The Latest with Elliotte Friedman: Let the Benching Begin!

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Jeff and Elliotte kick off the show discussing an unforgettable night from Capitals forward Matthew Phillips, who scored his first goal and added an assist to help Washington secure their first win of the season against his former team. They discuss Evgeny Kuznetsov’s patented and controversial shootout move, how Connor Bedard fared against Auston Matthews and the Maple Leafs, the biggest names already scratched and benched just a week into the season, 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 Sports Net Radio Network.
0:07.0	It was January 23rd, 2015.
0:15.0	It was a Friday night, late night at SportsNet.
0:18.0	This is when we had the CHL package and our game of the week was
0:22.0	the Western Hockey League's Victoria Royals
0:25.0	facing off against the Kamloops Blazers and in that game a young a 15 year old Matthew Phillips was playing his first game in the Western
0:36.4	hockey league he ended up playing two games towards the end of that season and
0:40.1	then played a full season the next with the Victoria Royals.
0:43.0	In the, I want to say, third period,
0:44.7	he took a pass out of the air from a guy
0:47.3	the name of Jack Walker, who's now playing in France,
0:50.1	and batted it behind the Kamloops Blazer who was by the way trivia time
0:56.2	Connor Ingram now the Arizona Coyotes to give at that point the Victoria Royals a lead in the
1:02.0	game they would later on lose in overtime.
1:04.7	That was the first time I saw Matthew Phillips.
1:08.8	Matthew Phillips has been a fascinating story, certainly for Calgary Flames fans who watched him get picked up by the
1:16.4	Calgary Flames, watched him develop and the Calgary Flames American Hockey League team, the other Wranglers, saw him hit some soaring heights
1:26.0	in the American Hockey League, but never got a chance to enjoy the fruits of the development
1:31.9	labor in the off- season he goes and follows
1:34.8	Mitch love to Washington he becomes a member of the Washington capitals
1:38.7	yesterday he plays a game against the Calgary flames. Of course, his first career NHL goal,
1:45.0	the trivia ends of that trivia question now
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