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We have a packed line-up for Episode 44 of Around The A with your hosts David Foot and Patrick Williams.The NHL's top developmental league continues to push toward the start of the 2020-21 season on February 5th, and we will break down all of the latest developments on that front.We will also speak to one of the top executives in the AHL, Tera Black of the Charlotte Checkers. She served on the AHL Return To Play Task Force, and she will recount that experience as well as what is next for the Checkers, who opted out of this season.Out west, we hear from San Diego Gulls president of business Operations Matt Savant as well as head coach Kevin Dineen. Savant also was a member of the Return To Play Task Force while Dineen will be leading an influx of the some of the best young talent in the game from the parent Anaheim Ducks.We have all of that and more this week on Around The A on the Sports Podcasting Network.David Foot can be heard on CJBQ 800 in Belleville, the radio home of the Belleville Senators. He is also the voice of the Wellington Dukes and has OHL experience with the Belleville Bulls and the Peterborough Petes. You can find him on Twitter at @FootyOnTheAir.Patrick Williams covers the AHL for NHL.com. He also covers the NHL's top developmental league for EP Rinkside and can be heard regularly on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio. Before returning to the AHL in 2015, he covered the Winnipeg Jets for five seasons at NHL.com and also has experience in the ECHL and OHL. You can find him on Twitter at @pwilliamsNHL.