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

It is indeed.

Welcome to it once again as we finish up a week here on the program a couple of

hours of hockey talk and then we'll send you into your weekend another game from

Stockholm the Toronto Maple East facing off against the tread redwings we were

hoping it'll be a fun game yesterday. It was.

Maybe a little awkward getting there as well. Ottawa jumps out to a four nothing lead over to

Tread Red Wings and you're saying to yourself, this is my afternoon game.

I was promised a good game.

By the end, you got one.

And you got a great hit by Tim Stutzla as well.

Don't call it a shot.

That's a hit.

By Tim Stutzla, Ottawa wins that one last night by one goal margin in overtime and the

legend of Tim Stutula continues to grow and it was interesting.

I want to get into some Gary Betman talk, the Commissioner of the

NHL speaking yesterday, but a number of different things, Ottawa, Pinto, etc, etc.

The future of the global series and musing that perhaps Germany could be on the horizon which would make

me wonder about a couple of things.

You want the players to be there as well, certainly, and you would think about, well, up close and personal and right away you would think of

Leondrycidal so the Edmonton Oilers if he's still an

Euler next year calm down calm down I'm throwing that in there's a little protein shake for a hockey talk radio program

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