This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.

Welcome back to Jeff Merrick Show. Jeff is on assignment in Owen Sound, where I heard the fries in the arena are fantastic.

At least that's what he tells me.

And Sam McKee, producer Sam McKee here over at Sports Net 590 fan, tells me they are

awesome. Speaking of awesome, last night in Ottawa, pretty good. Brady

Kacchuck 4. Night. And joining us to talk about that and more Ian Mendez from

the athletic. Ian Ian how are you?

I'm good, I'm good, thank you very much and you know last night

going into the game and we'll get to this a little bit later you know the Matthew Joseph gets

scratched and and I'm going into it thinking all this is this is not a good look and

then Brady could Chuck puts on a show and everybody's forgotten about it. I was saying this to

Elliot Friedman before you know watching that game and watching how good Brady

Kacuchuk has become and thinking about all the chatter about him leaving and he's not going to sign an

extension he's going to do what his brother did and here we are months later and he

is a complete player and not even close to his ceiling which is frightening for a guy who's already

so good. You know what's funny is you go back to when Ottawa was signed him to the

eight-year or sorry the seven-year extension and it was over 8 million and there was some people who

thought you're over paying for him right you're overpaying because you need to

keep somebody and you know you're paying him 8.2 but he's not an 8.2 player doesn't have the

offensive ceiling of his brother but I'll tell you what he's on lock something

here this season and you saw it last night career high four points but more

importantly the overtime goal I think showed you if you

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