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

All right, welcome back to the program.

Top of the Hour Andy Strickland, we'll talk about the St. Louis Blues, Lance

Lesoski on the Buffalo Sabres coming up at the bottom of hour or two.

Meantime, we're a little heavy with Elliot, so I want to get right to our next. the Buffalo Sabres coming up at the bottom of our two mean time

we're a little heavy with Elliot so I want to get right to our next guest he is

Craig Morgan who covers the Arizona coyotes he is on the beat very much for Phoenix

Sports and he joins me now Craig how are you today

I'm great how are you Jeff I'm doing well so the very latest and there are sort of bigger

picture issues here but these are these are two smaller pieces of that

bigger picture is that Cassian placed on waivers for a purpose of a buyout and

Patrick Nemeth as well this isn't any surprise to you at all Craig I'm guessing.

No, when a couple things here I think Zach Kacian first off he didn't really add anything to the roster

and there may have been a bit of a culture issue there. Patrick Nemeth was okay

as it may be an extra defenement but the price wasn't right. I think they had hoped that they'd be able to

flip over those guys for draft assets and just didn't play out that way so it didn't make sense and then

when you look at what they're trying to do this off season, they are trying to take a step forward.

So this will allow them to get younger and add some pieces on a very tight budget.

So you think they're going to be adding then?

Because I mean, we're sort of used to the

the the strip down process here the Arizona co it is and I'm going to get to some of the

roster players here in a second we do you think that this is a team that's that's looking to

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