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

Welcome back to the program.

Don't forget coming up an hour to Philadelphia Flyers, General Manager Daniel Breyer stops by the program,

Billy Jaffy from Nesson as well.

In the meantime, very much looking forward to seeing the Florida Panthers tomorrow night on

Hockey Night in Canada in action against the Edmonton Oilers their head coach

Paul Maurice joins me now Paul how are you today?

Good Jeff how you doing today?

I'm doing very well first of all just some some business

affairs or take care of here before we get to the other topics of

discussion here is there any update on Aaron Ekblad? Yeah, he's walking around.

It was lower body, minor, and almost precautionary at that point.

So he's, I don't know if it's probable, we're not going to skate today today, today's a travel day

for us, so we'll get him on the ice tomorrow morning, but there's as good a chance he plays tomorrow night as he doesn't.

Okay, fingers cross, we'd love to see him on hockey in Canada tomorrow.

You know, the story that flowed off... love to see him on hockey in Canada tomorrow.

You know, the story of the Florida Panthers,

rather, coming out of the beginning of the season

was, you know, much like we talked about the Boston Ruins

last year, which was they just need to keep their head above water, get to Christmas, and get everybody healthy.

And we're looking at your Florida Panthers kicking off the season.

It's like, okay, no Echblad, no Montour what are they going to do here how they gonna stay in that same

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