The Athletic Hockey Show

Ian and Julian welcome Michael Russo to praise Marc-Andre Fleury's record 552 career goalie wins and the goal scoring prowess of the ageless Sidney Crosby. They discuss Steven Stamkos next contract and if it will be with the Lightning, Sam Reinhart's career year with the Panthers and Bruce Boudreau's comments on someone in the Canucks organization wanting to move Quinn Hughes to center last season...

On today’s Monday edition of The Athletic Hockey Show, Ian and Julian ask the question: are the Dallas Cowboys the NFL’s Toronto Maple Leafs? Then, the guys discuss NHL-NFL spirt animals, if there’s an NHL team everyone could behind winning a Stanley Cup, Down Goes Brown’s five playoff bubbles teams that should be worried, Hart Trophy anomalies, what the Penguins should do with Jake Guentzel as th...

On a special edition of The Athletic Hockey Show Prospect Series, Max and Corey break down the Cutter Gauthier-Jamie Drysdale trade and discuss how the deal impacts the rebuilds in Philadelphia and Anaheim respectively.  Plus, the guys give their quick thoughts on the just-released NHL Central Scouting midterm rankings. Subscribe to The Athletic Hockey Show on YouTube: http://youtube.com/@theathle...

Hailey Salvian and Max Bultman discuss what newly acquired Cutter Gauthier brings to the up and coming Anaheim Ducks, and how young blueliner Jamie Drysdale will fit onto John Tortorella's team with the Philadelphia Flyers. Hailey and Max analyze the news that Corey Perry is free to sign with any NHL team, after his voluntary conversation with Gary Bettman, and with most teams having reached the m...

Ian and Julian welcome Kevin Kurz from Philadelphia to discuss the continued fallout from Cutter Gauthier wanting out of the Flyers organization and newly acquired Jamie Drysdale's Flyers debut tonight. Down Goes Brown discusses his 23-24 NHL prediction contest and which of the NHL's worst teams could recreate the Blues’ worst-to-first miracle from 2019 and Shayna Goldman, our resident slump buste...

Ian Mendes and Julian McKenzie welcome Mike Russo to discuss the surprise trade between Philadelphia and Anaheim, with Jamie Drysdale joining the Flyers and prospect Cutter Gautheir getting his wish, being traded by the Flyers. Thomas Drance talks about the resurgent, surprising Vancouver Canucks who are tied for 2nd overall in the league. Plus Ian and Julian take a look at Dominik Luszczyszyn's N...

On a brand new Monday edition of The Athletic Hockey Show, Ian, Julian, and guest cohost Mark Lazerus discuss William Nylander’s monster $92 million, 8-year contract extension with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Connor Bedard suffering a fractured jaw and his timetable to return, whether the Jets, Canucks, or Flyers are the biggest surprise team in the standings, intriguing current playoff matchups, the...

On this special edition of The Athletic Hockey Show Prospect Series, Max, Corey, and The Athletic’s own Scott Wheeler record immediately following the conclusion of the 2024 World Junior Championship and discuss the US getting their gold medal revenge over Sweden, the impact of Team USA’s “BC Line”, the play of Trey Augustine in goal, Isaac Howard living up to this “Ice Man” identity, the Lane Hut...

On a brand new Prospect Series episode of The Athletic Hockey Show, Corey Pronman, Scott Wheeler, and FloHockey’s Chris Peters discuss what went wrong for Team Canada after being eliminated in the quarterfinal, Sweden narrowly advancing past Switzerland on the strength of an Axel Sandin Pellikka power play goal, and what a potential USA-Sweden gold medal game could look like, assuming the American...

Ian Mendes, Julian McKenzie, Mark Lazerus and Sean McIndoe discuss major storylines on the horizon in the hockey that they're looking forward to covering in 2024, including the launch of the Professional Women's Hockey League in January, closure on the 2018 Team Canada scandal, a new arena in Arizona, new contracts for William Nylander, Leon Draisaitl, Elias Pettersson and Steven Stamkos. Plus, so...

On a brand new Prospect Series episode of The Athletic Hockey Show, Max Bultman is joined by Corey Pronman, Scott Wheeler, and FloHockey’s Chris Peters from Gothenburg, Sweden to give their thoughts on Team Canada’s lackluster performance so far, the potential loss of Matt Savoie due to injury, with Jagger Firkus added to the 25-man roster, an unbeaten, but not unscathed US team, and more.  Plus,...

Hailey Salvian, Max Bultman and Sean Gentille preview the inaugural season for the Professional Women's Hockey League, including a closer look at the six teams in Boston, Minnesota, New York, Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa ahead of the season officially starting on New Year's Day when New York faces Toronto at the Mattamy Athletic Centre in Toronto.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i...

