Talkin' Hockey - The Hockey Talkin' Show

After a suc­cess­ful Pledge-O-Rama show, the boys are back at it on our nor­mal thing this week talk­ing #67, The Baby Jagr, Michael Fro­l­ik! This Czech for­ward plied his trade for 6 NHL teams, wear­ing #67 all the way around. Then, we catch our breath after an unre­al game 7 from your Win­nipeg Jets, who mirac­u­lous­ly snatched vic­to­ry from the jaws of defeat vs. the Blues from St Louis. With Dal­las on the hori­zon, what will Round Two hold in store? Then in the 3rd, we give our pre­dic­tions for the rest of the Round Two matchups — you're ask­ing your­self, are these fel­las experts? After some of our Round One pre­dic­tions, you should know that the answer is ​“they cer­tain­ly are not”.

Oh hel­lo out there, we're on the air! That's right, the fel­las are in the booth this week for Pledge-O-Rama 2025, rais­ing some funds for this great cam­pus & com­mu­ni­ty radio sta­tion that we air on each week! This year we'll play some hock­ey card wars with some vin­tage junk wax, and we fea­ture the return of Talkin' Triv­ia with some very spe­cial guests — our Chick­en pals Dan­ny & Glen! If ya like the show, be sure to throw some dough our way — head to the UMFM web­site to make your dona­tion today!

Under­stand­ably, this one's been cir­cled on our cal­en­dars since the begin­ning of Sea­son 7 and fit­ting­ly for a super­sized super­star, we're giv­ing you a super­sized episode! That's right, we cel­e­brate one of the all time great super­stars, Pen­guins lif­er and lat­er own­er, The Mag­nif­i­cent One — Mario Lemieux. Super Mario did it all for the Pen­guins, lead­ing them to two cups as a play­er before his career was cut short as he retired in 1997 in the midst of a bat­tle with Hodgk­in's lym­phoma. He bat­tled back and returned to the game in 2000, still an absolute force and now also the Pen­guins own­er. Scored per­haps the most icon­ic Cana­di­an goal of all time — the game win­ner against the Sovi­ets in the 1987 Cana­da Cup! Then we've got our super-sized 2025 play­off pre­view, where we pre­dict the out­comes of all the series and tell you who we think will be drinkin' from Lord Stan­ley! We also give you a recap of Game One from your Win­nipeg Jets, who beat the pesky Blues 5 – 3 in front of an absolute­ly bonkers white out crowd!

It's Mon­day and that means it's a ban­ner day for hock­ey fans, as your favourite co-hosts are back once again to talk a lit­tle hock­ey! Today's episode is Sea­son 7, Episode 25 (#65) The Shaw, or Shawzy if you're feel­in' it. Andrew Shaw was an agi­ta­tor on the ice, the kind of fel­la you want on your team but you hate to play again — he paid the price to make the play and has the bat­tle scars, and two cups, to prove it! He was­n't always the most elo­quent when it came to speak­ing his mind — let this be a les­son to you kids at home, don't always say and do as your favourite play­ers say and do! Then we do a league wide wrap up and tell you all about the week that was for Jets fans, plus give you a break down on the upcom­ing play­offs as we enter the final week of play — who is in, who is out and who has tee times booked for next weekend! Final­ly, we've got stats lines o' plen­ty — The Bread­man con­tin­ues to deliv­er, Adam's foxy when it comes to dish­ing up the apples and we tip our hats to the West­ern Michi­gan Bron­cos, who won their first NCAA Frozen Four in their first Frozen Four appear­ance!

After a week away, the boys are back with a real beau­ty of an episode — you might say we real­ly nailed this one! That's right we're yakking about one of the biggest draft busts of all time, #64 Nail Yakapov! He may have went first over­all in 2012, but he was out of the league 6 years lat­er after bounc­ing from the Oil­ers to the Blues and final­ly to the Avs. He returned to moth­er Rus­sia and have carved him­self out a nice career, still play­ing today… And speak­ing of Russ­ian play­ers who have done okay for them­selves, we talk exten­sive­ly about the Great 8 — the NHL's new all time lead­ing goal scor­er, Alex Ovechkin! Ol' Ovi tied Wayn­er's long­stand­ing accom­plish­ment with 2 against the Black­hawks, and then scored num­ber 895 in a loss against the Islanders while we recorded. Final­ly, we've got a trio of stat lines of the week, plus we talk about oth­er records that might nev­er be broken.

As co-host Tom says, today's episode is a bit of an ugly num­ber — we're talk­ing Tyler Ennis, one of a hand­ful of fel­las to have worn the num­ber 63! He played with 5 teams, most notably in Buf­fa­lo with the Sabres, but also had stops in Min­neso­ta, Toron­to, Ottawa and his home­town Edmon­ton. Won some Cana­di­an gold in junior and once scored 6 goals in a game for the Med­i­cine Hat Tigers — nice work bud! Then we do our week­ly round up to see how the play­off pic­ture has shift­ed — who is in, who is out and whose sea­son is slip­pin' away. Final­ly, we recap a real barn burn­er of a week in the Garage League — 16 round shootouts and game 7's!

