The Hockeenight podcast: DGB gets Naked

On Monday, I made my fourth appearance on the world-renowned Hockeenight podcast. My most recent appearance, alongside PPP, was well-received. While we'd hoped to appear together again, this time I ended up going solo due to an unfortunate incident involving PPP being superkicked through a plate glass window.

Topics covered included:

• Vesa Toskala: merely bad, or historically bad?
  
• The absolute worst case scenario for the Leafs/Ducks trade (spoiler: there isn't one)
  
• Why the Dion Phaneuf deal is far riskier, but still a good trade
  
• The Cam Barker trade, and whether the Hawks will need to make more cap moves
  
• Olympic men's hockey discussion and predictions
  
• The opening ceremonies in Vancouver, and what may have really caused that torch malfunction
  
• Somebody may or may not have made a horribly inappropriate Olympics joke
  
• The entire podcast getting sidetracked after I receive an unexpected e-mail from Bif Naked
  

Listen to the whole thing here:

Can't get enough moustache jokes? You can find the rest of my appearances here.

DGB and PPP vs. two drunk Hawks fans: The podcast

PPP (left) and DGB pose for
a pre-podcast publicity photo

Last night I made my third appearance on the Hockeenight podcast. And while the first two were fun, this one featured a special appearance by Pension Plan Puppets to even out the odds.

Topics covered included:

• Kyle Wellwood is fat
  
• Whether a bear could beat a man in a hot dog eating contest
  
• The recent Leafs/Hawks draft pick swap
  
• Leafs Abomi-Nation, and why it will be terrible.
  
• No, seriously, Kyle Wellwood is fat.
  
• Jonas Gustavsson conspiracy theories
  
• Suggested tourism slogans for Hamilton
  
• Why Team USA is going to finish 12th at the Olympics
  
• Chat heckling from Bitter Leaf Fan and Odin Mercer
  
• Todd Gill: Awesome, or super-awesome?
  
• No, we don't care if you want to cover serious hockey topics, PPP and I are just going to keep talking about how Kyle Wellwood is fat.
  
• And a hilarious observation about the Gartner-for-Anderson trade...

You can download the podcast for free from itunes, or listen to it online below:



(Side note: Yes, PPP really is on the podcast. He doesn't say anything for the first 20 minutes, but he's there. He's just building the dramatic tension.)

A few other things:

• I was invited to participate in the DC Cheap Seats' hockey survey. You can read my answers here.
  
• This is a few weeks old, but I also had an entry in Puck Daddy's Five Reasons I Love Hockey series. And if you're thinking that I used the opportunity to go on about Wendel Clark and Kerry Fraser, you would be right.

So as you can see, I've been busy. In fact, I think I've made an appearance on every hockey blog except... this one. But we'll get that fixed in September. Double figure posts this month, guaranteed!

Probably. Maybe.

DGB vs. Hockeenight, round two

Just a quick note that I've been invited back for another appearance on the Hockeeight Puckcast tonight, courtesy our friends at the Chicago Blackhawks blog Hockeeenight.

Last time I was on, we spent three minutes talking about the current season and 57 minutes arguing about Bryan Marchment and the reminisching about the Norris Division days. When the full podcast is available, I'll post a link here.

Update: We ended up talking for almost 90 minutes. Topics covered include:

• Dany Heatley for Brian Campbell?
  
• The Leafs draft plans
  
• With Hamilton get a team?
  
• Fighting: Why fans like it, why the media doesn't get it, why Cam Russell always lost to anyone wearing a Maple Leaf
  
• Are playoff coaches and fans getting whinier?
  
• Me re-using the exact same moustache joke that I broke out the first time I was on their show

Here's the recording.



In the meantime, here are some clips of the Leafs beating and/or beating up the Blackhawks.

1967 vs 1961

Just a quick note that I'll be appearing on tonight's episode of the Hockeenight "Puckcast" podcast, via the fine folks at the Chicago Blackhawks blog hockeenight.com.

We'll be talking about old Norris battles, the current outlook of the Leafs, and presumably sharing Stanley Cup stories that our great-grandparents told us.

Assuming we get throuh the entire hour without them hanging up on me because I steer every conversation back to Wendel Clark killing Mike Peluso, the podcast should be posted some time late tonight or tomorrow morning. Head over and check it out.

Update: You can now listen to the podcast using the link below. Topics discussed included the Norris division glory days, the instigator rule, hockey moustaches, Stu Grimson's madness and whether Bryan Marchment was the worst human being of all-time.

And just for old time's sake: