Blueshirt Bandwidth

Episode 92 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Michael Nylander Episode—Joe and Chip are joined by Timo Seppa, director of hockey analytics at Quinnipiac and an eight-year NHL analytics veteran (whose old direct report, Chris Ramondelli, now works in the Rangers' own analytics department), to dig into why Sean Durzi's power-play numbers cratered next to Sergachev in Utah, how Marcus Pettersson a...

Episode 91 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Marcus Naslund (or Sammy Blais?) Episode—Joe and Eric review a free agency day that turned into a full-blown second trade deadline. Vincent Trocheck is dealt to Utah for Sean Durzi, top prospect Cole Beaudoin, and a 2027 third. Marcus Pettersson arrives from Vancouver for a top-10-protected 2030 first, Oliver Bjorkstrand and Joe Veleno add speed and depth,...

Joe and Eric are LIVE for round one of the NHL draft. Within the first 20 minutes, Chris Drury drops a bomb, trading for 25-year-old Pavel Dorofayev—37 goals, 12 playoff goals this past spring—for the 26th overall pick, a third-rounder, and a conditional top-10-protected 2028 first, then locks him up immediately at seven years and $11 million a year. Eric and Joe spend a while just absorbing the e...

Episode 90 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Vlad Nemestnikov Episode—Joe is on a private jet to a Caribbean island, so Eric and Chip are joined by Ryan Mead of Blueshirts Breakaway to relitigate the Artemi Panarin trade in the wake of Brady Tkachuk going to Florida. Ryan thinks Drury got fleeced, Chip argues the age, term, and NMC situation made the trades genuinely incomparable, and Eric zooms out t...

The Knicks are NBA champions, and Eric and Joe have a lot of feelings—mostly jealousy, some genuine excitement, and an extended meditation on what Leon Rose's success might mean for how the Rangers are run. Carolina hoisted the Cup on one of the easiest paths in recent memory, K'Andre Miller has a ring, and the boys explain (with receipts) why, no, you can't just throw anyone in net. O...

Episode 88 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Patrick Kane episode—Joe and Chip debate the show's naming convention (Lindros? Ken Hodge? No) before landing on prime Eric Lindros. Charlie's Ombudsman Report gets a full flogging. Then the main event: Dylan Larkin's trade request out of Detroit and what it means for the Vincent Trocheck market—Chip pitches a CBA fix for no-movement clauses, Jo...

Episode 87 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is named after the only Ranger to wear #87—Donald Brashear—which leads to a very important debate about how old he'd have to be before either host would feel comfortable fighting him. Charlie Vidal's Ombudsman Report delivers a thorough flogging: forgetting Sean Avery on the Rangers personality Mount Rushmore is declared inexcusable and Joe and Eric agree....

Episode 86 of Blueshirt Bandwidth has Eric back after a week away, and the boys have plenty to chew on. The Mount Rushmore of Rangers personalities kicks things off , and the Ombudsman Report dings Joe for calling Colorado "a wagon that's going to steamroll the East" as they're on the verge of being swept by Vegas (when this is recorded). Then the real stuff: John Tortorella is n...

Episode 85 of Blueshirt Bandwidth has no Ranger to its name—nobody ever wore the number—so Joe and Chip lean on the $85-a-year ad-free tie-in, Mike Richter going 28th in the 1985 draft, and a whole lot of roasting Eric for the way he says "Wolf Pack." Charlie Vidal's Ombudsman Report cleans up the draft order (the Rangers land 26th, not 27th, after Buffalo's Game 7 overtime colla...

Note: We had connection issues when recording this episode, so if some transitions seem kind of rocky, that's why. Episode 84 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Adam Edstrom episode, and Eric and Joe fight Riverside through multiple connection meltdowns to get into the long version of the fifth-overall conversation. They think the Rangers should be on the phone with Mike Grier about trading up for...

Episode 83 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the first-ever live stream, and Eric and Joe spend the first 25 minutes watching the Rangers fall to fifth overall in the NHL draft lottery in real time—the mathematically worst-case scenario—while Toronto somehow wins the right to draft Gavin McKenna. Joe's heart rate hits 140 beats a minute, the lottery may or may not have been rigged, and the long argume...

Episode 82 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Martin Straka episode. A good player for a time when everything is coming up Rangers (question mark?). Charlie Vidal makes corrections in the Ombudsman Report, along with the all-time Rangers shootout leader (it might not be who you think), the Dan Girardi gift that actually lost the 2014 Cup Final, and a fresh batch of J.T. Miller "controller disconnected"...

