Pucks On Net

The Vancouver Canucks are first place in the Pacific Division!

Ryan, Geeta and P Mac gather in the palatial estate to discuss the excellent hockey the Canucks have been playing since mid-December. They talk about the scoring depth, the "resurgence" of Loui Eriksson and the three Canucks heading to the All-Star Game in St. Louis.

PON Ottawa Bureau Chief Dave skypes in to chat about the fall from grace the old man San Jose Sharks have had this year. Aging players and underwhelming results leaves us wondering if the Sharks are playing for this season... or next?

They also discuss the Kes and Juice podcast with Edmonton Oilers' Zack Kassian, debate whether Ovechkin could break Wayne Gretzky's goal record and answer some great listener questions.

Support the show on Patreon! Pledge a coupla bucks (or $5) and get instant access to all our bonus content. This week Chris Faber (Canucks Conversation Podcast) asks for the gang's top three underrated bars and pubs in Vancouver. They give their picks and share some memories. Geeta also asks Ryan for some recommendations for her upcoming trip to Portland.

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Matthew Tkachuk is not making any friends in the Western Conference. This was on full display on Saturday night in Calgary as the Battle of Alberta, and the battle for a playoff spot reached a fever pitch.

Ryan, Geeta and P Mac hunker down in the palatial estate during Snowmageddon 2020 in Vancouver. They spend a great deal of time breaking down the Oilers/Flames game, the Tkachuk and Kassian ugliness and the suspension that followed. Dave skypes in to join the gang and talk about the New Jersey Devils firing Ray Shero midseason. After an anomaly of a playoff appearance in 2017/18 and some big name acquisitions, things never panned out the way the Devils hoped.

Finally the gang discuss the slumping and injured Toronto Maple Leafs, touch on Quinn Hughes making the All-Star Game and talk about the Canucks' polarizing road trip. They also answer some great listener questions!

Support the show on Patreon! Pledge a coupla bucks (or $5) and get instant access to all our bonus content. This week the gang discuss their cabin fever during this arctic front as Geeta and Ryan depict a strange and unusual home life for Paul and his cardboard cutouts of Ryan Smyth and Johnny Depp. Ryan discusses a brain teaser, Geeta wants everyone to go see The Grizzlies film and they discuss Oscar nominations.

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Happy New Year! The PON gang is back from Christmas break and ready to dive head first in the second half of the NHL regular season!

Ryan, Geeta and P Mac discuss the red hot Vancouver Canucks and their seven game win streak, as well as the Tampa Bay Lightning who may or may not also have an identical seven game win streak, and the two teams meat in a colossal tussle for the ages!

Dave skypes in from Ottawa to talk about the Canucks, the Nashville Predators firing Peter Laviolette and Team Canada's impressive gold medal victory over Russia at the World Junior Championships.

They also look at Ilya Kovalchuk signing in Montreal and talk Maple Leafs. They look at their overworked goaltender, their high flying offensive and their new best friend, Justin Bieber.

They answer some great listener questions, and Dave asks P Mac if Matt Duchene is a coach killer!

Support the show on Patreon! Pledge a coupla bucks (or $5) and get instant access to all our bonus content. This week Geeta brings up the @Pucksonnetca twitter account before the podcast, when Ryan ran a satirical Canucks' news account. They also discuss NHL players on Cameo and discuss what they'd make Mark Messier say for his $300 USD fee for a video shout out.

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It's the 7th Annual Pucks On Net Christmas Party, recorded late into the evening on a festive and jouyus Saturday at the Den Barcade and Drinkery in downtown Vancouver.

Ryan, Geeta and P Mac discuss NHL head coach firings, Taylor Hall trade watch and Sven Baertschi and the Vancouver Canucks making any and all efforts to get him traded to a new team.

They also welcome partygoers to the podcast to discuss tales of Christmas past, in particular, ruining presents and surprises as a child. Midway through the podcast, Santa Claus himself joins the show! He has a couple of gifts for some naughty former NHL coaches!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everybody!

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On the show this week, the gang is loose and ready for the Christmas break. Dave Skypes in from Ottawa to discuss PK Subban's incredible drop off in quality of play and point production with the New Jersey Devils.

Closer to home, Ryan, Geeta and P Mac discuss the Canucks' ups and downs, look at the continued success of Quinn Hughes, the quiet and consistent point production of Elias Pettersson and the insane popularity of the black skate jersey.

They also tough on the exceptionally bad Los Angeles Kings, the struggling San Jose Sharks, answer some great listener questions and look at the positive changes in Calgary have resulted in 5 straight wins under new interim head coach, Geoff Ward.

Support the show on Patreon! Pledge a coupla bucks (or $5) and get instant access to all our bonus content. This week Ryan and Geeta are knee deep in Fantasy Football playoffs and Paul hangs Christmas lights at his haunted house. Ryan almost ruins Geeta's birthday present to him and the gang looks back at when podcasting doesn't come as easy as it usually does (no, not this week!)

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Ryan, Geeta and P Mac gather in Geeta's very festive palatial estate to discuss the ups and downs of the Vancouver Canucks' recent road trip and their weird home at home series with the Edmonton Oilers. They also discuss the Calder Trophy race between the Canucks' Quinn Hughes and the Colorado Avalanche's Cale Makar.

