Today's show is dedicated to the snow family of Calgary. By now, we've all read Kelsey Snow's social media posts about Chris.

This is a family Elliott that's shown us how to live life with dignity and

respect and resolve

compassion, love and in the process have made all of us better.

And this is the feeling of every heart and hockey breaking at the same time

peace to the snow family.

I'm still having trouble finding the words.

Ever since his diagnosis, he was a beacon of positivity.

What Chris did, undergoing experimental treatment, will benefit people for decades to come.

That's his legacy.

What a beautiful family.

To donate, funds to help ALS research and to find new treatments go to Calgaryflames.com slash snowystrong.

Welcome once again to 32 Thoughts the Podcast American Friedman with you once again coming up a little bit later on.

You will hear from a vandercane of the Edmonds and Oilers muse about amongst other things

playing in Atlanta comma again. That was a good question.

I need to give you credit for anything, but that was a really good question.

Listen, it was an okay question. He delivered a dynamite answer. I'm not taking credit for what he said, which was fascinating.

Michele Sergeyev as well, speaking of fascinating Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman.

I think surprise and we'll surprise a lot of people with this interview.

We love doing it. We hope that you'll enjoy listening to it.

We'll start with the Calgary Flames and Michele Backland with the new deal and the new letter.

He's now the captain of the Calgary Flames and he has a brand new two year contract extension in his hip pocket.

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