2 Ales and Hockey Tales with Wally

-Go Erie Otters, Go Kincardine Kinucks

-Making the Dallas Stars your rookie year and playing for and with legends and trying not to be in aw

-Ending your career the right way, playing defense for the TEAM as the captain and winning it all

-Earning your way on to Team Canada twice and losing a heart breaker in OT in the world juniors

-Hockey fans are different in Germany and when you are winning they are the best in the world, when you're not they are not

-Scoring your first NHL goal and remembering all the best teammates you played with

-Catching up 18 years after coaching the Western Michigan Broncos and putting in the extra time to help me chase my dreams

-Taking NCAA recruits out for the night can leave an impact on the program and yoga the next day can be difficult

-Figuring out how to truly be on a TEAM in the real world and on the ice

-Taking the things the game gives you into the real world and running a muck

-MBA's, Waldo's, 2 mile runs, the Burnhams, bag skating, yoga, moo offs, leg wrestling, tough man and all the fun hockey can bring

-Getting the opportunity to work with the Flames for the summer and get the fellas ready for the season

-Winning in Germany is amazing and the fans are as wild as they get in the world

-Why does Leon Draisaitl wear number 29... if you don't know who shed guy Ben Thomson is we can explain

-Finding your way back into the game organically, naturally and remembering all the things you loved about the game

-Transitioning out of the game and going from minor hockey coach to coaching the Calgary Flames

-Having fun playing hockey in Manchester, England and earning your chocolate at home and on the road

-Mucking it right up, playing with passion and line brawls are fun and funny

-Finner recruited another team of good dudes or as some call them... shed guys

-Captain Critch is a player and we agree should have made Team GB

-The chocolate storm shelter is a full blown muck fest and there is no where to hide in that barn

-Having your brother as a linemate in Merano, Italy is cool and they are running a muck together

-5 brothers all playing pro hockey and the sacrifices mom made to make it possible

-Loving the guys, the room, the fans and Chippy Lane in Cardiff, Wales

-Enjoying the food and becoming an Italian and chasing your dream of playing for the Italian National Team

-Genes are a thing and the Pietroniro's made a starting 5 of hockey players and they should all start a game together, that would be something

-Sending the shed the best birthday present ever and the hockey and shed family is real

-Getting involved in the chocolate throwing fun in Manchester, England and getting to know the players in the shed

-Giving hockey a chance in your 30's as a fan and realizing it's fun so may as well give playing a go

-Captain Critch is his favourite player and the first pro hockey player sponsored by a podcast

-Being a free agent as a fan and choosing the Chocolatey Storm over the Steelers and Panthers

-The Kincardine Kinucks are All Ontario Champions and we are brothers for life

-Getting our hockey family to buy in and throw the fellas chocolate when they earned it

-Going from the tightest TEAM in the world to four different teams the very next season

-Reliving the crazy comeback and the 3 on 3 Kinucks Clash and goaltending wins championships

-Making memories for life and Savage is still a Savage and it is FUN

-Starting a winning chocolate throwing tradition together from the shed to Manchester, England and it has been fun

-Being injured is the worst but the Storm have some new boys running a muck and he will be back soon

-Not making Team GB makes no sense and the shed likes it when hockey makes sense

-Testimonials are as hockey as it gets and this year there is one in Manchester, England and Cardiff, Wales and the fellas are gonna run a muck

-Watching the chocolate storm grow since episode 226 and winning is contagious, so is fun

-The Graz 99ers are off to a hot start and winning is fun

-Getting off the booze and realizing fun is everywhere you don't have to drink

-Group chats with shed guys are fun and we can sing in different languages for our guys

-Reliving the funnest pregame speeches in hockey history with the Cardiff Devils