Pension Plan Puppets Podcast

It's here! It's fresh off the editing table! It's a podcast!

This week we talk about our first trip to an NHL game (spoiler: two visits to Maple Leaf Gardens and one somewhere else), we talk about third line players and what they should contribute and also the Leafs dumping the Habs on Saturday night.

This week's podcast is late and it's all my dog's fault.

In this episode we talk about who the Leafs' next whipping boy will be, the notion of players fitting in or not re: Lee Stempniak, Tomas Kaberle, the NHL's ratings on NBC after the Olympics and more!

Pension Plan Puppets Podcast

Episode 1: In the Beginning There Was Poor Editing

The PPP Podcast is a Toronto Maple Leafs podcast with your hosts Jason, Julian and Michael. Episode one covers corporate clients at the ACC, the Leafs' recent play and more.

We talk about:

* The Kris Versteeg acquisition

* The Colby Armstrong signing

* Rumors of Zherdev and why we hate goal scorers

* 2012 cap space

* Keith Sweatt's chicken mcnuggets song

* Nikolai Kulemin and John Mitchell's RFA contracts

* No Brett Lebda

We hope you guys like the podcast because we'll be doing it whether you do or not. Is there anything we should cover that we aren't covering? Is there anything you'd like to see on the podcast?

Let us know what you think in the comments, and thank archluke for putting up with our shit and consistently doing a great job editing the pile of garbage we drop on him into a slick podcast.

Should Burke make a run at Kovalchuk? What players should you draft with an empty cupboard? Why didn't Roenick punch Mike Milbury? Those topics and more are yours free in the PPP Podcast Podcast Podcast!

In this week's episode of our critically acclaimed* Leafs' podcast we discuss:

1. Moneyball and improbable cup runs

2. Teams with cheap goaltending

3. Jonas Gustavsson at the world championships

4. Why mc79 should probably run the Oilers

* no

We are back with more aural goodness! Ryan (puckurgently/@ryantologist) did a spectacular job on the audio since MF37 and our special guest had the world's worst connections. We crammed so much hockey talk into 23 minutes that we couldn't even fit a cold open.

We talked about how much we are just enjoying the Leafs' run, James Reimer's legitimateness, the reasons for Phil Kessel's resurgence, Ron Wilson's job as a coach, the Leafs' playoffs chances, the Tomas Kaberle trade, and, of course, the importance of goaltending, and how much we hate Daniel Briere.

Yes it's PPP Podcast 13, our first episode since October, 2010.

This was actually recorded on Thursday January 6th so we're offering it to you at a deep discount in case some of the contents might have gone a bit stale.

Be sure to vote for who is the best (not worst?) Leaf.

Contents after the jump...

Star-divide

In episode 13, Chemmy, PPP and I discuss:

Reimer, Gustavsson and what to do with the goalies (very timely, no?)

Colby Armstrong and the Heavy Lifter Index - can he get better? (spoiler alert: MF37 says "yes.")

The future for coach Ron Wilson

Colaiacovo cap hits & injuries; Steen vs. Stempniak (Let's all blame Maurice)

Leafs roster elimination game (rules explained half-way through)

Songs

Weezer - My Name is Jonas

Gerry Rafferty - City to City

Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix)

Randy Newman - Short People

Spencer Davis Group - Back Into My Life Again

As always, thanks to Ryan for the sound work. We give him three hours of awkward pauses and he turns it into 35 minutes of quality with just 6 minutes of awkwardness.

This was recorded before the Leafs looked rather crummy on Saturday night but a podcast is a podcast. You can listen to PPP sound like he's going to a funeral.

Topics! Managing expectations, predicting the rest of the month of October, playing a "good road game" and more. Check it out!

Game one is tonight on Hockey Night in Canada and I'm at work wearing my Kessel tshirt under my work clothes. This is exciting and a little bit sexy.

Our sound guy is wearing Habs boxers on Twitter today but no worry because the Podcast is here! We talk about the demotion of Mitchell and Hanson, do some spitballing on Jeff Finger and opening night and talk a little bit about Nazem Kadri. Music list after the jump.