This week, Bill and Alex are joined by Ralph Engelstad Arena General Manager Jody Hodgson to look ahead to the new UND Hockey season and to discuss the enhancements made to the REA fan experience (1:13). The guys then break down all the happenings around UND Athletics and set the scene for this weekend’s home volleyball, soccer, hockey and close-to-home football matchups (18:50). On the B-Side (32:25), Spurs get back on track in a big way, and the Pod’s Red Sox prediction comes true.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are staving off old age, mostly running back last year's team. Josh Yohe of The Athletic joins Jesse and Victor to talk pros. Included: Sidney Crosby, Bryan Rust, Evgeni Malkin, Michael Bunting, Rickard Rakell, Drew O'Connor, Lars Eller, Kevin Hayes, Jesse Puljujarvi, Erik Karlsson, Kris Letang, Marcus Pettersson, Tristan Jarry, and Alex Nedeljkovic. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Joel Blomqvist and Sergei Murashov. In the

Lia Assimakopoulos from the Dallas News joins the show to talk Stars. Victor and Jesse ask about pros Jason Robertson, Matt Duchene, Roope Hintz, Wyatt Johnston, Tyler Seguin, Jamie Benn, Mason Marchment, Logan Stankoven, Mavrik Bourque, Miro Heiskanen, Thomas Harley, Esa Lindell, Nils Lundqvist, Jake Oettinger, and Casey DeSmith In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Remi Poirier and Arno Tiefensee. In the Dynasty Dig, Jesse and Victor go over top prospects

Kristy Flannery of the Hockey News joins the show for New Jersey Devils talk. Jesse and Victor ask her about the pros Jack Hughes, Jesper Bratt, Nico Hischier, Timo Meier, Dawson Mercer, Erik Haula, Ondrej Palat, Stefan Noesen, Paul Cotter, Tomas Tatar, Dougie Hamilton, Luke Hughes, Simon Nemecx, Vitek Vanacek, Jacob Markstrom, Jake Allen, and Nico Daws. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Jakub Malek and Mikhail Yegorov. In the Dynasty Dig, Jesse and

Chris Gawlik of Locked on Golden Knights joins Victor and Jesse to talk about Vegas's season. They discuss pros Jack Eichel, Mark Stone, Tomas Hertl, William Karlsson, Nicolas Roy, Ivan Barbashev, Pavel Dorofeyev, Brendan Brisson, Alexander Holtz, Shea Theodore, Noah Hanifin, Alex Pietrangelo, Lukas Cormier, Adin Hill, Ilya Samsonov, and Akira Schmid. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Akira Schmid, Carl Lindbom, and Isaiah Saville. In the Dynasty Dig,

If you love romance you will want to listen up today. Kenadee Bryant is bringing the HEAT with a hockey romance and we are here for it. Author bio: Kenadee Bryant is a new adult author of steamy romance, and currently lives in Nevada with her two dogs and cat. When not writing, you can find her reading, playing board games, or eating peanut butter cups. Alongside writing, Kenadee would love to one day open an animal sanctuary.Book blurb: Josie Scott swore off men after one too many heart...

Patrick Brown joins the show to discuss the newly relocated Utah Hockey Team. Jesse and Victor ask about pros Clayton Keller, Dylan Guenther, Nick Schmaltz, Matias Maccelli, Barrett Hayton,  Nick Bjugstad, Alex Kerfoot, Logan Cooley, Josh Doan, Mikhail Sergachev, Sean Durzi, John Marino, Michael Kesselring, Juuso Valimaki, Karel Vejmelka, and Connor Ingram. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Michael Hrabal and Matthew Villata. In the Dynasty Dig, Jesse

Max Bultman of The Athletic joins the show to talk Detroit Red Wings. Victor and Jesse ask about Dylan Larkin, Patrick Kane, Lucas Raymond, Alex DeBrincat, Valdimir Tarasenko, JT Compher, Jonatan Berggren, Joe Veleno, Michael Rasmussen, Moritz Seider, Erik Gustafsson, Simon Edvinsson, James Reimer, Alex LyonVille Husso and Cam Talbot. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Sebastian Cossa and Trey Augustine. In the Dynasty Dig, Jesse and Victor go over top

Diandra Loux of The Hockey News joins the show to talk about the Tampa Bay Lightning. Victor and Jesse ask him about pros Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point, Jake Guentzel, Brandon Hagel, Nick Paul, Anthony Cirelli, Cam Atkinson, Victor Hedman, Ryan McDonough, JJ Moser,Andrei Vasilevskiym and Jonas Johansson. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Hugo Alnefelt, Amir Miftaknov, and Nick Malik. In the Dynasty Dig, Jesse and Victor go over top prospects Conor

Ryan Henkel from The Hockey News joins the show to talk Carolina Hurricanes. Jesse and Victor ask about Sebastian Aho, Andrei Svechnikov, Seth Jarvis, Martin Necas, Jack Roslovic, Jordan Martinook, Jordan Staal, Jack Drury, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Bradly Nadeau, Jackson Blake, Shayne Gostitbehere, Brent Burns, Jaccob Slavin, Sean Walker, Dmitri Orlov, Scott Morrow, Freddie Andersen, Pyotr Kochetkov, Antti Raanta, and Spencer Martin. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment

Meghan Angley of DNVR sports returns to go over the Avs pros. Victor and Jesse as about Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, Valeri Nichushkin, Gabriel Landeskog, Artturi Lehkonen, Casey Mittelstadt, Jonathan Drouin, Ross Colton, Logan O'Connor, Nikolai Kovalenko, Calum Ritchie, Oskar Olausson, Cale Makar, Devin Toews, Erik Brannstrom, Sam Malinski, Sean Behrens, Alexander Georgiev and Justus Annunen. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Justus Annunen and

We chat about the rising cost of cat food, a Canucks hypothetical, the Atlantic playoff picture, the Yahoo Fantasy Hockey rankings and who you should steal in your fantasy draft, and we give you a behind the scenes look at us managing our team in the IHTT Keeper leagueIf you'd like to listen to the full episode and support the show head on over to patreon.com/IHateThisTeam Presented by DraftKings - Use Promo Code THPN at sign up at https://www.draftkings.com/ for exclusive offers! The Hockey

Colby Guy joinsthe show to talk about the Cup champs. We discuss Sam Reinhart, Matthew Tkachuk, Aleksander Barkov, Sam Bennett, Evan Rodrigues, Anton Lundell, Mackie Samoskevich, Aaron Ekblad, Gustav Forsling, Nate Schmidt, Adam Boqvist, Sergei Bobrovsky and Spencer Knight. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Spencer Knight and Cooper Black. In the Dynasty Dig, Jesse and Victor go over top prospects Mackie Samoskevich, Simon Zether, and Gracyn Sawchyn

Fluto Shinzawa of The Athletic joins Victor and Jesse to talk Boston Bruins. They discuss David Pastrnak, Elias Lindholm, Brad Marchand, Charlie Coyle, Pavel Zacha, Morgan Geekie, Matthew Poitras, Charlie McAvoy, Hampus Lindholm, Jeremy Swayman, and Joonas Korpisalo. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Brandon Bussi and Michael DiPietro. In the Dynasty Dig, Jesse and Victor go over top prospects Fabian Lysell and Dean Letourneau with scouting reports from

We are back to cat-alogue the Florida Panthers exciting Game 7 Stanley Cup victory! We are joined by our first guest on the podcast ever Nick Fairbanks, who joins us from Florida to give some unique perspective on their historic win. We also discuss Hockey Hall of Fame nominees and snubs, the reinstatement of Joel Quenneville and Stan Bowman to the NHL, an HBCU with sweet new jerseys which will start playing hockey in the NCAA soon, and Haikus for some of the big names changing teams in Free

This week, Bill and Alex are joined by Nick Joos of Iowa State Athletics ahead of North Dakota Football’s August 31 season opener in Ames against the Big 12’s Cyclones (1:45). The guys then discuss the NoDak news of the day, including impressions on football’s first two-deep of 2024, the announcement of hockey’s new leadership group, and the solid start to soccer’s regular season (17:33). On the B-Side (46:23), Spurs and Liverpool open the new English Premier League season with similar performances

Brian Hedger of the Columbus Dispatch joins the show to look forward to next year's Blue Jackets. Victor and Jesse ask about Johnny Gaudreau, Sean Monahan, Boone Jenner, Patrick Laine, Adam Fantilli, Kirill Marchenko, Yegor Chinakov, Dmitri Voronkov, Kent Johnson, Zach Werenski, David Jiricek, Elvis Merzlikins, Daniil Tarasov, and Cole Sillinger. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Daniil Tarasov, Jet Greaves, and Sergei Ivanov. In the Dynasty Dig, Jesse

Bryan Bastin of On the Forecheck joins Victor and Jesse to talk Nashville Predators. They discuss pros Filip Forsberg, Gustav Nyquist, Ryan O'Reilly, Tommy Novak, Luke Evangelista, Philip Tomasino, Cody Glass, Roman Josi, Alex Carrier, Juuse Saros, Kevin Lankinen, Yaroslav Askarov, Steven Stamkos, Jon Marchessault and Brady Skjei. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Yaroslav Askarov, Gustavs Davis Grigals, and Ethan Haider. In the Dynasty Dig, Jesse and

The Toronto Maple Leafs made it to a game 7 overtime but were frustrated again in the playoffs. Recorded pre-free agency, Cindy Caron of I-Express.ca joins Victor and Jesse to go over the pro roster: Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, William Nylander, John Tavares, Max Domi, Tyler Bertuzzi, Matthew Knies, Bobby McMann, Morgan Rielly, Timothy Liljegren, Conor Timmins, Jake McCabe, Joesph Woll and Ilya Samsonov. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Artur

Victor and Jesse welcome Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times to the show to talk all things Blackhawks. They talk pros Connor Bedard, Taylor Hall, Philipp Kurashev, Nick Foligno, Tyler Johnson, Lukas Reichel, Seth Jones, Kevin Korchinski, Alex Vlasic, Petr Mrazek, and Arvid Soderblom. In-Goal Magazine's Cat Silverman joins in our Cat's Instincts segment to discuss Drew Commesso, Jaxson Stauber, and Adam Gajan. In the Dynasty Dig, Jesse and Victor go over top prospects Frank Nazar, Oliver Moore, and