Joe is back from his cruise and immediately gets roasted by the Podcast Ombudsman Report as Joe learns he has been mispronouncing the name of the show for 80 straight episodes. From there, Eric and Joe dig into Breakup Day: a heartfelt sendoff for Jonathan Quick, serious frustration with J.T. Miller's "I put too much pressure on myself" comments, cautious optimism about Mika Zibaneja...

Episode 80 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the Kevin Weeks episode. Joe is on a cruise, so Chip fills in, and the two cover a lot of ground: Jonathan Quick's retirement and what it means for the backup goaltending picture next year (Eric and Chip disagree), the Drew Fortescue healthy scratch that cost him $80,000 and probably didn't need to happen, and The Athletic 's NHL agent poll ranking...

Episode 79 of Blueshirt Bandwidth is the K'Andre Miller episode. Eric Kohn and Joe Fortunato check in on the Rangers' former defenseman (35 points in 69 games with Carolina, since you asked). The Rangers are playing their best hockey at the worst possible time, so Eric and Joe break down what that means for the draft lottery odds, which young players are making the case to stick around, an...

Episode  78  of  Blueshirt Bandwidth  is a split-format show that blends present-day frustration with a forward-looking reality check. Joe and Chip open the episode by reacting to a pair of deeply annoying Rangers wins—victories that hurt lottery odds while reinforcing the same structural issues that have plagued the team all season. They debate the Brennan Othmann discourse, push back on the idea...

Episode  77  of  Blueshirt Bandwidth  starts Joe and Eric reacting to one of the most embarrassing performances of the season—a 10-shot effort in Mika Zibanejad’s 1,000th NHL game—and use it as a jumping-off point to dissect a team that looks completely checked out.  The conversation centers heavily on J.T. Miller, whose postgame comments continue to say all the right things while his on-ice play...

Episode  76  of  Blueshirt Bandwidth  opens with a familiar refrain: the tank is back on. After a brief, confusing stretch of competent hockey, the Rangers crash back to reality with a lifeless loss to the Los Angeles Kings, reinforcing what Joe and Eric have been saying all along—this is still a bottom-tier team, and that’s not changing overnight.  The episode centers on the aftermath of Artemi P...

Episode  75  of  Blueshirt Bandwidth  arrives just days after the trade deadline and the Emergency Bandwidth episode reacting to it, and Joe and Eric circle back to the Rangers’ biggest unresolved storyline: Vincent Trocheck staying put. The duo revisit the logic behind Chris Drury holding the line on Trocheck’s price, debate whether the Rangers actually improved their leverage heading toward the...

Emergency Bandwidth  returns as Joe and Eric jump on the microphones just before the NHL trade deadline to react in real time to what might—or might not—happen with the Rangers’ biggest remaining trade chip, Vincent Trocheck. The show begins with the Rangers quietly moving Sam Carrick to Buffalo for a third- and sixth-round pick, a perfectly reasonable bit of deadline business that nevertheless un...

Episode 74 of  Blueshirt Bandwidth  opens with Joe, Eric, and Chip unpacking how Team USA’s Olympic decisions—and Mike Sullivan’s comments afterward—continue to ripple through Rangers discourse, particularly regarding Fox’s relationship with the organization. From there, the conversation shifts fully back to Rangers reality. The trio debate Chris Drury’s leverage with Vincent Trocheck compared to...

Episode 73 of  Blueshirt Bandwidth  begins on a rare high note: the United States are Olympic gold medalists, and Joe and Eric savor every second of it. They break down both championship games, Connor Hellebuyck’s Henrik Lundqvist–level performance, Jack Hughes’ golden goal, and what this moment means for American hockey—and Canadian coping. From there, the conversation turns toward the Rangers’ r...

Episode 72 of  Blueshirt Bandwidth  opens with a truly unhinged hockey-adjacent debate about workplace affairs, Marty Brodeur lore, and why you should never “go full Brodeur,” before pivoting into a depressing but fitting reality: this is the Filip Chytil episode. The conversation quickly turns to the present, where the Olympics have only deepened frustrations about the Rangers’ core. Joe unloads...

Episode 71 of  Blueshirt Bandwidth  opens with Joe and Eric in unusually good spirits—thanks to an Olympic break and a Rangers schedule that has mercifully paused the chaos. From there, the episode turns to the main event (again): the Artemi Panarin trade. Joe and Eric push back hard against revisionist criticism of Chris Drury, unpacking how Panarin’s no-movement clause and agent maneuvering boxe...

It's episode 70 of Blueshirt Bandwidth and Joe is out of the country, so Eric is joined by Chip to talk about the one big thing that just happened: Artemi Panarin has been traded to the Los Angeles Kings. What we thought might have been a bidding war with a bunch of teams involved ended up being only one team Panarin would waive his no-movement clause for in the end. It's not what we wante...