Under Further Review – Douglas Smith with Editor Bill Morphy. Special thanks to our regular contributors including Jordan Moss, Ian MacPhee, Dave Kittle, Ted Tait, Frank Sullivan, Peter Hucul, Glen and Bill Myles, Howard Steiss and Rob Wagner.

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Road to the Super Bowl – Ready for the NFL post-season? All the playoff match-ups have been set. Here’s how things look:

AFC Playoff Matchups
No. 1 (Bye): Kansas City Chiefs
No. 2: Buffalo Bills vs. No. 7 Denver Broncos
No. 3: Baltimore Ravens vs. No. 6 Pittsburgh Steelers
No. 4: Houston Texans vs. No. 5: Los Angeles Chargers

NFC Playoff Matchups
No. 1 (Bye): Detroit Lions
No. 2: Philadelphia Eagles vs. No. 7: Green Bay Packers
No. 3: Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. No. 6: Washington Commanders
No. 4: Los Angeles Rams vs. No. 5 Minnesota Vikings

Home field is such a big thing in the NFL post-season. Do we see any upsets? Maybe Denver can make a game of it in Buffalo. They are certainly used to playing in the cold. The Chargers have a good chance of taking out the Texans in Houston. Washington could go into Tampa and win behind ROTY Jayden Daniels. Crazy that a 14-3 team like the Vikings has to go on the road. Minnesota may be favoured but don’t be surprised if they are sidelined early. Sean McVay will have the Rams ready.

Red, White and Blue Finn-ish – Make it two straight for the U.S. at the World Junior Hockey Championships. The Americans overcame a two-goal deficit in the second period to defeat Finland 4-3 in overtime and capture gold in Ottawa. It was the seventh title for the U.S. who are starting to exert their dominance on the world stage. The U.S. will have a chance to three-peat when the tournament is played next year in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota.

Czechia took the bronze medal with a 3-2 shootout win over Sweden. The winning goal was scored by Seattle Kraken draft pick Edward Sale in a 14-round shootout, the longest ever in IIHF history. It was the third straight medal for the Czechs after a 17-year medal draught. For Sweden, meanwhile, it continues years of frustration. They haven’t won a world junior gold since 2012.

The Blame Game – Where do we start? You could make the argument that this was the most poorly constructed Team Canada roster in world junior hockey history. Embarrassing to be out in the quarter-finals in back-to-back years for the first time ever. Let’s look at the myriad of reasons.

