From the Cheap Seats | An Avs fan podcast

We’re back! Finally! What’s wrong with Steve and Geoff, not putting out a show since last season?! They answer that question right off the bat, but still. Inexcusable.

There’s a lot to catch up on in this episode. The entirety of the Avs regular season, the first round dismantling of the Blues, and what to expect as they take on the Vegas Golden Knights. Plus a rather lengthy discussion of the maddening inconsistency of NHL suspensions.

In our last show, Morgan (@morgannaanna) tried to call in, but was thwarted by Zoom-browsing trolls. We promised to have her in the next week. Ten months later, we finally made good on that, and got to have her on to discuss how hockey fans got through the pandemic, and what to expect as we head into the arena for the first time. BONUS: her dog makes a surprise appearance with a squeaky toy.

If that’s not worth a nearly year-long wait, we don’t know what is. (Ed. Note: Nothing is worth that wait. Seriously, guys. Get it together.)

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Hockey is back! After a 5-month hiatus, the NHL is back for the 2020 playoffs, and we’re along for the ride.

We speak with Dave Sandford (@Dave_Sandford), the NHL photographer who captured the amazing picture of Kadri’s (literal) last-second goal against the Blues, and he walks us through how you capture a moment like that, what it’s like living in the playoff bubble in Edmonton, and where that picture ranks among his favorite shots.

Then we open up the phone lines (or Zoom room, whatever) and talk with a few of our listeners, with only minimal interference from trolls. It’s playoff time, everybody! Let’s go Avs!

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Love it or hate it, everybody had an opinion about last weekend's Stadium Series game at the US Air Force academy. Between multi-hour traffic delays, deep mug over most of the parking area, and concession stands running out of supplies there was a lot to complain about. There was also an entertaining game with fantastic production values set against an amazingly scenic backdrop.

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Hampus Liedman is in the studio today all the way from Sweden. The Swedish Songsmith is making his first U.S. trip to watch the Avs play, and he joined us to walk us through the international effort that went into his newest Avs composition, how hard it is to stay awake to see games in Scandinavia, and WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON WITH PETER FORSBERG’S GAME SHOW (spoiler: we get more excited about it on this show than most people in Sweden).

(More on Liedman here)

We weren't actually in England last week as the Twitterverse said. Steve explains what happened to the first Ep. 24. 

And we dish our plans for the Stadium Series game on Saturday. Here's all the info you could ever need about the game. 

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We’ve talked over the last few weeks about the special sweaters for the outdoor Air Force Academy game, so we decided to bring in an expert. Grant Beery (@voteforgrant) owns more hockey jerseys than some of us own shirts, so he knows what makes one worth buying.

We also chat about the All-Star game, and if any of it was worth watching.

Plus: are we getting closer to seeing Avs games on Comcast again? No. No, we aren’t.

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New logo, who dis?

Hey hecklers, can we all be adults at games? We're all there to watch hockey.

Chris Otto ran into Steve at a game and now he's in our studio, er, random room at 9NEWS. He's got a good Joe Sakic story. 

And here's that link the Peter Forsberg/Swedish game show thing.

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Jay Vean from The Avs Hockey Podcast (@AvsPodcast) joins the show, he's been podcasting for 13 seasons and, as Steve says, rules Avs Twitter – #goAvsgo!

Jay explains #AvsTwitterPsychic, how things have changed in the NHL over the years and the future of the Avs. 

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Big announcement: Episodes will now drop every Friday! 

In this episode, we talk the Joonas Donskoil hit, missed calls, injuries and retaliation. Steve even talks about protractors, remember those?

And we finally let our digital producer (@dacialjohnson) be on the show (she wrote this – and writes all of our show notes and episode titles). 

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We chat about the hockey community on Twitter with Avs fan Joey Suyeishi (@avrilanche), parking secrets at the Pepsi Center and Steve rants about concession stands being closed during sold-out games.

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We're coming to you from Chicago on stop No. 2 of our Avs road trip!

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