The Hockey Hotline

The Hockey Hotline Ep. 1 - NHL Re-Cap with Butch Merritt

On this first episode of The Hockey Hotline, your host, Benjamin Petree, brings on his step-father, Butch Merritt, to talk about this tumultuous past NHL season affected by COVID-19. Butch has been involved with the sport for a very long time now and has not seen anything like this happen in a season before, Benjamin brought him on the show to get a long time fan's opinions on this past season and how it was recovered. Starting from the stoppage of play, through to the creation of the playoff bubble, to the awarding of Lord Stanley's Cup, and all the way to how this upcoming season is going to play out, The Hockey Hotline covers all of this and more.

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The host of the Hockey Hotline podcast, Benjamin Petree, plans on taking a deep dive into the strange 2020 NHL season. From the beginning of COVID season when all hockey games were stopped and the season was paused, to the new playoff system put in place to finish the season in a COVID free bubble environment in Edmonton, all the way to the off-season we just entered and how the next season may look in this new world we all live in. How has this altered season compared to previous normal seasons of hockey? What was the new playoff format like, and more importantly who won the Stanley Cup? Die-hard hockey fans, casual fans, or people who don't know anything about the sport can tune in and get an in-depth look at the sport and how it like the other sports leagues have made the rest of their season work during the pandemic.