Evolving Hockey Podcast

Evolving Hockey Staff

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.

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S6 · E6
Tuesday · 1 hr 12 min
Episode 195: Expected Goals
The first week of the '26-27 NHL season is in the books, and as is tradition it's too early to say anything conclusive. Instead, we chatted about Vince Dunn, broadcasts, concession food, David Lynch, and early vibes. In the second half we talked exclusively about xG.
S6 · E5
September 29 · 1 hr 19 min
Episode 194: '26-27 NHL Season Preview!
Our team projections are now updated for the '26-27 NHL season, and our season preview article is up on the site! We spent the entire episode discussing the model, the league environment, each division, and every team (I think). If you want hockey discussion, no recurring episode ever has more!
S6 · E4
September 24 · 1 hr 3 min
Episode 193: End of the Summer
The season starts in six days. We're a little too early for our annual season preview episode, so we thought we'd wrap up the summer properly before we get to that. We discussed recent contracts, fantasy, initial contract analysis, extensions, bowling, and 1.5x listening.
S6 · E3
September 15 · 1 hr 9 min
Episode 192: GOALIES
The theme of this episode is goalies. Things got really messy. I suppose that makes *a lot* of sense. Between all of that we talked about the perfect replacement level team, unexplained phenomenons, plants, fasting, and Dennis Quaid.
S6 · E2
September 2 · 1 hr 12 min
Episode 191: Cale Makar and Projections
It's time for us to start talking about hockey again (even if we spent 15 minutes talking about the MN State Fair). We spent the first half discussing our recently released fantasy projections and then moved on to Cale Makar and team construction questions.
S6 · E1
August 25 · 59 min
Episode 190: Offseason Vibes
The Twins are back from the only vacation they take every year, and nothing is going on. It's all vibes. We spent the first half discussing pseudoscientific managerial assessment tools and prospect evaluation questions. Later, we pondered the Leo Carlsson offersheet and native thistles.
S5 · E37
August 11 · 55 min
Episode 189: Evolving Wilderness
We've been doing this for almost five years, and this episode is the most "offseason" episode we've ever recorded. We spent the first half talking about native plants (I'm not kidding), and the second half discussing ophthalmology and preseason hockey. Hell yeah.
S5 · E36
July 28 · 1 hr 10 min
Episode 188: July Recap
It's been 19 days (it was only supposed to be like 14), but we're back in full offseason mode. We spent the entire episode covering all of the important things that happened in July such as: Legoland, Air Bud, The Bourne Identity, depressing jigsaw puzzles (and I guess some hockey content).
S5 · E35
July 8 · 1 hr 27 min
Episode 187: NHL Free Agency Week 1
What the f*ck. The first week of NHL Free Agency is always the most active, and 2026 gave us some absolute bangers. We spent the entire episode covering as much of it as we could fit in (or remember). That's the episode.
S5 · E34
June 30 · 1 hr 14 min
Episode 186: NHL Free Agency Preview (2026)
Free agency starts tomorrow! Our full preview article is up on the site. It's time. We spent the entire episode covering all things free agency. That's it. That's why we get up in the morning.
S5 · E33
June 23 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 185: Messy Trades and World Cup
It's officially the offseason, and the Evolving Hockey Podcast's transition was a little messy - please be patient. We spent the first bit discussing (the twins') football ignorance while understanding football analytics. For the rest of the episode we analyzed all the trades and contracts your heart could desire.
S5 · E32
June 16 · 1 hr 25 min
Episode 183: Celebrating Hockey Analytics
The Carolina Hurricanes are your 2026 Stanley Cup Champions! We spent the whole episode chatting about the series, analyzing what went right for the Canes, and how the playoffs shaped up overall. Within that, we spent time reminiscing about hockey stats history and its evolution. This one was fun.
S5 · E31
June 2 · 56 min
Episode 183: Stanley Cup Final!
It's time, and we're here. The 2026 Stanley Cup Final starts today, and we spent the first 10 minutes discussing the Jurassic Park franchise and sports movies. Once the important things were necessarily covered, we talked Hockey for the rest of the episode (I promise)!
S5 · E30
May 27 · 51 min
Episode 182: Conference Finals
The Conference Finals have started off just like everyone thought! Colorado may get swept (they did, but we didn't know it at the time), and Carolina's quantity-domination's resulted in shaky outcomes. We spent the whole episode analyzing everything like only we can (talking about pickup kickball and the Staals).
S5 · E29
May 18 · 1 hr 11 min
Episode 181: Contract Projections!
We had some severe scheduling issues over the last three weeks, but we're finally back! We spent the first half discussing the second round and professional bowling. Later we did a deep-dive into our contract model and the upcoming offseason. It's good to be back.
S5 · E28
April 28 · 1 hr 9 min
Episode 180: Analyzing the First Round
Josh is sick (but still talking), so we anticipated a shorter episode. We didn't do a shorter episode. We spent our entire lovely time talking about the ongoing NHL first round, surprises, ranges of quality, our favorite series, and Weather Report.
S5 · E27
April 21 · 1 hr 16 min
Episode 179: First Round Preview
Yes we're a few days late, but we're sticking to our schedule - we've never missed a week or recorded on another day. Our First Round Preview is up on the site, and we spent the entire episode covering all eight series with no interjections. This was all business, like always.
S5 · E26
April 15 · 58 min
Episode 178: The End (of the season)
We published our awards article yesterday, and even though we talked about the Awards at length last week, we couldn't help but spend a chunk talking about them again. To be fair, it was mainly The Twins yelling about the Selke. Later we chatted about playoff positions and *weird* results (The Kings).
S5 · E25
April 7 · 1 hr 15 min
Episode 177: Awards and Hell In a Cell
We're back after a week break (because of Shawn it wasn't our fault). We spent the first segment discussing the ongoing insanity of *this* season, playoff races, statistical oddities, and the Hell In a Cell match. Later we previewed our awards picks and the inverse of that.
S5 · E24
March 24 · 1 hr 1 min
Episode 176: The Playoff Race
With only a few weeks of the NHL season left, we felt the need to talk about professional bowling and who owns the hockey pucks. In all seriousness, we spent most of this episode analyzing the current playoff race, team strengths, disappointing western teams, and actors who might play current NHL coaches.

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