It is almost playoff time! Ryan and Mitchell kicks things off by discussing who's clinched, who's gonna clinch, and go around the horn looking at some interesting player comparisons that have surfaced this season and some accolades that have been met in the last week as we hit the stretch run. We talk about whether Matthews or McDavid, or both, could someday challenge for the career goals record that Ovechkin seems likely to surpass. We wrap up the show discussing the disappointing trend in the league with players deciding against wearing the pride jerseys in warmups for their team's Pride Nights, as well as the complete lack of best-on-best international play in hockey after McDavid's comments on the World Baseball Classic, and namely Trout vs Ohtani, which wrapped up earlier in the week.

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The timing of the NHL announcing its upcoming partnership with Fanatics is hilarious because Mitchell just received a faulty Jake Sanderson jersey in the mail. So we discussed. We also get into Dylan Ferguson's epic NHL debut, Pittsburgh's plummet and Florida concurrent surge. We discuss the QMJHL's decision to eliminate fighting and the future ramifications on the NHL, and what could have been between Marc-Andre Fleury and Jordan Binnington. We wrap up the show discussing the Jared Bednar contract extension in Colorado and discuss other coaches who were this successful with the same team that they were a part of during a rebuild.

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We kick off the show discussing Daniel Briere's comments from his introductory press conference as Interim GM and Elliotte Friedman reporting that Carter Hart could be moved this summer. We stay within the Metro and discuss the devastating news that Andrei Svechnikov was lost for the season due to a torn ACL and what it means for Carolina's Stanley Cup chances. We wrap up the show talking Coyotes, namely Bill Armstrong's gutless comments regarding the trade of Jakob Chychrun and what he had to say about his tenure as a 'Yote.

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Episode 14 kicks off with a brief recap of Saturday's games, with a focus on games which impacted the Eastern Conference Wild Card race.

Pittsburgh crushes Philadelphia, Islanders lose to the Capitals, Florida loses in OT to the Jets, and Ottawa drops a dud in Vancouver. We talk lineup decisions, good and bad, and give our take on Florida who look poised for a run. 

We then move into the HNIC main event between the Leafs and Oilers in which the stars shined, and the brightest star of all was none other than Mitch Marner, who looks primed to will his team to playoff success with a 1g 3a performance for the ages with McDavid, Matthews, and Draisaitl on the ice. 

We wrap up the show discussing the new out of Philly that saw Chuck Fletcher's tenure as General Manager mercifully come to and end, and Daniel Briere step in on an interim basis. 

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Note: Original version of this episode had technical difficulties, so the backup recording had to be used, hence the lowered quality :/

In our return to a regular episode no longer dominated by trade news and rumours, Ryan and Mitchell look at the Eastern Conference wild card playoff picture and how it has changed in the last two weeks. We wrap up the show discussing some of the individual accolades that were reached over the weekend, such as McDavid setting a career high in points and Quinn Hughes becoming the fastest defensemen every to reach 200 career assists.

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In the wake of the NHL trade deadline day, and an as-expected unexciting one at that, Ryan and Mitchell go team-by-team and discuss their deadlines, whether we liked or disliked their moves, and how they look going forward.

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24 hours after the Senators pull off a monumental trade to acquire the star Coyotes D-man, Mitchell and Ryan jump on to discuss the trade from both the perspective of the Ottawa Senators and the Arizona Coyotes.

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Mitchell and Ryan recap the 5 major trades that went down over the past couple days as we gear up for what should continue to be an exciting deadline season. This podcast was recorded prior to the Timo Meier and Tanner Jeannot trades, and in order, we discuss the Bruins deal to acquire Orlov and Hathaway and how it affects the Blue Jackets, Nino Neiderreiter being dealt to the Winnipeg Jets, Vitali Kravtsov being shipped to Vancouver in a cap-focused move for the Rangers as they close in on Patrick Kane, the Habs and Stars exchanging Dadonov and Gurianov, and the Golden Knights further depleting their asset pool to acquire Ivan Barbashev. We wrap up on the show with a few words on the playoff picture and some of the games bearing massive playoff implications  in the next few days.

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As we approach the deadline, we bring on guests that cover/follow each of the 7 Canadian teams very closely to talk about deadline plans, rumours, and moves made to date. We were pleased to be joined by Auddie James of the SDPN and the Win Column to talk Flames as the franchise approaches the deadline in a middling year.

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As we approach the deadline, we bring on guests that cover/follow each of the 7 Canadian teams very closely to talk about deadline plans, rumours, and moves made to date. We were pleased to be joined by Lyss Houde of the SDPN and the Can't Teach Size Podcast to talk Jets as the franchise approaches the deadline and their salary cap position has them ready to take a swing.

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