Handsome Hockey Podcast

The playoffs, much like miracles, are all around us. The PWHL has reached the finals, the NHL the conference finals, and a battle between Russian hockey players to see who can be the worst driver, featuring Ilya Kovalchuk and Matvei Michkov, might be just now heating up. We've also got some coaching hires, some GM hires, and you can find out what, exactly, the dumbest thing Jake has done recently is. Thanks for listening and we hope you enjoy!

Welcome to Episode 110 where we've got Jake talking about Hook being one of the best movies of all time and also hockey. We cover the PWHL Seattle expansion, the 2018 WJC sexual assault trial, Joel Quenville somehow still getting interviews and, of course, the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, aka Sports Valhalla. Thanks for listening!

Welcome to Episode 109. Episode 108 was eaten by Mothman so we're skipping that one to bring you all of our prattling about some guy breaking some other guy's career scoring record, the Stanley Cup Playoffs, PWHL expansion and a wild couple of months for the Rangers. All of this and our usual spate of random digressions. Hope you enjoy and thanks for listening.

It has been a while, so we're talking 4 Nations Cup, NHL Trade Deadline, and Aaron Ekblad, more like Aaron Did an Ekbad, amirite? We've also got PWHL fights, the death of the Canadian dollar and Elbows Up, Canada! Thanks for listening.  

Looks like we've got another episode for you all. We lost some audio around the Rantanen and JT Miller trades so you'll have to assume we know what we were talking about and it was just as funny as it was insightful. In things that you can listen to, we talk about Ovi's pursuit of Gretzky, Connor McDavid's malfeasance, (sigh) Tony DeAngelo's return to the NHL, Alex Nedeljkovic's big night, and lots more. Thanks for listening. 

We're back from our holiday siesta to bring you all sorts of chunky hockey goodness. We're talking about how the US won its second consecutive World Juniors. We've also got PWHL, lots of talk about drive thrus, Frank Vatrano, skiing inside of NHL arenas, dangerous beer specials, and the suddenly smoldering Detroit Red Wings. Thanks for listening.

We're back and we've got a whole lot to say about Columbus. We recorded this before they cancelled their Russian Culture night, but everything said here still stands. We've also got some hockey trades, the first tastes of PWHL Season 2, Patrick Laine's return, Radek Faksa's close shave, and more teddy bears than you can shake. Thanks for listening!

Hi there friends. Here comes winter and here come the PWHL sweater releases. Jake and Evan agree that Ottawa's logo still looks silly, but the jerseys are nice. The Toronto Taylor Swifts are a thing now, as are Tessa Bonhomme and Julia Tocheri as employees of the media arm of the PWHL. We've also got raves about Winnipeg being awesome, the Stars outscoring their local football counterpart, and perhaps too much talk about Georgia O'Keefe. All this and a whole lot more. Thanks for listening!

Right when you think we're done, we're back with a new episode. In this one Evan recaps his trip to see Jagr in Czechia. We also talk about the start of the NHL season, Nikki Glaser swagger jacking Jessica Campbell, a requiem for the loon pads and Alex "Definitely Not Jason" Meruelo is still insane and nobody wants him around. All this and Jake and Evan's list of fashion brands to avoid. 

Not 100B, but episode 101. We'll get to 100B at a later date, but we had too much hockey stuff to throw at you. We obviously talk about the tragic deaths of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau. Other topics include PWHL team names, successful offer sheets, Roberto Luongo showing up to your beer league game and a whole bunch of other madness. Enjoy!

See what happens when we take off for a couple of slow summer weeks? Stan Bowman got hired by the Edmonton Oilers because of course he did. We lament that the NHL sucks and can't just kick ne'er-do-wells to the curb, even if their dad is the best hockey coach of all time. We talk about this bullshit and a whole bunch of fun stuff that happened while we were away including some women's hockey summer fun, Jessica Campbell becoming the first female bench coach in NHL history, hockey at such great heights and Jacob Trouba's art show. Thanks for listening. 

