Hello, Joe.

What's up, Freddie T? And I am fortunate enough to get a sneak preview and know who the slam and slewbanger of the week is going to be for the dude and bird after talking to a bird before jumping on with you guys. Oh, there's a conversation beforehand about the dude and bird podcast? There was. And I got a sneak for nobody else knows who the slam and slewbanger is going to be except for me so I feel very special right now is it a famous person or is he the girl that he runs upstairs to see after every show I think I got to embargo the information for it but it's definitely not the girl upstairs well I'm okay yeah you can't spoil it for his audience that would would be, that would just be awful. All right.

Okay.

What is the status on Craichy?

Do we have any idea what's going on with him?

I think we're going to get more information today.

At least that's what we were told at the end of last week.

But, you know, I think the difficulty here is the back issue can be a very

nebulous thing where you don't quite know I all we know is that it wasn't responding

well enough for him to get on the ice last week and that's not a good thing and if he's

not getting the response that he wants after, you know, weeks have gone by,

then you start to wonder if something else is required or if it's still just, you know,

a rest and a heel thing. And he's going to eventually come back. And is it going to be problematic

when he does come back? Most people with bad backs are that back issues. They can recur fairly easily, especially, you know, when you get jostled around like you do playing

hockey. So we don't have any answers right now. And I think a back in particular much more than

some of these other injuries that the hockey players have can be a very unpredictable one and can be one that's tough to pin down for the

medical staff.

So hopefully we find more answers today, but we haven't gotten many answers over the last few

weeks, so I'm not that optimistic that that's going to change today.

Joe, it's tough to tell with all of the missing pieces and the moving around how well

Bruce Cassidy is doing with the, I guess the

players he's been given.

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