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Nick and Cam reminisce on the 2022 Stanley Cup Final and talk about Jim Montgomery, offseason plans and free agency reactions so far.

Nick and Cam talk about the ongoing 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs Conference Finals matchups and Bruce Cassidy’s dismissal from the Boston Bruins.

Nick and Sean talk about the ongoing 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs Second Round matchups. Subscribe to The ScorchStack (this isn’t an ad, we just like them).

Nick and Cam present cases for James Norris Memorial Trophy, Vezina Trophy and Calder Memorial Trophy finalists and predict how the rest of the 2022 First Round should go.

Nick and Sean preview the Western Conference matchups in the First Round of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Nick and Sean tackle a few leftover news items from the last week of the regular season and preview the Eastern Conference matchups in the First Round of the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Featuring Andrew Ladd talk, Arizona Coyotes talk, goalie talk, Calgary Flames talk, Frank J. Selke Trophy talk, Hart Memorial Trophy talk, James Norris Memorial Trophy talk and “Off the Cuff”.

Sean returns to the program to talk about the Boston Bruins, a plethora of injuries around the league, Doug Wilson, the Western Conference wild card race, Mike Bossy and more including an all-new segment where Sean flips the script and asks Nick stuff.

Checking in with our resident Buffalo Sabres fan, Colby Kephart, about his expectations (or lack thereof) for Owen Power, what other undrafted college players might go pro, what’s considered good goaltending these days, as well as an Eastern Conference rundown and Colby’s “Off the Cuff” debut.

“Daddy” problems, saying goodbye to a legend, the Boston Pride went back-to-back and so much more.

DTFR and Brews & Bruins join forces to play a little “Off the Cuff” and “He Doan Live There'' in the second half of a crossover week (feat. Chris Gere, Cam Hasbrouck and Drew Johnson).

DTFR and Brews & Bruins join forces to talk a little bit about the Boston Bruins’ trade deadline headlines.

Hampus Lindholm is the new man on campus, Jake DeBrusk has an extension in his hands and Josh Brown packs a punch in blue line depth as Chris Gere, Cam Hasbrouck and Drew Johnson join Nick and Cam to unpack what’s in store for Boston down the road and more.

Third line, best line? Assessing the greatness that is Charlie Coyle in his role with the Boston Bruins and more (like wondering about what the Bruins need at the 2022 NHL Trade Deadline).

Three jersey retirement nights, four players reached 1,000 career NHL games, extensions were signed and trades were made, plus Sean gladly endured the pain of this week’s “Off the Cuff”.

There’s less than a month until the 2022 NHL Trade Deadline on March 21st, so let’s identify what teams are likely buying, selling or standing pat as General Managers across the league gear up for “the stretch”.

Tuukka Rask retired, Zdeno Chara reached another milestone, Pat Verbeek was hired by the Anaheim Ducks as General Manager, Ken Holland finally did the thing (fired Dave Tippett), Martin St. Louis is an interim head coach in Montréal, Cammi Granato is an Assistant General Manager in Vancouver and “Off the Cuff” returns to haunt Cam.

Nick reacts to the Women’s Gold Medal Game at the 2022 Winter Games and more.

Nick and Cam provide some quick thoughts on the 2022 NHL All Star weekend festivities, ongoing 2022 Winter Games and 2022 Beanpot semifinals.

Nick and Cam loosely recap the last month of hockey– going from full speed ahead to proceeding with caution, coming to a full stop, watching the men’s World Juniors (that also came to a full stop) and everything that’s restarted since then. Also, Tuukka Rask is back (kind of), Bruce Boudreau is off to a hot start and everything fun is canceled (or postponed).

Jess Belmosto joins the show to talk about the Boston Bruins in transition, the Montréal Canadiens’ front office turnover, breaking Vancouver Canucks news, some Calgary Flames talk, Jersey talk and gauging where teams should be by the end of April based on the standings at American Thanksgiving.

We’re back after a little break in the action to talk about a few milestones, Jersey jerseys, Jim Benning, Fenway Sports Group possibly buying the Pittsburgh Penguins and-- most importantly-- hockey culture and the aftermath (or lack thereof) from the Chicago investigation.

The 2021-22 season is well underway, so let’s bring back our 6th Annual Participation Trophies After One Game awards ceremony!

Jess joins the show to talk all things Calgary Flames and preview the Pacific Division for the 2021-22 season. She also rescues Cam in this week’s “Off the Cuff”.

We preview the Central Division for the 2021-22 season and draw comparisons between recent teams that we’ve said “they should win this year” for quite some time until they finally won after we stopped talking about them.

We preview the Metropolitan Division for the 2021-22 season. “Off the Cuff” makes its long-awaited return as your favorite game show segment.

Nick recaps some things from the last month including a couple of big-name retirements, other news and recent tragedies.

The Seattle Kraken have their first roster and a bunch of other moves have been made leading up to free agency. Plus, the Montréal Canadiens are a disgrace!

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The Tampa Bay Lightning are now back-to-back Stanley Cup champions after beating the Montréal Canadiens in five games in the 2021 Stanley Cup Final.

