Coast 2 Coast Podcast

The wait is over. With opening night one day away, the Coast to Coast crew sat down for a full NHL season preview, ranking all 32 teams, calling every division and picking the 2027 Stanley Cup champion. Olin and Donny Waddy were joined by NJT, our not John Tavares guest, who filled in for Zaylor and was more than happy to disagree with us all night. We start with the news that dropped right before...

Episode 2 of Coast to Coast opens with a full look ahead at the NHL season, including why the Pacific Division might be the toughest in hockey, the wide open Stanley Cup race, lingering goaltending questions in Edmonton, and the Florida Panthers assembling a roster that has us equal parts hyped and terrified. From there we move into college football as Week 1 arrives. We go through the slate game...

Season one of the Coast to Coast show is officially here. Zaylor, Ian, and Olin open things up by getting way too excited over the Cruz Lucius trade to future considerations, tracing it back through the Hurricanes’ Jake Guentzel trade tree and dragging Michael Bunting’s eight-year, four-million-dollar extension along the way. It is the kind of offseason dopamine hit only hockey fans will understan...

Free agency is here and the Coast to Coast Show is back with a full offseason recap. Olin, Donny, and Zaylor break down the moves that actually matter around the league, starting with the Sharks handing out big money to Darnell Nurse and Jacob Trouba, the Oilers bringing in Mike Babcock as their new head coach, and the wild few days in Columbus with Zach Werenski vetoing a trade to Dallas before d...

The Coast to Coast Show Is Here. Now Let’s Talk About Everything That Just Happened. The podcast is dead. Long live the show. After months of building Coast to Coast into what it is, we are officially rebranding to the Coast to Coast Show, and this first episode is exactly the kind of conversation that earned that upgrade. Ian and Olin sat down to do something they have been promising for a while:...

Twenty years. That’s how long Caniacs have been waiting for this moment. And on Sunday night in Las Vegas, the Carolina Hurricanes made it worth every second. On this episode of the Coast to Coast Podcast, Donny Waddy and Olin break down all six games of the 2026 Stanley Cup Final between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Las Vegas Golden Knights and close it out with something a little more persona...

The Stanley Cup Final is set, and for the first time in Coast to Coast Podcast history, we are previewing the championship round. Vegas Golden Knights versus Carolina Hurricanes, two of the most consistent franchises in the NHL since 2020, are finally meeting on the biggest stage. We break down how both teams got here, starting with Vegas sweeping a Presidents’ Trophy Colorado Avalanche squad that...

The 2026 NHL Playoffs are heating up and the conference finals are almost set. Donny Waddy and Olin are breaking down everything you need to know before the puck drops. 🏒 Carolina Hurricanes Conference Final preview — who they're facing, why Donny thinks they're going all the way, and what a Raleigh Stanley Cup parade would actually look like ❄️ Colorado Avalanche vs Vegas Golden Knights — is Mar...

Episode 6 of the Coast to Coast Podcast is live, and there is a lot to get into. The Carolina Hurricanes are up 3-0 on the Philadelphia Flyers and could be done before the Buffalo and Montreal series even finds its footing. Ian and Olin break down why this Canes team is as well-constructed for a deep playoff run as they have been in years, how the shorthanded Chatfield goal in Game 3 essentially c...

Coast 2 Coast Episode 5 w/ Zaylor & Ben Get full access to Donny Waddy at donnywaddy.substack.com/subscribe

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We were about five seconds away from hitting record when the news broke: Brad Treliving had been fired by the Toronto Maple Leafs . Before we could even process that, the Golden Knights dropped their own bomb; Bruce Cassidy was out, and John Tortorella was in . With eight games left in the regular season. That’s how Episode 3 of Coast to Coast started. Unscripted. Unfiltered. Olin is learning abou...

Olin and Ian break down the NHL trade deadline. Get full access to Donny Waddy at donnywaddy.substack.com/subscribe

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