Jeff Marek
speaker
15,678 appearances
105 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Jeff Marek’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Let's get to Brian.
First of all, Brian, thanks so much.
I know it's a really busy day for you.
So I thank you for taking a couple of moments.
The return of the in-person draft.
We've got to go back to 2000 and the Hershey Center and Patrick Jarrett and the Ice Dogs and Nash goes forth overall, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, since we've seen this.
How long has this been kicking around as an idea and what's
What was the reason you finally pulled the trigger on returning to the in-person draft in the OHL?
See, that's the key to me.
And this is one of the reasons why I always sort of lamented that the Ontario League had the in-person draft and then went away from it.
And that is, I firmly believe that you need to have like one event every year where everybody in the league gets together.
where all the teams are there.
Brian Burke was just with me a couple of seconds before he came on, and actually he's there with the Bulldogs.
I don't know if he's sitting at the table with the Hymans, but he's going to be there at a sort of unofficial capacity.
And he was talking about riding a cab, taking a cab with Brian Murray, and that was the beginning conversations, what turned into the Pavel Bure trade.
And I always think that it's always a better idea when you get as many people as you can from all the organizations in the OHL
together.
There's nothing like being face-to-face with someone else to get, whether it's ideas or ways to move the team forward or the league forward.
There's no replacing.
Like there's no replacing, you know, like walking down the street from UR to the Toucan or Shea Piggy where I always love having dinner whenever I go to Kingston or breaking bread at Ponchancho and having two people sit down over a coffee or a mug and talk about hockey.
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