Evolving Hockey Podcast

We're about 3 weeks away from the 2023 NHL playoffs, which means we're all wondering why they haven't started yet. In the first half, we chat about the current playoff picture (among various random topics). We then move on to a quite long but very fun mailbag segment! 

As hinted at in past episodes, we've finally done it. All three of us, individually, scouted  a game from rookie sensation Jack Quinn of the Buffalo Sabres. We spent the entire hour discussing our process, reviewing our notes (which can be found on https://evolving-hockey.com/), debating our evaluation, and pondering scouting in general. This was a blast. 

We're quickly approaching the end of the '22-23 NHL season. With the trade deadline behind us, we discussed recent league occurrences, the current state of the playoff race, Chychrun's diet, our NHL awards picks, state fairs, and the philosophy around player evaluation. 

The NHL trade deadline is now behind us! We cover the rest of the deals that happened since last episode, evaluate teams and how they did, ponder whether Pennsylvania as a state is in trouble, and consider what it would be like if we were scouts.

That's it. That's the whole episode. We spent nearly 80 minutes going through @CapFriendly's trade history page,  chronologically, covering everything that's happened in the past week. This trade deadline has been insane. And there are 3 days left. 

While we're a few weeks out from the trade deadline, there have been plenty of speculated and actual moves. We first cover a few All Star Game bits, then focus on recent league news, Jakob Chychrun rumors, the recent Tarasenko trade, Bo Horvat's new contract, and "good" teams. And of course, Tage enters the conversation as well. 

It's an Emergency Podcast! Not really, but Bo Horvat happened to be traded 20 minutes before we started recording, so it's an emergency. We chat about the trade, cover a few league happenings, and combine All Star Rosters and Awards analysis in the second half. 

The past week was a lot of not good news. We cover a few of the items in question in the first half, along with some general good old fashioned trivia to start. In the second half we revisit our predictions from last week, and spend some time discussing shot data in general. 

We're halfway through the season, which means it's time for a full midseason recap episode! In the first half we discuss struggling teams (Canucks, Senators), the Kraken's recent success, and Matt Boldy. In the second half we dig into the playoff landscape. 

We're back after a short break! While things are heating up in the NHL, we're focused on the continuing tank efforts from teams across the league. We also spent quite a bit of time trying to diagnose the Panthers issues, and discussed the Hughes brothers.