This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.

Welcome back to the program.

Glad to have you aboard today.

Coming up in hour to John Bartlett, we'll talk to us about

game six tonight that LSR is facing off against the Vegas Golden Knights. Push, push, push,

push, just get a game seven. More hockey, thank you very much also Paul Paduity from adjusted

hockey.com will talk to us about why goalies continue to get shafted when it comes to

Hall of Fame voting and who should be in there already but isn't because of it.

At the meantime, Mike Russo, a good friend from the athletic staffs by most recently

have a really interesting conversation,

Q&A style with Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice Russo joins me now Mike how

are you today pal I'm doing well how are you?

I'm good just real quick I don't know if you had a chance much at all to to lend an

eyeball to the world hockey championship the double i h h h h worlds, Canada wins goal, Germany, silver, and specifically Latvia comes

away with the bronze medal.

And you know, a lot of Latvian hockey players that a lot of us, you know, thought about it at that time will include Arters Urbae and I did a thing on the podcast about Helmut Balderas and I wanted to mention Sergei Joltok as well ex, you know, the late Minnesota Wild player who, you know, unfortunately,

passed away, but just like players that have laid that, you know, Latvian Foundation,

those players that that came before that sort of led to you know what is sort of a rise here of Latvian hockey as we're watching the Swiss rise and the the Germans rise as well.

Ratcho also watching you know Latvian hockey players and Latvian

hockey teams rise. I'm not sure if you had a chance to to peak or had a thought

of what we saw at the world championships but but if you did, if you could share a thought or two,

that would be great.

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