Hey, Hi, Hel­lo There! The fel­las are back at once again, this week we're talkin' Hagelin, as in Carl Hagelin. This Swedish for­ward has some supreme­ly sick flow and won a cou­ple of cups play­ing on Pitts­burgh's vaunt­ed HBK line in 2016 and 2017. He also scored 2 pow­er play mark­ers in front of more than 104, 000 fans while at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Michi­gan — so ya know, he's not just a fine head of hair! Then we talk about this past Fri­day's Jets-Stars mar­quee matchup, with an out­come that we saw com­ing, but the rest of the hock­ey intel­li­gentsia did­n't hold much hope for. We'll tell you what the Jets did right, and break down the rest of the sea­son as we march towards the playoffs! Final­ly, we give you a quick Garage League of Hock­ey play­off update — your Chester's Chick­ens pecked out a win to stay alive, as cohost Tom ate some pre-game spaghet­ti and had him­self a heck­u­va performance!

The boys are comin' in hot today, talk­ing about one of the finest pow­er for­wards in recent mem­o­ry, the NASH­ER — Rick Nash! He plied his trade for a num­ber of years in Colum­bus, play­ing for some real­ly bad teams before mov­ing onto the Big Apple, and then fin­ish­ing up with a short stint in Bean­town. We're firm believ­ers that he prob­a­bly would've hit the Hall if not for to many hits to the ol' nog­gin — a career cut short by con­cus­sions and oth­er assort­ed injuries. Always answered the bell for Team Cana­da too — has half a dozen medals to prove it too! Thanks Nash­er, you're a real beauty! Then we break down a real­ly event­ful trade dead­line that saw more than 30 trades take place in the month of March alone! Mikko Ranta­nen's on the move again, Brad Marc­hand finds a new home that's fond of rats, and your Win­nipeg Jets made a cou­ple of slick moves to bring in some cagey vets, includ­ing show fav Bran­don Tanev! Who won the dead­line — we're here to tell ya! In our final seg­ment, we're here to catch you up on the play­off pic­ture, who's on the cusp and who's fad­ing fast — plus we update you on the the Gr8 Chase, as Ovi gets clos­er to history!

The lads are back at it with a super­sized trade dead­line pre­view episode in hon­our of the best tendy to don the num­ber 60 — José Théodore! He had some seri­ous­ly sick flow while patrolling between the pipes for the blanc, bleu et rouge — put up some great stats too and won a Hart, a Vez­i­na and a Mas­ter­ton for his trou­bles. He bounced around a bit towards the end, but still had sig­nif­i­cant stops in Col­orado and Wash­ing­ton, before stints in Min­neso­ta and Florida. Next, we talk trade dead­line — who's buy­ing , who's sell­ing and what the heck are the Jets gonna do? We head down to the Bay for a two-fer on Chevy's pants and each take a crack at mak­ing trades to improve the squad, none of which real­ly make any real­is­tic sense. And then we give a recap on the final week­end of GHL action — play­off spots were decid­ed! Cap­tain Carter The Car Guy drops in with an in depth inter­view on how he's got his squad mov­ing in the right direction!

He filled the net for the Ply­mouth Whalers, and he seemed to fol­low Peter Kar­manos Jr. wher­ev­er he went — that's right, were back at it talk­ing about not­ed #59, the great Chad LaRose! Ol' Rosie won a cup with Car­oli­na, where he spent the entire­ty of his career which spanned the years 2006 through 2013! We recap an excit­ing con­clu­sion to the 4 Nations Cup and dis­cuss what we liked, and who impressed. We touch on some ear­ly thoughts about the 2026 Olympic ros­ter makeup! Final­ly, we talk about the return of your Win­nipeg Jets and talk trade deadline!

We're back on this frosty Louis Riel Day here in Win­nipeg, breakin' our own rules with an episode we're call­ing the Letang in hon­our of excel­lent Pen's d‑man, Kris Letang. If you lis­ten­ers know of a retired num­ber 58 out there let us know, but we know that there aren't many up to the snuff of ol' Bang Bang, who's made an excel­lent career of play­ing strong on all ends of the ice — he even has 3 (!! we checked !!) Cups for his troubles. The we dive deep into the 4 Nations Cup — what's worked, what has­n't and why we care. Also, why is Matthew Tkachuk such an easy guy to hate? We're record­ing as Cana­da plays Team Fin­land with a trip to the finals on the line… Final­ly, we give you a full Apuck­a­lypse Now recap, what a great day on the rinks that was!!, and we give you our all-time Mount Rush­more of Cana­di­an Inter­na­tion­al performers.