• Coaching: Dave Cameron was a poor choice as head coach. Was he picked because he coaches the Ottawa 67’s and the tournament is in the Nation’s Capital? How can Cameron justify not holding one practice during the entire tournament? They had two game-day skates but that’s it. They didn’t go on the ice at all between the loss to the U.S. on New Year’s Eve and the quarter-final vs. the Czechs. Inexcusable. No wonder the team failed to have any chemistry. The decision to challenge the goaltender interference call with ten minutes remaining against the Czechs was desperate and just plain dumb. Losing the challenge put the Czechs on the power-play and although they killed the penalty, it took two important minutes off the clock and halted Canada’s momentum. Everything about the style of play Cameron favoured was too conservative. The line make-up lacked pop which showed up in a tournament-worst shooting percentage with few high danger opportunities. Sportsnet’s Jason Bukala may have had the best analysis when he said, “Hockey fans, media and members of the hockey community are frustrated that certain players weren’t named to Team Canada. I would argue that it might not have mattered who was named to the team based upon how Cameron wanted the group to play.”
• Size Matters: This was a small Canadian team. Too small. Five of the six forwards who started the tournament on the top two lines were under six feet. Bradly Nadeau (5’10”, 160); Brayden Yager (5’11”, 170); Berkly Catton (5’10”, 170), Easton Cowan (5’11”, 177) and Luca Pinelli (5’9”, 169). Altogether, Canada had 12 players six feet and under. The Czechs had eight. They also had five players who were 6’4” or bigger plus 6’7” goalie Michael Hrabal. Canada lost far too many puck battles.
• Age Matters: Why does Canada always have to select “the next big thing?” Picking three 17-year-olds was a huge mistake. Gavin McKenna, who just turned 17, is clearly going to be a great player, maybe the first pick in the 2026 NHL draft. But he failed to impact this year’s tournament. When is the Team Canada management group going to clue in that this is a 19-year-old tournament? Quit picking 17-year-olds. They are not ready for the spotlight. Poise and experience are important.
• Discipline: There’s no excuse for being the tournament’s most-penalized team. Blaming the ref’s is a fools game. Canada took 34 penalties in total. It cost them the game against the U.S. (11 minor penalties) and it was their undoing in the quarter-final against Czechia. Two kneeing infractions in one game? Who does that? Can’t remember a more undisciplined Canadian team. Just brain-dead.
• Lack of Finish: Can’t Score. Can’t win. Pretty simple. 13 goals in five games won’t cut it. Canada didn’t have one player in the top 30 in tournament scoring. Nine forwards finished with either one or zero points. A kid named Artur Gross from Kazakhstan had more points than every Canadian player.
• Roster Construction: This year’s team was vanilla. No identity. Montreal contributor Ian MacPhee said it looked like they selected players who didn’t make mistakes, who played safe, but didn’t really accomplish a whole lot. There were any number of quality forwards who were overlooked in the selection process including Wood, Beckett Sennecke, Michael Misa, Andrew Cristall and Riley Heidt. Porter Martone and Carson Rehkopf are two of the OHL’s leading scorers and OHL linemates, yet they never had a chance to play together in the entire tournament. The management team clearly has eastern bias. 12 players on the team were from Ontario including five of the eight defencemen. It was nice to see Canuck prospect Sawyer Mynio on the team but to select him ahead of Ottawa first-rounder Carter Yakemchuk is a joke. Yakemchuk has size, plays with an edge and has a bomb from the point. He would have been a big asset on an otherwise listless power-play. Canada cut former Victoria Grizzlies star Matthew Wood, even though he was a returnee from last year’s squad. (NCAA bias?) Whose idea was it to put defenceman Oliver Bonk in the bumper position? Wood was a much better fit on the power-play. Tanner Molendyk was the only blueliner who really stood out. London Knights defenceman Sam Dickinson was supposed to be an offensive force and was largely disappointing. His London teammate, Easton Cowan, turned out to be a selfish, undisciplined twerp. We could do on but why bother?

We accept the whole pressure thing. Playing in front of family and friends in Canada, it is tough. We’ll cut the kids some slack there. But if you are a high-performance athlete, you should be able to handle the pressure level, don’t you think? Geez, these kids have been playing elite hockey since they were 13. By now, they should love the spotlight.

You had to figure there would be a high degree of vitriol from Canadian hockey fans after two straight quarter-final exits, social media being what it is. Are we being too critical? Vancouver contributors Frank Sullivan and Howard Steiss both took notice of some of the post-defeat comments from players, coaches and executives. As Howard mentioned, “how many kids are going to say losing ‘sucks?” Can they not come up with something more descriptive than “it sucks?”

Frank noted that Hockey Canada executive Scott Salmond should be a contender for the George Orwell “1984 Double Speak Award.” Some of Salmond’s comments included, “It’s not acceptable but we can’t accept it,” “These young men, very character young men,” “Those sound like excuses but in fact, it’s reality.” Salmond also inexplicably claimed the management group should have no regrets. Really?

Canada always sets a high standard when it comes to international competitions. Considering the level of disappointment over the past two years, Hockey Canada needs to get their head out of their ass and figure out who should lead the program forward.

World Juniors Notebook – After watching the tournament closely, you are probably wondering which NHL teams hold the draft rights to some of the players who have shined the brightest this year. One of the breakout stars was Washington Capitals prospect Eriks Mateiko who scored five times in the tournament. The big 6-foot-6 Latvian center really impressed. Looks like his skating is now be up to NHL standard. Sweden features one of the tournament’s top defencemen Axel Sandin-Pellikka. He was drafted in the first round by Detroit with the pick Vancouver sent to the Red Wings as part of the trade for Filip Hronek. Swedish forwards David Edstrom (Nashville) and Felix Unger Sorum (Carolina) have also looked good. The U.S. is loaded with future NHL’ers including Cole Hutson (Washington), Cole Eiserman (NY Islanders), Ryan Leonard (Washington), Oliver Moore (Chicago), Zeev Buium (Minnesota), Gabe Perreault (NY Rangers) and Brody Ziemer (Buffalo). Czechia continues to produce exciting young players. Michael Hrabal (Utah) is a top goaltending prospect. Eduard Sale (Seattle), and Petr Sikora (Washington) will be NHL contributors at some point soon. Finland has a couple of promising forwards in Konsta Helenius (Buffalo) and big 6-foot-4 winger Kaspar Halttunen (San Jose).

The St. Louis Blues had a record nine players participating in this year’s tournament. The list includes Dalibor Dvorsky (Slovakia), Juraj Pekarcik (Slovakia), Jakub Stancl (Czechia), Adam Jiricek (Czechia), Adam Jecho (Czechia), Ondrej Kos (Czechia), Otto Stenberg (Sweden), Theo Lindstein (Sweden) and Colin Ralph (U.S.). Doug Armstrong and the Blues amateur scouting department are doing an amazing job.

Canucks Notebook – The Canucks season is hanging in the balance as they embark on a brutal five-game road trip with games in Montreal, Washington, Carolina, Winnipeg and Toronto before coming home to face L.A. and Edmonton. The stretch could very well define the Canucks season.

Depending on how this next stretch of games goes, we could see a major move to end the drama that’s surrounded the team all season.

“The Canucks are definitely, definitely looking at the market for both players and you should be prepared for all outcomes,” Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported on the Saturday Headlines segment on Hockey Night in Canada. “There’s really three [options]: Neither gets dealt, one of them gets dealt, or both get dealt. That’s on the table. I don’t want to predict the likelihood of any particular scenario, but all three of those outcomes are possible.”

As we begin 2025, man, could this team use some good news. The Canucks have faced a season-long string of misfortune. It took only seven starts for Thatcher Demko to be injured again. He is with the team on the road trip so the setback should not be long term.  Quinn Hughes and Elias Pettersson both practised over the weekend so the news there is positive. Getting everyone healthy would be nice. Playing more consistent hockey would be even better.

Any turnaround has to start with a better performance from the team’s top players. Outside of Hughes, none of the Canucks best players are having what you would call ‘career’ years. Unless that starts to change, forget about a long playoff run. Just reaching the post-season may be a challenge.

Certainly, the performance of defenceman Thomas Willander in his second world juniors is reason for optimism. Willander was a rock on the Swedish blueline. He’s shown excellent progress at Boston University this season and looks poised to jump right into the Canucks lineup as early as March.

Trivia: Canucks coach Rick Tocchet had 18 Gordie Howe hat tricks during his NHL career – games in which he had a goal, assist and a fight. Way to go Rick!

(More) Never Boring – Reading through the new Ed Willes tome on the Canucks entitled ‘Never Boring,’ we came across a couple of additional revelations that caught our attention. After the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014, Ryan Kesler made a trade demand and gave the Canucks a list of seven teams in which he would accept a trade. Mike Gillis, the Canucks GM at the time, arranged a deal with Anaheim that would have netted the Canucks two first-round picks, two prospects and centre Nick Bonino. The trade would have helped jump-start a rebuild. Owner Francesco Aquilini vetoed the deal because he refused to embrace a rebuild. It was Gillis’ last act as GM. By the time the Canucks finally decided to move Kesler, the Canucks were under the superlative guidance of new GM Jim Bob Benning. Kesler had reduced the number of acceptable teams down to two. He would ultimately be dealt to Anaheim but for only one first-rounder, Bonino and Swiss-miss defenceman Luca Sbisa.

In 2016, the Canucks had a deal set at the deadline that would have sent veteran defenceman Dan Hamhuis to the Pittsburgh Penguins for winger Jake Guentzel. Guentzel had just joined the Pens AHL affiliate after playing at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Hamhuis invoked his no-trade clause (he didn’t want to move to a team east of Chicago) and the trade was nixed. Guentzel joined the Penguins midway through the following season and became a perennial 40-goal man. Hamhuis signed as a free agent with Dallas and the Canucks ended up empty-handed.

