Puck Soup: State of the NHL (and NBA)

In this week's episode of the Puck Soup podcast:
- We react to the first two games of the final
- The annual state of the NHL press conference
- Can the Raptors help the NBA catch up to the NHL in Canada?
- How Gary Bettman's lack of leadership squandered the NHL's golden opportunity
- Way too much talk about people peeing
- Thoughts on Evgeny Kuznetsov, Phil Kessel and Dave Tippet
- We pass judgment on some weird food
- See if you can spot me laying the groundwork for this week's ad transition as it happens
- And lots more...

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I am so old, and other thoughts on the Coyotes' new GM

The late 80s were a fun time to be a hockey fan. Wayne Gretzky won the final Stanley Cup of his career, was traded, and then watched the Calgary Flames win their very first. Mario Lemieux won his first MVP, a Hall-of-Famer made a stunning return to the league, and the first wave of Russian stars arrived in the NHL. We saw the first ever goalie to shoot and score, then saw the same guy appoint himself team enforcer. There was a lights-out brawl at the World Juniors and a donut-related referees strike in the Stanley Cup playoffs. It was pretty wild.

If all of that is bringing back fond memories for you, then you may want to stop reading now, because you’re about to feel very old: on Thursday, the Arizona Coyotes appointed a general manager who wasn’t alive for any of those things.

>> Read the full post at The Guardian