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WhyHockey5.20.21: Igor Larionov II!
On this special WhyHockey show, Matt L interviews Igor Larionov II. They go over Igor's life in hockey, including his recent stint playing in the KHL, his…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 5.19.21: Lightning/Panthers Game 2 Recap
Our game 2 recap looks at what went wrong for the Panthers, how the Lightning changed tack to frustrate the Cats, and what they have to do to make this a…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 5.17.21: Lightning/Panthers Game 1 Recap
WhyHockey recaps Game 1: how did the Panthers hold up, how did they respond to playoff hockey, gamesmanship and officiating, and what if anything should they…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 5.13.21: It's For Real Now
On the latest WhyHockey show: - The Panthers and Lightning are going to go at it in the playoffs. We break down the series from every angle; how the Panthers…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 4.29.21: Nitro
On the newest WhyHockey show: - Turner gets the NHL's "B" TV package, what does it mean for the league? - Tommy talks about the IIHF U-18 Tournament - The…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 4.16.21: Chris Peters!
On this WhyHockey show, Matt is joined by Chris Peters to go over: - Spencer Knights development, and his immediate future. - Notes on Matt Kiersted and Henrik…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 4.13.21: 2021 Trade Deadline Recap
On the latest WhyHockey show: - The Panthers made more than a few interesting moves at the trade deadline. Where do all these new players fit in? How would we…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 3.31.21: Everybody Hurts
On the latest WhyHockey show: - How do the Panthers approach the trade deadline with their now myriad of important players injured? - Who broke Carter Hart and…
WhyHockeySunday Funday - O'Brien is Back - Jan 24th Laine/Dubois, Flyers, Panthers
Thomas Krulikowski welcomes back Matthew O'Brien to talk Lane and Dubois trade from all angles, Philadelphia Flyers emotional rollercoaster start, and Florida…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 12.22.20: The WhyHockey Podcasting Department of Excellence!
After a two month offseason break, WhyHockey is back breaking down the return of the NHL and the offseason of Panthers news including new signings, the front…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 10.16.20: Free Agency Recap
After the Draft recap show, it's time for a free agency recap show. Tommy and Matt L review offseason moves around the league, including for the Panthers…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 10.14.20: Draft Recap with Scouching!
Matt L and Tommy recap the 2020 Draft with Will Scouch, aka Scouching, and they go over all aspects of the draft including what the Panthers and Flyers did…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 9.30.20: Vinnie Viola's favorite team won the Cup!
OK, maybe Vinnie Viola's second favorite team won the cup. But on the latest WhyHockey show, Tommy and Matt L talk about the Lightning winning the Cup, the…
WhyHockeyWhyhockey 9.27.20: Draft Guide Companion Podcast Oct 2020
Thomas details the 2020 Whyhockey Draft Guide. Starts with an introduction covering the draft class and year; scouting bias and preference; how best to…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 9.18.20: Draft, Cup Final, Front Office Potpourri
A new WhyHockey show is here with talk about the Cup Final between Dallas and Tampa, a myriad of Panthers front office moves and a ton of draft talk. Enjoy the…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 9.10.20: More Bill Zito!
On the latest WhyHockey show, Matt L interviews Alison Lukan of the Athletic and George Richards of Florida Hockey Now to talk about Bill Zito's successes in…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 9.3.20: Bill Zito!
On the newest WhyHockey show, Tommy and Matt break down the hiring of new Panthers GM Bill Zito, his strengths, weaknesses and the task in front of him to get…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 8.12.20: Tommy Looks at FLA Roster Realities
In the doom and gloom aftermath of yet another FLA Panthers season -- most are pushing the eject button too early. Understandably so, keeping Barkov may only…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 8.11.20: Bubbles Bursting Everywhere
Now that the Panthers are out, and so too is Dale Tallon, your friends at WhyHockey look back on what happened against the Islanders and what's next in the…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 8.3.20: No Bubbles Burst... Yet
Your WhyHockey friends cover the first few days of the NHL's restart, including the good, the bad and the Panthers. The Cats talk starts at timecode 18:30…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 7.21.20: Return to Play, Return to Podcasts
With the NHL's return to play coming soon, Tommy and Matt L go over the return, the shuffling in the Panthers front office and how the Panthers will fare in…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 6.4.20: Pandemic Show Part 2
The second and long overdue WhyHockey Pandemic show features talk about hockey when it returns; what will it mean for the Panthers, what will they look like…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 4.17.20: The WhyHockey Pandemic podcast featuring Jeff Marek!
