Let's podcast alongside Joe Jillio. I'm Joe Ovious. Inside Eifford Studios in downtown,

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I felt like we had sent our consciousness into the cloud on Friday.

Apparently, us being a little slow on Friday after the OG birthday bash was not lost on some of our listeners.

Do I take, do I have that right, Joe?

Yeah. I mean, sometimes with the self-scout, you realize it's not your fastball, right? Throw away the tape. Burn the tape. Yeah. I don't know if it was one of those, but it was energy levels were, we're low. I wonder why. Here's my notes. Energy levels low.

Could it be?

We're old.

We're probably trying too much.

We stayed out late on a school night.

All sorts of reasons why we were a little slow.

Went a little too hard on the Friday.

But don't worry.

We're bringing the energy level today.

We are radioing this thing up like nobody's ever radioed before.

Let's go.

Everything is.

It's the lightning row. The lightning Round.

Tell me we've hit off-season protocols without telling me we've hit off-season protocols.

We are out of the gate with the lightning round, but not just any lightning round, Joe. As we look around the NHL,

we're going to talk to Sarah Sivian here in a little bit,

to talk specifically about the Carolina Hurricanes,

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