Ice Guardians Pod

Kelly Chase and Brett Hull finish their conversation with seven-time Stanley Cup champion Bryan Trottier this week. Hully asks Trotts about the end of his run with the Islanders and Trotts tells them about his first meeting with Mario Lemieux in Pittsburgh. The guys talk about the transition to coaching and Chaser tells a story about Trotts having to talk him down in Colorado. Trotts reminisces about his first year in Pittsburgh playing with Jaromir Jagr and the guys discuss some of the factors and players that made the series against Minnesota so good. Trotts and Hully remember Bob Johnson and the impact his death at the start of the next season had on the team before reliving that second season in Pittsburgh and what the new guys brought to the team. Trotts breaks down some of the keys to their Cup win over Chicago and explains how Craig Patrick helped him get into coaching. He talks about his time as a player/coach and assistant in Pittsburgh, his year in Portland as a head coach, and going to Colorado and eventually winning another Cup as a coach.
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Kelly Chase and Brett Hull are hanging out with six-time Stanley Cup champion Bryan Trottier in part one of their conversation this week. Trotts and Chaser tell Hully about the first time they ever met on the ice and the guys talk about the similarities between Trotts and Mark Messier and how far back those comparisons go. Trotts fills the guys in what it was like growing up in Saskatchewan with Native grandparents and what role music has played in his life. Hully asks Trotts about getting drafted and starting his career with a great young group in New York and Trotts goes into the influence Al Arbour had on the Islanders teams of the late 70s and early 80s and how the Trio Grande line came to be. Trotts discusses his first impressions of the Edmonton Oilers and how the passing of one dynasty to another happened because of the example the Islanders set after winning. They talk about rivalries and how much the media and the fans made the Rangers-Islanders rivalry as great as it was.
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Kelly Chase and Brett Hull are catching up with former NHL forward and Stanley Cup Champion Jamal Mayers this week. Jammer tells Hully and Chaser about growing up in downtown Toronto with his single mother and older brother and how he didn't really get started in hockey until he was 11, but then moved up the ranks quicker than most. Jammer talks about getting drafted by the Blues and what it was like coming up to play between and learn from Twister and Chaser in the NHL. Jammer remembers some funny interaction with Basil McRae and then tells Hully about playing in Worcester. The guys talk about Jammer getting to play the first time in Toronto and why only his brother and his grandma were there to see it and they relive some of the greatest Blues teams Jammer got to play on. Hully brings up Mayers getting to go play for the Leafs in Toronto and the guys talk about the way they used to poke at each other on the bench. Jammer talks about playing for Joel Quenneville in Chicago and the joys of winning a Cup in his final year in the league. Chaser talks with Jammer about the new podcast, The Ride Home, that Jammer will be bringing to the Ice Guardians Network to give advice to parents on raising young athletes and helping their kids reach their potential.
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Kelly Chase and Brett Hull sit down with former Chicago Blackhawks goalie and NHL broadcaster Darren Pang. Panger speaks on how little broadcasting has changed in his time doing it and tells the guys how he got his start in the industry during his playing career. Chaser tells the story of his first TV broadcast and the advice he got from Jack Buck and the guys laugh about a time when a retired Hully got hurt and had to miss a few rounds of golf. Panger talks about his youth hockey days and some of the other NHLers that he grew up around. The guys talk about some goalies that deserve to be in the HOF and Hully and Panger talk about some Team USA memories from the 2002 Olympics. Panger goes into more detail on his broadcast career path and shares how his former teammates in Chicago made the transition to broadcasting easier for him. Chaser and Panger remember the time they went to see Pat Maroon play as a kid and talk about the new podcast Panger and Big Rig will be doing.
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Kelly Chase and Brett Hull are joined in studio this week by former NHL forward and coach, Tony Granato. The guys all discuss how they met and how Hully has known Tony for most of their lives. Tony tells Chaser what kind of a player Brett was as a mite. Granato tells Chaser about his time trying out for the US Olympic team in 1984 and how that led to him playing at Wisconsin and ultimately making it to the NHL. Granato asks Hully about how he ended up playing for Team USA instead of Team Canada on the international stage and the guys talk about some great memories from their time together on those teams, and Chaser relives his time watching Hully score to win the Cup in Dallas. Tony talks about his short time playing for the New York Rangers and some of the lessons he learned while he was there before getting traded to LA to play with Gretzky. The guys talk about the Kings Cup run in 1993 and how the team was able to get to a good spot without Gretzky. Hully asks Granato about the transition from playing to coaching and Tony goes into some of the details of getting that first job in Colorado. Kelly has a bone to pick with Tony about a disagreement they had when Granato was a coach in Pittsburgh and Chaser was working at NHL Network, and Kelly relays the story of how he found out he won the King Clancy.
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