The Welcome to Michigan Hockey Cast 7.4, Cirrus, Cumulus, Stratus.

Zero Cumulus, alto cumulus, Nimbo Stratis, and of course, Cumulonimbus. Well Alex as per tradition you and I have spent the better part of an hour just discussing

our off-air thoughts about other sports that need to be discussed here and got us a little worked up about some things that we probably shouldn't put completely on air.

But one of the things that we can put on air that we have not done yet, we traditionally do that has gotten nice

reviews is the professional hockey league the NHL has started and they've

played about what a week a week or two's worth of games and we have not really

discussed much or anything that has happened there.

Should we use our opening segment to talk a little bit about some of the team's ups

downs bullet points we should note to do a chant real quick we have to do a chant

where is Rutger? That was funny. So what's

great about this saga is that

Unlike other scenarios in which players have screwed over the teams that drafted them like the Adam Fox situation most famously

Yeah, the teams really were put in very difficult situations and I would argue that they ultimately did not get fair value.

The director situation is great because they made like a fine trade.

They just swapped him for a very similar prospect.

Yeah. Another team that was drafted in a very similar range and is a similar age.

So I don't really think the Jets can be like that unhappy about that part and all that we're left with is just the pure bad blood and hatred and that's what's great.

This is pure messy. It's great.

Yeah, I mean there's part of me, you know, I enjoyed rooting for him for a couple years and I feel for him as a person in some ways, but his more recent actions have...

You had to admit it was very funny that he got sent down to Scranton Wilkes-Barre.

It was also really funny that he got traded to Pittsburgh, like the team with one of the bleakest

futures. I think it's just... Why want why like what did they what was Pittsburgh's

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