Spits & Suds Podcast

D Magazine's David Castillo joins host Gavin Spittle to recap the Four Nations Tournament. Where does the NHL go from here? The reason the USA has such a bright hockey future. Player standouts from the tournament including several Dallas Stars.

Dallas/Texas Stars forward Justin Hryckowian jumps on with host Gavin Spittle to talk about his tremendous first professional season. Just talks about his teammates getting together to watch the Four Nations Final. How watching this fires him up to hopefully someday wear the Team Canada Sweater? How going to school at Northeastern and Hockey East was a big help in his transition to pro hockey. Exp...

Spits and Suds is getting you ready for USA/Canada Thursday night as ESPN's Greg Wyshynski joins 105.3 The Fan's Gbag Nation live from Boston to talk about the atmosphere and gives us a great preview of one of the most hyped hockey games in recent memory. 

The Director of officiating for the North American Hockey League, Keith Kaval joins Gavin Spittle on Spits and Suds. From working World Championships to becoming the first North American referee to work in Russia's KHL, what an amazing career. Whether it's the AHL, ECHL, NCAA, IIHL or many other leagues, Keith talks about being an on ice official. You'll learn about breaking or allowing fights, if...

Keith talks about some instances with players chirping and how he would officiate players that ran their mouth.

Whether it's the AHL, ECHL, NCAA, IIHL or many other leagues, Keith talks about being an on ice official. You'll learn about breaking or allowing fights, if officials try to even up penalties in a game to current safety measures for officials and the amazing road trips and stories including best chirps, road trips and officiating in front of Vladimir Putin.

The Director of officiating for the North American Hockey League, Keith Kaval joins Gavin Spittle on Spits and Suds. From working World Championships to becoming the first North American referee to work in Russia's KHL, what an amazing career. Keith talks about how he went from a goalie not liking officials to becoming an official.

Gavin Spittle and Joey Erickson from Locked On Stars talk 4 Nations Face Off, the Stars and Team Finland connection, Sam Steel's contract extension and more on this edition of Spits and Suds.

Gavin and Joey talk about the Sam Steel contract extension, trade deadline names for the Stars and takeaways on the Stars as they get ready to begin the second half of the season next Saturday.

The guys talk about all the Stars players that are playing for Team Finland in 4 Nations.

Gavin Spittle and Joey Erickson from Locked On Stars recap the thriller between Team USA and Team Canada at 4 Nations Face Off.

The 4 Nations Face Off showdown between USA and Canada lived up to the hype Saturday night. Host Gavin Spittle breaks it all down in this postgame recap. Gavin talks about the show Jake Guentzel put on for USA and how this is the first time he’s played for the United States International team. Then he talks about the Tkachuk brothers setting the stage with the fighting in the first 9 seconds of th...

Sean Shapiro joins Gavin Spittle to preview the Four Nations Face Off. Should there be a Team World or countries combining so that other elite NHL Players are featured? Why Stars fans should like that Mikael Granlund is an Alternate Captain for Team Finland. The guys discuss Jake Oettinger, Roope Hintz and Esa Lindell's role with their team. Will we see physicality and how bad do the players want...

The Stars dominated the Sharks 8-3 as they now get a break with the 4 Nations Faceoff coming up. Host Gavin Spittle talks about how this game wasn’t very fun tonight because of just how much better the Stars were against the Sharks and the entire league has been ready for this break and it showed. Gavin notes that this was the most goals scored all season by the entire league. Matt Duchene continu...

The Stars and Kings put on an absolute show in a 5-4 shootout loss for Dallas. Host Gavin Spittle recaps the thriller. He talks about why he didn’t like the fight with 2 seconds remaining in the first period. Gavin talks about Kevin Fiala and ties it in with the upcoming trade deadline as he recaps what Fiala went for in a trade. Gavin then reads tweets from listeners and says don’t sleep on the S...

With all of the call ups and injuries on this Dallas Stars team, it's a great time to bring on Stephen Meserve from 100 Degree Hockey to talk about the Texas Stars and players in the Stars system. Who would be the next call ups? How depleted is the system with so many prospects now playing in Dallas? Christian Kyrou, a one time top prospect is now getting healthy scratches. The play of Justin Hryc...

Spits and Suds Stars and NHL Insider Sean Shapiro hops on the program to talk about his sit down with Joe Pavelski. How Joe misses the game, especially heading towards the playoffs. Sean gives us some insight on a Miro Heiskanen return and what he feels is an approximate timeline. The guys discuss what the Stars might possibly do regarding another puck moving Defenseman. Marcus Pettersson signs a...

It's another Spits and Suds behind the curtain look at Dallas Stars game operations with the Music Director of the Stars DJ Shippy. The stories behind the sing along at the game. The timing of music with icing and the drop of the puck. Stars players requesting music during warmups and his thoughts on this current season. Let's pull back that curtain and learn of all the preparation and intricacies...

The Stars couldn’t get the offense going against the Anaheim Ducks after a 2-1 loss. Host Gavin Spittle has an unreal nugget about the Ducks when they score 3 or more and when they score 2 or less. Gavin says the Ducks have the Stars number and John Gibson played really well. He also talks about the injuries hurting the Stars with not having defensemen that can puck handle like Lundkvist and Heisk...

Five in a row for the Dallas Stars after they defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-3 Sunday night. Host Gavin Spittle is joined by David Castillo from D Magazine to talk about the win and the Stars trade with the Sharks over the weekend. Pete DeBoer made a comment about full face shields and he thinks they will be here in the future. Gavin and David discuss a fix for preventing injuries and why th...

The guys read tweets from listeners.

Pete DeBoer made a comment about full face shields and he thinks they will be here in the future. Gavin and David discuss a fix for preventing injuries and why the league didn’t think of this sooner. Then the guys discuss the trades the Stars made over the weekend.

Five in a row for the Dallas Stars after they defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-3 Sunday night. Host Gavin Spittle is joined by David Castillo from D Magazine to talk about the win.

The Stars made a trade Saturday with the San Jose Sharks. Host Gavin Spittle breaks down the trade for Mikael Granlund and Cody Ceci. He explains why this trade was good for both the Stars and the Sharks. Bottom line, Gavin says this trade makes the Stars a better team. 

It’s four in a row for the Stars after a 5-3 win against the Canucks. Host Gavin Spittle recaps the win, talks about the emergence from Jason Robertson and Roope Hintz as of late, Jake Oettinger’s effectiveness and he breaks down the trades the Vancouver Canucks made Friday night. He wraps by answering tweets from listeners.