Talking Hockey Sense

Chris is back to recap the entire 2022 NHL Draft, with a close look at the top of the draft and other favorite picks from the first round and beyond. Joining the podcast this week is repeat guest Matt Moran, who had a long tenure scouting in the USHL and OHL. Matt helps Chris break it all down. After the conversation, Chris answers your questions about the draft. Talking Hockey Sense will be going on a very brief hiatus for a little rest, but will be back before the summer World Juniors...

With a week to go before the NHL Draft, Chris Peters goes in-depth and takes a look at the latest developments before the big show in Montreal. He also takes a look at the lessons learned from the Colorado Avalanche's Stanley Cup victory and offers some thoughts on Bob McKenzie's final draft rankings that features Juraj Slafkovsky at No. 1. As always, Chris fields listeners' most pressing draft questions and you all sent in nearly 50 questions, all of which are answered within this week's...

It's the 50th episode of Talking Hockey Sense, with a major focus on the 2022 NHL Draft. Chris shares thoughts on his final Top 100 draft rankings, currently available to read in full on DailyFaceoff.com, going into detail about why some decisions were made. After taking a look at the Top 25, Chris answers your questions on the 2022 NHL Draft including several about why Shane Wright fell to No. 2 on his board and what his overall outlook is as a prospect.

Chris welcomes back Corey Pronman of The Athletic to talk about his final draft rankings and much more about the 2022 NHL Draft. Corey was on the podcast way back in August to preview the draft season, so it only made sense to bring him back to close it out as well. Chris also takes time to answer many listener questions, almost all of which are about the 2022 NHL Draft. Don't forget to subscribe and/or leave a kind rating and review to help support this podcast.

Chris is joined this week by Ryan Kennedy from The Hockey News to talk about his NHL Draft preview and whether or not there should be much debate about Shane Wright at the top of the 2022 NHL Entry Draft. Chris and Ryan also chat about the ceiling vs. floor arguments when discussing a prospect's upside, handicapping the top two defensemen in the draft, the down year for the Ontario Hockey League and so much more. Also, Chris answers your questions about the 2022 NHL Draft and beyond as he...

The NHL Draft Lottery was held May 10 and Chris breaks it all down from Montreal retaining the No. 1 pick to New Jersey moving up to No. 2 and all the way down to what the Sabres should consider doing with the 16th overall pick they got from Vegas. Plus, Chris answers listener questions about the lottery including options for a number of the teams picking in the Top 16, who can move up, who might go later and a whole bunch more. Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast on your...

Chris is back from Germany and is here to recap the 2022 IIHF Men's World Under-18 Championship. He talks about Sweden's big win, USA falling short, top performers in the tournament and a bunch more. Chris also covers the latest on the 2023 World Junior Championship and NCAA coaching carousel before answering listener questions on the U18s, NHL Draft and anything else in the prospect world. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a kind rating and review to help get the word out. And to further...

Chris is in Germany and taking your questions on all things 2022 NHL Draft this week, with a special focus on the ongoing U18 Men's World Championship in Kaufbeuren and Landshut. After putting a call out for questions, we got nearly 30 and Chris answered all of them over an afternoon from his hotel room in Munich. Listen in for thoughts on Shane Wright, Juraj Slafkovsky, Logan Cooley, Isaac Howard, Connor Bedard, Adam Fantilli, Simon Edvinsson, Quinton Byfield and many, many more NHL...

Chris is back from the Frozen Four to wrap up the men's college hockey season, covering how Denver became champions. Also, Chris answers your questions about all things college hockey and also a few on the 2022 NHL Draft and some other NHL Drafted prospects. There is a boatload of prospect talk including Dryden McKay's NHL outlook, what Brock Faber can gain by staying at Minnesota and a whole bunch more. Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't yet and if you'd be ever so kind as to leave a...

It's Men's Frozen Four Week and Brad Schlossman of the Grand Forks Herald is back on the podcast to help Chris break down the field. Michigan, Denver, Minnesota State and Minnesota provide a thrilling quartet of teams with 41 NHL Draft picks representing 25 NHL teams and some of the best talent men's college hockey has to offer. Brad and Chris go in depth on all four teams, looking at strengths and weaknesses, X-factors, top players and other storylines. You don't need to go anywhere else to...