We apologize for not being around during the last month of the pandemic, but WhyHockey returns for a new show featuring true friend of the show Jeff Marek for…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 3.5.20: David Dwork
David Dwork of WPLG in Miami joins Matt to talk about the Panthers free fall, what's going wrong and what can be done to fix it, if anything. They also go over…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 2.24.20: Core Strength (or lack thereof)
Matt and Tommy look into all aspects of the Vincent Trocheck trade, what it means for the present and future of the Florida Panthers. They also analyze the…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 2.14.20: Same Old, Same Old
The Panthers have morphed back into the Panthers again, and things are getting desperate. The WhyHockey boys talk about what has gone wrong, what can be done…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 2.6.20: Gritty Freed
On the latest WhyHockey show: the Panthers without Barkov, their current form and the East playoff race, early 2020 Draft rankings from Tommy and Gritty. Plus…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 2.1.20: Alison Lukan
On this episode, we talk with Alison Lukan of the Athletic about her Sergei Bobrovsky piece, what she thinks about his play, and the state of the East playoff…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 1.23.20: Streaking
On an extended WhyHockey show, we talk about the Panthers six game winning streak, what's working and what can be improved, the East playoff picture, the…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 1.9.20: Stuck in the Middle With You
On the latest WhyHockey Podcast, we're stuck in the middle with the Panthers, Flyers, the NHL's All-Star jerseys and the BB&T Center's music choices. If you…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 1.2.20: Sean Tierney
WhyHockey begins a new year and decade with an interview. Charting Hockey's Sean Tierney, one of the best minds in hockey analytics, comes on to chat about his…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 12.19.19: Balance
In this WhyHockey show, we talk a lot about balance, including when it comes to advanced stats, the Taylor Hall trade, and what the Panthers need to do to get…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 12.5.19: What's it like to get a DM from Roberto Luongo?
Matt answer's our titular question with a funny story about how everyone is reading your tweets, an in-depth discussion on hockey's last couple of weeks, and…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 11.21.19: The Most Ambitious Crossover in History
After a Flyers-Panthers game, there has to be a WhyHockey Podcast, and Tommy and Matt L had a big one talking the game, the Panthers good start, the Flyers…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 11.7.19: Dom Luszczyszyn
For the second WhyHockey interview, Matt is joined by Dom Luszczyszyn of the Athletic to talk about his recent pieces on the NHL schedule, his model, what he…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 10.31.19: A Halloween Scare- the Panthers doing well in October
Tommy and Matt L are back to talk about something truly scary this Halloween- the Panthers having a decent month of October. They talk about how it happened…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 10.24.19: Hard Boyled
Are the Florida Panthers actually good? Tommy and Matt L go over that and much more after the Panthers look like they're actually competent in October. They…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 10.10.19: Rage Rooms
Tommy and Matt L are back with the first podcast of the regular season talking Panthers overreactions after the first three games, rage rooms, bad rock bands…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 10.3.19: George Richards on the 19-20 Season!
