This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the SportsNet Radio Network.

Hello and welcome in to the Jeff Merrick show.

Matt Markezy filling in for what is the final episode of the season on the Jeff Merrick show.

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SportsNet Radio Network. And of course, wherever you get your podcast, we greatly appreciate

all of your downloads and your patience. We got a lot to get to today. Before we wrap things up

for the season, some news today coming out of Florida. Anton Lindel signs a six-year extension with the Panthers worth $5 million per season.

That looks like it's going to age very, very well for the Panthers.

And something, something, no state tax.

But I'll leave that one there for all of you to, to, uh, stew over.

Pavel Bucenevich signs a six year extension with the blue.

So now he is off the market, even though Doug Armstrong kind of told us like, yeah, we want him here long term.

So everybody take it easy.

Shane Pinto extends in Ottawa.

We'll have Ian Mendez on at the bottom of this hour to talk about that.

Maybe a little bit of Brady Cachuck talk as well.

And Nate Schmidt, after being bought out by the Winnipeg Jets, ends up in Florida as they try and revamp their defense after losing Oliver Ekman-Larsson and Brandon Montour.

You know, I know that there's so much intrigues surrounding the free agent pool.

And I understand that, the unrestricted free agent pool because that's where a lot of the

excitement is on July 1st.

But I do wonder if maybe, oh, maybe this is the year of the restricted free agent.

We talk about names like Lucas Raymond and Seth Jarvis, Quentin Byfield, Martin

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