The 2022 NCAA Men's Frozen Four is set with Michigan, Denver, Minnesota State and Minnesota all heading to Boston. ESPN analyst Sean Ritchlin joins Chris on the podcast to chat about the regionals that led to these four teams punching their tickets to the final weekend of the season. Ritchlin also dishes on the current players at Michigan, being part of their 1996 and 1998 national championship teams, which player has been his favorite to watch, how he got into broadcasting and much more....

The 2022 NCAA men's hockey tournament is about to begin across the country and Chris has you covered with a full team-by-team preview as well as his predictions for each game all the way through to the national championship game. Chris also answers your questions about the tournament, college free agents and the NHL Draft as always. Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast on your app of choice. Also if you want more prospect content from Chris, check out Hockey Sense with...

It's episode 40 of the podcast and Chris is here to talk NHL Trade Deadline and much more with another listener Q&A. Chris also breaks down some of the deals that have already made that involved prospects, the most recent college free agent signings, and a full rundown of the Hobey Baker Top 10 list that was announced last week. After that, it's all listener questions with a lot of deadline-related topics including value for certain players, which prospects should be considered untouchable,...

As the NCAA season winds down, NHL teams are ramping up their pursuit of undrafted college free agents. Brad Schlossman of the Grand Forks Herald is back to help Chris break down the best available college UFAs that NHL teams are going to be in pursuit of this season. If you ever listened to Brad's former podcast with Nate Ewell, College Hockey Today, this episode follows a similar format to break down a lot of the names Chris and Brad are hearing about and explaining why there is interest...

Chris is celebrating the first anniversary of launching Hockey Sense with another Q&A episode of Talking Hockey Sense. He answers a wide-ranging set of questions on everything from college free agents to watch, NCAA hockey recruiting, the college coaching carousel, the rescheduled 2022 World Juniors and a lot of individual NHL prospects. If you love prospect talk, there's a whole bunch of that here.

The Winter Olympics have concluded for the North American teams with Canada winning gold over the U.S. in women's hockey and the men's teams both getting bounced in the quarterfinals. Chris runs down his own thoughts on the Olympic hockey tournaments and also chats about the IIHF's rescheduling plans for cancelled tournaments like the World Juniors. After that, Chris welcomes his friend Matt Moran, a former junior hockey scout, to share some philosophies of scouting for junior hockey, some...

In this week's episode, Chris dives into his midseason draft rankings from DailyFaceoff.com and shares insight into how he arrived at certain decisions on the rankings. Additionally, Chris chats Olympics as the men's tournament is about to begin. After that, the podcast is turned over to the listeners, who sent in dozens of questions for this week's Q&A, covering a wide range of topics including the 2022 NHL Draft, the Olympics, NHL prospects, the Arizona Coyotes arena situation and the...

To get you prepped for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games, Chris invited women's hockey expert Nicole Haase to talk about the forthcoming women's tournament in Beijing, and Steven Ellis of The Hockey News to talk about the men. Even though NHL players won't be going, there are enough compelling reasons to watch this year's event, not the least of which is the always-entertaining rivalry between the U.S. and Canada on both the men's and women's sides.

Friend of the pod Brad Schlossman of the Grand Forks Herald is back to help Chris break down the recently announced U.S. Olympic Men's Ice Hockey Team roster. The Americans will be sending a roster with 15 current NCAA players as they bet big on youth for Beijing. From the process, to the player-by-player analysis to the players Chris and Brad thought were snubbed for the roster, they cover all bases in this lengthy, meaty podcast. You can read more about the Olympic roster from Chris at...

Chris breaks down what happened to force the 2022 World Junior Championship to be cancelled after just a few days, why the decision was made and ultimately what comes next. Chris also takes your questions about what happened at the WJC, why players and team staff were so frustrated and tries to handicap the possibility of rescheduling the World Juniors for the summer. There's also some talk of the little bit of hockey we did get to see from the WJC.