Nick Bowins and Tyler Madarasz tackle the Bruce Boudreau fiasco in Vancouver, a long list of All-Star Game snubs, and spend the back half of the podcast detailing the NHL Trade Deadline. With names like Bo Horvat, Patrick Kane, and Timo Meier floating around, we're hoping for a busy deadline this NHL season!

Nick Bowins, Tyler Madarasz, and Mack Fleming get together to discuss the midway point of the NHL season. Featuring various teams around the league, who makes the playoffs, who sells off pieces to win the Bedard sweepstakes, and each name a midseason All Star team!

Segments: Intro (00:00) Rundown (1:01) Playoff Picture (16:14) Tank Hard for Bedard (22:54) Midseason All-Stars (30:11) People Forget (37:42)

Nick and Tyler recap one of the best World Junior Tournaments in recent memory. High praise for Canada, Czechia, Slovakia, and the USA, while Sweden and Finland fall short of expectations.  

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What A Tourney (00:00)

Nick and Mack recap the first few days of the World Juniors, including Canada and the US both getting upset and both bouncing back, Sweden and Czechia both looking strong, and some love for Switzerland and Latvia. They wrap up with a World Juniors edition of People Forget.

Nick, Tyler, and Mack share their favourite World Junior memories, favourite World Junior players of all-time, and preview this year's tournament.   

The high end skill is crazy this year between Bedard, Hughes, Wright, Cooley, Lysell, Kemell, Fantilli, and several others! Stick around as the fellas share their Medal predictions and MVP picks at the end.

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Nick, Mack, and Tyler are back together for episode 13 of The Hockey Collective Show. The guys discuss Ovi's 800th goal, the Chara vs Bieksa drama, Torts scratching Hayes, the proposed 84 game regular season, and many more topics through the league.  

In addition, the fellas talk about their favourite hockey gifts ever, the most underappreciated players of all-time, and wrap things up with People Forget.

Nick and Mack are joined by Kris Versteeg for a fun episode full of stories from his Cup runs in Chicago, playing for Brian Burke in Toronto, playing with Philly the year after beating them in the Finals, his time in Florida, and Brent Sutter teaching him to be a defenseman in Junior.

Nick, Mack, and Tyler recap a handful of milestones from around the league this past week, and then dive into various rules that we hate, we want changed, or we want to see added.

The guys reflect on all 32 teams around the league, as 87.5% of teams in Playoff spots on American Thanksgiving typically end up making the Playoffs.  

The Metro is hectic, the Atlantic is deep, the Central has some surprises, and the Pacific has been awful. Find out what Nick, Mack, and Tyler think needs to change on each team.

In this week's episode of The Hockey Collective Show, Nick, Mack, and Tyler discuss if the Bolts and Blues are really back, how the Huberdeau/Weegar/Tkachuk trade looks, and how good the Stars have been.   

The boys then dive into the Western Conference Underrated Draft (Watch EP 7 for the Eastern Conference Draft) where there are some BIG names chosen.