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Hockey Podcasts

583 shows and 119,433 episodes sit under Hockey.

Curated guide to hockey podcasts in 2026: NHL team-pods (Hurricanes, Kings, Avalanche, Utah, Wild), playoff-first-round coverage, and fantasy-hockey post-mortem content.

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What Hockey podcasts actually cover

The best hockey podcasts answer a practical question: what do you want to hear after the game? Sometimes it's an explanation of why the power play stalled. Sometimes it's company after a third straight loss. And sometimes it's a voice from a place the broadcast never reaches, such as a junior team's training camp, a college regional, or a rink where blind players chase a puck they can hear.

The range is wide. There are 31-minute daily team briefings, fan hangouts, betting rooms reading the board, and analytical shows built around shots and chances. Geography shapes taste too: on October 5, 2026, a third-party snapshot of Apple's hockey charts put a different show in second place in the U.S. than in Canada. An April 2026 Edison Research at SSRS report on sports podcasts counted 2025 audiences across audio and video, and many of these shows are now things you can watch as well as hear.

Listeners argue about familiar things. Is a host's criticism of the home team independence or grumpiness? Is a numbers-first show illuminating or dry? Does the summer leave enough to talk about? Each argument comes down to fit, and fit is what this page is for.

Your team, before breakfast

The daily team show keeps you current, and the strongest ones turn a single result into a reason to think.

Locked On Flyers - Daily Podcast On The Philadelphia Flyers has Rachel Donner and Russ Cohen talking like people who watched every shift. In The Philadelphia Flyers DOMINATE the Blackhawks in important win at home. they briefly confuse Cam York with Drysdale. They sort it out on air and use the mix-up to make a sharper point about the Flyers lacking a 50-point defenseman. For The BATTLE OF PENNSYLVANIA: A Philadelphia Flyers vs Pittsburgh Penguins NHL Playoff Preview! they invite their Locked On Penguins counterparts in as "frenemies," which gives the preview two sides of the rivalry instead of one.

Locked On Sabres - Daily Podcast On The Buffalo Sabres does something braver: Joe DiBiase picks an argument he can't win cleanly. The Great Owen Power Debate RAGES ON for Buffalo Sabres fans asks whether Power is having a good year. It weighs his 24 points in 66 games against nearly 22 minutes a night and heavier penalty-kill duty, and it doesn't pretend the numbers settle it.

Locked On Canucks - Daily Podcast On The Vancouver Canucks, with Trevor Beggs and Kyle Bhawan, runs looser and funnier. In Vancouver Canucks Fans Tell The Truth (feat. Canuck Clay), the guest asks early on whether he can still be the best Canucks fan ever if he won't attend every game next season. For more single-team shows, see the NHL Team Coverage page.

The group chat with a microphone

Some shows aren't trying to inform you first. They offer a seat at a table where everyone shares your blood pressure.

Straight Up Sabres spends 71 minutes in Sabres Cap Off Magical Season & Look to Playoffs (S7 E34) trying to work out how this happened. One host notes the team went from 11-14-4 to the best half-season run since the 1995-96 Red Wings. The talk also turns to Pat LaFontaine and the hurt of how his time with the organisation ended.

Kings Realm is messier, and proudly so. In 380: They Stumbled In, Dennis Wilson and James Whitlock run through a 90-point season and a first-round draw against Colorado. They then play a voicemail from a listener in Calgary who reports she is wearing three pairs of pants.

Between the Pipes, from Alex Rajaniemi and Mark Springer, carries the postgame heat straight into the feed. In Game 82: Avs End Season with Franchise-Record 121 Points (April 17, 2026), one host called the Kings series the only first-round matchup that could be a sweep. That was a prediction, not a promise.

Jenaya Talks Caps: The Podcast takes grief seriously. Episode 120: Washington Capitals DISASTERCLASS vs Rangers; Ilya Protas Called Up runs 105 minutes as a live-streamed season "funeral," reading viewer comments aloud and calling itself "a Capitals fans therapy session." If a loss makes you want company more than analysis, this is the mode.

Access, and what it buys you

Insider voices can explain a dressing room, but it helps to know whose account you're hearing.

Up In The Blue Seats - New York Rangers Podcast pairs beat writer Mollie Walker with former Rangers center Brian Boyle. In Mika Benched, Kreider Returns & Rangers Can’t catch a break! | Up in the Blue Seats, the show lays out the case against the team: a league-high seven shutout losses and a power play at 2-for-22 since losing Adam Fox. The conversation then turns to Zibanejad missing a team meeting and how anyone gets across the city after a snowstorm.

Mind Your Pucking Business brings in Dan Rosen of NHL.com for MYPB Ep. 223: Dan Rosen From NHL.com Joins Us, Rangers Gameplan. The guest calls Zibanejad the team's emotional leader. That is a reporter's judgment, clearly framed as one.

The most moving conversation belongs to The Caniac Report. In Talking Hockey & The Canes w/ Craig Fitzpatrick (EP 358), the guest explains how blind hockey works, starting with a metal puck that makes noise on the ice. He describes a mission to grow participation until the Paralympics have to let the sport in.

Devils State of Mind Podcast does something similar on a smaller scale. Devils' Jake Allen Giving Back FT Jennifer Streeter | Full Episode | S7 E26 follows a fan's question about a player into his charity work.

Reading the ice

Once the result is settled, analysis gives you something to watch for next time.

