This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sportsnet Radio Network.

Welcome back to the program.

Welcome to Hour 2.

Want to thank Claude, Julianne, and Shannon Goldman for stopping by during hour 1.

Apologies for the technical problems, which I'm sure was like a some bug on this old

Thailand box that I have, which I love, by the way, I'm going to get all geeky on you.

I know that Thailand boxes have improved since, but I've got one of the old ones.

It's so good.

And it's been with me since the old MBSW days, and I really don't want it to die.

And I really hope that what we had in the first hour isn't a week at what is to come,

or a wink rather, at what is to come with my glorious old tie line box that I've had seemingly forever.

You know that piece of technology that you have that you never want to part with?

And it's still fine. It's still good. I don't need the shiny new toy. That's my tie line box for me. I've had it since forever. Done so many shows on this thing. Don't want it to go anywhere. So hopefully that was just a little blip on the radar. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, Doug Armstrong is going to stop by.

There are a few things to talk to Doug about.

One, shepherding Team Canada through a couple of different tournaments,

the Four Nations tournament where he'll be the general manager and also the Olympics as well.

Or sorry, four nations face off and also the Olympics.

And also we should talk to Doug.

Well, we should talk to him about the GM's meetings.

Well, he's part of the, of course, the executive committee.

And he's in Florida right now.

We're going to be joined by Elliott here in a couple of moments to talk about the GM's meetings.

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