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exclusions apply. 18 plus scumannware. Dot-allware.com. Hello, hello, and welcome to episode nine of the Flying V podcast. I'm your host,

Vincent McCogliano of The Athletic. I am coming to you today

from back in New York. My colleague, Peter Baugh, took the trip to Chicago, the quick,

basically one-night, one-off trip for the Rangers to play the Blackhawks on Wednesday. I actually hung back and I guess I can kind of reveal it now because the story will be up

by the time you guys hear this episode, went and spent some time on Wednesday with the

Anaheim Ducks who arrived in New York pretty much early Wednesday morning, had a practice out in Long Island

in preparation for their game against the Islanders, and I went and visited with multiple

former Rangers. He got to say hi to Ryan Strome, but really my focus was catching up with

Chris Kreider and Jacob Truba, who will be returning to Madison Square Garden for the first

time since being traded as visiting

players when the Rangers host the Ducks on Monday night. So if you haven't had a chance yet,

make sure to go to the athletic and check out that feature. Really just more a check-in for how

life is going with those guys and how they're doing with the ducks who were in first place at the time

at this recording and playing quite well. Really exciting, fun to watch young team loaded. And I mean

loaded with dynamic young skill. I'm sure some Rangers fans are a little bit jealous about that.

But just adjusting to life out there, family stuff, all the different things that

went into the trades.

I mean, we did some looking back.

Trubo was a little more open to doing that than Kreider was, as you might expect.

But just kind of interesting to see where those gods are at, and, you know, especially in

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