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

Okay, finally, here we go.

After days of building it up and wondering and speculating and shifting our perspective on the conspite trophy,

and maybe things like momentum and can they do this and best series potentially we've seen in our generation.

Game six tonight between the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers pregame 730 Eastern with your host, Ron McLean, it is Hockey Central, and then the puck drops in Edmonton where it will be very loud. It's after 8 o'clock this evening. Vander Cain game time decision. I guess you have to say it. I can't see them doing it. Why would you change the winning lineup? It's been so good. And we'll see what happens this evening. I'm going to talk to Louis de Brascon a couple of moments about that. Also going to talk to Andrew Cagliano coming up at the bottom of the hour. Why? Because Andrew Cogliano announced his retirement today. and if you're like me, you probably thought that Andrew Cogliano was still going to play a couple more years.

But not so.

And he's going to be joining the fun office of the Colorado Avalanche.

And he will be joining this program coming up at the bottom of the hour.

We'll talk about the career of Andrew Cogliano with Andrew Cagliano.

Someone who I always

considered, I don't know, undercover, hipster, however you want to describe it, Selky Trophy

candidate.

Like there was a time with the Anaheim Ducks where there was a line where three players you

could have made the case for winning the Selke trophy.

Jacob Sulfurberg, Ryan Kessler, and Andrew Cogliano.

And I always wondered if there was going to be that one year where Cogliano finally broke through

and someone grabbed the charge, led the charge, bang the drum for Cogliano and the

Selky trophy, but it never happened.

But he's going to go down as, you know, along with people like,

oh, Marian Hosa, for one.

Mark Stone, another, the greatest defensive player to never win the Norris

trophy.

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