We are back to cat-alogue the Florida Panthers exciting Game 7 Stanley Cup victory! We are joined by our first guest on the podcast ever Nick Fairbanks, who joins us from Florida to give some unique perspective on their historic win. We also discuss Hockey Hall of Fame nominees and snubs, the reinstatement of Joel Quenneville and Stan Bowman to the NHL, an HBCU with sweet new jerseys which will start playing hockey in the NCAA soon, and Haikus for some of the big names changing teams in Free Agency.

Hey, hey, we're getting an episode out riiiiight before Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals. We've got coverage of that, the PWHL offseason, a bunch of wild trades including someone taking on the albatross known as PLD and everyone's favorite topic: differentiating opinions from hate speech. Lots of jokes as well. Thanks for listening.

A new episode? In less than two weeks? Surely we jest. We've got a whole lot to say about the end of the PWHL season as Minnesota wins the Walter Cup and then immediately tarnishes their victory. In other news we've got soliloquys for Joe Pavelski, who announced his retirement, the rumored Major League Hockey 3 on 3 league, the continued wild ride of Valeri Nichushkin, jokes about Drake, Mark Messier, eunuchs and, oh yeah, the Stanley Cup Finals start today. Thanks for listening, friends!  

What? Only two weeks in between episodes? Somebody must have some down time. In this one we talk about all the playoffs, the PWHL is wrapping up, the NHL is heating up, the coaching carousel has been up and we play a new game: Who Says No? The Mitch Marner Edition. All this, tons of jokes, talk about hot dogs and Evan tells a story about Dutch windmills. Thanks for listening!

The NHL does everything five years too late. Getting rid of two line passes, putting out NFTs and now moving the Yotes out of the Phoenix metro area up to SLC. We talk all about this, the ongoing NHL and PWHL playoffs, the NHL coaching carousel, the perpetual news cycle that has become Valeri Nichushkin's life, upcoming dates for the Canadian 2018 World Junior Team and all sorts of other silly bits, mostly about Walton Goggins. Thanks for listening!

Six weeks is a legit time between episodes, yeah? We are back and we've got Adam Ruzicka's White Pony moment, Matthew Rempe's quest for relevance, fired coaches, a brief synopsis of the trades that happened before deadline day, PWHL trades, MGM getting cut, Upper Deck and the PWHL becoming trading card bedfellows, jokes and other miscellanea for your thirsty hockey brains. Thanks for listening! 

Evan and Jake talk about the only thing that's mattered in Portland over the last month with a dialogue on crappy weather but then actually get into the hockey taking a deep dive on the 2018 Canadian World Junior arrests, some PWHL news, the Islanders hiring Patrick Roy as head coach, the University of Michigan exploring a D1 women's hockey program, more players entering the player assistance program and the upcoming All-Star game. Thanks for listening, friends, and stay handsome.

Episode 92 is here and also it is here. Philly looses Cutter Gauthier before ever even signing him. Philly fans, of course, send him death threats. PWHL takes off, breaking records showing off the true skill, speed and physicality of the game. Lame bros everywhere still try and tell everyone that nobody will watch. USA#1 as they dominate their way through the World Juniors. Connor Bedard gets welcomed to the NHL. A bunch of people retire, unretire, or both. National anthems are sung poorly and Oliver Bjorkstrand has to cancel his vacation plans. Thanks for listening. 

Perfect Baby Dylan Larkin is hurt. Patrick Kane is a Red Wing. Jake is all up in his feelings. In non Detroit news we talk about Sanni Hakala's life changing injury, PWHL roster updates and ticket sales updates, the Capitals moving out of the capital, Nino Niederreiter's new deal, John Tavares hits 1000 and, as always, lots of chuckles. Thank you for listening and stay handsome!

