We're a little late this week, but we've officially moved on to week three of the '22-23 NHL season. We chat about our initial impressions of the young season, discuss the surprise teams (among 7 games), cover some interesting teammate data, and try hard not to deride Shawn for his lack of Coen Brothers knowledge. 

The first week of the '22-23 NHL regular season is now complete, and I think we're all just a *little* bit excited. We discuss some very early trends around the league, rookies, cover seemingly every team in the league, and Josh and Luke convert back into premier Wild fans. Plus quite a bit of rambling and nonsense. 

The '22-23 NHL regular season technically began a few days ago, but for most people it starts today. With Shawn back in his host chair, we chat about the beginning of another regular season, our early off-the-board predictions, and spend too much time discussing liquid intake. 

Shawn is on vacation, so Josh and Luke decided they'd try an episode without our host. It went surprisingly well in our opinion (don't ask Shawn what he thinks). Our team point projections for the NHL season went live yesterday. We spent the episode discussing them along with other NHL regular season eve items. 

Again, there isn't much going on, but we found plenty to talk about. We chat about Hockey (in the abstract), pace of play, the "final" review of our contract projection model for the 2022 offseason, general grievances, and coffee. 

We released our our fantasy projections for the '22-23 NHL season yesterday, but we also made plenty of time to ramble about random nonsense, J.T. Miller and Tage Thompson, the MN State Fair, and Milk. We then spent the entire second half covering our newly released projections! 

It's the end of August, and absolutely nothing is going on. We spent 40 minutes rambling even more than usual about the very few remaining free agents, Jason Robertson, projections and early expectations for next season, and corn (it's a little complicated).

We're officially one month into NHL free agency. Not only that, but Josh wrote a review for the site covering the last month! We chat about the contents of said review, general salary trends, annoying contracts, month rankings (yes), and RStudio themes. 

Check out the article here: https://evolving-hockey.com/blog/2022-nhl-free-agency-a-review/

Mike Murphy, one of the absolute best people in hockey, joined us for a special guest episode.  We talked with Mike about women's hockey, the current evolving environment in the game, contracts, and of course stats among numerous other topics. This was easily one of our favorite episodes! 

We may not have had as many signings, but the second week of NHL free agency proved to be possibly more interesting. We spent 75 minutes discussing everything that's happened since our last episode: Laine/Bjorkstrand, Tkachuk, and shenanigans.