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

Hey welcome to the program once again.

Round two started last night.

We'll get to the Florida Panthers and the Toronto Maple Leifs.

We'll get to the Seattle Cracken and Joe Pavellsky, I mean Dallas Stars. That's coming up in a couple of moments here.

Want to let you know, as of 35 or 36 minutes ago Elliot was still poised to kick off the program today

But then I got a phone call from Frege begging off and I never I never really know whether I should always, you know, sort of disclose why.

I mean, there's some times where Elliot just can't do it and he's sort of a staple to kick

off the show today.

So Elliot is, I don't want to use the on assignment. the something else or sick or in court they say on assignments. Yeah the on assignment he's

doing some ironing of his couch with his ass that's his assignment no Elliot is is off today doing

something how can I be really vague about this something that relates to hockey that is

probably really cool that is probably

really cool that will probably show up on your televisions. How about that in one

way or another? Television's, podcasts and this radio show. So Elliot doesn't kick it off today. John Bartlett

coming up from the NHL on sports at the bottom of the hour here and also

from Hockey Night in Canada. We'll talk about that wild one last night in Dallas. Like that's how you make a

comeback. Unfortunately, four goals wasn't enough. When you think of four goals, yes, you can always insert the Joe Thornton line,

shout out Jason Bosford.

And if you don't get that reference, check it out online.

It's very good. John Bartlett stops by. We'll talk about a couple of things with Bart's. So he called the game last night. We'll talk about the Dallas Stars and the Seattle Cracken just like a wild crazy up-down top-see-turvy game.

We'll get to that also when I first met Bart's This would have been 2005. I had heard him before as a broadcaster when he used to do

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