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

Okay, welcome back to the program.

Welcome to Hour 2. You know what that music means.

Greg Washensky has a very, very shiny, brand new contract from ESPN,

along with Arda Ocald as well we should point out too.

What's up daddy War bucks, Richie Rich?

I know they just started passing out contracts to everyone at the network who looks like the Ukrainian president.

So it's very exciting for me in Arda.

Craig Salinsky with us here on the program.

I thank Greg for taking time.

It was very busy schedule to talk a little bit of hockey with us here.

I always love when you do the awards and I want to get to those here in a couple of moments because I never think it's too early to start musing about awards.

I love it like do it every two weeks. I don't I don't care. I absolutely love it but

There's some there's some hot button issues going around the

n h h h h h hl right now and a lot of them revolve around certain Canadian teams

but not exclusive to let me ask you about one that's certainly salient for the Philadelphia

Flyers market in the Philadelphia Flyers, the San Jose's first victims and now these

suddenly red-hot San Jose sharks are facing off against the oilers on Thursday looking to put a

nail in the coffin after their motivational speech from my career.

I don't know if it's going to blow up is too strong a way to describe this but do you have a thought on

as we've seen a lot of players scratched and bench like coaches are getting at it early

but does it not feel like this Morgan Frost thing in Philadelphia is ready to explode?

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