The PuckPedia Hockey Show Episode 34: NHL GM Firings ft. John Matisz

The PuckPedia Hockey Show · Apr 8, 2026 · 42m

Episode 34 of The PuckPedia Hockey Show has a very special guest on, John Matisz from theScore. John is the Senior NHL Writer.

We talked about his background and how he got into journalism and writing about hockey (2:00). We talk about his experience getting stories in the locker room and the evolution of journalism in this social media and short attention span era (8:00).

We talked about a funny story where he went up to Ray Ferraro who was behind the glass during a game, and gave John a weird look because he was spilling popcorn everywhere (13:30).

Then we talk about the Hockey Analytics…