With the NHL regular season just around the corner brings about our prediction season! In this episode we share our prediction for each divisional standings as well as our President Trophy winners.
We are back for season 2 of Snappin er Around, this time with a new voice as Travis Sweiger joins the pod full time as our third co-host. To kick things off we talk about the RFA's still unsigned and how younger players are demanding more on their second contracts. Recap the big signings and trades around the league from the summer and touch on the much talked about Mike Babcock in Columbus situation. We finish with the Avalanche as we go through our projected opening night lineup's and discuss ...
The draft is over and we break down some of our likes and confusion in terms of selections, before giving our view on the Avs 2023 draft. A quick look at free agency and the trades that have happened around the league so far.
First thank you to everyone for the 500 downloads! We start off with a recap of the Stanley Cup Finals and congratulate the Vegas Golden Knights, and ask what's next for the Florida Panthers. We discuss all the trades and trade rumours that have gone on throughout the league, before giving our Top 5 Mock Draft for the upcoming draft on June 28.
We begin by talking about the two Conference Final series, and how the Vegas Golden Knights and Florida Panther each made the Stanley Cup Final. Our analysis of how the teams match up for hockey's holy grail and who we think will come out victorious. A look to the off-season as we diagnose both the Colorado Avalanche and Toronto Maple Leafs off-seasons and what potential moves they could be making.
We review the round 2 series, before going on to preview the final four and handicap each teams chance of winning.
The opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs is over and the #8 in the East and #7 in the West are moving on, while some Cup favourites are ousted early. We recap Round 1 action before diving into the Round 2 series. Also Leafs finally won a playoff series, but do we think they can win another? Find out. Music by Travis Sweiger (@tsweigsmusic - Instagram)
We start off talking about the coaching and front office fires that happened around the league. The juicy stuff comes when we begin our playoff predictions and how each of us see the opening round of the playoffs playing out.
We talk the recent news of the 2018 Hockey Canada scandal along with the news of a minority owner of the Arizona Coyotes charged with a felony. We finish with some talk of playoffs and how they are shaping up. As always shoutout to Travis Sweiger for the intro/outro music!
We are back and recap all the happenings at the Trade Deadline and before. Starting in the Atlantic Division and moving west we talk about all the moves that the contenting teams made and how we view them. As said the pod will likely be moving to bi-weekly now so we appreciate everyones patiences!
Sorry for the delay, some issues editing and other stuff coming up. We catch up on the happenings around the NHL including the Bo Horvat trade and his extension. We finish with a Super Bowl prediction.
Our first remote episode (so apologies for the poor audio). We begin with a World Junior Medal round recap and discuss Canada's road to back-to-back Gold Medals. We then talk more junior hockey with the crazy trade deadlines across the CHL. Short talk about the Avalanche's season to date and how injury luck helps make the modern day dynasties. We finish with a few other topics around the NHL, before giving our Super Bowl showdown predictions!
What an opening week of the World Junior Hockey Championships. Multiple upsets to the top championship contenders shakeup the pool standings going into New Year's Eve games. Talk of the IIHF officiating and how they freely will hand out 5 minute majors for borderline hits or even hits with devastating results. Flipping to the NHL the schedule is messed and needs to be overhauled in future years. Are more teams and games actually needed in the NHL? We discuss and give our opinions. As always than...
We discuss the upcoming World Junior Hockey Championships, from what could be Team Canada's biggest weakness to who their biggest competitor will be. We then talk about our three players to watch outside of Canadian. Acknowledgement of the passing of London Knight's player Abakar Kazbekov. We then talk where the most likely destinations for Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews and Bo Horvat could be come the new calendar year. As always a big thanks to Betstamp for sponsoring and Travis Sweiger for the ...
In this episode we start with Brock giving his opinion on the Florida Panthers, before moving into World Junior talk. We then give our opinions on the Ovi/Gretzky goal chase and have a small debate on where Ovi sits all-time. A tidbit from our new sponsor Betstamp (betstamp.app) before rounding out with highlighting a few other stories within the hockey world, including a great story from the Brandon Wheat Kings WHL junior team.
We talk the Ads injury issues, before going into Hockey Canada's World Junior Camp roster.
