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32 Thoughts: The Podcast

Sportsnet

Hockey, Sports

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Caroline Hurricanes strike back — two years later! On Saturday, the Canes tendered an offer sheet to restricted free agent Jesperi Kotkaniemi for one-year, $6.1-million. Jeff and Elliotte break down some of the details and possible thinking behind the offer sheet (1:30), discuss how Carolina decided to present the announcement publicly, contract extension talks between Kotkaniemi and the Canadiens, and the reaction out of Montreal. They also touch on the Jack Eichel situation (18:30), why he chose to change his representation and the big meeting that took place a few weeks back in Buffalo. Music Outro: Ardivan Walks – Soaked Listen to their latest album “In Time” as well as the feature track “Soaked” in its entirety. This podcast is produced and mixed by Amil Delic, and hosted by Jeff Marek and Elliotte Friedman. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	No, I give me 20 minutes, but all right, let's do this.
0:06.7	You know, he can't understand you, right, Emil?
0:10.6	Yeah, okay.
0:11.6	That's true, yeah, really.
0:13.6	Let's do it.
0:14.6	Let's do it.
0:17.1	So the 31 Thoughts podcast bat signal went up earlier on Saturday evening, and we have
0:21.8	responded.
0:22.8	Welcome to the podcast once again, quickly thrown together because the big news is offer
0:28.2	sheet time.
0:29.5	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
0:32.4	What?
0:33.4	We have to explain what before we get into the nuts and bolts, we have to explain what
0:37.4	is going on with Omeldelech right now?
0:40.8	Like the extra mile that Omeldelech is going through to get this done more than a mile.
0:47.5	He's going out the door and around the block, and it is longer than a mile to get this
0:51.3	one done for each.
0:53.2	So there's a rain storm in the Toronto area on Saturday night as we record this.
0:58.4	And Omeldelech who lives north west of the city, correct?
1:02.1	That's correct.
1:03.1	So Omeldelech has a power failure at his house.
1:06.1	So he's on one computer that's at 10%, he's at one computer that's 80%.
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