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It’s been a busy week in hockey, and BG breaks it all down on this episode of CellyCentral. The headline is Cutter Gauthier, who’s doing something the NHL has never seen. He has back-to-back hat tricks and eight goals in his last three games, and he’s the first player in league history to score multiple power-play goals in three straight games. He’s also the first Duck ever with consecutive hat tr...

It’s been one of the wildest weekends of the season, and BG has all of it on this episode of CellyCentral. We start with the story everyone in hockey is talking about: Nikita Kucherov’s reported trade request. One of the most dominant players of his generation is reportedly looking for a way out of Tampa Bay, and the contract impasse between him and the organization has the Lightning at a real cro...

CellyCentral is back, and BG has a loaded one for you this week. We start with everything you missed across the league on Monday and Tuesday night. The Kings stormed into Madison Square Garden and handed the Rangers their first home loss of the season, chasing James Reimer after one period in his Rangers debut. Jacob Fowler put on a goaltending clinic in St. Louis, turning aside all 46 shots for a...

It’s a rough stretch to be a Jet in either league. Winnipeg reportedly loses its franchise goalie, and New York loses another close one. Sawyer, aka BG, recaps a packed week across the NHL, college hockey and the NFL. He starts with the biggest story in hockey, the reported Connor Hellebuyck trade to New Jersey. He covers what it means for a Devils team that’s been searching for a true No. 1 in ne...

Denver raised its 2026 national championship banner, and then Michigan walked into Magness Arena and swept the Pioneers in a Frozen Four rematch. The Wolverines are 6-0 and the new No. 1 team in the country. BG breaks down the new USCHO rankings: Michigan Tech’s climb, BU’s slide after a split at Vermont, Northeastern and Merrimack cracking the top 20, and Niagara sweeping Icebreaker champ Bowling...

Two weeks into the 2026-27 NHL season, the league already looks very different from what anyone predicted. On this episode of CellyCentral, BG is joined by David to break down where things stand, from teams tearing it down to the studs to contenders looking for one more piece. We start with the state of the NHL’s rebuilds. Some teams are clearly on the right track, stacking young talent and buildi...

BG break down a chaotic first week of the NHL season. The Rangers sit on top of the league, the Jets haven’t lost in regulation without the holdout Connor Hellebuyck, and Evan Bouchard is off to a historic start with six goals in four games. Florida loses both Aleksander Barkov and Brad Marchand for six weeks, Macklin Celebrini is banged up, and Dylan Larkin still wants out of Detroit. Plus: the O...

BG breaks down a wild first week of the NHL season. Alex Ovechkin told the Capitals this will be his final season. Igor Shesterkin went the length of the ice for the first goalie goal in Rangers history. Aleksander Barkov is out until around Christmas with a knee injury, and the Dylan Larkin-to-Florida rumors are heating up. Plus: every team's week one record and who's carrying them, McDavid's nin...

Sawyer, aka BG, previews NHL opening night as the first 84-game season in over 30 years gets underway. He breaks down David Pastrnak being named the Bruins' 28th captain, with his career numbers and how his game has shifted from sniper to playmaker, plus Connor Hellebuyck's suspension in Winnipeg, the Larkin and Marchenko trade markets, the new CBA rules, Cup odds, and the milestones to watch this...

The Rangers finished dead last in the Metro at 34-39-9, traded Artemi Panarin in February, traded Vincent Trocheck in July, and dropped their preseason opener 3-2 to a Devils team dressing most of its NHL roster. So naturally, we're calling it a bounce-back year. BG is joined by Liam Kirby for a full New York Rangers 2026-27 preview. We break down the rookie showcase and No. 5 overall pick Alberts...

One in a million, and we mean that two ways. First, CellyCentral just crossed ONE MILLION combined views across TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. When Season 1 wrapped in June, we were sitting around 483K. Three months into Season 2, we've more than doubled it. BG takes a moment to thank everyone who watched, shared, commented and helped build this thing from the ground up. Second, the NHL just had i...

Hockey's back. Not officially — but the rookie showcases are live, and BG's got the full rundown solo. The Lightning prospects fell 3-1 to Nashville in game one of the Prospect Showcase, and the story wasn't the score — it was four fights, including a line brawl with 2:30 left. Connor Kurth got Tampa's only goal, Harrison Meneghin went the distance, and we break down who's actually pushing for a r...

