Kool Button Hockey Podcast

We continue with our Silly Season and GM week theme talking about all the hockey headlines ahead of the NHL Draft in Montreal!

Fitting that during GM/Shark week in the NHL the San Jose Sharks hire Mike Grier, making him the first black GM in league history!

• Grier and the work ahead (:50)
• Tough decisions/big contracts (2:30)
• Sharks next coach (5:23)

The NHL Draft (7:51)

The Montreal Canadiens 1st overall: What are they thinking? What will they do? 

What type of draft will we get? (10:50)

The New Jersey Devils 2nd overall and expected to be active at the Draft (15:37).

Our Sports Interaction (18:53) features another look at the 1st round of the NHL Draft and Craig's list when talking about the top selections.

Free Agent Frenzy (21:07)

• Nazem Kadri
• Johnny Gaudreau

The Toronto Maple Leafs outlook and do we see any big plans for Kyle Dubas? (27:15)

And in our Ultimate Hockey Fans Final Thoughts (35:45) Kool and Button are very excited for the upcoming NHL Draft in Montreal this week!!!

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Happy Canada Day long weekend and 4th of July!!!!

No holidays for NHL gm's with a few busy days over the last few days a main theme part of our 79th edition of the pod! With so much activity and silliness coming our way, we get into the hockey headlines and get you set for the busy week ahead of the NHL Draft!

• TBL McDonagh traded to Preds (00:37)
• BriseBois/Philippe Myers contract (4:08)
• The Coaching Carousel (6:36)
• Montgomery with Bruins
• Lalonde with Red Wings
• Bowness hired as Jets coach (7:30)
• UFAs Gaudreau + Kadri (11:06)

Our Sports Interaction (12:54) feature another look at 2023 Stanley Cup future and picks/odds we see value in and like right now!

And in our Ultimate Hockey Fans Final Thoughts (14:54):

• Button on RFAs big names + big plans
• Kool very excited for GM shark week!

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Welcome to our 78th episode as we hit the NHL offseason and it’s time to get silly! UFAs, RFAs, Goalies, Coaches, the Draft, Cap space and more NHL summer topics discussed on this edition of the pod. 

The Goalie Carousel (1:59)

Darcy Kuemper 

Free Agent Frenzy (7:29)

Nazem Kadri 

Filip Forsberg

Johnny Gaudreau 

Our Sports Interaction (14:56) features our inside look at 1st round of the 2022 NHL Draft in Montreal next Thursday!

In the 2nd half of the pod we get into the depth of a championship roster and the importance of role players in the playoffs (16:30).

And in our Ultimate Hockey Fans Final Thoughts (23:26) Button wants everyone to know that “if winning was easy everyone would do it” and Kouleas still wants Alex Mogilny to get his call to the hall.

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Congratulations to 2022 Stanley Cup Champion Colorado Avalanche! On this edition of the pod we conclude our Stanley Cup Playoff coverage talking all about the Champs, how the Avs beat the Bolts in 6 games and what comes next....

• How they were built (:57)
• The speed game (2:47)
• More on Avs win/build(6:07)
• Game 6 breakdown(8:36)
• Who stays? Who goes? (11:36)
• Josh Manson (21:20)
• Darcy Kuemper (25:16)

Our Sports Interaction (28:46) features our inside look at the early odds for the 2023 Stanley Cup.

In the 2nd half of the pod (31:07) we talk more about the other side of the Cup Final and what the future might look like for the Tampa Bay Lightning. What could happen with Ondrej Palat? What will their roster look like next season and what tough decision do they have?

And in our Ultimate Hockey Fans Final Thoughts (41:47) we're getting very excited for the silly season now that the NHL summer is officially here!!!

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Welcome to our 76th edition of the pod as our Stanley Cup Final coverage continues with us all over Game 4 between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Colorado Avalanche.

• too many men controversy (:14)
• officiating standards (4:36)
• Jon Cooper presser (10:33)
• Avs 3-1 series control (14:46)
• Nazem Kadri returns (16:48)

Our Sports Interaction (24:38) features our inside look at Game 5 of the SCF Friday TBL at COL!

In the 2nd half of the pod we get into the 2022 NHL Awards (26:40). Talk about the winners, voting and any controversy this season?

And in our Ultimate Hockey Fans Final Thoughts (33:21)

Craig at the Memorial Cup talks about future NHL stars and Kool congratulates Paul Maurice the new head coach of the Florida Panthers!

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Welcome to our 75th “Hal Gill” edition of the pod! With Button at the 2022 Memorial Cup in Saint John, New Brunswick we start this episode with our continued coverage of the Stanley Cup Final! 