Episode 90 is here and it's a quick listen for your earholes and you're damn right we've got Corey Perry hot takes. The NHL fails us once again by telling Marc Andre Fleury to not wear a mask celebrating Indigenous Heritage Night and honoring his wife, also with its always changing definition of what is suspension worthy and what is A-O-K, Jacob Trouba. The Red Wings also disappoint by signing notorious butt Patrick Kane. However, hockey wins with inviting the PWHL to All-Star Weekend. Come for the jokes and stay for the whatever you're staying for. Thanks for listening!

We're back! Arrests are made in the wake of Adam Johnson's death, the Chicago Hockey Team gets sued again, the Oilers are super bad, and the PWHL doesn't seem to be doing anything right. We've got all that and some quick hits on Patrick Kane, Jaromir Jagr, Laila Edwards and more. Thanks for listening

If you can't tell by the title, we didn't bother with a season preview this season. We were busy. Leave us alone. Hockey started without us and the Senators keep making headlines. We talk about the downfalls of Pierre Dorion and Shane Pinto, Pride Tape, Adam Johnson's tragic passing, the PWHL's supposed team names, Vancouver's hot start, Edmonton's wet fart, the Calder race, poorly drawn male genitalia and the worst vandalism ever. Thank you for listening, everyone. 

It's new episode time. We've got the eternal Mike Babcock jokes galore, we've got PWHL draft, lots of jokes about hockey players making silly mistakes with the women in their lives and Biosteel going bankrupt. Thank you for listening and we hope you enjoy.

You may be asking yourself, "is this a new episode of the Handsome Hockey Podcast?" Yes. The answer is yes. Jake and Evan have been traversing this broad land to and fro but they are back to proselytize hockey and get bummed about hockey culture. That said, we're talking Bill Peters, Rocky Wirtz, and Mitchell Miller. But we've also got good stuff. The PWHL has signed players! Puckdoku exists! You know, the good stuff. Thank you for listening and, as a special present to staying with us during the hiatus, stay tuned after the outro for a bonus discussion on burger joints and food photography. 

Vacations are momentarily done and we are back! Episode 85 is here and, when we were able to rein it in from our many tired tangents, you may have guessed that we've got more hot takes on the murder and execution of the PHF by the PWHPA. We also definitely don't make fun of Alex Galchenyuk because we want to keep our kidneys. We also talk about some recent transactions, more David Reinbacher shenanigans, some dude named Bergeron retired and Jake gets a little excited that the Red Wings traded for a goal scorer and grumbles about how Jeff Blashill ruined Filip Zadina's career. Finally, as usually happens, we talk about nobody wanting Vlad Tarasenko and then he immediately signs. Thanks NHL. More importantly, thanks for sticking around and thanks for listening.

Sometimes in the offseason you acquire players through the draft, sometimes you acquire players through free agency, and sometimes you swallow whole hockey leagues like you're Kirby. In this episode, we cover all three of these situations as the NHL gets into the offseason swing, and seismic shifts occur in the Women's professional hockey landscape.

Did you know that Vegas won the Stanley Cup? If not, we're sorry for that spoiler. In this episode we recap the Finals, including Marchessault's Conn Smythe, Jack Eichel's redemption arc, Phil Kessel because we love him and a fun Portland connection. We also talk about Jesper Bratt's new contract, OEL's lack of contract, the Rangers making weird coaching hires, and a whole lot more. Thanks for listening!

Looky, looky, a new episode. We are back with discourse on Katey Stone's "retirement" from Harvard, the Ivan Provorov trade, a bunch of hiring and firing including Kyle Dubas and Brad Treliving, Andrew Shaw showing his whole ass and more fun in the Arizona desert. Oh yeah! And the Stanley Cup Finals are happening. We've got recaps of the conference finals and the first three games of the finals. Thanks for listening and have fun, friends!

