Ep.129 NHL Bad Boys are Nice GuysRecap
Episode 129 released Tuesday December 6th and features NHL news headlines, a couple NHL bad boys doing good things, a new arena and entertainment center coming to Tempe, player health scares and fan scares. Peep below for a recap and find this episode everywhere podcasts are streamed!
Tampa Bay Lightning's Patrick Maroon gets body shamed by Jack Edwards on air during a game. Patrick Maroon raises over $50k for mental health & anti-bullying within 24 hours. Gritty, (Flyers mascot) get’s in on the body positivity.
Florida Panther’s Matthew Tkachuck apologizes to former teammate after he does a clean center ice hit on Elias Lindholm, is Tkachuck favoring his former teamates? We provide our thoughts on this.
St. Louis Blues’s Jordan Binnington is not nice, as he grabbed the facemask of Jason Zucker. Head coach Craig Berube stated that it needs to stop and just to do your job, stop the puck and play hockey.
Finally there’s a new team on the leaderboard in the Dallas Stars, as Jason Robertson skyrockets in the charts by scoring 15 goals in 14games in November, trailing Patrik Laine for the most in a calendar month (18 goals in November 2018 for the Winnipeg Jets) in the past 25 years. He has scored 50 goals since Jan. 1, one behind Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs for the most in the NHL
Breezy talks about the best/worst game ever with the Seattle Kraken vs. the LA Kings. Where both teams were sloppy, tied the game 6 different times and the Seattle Kraken came out on top winning in OT with a final score of 9-8.
Plus they review the new Arizona Coyotes arena plan for Tempe. The Coyote's new arena project (The Tempe Entertainment District) advanced to public vote and would cost 2.1 billion. Vote will take place on May 16th 2023. The location is a 46-acre site and has been used as a trash dump. Coyotes president and CEO Xavier Gutierrez quotes “it would turn a landfill into a landmark.”
Pittsburgh Penguins’ Kris Letang’s recent health scare. The Penguins have not set a timetable for Letang’s return. In 2014, when the defenseman suffered his first and more severe stroke, he missed two months. While the team made a point to stress the second stroke was not as serious, a stroke remains a significant health event, even for one of the fittest players in the NHL.
Breezy went on a shopping spree to help with the loss of a star NHL Fantasy team player.
Rae is sad about NY Islanders Mat Barzal cutting his hair and another friend nabbing a game puck.
