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Everybody was given fair offers and I thought all of a sudden Vancouver became way more aggressive probably two days ago

So I circle back to all the teams that expressed interest which was you know

There's numerous teams that had interest obviously Lino's a great player so you know I went

back and tried to get the best offers from each each team and I you know went back to Vancouver and we armed wrestles a little bit more over,

you know, I'm trying to get a little bit more and

they're going back and forth.

So, you know, I think today we kind of came out of it saying okay day early this morning I

congratulate Patrick on his new extension and then he said he wanted to get this

thing done today.

Okay, so there you go.

Welcome to the program.

We kick it off with Calgary Plains General Manager,

Craig Conroy, that from the Pat Steinberg show yesterday.

Big Trade around the NHL, the shock waves still being felt today. We'll talk to Jim Rutherford coming up an hour or two about it.

The Vancouver Canucks acquire Elias Linholm from the Calgary Flames, you know all this already by now.

If you're a hockey fan and you're listening to this show,

you already know a lot of the specifics of all this.

Now the questions become all the ancillary points and questions that we do have.

But the primaries are Linholm in

exchange for Andre Kuzmenko. Hunter Brastevich, who's a defenseman for the

kitchen arrangers, more on him in a couple of moments. He's kind of been called

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