Hi there, friends. As you might guess from the title, we are talking about the totally rigged and bullshit NHL draft lottery. Evan tries to be sensible but Jake's rage will not be contained. We also talk Stanley Cup Playoffs, PHF free agency make ALL CAPS BIG MOVES, the Yotes seemingly inevitable relocations (move to Anchorage!), the Portland Winterhawks drafting the first American woman in WHL draft history, Zach Whitecloud showing us all how to be adults and a whole lot more. Thanks for listening!

Oh hey there, friends. We're still alive and we did that recording thing again. In this episode we talk about NHL firings, bad antics within the Niagara IceDogs, Hilary Knight going plaid and USA#1. We then dive into the Stanley Cup Playoffs, recapping the first round and kinda talking about the second, including the Pretty Kitty Florida Panthers working everyone, PK Subban and Eddie Olczyk put their feet in their mouths, and all sorts of other hockey sillies. Thanks for listening!

Quick episode for you this week. Evan has words about Jonathan Toews understated last game for Chicago. Jake disagrees with most of it even when he's being completely rational. We talk about the Bruins having the best regular season ever, the women's world championship, preview the playoffs, update on tankathon, Keith Tkachuk, Gabe Landeskog and Carson Briere. All that and more in this one. Thanks for listening. 

Hi there, Handsome Friends! We got lots a women's hockey. Toronto takes a cup home (no, it's not the Leafs), Harvard women's hockey comes under the eye of Katie Strang and Hailey Salvian. OHL organizations have been accepting bribes to draft people's sons. Lori Laughlin could have told them how this ends. We then have a long discourse on NHL Pride Nights, James Reimer's religion is to blame for him being a bigot, the QMJHL bans fighting, Danny Briere's kid hates the Americans With Disabilities Act, and a whole lot more shenanigans for your listening pleasure. 

New episode alert! It has been a couple weeks so we have a lot to catch up on. The Kraken will wear indigenous-made sweater patches next year, Spencer Knight is in the NHL/NHLPA player assistance program, the PHF announces their finals destination, Shannon Turner hangs em up, the PWHPA will eventually announce something, and Loren Gabel is unsurprisingly awesome. The NHL trade deadline happened, Kirill Kaprizov is hurt, noted Stan Bowman lover Jonathan Toews is sick, Tony DeAngelo is still a turd and a bunch of our normal tomfoolery. Thanks for listening!

Look at that, back to back weeks for the Handsome Boys. This week we touch on all the trade news thus far, juniors in Canada including the Daniel Carcillo report coming out, Zachary L'Heureux's 9th suspension and some reprieve from everything for a young Ukrainian team. There's also Tim Peel's bad behavior, Jakub Vrana's odyssey and why you never push someone onto your goalie. Thank you for listening, folks!

Hi there, Handsome Friends! Episode 75 is upon you. As you may have guessed from the title we talk about the Bo Horvat trade, the NYR Pride Night debacle, the NHL ratings drop, Gary Bettman's lifetime achievement award, Robin Lehner Redux and we both profess our love for Montreal Force's Indigenous Women's jerseys. All this and a whole bunch of other shenanigans for your listening pleasure. As always, thanks for partaking and stay handsome!

What's this? Do my ears deceive me? It would appear that there's a new episode of the Handsome Hockey Podcast. In this one we plead with our listeners - and everyone, really - to help support The Ice Garden, and women's hockey in general, as they try and secure funding for their site. We also talk about Daryl Watts' new deal, Nela Lopušanová and the future women's hockey, Robin Lehner's reptilian bankruptcy, Ivan Provorov's homophobia, and then a blitz through some of the funnier stories that have popped up in the month or so since we last recorded. Thank you for listening. You can find us anywhere you find podcasts. 

We are in a festive mood and, in honor of Jake's prematurely white beard, felt like it was time to talk about our naughty or nice list. We create an award for Jordan Binnington, fans brawling in Winnipeg, fingers being bitten off in Tempe, Hockey Canada, MPP as the Canadian athlete of the year, Shane Wright gets his first goal, Wayne Simmonds being a stand up human and Corinne Schroeder doing it better than anyone ever.   