Back at it again for anoth­er week, the lads cel­e­brate what we feel is the log­i­cal choice for #57 — Mr. Steven Heinze! He plied his trade for the Bru­ins for 9 years, before fin­ish­ing with stints in Colum­bus, Buf­fa­lo and LA. Leg­end has it that noto­ri­ous hater of fun Har­ry Sin­den refused to let Heinze wear #57 while with Boston, depriv­ing us of an icon­ic no-brain­er — remem­ber kids, it's Heinze and there are no oth­er kinds! Then we talk about the league wide shut down for the inau­gur­al Four Nations Cup, which kicks off with Cana­da fac­ing Swe­den on Feb­ru­ary 12th. We talk ini­tial line pair­ings for Cana­da and the US, and spec­u­late who's going to car­ry the weight between the pipes for the mighty maple leaf! We wrap up with some Jet's talk — they're pret­ty good eh?! Then we talk Apuck­a­lypse and a lit­tle Garage League action…

It's that time again friends — that's right, we're back with episode 16, #56 — the Zubov! I bet you did­n't know that stel­lar hall of fame defense­man Sergei Zubov, and 3 of his team­mates on the 1994 Rangers squad, were the first Russ­ian born play­ers to have their names etched on Lord Stan­ley's cup! Word is he also liked to smoke a dart or two between peri­ods — pret­ty hard­core, don't ya think? Then, we're joined by a cou­ple of real beau­ties — Jen Glen­wright and Dan Emberg, who are part of the orga­niz­ing com­mit­tee for one of our favourite events of the year — APUCK­A­LYPSE NOW! This great ODR tour­ney is back for it's 13th edi­tion and will once again take place at Bourke­vale Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre. We give you the full run­down — the his­to­ry, the hijinks and the sto­ries of great cama­raderie, plus we touch on this year's spooooooooooooky theme! It's a great inter­view and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

The boys are back at it with our last show for the month of Jan­u­ary with a lit­tle episode that we're call­ing the MUR­PHY, in hon­our of a real beau­ty of an offen­sive defence­man — Lar­ry Mur­phy! Not only is Murphs the only #55 to be enshrined in the Hock­ey Hall Of Fame, he was on the ice for arguably the great­est goal in Cana­di­an hock­ey his­to­ry — just check out his grin! Then we talk about an absolute beast of a trade between Car­oli­na and Col­orado, with a lit­tle Chica­go sprin­kled in. It's rare to see a play­er like Mikko Ranta­nen get trad­ed, even rar­er to see it hap­pen in sea­son. We break it down and talk about what it might mean for teams with UFA's loom­ing, like your Win­nipeg Jets! And then final­ly, we break down co-host Tom's week­end long hock­ey odyssey — ODR's and 4x4's, with a lit­tle GHL sprin­kled in.

Did you know that before 1992, no one in the league had worn #54 in a game — Jim Vesey, father of Jim­my, did it first and 73 oth­ers have fol­lowed in 32 years since! We fig­ure the most notable is a good east boy, pride of Char­lot­te­town — Darth Quaider him­self, Mr. Adam McQuaid! He was a good stay at home d‑man for Boston, the New York Rangers and Colum­bus amass­ing 512 games and win­ning a cup with the B's in 2010-11. Then we dis­sect what's going on in Van­cou­ver as the Canucks seem in some seri­ous dis­ar­ray — Co-Host Tom puts on GM Patrik Alv­in's pants and fig­ured out whose got­ta go — J.T. Miller or Elias Pettersson. Final­ly, we talk fun stat lines — goals being scored with­out shots, goalies get­ting ginos AND apples, and will Eric Com­rie ever get some help?

Back at it on chilly Mon­day with an episode we're call­ing The Mor­ris, after Derek Mor­ris — a good stay at home defense­man who played 1100 plus games in the league with Cal­gary, Col­orado, Phoenix and the Rangers. He wore the maple leaf a few times, notably win­ning a gold medal in 2004 at the Hock­ey World Cham­pi­onships on a team full of real beauties! Then, we tip our cap to our local tendy — #37 Con­nor Helle­buy­ck who just notched career win num­ber 300, to go along with 43 (!!) career shutouts and 500 games played. Are we see­ing the best goalie in the world right now in our own back­yard? It sure feels like it most nights… And then it's all about the flow bro, as we talk hock­ey hair! The greasi­er and fluffi­er the bet­ter — all this, plus a trio of pop punk bangers from north of the border!

The boys are live in 2025 — our first episode of the new year is a nod to not­ed stay at home D‑man Adam Foote, a two time cup cham­pi­on and a pil­lar on some real­ly great Avalanche teams. Did you know he was the last Que­bec Nordique stand­ing? Nei­ther did we, but you know, we're all about the learn­ing here on the big show! We talk about Team Cana­da World Junior dis­ap­point­ment, again, and look at some steps that the maple leaf might need to take to get back to gold­en glo­ry. We also talk the Jet's mini-slide into 2025 and talk poten­tial play­off impli­ca­tions for some teams on the bub­ble — a lit­tle ear­ly, per­haps, but that's what we do! And final­ly we get excit­ed to get back on the ice and talk about our own upcom­ing beer league adventures…

