Soups on Hockey

I ended up going down several different rabbit holes. Why the new NBA (yes NBA) TV deal makes sense for them, Jeff Marek leaving Sportsnet, more Stan Bowman talk, rumours that the Leon Draisaitl extension is close and why some of the myths on what it’ll look like don’t make any sense.

I hate the hiring just like everyone else. BUT...I'm also willing to give this man a chance, and I lay out why you should too.

It's so hot out! And it's so smokey out! So there is no point in doing ANYTHING else other than putting on this podcast and finding out where I rank all 32 NHL teams now that the dust has settled with free agency.

The Oilers trade their 2021 1st round pick (22nd) Xavier Bourgault, and their 2021 4th round pick Jake Chiasson to Ottawa in exchange for 2020 2nd round pick (33rd) Roby Jarventie and a 2025 4th round pick. My thoughts.

Too much going on to list it all, just give it a listen and you'll only be mildly disappointed!

It's draft day! What a great way to get over the loss of a woman you have loved and lost, then by getting into bed with the woman you've been sleeping with behind her back! In this case, I'm talking about the Oilers and the NHL draft! Plus, I kick off the show with some thoughts on what's been a hectic week in the NHL. Ken Holland, the Hockey Hall of Fame, trades, and the awards all in this editio...

Is this the beginning of the end, or the beginning of an amazing run? It’s impossible to know right now, but it hurts just the same as it did in 06.

Most believed that the Oilers were winning game 6. But now that it's happened, it is simply astonishing what we are witnessing.

Special edition of the podcast as we get ready for game 6 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final, I look back nearly 18 years ago to the day at game 6 of the 2006 Stanley Cup Final. The best game I've ever been to as an Oilers fan.

All the description you need is in the title.

97 was special tonight. That’s all.

The PDO gods who had killed the Oilers in two of the first three games of the final, finally decided to quit punishing them and even it up a bit in game 4. Dominating 8-1 win by the Oilers keeps their Cup hopes on life support.

Longest title I’ve ever used, making the episode description shorter. Oilers about to be swept.

Their backs are to the wall now. No offence, not much fight, pretty bleak for the Oilers as they come back to Edmonton trailing 2-0.

Nurse and Ceci were back together. SHOCKER, it doesn't work.

Here we go. I'd be doing this show regardless of who was playing, but it's the Oilers who are taking on the Panthers. This is a FREAKING coin flip, but I try to break it down and figure out who I like in this series.

One win away. To quote a super cheesey song that HNIC used to play, "the chance may never come again".

This series potentially just flipped with the Oilers new D pairings settling in as game 4 progressed, while a very key member of the Stars blueline left the game. Oilers win 5-2, setting up a beauty weekend in the West final.

Amazing 20 min, horrendous 15 min, not bad 15 min, horrendous gaff in goal, equals an Oilers loss and a team pissing away their Cup hopes yet again.

Connor McDavid in double OT wins it for the Oilers, an Oilers team who looked far more in control and relaxed than in the Vancouver series.

It was 30 minutes of domination, 22 minuets of nothing, 8 minutes of sheer torcher, but the Oilers defeated the Canucks in 7 and now face Dallas in the West final.

It's the post-game that's actually a pre-game. Oilers force game 7, and they should win, but...can they?

Yet ANOTHER disgrace of a performance from the Edmonton Oilers, an organization that just DOES NOT GET IT.

Canucks win 4-3 and have a 2-1 lead over the hapless Edmonton Oilers, a team and organization that grows more unlikable by the minute.

The Oilers came from behind all night and finally take the lead in OT...which means you win. It's evened up heading for a game 3 showdown Sunday night in Edmonton.