They touch on the disgusting comments made by Bill Peters that lead to his resignation as head coach of the Calgary Flames. They praise Kevin Bieksa's latest appearance on Hockey Night In Canada and answer some great listener questions, including how Leafs' fans can put those old Babsocks to good use.

Support the show on Patreon! Pledge a coupla bucks (or $5) and get instant access to all our bonus content. This week Ryan reads and raves about Tegan and Sara's memoir 'High School', the gang discuss Billie Eilish and they workshop Christmas gift ideas for Ryan's mom.

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The whole hockey world is talking about the troublesome tales coming out about Mike Babcock's tenure as head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Ryan, P Mac, Geeta and a Skyped in Dave get together this week and get fired up discussing Mike Babcock's treatment of Mitch Marner during the 2016/17, Marner's rookie campaign. They discuss the controversial tactics Babcock used to motivate his players and Babcock's legacy in the league. Coaching the Detroit Red Wings to the 2008 Stanley Cup and Team Canada to two Olympic Gold Medals, will these allegations soon overshadow what was once a 'guaranteed hall of fame career'?

They also discuss the slowly simmering goaltending controversy in Vancouver. Dave campaigns for Canucks fans to cheerlead for Jacob Markstrom, who might be going a tad under appreciated in Vancouver this season.

They chat about the slumping Calgary Flames, a team who's goal production has dried up. All while a team three hours north of them, the Edmonton Oilers are scoring goals by the bucket load. And by Edmonton Oilers, we mean Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.

Finally, they discuss Kyle Turris being a regular healthy scratch for the Nashville Predators and criticize the NHL Department of Player Safety for the four game suspension handed down to St. Louis Blues' Robert Bortuzzo after his vicious cross check to Nashville's Viktor Arvidsson. A cross check so vicious, Arvidsson is set to miss four to six weeks of action.

Support the show on Patreon! Pledge a coupla bucks (or $5) and get instant access to all our bonus content. This week Ryan discusses his Friday night drunk eating a pint of ice cream with a plastic spoon in the back of a comedy club and the gang plans for the PON Christmas Party and Geeta wants to get rid of timezones. All of them!

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A clip from our November bonus episode "Goodnight, Babs"

In this clip, we look back at Mike Babcock's coaching resume. The teams he coached that went to the Stanley Cup Final, the gold medals he won coaching Team Canada at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics and just whether Babs was really worth all the hype?

P Mac and Ryan discuss Cory Schneider being waived by the New Jersey Devils, Garnet Hathoway spitting at Erik Gudbranson, Mike Babcock's firing in Toronto and the Vancouver Canucks' big win in Nashville.

They touch on overpriced tickets in Canadian markets, throwback jerseys and Sheldon Keefe's first with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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Alex Edler scored a rather controversial goal at Rogers Arena on Saturday night while Avalanche player Matt Calvert laid on the ice bleeding from the head. Should it have been handled differently? We discuss.

Geeta, P Mac and Ryan gather this week to talk about a busy weekend in the National Hockey League. Dave Skypes in from Ottawa to touch on the strange turn of events in the Canucks/Avalanche game Saturday, the fallout and what could be changed going forward. They also discuss Adam Gaudette's success and the fact that Canucks' brass cannot send him back to the AHL with a performance like his.

They head east and talk about the struggling Toronto Maple Leafs. Just two regulation wins in their last 15 games, one can only began to wonder if head coach Mike Babcock has lost the room and if he'll be coming back early or at all on the Leafs' big road trip right now.

They discuss the strange Ilya Kovalchuk situation, the chances of him winding up in Vancouver and just why the grizzled vet is not playing regular minutes for the Los Angeles Kings.

Finally, the gang talks about the new old Vancouver Canucks skate jerseys, looks at an interesting aspect of success for the New York Islanders and answer some great listener questions!

Support the show on Patreon! Pledge a coupla bucks (or $5) and get instant access to all our bonus content. This week the gang discusses going to The Pint to watch Monday Night Football, P Mac eats an incredibly decadent truffle-heavy meal and Ryan jumps ship to a different cell phone provider after a long conversation with the fine folks in 'retention'

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After 37 years hosting Coach's Corner, Sportsnet fired Don Cherry after some incredibly controversial comments on what became his last Coach's Corner segment.

Ryan, Geeta and P Mac gather once again at the palatial estate to discuss a very eventful weekend. They discuss Cherry's offensive comments, the reaction from fans and viewers and Cherry's lack of apology in the wake of the controversy.

They also talk about the Canucks' struggles. No longer the Cardiac Kids, the young Canucks team's goal production has dried up despite playing well as a team. What needs to be done to get out of this slump, and can the team take advantage of an injured western conference to make up as much ground as possible in their hunt for the postseason?

The gang also chats about some western conference coaches on the hot seat. Calgary's Bill Peters and Dallas' Jim Montgomery were in the news recently with some rather vocal critiques of their teams. Both squads are underachieving, but with a coaching change be the answer?

They also praise the New York Islanders' recent 10 game winning streak, their win by committee mentality and the incredible efforts of Barry Trotz.

Finally, the gang discusses the NHL Players Poll results, the Red Wings' point production and answer some great listener questions.

Support the show on Patreon! Pledge a coupla bucks (or $5) and get instant access to all our bonus content. This week the gang discusses week 5 in the PON Fantasy Hockey League, also known as RIVALRY WEEK which saw Geeta give Ryan his first defeat. They also talk planning for the 7th Annual PON Christmas Party, playing guilty and more!

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