After a week off to take part in the sea­son­al mer­ri­ment, the boys are back to talk a lit­tle hock­ey with an episode we're call­ing THE CAMP­BELL! That's right, we're giv­ing a nod to Bri­an ​“Soupy” Camp­bell, a great offen­sive d‑man who wore #51 for his entire career, which includ­ed stops in Buf­fa­lo, San Jose, Chica­go and Flori­da. He won a cup, a Lady Byng and we think that makes Soupy superb! Then we talk World Juniors thus far — Cana­da is get­ting good tend­ing, but has yet to find their scor­ing touch on the eve of a big Decem­ber 31st matchup against the US! Then we catch up on the Jets, who have been hav­ing a fes­tive hol­i­day sea­son and aim to fin­ish 2024 on top of the whole darn league! In our final seg­ment, co-host Tom puts on Chevy's new box­ing day pants and con­sid­ers what should be done with free agent to be Niko­laj Ehlers, who seems to be heat­ing up! All this and we play some musi­cal favourites from 2024!

Not a lot of fel­las have worn num­ber 50, but ​‘tendy supreme Corey Craw­ford cer­tain­ly stands out as a two-time Stan­ley Cup and Jen­nings award win­ner. He back­stopped a few mon­ster Black­hawk teams in the 2010's before his career trailed off and end­ed pre­ma­ture­ly due to con­cus­sion issues — he's a real beau­ty though and we had fun talk­ing about him and his many nicknames! Then in peri­od two, we fill you in on all of the must haves for your favourite hock­ey play­er this hol­i­day sea­son — we're not talk­ing shiny bells and whis­tles here, we're giv­ing you the essen­tials. And we spend way too much time talk­ing about stick tape and the best ways to apply it… And then, it's almost time for anoth­er hol­i­day favourite — the World Junior Hock­ey Cham­pi­onships! The big tour­ney kicks off with Cana­da vs Fin­land in the nation's cap­i­tal on Box­ing Day, and we talk a lit­tle bit about this year's squad of fresh faces. All this and some weird Christ­mas tunes…

The boys are back with episode 9, num­ber 49, with a nod to a good ol' Sud­bury boy — Bri­an Sav­age, who wore the num­ber for his entire career which includ­ed stops in Mon­tréal, Phoenix, St. Louis and Philadel­phia. Word is he's a pret­ty stel­lar street hock­ey play­er as well! Then, we're pret­ty stoked to be joined by local leg­end Chris ​“Keen­er” Dougher­ty, who's the dri­ving force behind Keen­er Jer­seys. Not only do they out­fit the best of the Win­nipeg Beer League cir­cuit, but they've expand­ed oper­a­tions into work­ing with a num­ber of NHL teams as well! Great con­ver­sa­tion with a real class act who takes us behind the sweater so to speak! Final­ly, we talk about our own per­son­al jer­sey Mount Rush­mores and talk about the big trade send­ing Jacob Trou­ba to the sun­shine state!

Co-host Tom is still under the weath­er, but he's a gamer and we're back for a new episode — talk­ing all about a great 48, play­er turned GM, Daniel Brière! This man of many great nick­names plied his trade with Phoenix, Buf­fa­lo and Philly and then fin­ished with short, unmem­o­rable stints in Mon­tréal and Colorado. Then, Tom puts on GM Doug Arm­strong's pants and projects the final ros­ter for Canada's ros­ter for the upcom­ing Four Nation's Cup! Lot's of bub­ble buzz and who's between the pipes?!?! Final­ly, a quick chat about the Jets and their road woes — get­ting back to the 204 for some home cookin' can't come soon enough!

We're back in the game with our final episode of Novem­ber — episode 7, cel­e­brat­ing num­ber 47 — the Lebeau! That's right, we're talk­ing Stéphan Lebeau, the sec­ond all time points and goal leader for the QMJHL! He had a good run ear­ly in his career with the Mon­tréal Cana­di­ans win­ning a cup in 1992⁄93. He fin­ished up in Ana­heim before head­ing over Switzer­land, play­ing 6 sea­sons in the Swiss A League. We also do a quick Jets check in, before break­ing down what the heck is wrong with the once mighty Pitts­burgh Pen­guins. Co-host Tom slips on GM Kyle Dubas's pants and tells us if they should tear it down, trade Sid the Kid or try and rebuild on the fly. And we fin­ish off with a rapid fire hot stove, as Tom gives his quick takes on some of this week's big sto­ries — all this and some good tunes too!

Back for anoth­er Mon­day, ready to tell you all about a real nice young Russ­ian fel­la, AK-46 aka Andrei Kos­tit­syn! His career start­ed off promis­ing­ly with Les Habi­tants, but by the time he left town for Nashville, he was entan­gled some­how with mem­bers of the Mon­tréal underworld. Then, the boys head down to the rink to try their hands at some play-by-play dur­ing a Thurs­day night Garage League matchup between Where The Frykas Randy and the After Noon(an) Delights! And then final­ly we set the para­me­ters for our oft dis­cussed Mount Rush­more… all this and great tunes too eh!

