A look back at the 2019-2020 U.S. Division
By Andy Eide For the first time in its 102-year history there will be no Memorial Cup handed out this May. Due to concerns surrounding the COVID-19 disease the Canadian Hockey League canceled the playoffs for all three member leagues. This of course, meant that the...
Sound of Hockey Episode 79 – Spinning Laundry with Jason Berger, Equipment Manager for the Tampa Bay Lightning
Sound of Hockey is still in quarantine, but that doesn't mean it will stop putting out great content! This week, John, Andy, and Darren welcome Jason Berger, Equipment Manager for the Tampa Bay Lightning, for a light-hearted look into his world working behind the...
Episode 78 – Social Distancing – Featuring Kwame Mason, director of Soul on Ice
Welp... that escalated quickly. It's a new world, and Sound of Hockey is here to just give you a bit of an escape from it. The guys recognize that there's no longer hockey to talk about, so instead, they're going to focus on interviews for the foreseeable future. The...
Sound of Hockey Episode 77 – The SPAMboni – Featuring Mike Snee of College Hockey Inc.
FULL DISCLOSURE - Sound of Hockey recorded this episode on Monday night, before the extra crazy and scary coronavirus news started hitting about leagues canceling, travel being banned, etc., so please take that into account when listening. That said, this is a good...
Sound of Hockey Episode 76 – Wash Your Hands!
It's been a weird week in Seattle, so the Sound of Hockey guys are here to hopefully brighten your day a bit with some mindless hockey talk (and yes, they do briefly discuss the coronavirus and the impact it's having on the local area, as well as the hockey world). In...
NHL Seattle breaks ground on practice facility in Northgate with an eye towards serving community
By Andy Eide SEATTLE – While there is already a hole in the ground and construction at Northgate Mall, NHL Seattle was on the scene Thursday to officially break ground on its new training facility. The NHL Seattle Ice Centre will be a 180,000 square foot project,...
Debugging the EBUG – The David Ayres story is inspiring, but this system is ridiculous
There exists a real-world scenario, and it’s not even all that farfetched, in which I could suit up and tend goal in an actual points-on-the-line game for your NHL Seattle franchise in 2021 and beyond. Anyone who has seen me play goalie as an adult would likely agree...
US Players in the WHL
The Western Hockey League’s first ever US Challenge Cup kicked off this weekend in Kent. This 12-team tournament brings to town some of the best bantam teams in the Western United States & Canada. The tournament showcases the elite bantam players to scouts of WHL...
Sound of Hockey Episode 74 – The Kansas City Shuffle
Very fun episode this week, filled with top-notch Sound of Hockey banter. Andy, celebrating his birthday and in the midst of a five-games-in-five-days "heater," discusses his recent exhausting shift to life on the road, while John and Darren are chipper as can be....
Mid-season NHL Attendance Report
It is that time of year when I check in on how attendance is faring across the NHL. This is data, not an indictment of any fan base. It is natural for teams take a hit in attendance with extended periods of playoff droughts that are inevitable for all teams. There are...