Episode 72 has arrived. We spend a lot of it talking about Rachel Doerrie's lawsuit against the Vancouver Canucks alleging discrimination against her by their administration, most notably Emilie Castonguay. We also eulogize Borje Salming, touch on Kris Letang, Cal Peterson to waivers, Matt Murray's shenanigans, good teams, bad teams and Patty Maroon: Humanitarian. Also, we talk about late 90s middle school fashion. Come for the fashion, stay for the hockey.  

Episode 71 is our belated due to sickness PHF Preview. It is stuffed to the spiracle with our decidedly dodgy opinions, predictions, and reading of roster change tea leaves. We cover every team, even ones that just started to exist, as well as our predictions for MVP, Isobel Cup champion, etc... Unfortunately, since this happened, we also cover the Mitchell Miller clown show that went down in Boston and, honestly, we aren't super happy about it. We hope you enjoy!

We are back with Episode 70. In this one we're recapping all the fun bits from the last two weeks. Well, that and Hockey Canada and Ian Cole, both of which are awful. Phil Kessel, however, is the exact opposite of awful and is now your NHL Iron Man. We also talk about the games in Prague, Tankathon 2022, and we talk shit about every single Reverse Retro jersey. Thank you for listening! 

The NHL is back and so is Rob! Former cohost and friend of the podcast Rob joins us to recap the last five weeks including Chara, Subban and Yandle's retirements, Jagr's probable retirement, more Hockey Canada drudgery, Canucks ownership is bad at being daddy, and a freed Tyler Bertuzzi. We then recap our not so great prognostications from last year and dive into the 2022-23 season. What is gonna be NICE? What's gonna be NOT NICE? Who will win what? And, as always, some opportunities for us to look stupid. Thank you for listening! 

Episode 68 is up for your listening pleasure. We spend the first half of the episode talking about the major happenings in women's hockey since we last recorded, Canada takes gold, Hilary Knight goes plaid, Brianna Decker goes PHF, and Sarah Nurse goes to the cover. Also, the PWHPA announces this year's Dream Gap Tour, Montreal uses the Force, and more. On the back half we catch you up on the latest with Hockey Canada, the Kadri, Kessel, Miller, Thompson and Oettinger signings, Jonathan Huberdeau donating his brain (in the future, not now) and much more. Thank you for listening, everyone. 

New episode who dis? Episode 67 is out and it's not nearly as depressing as the last. We do have to talk about the fallout of Mel Pearson's firing from the University of Michigan, but other than that we touch on a ton of endings like Joe Thornton's career, Robin Lehner's 2022-23, Max Pacioretty's momentary but always precipitous health, Eddie Olczyk's time in Chicago and more. We also talk about Minnesota's awful decision to have a Law Enforcement Appreciation Night in a city that just sentenced several of its officers to prison sentences for murdering a black man, noted homophobe, transphobe, all of the -phobes Bill Haslam purchasing the Nashville Predators and Cale Makar's day with the cup. Join us for all of this and - if you can believe it - even more shenanigans and indictments of toxic hockey culture. Thanks for listening. 

Hey there. This episode gets the big ol' TW/SA tag as we spend the bulk of this one on the multitude of sexual assault issues that have cropped up in Canada as of late. They include the sad but not altogether surprising conclusion of the Jake Virtanen trial, Daryl Katz being accused of paying an underaged ballerina for sex and - of course - all of the Hockey Canada awfulness. We bookend that with talking about Brad Treliving making the most out of a messy situation and Zdeno Chara hanging up his skates. Find us anywhere you get your podcasts and thank you for listening. 

