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

Oh man, if Anka Ozmach just

tweeted the best picture of herself in the dentist chair watching Ken Reed.

Talk on the show here a couple of moments ago.

Again, the book called The Hometown Hockey Heroes, Ken can read according to Stephen Brunt this is his best

book yet and it looks awesome I can't wait to crack the spine of this one as soon as

the program is over but before then we have a

lot of business very serious business and when we have a serious business to do we

bring in Greg wasinski from ESPN hello senior writer at ESPN Greg wasinski here

to talk about serious business?

Very serious, always very serious, indeed, very serious.

Let me ask you something.

So just had Reader on, and I know you love Kenny and his new book is all about you know the local legend the local hockey hero that never ended up really going anywhere. I'm not sure I mean I had Bruce Dowie who played for the Marlboro's and he was like my guy. I thought he was you know the best net minder I had ever seen when I was I don't know 11 years old or 10 years old or whatever it was. He was my like hometown hero like the local legend.

Did you have a local legend in your community like someone that never worked out?

Paul Sonderkook was another one of mine.

I ended up playing Henry Carr with Mike Futa years and years later.

But did you have like a local legend that you gravitated to that never quite made it?

No. I mean like, so here's the thing, like my, I was just telling somebody the other day that like I grew up in a town

next to a rink.

Yeah.

And so to put a geographic spin on it,

there's a couple of people that grew up in towns near me that did make it.

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