Evolving Hockey Podcast

Episode 198: The Most Important Thing Going on Today (xG)

We're back after two weeks to talk about the most important thing that's going on right now: our new Expected Goals model. We spent, at the very least, the firs

Episode 197: You Can Hear Everything

Week 3 of the '26-27 NHL season is in the books! We spent the first half discussing the goalie mindset, documentaries, football, and falling attendance numbers. Late

Episode 196: Early Season Observations

It's still way too early to say anything about whether your favorite team is good or bad. That said, we still tried (sort of). In the first half we discussed the Fly

Episode 195: Expected Goals

The first week of the '26-27 NHL season is in the books, and as is tradition it's too early to say anything conclusive. Instead, we chatted about Vince Dunn, br

Episode 194: '26-27 NHL Season Preview!

Our team projections are now updated for the '26-27 NHL season, and our season preview article is up on the site! We spent the entire episode discussing the model, t

Episode 193: End of the Summer

The season starts in six days. We're a little too early for our annual season preview episode, so we thought we'd wrap up the summer properly before we get to t

Episode 192: GOALIES

The theme of this episode is goalies. Things got really messy. I suppose that makes *a lot* of sense. Between all of that we talked about the perfect replacement level te

Episode 191: Cale Makar and Projections

It's time for us to start talking about hockey again (even if we spent 15 minutes talking about the MN State Fair). We spent the first half discussing our recently r

Episode 190: Offseason Vibes

The Twins are back from the only vacation they take every year, and nothing is going on. It's all vibes. We spent the first half discussing pseudoscientific manageri

Episode 189: Evolving Wilderness

We've been doing this for almost five years, and this episode is the most "offseason" episode we've ever recorded. We spent the first half talking about native

Episode 188: July Recap

It's been 19 days (it was only supposed to be like 14), but we're back in full offseason mode. We spent the entire episode covering all of the important things

Episode 187: NHL Free Agency Week 1

What the f*ck. The first week of NHL Free Agency is always the most active, and 2026 gave us some absolute bangers. We spent the entire episode covering as much of it as

Episode 186: NHL Free Agency Preview (2026)

Free agency starts tomorrow! Our full preview article is up on the site. It's time. We spent the entire episode covering all things free agency. That's it. That

Episode 185: Messy Trades and World Cup

It's officially the offseason, and the Evolving Hockey Podcast's transition was a little messy - please be patient. We spent the first bit discussing (the twins

Episode 183: Celebrating Hockey Analytics

The Carolina Hurricanes are your 2026 Stanley Cup Champions! We spent the whole episode chatting about the series, analyzing what went right for the Canes, and how the pl

Episode 183: Stanley Cup Final!

It's time, and we're here. The 2026 Stanley Cup Final starts today, and we spent the first 10 minutes discussing the Jurassic Park franchise and sports movies.

Episode 182: Conference Finals

The Conference Finals have started off just like everyone thought! Colorado may get swept (they did, but we didn't know it at the time), and Carolina's quantity

Episode 181: Contract Projections!

We had some severe scheduling issues over the last three weeks, but we're finally back! We spent the first half discussing the second round and professional bowling.

Episode 180: Analyzing the First Round

Josh is sick (but still talking), so we anticipated a shorter episode. We didn't do a shorter episode. We spent our entire lovely time talking about the ongoing NHL

Episode 179: First Round Preview

Yes we're a few days late, but we're sticking to our schedule - we've never missed a week or recorded on another day. Our First Round Preview is up on the