Sorry for the delay, some person and scheduling conflicts got in the way, but we are back with another episode. We start by discussing the fall out of the Mitchell Miller saga, before recognizing and remembering the late Peter McNabb and Borje Salming. Some minor trades and a revisit of the NHL review dilemma. Thanks to everyone for being patient and sticking with us through this hiatus, as we get back to an episode a week.
We start by taking about some hoot starts and teams beginning to turn around a mediocre start. Transition to the Boston Bruins and the Mitchell Miller signing, before ending with a discussion on fans overacting to their teams poor performances in October.
The season is well underway and we discuss the hot starts of some teams, while also talking about the struggling Vancouver Canucks. Touch on the new iron man Phil Kessel while also giving our opinion on video reviews. We finish talk with the leak of the ASU visiting dressing room and how that looks on the league as a whole.
The NHL season has finally started! We talk about some of the bigger storylines early on in the season, before moving onto the most recent Hockey Canada news. We wrap things up with our takes on the Reverse Retro jerseys for the season.
We open with discussion of Andrea Skinner resigning from Hockey Canada Board of Directors, while giving a more in-depth reaction to the overall situation. Some end of summer signings and extensions are discussed, while we then focus on the Avs and how some of their future contracts may look. Trophy predictions wrap the episode as the season is just days from opening night! Thanks as always to Travis Sweiger (@tsweigsmusic - Instagram) for the music.
We invite JD Cormack and Ryan Howe onto the pod for a friendly and simple podcast Fantasy Draft!
We open by talking about how unimportant the preseason is to most players, as well as a few signings and extensions that happened over the week. Then move into our Pacific Division preview and how we think the division will play out. Finishing we talk about the place and off body checking in hockey and what age is acceptable for players to begin body checking.
We open with talk of the captaincy situations in Montreal and Winnipeg. We then dive into the Nathan MacKinnon contract extension and how it will effect the Avs in the future. Our Central Division standings and hot takes are laid out and we wrap things up with talk of the retirements of a trio of defensemen.
Some minor signings, and a small gaffe of forgetfulness, begin this weeks pod, as we continue our divisional predictions and hot takes leading up to the season. This week we focused on the Metro, each with small differences in our standings prediction, as well as providing our hot takes for the division. As always thanks to Travis Sweiger (Insta - @tsweigsmusic) for the intro/outro music riff.
With not much happening across the NHL, we talk about the Miller and Stutzle extensions before going into our way too early predictions for the Atlantic Division standings. We also provide our hot takes for each Atlantic team with a record to see how wrong we are. Also, you can earn a chance to take part in a Snapping' er Around fantasy draft in the coming weeks. As always music curtesy of Travis Sweiger (@tsweigsmusic)
The off-season has come to a crawl and news has been scarce, but we still found a way to cover an entire episode. We discuss the World Junior Gold Medal game before talking about the few signings that have happened over the last week and a bit. We finish off with discussion on the news of a World Cup of Hockey in 2024 and what we expect from it.
It's been a "FLAMING" off-season, as Calgary continues their retool with the signing of Nazim Kadri. To make room on the cap, Sean Monahan is dealt to Montreal, and is Lou and the Islanders playing the big picture? We then , discuss the trickle down effect of the Kadri signing and how the Avalanche may plan to fill the hole left at 2C. We finish with some World Junior talk, and give our predictions for who will meet in the Gold Medal game.
Back for episode 5, and we open with a little person life talk before moving into the U18's gold medal win and talking about the WJC team Canada's first pair of games. We talk the Jonathan Huberdeau extension and revisit the trade wth Florida to see if that changes perspective at all. We touch on the Islander rumours before moving on to Vegas and their recent bad news. The episode finished on a somber note as we send our thoughts to Ben Stelter's family and friends.
Our 4th episode kicks off with the Klingberg signing in Anaheim. We rehash the ordeal that fans go through when a star player leaves their team. What is Lou hiding in Long Island? We discuss the Kadri to the Islanders rumours before jumping into some RFA signings, including the Devils and Bratt only agreeing to a 1-year deal?! The Hlinka Gretzky is on with the 2022 World Juniors right around the corner, so we give our opinion on those Team Canada rosters. Thanks again for everyone that tunes in ...
