Five on Three

Five on Three is a WFUV Sports hockey roundtable with its skates planted in the tri-state NHL scene. The recurring focus is clear: Islanders, Rangers, Devils, and the playoff consequences of every good run, bad week, goalie question, or power-play failure. It is local first. It is not local only. Recent episodes stretch from trade-deadline reaction to Stanley Cup predictions, Olympic hockey, leaguewide news, and late-season surges from teams like the Columbus Blue Jackets and Senators. The show works best when the room is trying to make sense of a season that refuses to settle down. A Devils discussion can turn on small drops in penalty kill, save percentage, and player production. An Islanders segment can linger on a power play that should work on paper and somehow still does not. Rangers talk brings its own mix of frustration, roster anxiety, and close reading of who actually looks engaged on the ice. The pacing is informal and often funny. Studio chatter, weather, class schedules, and behind-the-board interruptions sit beside sharp hockey observations without much ceremony. That looseness gives the show its character. The speakers sound like they know the teams, care about the losses, and are willing to say when a season feels bleak. Playoff time brings out the best tension. Hope keeps appearing, then the standings argue back. Five on Three is especially suited to listeners who follow tri-state hockey but still want the rest of the league in view. It is not a grand national studio show with detached certainty. It is a rotating table of WFUV Sports voices tracking the margins, the moods, and the missed chances that shape an NHL season.