Oh, how things may have been different if the Canucks had landed Guentzel and two first-rounders instead of one for Kesler. It’s just part of Canucks lore now.

NHL Notebook – Who saw this coming? The Washington Capitals are among the top teams in the NHL this season and on pace for around 115 points. Little notice was given last summer when Brian MacLellan because the Caps president of hockey operations and appointed Chris Patrick as GM. The pair made a flurry of under-the-radar roster moves and suddenly the Caps have emerged as legit Stanley Cup hopefuls. The biggest move was acquiring underperforming center Pierre-Luc Dubois from the Los Angeles Kings for goalie Darcy Kuemper. Dubois seems to have finally found a home and is playing solid hockey at both ends of the ice. Defenceman Jakob Chychrun, acquired from Ottawa, is among the top scoring defenceman in the league with 12 goals. The Caps are also getting nice contributions from several other astute pick-ups including Andrew Mangiapane, Matt Roy, Lars Eller and Brandon Duhaime. From the system, Hendrix Lapierre, Ivan Miroshnichenko, Aliaksei Protas and Connor McMichael have lengthened the lineup. Logan Thompson has wrestled the number one goaltending job from Charlie Lindgren. Depth is key and the Caps are well-positioned for a long playoff run.

It’s been two and a half years since Colorado Avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog appeared in an NHL game. He’s been skating with the team recently and although there’s still no timeline for his return, there is optimistic his career may still get back on track. Landeskog had a knee cartilage transplant after the Avs Cup win in 2022 and hasn’t played since. What a boost it would be to get him back!

Montreal Canadiens faithful have reason to be optimistic. The team is suddenly bursting with confidence. The Habs have won six of eight and have beaten four of the past five Stanley Cup winners. What’s even more impressive, the Canadiens have done this while playing 11 of 15 on the road. Give Patrik Laine credit. Everything started to turn around with his return to the lineup. Lane Hutson has entered the conversation for the Calder Trophy. Hutson is a transitional defenceman who uses his edges like Quinn Hughes. His lack of size does not seem like a major drawback.

Habs fans are buzzing over the potential arrival next year of dazzling Russian prospect Ivan Demidov. Some NHL executives are already saying he’s a superstar-in-waiting.  Canadiens General Manager Kent Hughes made a recent trek to Russian to watch Demidov first-hand with SKA St. Petersburg and it only confirmed his excitement. Montreal contributor Ian MacPhee came up with an incredible stat on Demidov. He is averaging 4.9 points per 60 minutes in the KHL this season. At the same age, Nikita Kucherov averaged 2.0 points per 60.

Check out this video analysis of Demidov from David St. Louis of eliteprospects.com. Demidov’s brilliant skill package is on full display.

https://youtu.be/lLbI37aD-Ws?si=0DMQ27PxoOnpdROf

One of my favourite all-time NHL players, Jonathan Toews, is considering a comeback at age 36. It’s not clear yet if he will try and catch on with a team before the March 7 date to be eligible for the players. Toews hasn’t played since the 2022-23 season due to long-term Covid issues. He’s undergone numerous treatments but says he’s feeling much better of late. Several teams are sure to be interested. Toews grew up in Winnipeg so the Jets would be a nice story. The Leafs and Avs need help down the middle. Hey, why not the Canucks?

Seahawks Notebook – Nice distinction for the Seahawks. With the win over the Rams in Los Angeles, they finish the season 10-7, becoming the first 10-win team to miss the 14-team postseason. Should we now be excited and optimistic? Sorry we’re not joining that crowd.

No one is happier with the Seahawks win over the Rams than Geno Smith. He managed to hit three bonus incentives in the final game of the season. He had a completion percentage over 69.8 percent. He went over 4,282 yards passing and with ten wins, it triggered six million in bonuses. Geno’s happy. The team missed the playoffs.

The middle of the offensive line is a disaster area. Light a torch to it. Second-year right guard Anthony Bradford started 11 games before landing on injured reserve. He ranks 71st out of 75 guards in PFF grading. Rookie right guard Sataoa Laumea, who started the final six games, ranks 75th out of 75 guards. Veteran left guard Laken Tomlinson, who started all 17 games, ranks 48th out of 75 guards. Second-year center Olu Oluwatimi, who replaced Connor Williams after his abrupt midseason retirement, ranks 30th out of 41 centers. The Seahawks wouldn’t miss any of them if they sent them packing.

