3v3 Podcast

Episode 39: The San Jose Sharks firing their coach. NHL Network not being available online to stream. Ideas for guest color commentators during NHL games, and maybe having an R-rated color commentating option for NHL games. Traumatizing hockey injuries. Seattle neighborhoods, and where NHL players may live. Question of the week: What is one trade in NHL history that you would undo? (Left deliberat...

Episode 38: Discussion about our favorite teammate rivalries in NHL history. The idea of the NHL creating a league-wide code of conduct. The lack of a centralized hockey news site these days, and how the NHL isn’t utilizing the NHL Network to the best of its ability to become one. Watching hockey at TD Garden in Boston. The new practice facility going up in North Carolina. Question of the week: Wh...

Episode 37: Discussion on who we’d see in their rookie season. Trying to not talk about the racist news in the NHL (being all white people, we didn’t feel qualified for this). The great work that Black Girl Hockey Club is doing in Southern California. The run that the Colorado Avalanche has been on, despite injuries, and the job that Joe Sakic has done putting that team together. Patrick Roy’s cha...

Episode 36: Discussion on weird rule changes that we’d like to introduce to hockey. Changes in amateur hockey programs, and how they’re not using the entire rink anymore. Birthplace versus hometown on rosters, and what could replace it. Video game announcing, and how it’s different from live game announcing. Boston College head coach Jerry York, and how he skipped some of the Hockey Hall of Fame f...

Episode 35: Discussion on what arenas, regardless of time and team, we’d like to go watch hockey. Other hockey arenas we’ve watched hockey in. The lack of three dimensional thinking in the NHL when it comes to passes and shots. The lack of enforcement on certain penalties. Question of the week: What is one weird rule change that you would love to introduce to hockey that would evolve the game in a...

Episode 34: Discussion on if the NHL’s revenue sharing model changed to fund a professional women’s league. The return of NHL archive games on NHL LIVE. The joys of adult hockey – both ice and roller. NHL head coaches on the hot seat, and what it might take for the dominoes to start to fall. The list of team names that the new Seattle franchise has registered. Question of the week: If you went to...

Episode 33: Discussion on who might win the Stanley Cup this season. Elliotte Friedman’s comment during the Heritage Classic broadcast on the NHL’s plan to start a women’s professional hockey league, when they decide it becomes “necessary” (whatever that means). Cassie’s trip to an NWHL game, and how different it was from the NHL’s style of play. That one time a head coach was traded in the NHL. Q...

Episode 32: Discussion about the most absurd relocation and/or ownership theory you have for solving the future of the Ottawa Senators. The Edmonton Oilers are…fun…to watch now? The train wreck that is the Minnesota Wild early in the NHL season. (Also, please excuse Patrick’s preoccupation with The Godfather & Italian food; he’d had a hard day.) Question of the week: Who do you think will win the...

Episode 31: Skating a man down this week – again – this time Patrick and Cassie discuss various hockey chattery. Talk about NHL standings as of 13 October 2019, and the currently undefeated Edmonton Oilers. The rumor that the Tampa Bay Lightning were playing four forwards and one defender at even strength during a preseason game. The state of the San Jose Sharks and their lack of drafting ability....

Episode 30: Skating a man down this week, Pat and Cassie discuss ideas about how to address the NHL schedule. Also discussion on what the new contract of negotiating quirk this season and next offseason might be. Some problems with how Hockey Canada develops young players. The lack of preparation that’s being given to new players on NHL teams. The unpredictability of Marc Bergevin as a general man...

Episode 29: Skating a man down this week, Pat and Cassie discuss Auston Matthews and his arrest last May, regarding the social and professional aspects of it. The hiring of Cammie Granato as the first female pro scout in the NHL by the Seattle NHL team. Ron Francis’s GM experience and how that might change with building Seattle. No holdouts to start the NHL season this year. Question of the week:...

Episode 28: Discussion on changing NHL training camps and the preseason. The Jonathan Toews NHL schedule change suggestion. The new no-helmet rule. How underrated winning the Calder Cup Championship in the AHL is. The Ottawa Senators’ owner Eugene Melnyk’s financial issues. (Please pardon the occasional unintentional technological issue....) Question of the week: What would you do to address the N...

