The Latest with Elliotte Friedman: The League’s Stance on Mic’ing up Players

The Jeff Marek Show

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🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Elliotte kick off the show breaking down Ryan Hartman’s response to Cole Perfetti's comments to the media, before diving into the league's stance on players wearing microphones during games. Later, Elliotte discusses Miro Heiskanen's injury, what the Avalanche have up their sleeves, and the Panthers' win over the Golden Knights last night. The pair finish off with some thoughts on the Flyers' losing streak, John Tortorella’s recent benchings, and 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	Okay, welcome to it once again, the concluding show of this week, first week of 2024.
0:17.0	I think things start to get back to quote unquote normal around your work lives and your personal lives and your
0:24.2	kids lives and the school lives and the job lives next week. Welcome to it once again.
0:30.8	Coming up on today's show, Elliot Friedman stops by as he normally does here in a couple of moments.
0:34.8	Also, Ken Danico, former New Jersey Devil now, of course, analysts with the New Jersey Devils,
0:40.0	one of three games on the board tonight, The New Jersey Devils are in action once again as they are very much turning things around for themselves in the Metropolitan Division.
0:50.5	New Jersey Devils tonight will face off against the black ox it'll be
0:53.4	Carolina and Washington and Winnipeg face off against Anaheim so we'll talk
0:58.1	about the devils with Kandako coming up here at the bottom of the hour
1:00.6	Mike Russo stops by at the top of hour or two.
1:04.0	I will tell you why in a moment.
1:06.4	Gord Selick stops by and Steve Vallequette will finish the week by talking about
1:10.4	goldenders and the Rangers with that with Steve Vallequette. Now here's the reason that
1:15.2	Mike Russo is on. Soap operas. So let me tell you a little something about myself here
1:21.1	before I move forward. For about... something about six to eight months back in 1986 maybe 87 I watched a soap opera, almost daily. It was days of our lives and the main
1:38.6	characters at that point were Boen Hope and a character by the name of Patch whose name in the soap opera of Days of Our Lives
1:46.0	was Steve Johnson. I haven't thought about days of our lives forever, really, and I thought I was completely
1:51.9	done with soap operas outside of wrestling
1:54.4	that is and then this NHL season started and as I've made the point countless
1:59.5	times you're on the program and on the podcast. This season is the closest to an
2:03.3	NHL soap opera I have ever seen in my life either covering or being a fan of the
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