It's been a difficult week. We're going to get to a lot of the Cal Beach conversation

here in a couple of moments. But I wanted to start quickly by having a quick discussion

on the Jack Eichel situation. You're on my radio show this afternoon, talking a little

bit about the Vegas Golden Knights and the Buffalo Sabers and Jack Eichel. Where do we sit

now as we record this on our Friday evening?

Well, I got a call on Friday afternoon saying that the talks between the Sabers and the

Golden Knights had cooled. Now, the caveat with that is that things can change with

one phone call. And I suspect this isn't the last conversation they had, but I heard

that they had cooled between those two teams.

Okay, how much of this is fueled by, I mean, you had the report on Saturday about this

perhaps heading towards a grief and something that nobody really wants, but it's somewhere

that it could have ended up. How much of that speed things along do you think this week?

I think it's a factor. I wouldn't say it's the factor, but it's a factor. I don't think

anybody wants that. So it's definitely on the radar, but I don't think it's anybody's

end goal.

Like you said that they've cooled off, but have they gone far enough that grievances

no longer something that the Eichel Camp, CAA, Pat Breeson would be considering. Because

now we're a week and I'm not going to marry you to a time frame because you kind of said

a couple of weeks, but is there enough there right now that they far enough down the road,

even though things have cooled for Camp Eichel to say, all right, let's see where this

goes here.

Don't know. Don't know. Haven't asked that. I know that this week that a lot of the

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