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

Another big night of Stanley Cup playoff action, Allanders and Hurricanes, Panthers and Bruins, Kings and Oilers,

at the 10 o'clock start Eastern on CBC and Sports Net, and at 930 on Sports Net 360,

you can watch Game 2, the Minnesota Wild facing off against the Dallas Stars. Mike Russo covers the wild has done so for a number of years for the athletic,

and he joins me now. Mike, how are you,

I'm doing well, how are you?

Good, there's a lot that I want to get to here and I want to start in perhaps an unlikely place. No, I'm not going to start it with the Mat dumbba situation and the, uh, the ultra violence between these two squads who are looking for

green supremacy I want to talk about Brock Faber and that play that Brock Faber made on

Mason Marchment to keep that double

o T alive you know before before that final goal by Ryan Hartman

to salt it away in double-o-T.

Favors really impressed me.

I think he's impressed a lot of people as well.

And for those that haven't had a chance to watch Brock Faber,

it's been a very brief NHL career after all.

That play was, you know, one of the best plays we've seen in the playoffs so far.

But what else do you think we should know about Brock Faber?

I'm just ultra competitive. I mean this is somebody that obviously has been highly

touted for a long time, had a fabulous career at the University of Minnesota. And I think what's so

impressive about this Jeff is this guy had a heartbreaking loss where he

didn't even get on the ice for overtime it ended so quickly there in Tampa and

24 hours later you're not even 24 hours later 12 later, he's basically signed by the wild and is on a plane in Chicago to make his

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