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We have all four of us here, and we are joined by special guest, Ryan Bork, former assistant coach for the USNTDP.

And first of all, Ryan, thank you for joining us.

And congratulations on the new head coaching job over with Cushing's.

I'm sure you're looking forward to the new season. Are you ready for it? Yeah, I am. Just trying to get

my feet under me here back in Boston. My family and I, I got two boys under three years old. And my

wife, Maria, we moved back from Plymouth, Michigan. And yeah, I started up officially July 1 and, yeah, all boots on the ground now. There you go. It's going to be fun. I know Eric talks about his prep days every single day. Oh, yeah, buddy. You know that. I love it. I'm so excited for you guys. And just so you guys know, like on chat there uh you know ryan is the one

that when ray lifts the cup you can see ryan behind there in in 2001 and like he just said look at

him now he's married to the greatest maria she's awesome way better than him and then he's got two

beautiful boys and it's crazy how it's weird yeah we all get older you

know i mean like it's the weirdest thing and and i just talked to max he said to say hi and

just so people know my son max that's he's really tight with ryan ryan is his roommate from

the covid year so he really speaks highly of ryan and mar Maria and the kids so great to have you guys

today I mean not you guys but you and then say hi like I said to your lovely wife and let's get

going with the prospect yeah I mean let's just start at the top right a guy who at the start

of the year was maybe ranked as high as potentially going number

two, Cole Eiserman.

Can you tell us a little bit about a guy who's expected to be a top end talent in this year's draft?

Yeah, I mean, for me personally, I've never seen a kid shoot the puck like he does.

I mean, his numbers speak for himself. He's

probably the best natural goal score to ever come out of that program. And I mean, that

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