The Latest with Elliotte Friedman: Islanders Bring Patrick Roy Back to the NHL + Can Matthews Score 70 Goals This Year?

The Jeff Marek Show

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🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Elliotte kick off the show breaking down the shock hiring on Long Island, as Lou Lamoriello hired Patrick Roy to take over from Lane Lambert as the team's head coach. The pair look back on how things ended for Roy in Colorado, before getting into the Oilers' surprise signing of their own, Corey Perry! Later on, Jeff and Elliotte discuss Ryan Reaves' conversation with Sportsnet’s Luke Fox, the Maple Leafs' strong defensive performance against the Kraken, what’s next for Toronto between the pipes, and if Auston Matthews can hit 70 goals this season. 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	How much do you love this?
0:10.0	I love it. I mean, I am I going to repeat myself but I have so much respect for this game.
0:19.0	This game has been so good to me and I'm very thankful and I really appreciate this
0:30.8	opportunity I mean the support that Lou gives me and the involvement
0:36.9	that he has I mean and the coaching staff and I could not ask for any better
0:42.1	situation at this period of my life. I mean, you know,
0:47.0	yeah, it'd be easy to stay home and play golf, but I mean and enjoy life but but this is this is what makes me feel I'm
0:56.5	alive and and I really enjoy it.
1:00.3	Patrick Waugh is back baby the The Islanders win last night over the Dallas Stars,
1:05.1	Beau Horvat with the Heroics 3-2. Patrick Waugh is now 1 and O as head coach of the New York
1:11.4	Islanders. Hands up who at the beginning of the New York Islanders.
1:12.5	Hands up who at the beginning of the season thought that we'd be sitting here.
1:15.9	You'd be listening, I'd be mouthing off on January 22nd saying things like
1:20.1	The Islanders are 1 and 0 under Patrick Waugh, but nonetheless there it is.
1:27.0	A couple of things on Patrick Waugh.
1:29.0	We'll go a little bit deeper here with Elliot Friedman coming up in a couple of moments here.
1:32.0	There were a lot of people that
1:33.0	thought that Patrick Waugh had burned a bridge and as we've seen before in not
1:37.8	just hockey but professional sports you may burn a bridge but they will always
1:41.6	send a boat and many thought that there would be no team from around the 32 in the NHL that would send a boat for the Patrick Waugh services.
1:50.0	Now I think a lot of eyebrows were raised that it was Lou Amarillo of the New York
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