Jake Montie and Evan Stravers host a hockey podcast based in Portland, Oregon featuring snarky beer league player perspectives on the NHL, local and worldwide hockey happenings, and a variety of other topics.

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Oh hey there. We&#39;re back with Episode 125. In this one we talk a lot about the Red Wings, Evan&#39;s wishes for Ovie to not be a Putin lover, the Oilers making bad decisions, and we rate the new PWHL expansion jerseys. All this and Evan&#39;s excellent Mike Babcock impression. Thanks for listening!

Ep. 125: Larkin's Lost at C

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Look at us go! Back with new content. In this one we talk about the summer of offer sheets, contracts being signed, Stanley Cups being besmirched and all of that drama in Detroit. Thanks for listening!

Ep. 124: GMs Offer Shatting Everywhere

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We&#39;re back! In this one we&#39;re talking about Claude Lemiuex&#39;s unfortunate passing, the upcoming Stanley Cup Finals, ALL the big time PWHL news and a little bit about Belarus, the other OTHER Russia. All this and the usual fusillade of our sardonic humor. Thanks for listening!

Ep. 123: Claude Lemieux and Being Human

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We&#39;re calling it a hiatus, but really it was just life. We&#39;ve got a new episode for you that talks all about the upcoming sports holiday known as the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Talk with your employer about taking this holiday off. We also talk about PWHL expansion, the Frozen Four, Jonathan Quick&#39;s retirement, Ovechkin&#39;s not maybe yet retirement and ZAMMOTH. As always, thanks for listening!

Ep. 122: Bowness Content

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Happy Super Belated New Year! We&#39;re back with a new episode and it turns out that when you don&#39;t record for a while a lot happens. As you might have guessed from the title we talk about USA Hockey&#39;s decision to prohibit trans women from playing in women&#39;s leagues. We also talk about Britta Curl-Salemme&#39;s obvious transphobic nonsense. We also talk about some fun stuff in the women&#39;s game, preview the Olympics, the Rangers starting their sell-off, Patrick Kane taking the USA leading scorer crown and a whole bunch more. Thanks for listening, everyone!

Ep. 121: Trans Women Are Women Pt. 2

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It&#39;s the winter holiday season and we&#39;re putting out content for you to fall asleep to on your red eye. In this one we talk about the impending ECHL strike, the Quinn Hughes trade, the Milan Lucic Memorial Olympic Arena (In Milan) ice being too small, early season PWHL and, the biggest hockey story of the year: Heated Rivalry. Thanks for listening!

Ep. 120: Warm Yourself With a Heated Rivalry

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Hi there, Handsome Friends. Episode 119 is up. We talk about the start of the PWHL season, new info on Jack Hughes&#39; injury, OHLers taking head shots and, as always, more reasons why the Blackhawks should change their name and racist logo. All this and a plethora of silliness contained within. Thanks for listening.

Ep. 119: Police Dogs at the Hockey Party

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Episode 118 is here. Of course, Ovi scored #900 and PWHL Vancouver and Seattle got monikers since we recorded, but we&#39;ve still got lots to talk about including Ryan Kesler and Arthur Kaliyev being the opposite of model citizens, more big contract extensions, lamentations over an already boring free agency period, Matthew Knies twerking, Mitch Love getting fired, and a whole lot of other nonsense. Thanks for listening!

Ep. 118: Uzbek Shipping Companies Use Paypal

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Episode 117 is upon you. In it we&#39;re talking about early season NHL, next summer&#39;s off-season already being ruined, hockey themed romance novels, inopportune places to urinate and all the other fun and fancy in hockey, including Brad Marchand&#39;s return to Boston. Thanks for listening, everyone!

Ep. 117: Orange Cat Lifestyle

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Hi there, Handsome Friends. We&#39;re back with a new episode in which we dive into the shady dealings of the Edmonton Oilers as well as Michael McLeod&#39;s potential new home which is, oddly enough, not a prison. We&#39;ve also got Kaprizov&#39;s new contract, Barkov&#39;s bum knee, Jordan Staal, Taylor Hall and Electronic Arts&#39; long awaited move towards state sponsored extremism. We hope you enjoy listening as much as we loved recording.