The boys are live on air on this spe­cial Remem­brance Day episode named for renowned Nova Sco­tia knuck­le chuck­er, the most pop­u­lar Moose­head in Hal­i­fax his­to­ry, Mr. Jody Shel­ley. This num­ber 45 plied his trade for four squads — the Blue Jack­ets, the Sharks, the Rangers and the Fly­ers, amass­ing 1538 min­utes in penal­ties! He's cur­rent­ly the colour com­men­ta­tor with the Blue Jack­ets broadcasts! In our sec­ond peri­od, we're talkin' your Win­nipeg Jets, and touch base on a myr­i­ad of top­ics around the league. And in the third, we give you a Garage League update and touch on some fan­ta­sy hockey! Plus, we've got good tunes as always.…

We're back at it this week, chat­ting about a real beau­ty — long­time Talkin' Hock­ey favourite, the mus­ta­chioed won­der, Mr. Dave Babych! If you've lis­tened to the pod, you know the boys love Babs — we'll tell you about his time patrolling the blue line from Win­nipeg to Hart­ford, from Van­cou­ver to Philly and beyond! Then, we head down to the rink to catch some Garage League of Hock­ey action between the After Noon(an) Delights and Where The Frykas Randy — we've got some rink­side inter­views with some league lumi­nar­ies and in the third frame, we give you a break down of the Jet's week that was and touch base on a cou­ple Cen­tral Divi­sion rivals.

Back at it for anoth­er week and we just can't escape the steely gaze of our num­ber 43, tendy turned com­men­ta­tor Mar­tin Biron! He plyed his trade most­ly with the Sabres in Buf­fa­lo, but also had stops in Philly and with both New York squads! Then we talk about your unde­feat­ed Win­nipeg Jets, who at the time of record­ing are almost a tenth of the way towards an unbeat­en record this year. The fel­las tell you who is hot so far this year, and note a cou­ple of play­ers who are off to a slow­er start. And then in the third peri­od, it's a real hodge podge — we talk ver­ti­cal striped socks, boss eagle mas­cots and defunct Win­nipeg hock­ey clubs!

After a Thanks­giv­ing induced break, your co-hosts are back from their food comas and ready to talk some hockey! We're call­ing this episode THE MAKAROV in hon­our of Sergei Makarov — the man who put the M in the KLM line and racked up an astound­ing 13 (!!!) Gold Medals dur­ing an amaz­ing inter­na­tion­al career. Though he hit the NHL ice late in his career, he still won the rook­ie of the year award at the age of 31 (and caused a rule change that will forever­more bare his name) and aver­aged almost a point a game over 5 and half sea­sons in the big show! Then we're joined by long­time friend of the show, Eric Adams, an Ore­gon­ian trans­plant­ed in Salt Lake City. He'll tell us all about the excite­ment that the Utah HC is bring­ing to the SLC area, if the fans are a knowl­edge­able bunch and most impor­tant­ly, which of these for­mer Coy­otes do you want on your fan­ta­sy squad! Final­ly, we close with the seg­ment you've been eager­ly await­ing — that's right it's time for the Garage League update! Once again, your favourite co-hosts are twirlin' around the ice each week at the Win­nipeg Win­ter Club and we'll tell ya all about Sea­son 3 of Garage League action thus far!

And. We. Are. Back. That's right friends, your favourite hosts are back to talk a lit­tle hock­ey with Sea­son 7, Episode 1 a lit­tle episode that we're called THE HALAK, after great Slo­va­kian tendy Jaroslav Halák! Did­n't he wear #41 you say? Well friend, he sure did — this year we decid­ed that we want­ed to give some of our high num­bered friends their due, so we're pick­ing up our episode name game where sea­son 6 left off! Jaro, or the Halak-Ness Mon­ster as his pals liked to call him played in the show for 18 (!!!) years with 7 dif­fer­ent squads, often play­ing the 1A role in the net­min­der tan­dem, win­ning 2 Jen­nings Tro­phies along the way for his troubles. Then we shift our focus to the now and talk at great length about your Win­nipeg Jets — the boys in Blue, White and Red start the sea­son this Wednes­day in Edmon­ton and we give you a sea­son pre­view and tell you why Brad Lam­bert isn't in the open­ing night line­up, but also why you might see him soon­er than later. And then we go rapid fire in peri­od three as co-host Jared put co-host Tom on the hot seat and gets some pre­dic­tions for the 2024 – 25 season! All this and great tune too — glad to be back get­tin' those pucks deep!

Your favourite hock­ey talkin' hosts are back with the sea­son 6 finale — THE TUU­KA! We go in depth about the Bru­ins lifter, try­ing to fig­ure out if he won a cup or not — he put up some real­ly great stats dur­ing his 15 years, and has a wasp named after him to boot! Then we talk about the recent flur­ry of moves — Rut­ger to the Pens and Yaeger to the Jets! Broberg & Hol­loway to the Blues! Askarov to the Sharks! Laine to the Habs! And we wrap with a super­sized Pack-A-Day habit seg­ment with 1991 – 92 O‑Pee-Chees and 1991 Score!

