Welcome To The Offseason

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Producer Matt opens the show with talks of the beginning of the offseason and what to look forward to. David Amber from NHL on Sportsnet joins the show to give his take on which teams should make big moves during the offseason, and what the future has in store for the Winnipeg Jets. Next up, New Jersey Devils GM Tom Fitzgerald joins the show to take a deeper dive into the re-signing of Jesper Bratt, the idea of what the Devils can and can not do during the offseason, what GMs look for at the draft combine and what's in store for Timo Meier. Up next, Arda Ocal from ESPN joins the show to give his take on which teams are the most eye-catching this offseason, the idea of the Buffalo Sabres needing another star forward, and Coonor Bedard's impact on other teams during the summer. Finally, Charlie O’Connor from The Athletic joins the show to give his take on the Philadelphia Flyers and how they should approach the offseason. The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests and do not necessarily reflect the position of Rogers Sports & Media or any affiliates.

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0:00.0	Well, the buyout window is now open, which means that teams are ready for business.
0:07.6	And I know we, I know we get really jaded when it comes to hockey and the off season and we have so many
0:14.5	expectations for how many players are going to move and look at all these guys that
0:19.2	are available and look at the goalie market and all these teams are going to be super exciting and it almost never
0:26.0	lives up to the expectations almost never. I have this crazy suspicion that this year is going to be different.
0:36.1	We spend a lot of time talking yesterday,
0:37.8	well I mean we spent some time talking yesterday
0:41.1	because we talked too much about the same thing and then we didn't get to all the
0:44.0	teams and players that we wanted to.
0:47.7	But we were talking about teams and players that are of interest going into this off season.
0:55.4	Jeff picked the coyotes more for the off ice stuff,
0:57.8	but also kind of what they might do with the draft.
1:00.5	He also picked the Avalanche
1:02.0	and what happens with them without Gabriel Landiscog and the Valerie
1:04.8	Neutushkin situation.
1:06.7	I gave you mine, which was Winnipeg.
1:08.8	I also talked about Buffalo because I think that Buffalo is in a position to make some sort of a splash.
1:17.0	There are others.
1:19.0	There's the Calgary Flames, the Toronto, Maple Leafs, the Philadelphia Flyers, the St. Louis Blues, the Pittsburgh Penguins, like we could go... the for me. Then there's the goalie market which includes, you know, as we talked about yesterday with
1:35.0	Kevin Woodley, Connor Hallibuck, John Gibson, maybe Lainus Allmark, Frederick Anderson,
1:39.9	Aidan Hill, Tristan Jari, go down the list.
1:45.6	It is going to be a musical chairs.
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