Let's Get Pucked Up

Frequent guests Wyatt Danowski and Spencer Phillips join the podcast to talk NHL Return to Play, and how the NHL is somehow the only league in professional sports to screw up what should be a gimme in adequately supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. The show then transitions to focusing on whether we can remember what even happened in the 2019-20 NHL season to the tune of Wyatt and Spencer c...

Your host, Robin Kooymans, is joined again by Spencer Phillips and Devan Grainger to play catch up on hockey related news from the last month+. Topics include: Black Lives Matter, the Hockey Diversity Alliance, Return to Play, Edmonton and Toronto as hub cities, the newly approved CBA, Draft Lottery chaos, the sorry states of the Sabres and Senators, HHOF Class of 2020, and HHOF Snubs.

Scott Dowler and Stephane Poitras are on as guests for the first in-person podcast record in about three months. We discuss how weird this all is and decide to follow an "order of operations" to keep ourselves on track, so we of course defer to the acronym BEDMAS, with B standing for Brackets/Byes, E for Edmonton (a frontrunner potential hub city), D for Draft/Deadline (as in trade deadline if the...

Devan Grainger and Spencer Phillips join the podcast again to discuss first the issues with hockey culture and the tepid reaction from people in the world of hockey to Akim Aliu's Players' Tribune article, "Hockey is Not for Everyone," and then the newly announced playoff/play-in format for the NHL's return to play. We then give our predictions for each of the eight potential "play-in" best-of-fiv...

Devan, Spencer, and Robin continue where they left off and make their predictions for the Leafs' opening night roster for 2020-21 (presuming there is a 2020-21 season) and they border on outlandish to disturbingly conservative. Come for the unrealistic trade suggestions, stay for the Nick Robertson should be in the top six on opening night hot takes. Apologies once again to listeners who don't car...

Devan Grainger and Spencer Phillips join your host, Robin Kooymans, from their lockdown locations in North Bay, Ontario and Cornwall, PEI, respectively, to add a little cross-country flavour to the first part of a two-part dive into everything Toronto Maple Leafs. This episode features: a moment of silence for the anniversary of the Game 7 4-1 collapse against the Bruins in 2012-13, a moment of si...

Devan Grainger and Wyatt Danowski join as guests to go through the onerous contracts of each and every NHL team (or in Wyatt's case, just talk about players he dislikes since he doesn't do math) and decide which contract for each team is worthy of a hypothetical compliance buyout if each team were allowed one before the start of the 2020-21 regular season.

Wyatt Danowski and Devan Grainger join the show once again as guests as we settle once and for all whose Team Canada roster reigns supreme. Spoiler alert: The title of the episode. We then give an update on the NHL's future regarding future games for the season, Big Buff's divorce from the Jets, the NHL's strange plans to hold the draft in June, and we finally end with a back and forth on which Ca...

Wyatt Danowski joins as a guest to talk hockey in China as well as his picks for international rosters for Teams Canada, Finland, and Sweden under the presupposition of an imaginary best-on-best tournament that would be happening right now. In the times of Covid-19 sometimes all we have is our imagination...

Host, Robin Kooymans, and guest, Devan Grainger, discuss hockey in China, the possibility of the NHL playoffs in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and then imagine a scenario in which there was an international best-on-best hockey tournament being played today. Given this scenario, and imagining all eligible players are 100% healthy, Robin and Devan take a shot at choosing rosters for Teams Canada, USA,...

The podcast debuts a new rap theme, and then Scott "The Prowler" Dowler, John "Ay yay yay" Coughlin, and your host, Robin "R-$" Kooymans, get into comparing this past season's Red Wings to historically inept teams in an attempt to figure out which team deserves the title of "Worst NHL Team Ever." Additionally, Scott, John, and Robin get truly audacious in prognosticating who will win the Stanley C...

John Coughlin and Scott Dowler join host, Robin Kooymans, over Skype for Take 4 in an arduous but fruitful recording process. We talk about how we're keeping sane during these trying times, what the NHL should do if the season is indeed able to continue at some point, and who we should give out major NHL awards to should the regular season be done.

Some lost footage from a failed second attempt at recording a podcast on March 28, 2020 with John Coughlin and Scott Dowler. Any references made to Ryan Connon were for purely satirical purposes and were not meant to represent our actual thoughts on the upstanding citizen he is. Please still be our friend, Ryan.