As we've hit the high­er num­bers, there's been a lot of ​‘tendy talk on the pro­gram and today the fel­las have a real beau­ty for you — The Dom­i­na­tor! That's right, one of the great­est goalies of this era, num­ber #39 Dominik Hašek — he was a stand­out for the Buf­fa­lo Sabres and lat­er on, picked up a cou­ple of cups as a mem­ber of the Detroit Red Wings. Plus he won 6 Vez­i­na tro­phies, an Olympic gold medal and col­lect­ed a whole bunch of oth­er acco­lades along the way, play­ing in the show until the age of 43! Then, we wrap up our Four Nations Cup ros­ter dis­cus­sion with a dou­ble shot, cov­er­ing teams Swe­den & Finland! On the Pack-A-Day habit, we stick with the Pro Set kick and spot­light the 1990 – 91 Series Two edition!

Here we are for anoth­er episode, this week it's #38 — The Demi­tra! Of course we're talkin' Pavel Demi­tra, the late, great Slo­va­kian super­star who plied his trade for the Sens, Blues, Kings, Wild and Canucks, plus was an beast on the inter­na­tion­al ice, lead­ing the 2010 Olympics in points! Sad­ly his life was tak­en too ear­ly as part of the hor­rif­ic Loko­mo­tiv Yaroslavl plane crash. Then, we con­tin­ue our Four Nations Cup ear­ly pre­view and look at some of the hard deci­sions fac­ing ol' Bil­ly Guerin as he assem­bles what looks to be a stacked US roster! Pack-A-Day today are some real beau­ties — the 1990 – 91 Pro Set Series One!

The boys are com­ing in smooth on this hol­i­day Mon­day with an episode named after a great all around play­er — Patrice Berg­eron! He amassed almost 1100 points dur­ing his career, played exclu­sive­ly with the Boston Bru­ins, but per­haps is known best as the top shut down cen­tre man of is gen­er­a­tion, gar­ner­ing 6 Selke trophies. Then in a nod to ol' Patrice, we talk about upcom­ing ros­ter pos­si­bil­i­ties for the 2025 Team Cana­da Four Nation's Cup ros­ter — who's in, who's out, who is on the bub­ble and who should be a lock! Pack-A-Day habit is the 1990 – 91 O‑Pee-Chee set — we both have some stel­lar pulls and eat some 30 year old gum.

We're get­ting into the weird num­bers here kids, not gonna lie — our oth­er options today were Mike Eagles and J.J. Daigneault! We think that we made the right pick though going with rugged cus­tomer Matthew Barn­a­by — he caused prob­lems for oppos­ing play­ers dur­ing stops in Buf­fa­lo, Pitts­burgh, Tam­pa, Col­orado, Chica­go and Dal­las and caused a few prob­lems for him­self off the ice! We spend peri­od two doing a fun lit­tle re-draft of the first dozen picks from the 2016 NHL draft — sure Aus­ton still goes #1, but the rest of those first twelve is a bit of a shake up and a fun exer­cise to be sure. Plus, we pre­dict an old pal to the Jets at #18! On Pack-A-Day habit, we've got one of the nicest sets ever — the 1990 – 91 Upper Decks that hon­est­ly changed the hock­ey card game forever!

After a 2 week break, your favourite hock­ey talkin' duo is back with sea­son 6, episode 35 — the Moog! Ol' Andy had a pret­ty stel­lar career across 18 sea­son, win­ning 3 cups and back­stop­ping some great Oil­ers, Bru­ins and Stars teams to 372 career vic­to­ries — he capped it all off with a final sea­son in Mon­tréal, some­thing that co-host Jared had com­plete­ly for­got­ten about! Then, we talk about a sum­mer of (in)activity from your Win­nipeg Jets and dis­cuss what the next con­tract looks like for Cole Per­fet­ti. Plus we tip our caps farewell to Joe Pavel­s­ki, and sing say­ono­ra to Evge­ny Kuznetsov. Our pack-a-day habit this week is 1994 – 95 O‑Pee-Chee Première!

Say hey, it's Cana­da Day and the boys are here for a super­sized episode named after a small­ish goalie who put up big stats — John Van­bies­brouck aka The Beezer! We'll talk Game 7 of the Stan­ley Cup Finals, the ini­tial Four Nation Cup play­er announce­ments, a brief dis­cus­sion this year's Hall Of Fame Class and then we talk about play­er move­ment — draft picks, trades and free agency, oh my!

The boys are back at it this week to talk all about one of the great­est to ever play between the pipes — num­ber thir­ty-three, the great Patrick Roy! He back­stopped the Habs to 2 cups and then after a con­tro­ver­sial trade, back­stopped the Avalanche to 2 more! He's near the top of the heap in pret­ty much every ​‘tendy stat that there is and is a cer­ti­fied legend! We also talk the flur­ry of moves this week — Mark­strom to the Gar­den State and PLD goes to Wash­ing­ton — plus, have your Jets hit a Rut(ger) when it comes to sign­ing the Michi­gan phenom? Plus, we've got a fresh stack of wax packs and tear into some 1994 – 95 Score cards!

