Patrick Maroon

Nice

... uh, Pat Maroon.

Pat Maroon will be there.

He's one of the NHL alumni playing in the tournament, so very excited to meet him, and maybe ask him to come on.

That'd be awesome.

So I used to do a ton of work in Edmonton, ton of work, St. Louis, whatever.

And I always thought Pat Maroon was the big rig.

And now you're the big rig.

And did you ever talk to Maroon and say, who decided gets to be the big rig on certain days?

... my next pick.

And then I'm going to follow that up with, okay, I mean, like he's skill-wise not the best player, but, I mean, how can you not love the man, the Big Rig himself, Pat Maroon?

Nice.

When you said that, the first part, I thought you were gonna take the guy that I am gonna take right now, and that is the Pancake Man himself, Dustin Penner.

Yeah, fair enough.

Yep.

Uh, well, to summarize, Team Bing we have Corey Perry, Doug Weight, Pat Maroon, Chris Pronger, Lubomir Visnovsky, and Ron Tugnutt.

[laughs]

And the Lightning make it 4-2 with 6.09 remaining.

Pat Maroon scored in his first game with the Lightning as they beat the Panthers 5-2.

It was their eighth straight win in an opening game.

Happy birthday to Michael Nylander, who played in 35 games from 1998 to 2000.

They've got the broadcasting boot camp in the summertime where, you know, I don't know if you ever participated in that or not, but, you know, a lot of former players go every year.

I mean, Eric Johnson, Reaver, Pam Jansen was there, Pat Maroon, a bunch of guys I know that went to it this past summer.

Sean Dursey, apparently, was like the breakout star, you know, who... you know, obviously can still play several more years.

But I think just from going to that, he's going to have an opportunity to get involved in broadcasting.

Was there contact from any one of them that stood out the most to you in terms of the current St. Louis Blues players?

um there's quite a bit i mean holloway was a big one bennington um a couple former players like you know pat maroon was my coach when i was in muskegon at the first half of the year so pretty you know pretty pretty kind of cool too because he played there when i copped there he was a big part of that team and then same thing yeah yeah exactly same thing with uh jake allen he played in st louis for the longest time was the backup for bennington and he was you know from the same place i'm from actually exactly you know i'd shoot on it i'd shoot on in the summers like all summer i'd go out shoot them once or twice a week and then you know being drafted the you know place like that just talking to him about it just like yeah it's like a underrated place like everyone loves it there everyone's kind of one of those places where you know you can even after hockey a lot of guys still retire there because they love the city so much just being able to kind of share that experience and him saying like yeah like you're gonna love it like Just having that experience, like personal, personal kind of, you know, contact with him was, you know, an unbelievable thing too.

Yeah, it's almost disappointing for Jake Allen because wasn't the next team picking New Jersey?

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

That's like not including Joey Vitale's

comments after Maroon's overtime goal.

Get it together, papers! That's

from Leonel Messi.