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The boys are back at your favorite semi-annual hockey podcast, talking about an exciting summer, high expectations, and what’s bound to be a great year for hockey. We’ve got metrics, we’ve got Utah talk, we’ve got cup picks, we’ve got a… guest!?
We’re back, for one night only, at your favorite semi-annual hockey podcast. We talk the playoffs so far, an inauspicious wager, Florida vs. Edmonton, the prospect of busting a Canadian curse, the furthest-flying finals of any(??) sports league and then the Arizona fiasco coming to a conclusion.
Welcome back to A Couple of Goons, here for your pre-finals look at the postseason and these last several games. Neil and Walt talk about what to expect in this most unexpected Stanley Cup final. Neil makes the case for both Vegas and Florida winning the Stanley Cup, and Walt makes an emotional case for one team in particular
What a first round!
It’s your favorite hockey podcast back to talk the end of the season and, far more importantly, the beginning of the postseason!
We’re back! Neil and Walt assess the regular season as it nears its conclusion, including:
We’re back!
Welcome back to A Couple of Goons, an inexplicably extant hockey podcast. This week on Goons:
We assess the season!
Neil and Walt are ready for the playoffs, so they decided to do a show TOGETHER, IN-PERSON!!!! We break down the whole first round, presenting theories of the case for each team, and talk about the probability of every upset — which, as it turns out in hockey, is surprisingly large most of the time.
We assess the season!
We assess the season!
You miss us?
Seattle stole a bunch of players! Joining us this week is Jake Lahut!
The end of the season!
Things are coming to an end soon:
The Stanley Cup
The last week of the semifinals! Also, if last week sounded bad, I fixed it, so just go re-download it again the mix was rough.
UPDATE: Now with new Synced Audio!Joining us for this episode again is Emily Scherer!
The second round begins to wind down! Topics of conversation include
The playoffs continue
It’s the playoffs babyyyy
Walt is on vacation, but somehow we’ve got 50% more goons than usual. Neil is joined by GoonsPod alums Emily Scherer of FiveThirtyEight and Tyler Lauletta of Insider. Here’s what we talked about:
We’ve finally made it to the end of the regular season (unless you’re in the North Division — sorry Canada), and Walt is ready for his inaugural Hockey Guy Playoffs. Topics of conversation include:
We’re finally talking about it. Topics of conversation include:
Madness reigns: Neil’s out this week, Walt is joined by Insider’s Tyler Lauletta and FiveThirtyEight’s Emily Scherer to talk about hockey broadcasting and the bold new future for the sport as they leave NBC for ESPN and TNT.
It’s time.
Topics of conversation include:
Topics of conversation include:
Welcome back to Emily Scherer of FiveThirtyEight!
Welcome back to Emily Scherer of FiveThirtyEight, where this week we talk all about the Isobel Cup and this weekend’s NWHL Championship!
This is the ninth episode of A Couple of Goons. This week, with Neil’s Flyers playing Walt’s Rangers, the goons look at RIVALRIES. Topics of conversation include:
This is the eighth episode of A Couple of Goons. This week, the goons look at the state of the league as we approach the halfway mark, and Rangers fan Walt begins kicking the tires on the lifeboats.
This is the seventh episode of A Couple of Goons. This week, the goons have on Insider’s Jake Lahut, and explore an immortal question: where do hockey players come from?
This is the fifth episode of A Couple of Goons. This week, the goons tackle Russia and the geopolitics of hockey, and also Neil explains how exactly he feels about Gary Bettman.
This is the fifth episode of A Couple of Goons. This week we have on inaugural guest Emily Scherer of FiveThirtyEight for the episode you have all been waiting for: we assign tiers all of the awards given out to hockey players for participating in hockey in one form or another. There are like thirty!
This is the fourth episode of A Couple of Goons. This week we get down to fundamentals: ice. Somehow Neil makes this topic fascinating. That and more this week, in Episode Four of A Couple of Goons!Topics of conversation include:
This is the third episode of A Couple of Goons. Walt sees a first goal and Neil is surprised it didn’t already happen, this week, in Episode Three of A Couple of Goons!Topics of conversation include:
This is the second episode of A Couple of Goons. Walt Hickey’s journey into hockey continues led by the inimitable Neil Paine as we hit week two of A Couple of Goons!Topics of conversation include:
This is the first episode of A Couple of Goons. Walt and a few friends are trying to get into hockey during The Plague Year. Neil has been obsessed with hockey for decades and took the liberty of preparing a number of projections for this forthcoming season. Today, these journeys converge into A COUPLE OF GOONS: EPISODE 0001.
