The Latest with Elliotte Friedman: A Chaotic Season So Far + How Will the Leafs Approach Samsonov’s Struggles?

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Jeff and Elliotte kicks off the show breaking down the chaotic first half of the 2023/2024 NHL season! They discuss Ilya Samsonov’s struggles between the pipes in Toronto, how it compares to Jack Campbell's season, and how the Maple Leafs should approach their situation in goal. Later, the pair debate if Elvis Merzļikins will get the start on Saturday for Columbus, the Flames' options going forward, Nathan MacKinnon’s play as of late, much more! 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	This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.
0:07.0	Okay, I'm going to start today's show by, um, by complaining about something that as a broadcaster I should never complain about.
0:20.0	Is it just me, I know I've mentioned this before, but is it just me or is every day like a soap opera in the
0:26.4	NHL like is every day completely drama filled are things that should just be eh eh, you know what, it's just one day, just move on.
0:36.9	Have those things now turned into something that has the most intense gravity underneath it and is pulling it down to the center
0:45.7	of the globe. Because that's what it feels like. Like every morning I wake up and I start to make
0:50.9	notes for the show and a lot of it is just sort of a
0:53.6	shifting through notes that I make the night before watching hockey and sort of
0:56.8	piece it together and say okay what do I think A is interesting? B, what do I think
1:01.2	people will find interesting who might listen or watch to this show to watch this show and
1:07.1	What I find I'm consistently coming up with is drama and soap opera and intrigue. Now I shouldn't complain about it because as
1:16.6	a broadcaster as someone in media you should probably want things like this to be happening on a daily basis.
1:24.7	But I don't know if it's just this season or maybe it's something that I've just missed
1:28.1	historically, but it seems like this NHL season is very much a daily soap opera and you're going to find out exactly
1:35.8	what I'm talking about over the next two hours here on this program.
1:40.0	Terek Albusier is going to stop by.
1:42.0	We're going to talk about the Washington by. We're going to talk about the Washington Capital's.
1:44.2	We're going to talk about the Washington Capital's social media last night when it comes to
1:48.8	taunting. We're going to talk about Tom Wilson. We're going to talk about a vetkin finally scoring a goal. There's a lot of hand wringing
1:56.2	around that, isn't there? Jason Buchla is going to stop by an hour or two as well.
2:00.5	And we're going to do a season in review so far with Matt
2:04.0	Markasey and Elliot Friedman is standing by he's going to join me here as you
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