First impressions of Connor Bedard?  Is Vancouver good?  How concerned should we be about Edmonton?  Plus: NEW SEGMENT - Love and Hate, contract extensions, Puckworms Top 10, and more.

Which teams could make a surprise playoff appearance?  How will Boston handle its first season without Patrice Bergeron in 19 years?  Can Tampa Bay overcome the loss of Andrei Vasilevskiy?  Plus: Logan Cooley excitement in the desert, Puckworms Top 10, and more.

What did we learn from Connor Bedard's first preseason games?  What other prospects stood out this week?  How good actually is Trevor Zegras?  Plus: Lukas Reichel impresses, Mark Stone is salty, and more.

Which teams will provide the most intriguing watches throughout the preseason?  Will Connor Bedard and Adam Fantilli continue the torrid play they displayed in their respective rookie games?  Plus: Cooley dazzles in Melbourne, Babcock resigns, and more.

Who plays with Connor Bedard?  Does Leo Carlson make the NHL roster?  What is the role of the Blue Jackets' numerous prospects?  The Puckworms crew previews NHL Training Camp and rehashes the start of the rookie tournaments in this edition of Puckworms.  Plus: Colorado signs Tatar, Coyotes vs. Kings in Melbourne, and more.

Vegas, Edmonton, Toronto, Carolina . . . where do the elite fall in the culmination of the Official Puckworms Ranking of every team in the NHL?  Plus: Treliving comments on the future of Nylander, Quenneville and Bowman speak in Chicago, and more.

Who falls on the playoff bubble, and who sneaks into the top 10?  The crew reveals teams 9-16 on the Official Puckworms Ranking of every team in the NHL.  Plus: Sheldon Keefe extended, and why do Presidents' Trophy teams fail?

The countdown to training camp continues -- who shows up in the next wave of the Official Puckworms Ranking of all 32 NHL teams?  Plus: big contracts for Matthews, Hagel and other news from the hockey world.

Which teams are fun-bad and which are flat out unwatchable?  Find out who lands at the bottom of the of the list as the Puckworms crew begins ranking each NHL team over the four weeks leading up to training camp.  Plus: Petry traded, Krejci retires, Galchenyuk pleads guilty, and more.

Which come out on top -- goalies or defensemen?  The Puckworms crew attempts to answer this question by putting a bow on the exercise they began last week.  Also, Noah Clark -- co-host of WSUM 91.7 FM Madison's The Student Section and of the Snap the Pigskin! podcast -- joins the show; that conversation went some places -- didn't expect Kazakhstan to make its way into the conversation. . . .