As chronicled previously, the Seahawks are facing major issues with the salary cap. It’s time to face the music. If you look at the six highest-paid players on the roster, only one may make it to next summer without being cut, traded or having their contract restructured. Here’s the list:

1. Geno Smith – $38.5 million
2. DK Metcalf – $31.875 million
3. Tyler Lockett – $30.9 million
4. Leonard Williams – $29 million
5. Dre’Mont Jones – $25.6 million
6. Uchenna Nwosu – $21.5 million

In a perfect world, only Leonard Williams would be retained at his current salary. Williams played this season at a Pro Bowl level. If Geno stays, it’s sure to be at a more favourable number. Test the market on Metcalf. No chance you pay him $32 million. Lockett will be released. Jones should be released. Bring back Nwosu only if the number drops significantly.

Heading into the off-season, the Seahawks have a number of unrestricted free agents. The list includes tight end Pharaoh Brown, cornerback Tre Brown, offensive tackle Stone Forsythe, edge rusher Trevis Gipson, defensive tackle Johnathan Hankins, linebacker Ernest Jones IV, defensive tackle Jarran Reed, guard Laken Tomlinson and safety K’Von Wallace. Reed has been a good warrior the past two seasons but he’s 32. Jones was a nice mid-season pick-up and a guy you would like to bring back. However, the price may be prohibitive. The Seahawks should say goodbye to the rest.

For a team that needed an infusion of talent, the Seahawks 2024 draft class was mediocre at best. Defensive tackle Byron Murphy, selected 16th overall, failed to make an impact. He registered only half a sack. Pro Football Focus has him ranked 60th out of 123 interior defensive linemen. Murphy needs to step up in season two. Third round offensive guard Christian Haynes was a huge disappointment. He ended up being beat out by sixth round pick Sataoa Laumea. Haynes’ future is very much in doubt. Linebacker Tyrese Knight, taken in the fourth round, was probably the Seahawks top performing rookie. He combined with Ernest Jones IV to solidify the two inside linebacking spots. Tight end AJ Barner was a nice find in the fourth round. Looks like he could see more action if his blocking improves. Overall, it was a pretty weak crop of rookies. Give this year’s draft class a C-minus.

NFL Notebook – It’s Black Monday in the NFL. Jerod Mayo has already been turfed in New England after only one year. Antonio Pierce is dead man walking in Las Vegas. Mike McCarthy is on shaky ground in Dallas. Brian Daboll is hanging by a thread in the Meadowlands. Doug Pederson is likely out in Jacksonville. The New York Jets are making a coaching change. The Chicago Bears are conducting a coaching search. New Orleans may or may not stick with an interim coach. Who knows what the Colts will do with Shane Steichen? Such is life as a head coach in the NFL.

Gotta love how the regular season ended for veteran Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans. He registered his eleventh straight thousand-yard season, tying the NFL record held by the great Jerry Rice. Better yet, it came on the final play of the game in the Bucs win over New Orleans and triggered a three-million-dollar bonus.

The worst division in the NFL year after year is the AFC South. The division record this season was 23-41. The combined road record was 10-24. You have to be a pretty sad sack organization not to claim a division title now and again. It doesn’t say a lot for the Indianapolis Colts who have floundered badly ever since the forced retirement of quarterback Andrew Luck. The organization is a mess under pill-popping owner Jim Irsay.

The Colts were humiliated by the two-win New York Giants who scored 45 points, their highest total in nine years. This will be Indy’s four straight non-playoff season. They haven’t won a division title in 10 years. They failed to do their homework on Anthony Richardson who was supposed to be their franchise quarterback. He played only one year at Florida and was ill-prepared to start as a rookie. What did the Colts do? They threw him to the wolves behind a suspect offensive line. Not only did Richardson tear up a knee, he now has back issues that may require surgery. In college, Richardson had a completion percentage of 54.7. This season, it’s been a league-worst 47.7.  Did you not consider he might have problems with accuracy? Two seasons into his NFL career and the Colts may have already messed him up.

