Good morning, everybody.

Welcome to another episode of HockBlogger Mornings.

I'm Brian M. Hazer.

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It is a Saturday, a wild card weekend Saturday. And I could not be more happy to be

joined by good pal, Jeff Simmons, man. How are you doing? I'm all right. I'm all right. There's just,

I'm excited for today, man. It feels so weird. playoffs are starting. And we're not even playing this

week. So I'm trying to get geared up for these games. There's a surprisingly large number of things

to catch up on. I actually lost track of the fact that all pro voting was was going to be revealed

today. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about the games. We'll also talk about the

coaching carousel and what's kind of going on there. I got to tell you something. This came up

from a specific listener who was really challenged by the fact that your poster on the back

wall is not is not a straight. Like they really, they start they really, they start the angle. I'm just put it. I actually, whether it's the angle or it's actually tilted, I'm glad that there is somebody out there tortured by their OCD, uh, because they, they see a see something on the wall.

Isn't that the most on-brand thing for me, though,

to have like a point on the wrong angle or it kind of fits my whole being at this point.

It's so true.

It's so true.

Buddy, how good does it feel just to be here on a Saturday

playoffs starting and have zero zero stress about it?

It's it's kind of surreal like I get so nervous for some of these games

and I don't know how you guys all feel but playoffs especially

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