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Episode 14: NHL Season preview
Episode 1412th January 2021 • Sports NextDoor • Max Cooper-Squires
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In this episode we give our picks and predictions for the upcoming NHL season, as well as a recap of NFL Wildcard weekend, and some NBA headlines.

Owen's Football Fancave (02:07-18:19) recaps all the big Football games that happened in the past few days. Starting with the Bills close win over the Colts (02:10), the Chargers victory over the Seahawks (05:47) Buccaneers' showing against the Washington Football team (7:56). The Ravens get revenge against the Titans (9:12), the Saints did more or less as expected against the Bears (11:11) and we got one big upset with the Browns blowing up the Steelers (13:49). As well National Championship summary (16:35)

Quick emotional Combat Corner (18:25) from Max summarizing the MMA Fighting.com article on Spencer Fisher "The Cost of Being the King".

NBA Storylines (21:24-42:02) Raptors losing continues as Siakam and Boucher impress (21:29) LaMelo Ball is starting to find his place in the league (31:33) and Steph Curry has the Warriors firmly on his back (33:40). As well will the league be paused for Covid-19 (36:14) and what exactly is going on with Kyrie Irving's absence (40:00)?

NHL Preview (42:03-01:39:29) Our thoughts on which teams make the playoffs in each division and what expecting to be sucessful in this unusual season. Picks for the top 4 teams in the Canadian AKA "North" division (42:53) the Central division (01:01:00) the Eastern division (01:12:51) and the Western division (01:23:00). As well as Awards predictions (01:32:25)

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