Ep. 116: Like Hockey Ultimate Team but With More Terrorism

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It&#39;s another episode of a couple people out there&#39;s favorite hockey podcast. We&#39;ve got a ton of random goalie news, including Marc Andre Fleury being not so retired. There&#39;s also Kirill Kaprizov&#39;s contract, Mitch Love&#39;s unknown dark shenanigans, the very well known shenanigans of the Canadian 2018 World Junior team Anze Kopitar announcing his retirement (at some point in the future) and The Athletic once more reminds us that even with anonymity NHL players are still kinda boring. Less so, but still boring. Thanks for listening, everyone!

Ep. 115: Mom Wins the Raffle

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Here to beat the sorrows out of your hockey summer doldrums, Episode 114 is upon you. We, of course, spend a lot of time talking about the verdict in the Hockey Canada sexual assault case. But we&#39;ve also got stories about bears, sharks, dragons, mammoth on mammoth hate crimes and the Red Wings finally raising 91 to the rafters. Thanks for listening.

Ep. 114: No Justice In London (Ontario)

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Hey hey! We&#39;re back with more content. It&#39;s all your offseason happies with PWHL and NHL drafts, where only one had awkward zoom calls on air. NHL free agency has come and went and Jake spent most of it doin&#39; a snooze on the couch. We&#39;ve also got the Gavin McKenna sweepstakes, a new CBA and Nick Tarnasky making finger guns with a closed fist. Thanks for listening.

Ep. 113: Now With Less Tampering

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Trophies have been handed out in the NHL and the PWHL and the expansion draft has happened in the latter. We recap both tournaments, some of the big moves in both leagues and wax poetically about Brad Marchand. We also wonder what the hell Dallas is going to do with zero cap room, believe Nastya Ovechkina when she says that her and her husband will only live in the US for one more season, and definitely do not tell you to go on the internet and vote for the upcoming New Mexico ECHL team to be called the Tarantula Hawks (Vote for the Tarantula Hawks, brought to you by Make New Mexico Tarantula Hawk Again.

Ep. 112: Make New Mexico Tarantula Hawk Again

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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&#39;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!

Ep. 111: In Russians With Driving

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Welcome to Episode 110 where we&#39;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!

Ep. 110: Rise of the Rantanen

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Welcome to Episode 109. Episode 108 was eaten by Mothman so we&#39;re skipping that one to bring you all of our prattling about some guy breaking some other guy&#39;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.

Ep. 109: Torts Reform

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It has been a while, so we&#39;re talking 4 Nations Cup, NHL Trade Deadline, and Aaron Ekblad, more like Aaron Did an Ekbad, amirite? We&#39;ve also got PWHL fights, the death of the Canadian dollar and Elbows Up, Canada! Thanks for listening.

Ep. 107: 4 Nations, 1 Cup

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Looks like we&#39;ve got another episode for you all. We lost some audio around the Rantanen and JT Miller trades so you&#39;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&#39;s pursuit of Gretzky, Connor McDavid&#39;s malfeasance, (sigh) Tony DeAngelo&#39;s return to the NHL, Alex Nedeljkovic&#39;s big night, and lots more. Thanks for listening.

Ep. 106: 3 Petterssons, 0 Cups

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We&#39;re back from our holiday siesta to bring you all sorts of chunky hockey goodness. We&#39;re talking about how the US won its second consecutive World Juniors. We&#39;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.

Ep. 105: Return of the (Todd) Mack (Lellan)

Make Hockey Handsome Again

Jake Montie and Evan Stravers host a hockey podcast based in Portland, Oregon featuring snarky beer league player perspectives on the NHL, local and worldwide hockey happenings, and a variety of other topics.