We're back at it this week, talk­ing about a pro­to­typ­i­cal pest, Caps/​Nordiques leg­end Dale Hunter! He holds the record amongst 1000 pt pro­duc­ers with almost 3300 min­utes in penal­ties — he enjoyed his time in the sin bin so much that when they retired his num­ber, the Cap­i­tals gave him one of the old penal­ty box­es from the Cap­i­tal Cen­tre! We also talk about a poten­tial flick­er of life in Edmon­ton after an emphat­ic win in Game 4 of the Cup finals, plus some upcom­ing off-sea­son rum­blings — basi­cal­ly we talk about whether or not the Jets will trade Niko­laj Ehlers once again! And on this week's Pack-A-Day seg­ment, the great 1990 Pro Set series one cards are ripped and we pull some real beauties!

We're back with anoth­er new episode, unchart­ed waters as we've nev­er got­ten to 31 before! The fel­las are talkin' some Grant Fuhr, per­haps the best goalie of all time?!?! There's a cou­ple of oth­ers who could lay claim, but he was cer­tain­ly the best of the 80's — amass­ing 4 cups and a boat­load of oth­er acco­lades as he back­stopped those great Oil­er's squads in ​‘tendy tandems with Andy Moog and last week's fea­ture, Bil­ly Ranford! We're talkin' some Oilers/​Panthers Stan­ley Cup Finals, but we've only got game #1 to go on, since they're slow­playin' the finals! Plus some 4 Nations Cup chat­ter and we weight in on the Utah team name finalists. On Pack-A-Day, we rip into some 1991 – 92 Parkhursts — anoth­er sweet look­ing card!

We're back this week to tell ya about Bill Ran­ford — two time cup win­ner for the Boston Bru­ins and Edmon­ton Oil­ers, and and absolute beast in inter­na­tion­al play! He was a qual­i­ty stand-up ​‘tendy who always looked stel­lar on a hock­ey card and kept it clean between the pipes!We also talk about co-host Tom's new­found den­tal adven­tures as well as updates on the quest for Lord Stan­ley, who hoist­ed the first ever Wal­ter cup award­ed to the PWHL cham­pi­ons, and who's set to face off for the Memo­r­i­al Cup!Plus on this week's Pack-A-Day habit, we open up some 1991 – 91 Upper Deck High Series cards, and they're some real beauties!

Hey hey, it's Mon­day and the boys are here with episode 29, it's every­one's favourite pallindrome — the OTTO! That's right we talk all about this defen­sive stal­wart who was top notch at the face-off dot, Bemid­ji State all-timer Joel Otto (not co-host Jared, in case you were wondering!) Then we break down the pre­dict­ed coach­ing hire for the Jet's, Scott Arniel and start to wade through the Ath­let­ic's Jets Off-Sea­son fan poll. Plus we open up packs of 1992 O‑Pee-Chee Pre­mier cards on Pack-A-Day!

We're back this week talk­ing about offen­sive­ly gift­ed defense­man, a great #28, Steve Duch­esne! He may have kept his suit­case packed, but he put up a lot of points for a few teams, and seemed like a heck­u­va nice guy! We also dis­cuss the play­offs to date, as we wait for the 4th part­ner to join the final four dance on the eve of the Canucks-Oil­ers game 7. We do a quick recap of the PWHL and the World Hock­ey Championships… Pack-A-Day this week is 1990 Score and we pull some real beauties!

Back at it tell you about a fine num­ber 27 — the great Gilles Meloche! This mus­ta­chioed tendy patrolled the pipes for the likes of the Cal­i­for­nia Gold­en Seals, Cleve­land Barons and Min­neso­ta North Stars, so you know he felt the sting of more than a few bis­cuits to the side of the head! He cur­rent­ly sits at 4th all-time in the Goalie loss lead­ers, where he's got some pret­ty good company. We also get caught up on Round Two play­off action, look at some head coach­ing vacan­cies and debut our brand new pack-a-day segment!

Back for anoth­er week to talk about game we all know and love, we're here with episode 26 — The Mil­bury! The boys tell you all about rugged defense­man Mike Mil­bury, who was a bit of a shoe afi­ciona­do, then lat­er a sub­par GM with the Isles and a long­time com­men­ta­tor with some ques­tion­able hot takes! We break down a pre­dictable round one of the NHL play­offs — the teams you think would win won, and the won we want­ed to win did­n't. But the Leafs lost again, and that's okay! And then we start to dis­sect what will hap­pen with your Win­nipeg Jets off­sea­son — will Old Bones stay? Do any of the UFA's make Win­nipeg their home? And does Nik Ehlers take his dryclean­ing to a new city — we've got thoughts as always…

After last week's live Pledge-O-Rama show, your favourite hosts are back and record­ing the show from com­fort­able con­fines. We break down the great career of one Mr. Joseph Nieuwendyk — this hall of famer won cups with 3(!!!) dif­fer­ent teams, helped bring the gold back to Cana­da in the 2002 Olympics and proved to be an excel­lent two-way centreman. Then we talk about the play­offs — first try­ing to dis­sect exact­ly what's gone wrong for your Win­nipeg Jets and then talk­ing about some of our oth­er favourite play­off high­lights and stories. No music today — instead we play you some of our favourite calls from the late, great Bob Cole. Tru­ly Mr. Sat­ur­day Night, may he rest in peace.

