Evolving Hockey Podcast
Shawn Ferris and Josh & Luke Younggren of Evolving-Hockey.com talk weekly about hockey focusing on NHL players, teams, and other current events from an analytical and statistical perspective.
Episodes
174 episodes
Episode 165: The Best Modern Teams and Russian Basements
It's December, and the Avalanche are still destroying everyone. We spent the first half discussing the Avs in relation to the modern "greats" and moved on to hypothetical Russian basement dwellers. Later we chatted about hockey rink dimensions ...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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1:11:22
Episode 164: Trying to Figure it All Out
Just like everyone else, we're trying to figure out what the hell is going on with the NHL this season... in general just overall. We spent the first half doing exactly that (it's figured out now). Later we discussed incredible pump-up songs, S...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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1:04:00
Episode 163: Parity and The Problematic Atlantic
The Atlantic Division has been all over the place for 20 games, so we took the opportunity to investigate each division relative to our preseason expectations. We discussed the odd Canadiens, bad Leafs, interesting Kraken, and the Canucks. Late...
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Season 5
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Episode 11
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1:07:24
Episode 162: The Ducks, Age, and Astrology
We're well into the NHL season at this point, which means it's time for us to meander. We spent the entire episode discussing the surprising teams AND the unfortunate teams, young people and old players, our updated fantasy tools, and McDavid's...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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1:10:46
Episode 161: Spooky Season
It's Halloween, and Shawn wants nothing to do with it. We spent the first half discussing spooky teams, standout goalies, and teammate combos. Later we chatted about scary movies, superstitions, injuries, and early awards picks.
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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1:03:20
Episode 160: Wins Above Replacement and "Bad" Jeserys
GAR, xGAR, and RAPM data is now up on the site for the '25-26 season! We spent the first half talking about statistical models and jerseys that are actually awesome. In the second half we discussed surprising teams, road maps, and feeling very ...
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Season 5
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Episode 8
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1:03:05
Episode 159: Way-Too-Early Takes
Week 2 of the '25-26 NHL season is on record and it's way too early to glean anything from 5 games - we're doing it anyway. We spent the first half discussing the Ducks and early-season relative-to-teammate stars, and later we talked about trad...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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1:02:44
Episode 158: Technical Difficulties
The Sabres are 0-3, Josh is 0-1 in fantasy, and Shawn is in Florida; we embraced all of these issues and powered through it all. We did actually have numerous technical issues, but we rolled with the punches. Week 1 is in the books, and we spen...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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1:05:17
Episode 157: '25-26 NHL Team Previews
The '25-26 NHL season begins today, which means our team projections are out! We released our initial preseason projections on Sunday (there's an article on the site for those interested), and we spent the entire episode discussing the projecti...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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1:21:04
Episode 156: Pre-Preseason Projections
The '25-26 NHL season starts in two weeks and (not) surprisingly, there's still nothing happening. We spent the entire episode trying to evaluate teams based on our general feelings before the EH projections are finished. It went about as well ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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55:22
Episode 155: The Kaprizov Situation
We're getting back into the swing of things, even if there's only one of those things going on right now (see: title). We spent the first half rambling about our respective other favorite sports (bowling and golf, obviously). Later, we analyzed...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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46:57
Episode 154: Fantasy Projections and Burning Property
As we continue to get back into the swing of things this summer, our Fantasy Projections came out last week. We spent the first half chatting about the MN State Fair and burning yards before moving on to the topic at hand. Later we covered our ...
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1:05:50
Episode 153: Offseason Vibes
Marco Rossi signed a contract and nothing else happened this month. It's been a few weeks since our last episode, and after a (much needed) break from hockey this summer, we're back to chat about essentially everything but that. This was a bit ...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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45:59
Episode 152: Midsummer Free Agency Check In
We, without much thought to it, ended up taking a long break this July. But now that we have all contracts tracked, we can evaluate our projection model and discuss the market. We spent the whole episode doing just that, and talking bowling. It...
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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1:13:33
Episode 151: 2025 Free Agency - Week 1
We got right down to business with this one. Despite a weak free agency class, myriad contracts signed before July 1st, and an excess of money still in team's hands, over 200 contracts have been signed in the last week. We spent the entire epis...
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Season 4
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Episode 34
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1:11:17
Episode 150: 2025 NHL Free Agency Preview
That's it. That's the episode. We spent the first half covering the exceptionally active last week and the second half discussing our preview of things to come. And also talking about the draft, schedule changes, data annoyances, and bowling.&n...
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Season 4
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Episode 33
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1:15:18
Episode 149: Stanley Cup Review and Trades
Upfront: we had some technical issues with this one, but we were all quite happy with our discussion(s) so we decided to upload this anyway. Apologies. The Panthers are your 2025 Stanley Cup Champions! We spent the first half coveri...
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Season 4
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Episode 32
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1:14:11
Episode 148: Sports Tier List Discussion
In the second half, I (Josh) proposed a potential framework for a ranking system to order sports based on how great they are. Shawn and Luke were both less than pleased with my (amazing) system. Earlier, we also discussed the ongoing Final(s), ...
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Season 4
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Episode 31
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1:08:15
Episode 147: Stanley Cup Preview (2025)
[Boyz II Men voices] although we've come to the end of the road, we're not going to skip the Selke voting results. In the first half, we chatted about the Conference Finals series and previewed the Cup Final. Later, we spent 30 minutes yelling ...
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Season 4
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Episode 30
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1:03:44
Episode 146: Contract Projections (2025)
It's that time of year - it feels like we've done this episode before, but this time we got to talk about terrifying children's movies and our love for Moneyball while doing it. We spent the whole episode covering the contract model, and it was...
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1:03:47
Episode 145: The Second Round (2025)
Oh, what a treat the first round was. Really something to cherish. We move on to the second round, and once again, we've got you covered with a new preview on the site. We spent the first half haphazardly moving through our first round impressi...
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Season 4
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Episode 28
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1:15:29
Episode 144: Tornadoes and Forkballs
We're one week into the NHL playoffs, and the twins were dodging tornadoes today. We spent the whole episode discussing terrifying Habs fans, Hellebuyck, the unlikely Wild, the Leafs over-performing worst players, and amazing forkballs. This ye...
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Season 4
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Episode 27
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1:11:36
Episode 143: The First Round (2025)
We released our 2025 NHL playoffs preview on the site for the first round a few days ago - check it out! First, we had to get some irritations with the current NHL remote viewing experience off our chests. After that we spent the entire episode...
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Season 4
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Episode 26
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1:24:18
Episode 142: NHL AWARDS
The episode Josh and Luke have been waiting for all season. We spent the vast majority discussing our Awards picks for the '24-25 NHL season (accompanying the recent article on the site). In between we chatted golf, The Truman Show, and adverti...
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Season 4
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Episode 25
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1:19:20
Episode 141: The Record
Since our week off, we've become a sports talk show. In the first half we chatted about Ovechkin's record (and differing levels of interest around it) while discussing other interesting records. Later, we covered the overlooked (by us) Habs and...
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Season 4
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Episode 24
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1:13:07