Everything You Missed This NHL Offseason So Far ft. Keith Kavanaugh
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What big NHL offseason themes set the stage for this mid‑summer recap?
Welcome to another edition of The Sheet. So thanks for joining us here on the program. Keith Cavanaugh is going to be stopping by from the Puckpedia Hockey Show. We're going to talk about everything that's gone on so far this summer. We're going to try to cram it all in as we're kind of doing this summer midway point, August the 4th, figuring, all right, this is kind of the midway. There's a little pause right now. Teams are regrouping. General managers are... having a look at you know what's next for august and maybe trying to squeeze in some vacation as well um which by the way it used to be like two months like for for managers and they were like checked out like july 2nd peaced out gone fishing now it's like you get a week maybe two if you're lucky
We're going to be talking about, you know, what's happened so far with Keith coming up in a couple of seconds and speculate on what could be next. But before we get to all of it, I want to draw your attention to two things. First of all, in the athletic, our good friend Aaron Portsline, who covers the Columbus Blue Jackets. Just wrote an outstanding piece that I would encourage all of you to read. It's one of those pieces that selfishly, if you're not a subscriber to The Athletic, you hope that they make available for free. And I know it's a little bit navel-gazing because I'm in the media business, the broadcast business. But the title of the piece is, Is NHL Hockey on the Radio a Dying Art? Veteran Broadcasters Worry About Its Future.
I would direct you to all this. We talked about it last time, what happened with the Columbus Blue Jackets. And now Jess Fabota is doing his last week. So you wonder about the future of editorial on the Columbus Blue Jackets website as well. A great piece. I encourage you all to have a peek at it. Aaron's a brilliant writer and been on the Columbus beat from day one. The other thing, I just want to put it out there because I want to have, I want to make sure that things like this are part of the discussion. You heard me last week go on about, you know, even if it doesn't make sense financially, to do some things as an organization, you should still have a pride of ownership over what you do and the products that you put out should be the best that you can possibly be.
And you don't ever want to send a message to the marketplace that you really don't care about something that you're putting out to the marketplace just to have it on. And I know that radio... I'm not removing radio itself from this situation. Radio has done plenty to shoot itself in the foot over and over and over and over again. But nonetheless... Someone that I've gotten to know a little bit and I have a tremendous amount of respect for already. We've only had a couple of interactions. Kat Whetstone put out a tweet this morning. That's a really, I think, a really important point to have as part of this discussion. And she submits, I've been thinking a ton about blind fans and how this affects them.
Because of the detail radio goes into, losing that could derail a blind fan's experience of the game. I know it sounds small, but radio and accessibility still matter. There's a great blind hockey association in Toronto. I know they're all a blind hockey league. I know there's a lot of other blind hockey leagues that are around. I just wanted to make sure that that became just part of the discussion point of something that you have at least in the back of your mind. Because I don't think that Columbus are the last ones to go down the simulcast route. And the other thing that I'll point out, too, is most, if not all of the broadcasters that you hear calling games for your favorite NHL team. got their start in radio.
You know, I'll focus on, you know, Buffalo Sabres, for example, like Dan Dunleavy, who I think has one of the best calls, has one of the best calls in all of the NHL. He started where I did, Fan 590, back in the 90s. I started in 95. He was probably there before me. I know he was there before me because I would go to the studio and there was Dan.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What big NHL offseason themes set the stage for this mid‑summer recap?
0:11–27:20
2
Why did the New York Islanders hire Evan Gold and what does it signal about their front office strategy?
27:20–43:21
3
How are NHL front offices evolving and why are teams hiring multiple potential successors?
43:21–1:00:41
4
How are players and agents navigating extension timing and the salary cap after Macklin Celebrini's deal?
1:00:41–1:13:40
Speakers
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