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Okay, welcome back to the program.

Glad to have you aboard today.

Coming up a little bit later on.

Luke Fox from SportsNet, more on today's news around Toronto

with the relieving of Sheldon Keefe of his head coaching duties.

We should play that Sheldon Keefe audio as well, that message that he sent out today.

Also, speaking of clips, we should get to that mic Rup clip coming up in hour two, A, Maddie,

talking about David Pasternak and what that can mean for the Boston Bruins to go out there,

the empty calorie minutes of a game and fight Matthew Kachuk.

Also, Corey Labelette from North State Journal and the Athletic will stop by.

We'll talk about the Carolina Hurricanes who are going Kachukov tonight, folks.

In game three against the New York Rangers, speaking of a Kachuck, yesterday was all about Matthew Kach today. It looks like Brady Kachuk will be captain of Team USA at the World Hockey Championships. We're not talking about Kachukes necessarily. We're talking about Green's Travis Green, the newly minted head coach of the Ottawa Senators with a good friend from the Athletic, the one and only Ian Mendez. Ian, how are you today, pal? Hey, Jeff, doing great. How are you?

I am well.

First of all, before we get to Travis Green and all things, Ottawa, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, because when you talk about one Kachuk, you can talk about them all, whether it's Walt, whether it's Matthew, whether it's Brady. Did you get an eyeball at yesterday's Florida Boston game? and if so, your thoughts on Matthew Kachuk.

Yeah, I mean, the temperature is just boiling over. get an eyeball at yesterday's Florida Boston game. And if so, your thoughts on Matthew Kachuk.

Yeah, I mean, the temperature is just boiling over there, right?

And you watch the way that that game played out.

And, you know, it's funny because I thought, I don't know what the listeners thought,

but I thought Boston would have nothing left in the tank.

I thought Florida, this was going to be a easy series. And boy, the way that things spilled over last night, and you see Matthew Kachuk, you see Posternak, and you see, you know, these guys really mixing it up. It was jarring. And I'm excited to watch the rest of that series because it seems like there's a little bit of hatred now and legitimate animosity. We've heard Matt Kachuk say Boston is our biggest rival, right? And you could see it last night in the third period of that game. You know, I'll be honest, there's a part of me that, you know, every time when I watch the Florida Panthers in the playoffs and there are big moments around Matthew Kuchak, as there were yesterday. Like I thought at some point it was just going to spill over with him and Charlie Koyle,

the way that they were going at each other.

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