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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.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed model talk, candid disagreement and fan-level humor make NHL analytics easier to follow without sanding away their uncertainty.
Evolving Hockey Podcast turns NHL conversation into an ongoing argument between models, roster judgment and fandom. Sean, Josh and Luke Youngren move from team previews and trades to Olympic rosters and individual players, treating numbers as material to question rather than…
Expected-goals models and curling share airtime; your hockey brain may need two tabs open.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A dry hockey-model episode that starts with twin banter and then settles into how the new projection framework works.
Sean opens with a bit of twin confusion, then the episode settles into how the new expected-goals framework actually gets built. The setup is model by model and season by season, with each season trained to predict the next one out of sample.
A preseason conversation that trusts the argument more than the polish.
The episode opens with a missed week and a fantasy-draft detour before settling into preseason talk, with Buffalo drawing most of the attention.
A loose free-agency preview that still gets serious about contract value.
Free agency is the center of gravity here, even if the route to it runs through holiday timing, a wedding weekend, and a long stretch of setup before the market talk takes hold.
Loose hockey talk that turns microphones, twins, and tangents into the point.
This installment is mostly Evolving Hockey doing what it does best: a loose hockey-room conversation that opens with finger guns and baseball hats, then drifts through a 15-year Minnesota Twins podcast and the little technical stumbles that make the show feel unpolished in a…
A tier-list chat that keeps drifting into better jokes than structure.
The episode starts in technical trouble and settles into loose, amused hockey banter between Sean, Josh, and Luke. The tier-list hook is there, but the real pull is the way the conversation keeps veering into player mythology, especially the long running joke around Tage…
A loose hockey hang that turns detours into useful analysis.
Sean, Josh, and Luke move from Olympic roster prep and team comparisons into a run through cashews, Russian food, and the sort of hockey-man wording that lands awkwardly the second it leaves the mouth.
A loose hockey conversation that turns age checks and prospect names into useful analysis.
The episode spends much of its time on familiar season bookkeeping, moving through where things stand, how the monthly cadence slipped, and whether fantasy has started to wear thin.
Free agency math, shaped by a room willing to revise itself.
The episode reads as a week-one free agency debrief that keeps moving in productive ways, starting with plans and a Loons detour before settling into contract math and roster logic.
Buffalo hockey, argued daily.
Daily Canucks panic with receipts.
Flyers wins, losses, and reality checks.
Sean welcomes Josh and Luke back for another Monday recording.
Sean, Josh Youngren, and Luke Youngren open by checking the Evolving Hockey Test Kitchen fantasy league and the current standings, including Sean's 3-0 start and Luke's bad goalie week.
Sean, Josh, and Luke open with fantasy hockey trash talk, including Luke’s strong first week, Josh’s winless start, and Sean’s mockery of the standings.
Sean, Josh, and Luke Young spend the episode on Kirill Kaprizov’s contract situation, including the reported Minnesota offer around 16 million per year and the idea that he declined it.
Sean, Josh Youngren, and Luke Youngren spend much of Evolving Hockey Podcast Episode 164 comparing early-season NHL teams against Corsi, expected goals, and goal differential.
The episode opens with Linkin Park, Good Charlotte, and memories of early-2000s rock before the hosts pivot to hockey and a Montreal trip.
Evolving Hockey Podcast Episode 153, “Offseason Vibes,” opens with Sean, Josh, and Luke Youngren catching up after a couple of weeks off and noting they are recording “half hour late today.” The hosts spend a long stretch on summer routines, from margaritas and tequila to bowling, golf, and Luke’s rolling average tracked in R.
Sean, Josh Youngren, and Luke Youngren spend much of Episode 176 on playoff-race math, including Pittsburgh’s 2-10 shootout record, Columbus’ 6-1 shootout mark, and the Islanders’ 1-0 win over Columbus behind Ilya Sorokin.
Sean opens the show by checking in with Josh and Luke Youngren, who have been mainlining the Olympics for a few days.
The show opens on a Sunday-night recording, a prior engagement, and a detour into the Minnesota Loons before it gets back to hockey.
Sean opens with Josh and Luke Youngren, and the conversation almost immediately lands in the Quinn Hughes-to-Minnesota chaos.
Sean opens with Josh and Luke Youngren, and the room settles into familiar sibling banter right away.
The show comes back after a long off-season stretch and immediately starts joking about time zones, calendars, and who had the week straight.
The show opens in holiday mode.
Sean opens with Josh and Luke after a short break, and the first stretch is mostly about schedule wrangling, Labor Day confusion, volunteer plans, and the usual check on when everyone was actually free.
Everyone opens on the Olympics hangover.
Evolving Hockey Podcast Episode 159 centers on very early NHL returns, from the Red Wings leading the Atlantic after six games to McDavid sitting on seven assists and zero goals through six or seven games.
Sean, Josh, and Luke Youngren spend the front half of Evolving Hockey Podcast Episode 170 on the 2026 Olympic hockey schedule, including the Milan venue delay, the women’s start on February 5, and the men’s first games on February 11.
Sean opens by checking the clock and the week number, and the conversation settles into the kind of season bookkeeping that feels a little less tidy than it did a month ago.
Evolving Hockey Podcast episode 163 focuses on the Atlantic Division, with Sean and Josh comparing Montreal, Boston, Buffalo, Toronto, Tampa Bay, and Florida against the rest of the NHL.
Sean, Josh Youngren, and Luke Youngren use the return of preseason hockey to tee up their annual team projections, with Luke actively working on the model updates and the hosts explaining why they now wait until the last few days before release.
Sean, Josh, and Luke open with Halloween talk, including wind gusts up to 50 miles an hour, a headless-kid costume, and a long detour into whistling inside, black cats, and other superstitions.
Sean, Josh, and Luke recap the 2026 trade deadline while also riffing on Daylight Savings Time, Mac OS Tahoe, and a weekend spent cataloging about 150 cassette tapes.
The hosts discuss their sparkling water preferences before diving into NHL hockey analysis.
The Evolving Hockey Podcast episode on the 2026 trade deadline centers on Josh, Luke Youngren, and Sean walking through their data-based target list, which is built from expiring contracts on teams with less than a 50% playoff chance.
The episode opens with a long, very familiar twin joke before settling into hockey modeling.
They come back after a missed week.
The hosts preview the 2025 NHL free agency, analyzing recent trades like J.J.
The hosts review the Florida Panthers' Stanley Cup victory over the Edmonton Oilers, analyzing how depth and forechecking overcame star power.
The show opens a little rough around the edges, with microphone trouble and the usual blame ping-pong before anything really gets moving.
The hosts preview the Stanley Cup Finals between the Panthers and Oilers, discussing model projections, goaltending debates, and playoff takeaways.
The hosts discuss recent events and personal anecdotes before diving into NHL hockey analysis from an analytical and statistical perspective.
The hosts discuss NHL hockey using analytical and statistical perspectives, with casual banter about personal anecdotes.
The hosts discuss their recent trip to Atlanta and introduce the episode's hockey analysis focus.
The hosts discuss their week off and a home renovation project before diving into hockey analytics.
The hosts discuss NHL hockey, focusing on analytics and current events, with a casual conversation about game times and apps.
The hosts discuss the NHL playoffs start date confusion and their recent activities, setting up a hockey analytics-focused episode.