Eric Francis

Right.

Did, did anybody tell this to Eric Francis? Because I mean, I'm just saying he was in similar position.

Actually, I think that might be a good, I never thought of this.

That might be a good outcome of this.

Eric Francis still works for sports net.

So he might not be ever be on the radio anymore.

I

That would lead to the fan base.

Eric Francis joining us out of Calgary as we go down there.

Spent a lot of time there over the last couple of weeks.

Enjoyed it thoroughly.

I actually like that trade, and I think that was a good move by Craig Conroy.

Hopefully it pans out because when the Flames do well and the Oilers are playing well and we have a battle of Alberta that matters, it makes things so much better and juices it up, and it's fantastic.

Eric Francis with us from Sportsnet down in Calgary.

Where's the fan base at? Is there a general understanding of the process, or is there starting to be some irritation and people starting to get frustrated with all of this? How would you sum it up?

Not at all.

So Roger Milian's hosting and they...

Now it's Eric Francis and Pat or it'd be Brent Cross, whoever is on those panels.

Um, they had us radio guys kind of cycling through.

So it was me and Roger, and the ex-player happened to be Rhett that night.

Your, this is really, really good." And him and I had a few conversations about that.

And, and, um, he was, I remember he would go on, this was after the fact, where he'd go on with, uh, he was doing afternoons for a while.

And so he would go on with Eric Francis, and, and Eric goes, "Oh, this is gonna be a fun little thing that we'd normally do in the afternoon." But it was like, should the Calgary get the Winter Olympics? And Pinder was prepared.

And da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da.