There was no shortage of storylines in the NHL in 2023. Ian Mendes, Julian McKenzie, Mark Lazerus and Sean McIndoe review the year in question, dissecting the top stories in the game, including Vegas winning the Stanley Cup, the Bruins setting an all time win and point record, Connor McDavid reaching the 150 point plateau, Connor Bedard being drafted by the Blackhawks, multiple celebrities wanting...

Max, Corey, and FloHockey’s Chris Peters discuss Team USA’s 6-5 win over Canada in the world juniors pre-tournament finale, the news that Tanner Molendyk and Tristan Leneau will be replaced on Canada’s roster by Jorian Donovan and Ty Nelson, Macklin Celebrini’s impressive play, USA’s “BC” line, if the goaltending picture is any clearer for either team heading into the tournament, and more. Plus, t...

Ian Mendes and Mark Lazerus discuss tough times in Buffalo as the Sabres players backed their coach Don Granato after Sabres fans started chanting for Granato to be fired. The Jacques Martin era in Ottawa, version 2.0, failed to get off on the right foot vs Arizona, with their second game coming tonight vs the Colorado Avalanche who were called out for their poor play by defender Devon Toews in th...

Guest co-hosts Jesse Granger and Mark Lazerus praise Sidney Crosby who slots 13th on the all-time scoring list, and still climbing, and asks, do we take this superstar for granted? The boys welcome Michael Russo to discuss the Senators firing of DJ Smith, the re-hiring of Jacques Martin and why the 'good on paper' Sens have struggled. Russo provides us with an update on the front office drama in M...

Ian Mendes and Julian MacKenzie discuss the latest 4 game losing streak for DJ Smith's Ottawa Senators, Nathan MacKinnon and Nikita Kucherov, the early season Hart trophy favorites and Alex Ovechkin's season long power outage. Jay Caufield, the pre and post game show analyst for the Penguins on Pittsburgh TV stops by to talk about the head scratching season for the Pens, and Jesse Granger makes th...

It’s Friday and another brand new episode of The Athletic Hockey Show Prospect Series as Max and Corey, both on location at Team USA’s world junior camp, are first joined by The Athletic’s Scott Wheeler to discuss Team Canada’s official 2024 world junior roster, Macklin Celebrini as the best forward on the ice at camp, who’s going to start in goal, and more. Then, FloHockey’s Chris Peters joins Ma...

Hailey, Max and Sean take a deep dive into the top NHL centers, right now. The crew presents their top 10, from McDavid, MacKinnon, Matthews, Barkov, Hughes, to Crosby, Draisaitl, Pettersson, Eichel and Point, discussing their impact in the league and on their teams, and they take a look at some dynamic centers who just failed to make the cut.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Ian and Julian welcome Jeremy Rutherford to discuss the St. Louis Blues decision to fire Craig Berube, replacing him with Drew Bannister, and how GM Doug Armstrong should wear the team's struggles. Down Goes Brown stops by to present 6 times NHL fans thought their teams were getting a superstar — until they weren’t. Murat Ates joins to talk about the Western Conference darkhorse Jets, the serious...

Ian and Julian stick tap John Tavares for recording his 1000th career NHL point in the hostile environment of his former stomping grounds on Long Island, the guys breakdown the upside down world of the Metro Division with the Islanders, Flyers and Capitals stealing the thunder of the Hurricanes, Devils and Penguins and welcome Michael Russo to discuss the rash of violent hits and retaliations in t...

On a brand new Monday edition of The Athletic Hockey Show, Julian is joined by guest cohost Mark Lazerus to discuss Laz’s and Daniel Nugent-Bowman’s “Connor vs. Connor” article about the NHL’s potential next great rivalry, Erik Gudbranson and David Perron facing hearings with the NHL’s Department of Player Safety, John Tavares with a chance to reach 1,000 career points against the Islanders on Lon...

On this week’s Prospect Series episode of The Athletic Hockey Show it’s a full house as Max and Corey are joined by The Athletic’s Scott Wheeler and FloHockey’s Chris Peters to discuss their updated world juniors roster projections for Team Canada and Team USA, including their confidence level in Canada’s goaltending, fair expectations for Macklin Celebrini, a non-invite for Owen Pickering, Charli...

Hailey, Max and Sean break down the current state of all 32 NHL franchises on ice performance and provide a guide to what teams you should be watching. The crew breaks it down into eight tiers: Definite channel flippers; these won't be a priority to invest an evening of watching hockey; these teams are better than we thought; the enjoyable tier; watching and rooting for brighter times ahead for ne...

Ian and Julian discuss Ottawa's decision to bring Senators legendary coach Jacques Martin back into the fold with the team to be a senior consultant to the Sens coaching staff, showtime in Detroit, with the Wings announcing Patrick Kane's motor city debut and we stick tap the Los Angeles Kings who have won 10 straight on the road to start the season, and the Hughes brothers who all put on a show i...