Tanking? What Tanking? Nobody Tanks in the NHL!

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Jeff opens the show looking at the headlines from the day including Kris Letang’s big return and Gary Bettman’s comments about tanking, before hearing from Connor Hellebuyck’s appearance on the 32 Thoughts Podcast. Later on, Rangers reporter Vince Mercogliano looks back on Igor Shesterkin’s “almost goal” against the Panthers, what to make of the development of some of New York's young forwards, and K’Andre Miller’s next deal (33:32). We wrap things up with Producer Matt, who shares today's "Random Player of the Day" – Ivan Boldirev (49:52)! 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	Nobody tanks in the NHL. Let's just get that straight.
0:03.2	Welcome to the program today.
0:05.0	You're truly Jeff Merrick along with you.
0:06.7	Normally Elliot Friedman kicks off the show.
0:09.0	Not so today, looking for Elliot maybe as early as tomorrow. In meantime a lot of things to get to a lot from last night a lot bleeding into today
0:18.6	Bottom of the hour Vince McCogliano from lo-hut.com stop by. We'll talk plenty about the Rangers.
0:23.7	And I guess one of the questions revolving around the New York Rangers
0:26.8	are, who are the New York Rangers?
0:29.3	They're visiting the Maple Leafs tonight looking for their eighth win
0:32.0	in their last 11 games, you know,
0:34.1	building off that beat down to the Florida Panthers earlier on this week and yeah
0:37.7	we should probably sneak in a conversation here about Kay Andre Miller who will join a parade of players getting paid in the in the off season
0:47.1	We've got the random player of the day this one is a fascinating one love digging in on this and it is Wednesday so that means Greg wasinski from
0:54.3	E-SPN we're gonna get into a lot of stuff about tanking today coming off of Gary
0:58.6	Betman's comments yesterday in the meantime some of the headlines that will go over
1:02.2	over the day today.
1:03.2	The Vancouver Canucks, I think we're all staying up to watch this one.
1:05.9	In the East I've one staying up late.
1:07.5	In the West, people are just watching the game,
1:10.4	you easterners staying up late. Five two over the Chicago Black Hawks.
1:14.0	Now things didn't exactly, you know, start swimmingly, let's just say,
1:19.0	you know, a few minutes into the game there was a jersey that hits the ice.
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