The Haters Guide to the 2025/26 NHL Season: Debriefing

Pisstacular Takes: The Podcast Home for UrinatingTree · May 17, 2026 · 27m

The NHL Playoffs may be well into their festivities (with plenty of pain to go around), but we have to remember the sixteen other teams that failed to make it entirely. There was plenty of golfing to be had over the past month (and more to come), but the reasons they failed throughout the year were varied. Some are starting rebuilds. Some are struggling to break out of them. Some were wrecked by injuries. Some had everything fall apart. Some are simply doomed. And some are the Canucks. It will be the end for a few former stars, both on their current teams and (for some) their careers…