The Hockey PDOcast, hosted by Dimitri Filipovic, does this with precision. In The Run the Lightning Are On, Colorado’s Fastball, and Ryan Leonard’s Offensive Upside, Tampa's game against the Rangers is measured at 30-10 in five-on-five shots and 16-4 in high-danger chances, meaning looks from the dangerous area right in front of the net. From there the show explains how Colorado turns a routine neutral-zone pass into an attack at full speed.

Puckworms is chattier and works series by series in its preview. 2026 Postseason Preview: East keeps returning to one question about Carolina: when the lights are brightest, can one player take over a series? The NHL Analysis & News and NHL Playoffs & Stanley Cup pages go further.

Beyond the NHL

Hockey's pleasures aren't confined to the top league.

Behind the Mask on Impact 89FM, the Michigan State show, reckons with a painful ending in Season Finale!. The Spartans lost 4-3 in overtime to Wisconsin in Worcester after the Badgers scored twice in just over four minutes late in the third period.

Dump & Chase Podcast, made by Youngstown Phantoms season-ticket holders, recorded interviews from a burger joint during camp. In 2026 Main Camp: Part 1 - Brody Berard & Lukas Zajic, one host's habit of texting mid-interview becomes a running joke.

For the women's game, The Instigator Podcast's Storylines and Insights on the Olympic Hockey Tournament featuring Parker McLean of On The Fly looks at whether the PWHL is narrowing the gap with other nations. Look to the College Sports and Winter Sports guides for more.

Slates, lines and honest losing streaks

Fantasy and betting shows serve a practical audience, and the useful ones show their reasoning, including when it fails.

The Morning Skate Podcast spends 87 minutes on a 14-game daily fantasy slate in Thursday NHL DFS Slate Breakdown - 4/9/26. It weighs prices, power-play units and how many other players will pick the same names, and it flatly rules out Calgary on the road in Colorado.

PuckTime dissects a lost wager early in NHL Picks Today | Best Bets, Odds & Predictions for April 8, 2026: the Ducks lost 5-0. Listen for that candour, and treat the promo codes as advertising rather than advice.

The Fantasy Hockey and Sports Betting pages continue from here.

Where to start

  • If you want tomorrow's argument today: Locked On Sabres - Daily Podcast On The Buffalo Sabres, The Great Owen Power Debate RAGES ON for Buffalo Sabres fans.
  • If a loss needs company: Jenaya Talks Caps: The Podcast, Episode 120: Washington Capitals DISASTERCLASS vs Rangers; Ilya Protas Called Up.
  • For sharper eyes on Saturday: The Hockey PDOcast, The Run the Lightning Are On, Colorado’s Fastball, and Ryan Leonard’s Offensive Upside.
  • When you want something that outlasts a season: The Caniac Report, Talking Hockey & The Canes w/ Craig Fitzpatrick (EP 358).
  • To hear the game below the NHL: Behind the Mask on Impact 89FM, Season Finale!.

Pick the conversation you'd want after your next game, and listen for one thing you would otherwise have missed. The wider Sports guide is there when hockey season ends.

Featured shows below are part of the PlayNext catalog. Updated weekly.

Featured shows

8 shows, described rather than listed

A short write-up for each, plus the job it does in this guide.

Where to start

5 routes in, one per reader

01Specific-team NHL fanStarts with The Caniac Report

Find the team-pod: *The Caniac Report* for Carolina, *Kings Realm* or *All The Kings Men* for the Kings, *Avalanche Digest* or *Between the Pipes* for the Avs, *ALL Utah Hockey Podcast* for Utah, *Bardown Beauties* for Minnesota.

02Playoff-cycle listenerStarts with The Caniac Report

*Hurricanes vs Senators Round One Playoff Preview (EP 374)* is the entry. All slate team-pods are running first-round content right now.

03Avalanche fan (top seed)Starts with Between the Pipes

*Between the Pipes*'s game-by-game numbered format is the granular entry; *Avalanche Digest* is the temperature-check entry. Different shows for different listening modes.

04Fantasy-hockey listenerStarts with Apples & Ginos Fantasy Hockey Podcast

*Fantasy Hockey Season Review: What I Got RIGHT & WRONG (3 Leagues Breakdown)* is the entry for the end-of-season post-mortem moment.

05New-market team listenerStarts with ALL Utah Hockey Podcast

*Evaluating the Utah Hockey Club at the quarter point of the season* is the entry for a franchise still establishing its identity in its new market.

Glossary

Jargon you'll hear on Hockey podcasts

NHL team-pod

Sub-genre where one show covers a single NHL franchise. Cadence rises to per-game during the playoffs; fan-pod register predominates. Most major NHL franchises have a dedicated show; some (Avs, Kings on this slate) have two.

Playoff-first-round window

Mid-April NHL podcasting runs almost exclusively on first-round playoff content for whichever team the show covers. The team-pods on this slate are uniformly in postseason-preview-or-reaction mode.

Utah Hockey Club identity-building

The 2024 relocation of the Arizona Coyotes to Utah produced a new franchise still in its market-narrative-building phase. *ALL Utah Hockey Podcast* is the slate's representative; recent episodes are doing identity work alongside game coverage.

Fantasy-hockey post-mortem

End-of-season fantasy-hockey coverage runs on its own rhythm — lessons-learned, season-review, prep-for-next-year episodes. *Apples & Ginos Fantasy Hockey Podcast* is the slate's example.

Voice-profile coverage gap (hockey)

Only two of twelve shows on this slate are voice-profiled in PlayNext today. The other ten are in the corpus pulling episodes into the feed but haven't been through voice extraction. This is a known backlog item.