Try to follow along as your host, Robin Kooymans, chronicles his rapid descent into madness following the "pausing" of the 2019-20 NHL season and drastic self isolation measures that have followed in the wake of the spread of the virus worldwide. Side note: all characters and events in this show - even those based on real people - are entirely fictional. All celebrity voices are impersonated... po...

Stephane Poitras enters legendary guest status as he joins your host, Robin Kooymans, once again and dives into a lengthy discussion on the David Ayres situation and how depressing it is in Leafs-land, the trade deadline's winners and losers in a methodical trade-by-trade analysis, and who are now our picks team-wise to emerge from each division come playoff time. We even go as far as to give our...

Your host, Robin Kooymans, and frequent guest, Stephane Poitras, catch up on a ton of hockey news since the Battle of 'Berta. They start with a recap of being in Yellowknife for Hockey Day in Canada, then move on to talking about the enjoyably ridiculous Washington Capitals warm-up routine, then hit a bit of a downer discussing Biznasty/Carcillo and their tweetfest along with Zack Kassian's 2nd su...

Your host, Robin Kooymans, is joined by recurring guests Scott "The Prowler" Dowler, and Stephane "The Man" Poitras to talk about Round One of the Battle of Alberta and what we can expect for Round 2 (we recorded just before puck drop of round two and during a bit of the first period), the craziness that is the top of the Pacific Division standings currently, Gritty punching a kid, the crappiness...

Andrew "Andrewlius Pennerific/Pennzoil/Punner/Mercedes Pennz/Penn15" Penner joins host, Robin "former lead singer of Johnny and the Kickass" Kooymans, to discuss World Juniors, the recent slew of coach and GM firings in the NHL, the All-Star Game, a bunch of Leafs stuff, the goonery of Matthew Tkachuk, the futility of the Habs, and favourite things about Toronto. As we all know Toronto is the cent...

Scott Dowler joins host, Robin Kooymans, to discuss the events of the World Juniors to this point, our mid-season NHL Awards favourites, and a few more major issues pertaining to hockey's great reckoning to round out the 2019 calendar year. We try the best we can to have a positive outlook for hockey culture going into 2020.

Scott "the Growler" Dowler joins your host, Robin "R-Money" Kooymans to drink a lot of beer and discuss escalating hockey topics (numerically speaking) pertaining to the year 2019 in an episode we lovingly call the 12 Beers of Christmas. We review an eventful year in hockey by talking about Don Cherry, Andrei Svechnikov, the poor poor Sens, Canadian teams' playoff prospects, fired coaches, Taylor...

Special guests Mike Gibbins and Stephane Poitras (for a record-breaking fourth appearance!) join host Robin Kooymans to discuss all the press hockey has been getting lately for mostly bad reasons (coaches behaving badly, toxic masculinity, racism). They get into some dark places as they realize the world of hockey is not the magical quintessential Canadian experience they were told it is. They als...

Mike Babcock joins on the podcast with Baby Brian, Stephane Poitras, and Scott Dowler to introduce his new podcast "Babtalk" until he gets tired of being told he's a bad coach compared to Sheldon Keefe and then leaves. Your host, Robin Kooymans, shows up fashionably late and joins the podcast to talk about Don Cherry replacements, the next NHL coach to be fired, and which team who missed the playo...

Stephane Poitras joins as a guest for the second time to the delight of your host, Robin Kooymans, for a super timely and impromptu episode that details the shocking firing of one of the "Ten Greatest Canadians of All Time," Don Cherry.

Darrell "Big D/D-Rail" Epp, Sarah Beattie, Kristina Carlson, and Ryan Bachynski join host Robin Kooymans to talk about amazing goals, favourite all time players... but mostly Dustin Byfuglien chasing garbage trucks and other Winnipeg hockey/beer culture.

The third episode of Let's Get Pucked Up features "Baby" Brian (Real Deal) Weadick making his current record-setting second appearance on the podcast, along with Alex "Brocksy" (Real Deal) Brockman, and your host, Robin (James Neal) Kooymans, to discuss various topics including: Pop culture relating to hockey, inaccurate team names, Real Deal vs. James Neal (Teams/ Players off to hot starts and wh...