Episode 27: Discussion on how important captains are to their teammates on NHL teams. Sometimes the leaders on a team are not the same people wearing the ‘C’ or an ‘A’. Roles and responsibilities of captains in the NHL versus how NHL teams and media view them. The type of players who are leaders that ought to be awarded the captaincy on most teams. Some on the transition from captain to coach. Ken...

Episode 26: Discussion on fictional characters would we choose to run the NHL. Layoffs of key TV personalities at Rogers Sportsnet, and the state of hockey TV broadcasts versus streaming games. The NHL choosing to not opt out of the current CBA, and what the players might do. Question of the week: How important do you think the role of captain – guys who actually wear the “C” – is to the players o...

Episode 25: Discussion on changing uniforms to reflect key team anniversaries. Updating ice rink colors so that not all rinks are the same...and perhaps updating the ice rinks themselves. Incorporating some lacrosse rules into the NHL’s rules. And as we’re changing the NHL around, anyways, talk about who would be our figurehead leader. Question of the week: If the 3v3 Podcast team overthrew the ex...

Episode 24: Discussion about favorite hockey player nicknames. Hockey nicknames given by media, by players, and personal nicknames for players – that may or may not be popular. Definitions about what makes a good nickname. The lack of creativity in publicly used nicknames. Having some fun with the possibilities hockey fan-fic. Question of the week: How would you add silver (for 25th) or gold (for...

Episode 23: Discussion on jersey numbers that perhaps shouldn’t have been retired by teams or the NHL. The possible criteria for retiring jersey numbers. The case for changing retired numbers to a “ring of honor” designation so that other numbers are freed up for current players to use. Players that had their numbers retired with two or more teams, and if that should be done or not. The possibilit...

Episode 22: Skating a man down this week, Pat and Cassie discuss the Minnesota Wild firing GM Paul Fenton, and who they may hire in his place. Question of the week: No question this week – we will be back with another question the next episode. Recorded 3 August 2019

Episode 21: Discussion on favorite hockey jerseys. Talk about jersey design, logos, and colors. Jersey numbers and ones that have particular meaning to the players. The pros and cons of using synthetic ice, and the state of hockey rink ice in the summer. The state of hockey rinks in the Seattle-Tacoma area. Question of the week: What is one retired number for any team in the NHL you think should n...

Episode 20: Discussion on players have started in the NHL and gone on to play in Europe, only to have come back to sign with an NHL team. Ron Francis being named the first GM in the Seattle (Geoducks) NHL team’s history. Background on Ron Francis during his time in Carolina as a GM. Seattle naming Palm Springs, CA, as the location for their AHL team instead choosing Boise, ID. The so-called sancti...

Episode 19: Discussion about past players that could play in the current era and have success. Thoughts about at what age NHL players really peak versus when NHL teams say that they do. In a salary cap world, whether the age of free agency be lowered in the NHL or not. The differences between doing a media job versus working for the NHLPA. When/if the NHLPA will give up guaranteed contracts, and f...

Episode 18: Discussion about rumors regarding the NHL Seattle organization at the NHL Draft. The state of offer sheets during the NHL offseason thus far. NHL GMs making questionable signings. Teams paying out $100 million in contracts in a season, within the 50-contract limit. The fallacies of the income tax argument regarding signing players in the NHL. Speculation about the end of Don Cherry’s r...

Episode 17: Discussion on building an NHL team by position – not by player, but by position – that you would want to build your team around. The concept of having a rover on the ice, instead of three forwards and two defenders. The advantages to the way that Vegas built their expansion team. The 1995-1996 Colorado Avalanche and how many players could play in today’s NHL. NHL offseason trades, and...

Episode 16: Discussion on what NHL teams should not have returned the Stanley Cup to the league or the Hockey Hall of Fame. NHL buyouts and whether anyone’s willing to re-sign them. The Arizona Coyotes and their new ownership. How the St. Louis Blues winning the Stanley Cup may affect next season’s trade deadline. NHL teams, their cap space, and player injuries going into the free agency. Going in...

Episode 15: Discussion about where we’d put cameras in arenas, and the pros and cons of our suggestions. The various ways that NHL officials can interpret the sport’s rules, and some of the impacts of those decisions. Wondering if the NHL is to the point where the rules and the sport need to overhaul their processes. The implied trust of playing with people of a certain ability level, especially i...