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GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast

GOOD WOOD is a podcast about what it’s like to be a hockey fan who thinks maybe these guys should try kissing a little at center ice. Your hosts Kit, Bec, and Jes are longtime transformative fans who are fascinated by fandom communities… and by what happens when our practices collide with mainstream sports cultures. We’re here to tackle the real questions: Why do we want to put Sidney Crosby in a jar and study him like a bug? What unholy force compels us to babygirlify hulking athletes with false

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Episode 11: Completely Jeffless

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2025/03/25

The year is 2023. The Pens have only missed the playoffs once, Bob and Mearsy are still living out a 70k slow burn romance in the broadcasting booth, and nobody’s invading Canada. Just kidding! It’s 2025, baby, where nothing is beautiful and everything hurts. Your Good Wood Pod hosts are back in action and ready to yap about our beloved deadbeat loser team. In this episode we mourn the loss of Some Guys, enlist Bec’s dad in the resistance (it’s what the R in RPF stands for), and pool our collective

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Episode 10: Be Your Own WAG

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2023/08/10

Recorded after the acquisition of our Lord, our Liege, our Holy One, PresidentEmperorKing Kyle Dubas, but before the blockbusting Karlsson trade, this episode has it all: Kit playing a dating sim about Kyle, Jes peddling Granlund conspiracy theories, Bec bringing up Contractgate again... this is an episode you won't want to miss. Join us as we deem Kyle "normal looking" and exude smugness over bagging the NHL's most eligible GM. Everything is coming up Pens: we've got the most "normal looking"

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Episode 9: Bringing It All Full Circle

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2023/05/02

You have walked through the valley of the shadow of death. The evil has come to pass. The Penguins are out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2006. You are free... and so is your schedule, since you have no games to watch! Join your hosts instead as we eulogize this messy-yet-fascinating season. Bec branches out with a new and short-lived segment called Connor McDavid Corner. Kit starts our quest for a new GM with Kyle Watch™. Jes starts campaigning for Team Granlund, who put the

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Slapshot 2: And There Was Only One Trench (Mailbag,...

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2023/02/26

GOOD WOOD presents: our first ever mailbag!! We say ENOUGH of this "real" hockey nonsense—let's talk about TROPES, baby. In the absence of our beloved Kit, Jes and Bec answer a slew of listener questions about tropes and trends in hockey fic. Join us for a fun romp through topics like D/S AUs, tinhatting and fanservice in hockey vs. boy band fandoms, the significance of ~alternative domestic spaces~ in hockey fic, and whether sports columnists are really just writing (paid) RPF. And if you want

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Episode 8: Surviving Penguins Hockey

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2023/02/03

So: your team sucks now. Your goalie's heat cycles are all out of whack. Your border collie of a captain's chasing his tail in neurotic little circles instead of scoring goals. And hey, those eggs you ordered? They're kinda... soupy. If you, like the Penguins, are Going Through It lately, take refuge with us, dear listeners. Your hosts return from holiday hiatus to recap a month of Pens news and talk about our big sports feelings. We share coping strategies, discuss how "real" hockey impacts our

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Episode 7: Women Only Watch Hockey For Hot Men

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2022/12/02

Come along with us to Seattle, where the bright lights and new arenas dazzle Bec and the Penguins once again disappoint Jes. In this episode, we rehash everything lovely and horrible that happened at the Penguins vs. Kraken game (including Bec saying PPG Paints Arena SUCKS and is OLD and UGLY and NEEDS TO CLEAN THEIR GLASS) before discussing the recent Twitter discourse over if women are allowed to be real hockey fans when they only watch hockey for Certified Hot Guys Roman Josi and Tyler Seguin. We

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Episode 6: Release the Sully Cut

