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you check out some crooked teas more on them in just a little bit. My name is Bill Matts.

I'm your director, Fun and Games for the evening. Joining me live in the Xfinity Studio. It is Broad Street Hockey's own Kelly Hinkle. What's up today, Hinks? Two days in a row. I don't need to do with myself. Two in a row and pre-and-posts tomorrow. Do we actually know if we're doing pre-game? Is that like a thing yet? We are going to do pregame. Okay. There will be a

pregame. Uh, joining us in about half an hour on the Xfinity mobile call in line will be

Philly's number one hockey beat writer Charlie O'Connor. Coming to us from South Beach.

Uh, he's somewhere in Florida. I think he's at Fort Lauderdale or I don't know.

Uh, but we know where anything is in Florida. I, Florida is just, what is sunrise? It's just one big thing. Sunrise is just a suburb of Miami, I think. All right. Yeah, I think he's coming to us from like Club 11 or something. All right. We have a lot to get to today. Charlie will be joining us.

Yeah, we're looking forward to it.

We have more mailbag questions.

One newsy-ish item before we get to that is Cam Ackinson retires.

I love that for him.

Cam Ackinson calls it a career, spent the bulk of his time with the Columbus Blue Jackets,

did spend a few seasons here, and like two of them were pretty damn good.

He is still counting against the cap, I think 1.7 million on the buyout,

and Bill Meltzer clarified today, that remains.

Now, it was kind of a question to me. Yeah. Just because when you

have a guy on LTIR, the reason they're on LTIR forever and can't retire is because then they don't

get their money. Right. But this is a different situation altogether. It's a buyout. It's already a

prearranged thing. You're only getting two thirds of the money over twice the years, whether you retire or not. That's a contract from before he gets it. Yeah, and it doesn't really matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It's just be on the books anyway. But, you know, good for Cam. I mean, like, you know, his time here was brief and all right.

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