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

Welcome to the program once again as we kick off this show today on this Tuesday, April the 2nd.

Plenty of grist for the mill.

Coming out of last night's eight game schedule eight games again tonight by the way

coming up on the program today we will talk to elliott friedman in a couple of moments from hockey

night in canada and 32 thoughts the podcast and the blog set cooper is the host of on center ice

afternoon drive host on hits 95.9 w WCQL in Glen Falls, New York.

And he's been covering the ECHL now for quite some time.

He's going to drop by to talk to us about the meeting today trying to save Newfoundland and Troix

Revere, the Growlers and the Lions, maybe as early as today, those two teams will be shuttered and shut down.

So we'll get the latest from Seth coming up here at the bottom of the hour.

Kevin Woodley from Ingoal magazine, going to be talking to us about a couple of things.

As the season winds down, we wonder about the Vesna Trophy.

We'll get his thoughts on that.

And also the debut of Ivan Fedatoff yesterday for the Philadelphia Flyers, who when you look

at him is immense.

He's large.

You can quibble about 6'7 or 6'8 and that's fine.

But there's no mistaking that is a large net miner in there as Matthew Barzell found

out quickly yesterday.

But the one thing watching him play, when he goes down in his butterfly, he makes himself look small.

Is that just me?

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