Kris Knoblauch is out, so I look at who might be next and also make the case for a desperate trade idea that might actually work if everything checks out.

Today's Soups on Hockey BS (stands for Big Show) I get into the Leafs, the Canucks, the Flames, the Sharks, a top 6 mock draft, a top 5 rebuild rankings, Brady Tkachuk, how pathetic trolling fan boys are, and of course look at the bleak state of afairs with the Oilers.

I rehash ALL OF IT. From the start of the rebuild to today, what's gone wrong, what needs to be done, and whether or not it's now a lost cause.

It's finally here!!! Especially the next 10-14 days, the absolute best hockey of the year!

I love the title of this one because I'd be stunned if many....anyone...knows what I'm referencing. This is the fun of doing the Blender, an odd topic that goes a million different ways.

The title explains what I start talking about, and it goes a ton of different ways from there. I believe I end up talking about expansion. But this is why it's called the Blender and not "Soups stays on point".

This is a new concept I'm trying out, leaning into my ADHD and letting it buck. This is on the 2002 Maple Leafs, but I try to go down every single rabbit hole I come across while doing so. Hope you enjoy it, let me know if you don't! (seriously)

On this episode of the BS (stands for Big Show) I get into how the NHL players have zero interest in growing the game, how poorly the league markets the game, how it turns out I was right on Doug Armstrong the whole time, the disaster that is the Maple Leafs, my latest power rankings, and as always I end it with a bit of Oilers talk.

The Oilers for once do a tidy bit of business acquiring Connor Murphy from the Chicago Blackhawks yesterday. I talk about that, plus the smoke that is building about how the growing expectations of what the Oilers will do by Friday's trade deadline.

In today's game, we hardly have any player movement. NTC's and NMC's combined with cap restraints and GM's frankly being terrified to do something they may regret has all conspired to make trading virtually non exsistent in today's game. 30 years ago however, seemingly everyone got dealt. From the 1995 draft until the 1996 trade deadline, it truly was the NHL's version of the wild west.