CFB Playoffs – The College Football Playoff has been reduced to four teams. The two semi-finals will feature heavyweight programs. Penn State will square off with Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl on January 9 in Miami. The following day, Texas will meet Ohio State at the Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas. It all leads up to the national championship game in Atlanta on January 20.

If you are looking to handicap the two games, we like Ohio State to take out Texas. The Penn State-Notre Dame battle is a toss-up. We’ll go with the Fighting Irish. Take the Buckeyes to win it all. Too much talent across the board.

Has the new 12-team playoff format worked? Certainly not, based on the number of blow-outs. All four teams who received first round byes have been eliminated which doesn’t speak well to the seeding process. Let’s see if the system improves in subsequent years.

Random Leftovers – A record nine MLB teams were hit with the luxury tax this season. The total amount of tax paid was over $311 million, the highest ever by far. About $160 million will be distributed to the have-not’s so maybe the low revenue teams in baseball don’t really mind the Yankees and Mets and Dodgers blowing so much money. It’s instructive when you consider that six teams, the Marlins, Cardinals, Padres, Brewers, Twins and yes, the Mariners, have not spent one dime on a free agent so far this winter.

In case you missed it, the FBI is investigating a rash of burglaries in the homes of high-profile athletes in recent months. Both the NFL and NBA have issued security warnings. The burglaries are reportedly very sophisticated and very targeted. Among the victims are Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals, Luca Doncic of the Dallas Mavericks and Kansas City Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.

Athletes are being targeted because of the perception their homes may contain high-end goods like designer handbags, clothing, jewelry, watches and cash. According to the FBI, the burglaries are connected to transnational South American Theft Groups (SATGs). The theft rings use advanced techniques and technologies, including pre-surveillance, drones, and signal jamming devices. The FBI report says the theft groups use publicly available information to track athletes and their whereabouts and to bypass alarm systems, use Wi-Fi jammers to block Wi-Fi connections and disable devices, cover security cameras, and obfuscate their identities,” per ABC News.  About $30 thousand dollars worth of jewelry was taken during the break-in at the Doncic home.

With the Canadian economy in tatters, you wonder what it means for NHL television rights. Until recently, Bell and Rogers were the majority owners of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. Rogers holds NHL broadcasting rights. It hasn’t been a good year if you are a shareholder. Bell stock was down 36.5% in 2024. Rogers stock dropped 35%. With the Canadian dollar nearing an all-time low, it doesn’t paint a bright picture.

Ethan Katzberg was named Canadian Press male athlete of the year. He’s a hammer thrower who won gold at the Summer Olympics in Paris. You might want to reconsider. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Connor McDavid played more than 100 games over the course of the year. Good on Ethan but please…

ESPN has documented the draft assets of NBA teams over the next seven seasons and no team is better positioned to compete now and into the future than the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Thunder have in the bank 13 first-round picks and 16 second-round picks over the next seven years. They could potentially select in the lottery every year and also finish with one of the best records in the NBA. It begs the question, is the Thunder that smart or is the rest of the league that out to lunch?  The San Antonio Spurs are in good shape as well. The Spurs have 12 first-round picks and 17 second-round picks. As we reported last week, the Brooklyn Nets have stocked up 12 first-rounders and 16 second-rounders. However, as history has shown, draft capital in the NBA tends to be far less valuable than in other leagues.

Many baseball insiders are grading the Blue Jays as the team having the worst off-season performance. The Jays may have actually taken a step backward. Reports have them negotiating with Astros third baseman Alex Bregman and Orioles outfielder Anthony Santander. Considering how things have gone to this point, it would be a huge surprise if either played signed to play in Toronto.

Not much news on New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso. Looks like he is getting squeezed. We expect Alonso to return to the Mets but not at the number or term he may have been seeking.

YouTube Music Videos – Special thanks to regular contributor Ted Tait, our resident music afficionado, for sending along this week’s YouTube video. It’s from a BBC special filmed in 2015 featuring Tom Jones and Rhiannon Giddens performing St. James Infirmary Blues at Jools Hollands Annual Hootenanny. Have a listen, it’s great stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhVT0fx3rFs&ab_channel=KreuzbergParty

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