Hockey Feels

The first round robin games at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey are in the books, and there have been some big surprises. Team Europe, that gang of Old World orphans, shocked the heavily favoured USA, while Canada was especially dominant against the Czech Republic. However, those plucky upstarts on Team North America have already won over the coldest of hearts, blitzing Finland, and making Rachel and Steven very happy on this week’s Hockey Feels. WCH: EUR 3, USA 0 WCH: CAN 6, CZE 0 WCH: SWE 2, RUS 1 WCH: NA 4, FIN 1 Predators to wear gold helmets for all home games Rachel’s Notes: Chiddy Bang (NA goal song) Beau Bennett – too old and too slow

September 12, 2016 Season 2 of Hockey Feels is officially here! After a few episodes over the course of the summer, Rachel and Steven are back every week now, starting this week with their preview of the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, and how their beloved Team North America will fare. Also, Steven gushes over the Oilers' new home Rogers Place, which officially opened to the public this past weekend. World Cup of Hockey preview Rogers Place opens in Edmonton Gaudreau, Flames far apart on contract talks Las Vegas will have "Knights" in team name, red in the colours Rachel's Notes Claude Giroux in WCOH commercials

August 22, 2016 - It's almost the end of August. The Summer Olympics are over. You get the sense that hockey is just around the corner...and so Rachel and Steven reconvene to talk about World Cup goings on, Jimmy Vesey, Patrick Roy, and many other things as we get closer to getting back to a weekly sched www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

July 19, 2016 - It's a midsummer checkup on Hockey Feels! Rachel talks about the Flyers rookie camp and the various players the team has signed this summer to help both the NHL and AHL clubs. Steven provides an update on what the Oilers have (or haven't done) this summer. Less than 90 days until the 2016-17 NHL season begins! www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

July 4, 2016 While the NHL Draft didn't provide the expected drama, the week afterward leading up to Free Agent Frenzy certainly did. Taylor Hall, PK Subban, Milan Lucic, and many other notables found new homes this past week. What did Rachel and Steven have to say about all these transactions? Listen and find out! www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

June 21, 2016 Rachel is back, and just in time, as one of the busiest weeks of the NHL calendar is at hand. Steven and Rachel discuss their picks (ie. who they want to win) for each NHL award to be handed out in Las Vegas on Wednesday. They also look at the NHL draft coming up on Friday, the various moves teams have made in advance of said draft, and we get a sneak preview of the NHL schedule for 2016-17. www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

June 12, 2016 The Pittsburgh Penguins are Stanley Cup Champions! With Rachel unavailable, Steven gives his thoughts on Pittsburgh's rise to the top of the NHL this season, how Crosby proved he was still the best player on the planet and deserved Conn Smythe Trophy recipient (despite not scoring a goal in the Final), and how Martin Jones basically willed his San Jose Sharks teammates along when they were clearly spent by the end of these playoffs. We'll be back later with a wrap-up episode, but for now, enjoy this short interlude! www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

June 7, 2016 The Stanley Cup Final (not Finals) hasn't quite gone as hoped for for Rachel and her temporary favourite team, the San Jose Sharks. Overpowered and outplayed, the Sharks are now down to the Pittsburgh Penguins three games to one, and they'll have to stop Pittsburgh from winning their first ever Cup on home ice on Thursday night in order to survive. Other topics discussed in this episode: Awesomecon in Washington DC, musicals, and Finnish radio calls! www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

May 30, 2016 The Stanley Cup Final is set! It's the Pittsburgh Penguins, winners of three Stanley Cups, their most recent in 2009, versus the San Jose Sharks in their first ever Finals appearance. Rachel and Steven both wear their hearts on their teal sleeves during this episode in cheering for the Sharks and their ragtag band of beards, although both realize that the Penguins are a formidable opponent indeed. Also, the World Cup of Hockey rosters were finalized, and what's not to love about the Team North America roster? Gostisbehere, Nugent-Hopkins, and Auston Matthews all made the team, which has already won over both Hockey Feels hosts. Bring on September! But first - bring on the Stanley Cup Final! www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

