The Latest with Elliotte Friedman: Wheeler Returns to Winnipeg

The Jeff Marek Show

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Jeff welcomes Elliotte Friedman to the show after he returns from the Heritage Classic. They discuss the debate surrounding neck guards and implementing more cut-resistant technology in the NHL, before weighing in on Bill Daly’s comments about decentralizing the draft. Then, they discuss the Evgenii Dadonov's “no-trade clause” situation and what a punishment could look like for Ottawa. Later on, the pair chat about the Ducks' win over the Penguins and Greg Cronin being ejected from the game, before reflecting on Blake Wheeler's tenure with the Jets after his return to Winnipeg last night. 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	Yesterday must have been heaven for Elliot Friedman.
0:14.0	I have an echo by the way Lance.
0:17.0	Yesterday must have been heaven for Elliot Friedman.
0:20.0	He didn't have to talk to me, he didn't have to see me. He didn't have to do a show with me. He had a
0:26.4	Merrickless Monday. How much did you enjoy that? Elliot Friedman from Hockey Night and 32
0:31.7	thoughts? I like that. No Merrick Monday.
0:37.6	I can add that to... Yeah, your Merrick-less Monday. I can I can have that to weeded out Merrick Wednesday that's another one so I got two days
0:46.1	okay yeah that's that's not bad that's not bad I'm sure you can have some
0:50.8	illiteration for Tuesday Thursday and Friday as well and just take the whole week off Elliot Friedman and put your feet up.
0:56.0	That's my homework assignment the rest of the day.
0:59.0	Try to figure out how to get the week off. Well done.
1:02.0	A lot to get to. so in the first hour I played some of the audio from n chill network radio this morning
1:07.9	Bill Daly deputy Commissioner the n h h h h h h h was on talked about a number of things gambling the draft and well I want to get to the draft
1:14.2	with you and decentralization in a couple of seconds but he did mention when the
1:18.8	topic of mandatory neck guards or just neck guards cut resistant technology in general came up.
1:24.5	He said that the commissioner has been in contact with Marty Walsh just to get this conversation
1:30.1	on the radar.
1:31.0	We know this isn't going to happen overnight. It may not even happen at all.
1:35.5	It may not happen with this group of players. It may need to be grandfathered. We'll see where this
1:40.8	ends up. But this is whether it's you know equipment
1:44.2	manufacturers and I read out a statement from that Bauer released yesterday
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