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2022/11/03

Dear Pens friends: have you fallen into a Despair over our team’s inability to tell left from right or ‘playing defense’ from ‘not playing defense at all, ever, what is defense’? Well, we bring you the antidote. In this episode, we’re celebrating Sully’s 300th win (and uh, ignoring the six consecutive losses) with a special episode about our favorite silver fox. Bec tells spoooooky stories about Sid ‘Coachkiller’ Crosby’s bloody reign of terror—and the pottery class that changed everything. Jes

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Episode 5: As Far As We Know, Kris Letang Is a Human

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2022/10/13

Happy opening night, dear listeners! In Episode 5, your hosts break out the metaphorical champagne for a freewheeling season preview featuring new season's resolutions, a fresh crop of Mark Donks, and bold predictions about comedy physics. Jes comes bearing good tidings of great joy (it's almost Movember). Kit confirms that cat boy Tanger is real (meow). Bec opens up her relationship with the Pens to date the Flyers (Sid's cool with it—he loves those guys!). We're as giggly as Sidney Crosby at night

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Episode 4: The Battle of Pennsylvania

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2022/09/19

In Episode 4, Bec dons the C and storms the ice in the Battle of Pennsylvania. With the help of interviews with co-host Kit and friend-of-the-podcast Ellie, we go head-to-head with the Philadelphia Flyers to talk about the rise and fall of the Nolan Patrick/Travis Konecny ship. In the first period, we discuss how Ellie went from pro wrestling fan to Travis Konecny stan and how Flyers Twitter piqued Kit's attention (0:00). In the second period, Kit gets burned by the Raffl trade (21:30) and Bec

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Episode 3: Of Shoelaces and Groupchats

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2022/09/03

In Episode 3, your hosts Kit, Bec, and Jes muse on the "Discordification" of fandom and how friendships are forged in the modern digital era. How do you find community when the community is out of public view? Is it possible to forge friendships when you're a lurker? Your hosts ponder on the nature of community. Simultaneously Bec invents the word “rootingformultipleteamsification," Jes waves around her punchcard, and Kit becomes a camp counselor and laments over what the Nolan Patrick trade did to

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Episode 2: Graduated Summa Cum Laude in Alpha Beta Omega

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2022/08/13

In Episode 2, your hosts Kit, Bec, and Jes play a full sixty minutes delving into one of hockey's most popular tropes: A/B/O. In the first period, we discuss the trope's origins and how we've seen it evolve over time (0:00), before journeying deep into The Manosphere to figure out why A/B/O works so damn well in hockey fic (15:00). In the second period, we share what draws us personally to A/B/O as writers (28:00), then consider popular fandom characterizations of known omega Sidney Crosby (38:00)

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Slapshot 1: A Hockey Canada Reckoning

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2022/08/06

SLAPSHOTS are part mailbag, part whatever else happens to be rattling around in our brains that week. In these semi-regular mini-episodes, we'll discuss hockey current events, answer listener correspondence, and tackle short-form fandom topics using a looser, less structured approach than the main episodes.In this first "minisode," your hosts answer a listener question about how we're engaging with the sexual assault allegations against the 2003 and 2018 Canadian World Juniors teams. We dig into

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Episode 1: Clear Eyes, Hearts Open, Win Forever

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2022/07/29

Kit, Bec, and Jes dive into "Contractgate," or: Evgeni Malkin Almost Gets Sent to the Farm Upstate. Your hosts explore the different ways that transformative fans cope with & make sense of major fandom upheavals—and how fandom creates space for us to collectively process big emotions like uncertainty, shock, and grief. It's Sid AND Geno, by the way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 0: Well, I'm Definitely Not Going To Become a...

GOOD WOOD: A Hockey Fandom Podcast ·

2022/07/29

Kit, Bec, and Jes discuss what brought them to hockey fandom, what's kept them here, and what it's like to straddle the line between mainstream sports cultures and transformative fandom spaces. Famous last words are uttered. Sidney Crosby is put in a jar (with or without a little twig—your call). Kit blacks out and wakes up watching hockey. Welcome to GOOD WOOD. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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