Welcome to show once again the Friday edition of the Merrick program here Friday

March the 1st. Thanks so much for joining me today. Hope March is a healthy one

for all of you.

Hope is a lot of good hockey on the horizon.

There's a really, really interesting game tonight

going on around the NHL.

I know it's only a three-game universe tonight,

but there is one that has some very significant

trade deadline implications.

It's going to get to that in a couple of seconds.

So here's the program today.

Before I get rolling, here's who you're going to hear from.

Elliot Friedman kicks it off as always

plenty of grist for the mill there with free each on today's program. Eric

Engels will talk to us about Nick Suzuki and the Montreal Canadian is a really

good piece at sports that dot-cier kind of use that as your primer. all position with the Montreal Canadians right now. Spoiler, he's having a really good year quietly and not a lot of people are talking about him,

but he's taking another step.

Devon Dubnick stops by from the NHL network, former NHL Net Minder and true or false.

Chris Tannab scored his first career NHL goal against Devon Dubnick.

That's true.

We'll do a little tour around the NHL and his thoughts on trade deadline coming up an hour or two and

Gord Stalik will talk to us about the Toronto Maple Leafs and specifically the trade

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