Hel­lo out there, we're live on the air! That's right, the fel­las are in the booth this week for Pledge-O-Rama 2024, rais­ing some funds for this great cam­pus & com­mu­ni­ty radio sta­tion that we air on each week! We'll play some hock­ey card wars with some vin­tage junk wax, and we have the first edi­tion of Talkin' Triv­ia with some very spe­cial guests! If ya like the show, be sure to throw some dough our way — head to the UMFM web­site to make your dona­tion today!

The boys are back and all over the map with Sea­son 6, Episode 24 The Fed­erko, in hon­our of the pride of Foam Lake, SK — Mr. Bernie Fed­erko! He played 1000 games on the nose, dished out a whole lot­ta apples, still leads the Blues in most major cat­e­gories and was induct­ed into the Hall of Fame for his efforts! Plus we talk about Salt Lake City's new hock­ey team and what a long, strange trip it's been to get them there and talk about all the play­off impli­ca­tions of a man­ic Mon­day in the NHL — 7 of the 8 games have some mean­ing to some­one!

The fel­las are fired up for this sweet episode that we're call­ing The Nys­trom — in hon­our of Bob­by Nys­trom, the blond bomber from Hin­ton, AB by way of Stock­holm! All you need to see is that flow­ing mane and that big ol' duster and you'll know why Knuck­les got the call today! We also talk about East­ern con­fer­ence play­off races and a cou­ple of vet­er­an squads that are fine­ly round­ing into form at the right time, plus NHL Iron­men and we give you a lit­tle Pledge-O-Rama pre­view — get those dona­tions ready!Oh yeah, great tunes too, but you already knew that!

Record­ed on Good Fri­day as the lads find them­selves with a lit­tle time on their hands, this one's been chris­tened in hon­our (!?!?) of Claude Lemieux — one of the great­est agi­ta­tors to ever play the game, and agi­ta­tor's a word that my grand­ma would've used to say a‑hole. He won 3 cups and the only friends he made along the way were prob­a­bly his teammates… Then we talk about the Jets who are strug­gling to say the least — at the time of record­ing, they've lost 5 straight and need to right the plane soon, lest they slip into one of those wild­card spots. And final­ly we talk about all of the fans mas­querad­ing as emp­ty seats around the league — it's clear­ly not just a prob­lem north of the border. Plus great tunes from the lat­est rock­et­ing up the UMFM charts!

We're back talkin' about a bonafide hock­ey leg­end — inter­na­tion­al super­star Peter Fors­berg! The man known as Fop­pa, or Peter The Great, was an absolute force in inter­na­tion­al play and still holds the record for World Junior points — both career and in an indi­vid­ual tour­ney. Sad­ly his NHL career was ham­pered by injuries, but he was still part of two cup win­ning teams in Col­orado, and was a key part of one of the league's biggest trades ever! Then we talk Jets — the boys had been hit­tin' the snooze on their east coast swing and have dropped three in a row. Time for some home cook­ing and hope­ful­ly a return to form before they hit the home stretch. And final­ly, fan­ta­sy play­offs are upon us — does Tom­my's squad squeak in or does his sea­son long ​‘tendy woes do him in — so much math!This week's tunes are a trio of absolute bangers — wel­come to our lis­ten­ers new and old!

After a week away, the boys are back with Episode 20 — some­thing we're call­ing the Suter after Flames (and US Hock­ey) leg­end Gary Lee Suter — though his nephew Ryan wears the big two-oh as well! We find out that this Stan­ley Cup and Calder Tro­phy win­ner had a bit of nasty edge when dip­ping his toe in inter­na­tion­al waters, much to Tom­my's shock and dis­may, but he repped the stars and stripes when­ev­er called upon and is tru­ly an Amer­i­can great! We talk about our Jets who are rollin' towards the play­offs with their new addi­tions fir­ing on all cylin­ders, and we recap the Garage League of Hock­ey finale — big shouts to this year's champs The Spare Parts! Call 1 – 800-Hock­ey-Talk if you have any leads, or would like to return, the Jagr bob­ble­heads — no ques­tions asked!

The boys are back at it, with Sea­son 6, Episode 19 — the Naslund! We tell you about Canucks leg­end, Swedish super­star Markus Naslund — one of the core mem­bers of the West Coast Express and a prod­uct of the mighty MoDo hock­ey machine. Then, with the trade dead­line fast approach­ing, we go coast to coast and tell you which Cana­di­an teams are buy­ing, sell­ing, hold­ing or folding. And the Garage League play­offs kicked off over the week­end and we tell you who took a good first step towards hoist­ing the cup!