Sawyer, aka BG, talks Chris Kreider and Anaheim mutually terminating his contract — not a buyout, no retained cap hit, and he walks away from about $4M. BG gets into what actually drove it: the Flyers' offer sheet on Leo Carlsson, Cutter Gauthier still unsigned off a 41-goal season, and the same Verbeek playbook that ended with Zegras, Drysdale and McTavish out the door. Plus the full rumor mill —...

September's Suicide Prevention Month, and BG's riding solo for this one. He wanted to say something instead of letting the month slide past, so he opens up about dealing with anxiety and tells the hockey story that makes it land: Corey Hirsch, a Stanley Cup goalie who hid what he was going through for thirteen years, and the NHLPA's First Line program, built on the idea that the guy two stalls dow...

Solo episode. One mic, no co-host, no guest, and a week that had no business being this loud in late August. The show opens where it has to. Arizona State defenseman Matthew Mayich collapsed during an outdoor team workout at Sun Angel Stadium on the morning of August 20 — the first day of the fall semester and the first day the NCAA permits official team activities. Tempe Fire Medical Rescue respo...

Nobody's played a game that counts yet. Everybody's still undefeated. Every take is still technically correct. In six days, that all goes away. BG goes solo for the last quiet week of the summer — and it turns out just about everybody has a deadline hanging over them. Florida State opens Week 0. Mike Norvell walks into Doak on Saturday night in year seven, off a 2-10 and a 5-7, with his third new...

Nineteen days until camps open and eighteen guys still don't have contracts. BG goes solo to break down the strangest August in recent memory. A 22-year-old turned down $52 million. A rookie defenseman with one NHL season and a third-pairing role got asked about $8 million a year, smiled, and said "More." And it all traces back to one offer sheet Philadelphia faxed to Anaheim in July that blew up...

Ten years ago, a 19-year-old scored four goals in his NHL debut — and his team still lost. That's how the NHL's centennial season opened, and it only got weirder from there. Sawyer goes back to 2016-17 to figure out how one season handed the league over to a generation of teenagers and ended on the ugliest Cup-winning goal of the modern era. The rookie class is the spine of it: Matthews with 40 go...

Summer hockey is where the next wave introduces itself, and this week Sawyer Haber runs through everything that mattered on the international stage. We start with the Hlinka Gretzky Cup — the tournament that traditionally gives us our first real look at the upcoming draft class. Who controlled play, who put up numbers against real competition, and which names went from "on the radar" to "circle hi...

🏒 The NHL Mount Rushmore Meets the First-Ever Grease Awards | CellyCentral Big one this week. Sawyer takes on two massive debates in a single episode — starting with the ultimate hockey argument: the all-time NHL Mount Rushmore, built decade by decade from the 1980s all the way to today. Five decades, four names each, twenty legends on the board — Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier, Roy, Jagr, Lidstrom, B...

It's just BG flying solo this week, and there's a lot to get into. On the pop culture side, I'm going episode-by-episode through Entourage Season 5 — Vince picking up the pieces after Medellín bombs at Cannes, Ari fighting to land him the Smoke Jumpers role while his own career hangs in the balance, and Eric quietly building himself into a real operator instead of just "Vince's guy." Turtle finall...

This week we're stepping outside the rink for a full Entourage deep dive before jumping back into the hockey world for one of the busiest weeks of the NHL offseason. We break down all 20 episodes of Entourage Season 3 — the Medellín obsession, Ari's power struggle with rival agent Amanda, Eric stepping up as a real dealmaker, and Vince's slow drift from "up-and-comer" to full-blown Hollywood probl...

BG kicks off with a first-ever segment: a deep dive into Sam Gellaitry, from his viral "Assumptions" resurgence to a full track-by-track breakdown of his debut album Anywhere Here Is Perfect (spoiler: it's an 8.5/10). Then it's Hollywood hour — a full episode-by-episode breakdown of Entourage Season 2 . The Aquaman deal wobbles before it even gets off the ground, Ari's ego keeps getting in his own...

Free agency didn't waste any time — and neither does BG, flying solo this week to break down what might be the most chaotic offseason in recent memory. With the cap ceiling jumping to $104 million, teams have been throwing around long-term money like it's nothing, and that's before you even get to the offer sheets. This episode covers it all, team by team: the seismic Brady Tkachuk trade sending O...

CellyCentral is back for Season 2 and Sawyer Haber is coming in with one of the most unique episodes the pod has ever done. Two worlds collide in this one — Hollywood and hockey. First up, Sawyer goes episode by episode through all eight episodes of Entourage Season 1, breaking down every storyline, every character moment, and every reason why this HBO classic still hits as hard today as it did wh...