.

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for the whole program, a couple of moments,

a couple of segments, thank you.

Elias in Florida right now for the general manager's meetings and they might be breaking off or breaking apart right now.

So if that's true, Elliot's got a chase and interview and talk, etc, etc. And we'll get to him at a different point in the program.

If not, we'll bring him on here in a couple of moments.

So I thought it might be a good idea to bring Matt Marcaseon to do our production

meeting here live on the air.

Maddie what have you put together today?

Okay, so we hopefully will have

Elliot Friedman soon.

The general managers apparently are just starting to show up according to Elliot, so our time may be short with him.

The plan is Rich Beverly Dallas Stars Director of player personnel at 12.

Eastern. I'll just give you the the rundown here. Random player of the day.

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