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

Welcome back to the program.

I want to thank Craig Connery for stopping by in the first hour, Eric Francis as well.

The headline story of the day, the Chris Tandum Trade.

He's now a member of the Dallas stars.

Brian Ray from the broadcast team there stops by at the bottom of the hour to get more on the Dallas perspective. I don't think

Dallas is done by the way. Not by a long shot. You don't get this close to maybe winning the

Stanley Cup and just be quiet after one trade. We'll see what this goes though. Elliot

Friedman from 32 thoughts on Hockey Net in Canada joins me now. Hello, Fridge. Hey, Jeff. How you doing, bud? I'm doing good. Before we get to the skate and the coyotes, and there's one very specific person that I want to have a conversation with you about and know it's not Matt Dumbah, but we'll get there in a couple of moments.

I have to ask you about the TANF deal from both sides here.

Like from the Dallas Star's point of view, this was their number one target, right shot

defenseman, someone that can log a lot of minutes and do Chris Tanov things.

And they got Chris Tanov.

From the Calgary Flames point of view, you know, I'm just talking to Craig Conroy.

Greshnikov is, you know, someone that, you know, was clearly in their sights.

Defensive defenseman, good penalty killer, young, very physical.

As his coach from junior, Jay McKee will tell you, had him

with Hamilton and he's played a half a season with the HL, Texas.

How do you look at this from both sides of the fence, the Calgary side and the Dallas side?

All right.

I also do want to get to Patterson and Vancouver, too, after this, but, you know, like I would say that, I would say this.

The, I think we all kind of wondered about the first round pick for the flames.

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