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Once again, welcome to the program for this Thursday January the 25th. Good afternoon. Good morning. You're listening live. Good evening depending on when and where you're listening to your podcast. Thanks for being aboard today.

Coming up on today's program and we're going to park a lot of time initially to talk about

Steve's deos and that Ottawa Senators Presser that you may or may not have heard about 90

minutes ago.

Ian Mendez stops by in a couple of moments from the athletic

to talk about the chaos and the future of the Ottawa Senators

and a really good job, a really good job of pumping up a player before a trade deadline.

Almost one would say a master class in how to do it from Steve Stios.

That's coming up in a couple of moments.

Eric Engel stops by at the bottom of the hour to talk about the Montreal Canadians.

You know, one of the questions I have about the Habs revolves around rebuilds and revolves around

fans, tolerance for rebuilds and organizations tolerance

for rebuilds like at a certain point fans sort of push back and say okay we were

cool when we said rebuild and we're tearing it down and we're going with kids and here come the prospects.

And then the losses pile up and the season futilities pile up up and where once was you know

inspiration and where once was excitement about something new the new shiny

toy the new shiny franchise you, rebuilds don't happen overnight, especially not the

way the Montreal Canadians are doing them and certainly not the way that Arizona Coyotes

have been doing them since 10 years now.

Eric Engel stops by at the bottom of hour one.

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