The Neutral Zone Trap Podcast: Episode Two

The second ever episode of The Neutral Zone Trap Podcast.

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This week on The Neutral Zone Trap Podcast we discuss

• Violence in hockey, specifically Ray Emery attack Brayden Holtby
• How it effects players on and off the ice
• The effect violence has on the league's image
• This week in hockey history
• The three games of the week with predictions
• Hits of the week.

Check out the The Neutral Zone Podcast here.

The Many Faces of Erik Karlsson

Attempting to unpack the young star's all-around game

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By Josh Duncan

I don't mean that face, although it is incredibly expressive, but what I'm referring to is the three different Erik Karlsson-related stories from last night. The first was about how the 23-year-old Swede was quietly atop the scoring race amongst defensemen once again. No more than an hour later I stumbled upon a tweet from Karlsson wishing Toronto Maple Leafs forward Dave Bolland all the best and a speedy recovery after the Leafs' centre suffered a laceration to his ankle on a hit from Zack Kassian on Saturday night.

You Better Not Miss This

The games you absolutely need to watch this week

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By Marnitz Kotze

With so many great games each week, we single out three that you absolutely, positively cannot miss. As always, my winners are in bold.

Padstackers Club: ...And a Beauty

The best in kicks, toes, gloves and stacks

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James Reimer delivers perhaps the best 4-0 loss in goalie history, and more...

By Marnitz Kotze

"Me and my goalies, we tighter than a glove/ Save a lot of games its how we do it at the Padstackers Club" - Eric "Eazy-E" Wright


A great save can get you cemented in history as a game changer, but most importantly it will get you printed on our weekly segment about saves. This is the Padstackers club.

Saturday Wrap-Up

TURN ON THE BAY CITY ROLLERS!!!

By Zak Griffin

If it ain't Scottish, it's crap! Unless of course we are talking about the night of hockey that was this Saturday night. So buckle up kiddos, we've got a lot of ground to cover and only so much time to do it in!

The Week In Roster Movement

TNZT Reviews the week that was on the NHL transaction wire

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Colorado has been all over the place this week, good Lord!

By Max Sussman

Each week, TNZT runs down the major transactions and roster moves of the week. This, the first week in our history, was a doozie. It started with a former All-Star being traded from the only team he's ever known (to the Islanders no less), continued through Semyon Varlamov's arrest and right on through the Avs swapping Steve Downie for Philadelphia's Max Talbot. As always, winners, losers and oddities.

Fantasy Advice Fridays

The Pilot Episode

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By Josh Duncan

Fantasy sports grow in popularity seemingly every year. The hit FX show The League has brought fantasy sports to mainstream television and even if you don't take your fantasy hockey that seriously, deep down everyone wants to win their league. Who doesn't want a year of bragging rights over their friends or coworkers? Over the next six and a half months I'm going to do everything in my power to help you win that league your in, whether it's an eight-person Yahoo! league or a 20 person office pool. I have yet to decide if there's going to be a set format or what that format might be for this series of articles so for this first week I'm just going to take a look at some of the early season fantasy stories.