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Dany returns and everyone forgets that Roger McQueen exists! Well, almost everyone, anyway. Also, the St. Louis Blues and Boston Bruins unveiled rebrands and the Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2025 was announced. We did a mock draft for the first half of the first round of the 2025 NHL Draft too.

The Florida Panthers are back-to-back Stanley Cup champions after defeating the Edmonton Oilers in six games in the 2025 Stanley Cup Final. Where do the Oilers go from here? Can Florida become a dynasty? And more!

The Florida Panthers have a 2-1 series lead over the Edmonton Oilers and Jake Walman's wallet is a little lighter after 140 penalty minutes in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final. Marco Sturm is finally a head coach in the National Hockey League. We recreate the almost Vincent Lecavalier trade in modern terms, talk taxes, Lanci writes the next summer blockbuster and more!

Since the last episode: Marco Sturm, Mitch Love or SOMEONE might finally be named as head coach of the Boston Bruins. The Carolina Hurricanes snapped their Eastern Conference Final losing streak then lost in the Eastern Conference Final (trust us, this sentence will make sense when we explain it). Pete DeBoer may have overreacted-- and the Dallas Stars lost (again) as a result!

Also, the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers keep on rolling as Nick and Shawn preview the 2025 Stanley Cup Final-- same as the 2024 Stanley Cup Final (perhaps).

Since last episode: Don Sweeney got an extension in Boston, more coaches were hired or seemingly headed to be hired, the PWHL had a repeat champion and the Conference Finals got underway after the Second Round came to an end with yet another embarrassing ending for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

This "boring" episode contains a multitude of things.

Since last episode: The Draft Lottery happened (and we didn't even talk about any conspiracy theories) and coaches played musical chairs! The PWHL expanded too-- adding two new franchises in Vancouver and Seattle set to begin play in the 2025-26 season.

Also included: First Round eulogies, giving props to the Carolina Hurricanes, speculating potential landing spots for Evgeni Malkin, Victor Hedman and some of the other older guys in the league (not that they're on the move or anything) and some Second Round thoughts.

The First Round is underway so Nick and Shawn tackle each series already in progress while watching two Game 2s, talk gladiator fan etiquette and more totally relevant stuff.

Alex Ovechkin is the NHL's all-time goals leader. Something happened for the first time since 1967, and it doesn't involve the Toronto Maple Leafs (kind of)! Nick and Shawn present their final power rankings for the season before previewing the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs and Nick teaches you how to never be wrong or proven otherwise.

Nick and Shawn consider a rebrand and talk about Jeremy Swayman, Nikita Zadorov, lottery odds, John Tortorella, the wild card race and more.

Just what, exactly, was the reasoning for trading Brad Marchand and more. Nick and Shawn tackle the last two months, recap the trade deadline and produce their latest NHL power rankings as the season hits "the stretch" and the push for the playoffs begins.