What happened in Game 2s 7-0 beat down for the Colorado Avalanche over the Tampa Bay Lightning? We try to explain and figure what could happen next:

• Avs dominate (1:45)
• Tampa troubles (5:00)
• What now for Bolts? (8:13)
• Vasilevskiy not pulled (14:18)
• Strategies going forward (19:37)

Our Sports Interaction for Monday(22:48) features our inside look at game 3 of the SCF in Tampa!  

In the 2nd half of the pod we look at some NHL news bits and bites:

The Coaching Carousel: 

• Dallas + DeBoer (24:46)
• Winnipeg + Trotz (27:15)

Craig’s List, Shane Wright and any debate over the 1st overall and top picks at the NHL Draft(32:00). What could Montreal do with the 1st overall pick in Montreal?

And in our Ultimate Hockey Fans Final Thoughts (37:47) we talk about the major NHL Awards and what might take place.

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Welcome to our 74th edition of the pod as our Stanley Cup Final coverage continues with us looking back at Game 1 and ahead at Game 2 this weekend!

Tampa Bay Lightning at Colorado Avalanche breakdowns, key storylines lines and other big topics after 1 game:

• Bo Byram Avs Wild Card (3:51)
• Brayden Point return (10:00)
• Darcy Kuemper back in net (13:25)

Our Sports Interaction (21:20) features our inside look at Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final TBL at COL!

In the 2nd half of the pod we hit on a few hockey headlines and news from around the league:

• Tortorella + Flyers (23:33)
• Cassidy + Golden Knights (30:31)
• Dadonov for Weber explained (33:50)

And in our Ultimate Hockey Fans Final Thoughts (39:11) Button on the Memorial Cup and and Kool on the NHL back in a great place!

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Our Stanley Cup Playoff coverage continues on the 73rd edition of the pod as the Stanley Cup Final matchup is set! But before we get to the marquee Cup matchup we go over how we got here talking about Tampa’s 6 game series win over the Rangers (1:00).

Why did the Lightning advance? (5:18)

Keys to the NYR vs TBL series (7:06)

Lessons the New York Rangers will take from this season and future plans for the blueshirts (13:35).

Our Sports Interaction (16:47) features our first look at the Stanley Cup Final and predictions on what could happen between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Colorado Avalanche!

Our breakdowns and analysis continues in our 2nd half of the pod as we get more into the Cup Final and keys for both Colorado and Tampa (20:09). Stamkos vs MacKinnon, Hedman vs Makar, injuries to 2nd line C, the goalies and the depth on both sides just some of the exciting storylines both Steve and Craig hit on ahead of the start of the SCF Wednesday!

And in our Ultimate Hockey Fan Final Thoughts (40:20) we take an early look at the exciting silly season ahead as part of the NHL offseason!

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Our 2022 Stanley Cup Playoff coverage continues in our 72nd edition of the pod as we are all over the Eastern Conference Final and the big game 5 and 6 between the Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Rangers!

TBL vs NYR Storylines: 

• New York Rangers injuries (1:01)
• Brayden Point + Tampa lines (3:12)
• 5 on 5 will be a major factor (4:20)
• NYR hopes with Shesterkin (7:43)

Our Sports Interaction (15:23) features an inside look at the next two pivotal games 5 and 6 in the East Final!

With Colorado Avalanche (17:43) waiting for an East opponent, we wonder how the time off, altitude, time off and time zone could play a factor at the start of the Stanley Cup Final. And we also discuss how the layoff could be huge for the Avs with injuries to Kuemper and Kadri.

We also talk some Edmonton Oilers (25:21) with their silly season officially underway with lots of questions and roster decisions to be made. 

And in our Ultimate Hockey Fans Final Thoughts (34:24) it's all about the coaching carousel with so many vacancies and names available we try and connect some dots!

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We continue with our coverage of the Stanley Cup Playoffs and the Conference Finals on the 71st edition of the pod!

We start things off in the East Final as Tampa Bay's Nikita Kucherov factored in on three unanswered Lightning goals, including an assist on Ondrej Palat’s game winner with 42 seconds left in regulation as the Bolts make it a 2-1 series vs the New York Rangers.

• Corey Perry + TBL depth (3:30)
• what we make of series now (4:50)

We shift our focus to the West Final (6:46) with the Colorado Avalanche sights set on advancing to the Stanley Cup Final for the 3rd time in franchise history vs the Edmonton Oilers. And we also get into the big topic from the series over the weekend, Evander Kane's suspension for his hit on Nazem Kadri (10:20).

Our Sports Interaction for the start of the week (17:55) in features our inside look at Game 4s on the Conference Finals Monday and Tuesday.

More on Colorado (20:30) maturing and the depth throughout the roster looking to take the next big step.

And in our in our Ultimate Hockey Fans Final Thoughts segment (29:10) we hit a a number of topics including:

• Jared Bednar growing as a coach
• Carey Price's future in hockey

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