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

So one of the answers I got for today's Q-O-D, which non-play-off team do you expect to make it in next season

Jeff Adams sends this one along out of the East Buffalo Detroit or Ottawa have a really good shot out west

I'd go with St Louis or Vancouver, but if the sharks happen to get

Connor Bedard in the draft, then I'll pick them out west. Also Sweet Pick

hanging up behind you and attaches the same picture which sits over my shoulder there.

That is by the way for those that have asked and even for those it happens.

Jul Milosh, one of my favorite net miners of all time, legendary number 27,

with your California SEALs, and your then Cleveland barons,

and your Minnesota nurse stars, and your Pittsburgh penguins.

And I've still maintained that if Joe Milash would have played on one of those powerhouse teams in the 70s,

whether it was the Flyers or the Bruins or the Islanders or the Habs,

we'd be talking about him as if he was one of the greats of all time instead.

He played on the seals and he played on the barons and we don't talk about him like Bernie

Perrant and Ken Dryden and Jerry Chevers and Billy Smith etc etc

Meantime last night

Could not peel my eyes away from that Tampa Bay Lightning New York Rangers game and I suspect if you are watching as well you couldn't either it was as we like to say new school skill and old school violence and was 100% entertaining as well but

there was a body count on both sides.

Vince precogliano from loahad.com my good buddy joins me now for a comment on this and the immediate future of the New York Rangers.

Vince, how are you today? Thanks so much for doing this again.

Yeah, Jeff, no problem. Happy to come on and just getting ready for playoffs over here.

And it looks like the Rangers and Lightning were too.

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