Why the NHL Needs Neck Guards + Heritage Classic Recap

The Jeff Marek Show

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4.4 • 887 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Matt Marchese look back on a big weekend in the NHL with a chat about the Heritage Classic, Calgary's level of concern to lock up their pending UFA’s, and the Flames' keys to get back on track. Later, the pair share their thoughts on the tragic passing of former NHL player Adam Johnson in an EIHL game, with a discussion on the importance of neck guards and if we will ever see them become mandated in the NHL. Then, Rangers analyst Vince Mercogliano offers his expectations for Blake Wheeler's return to Winnipeg, before weighing in on Peter Laviolette's system, what the team still needs to work on, and Igor Shesterkin’s mentality entering the year (29:30). Then, it’s time for Jeff Marek’s 'Random Hockey Fact of the Day' (50:58)! After that, Sportsnet’s Mark Spector joins the show to with the latest on the Edmonton Oilers and their performance at the Heritage Classic (53:09). To wrap up, Jeff turns his attention to the New Jersey Devils with Ryan Novozinsky of NJ.com, who comments on the success of the Hughes brothers, the team's strong play as of late, and more (01:22:22)! 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	This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.
0:07.0	Can we start with the Evander King clip from yesterday at the Heritage Classic?
0:14.4	We're going to go over a lot of things here. We're going to go over lots about the
0:16.7	heritage classic. We're going to talk a lot about neckguards today as well.
0:20.9	We'll talk about the weekend that was around the
0:22.8	NHL, the week that will be and the weekend as well. And we'll talk
0:26.6	plenty about Joe Thornton, who officially calls it a career. But I have not stopped laughing since I heard this last night at the Heritage
0:36.5	Classic. Maybe you're the same way. Maybe you're still giggling thinking about it because
0:40.8	it's such a profound thing in scrums. The thing about scrum... thinking about
0:44.6	scrums and hockey is you know who's gonna do something? No one.
0:48.0	Nothing hockey scrums is a new hockey fights. I'm waiting for
0:51.1	hockey scrums.com to replace Hockey Fights.com.
0:55.0	The old website started by David Singer who since sold it and has moved on to greener pastures.
1:01.0	A Vander Kane during the scrum yesterday. Made my day. Let's hear
1:07.1	a Vander Kane yesterday from the heritage classic. Lance...
1:09.5	What are you going to do? What is anybody here going to do? What is anybody here going to do?
1:15.0	What is anybody here going to do?
1:19.0	Van der Kain had himself a hike of a game last night.
1:21.0	Heritage Classic, the Edmonton Oilers win by a final score of 5 to 2, and the question becomes,
1:26.7	was it a bigger win for Edmonton or a bigger loss for the Calgary Flames?
1:31.0	I guess maybe it depends whether you're a glass half
1:33.2	empty or a glass half full type person. As a cynical old media hack I'm a
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