This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.

Okay, welcome back to the program. Don't forget Terry Ryan coming up at the top of the hour of Jonathan Davis at the bottom of it.

In the meantime, I guess there is really only one question for any guest who covers the Vancouver Canucks right now and that is this

Are things great or really great? That hard-hitting question all put forth to Thomas

Trance from the Athletic and Sports

that says 6.50. So Thomas Strans are things great or really great with the

Vancouver Canucks right now? Yeah things are really great and you know this has been a

wildly impressive road swing for them through the eastern conference. I mean they're bludgining

the teams that they face here. This is this is circus stuff most nights. I mean the one nothing win over the Sabres was more business like I suppose than some of the theatrics we've got from this top line especially but also from this entire team since they hit the

eastern time zone on last weekend but you know logistically anyway right this has

been a pretty difficult trip. They got stuck overnight in Long Island on Tuesday night

couldn't get out to Pittsburgh on time because of the wind. They got stuck in Buffalo during the storm had to bus up to Toronto to

apply to Columbus and by the way spare a thought for Canucks team services

guy Mike Brown not just because it's been a challenging road trip but because not only was he stuck in Buffalo but he's also a huge bill stand so you could imagine he's sweat in a storm for a multitude of reasons.

I actually had a funny moment because I got out a buffalo about an hour before the Erie County travel ban. I kicked in.

And I had a funny moment where I was checking out of the Marriott and I'm like, hey, if I get stuck here, do you guys have any vacancy?

And, you know, a nice woman at the front desk's like, no, you know, the bills games in town tomorrow were pretty much booked.

And at just that moment the

governor announced that the game would be canceled and the phones all start

ringing like one of those old school movies and I started check my phone and I'm like

oh it looks like the bills game has been been pushed and she's like well then we should have vacancy

So anyway a bit of a wild trip on the travel side but hasn't stopped them and that's going to make today pretty interesting right?

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