Well, a lot of things happening in the NHL today. No games on the NHL slate tonight as the Western Conference final is settled. Montreal Canadiens playing for their playoff lives tomorrow in Carolina against the Hurricanes. A legend has passed away at the age of 60. Claude Lemieux passing one of the greatest playoff performers in the history of the NHL. Four Stanley Cups in a Conn Smythe over 1,200 games. He's going to be missed in the hockey world for sure. At the World Championships, Canada with a huge 4-0 win in the quarterfinals over the United States. They will play Finland in the semifinals. But for us here in Edmonton, a very scary scene. USA's Ryan Lindgren performed an illegal check to the head of Oilers defenseman Evan Bouchard. Not many updates, but he did not return in that game. He's done for the tournament. Concussion protocol is one week. That's a decerebrate concussion. He's done for the tournament. The only good news for Edmonton is it's in May. Yeah, for sure. And of course, in the Memorial Cup, the matchup set. Kona Rockets failing to win any of their round-robin games. So the host city is now out. The Kitchener Rangers went perfect, so they have their spot in the final. Still one spot remaining. The Shakudami Saganay face the Everett Silvertips in the semifinal tomorrow night. That injury update on Evan Bouchard is part of the Oilers Now injury report. It's presented by James H. Brown and Associates, Alberta injury lawyers, the heavy hitters of injury law. Trent Brown, big-time hitter back in the day with the Edmonton Elks. He knocked a couple when he was safety. He caught a couple wide receivers clean and knocked them out. He was worried about them on the field. I remember when he played. You want to hammer a guy, but you don't want the guy to get hurt. That all comes part and parcel. This text comes in on the Ashley Fine Flores text line from Mitch in a grader. Bob, if Bednar and Cassidy both become available, is there one you'd prefer to be the coach of the other? Thanks, from Mitch in the grader. You saw Bruce Cassidy did Spit and Chicklets. It was very kind of Paul Bissonnette and Ryan Whitney to have some fun at my expense today. Beautiful. You'll love it. You'll love it when you're on the show, even when you're not on the show. Awesome stuff. Hey, either of those guys would be right there, right? You're going to hear names like Bruce Cassidy if Vegas ultimately allows him to interview with teams. And again, the belief is, John Shannon said on yesterday's show, he thinks that will happen. Okay. Does Bednar, I don't know, what do you think? I don't think Bednar is done in Colorado. Do you think Bednar is done in Colorado? No way. I'd be shocked by that. They've got time left in that court. Cassie, Lavilette, you know, Bruby's name is out there. Babcock. That is a name that, you know, there's some people that think he's one of the top three or four coaches of all time. So we'll have to continue to monitor this situation. All right. And we never BS you on this show. Ron McLean, we did a pre-tape with him before the show started. His appearances are brought to you by Century Casino and the all-new Selley Sports Bar & Lounge. Experience big screen energy and game day specials. Every day is a game day at Century Mile. And we start with the unfortunate news about Claude Lemieux's passing. Well, unfortunately, Ron, we kind of have to start with a discussion of some tough news on the passing of Claude Lemieux, who just in game number three, you know, was the torchbearer in Montreal. And shocking news on the sudden passing of a very good playoff performer and a guy that's been involved in the league for a long time. And you know, Bob, I got to know him when we did Battle of the Blades. So I was around him all through his NHL. You know, he had a spectacular career. You know that. Four Stanley Cups and all. But the things, and I was there in 96 at the World Cup, and maybe we'll get to that, too. He was instrumental in the tying goal for the Americans, and Grapes lit him up. Anyway, I'll start with Battle of the Blades because it's where I feel for all he did in the NHL, I saw him do something really incredible. We put together our teams for the first year of Battle of the Blades, and it was a really successful run, mainly because we had Bob Probert and Ty Domi agreeing to figure skate. Craig Simpson, as you know, won the competition. But we had Glenn Anderson. We had Ken Danica, Stéphane Richet. Ron Duguay was and still is a media darling. And Claude. And what happened, Bob, is two days before the very first show, which was being conducted at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, so that had sex appeal. Everybody was curious to see the gardens. Hadn't seen it in a while. We had Sandra Bezic, an Emmy Award-winning judge. We had Dick Button, an Olympic champion and a longtime commentator, as a judge. Kurt Browning, the four-time world champ, co-hosting with me. It was all Kelly Rudy. We have a guest judge each night. And on show number one, it was Kelly Rudy. So we were getting ready two days out, and Stéphane Richet, like all the men, had been taught, if you happen to catch an edge or you're falling, throw your partner as best you can. Throw them to buy them time. It's almost like if they have an extra second in the air, they'll get their feet under them like a cat. Well, Stéphane Richet threw Marie-France Dubre straight into the ice, and she ended up bleeding out of her ears, her nose, her eyes. It was really gruesome. And they carted her to St. Michael's Hospital, and she's unconscious. And then they all are there around her bedside. I wasn't there, but Kurt Browning was there. And when she came to, and Stéphane Richet felt just horrible, she said, Hey, Stéphane, don't worry about it. This happens all the time in figure skating. But because that happened, honestly, Bob, we had meeting after meeting for two days about what to do in the event of such an accident in the middle of the live broadcast. So we would do a dress rehearsal at three in the afternoon. We'd have everybody skate their routine just as if they were on the show. And if that was to happen live, then we would cut to the previous taped show, the one that we had done at three in the afternoon. That was the only way we'd fill the hour. So everybody was terrified. You could have heard a pin drop on opening night. It's hard enough to do the choreography and putting yourself out there. Well, they weren't on figure skates night one. Almost all the guys wore hockey skates and Barb Underhill wore hockey skates. But they were still scared skinny. And we had to choose a male of the group of Probert and Domi and all these tough guys. Who's going to go first so that we kind of get our feet under us? And it was Claude Lemieux. And he skated with Shailene Bourne, and he was electric, and he was great all through the competition. But it was a really, really brave performance by Claude. And they ended up second in the event. Simmer won it, and Marie-France and Stéphane Richet finished third. But I'll never forget, I'll never forget being in that room with Duguay and all these, a lot of them lighthearted people. And they were just passionate. They were so terrified to go out that night at Maple Leaf Gardens. And after, you know, the crowd was humming. The show got 2 million viewers, and we were on our way for six really successful seasons all because of Claude. So that's one. We are joined right now by Ron McLean. And, of course, Claude was money come playoff time, wasn't he, Ron? Right, so he was money for that show, Battle of the Blades. And now, you know, you go back to the rookie year, 86. I'm the regional host of the Calgary Flames, so you know where they ended up winning the Cup. They came through Calgary to get it done. Calgary that year was kind of like the Canadians now. They had played Edmonton in the famous Steve Smith series, seven games. Then they went seven with St. Louis, and they had nothing left. When 10 rookies who were fresh came in and just wiped them up. But Claude was the key to that deal in 86 because he scored the winner in game seven in Hartford. And then he scored. People forget he scored the winner in game three in the third round against the New York Rangers. That was the night Patrick Waugh made 57 saves. Bob Cole, maybe his greatest call ever. Waugh made 10 in a row in the first period. And I can't give you the exact line, but it's, can you believe what we're seeing? And just, he was great, but Lemieux was equally clutch. And he had, you know, you go back to junior, Bob. He had Troy Crosby as his goalie at Verdun. And the leading scorer on the team was him. Now, Jimmy Carson was a 16-year-old, and Claude was a 19-year-old. So there's that. But still, in the playoffs that year, the Q won it. They won the President's Trophy in Quebec. And