NHL chaos, argued quickly.
Puck Soup treats the NHL as both a league and a running group chat. Ryan Lambert and Sean "Down Goes Brown" McIndoe move quickly through firings, trade deadlines, playoff races, officiating fights, and the strange comedy of hockey fandom.
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Puck Soup is hockey talk for people who want the setup skipped and the argument underway. Ryan Lambert and Sean "Down Goes Brown" McIndoe treat the NHL as a live mess of results, rumors, pressure points, and fan grievances. The show moves fast. A playoff race, a coach firing, a GM firing, or a trade deadline board can become the lead story before they have fully finished making fun of the premise. That looseness is part of the appeal. The discussion often sounds like a take being pressure-tested in real time, with one voice pushing a claim forward and the other adding the caveat, the correction, or the sharper punchline. The recent run is heavy on playoff positioning, front-office panic, deadline disappointment, and the particular madness of the Maple Leafs. Brad Treliving, Kyle Dubas, Tom Fitzgerald, John Tortorella, Bruce Cassidy, Rob Rindemore, and Craig Berube all appear as pieces in a bigger argument about how NHL teams explain themselves. The show likes details. It notices timing, roster shape, trade-market scarcity, divisional context, and the difference between a move that sounds active and a move that changes anything. It is also happy to wander. St. Patrick's Day, Barry Keegan, Sabrina Carpenter, Wizard of Oz jokes, sponsor reads, and Patreon mailbag pitches can sit beside goaltender interference and NCAA tournament talk without feeling like a separate program. The hockey is still the spine. The comedy comes from knowing the league well enough to be annoyed in very specific ways. Puck Soup is not polished-panel analysis. It is sharper, drier, and more conversational than that. They can be blunt about bad decisions, bad timing, and fanbase hysteria, but the bluntness is usually tied to a concrete hockey point. The show works best when the NHL gives it too much material. Firings on Sunday and Monday, GM meetings fallout, playoff math, deadline paralysis, and international hockey discourse all become evidence in the same weekly case file. It is informed, impatient, and funny in a way that rewards listeners who enjoy hockey minutiae almost as much as they enjoy hearing those minutiae turned against the league.
Made for: Best for hockey fans who follow the NHL closely enough to enjoy fast references, roster specifics, trade-deadline second-guessing, and Maple Leafs discomfort. It suits listeners who prefer dry argument over recap polish.
What sets it apart: Puck Soup stands out by making league context and comedy feel inseparable. The show turns small NHL absurdities into broader arguments without losing the loose rhythm of two people talking through the mess as it happens.
We're Sean "Down Goes Brown" McIndoe of The Athletic and Ryan Lambert of EP Rinkside and this is a hockey podcast, in the sense that we talk about hockey, both on the ice and about fan culture. That's the "puck." This is also a podcast about movies, TV, fast food, life lessons and general idiocy. That's the "soup." Unless you ordered the minestrone.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Puck Soup pairs sharp NHL analysis with dry host chemistry, making trades, roster pressures and playoff consequences easier to read.
Puck Soup turns NHL news into a running argument between Ryan Lambert and Sean McIndoe, with trade deadline choices, roster construction, playoff races and international competition treated as questions rather than headlines.
Trade-deadline triage meets Wizard of Oz jokes, exactly where you want your hockey talk.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A brisk, funny deadline check-in on division uncertainty and Dallas's modest haul.
Trade Deadline Big Pictures treats the NHL deadline as a stretch-run reset, using Ryan Lambert and Sean McAdoo's conversation to sort through division uncertainty instead of building a deal-by-deal ledger.
A pointed hockey review of gold-medal drama, player conduct, and what the games actually delivered.
Puck Soup starts with Ryan Lambert and Sean McAnoo taking stock of the United States' hockey triumph, then presses on a bigger question: whether the two gold medal games really showed the sport at its best.
A clear-eyed case for why Pittsburgh may need to trade its best available asset instead of chasing a season that may not be saved.
Ryan Lambert and Sean McAdoo frame Pittsburgh's season as a hard front-office decision: trade Jake Gensel, re-sign him, or keep leaning into a run that may only postpone a larger repair.
A loose, detail-rich Puck Soup episode that finds its best arguments in front-office minutiae and Cup-final what-ifs.
Puck Soup starts with Ryan Lambert of Elite Prospects and Sean McIndoo of The Athletic treating Inside Out 2 like a hockey movie, then works its way into the Blues' hockey operations department.
Daily Blue Jays therapy after every swing.
Mets panic, patience, and prospects.
Tech news with the patience removed.
Mets anxiety, translated into roster logic.
Fort Myers to Fenway, one swing at a time.
Guardians talk with bite, detail, and banter.
Ryan Lambert argues that 'Inside Out 2' is a full-on hockey movie, ranking it against classics like Slapshot.
Hockey analysts discuss recent NHL trades, roster changes, and the New York Rangers' situation.
Two hockey podcasters discuss their exhaustion from watching a long World Series game between the Blue Jays and Dodgers, despite not caring about either team.
Ryan Lambert and Sean Mackendoo discuss the upcoming Four Nations Face-Off hockey tournament and their excitement for it.
Sean McIndoe offers thoughts and prayers for Ridly Greig after what he calls 'the assassination by the coward Morgan Rielly.'
The Islanders produce the sharpest split: Dom's projection is 28th, while one host places them 11th behind Pete DeBoer and Ilya Sorokin.
Ryan Lambert and Sean McNew discuss the final NHL playoff teams and criticize a coach's shootout strategy.
Hockey podcast hosts discuss recent NHL coach and GM firings, including Patrick Waugh and Tom Fitzgerald, with humorous commentary on timing.
Hockey analysts discuss the firing of Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving and other NHL coaching changes.
Two hockey analysts discuss the fallout from NHL GM meetings, focusing on goaltender interference controversies and other league issues.
Two hockey podcast hosts banter about St.
Ryan Lambert and Sean McAdoo frame Puck Soup’s “Trade Deadline Big Pictures” around the Pacific Division, where Anaheim’s John Carlson trade for a first and a second becomes the central early argument.
Puck Soup's Ryan Lambert and Sean McAdoo spend this episode sorting the NHL trade deadline into buyers and sellers, starting with The Athletic's board and its odd mix of names like Vincent Trocheck, Nazem Kadri, and Andrew Mangiapane.
Ryan Lambert and Sean McAnoo open Puck Soup's "Hughesnited States of Akellerca" by using the United States-Canada gold medal games to argue about Connor Hellebuck, Dominic Hasek, and what elite goaltending means.
Hockey analysts discuss the Edmonton Oilers' unraveling in game three of the Stanley Cup final.
Ryan Lambert and Sean McAdoo discuss Alex Ovechkin breaking Wayne Gretzky's all-time goal record in the same number of games.