Also, Duncan Keith was traded to the Edmonton Oilers, Vladimir Tarasenko requested a trade from the St. Louis Blues, Pekka Rinne retired after spending his entire career with the Nashville Predators and the Minnesota Wild bought out Zach Parise and Ryan Suter.

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Nick talks about how the Tampa Bay Lightning can shrug off Game 4 and still win the 2021 Stanley Cup Final in Game 5, plus a whole lot more around the league and heartfelt condolences to the Columbus Blue Jackets on the loss of Matiss Kivlenieks.

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Nick previews the 2021 Stanley Cup Final matchup between the Montréal Canadiens and the Tampa Bay Lightning and expresses condolences on behalf of everyone at DTFR to David Pastrnak and his girlfriend, Rebecca, on the loss of their newborn son, Viggo.

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The Montréal Canadiens are going to their first Stanley Cup Final since 1993, and the Vegas Golden Knights were eliminated in six games as a result. Plus, the Tampa Bay Lightning host the New York Islanders in a Game 7 to decide which team will have home ice advantage against Montréal in the Final! Oh and did we mention the Seattle Kraken hired their first head coach? Because that happened too. 

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Nick touches on some things from the last two months, the trajectory of the show, as well as where things will go for some eliminated teams and the 2021 Stanley Cup Semifinals.

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Nick, Jess and Jess(ica) talk Jordan Staal, Milan Lucic, Nicklas Backstrom, Patrick Marleau, the 2021 IIHF Women’s World Championship and review the 2021 NHL trade deadline.

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Nick and Colby resurrect the show to discuss trades from the last two months and preview the 2021 NHL trade deadline. In the wise words of Michael Jordan "[we're] back".

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The NWHL's Lake Placid "bubble" burst as the global COVID-19 pandemic continues, postponing the 2021 Isobel Cup Playoffs indefinitely, while the NHL faces an ongoing outbreak across the league, including at least 12 of its teams. Also the ethics of opening mail that isn’t yours is discussed after a New Jersey man received sticks intended for Washington Capitals defender, Zdeno Chara, delivered by mistake.

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“Tracking pucks” are out (at least for now), Pierre-Luc Dubois and Patrik Laine were traded for one another, Jim Rutherford resigned as General Manager of the Pittsburgh Penguins and the “NDubble” is underway in Lake Placid.

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The 2020-21 season is underway and it’s already been a week, so let’s bring back our 5th Annual Participation Trophies After One Game awards ceremony! Also waivers are all the rage these days.

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The Boston Bruins have finally decided to retire Willie O’Ree’s No. 22 on Feb. 18th. A bunch of signings, waiver transactions and retirements were announced in the last week. Patrice Bergeron is now captain of the Bruins and we preview the East Division for the 2020-21 season.

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Zdeno Chara signed with the Washington Capitals, the AHL announced plans for the 2020-21 season, the NHL divisions are sponsored for 2020-21, what’s going on with the New York Islanders, Pierre-Luc Dubois wants out (maybe) and we preview the West Division for the 2020-21 season.

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The Ottawa Senators did the Tampa Bay Lightning a huge favor. About a $17 million favor, when all is said and done. Meanwhile, a bunch of contracts were signed, we finally know an answer to the Mike Hoffman question, Craig Anderson signed a PTO and might replace Henrik Lundqvist as the Washington Capitals’ backup goaltender and we preview the Central Division for the 2020-21 season.

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The NHL and NHLPA agreed to a deal on a 56-game season, realignment for 2020-21, dates and more. A bunch of players were signed in the last week, Ryan O’Reilly was named captain of the St. Louis Blues and Henrik Lundqvist will not suit up for the Washington Capitals this season.

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The Vegas Golden Knights definitely *aren’t* shopping that player you’re probably thinking about, ad space is unlimited and we’re stuck previewing the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship for now.

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Nick and Colby preview the realigned Canada Division for the 2020-21 regular season, which will be a shortened 56-game version of NHL hockey.

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Nick and Colby review some of the biggest signings in free agency, as well as other happenings this offseason in the National Hockey League, including teams that have improved, a 2020-21 season outlook and more in the season seven debut of the podcast.

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Nick and Colby are annoyed by technological difficulties both on and off the podcast, so this is the best of their talk about the 2020 Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning, potential rebuild in Arizona, Patric Hornqvist trade and more. Seriously, the audio is that bad. We forgive you if you don't make it through the whole episode.

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Matt Burnett joined the show to review things from basically the last month in hockey, as well as preview the 2020 Stanley Cup Final and more.

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The DTFR Duo discuss Photoshop, Todd Reirden’s firing, Arizona Coyotes draft violations, the Kasperi Kapanen trade back to Pittsburgh and the Second Round of the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

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Jess Belmosto joins the show to talk about Tuukka Rask, Game 6 between the Calgary Flames and Dallas Stars, First Round eliminations and more.

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Nick and Colby talk about what went wrong for the Toronto Maple Leafs and other teams eliminated in the 2020 Stanley Cup Qualifier, as well as preview the already in progress 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round.

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