The Latest with Elliotte Friedman: Draft Day Edition

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matt Marchese kicks off the show with Elliotte Friedman as they recap last night’s NHL Awards. They discuss Connor Bedard winning the Calder Trophy, Brock Faber’s Rookie of the Year case, the first six players announced for each team at the Four Nations Face-off, and Steven Stamkos’ contract extension talks with the Lightning. Later, the pair get into what's next for Vancouver, the latest on Jake Guentzel, the interest in Yaroslav Askarov, the latest on the buyout market, the rumours surrounding on Mitch Marner, and 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 Sportsnet Radio Network.
0:09.2	Hello, everybody, and welcome in to the Jeff Merrick show, Matt Marquesian for Jeff today.
0:14.7	He will be back on Tuesday.
0:17.0	And we might even connect with him before the end of today's program as he's getting set for,
0:24.5	well, it's draft day, not the Kevin Carlsner film.
0:28.4	It is draft day in the NHL.
0:30.9	And it's shaping up to be a very interesting one.
0:35.5	We've got some buyout news.
0:38.0	We have some extensions.
0:39.4	We have, as I fiddle with my computer to try and get to sit.
0:43.2	Lots going on.
0:44.4	And we just got some breaking news from the Philadelphia Flyers that they are going to be buying out the remainder of Cam Atkinson's contract.
0:53.8	So that gives us what looks like as we
0:56.9	await the official word, Jeff Skinner, Ryan Souter, Cam Atkinson, and then I would assume that
1:04.0	Jack Campbell is also in that conversation, but we will wait official word on all of it. We also had
1:10.1	some news today with the Four Nations faceoff.
1:14.2	The four teams announcing their first six players.
1:17.6	We have for Sweden, Victor Headman, Eric Carlson, Philip Foresberg, Mika Zabandajad.
1:22.6	For all you, for all you William Nealander haters, he was also named.
1:26.3	And then this is probably my favorite one because it is one of the great stories across the NHL.
1:31.5	Gustav Forsling gets to represent his country after a fantastic year with the Florida Panthers.
1:37.1	That resulted in even getting cons my votes.
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