Welcome to part two of the 2016 SPHL Year-in-Review Podcast, where Matthew Harding and Sin Bin SPHL Editor Mike Campos discuss the hot topics around the Southern Professional Hockey League from the past year!

Some of the topics the guys cover include:

* The Louisiana IceGators suspending operations

* Will hockey ever return to southern Louisiana?

* Kyle Rank retirement

* The story of how Peoria traded for him

* His career numbers and is he SPHL Hall of Fame worthy?

* Rod Aldoff hired by the Norfolk Admirals

* His stay would be short...however.

* Highlights from our summer interview series with people around the SPHL

* The legendary story from Mike Craigen on how "Mackey's Ass Bears" came to be

* A great snippet from Sam Ftorek on professionalism

* How parenting at 40 is different from in your 20s, according to Jean-Guy Trudel

* Trudel's unhinged nature gets him in some hot water with the hiring and very messy firing of Shannon Szabados in Peoria

* Macon's red-hot start and Evansville's less than desirable start in the SPHL

* We fill up the #SSSPHL and send it out to "sea."

* We pick expansion sites

* Rules changes

* And more playoff games, PLEASE!