It's the first of our monthly interview podcasts here at WhyHockey, and Matt L talked with George Richards of the Athletic about everything Cats related…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 9.26.19: Cuban Meth Gators
The season is just around the corner, and Tommy and Matt L went over some of the training camp stories including impressive players, lines and expectations for…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 9.12.19: 2019 Training Camp Preview
It's a new season for the Panthers and for us here at WhyHockey, so Tommy and Matt L went and previewed training camp, including position battles, players that…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 8.16.19: Scott Wheeler on Prospects
Scott Wheeler of the Athletic joins Matt L to talk about many different Panthers prospect related things, including his piece on Aleksi Heponiemi and the rest…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 7.1.19: Officer Bob reporting for Duty
Tommy and Matt L look at free agency for the Panthers, go over all of their four major signings, as well as examine the rest of the league's moves and what the…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 6.26.19: 5 Podcasts in a Week!
We know you can't get enough Panthers and NHL talk, so Tommy and Matt L are back with even more talk including Roberto Luongo's retirement, the draft…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 6.24.19: Spencer Knight talk with Catherine Silverman!
Matt L is joined by Catherine Silverman of InGoal Magazine and elsewhere to go into everything about Spencer Knight, from his development to his style, ceiling…
WhyHockeyWhyhockey 6.23.19: Draft Wrap Up
Thomas and Matthew O'Brien discuss the 2019 NHL Draft. The first 60 minutes mainly discusses the first round and nonFLA teams that did well. After that, Thomas…
WhyHockeyWhyhockey 6.20.19: Prospect Round Up with WhyHockey WHL Scout Trev
Thomas is joined by Trev (@PrecariousPhoto), defacto Whyhockey WHL Scout, to discuss the 2019 NHL Draft Class, and Florida Panthers. This is a public episode…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 6.4.19: Take Two
After our last recording kinda failed a bit, Tommy and Matt L are back going over all things Panthers coaching staff, draft and the Cup Final. Enjoy another…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 4.11.19: Coach Q!
Since the Point To Point-WhyHockey crossover went so well (you can listen to that here…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 3.21.19: The Future of the Florida Panthers, again
It's the end of another lost Florida Panthers season, and Tommy and Matt L go over how the Panthers can right the ship to meet their own expectations before…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 2.18.19: Guess Who's Back...
Guess who's back on the WhyHockey Podcast? Yep, Tommy returns to spill his guts on the Panthers, and what they need to do this offseason. The guys also go over…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 2.14.19: Micah McCurdey!
This WhyHockey podcast features Micah McCurdey, he of the great data visualization tweets you see about the NHL on Twitter. We go over the history of his work…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 2.1.19: Corey Sznajder and a big Panthers trade!
We're back with a semi-emergency podcast with Corey Sznajder as the guest! We go over the big trade between Florida and Pittsburgh, talk about Corey's tracking…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 1.22.19: George Richards on Florida's Future
After a brief hiatus, the WhyHockey podcast is back and George Richards of the Athletic joins Matt L to talk about the future of the Panthers, from the trade…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 12.14.18: Bonus Panthers Rants!
Now that Tommy and Matt L have regrouped and collected their thoughts, they came together to address more Florida Panthers concerns including: - Is it the…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 12.13.18: George Richards
Matt L chats with George Richards about everything Florida Panthers, including why this team is as bad as it is, what might change and if anything will change…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 12.6.18: Straight No Chaser
Matt L is back for a new podcast with Tommy for all sorts of discussion on: - William Nylander and the Leafs - The Flyers change at GM - Everything that is…
WhyHockeyWhyhockey 11.29.18: "Not This" for Flyers GM
Thomas and Matthew give a deserved shoutout to Petri Vedenpää for Henrik Haapala news (https://www.iltalehti.fi/nhl/201809152201199293_nh.shtml ), and give…
WhyHockeyWhyhockey 11.28.18: #FLAPanthers Talk with O'Brien
Thomas and Matthew jump on the podcast to discuss #FLAPanthers enduring walk into the wind over the remaining homestand in lieu of addressing needs. And what…
WhyHockeyWhyHockey 11.16.18: O'G Brien
Thomas and Matthew O'Brien get right to the Florida Panthers basics and dissect how the Franchise can start to realize the potential it sells. This is a public…