Welcome to the Full 60 featuring Craig Custin's and presented by The Athletic.

Each week we'll dive into the biggest stories in hockey while bringing in unique voices to entertain and explain all aspects of the game.

Hey this is Craig and welcome to this week's episode of the Full 60.

I am thrilled to be joined right now by Nick Kiprios,

longtime NHL player, Stanley Cup winner with the New York Rangers,

Sportsnet Newsbreaker for years, now author of the book,

Undrafted, Hockey Family, and What it takes to be a pro great book nick thanks for

doing this first of all oh my pleasure glad to hear you yeah thanks Craig interesting times for everybody

and just trying to manage through it like everybody else yeah Yeah. It's crazy.

And it's funny.

We were just chatting, but not to go off the deep end right off the hop, but I'm like,

I found out you had developed a vodka.

I'm like, I need to know more about the vodka, I think, at this point in 2020.

Because we may need more of it in the next oh my gosh um how do you get

involved in that world yeah uh it's just i think it was more of a a reflection on where i was in

my life and uh we were just coming up towards the latter part of an eight year contract with Sportsnet.

And, you know, my wife and I had sat and talked about what the next, you know, five years could look like and whether I'd be going back, whether I even wanted to.

And I, we just kind of sat around a farm table, good friends of the family,

uh, are out in Cremor area, uh, just north of Toronto. And we just started started talking. And it just,

it just came to me that, you know, I need to try to go

somewhere off the board a little bit.

Okay.

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