Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode of HockBlogger Mornings, Real Hock Talk, whatever

you want to call it. I'm Brian Nemhouser. You can find me and all the stuff that we do on YouTube,

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You know, I was not necessarily going to do a show today.

I was planning to do it this morning.

My son sick.

So he's home from school, but dealing with that, trying to do a bunch of other, like, house-spouse stuff.

And then just as I was trying to get a workout in, the news broke that Rashid Shahid, according to Adam Schaefter, does not look like he is close to reaching an

agreement with the Seahawks on an extension and is expected that he will now hit the free agent

market on Monday. So I want to talk to you about that. I want to talk to you about the Trent

McDuffie deal that the Rams made. And I went to see if anyone wanted to join. And there was this one guy who I was just shocked. I was shocked. He wasn't going to be out there frolicking in the 85 degree Arizona weather. Evan Hill joining us to talk through this news. Evan, man, it's been a while. How are you doing?

What's up, my brother? It's, uh, it's been, um, a nice couple of weeks to like just process, sit

back and like think about what just happened, you know, with this season. And I know there's like

a ton of avalanche news coming at us with free agency,

you know, starting next week and the tampering period and all that.

But the leaks coming out are fast.

They're interesting.

They have big implications for this upcoming season.

And I don't know how you're still doing podcasts every day because I want

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