This is the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network.

Welcome back, it's the Jeff Merrick Show on the Sports Net Radio Network and Sports Net 360.

Matt Marcasey fill it in for Jeff.

He'll be back on Monday and then he will, well, he'll take off next week and you'll have to deal with me again.

I like it.

You know there's a lot of positive things when we look at the big picture in Anaheim with the ducks but right now it's well

it's interesting guys are dropping like flies with all these injuries.

There's the cutter Goche trade

to provide a little bit of light

and to weigh in a little bit on this

and maybe talk a little bit about the Kings

if we have some time.

Eric Stevens from the Athletic joins us now Eric how are you today?

I'm good man how you doing I'm good I'm good so you know it's been I'll give you a

kind of a kick at the pinata here or sorry a whack at the pinata

it would be a kick of the can it's been the story of the week and as someone who

covers the ducks as well as the kings on the regular what was your reaction to

the cutter go to jay for Jamie Driesdale deal?

You know one that that you just don't see this kind of deal made these you know these days that when you're talking about two

highly thought of prospects or in Jamie Drysdale's, someone that's already, you know, playing big NHL minutes, but is also very young, you know, with Jamie being only 20 or no, 21, Cutter being 19, how often do you see this type of yeah? So I think in that

sense that really was a bit just an eye-opener in itself. But then I think awful too is just reflective of Manneheim's general manager, Pat Verbeak, really identifying a need for his club, not really now.

I mean, they need a lot of stuff now,

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