Episode 0253: The Marchand Plan; USA Women’s Team; Evason Extended; Taxi Squads; Sea/Van Get It Right; WJC Cancelled; Oilers Big Blunder; Rangers Deadline Possibles; Sean Day; Metis Roelens and More!

The first show of the new year for the Two Man Forecheck and its full of stories (feel good and otherwise).  We start with the unhappiness of Brad Marchand at the NHL not allowing players to go to the Olympics and his plan.  USA has also released the roster for the women's Olympic team and there are many familiar names on it.  Dean Evason has inked a new 3 year deal with the Minnesota Wild.  We talk about taxi squads and their purpose.  The Kraken and Canucks honor a fan who helped out assistant Red Hamilton by giving her $10,000 toward medical school for pointing out a mole that turned out to be cancerous.  The World Juniors were cancelled for the men after announcing that the women's tournament was cancelled.  Could there have been backlash over cancelling one and not the other?  Dmitri Samorukov played in his first NHL game and only saw 2:28 of ice time before being benched for the remainder.  How much psychological damage have the Oilers done to this player?  There are many possibles on the Rangers for deadline day but we identify a couple of surprises.  Sean Day has finally broken into the NHL and the Maine Mariners have signed a 6'4" center from Belgium.  And some discussion about GMs.  So much to talk about this week...Enjoy the Show.