Today’s Daily Puck Drop features Puck’s Tuesday weekly guests, Danny Kelly from The Ringer, where they wrap up the NFL season and the Super Bowl and then turn their attention to the upcoming NFL Draft as Danny hosts the NFL Draft Show on The Ringer  and John Canzano from JohnCanzano.com, and he gives Puck the latest on the Pac-12 media deal, expansion and violence in youth sports. 

Puck opens up the show discussing an assault by a parent at a 12 year old youth hockey game at the Seattle Kraken ice complex where a father of a player shoved two teenage referees down on the ice.  The parent is facing misdemeanor assault charges.  Why does this still happen in today’s culture and where are the adults at these games to prevent this behavior?  Also, what should the punishment be for the parent?

(17:56) -Danny Kelly, The Ringer joins Puck to put the finishing touches on the NFL season, the lackluster Super Bowl, the comparisons to the Eagles defense to the Seahawks defense, an early NFL draft look, strengths of the draft on the offensive and defensive line and this years class might have the best collection of running backs in the last decade. 

(55:35) -John Canzano, JohnCanzano.com stops by to visit with Puck for his weekly chat about his Super Bowl party, new news on the looming Pac-12 media front, expansion on the horizon, does Texas State make sense, what about Memphis and UNLV and St. Mary’s continues to knock on the door for basketball only.  Lastly, John and Puck discuss the youth hockey incident in Seattle where a parent of a 12U kid walked onto the ice and assaulted two teenage referees. 

(1:37:50) -“Hey, What the Puck!?” We need an intervention into youth sports parents behavior.