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Thanks for being with us on this decent Tuesday. It's a normal winter Tuesday. It's a lot better

than being negative 11 degrees. Yes. I'll take that for sure. It's just an average February Tuesday, and we'll take it. February. Yeah, that's how it's spelled. Actually, it feels like summer in Chicago where it's almost 30 degrees. It feels pretty damn good. Sun was out for a little bit today. Yeah, getting ready to get my shorts on.

Yeah, let's go.

I'm Jay Zawoski.

That's Mario Tirvasi. Chloe Thiel's here running the show. Thanks for being with us. Hit that like button for us. We've got a lot to get today. We're going to do some mailbag questions. We're going to hear from Jeff Flashl, who spoke after practice today. but the big news, I guess it's not really news yet,

but we are 22 hours and 58 minutes away from the 23 hours and 58 minutes away from the roster freeze.

And it doesn't feel like the Hawks are going to do anything ahead of the Olympic break to me.

No, no, I think all the guys that are on the trade block, so to say, are safe to play this final game tomorrow before the break in Columbus.

And I really don't think the market for any of these guys is super hot right now.

I think we've kind of talked about Dickinson and Murphy and to another extent,

Ilya McKeyev and, you know,

Matt Griswick, Nick Felino as well. Those are the guys that I think are the UFAs, the veterans

that you would move out or consider moving out to make roster space for young players coming up

and taking those spots.

None of them are the marquee names out there on the trade market.

Like, none of them, I would imagine, are being looked at by teams as like, oh, that's the

guy we got to get first.

Like I think Murphy is, you know, a good second or third option for a team looking for

defensive help.

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