Best hockey podcast?

[Conigliaro's Potential]

Looking for a good, NHL-centered podcast to help get me through the playoffs and beyond - focusing more on the league as a whole than any individual team. (Although if there's a particularly good Bruins podcast, that'd be good to know about.) Any recommendations?

 

[tmracht]

Locked on Bruins is good for Bs focus.

Spitting Chicklets is a toss up depending on your style of enjoyment. It's a very barstoolesque style I dropped it.

31 thoughts is good as a more serious tone for news.

 

[McDrew]

I listened to a lot of Marek vs Wyshinski when they did their podcast. Marek/Friedman's 31 thoughts is the one I listen to the most episodes of. I'll catch episodes Wysh's Puck Soup when they cover a topic I'm interested in.
I'll fast-forward past the Leafs-centric stuff on Steve Dangle's podcast, but their discussions of the league as a whole are generally very good. Also, the schadenfreude in watching a Leaf's fan suffer is a guilty pleasure.

 

[Granite Sox]

I love Spittin' Chiclets, even though I hate Barstool.

What it is: two ex-players who understand and appreciate what it takes to play in the league, plus a (local Boston) Barstool hockey blogger. Their style is pretty self-deprecating and experiential, even though some of the stories can be very locker-room inappropriate. They get great interviews, they know a ton of current and ex-players, they cover the whole league, they are very funny and entertaining, and they are pretty prolific (two pods a week). Episode length typically runs 1.5-2 hours.

What it is not: heavy on modern hockey analytics and/or team-by-team analysis. They stick to covering the most recent set of games in-season, and tend towards future speculation and trends in the off season.

Perhaps of interest to you, CP, is that they will try to get broadcasters (either PBP and/or analysts) on the show every so often, from national figures like Doc Emrick and Ron McLean to local guys (the St. Louis Blue and TB Lightning PBP guys come to mind). In fact, it was an appearance by Jeremy Roenick that ultimately led him to being shitcanned by NBC.

 

[cshea]

Yeah, Spittin' Chichlets is the best out there IMO. It's Rear Admiral, a Boston based hockey blogger and former players Ryan Whitney and Paul Bissonette, more like Paul Miss-The-Net. Whit and Biz are the 2 guys from the endless New Amsterdam Vodka commercials. They get a lot of good guests and Whit and Biz are really good at interviews, particularly with players or former players. They usually start each episode with a recap of games/news/series that happened in between episodes, then they go into the interview, then wrap it up with some segments at the end. Also, Whits is a big golfer who plays amateur tournaments so you get the occasional golf talk, CP.

I used to like the Hockey PDOcast, but they haven't dropped an episode since the end of May so I guess maybe they're done. Obviously that was a little more on the analytical side, but it wasn't dense or anything a fan who isn't well versed at analytics could understand.

31 Thoughts is Elliotte Friedman and Jeff Marek of Sportsnet. It's a companion to Friedman's weekly 31 Thoughts column. It's a league wide podcast/column, but naturally there's tends to be more of a focus on the Canadian teams.

 

[Conigliaro's Potential]

Thanks for the recommendations - I think 31 Thoughts sounds more like what I'm looking for (as does the Hockey PDOcast, if that ever revives itself), but I've subscribed to a few others as well and will dip in and out to see what works best for me.

 

[scotian1]

You may like this from the old Bruin coach.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMASmss42BszMDQ4ci2ijKg