Okay, before we get to this edition of the podcast in earnest, Elliot,

I think we're all still just in complete shock here on Thursday.

We learned that Claude Lemieux has passed away at the age of 60,

a man that won four Stanley Cups, fifth all-time and playoff games played.

For those that would have grown up watching in that era,

you saw how ferocious of a competitor he was.

Also a very smart man got into the agency business

after his playing days were done.

This is someone who, just a few days ago, Elliot,

was carrying the torch inside the arena in Montreal

before game three between the Canadians and the hurricanes.

We're all just completely utterly shocked with the news here on Thursday.

That was the most shocking thing about it, Kyle, was the fact that it came just a few days

after he carried in the torch.

And when he walked in, I actually took a picture.

I'm looking at it right now of him holding the torch in one of the sections.

And I sent it to him and I said, looking great, Claude.

And he wrote back, thanks, Elliot, with a thumbs up.

And to hear the news just a few days later, it's terrible.

And there are some things that are important to say, such as the best to his entire family,

everybody who is suffering, his friends.

There were a lot of people in hockey who he was very close to,

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