Hey folks, our summer posting schedule is pretty sporadic because we only get 3 - 4 good weather months in Portland but, rest assured, we still exist. Episode 65 has a whole bunch of stuff including us recapping various times the Avs have dropped the Cup, HOF inductees, PHF in Montreal, Hailey Wickenheiser in Toronto, Mike Grier in San Jose, and then a whole bunch of player movement that is not even remotely comprehensive. We finish with a chat about Russians trapped in Russia, Pavel Datsyuk is not trapped in Russia but is retired, and the passing of Bryan Marchment. Available wherever you get your podcasts. 

Hi folks, it's time for Episode 64 of the Handsome Hockey Podcast and as the title suggests we didn't get a single Nintendo 64 joke in there despite both of us growing up in that glorious era. Instead Jake, for some reason, decided to give spoken word versions of several Bush classics confounding Evan whilst bringing great joy to himself. In between Bush lyrics we talk about the Stanley Cup Finals, the PHF offseason, the U18 Women's World Championships, the NHL coaching carousel, Connor McDavid getting caught, the NHL awards including MORITZ SEIDER WINNING THE CALDER LIKE THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN THAT HE IS and a whole lot more. Thank you for listening and stay handsome, everyone.

Hi there, Handsome Friends. Episode 63 is here. In this one we talk about the slow and yet chaotic start to PHF free agency. We then talk about the Stanley Cup conference semis and, because we recorded right after game one of the EDM/COL series get a lot of stuff wrong about NY/TB game one. Tw/sa we talk about the Rick Westhead report about the sexual assault lawsuit and allegations brought against Hockey Canada, the CHL and 8 anonymous members of the 2017-18 Canadian world juniors team. We also sadly are talking about Mitchell Miller and Jordan Binnington again, not so sadly about Meghan Duggan and Angela James' new gigs, and a whole bunch of other stuff. Thank you for listening. 

We have been gone for a while, so you are getting quite the recap in Episode 62 including Commissioner Gary Batman. We recap the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs including the battle of Toronto vs Inevitability, Brad Marchand's full heel turn, and other vibes. We also preview round two's matchups of the Battle of Alberta, the Battle of Florida and the Battle of Tony D. Then it is on to PHF free agency, including Mikayla Grant-Mentis' big contract, Reagan Carey's ascension as PHF commissioner, and we recorded before the PHF awards were announced so you get our prognostications rather than results. Finally we touch on the sexual assault allegations against Mike Ribeiro, Dustin Brown's retirement, the coaching carousel, and then close with a brief chat about why it took us so long to record again which boils down to we were to pissed off about the death of civil rights in the US and our seeming lack of ability to prevent white nationalist terrorists and it really sucks. 

Hi, Handsome friends. Episode 61 is out and we have a ton of women's hockey news. We do start with both of us ranting about the NHLPA's "miscommunication" that led to Kyle Beach's sexual assault claims going completely uninvestigated. Then spend a good amount of time on Jeff Marek announcing the first information on the upcoming PWHPA sponsored women's league, the PHF's new salary, health care, free agency and cap floor, Digit Murphy's not at all shocking ascendancy in BTM partners, and Angela James becoming the GM of the Six. We then spend too much time talking about hot dogs, goalie news, Buffalo's move from sucking to just being bad, the passing of Mike Bossy and finish with Americans in bars abroad - Matthew Tkachuk and Josh Norris edition.

Episode 60 is here and our podcast is almost as old as our parents. In this one we go a little in depth about the PWHPA's decision to move forward, creating a league independent of the already established PHF. Also in women's hockey we chat about the NOT AT ALL RELATED moves of Digit Murphy joining the Rivs and Anya Packer stepping aside. Then we dive in on NHL things that are gone - Keith Yandle's streak, Ryan Getzlaf's career, Buffalo's playoff chances, Drew Doughty's season, then also talk about the recent influx of college talent into the NHL. Then we finish it off with brief chats about the impending Stanley Cup Playoffs, Evgeni Malkin doing Evgeni Malkin things, Chris Krieder's incredible season and Ryan Hartman as the hero of the people.