May 15, 2016 It's the Conference Finals! And not only do we have one not-quite-underdog-but-underachieving-franchise in the West, we have two! Both the Blues and Sharks are looking to eviscerate past playoff failures, while past champions Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh duke it out in the East. We also talk about Ovechkin's choice to play for Russia in the World Championships, the coaching vacancies still present in Anaheim and Calgary, and the retirement of former New York Riveters goalie Jenny Scrivens. www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

May 8, 2016 Another exciting week this week in the NHL, with the Lightning punching their ticket to the Conference Finals, the Sharks, Blues, and Penguins each needing one more win to do the same, and the coaching carousel finding homes for Bruce Boudreau and Guy Boucher in Minnesota and Ottawa, respectively. Perhaps the most exciting news of the week, on a personal note, is that both Connor McDavid and Shayne Gostisbehere were announced as finalists for the Calder Trophy, to be handed out in late June in Las Vegas. www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

May 2, 2016 NHL Draft Lottery! The second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs! The Blues and the Sharks achieving playoff success! All sorts of topics for Rachel and Steven to dive into this week, and so they did, discussing Toronto's impending #1 overall draft pick, and how they think the playoffs are going. www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

April 25, 2016 And exciting week in the Stanley Cup Playoffs as the Flyers dramatically extended their post season lives a couple times before bowing out in six to the Capitals. Also, the victorious San Jose Sharks finally bested the LA Kings in a series for the ages, and Dallas, Tampa Bay, and Pittsburgh all moved on to the next round. Playoff talk all around on this week's Hockey Feels! www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

April 19, 2016 It was a bad night in Philadelphia, which started with a touching tribute to late Flyers owner Ed Snider, but gradually devolved into a 6-1 blowout loss for the Flyers at the hands of the Washington Capitals, with some awful penalties and even more egregious acts from some of the fans in attendance. Rachel was at the game and gives her take on the evening, and she and Steven run down what they think of the NHL playoffs thus far. www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

April 11, 2016 It's the first annual Hockey Feels Playoff Preview Edition! Listen as Rachel and Steven prognosticate and prevaricate as they try to predict the winners and losers of the eight first round series. Rachel also talks about the nerves of an unexpected playoff run for her Flyers now staring her in the face, and Steven laments the end of yet another unsuccessful Oilers season. Playoffs start Wednesday! Excitement! www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

April 4, 2016 It's crunch time for Rachel's Flyers as they struggle to hold on to their playoff spot, fending off the advances of the Red Wings, Bruins, and maybe even in the Islanders in this final week of the season. Meanwhile, Steven's Oilers limp towards the finish line both for this season, and for their tenure in Rexall Place, the only NHL home the team has ever known. Lots of talk this week! Join us! www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

March 28, 2016 After a week off thanks to Steven being in the desert, lost in Mountain Standard Time, the podcast returns with chatter about the Flyers playoff drive, the state of hockey in Arizona, and a rundown of the NCAA and IIHF Women's hockey events going on this week. And tons of Flyers love from Rachel as her team strives for that last playoff spot in the East! www.hockeyfeels.com  Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

March 15, 2016 It was a championship weekend in women's hockey as the Boston Pride captured the inaugural NWHL title, sweeping the final over the Buffalo Beauts to win the Isobel Cup. North of the border in the CWHL, the Calgary Inferno won their first ever Clarkson Cup over the heavily favoured Les Canadiennes. Both games were played under a shadow of possible expansion in the NWHL, or a merger between the two leagues... Also, lots of NHL outdoor games were announced this past week, and David Bastl from Bastl's Bytes drops by to talk about them. www.hockeyfeels.com  Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

March 7, 2016 This past week featured not only the announcement of the preliminary rosters for the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, and the unveiling of the uniforms each team will wear, but also the second of two meetings between Rachel's Flyers and Steven's Oilers! All these things were discussed this week, as well as a wrap-up of the first round series in the NWHL playoffs! www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com

March 1, 2016 It's the first annual Hockey Feels NHL Trade Deadline Special! And, oh, what trades were made! Okay, it was actually one of the quietest deadline days on record, with most of the big stuff happening on the weekend before, but there was plenty of transactions for Rachel and Steven to sink their teeth into, including the Flyers standing pat, and the Oilers tweaking the bottom portions of their roster. www.hockeyfeels.com Twitter: @HockeyFeels Tumblr: hockeyfeels.tumblr.com Email: hockeyfeels@gmail.com