This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the SportsNet Radio Network.

Welcome back to the program.

Just got a sad note there on the break.

George Ashley was an official in the NHL.

He retired in 1971.

George is part of the Guelph officials association for a number of years.

It was a baseball umpire as well.

Passed away at the age of 82 on Monday.

After George retired from the NHL in 71, he went on to officiate at the Memorial Cup as well

and was still, you know, continued to be active in both hockey and baseball as well.

We offer condolences to the Ashley family from everybody here.

With that, we'll move along and bring aboard Matt Markezy.

Still to come on the program, Greg Wischinski, coming up top of the hour. And then Andrew Brunette, Bruno, the head coach of the National Predators, coming up at the bottom of hour, too. How are you today, Maddie Markezy? Lots from last night, hey? Yeah, no kidding. There was almost too much, Jeff, where I had to, you know, the flipping of games last night was, I know, we're going to lament me saying that in about three, four weeks. We're like, oh, there's not enough hockey on. But yeah, there was a ton last night. Yeah, remember the good old days of April 9th when a whole bunch of stuff happened? you know slofkovsky got a hat trick and so did stamp coats and so did Kutjaroff.

And the flyers continued to spiral out.

And then we saw a neutral zone collision between Mika Zabanajad and Adam Pellick and Peter

Lavillette went off as it was as if it was a vicious Dave Brown, Thomas Sandstrom,

or Dale Hunter, Pierre Terjean type incident.

Last night, there was a whole bunch of a lot.

I wanted to get into that Islanders Rangers situation.

And listen, it would not surprise me.

I talked to someone there yesterday who said to me,

look, don't be surprised if Lavillette kind of walks it back a little bit after watching what

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