On the first new roundtable of the year, Rob Pizzo, Jesse Granger and guest co-host Joe Smith welcome Mikhail Sergachev from the Tampa Bay Lightning who talks about his elevated role with the perennial favorites this season, and he shares funny stories on Victor Hedman and Andrei Vasilevskiy.

Plus, the roundtable looks at what the NHL can learn from the Damar Hamlin injury in the NFL, we hot stove the Athletic's trade board with Timo Meier and Jonathan Toews two of the more intriguing pieces available, we continue to marvel at Tage Thompson and Alex Ovechkin and we ask what year is it, as we stick tap a Czech league goal from 50 year old Jaromir Jagr which was assisted by 40 year old Tomas Plekanic.

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