Soups on Hockey

What’s this about? It’s about the Oilers. On the 3-2 SO loss to AZ? Not really at all, no. Basically it’s more talk about the organization status, what I pray (and know they won’t) look for in a new GM, different ways to rebuild the club, this isn’t a very good episode and my throat gets pretty sore towards the end but I hadn’t done one in nearly 3 weeks so fuck it as the children would say!

The Soups on hockey trade deadline preview? I don’t know if it’s that, but I go damn near two hours skipping all over the place as I often do, but mainly talking about the big players with less than a week to go until the NHL trade deadline. I literally have some interesting on the fly thoughts on guys like Eric Staal, Devan Dubnyk, Blake Wheeler, and others. Who SHOULD buy big, who SHOULD sell bi...

It’s close to a 2 hour edition of the podcast! 3 segments because of circumstance, but essentially 2 parts. First, I get into the Super Bowl, it was awful, but one person on Twitter made my night thanks to him getting pissy for some dumb reason. Then I get into the Oilers, talk a LITTLE about the games this past weekend, but so about what mistakes they’ve made in the past and what I would be looki...

Is the nightmare over? Hopefully, but I don’t know. Until the clown show is cleared out I have VERY LITTLE faith in this organization which is run by the worst owner in professional sports today. But I talk about what’s happened, what’s to come, who might be right for the job, who I hate for the job, and letting my dog outside in this edition of the podcast

It’s another verbal beat down of the Edmonton Oilers organization/tire fire! Everyone enjoyed the last one and I’m sure there will be many more to come as this team led by the absolute worst and most embarrassing owner in all of sports continues to piss away the career of one of the greatest offensive talents the game of hockey has ever seen.

After Ryan Rishaug tweeted that the Oilers are pushing hard for a forward, I talk about what that might look like, more so focusing on one guy in particular whom I believed for a few months now would fit for the Oilers. No doubt though that this fan base is bracing itself for the worst, and rightfully so!!

I sing to kick off this podcast, and as disgusting as the singing is it isn’t near as disgusting as the Oilers effort vs the LA Kings Saturday night. Basically this is a 1 hour rant of how horrific the Edmonton Oilers are as an organization. Warning, if you don’t want to hear hard truths as an Oilers fan then this likely isn’t for you. A lot of Katz bashing, a little Lucic bashing, a little bit on...

Debated calling this Soups on Hockey, a lot of Oilers talk, but I do manage to touch on the Benn/Seguin comments out of Dallas and a little Canada World Junior talk in addition to the Oilers stuff.

I think this is about 1:40:00 long! But I talk expansion, is it done? Or is this the beginning of another explosion like we saw in the 90’s? Ovechkin being the greatest goal scorer in league history, can he get to 800? Montreal, Buffalo, Calgary and of course a lot of Oilers talk (McDavid vs the refs in particular). I’m also joined throughout by my co-host Griffey the golden retriever puppy in thi...

Oilers pickup a 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Flyers Friday night, talk about the keys to the win, how big of an upgrade Hitchcock has been, Puljujarvi, Koskinen, Nurse, Gravel, Parayko (hint hint he’s not an Oiler or Flyer...), and what’s up next for the now 9-2-2 Ken Hitchcock led Oilers.

Oilers win 6-4, lose Klefbom, pp looks much better, Koskinen looks great again, and then I really get into the Andrew Ference comments

Oilers/Blues post game show basically. I didn’t see a lot of the 3-2 SO win but I still talk about that, talk about how it was an important win for confidence on many levels, talk about my back and forth with Jonathan Willis and his buddies on Twitter the other night, and a little about the Oilers prospects who at least got camp invites for the 2019 WJC teams. I go a little over an hour, because I...

Oilers lose 4-1 in Dallas but played solid considering they were without McDavid. I talk about the Stars puck luck, analysts who do shitty jobs analyzing things, what Peter Chiarelli still needs to do (Tyler Toffoli?) and go off and on topic a lot as always.

I try to jam a lot into 1 hour! Flyers firing Ron Hextall, the Blues fires Mike Yeo last week and I didn’t get to it til now, the Sharks issues, I never got to the Sabres, the next coaches who could be axed, or the big names who could be moved, but I ended it talking a lot about the Willie Nylander saga and the Leafs in general. Oooo and I also sing to you!! It’s like a 1970’s style variety show!

In this episode of Soups on Oilers, I’m “Soups”, and I discuss the Oilers. Hence the title.

My thoughts on the short term fix with the Edmonton Oilers. Who can thrive playing for Hitch, and what really needs to change in order for the Oilers to get back on track

I bitch for close to an hour about the Oilers disgusting 3rd period that cost them a big two points in Calgary Saturday night. Nice little rant on Todd McLellan near the end that might be as much about interesting POV’s as it is just on him doing an awful job at the moment.

Rundown of the big 6-2 win by the Oilers over the Canadiens. And I ramble on about some shit like Koskinen, how to best use McDavid/Draisaitl/Nuge, some other shit, it’s 40 minutes of averageness!!

I was trying to keep Soups on Hockey separate from Soups on Oilers, yet in the first Soups on Hockey episode since Soups on Oilers, I talk a lot of Oilers. So this is a hybrid episode, won’t be the case moving forward hopefully. Ok, so I don’t ever make mention of it during the episode, but I’m a tad hungover. Should have said it during the show but pretty sure I never did. I’m angry in this episo...

Run down of the Oilers game against the Panthers, what was good, what was bad, what’s to come

Basically a post game show here with my thoughts on the Tampa game. Who looked good, who didn’t, etc.

Last week was LONG, and for some reason this week is longer!! Basically I do the first hour on the Oilers. So if you love Oilers talk, listen to the first 50-60 min. Then I finally get into talking about the Flames, Pacific Division and how weak it is, I go OFF on Vegas (and get a little darker/more personal than I anticipated), when I finally get back on track I talk more about the Leafs, and fin...

This one isn’t short! Over an hour and a half. First hour is mostly on the Oilers terrific performances against both the Caps and the Pens, the top pairing playing amazing, the second pairing playing amazing, RNH looking like a Selke candidate at the moment, Talbot’s bounce back, who I would go with and why on Saturday, and then eventually I also get into talking about the Flames struggles, the Du...

SPR joins me and for 90 min we talk a LOT of hockey! Of course a lot on the Oilers, Preds game, McLellan, Cooper Marody, Ryan McLeod, Kirill Maksimov, Evan Bouchard, London Knights talk, and a lot more! An absolute BLAST having SPR on and the guy knows his shit as well as anyone so you’ll definitely want to give this a listen!

This one may as well be called Soups on Oilers and Bruins because that is mostly what it was about. For some reason after an Oilers win, after a 3 game winning streak, I'm still fired up and bitter about a lot of things. I go off about officiating (as always), I also mock them (that's new), bitch about McLellan (as always), and eventually I touch a bit on the pattern of Canadian teams and my early...