Golden Tusks Podcast

In this week's episode, we are joined by our good friend, the one and only Jahn from SLAPSHOT UTAH PODCAST!!We look back on Week 6 and ahead to Week 7. We start with Connor Hellebuyck sitting out his return to Winnipeg and what's next for Evander Kane and Bruce Cassidy. Then we pick our favorite Hometown Remix jerseys and share a Rally House and Burger King detour. From there, it's around-the-league NHL news, including Connor McDavid's nonstop scoring. Utah takes up most of the show: the road trip, Logan Cooley's hat trick, the standings, who should start in net against Vegas and St. Louis, the homestand and the Vegas rivalry, defensive struggles, Veggie's fire, and injury updates. We finish with Week 7 picks, Jack Eichel's return to Buffalo, our player of the week, referee assignments, a moment on hockey community and cancer awareness, and Veterans Day wishes.

Big D and Josh Shelton are back for Episode 12 of Golden Tusks. They start with the news out of Tampa Bay about Nikita Kucherov's future and Jon Cooper being possibly linked to Utah in the distance future. Then they argue the big free-agent question: should Utah's GM go after Kucherov or gamble on Connor McDavid? They also cover Hall of Fame names, Auston Matthews' milestone, whether Russia should be eligible for international hockey, and Brock Faber getting back on skates.Next they rank the NHL's Hometown Remix jerseys, including Utah's custom order, and Big D goes through his love-to-hate team rankings. On the Utah side they break down the loss to Minnesota, the comeback against Pittsburgh, roster moves, whether losing to bottom teams could cost Utah the playoffs, and the team's first-ever win in Toronto, including the tense finish and a goalie interference call. They wrap up with the prediction contest standings, player-of-the-week picks, Utah player stats and goalie save percentages, Remix jersey schedules, and the Hockey Fights Cancer mask

In this episode, we talk about what's been happening in the NHL since our last recording including the trade of Connor Hellebuyck to the New Jersey Devils and Brady Tkachuk's return to Ottawa since being traded to the Florida Panthers.We then look back at the week for both the Utah Mammoth (Utah beating Pittsburgh, losing in Seattle, and beating Tampa Bay in OT when Dmitri Simashev scores his 1st 2 NHL goals and 1 being the game winner) and Vegas Golden Knights (getting trounced at home by Tampa Bay, then again in St. Louis in a very high scoring yet boring game, and then a snooze fest losing in Columbus) and a look ahead to their upcoming opponents and November schedules where they will meet for the 1st time since round 1 of last seasons Stanley Cup Playoffs.

In this episode we talk about some news happening around the NHL, including an serious medication incident involving a player from the Pittsburgh Penguins after their game vs Utah. We then look back at last weeks games vs Edmonton and Utah (back to back) and touch on Vegas games vs Pittsburgh, and Calgary.

In this episode we talk about the latest happenings from around the NHL including the retirement announcement of Alex Ovechkin and some key injuries to some players around the NHL. We then look back at the 5 game road trip of the Utah Mammoth when they went 3-2 on the trip collecting 6 of 10 points to help maintain their position within the Central Division as well as talking out the Vegas Golden Knights as they hit the road for 2 and then back home for 2.We then recap our predictions for week 2 and 3 as we continue our quest vs Slapshot Utah and give our predictions for week 4 as well as our players of the week.

In this week-one recap, we break down the chaos around the league, dig into Utah's dominant opening wins and standout performances, and unpack Vegas's uneven start and goaltending concerns. We debate stars, power-play success, and the early analytics trends, hand out player-of-the-week picks, and update the prediction standings before looking ahead to week two. Plus: first impressions of the Delta Center remodel, opening-night arena vibes, merch limits and scalping frustration, and some hockey-nerd fan-encounter tangents to close things out.Update: During the editing process, our friends at Slapshot Utah submitted their week 2 predictions, so we've included them at the very end of the show.

The NHL preseason is over, and the 2026-2027 NHL Season is about to begin. We talk about some recent NHL News since the last time we dropped Episode 6. We then share our reviews on the Utah Mammoth's preseason and share our thoughts on the roster moves thus far, we share our week predictions as we challenge the guys at Slapshot Utah to a game, and then Josh will share his first impressions on round 2 of the renovations at the Delta Center.

Most people think that Christmas is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, but how wrong are they. The NHL season is back with training camps open and the season just a matter of days away, making this THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME of the YEAR. Josh and I briefly talk about the latest news coming from Winnipeg and around the NHL.

We're back after Josh returns from Germany to talk about some NHL news that has happened since the last time we got together. We discuss the National TV schedule breakdown for Vegas and Utah comparing the 2 in the TV markets. We also have a little exercise with a hypothetical expansion draft protected list for both Vegas and Utah with the idea that the NHL is expanding into Houston next season. We have challenged the guys from the Slapshot Utah podcast to a game where we each try to predict the winners all season long for Vegas and Utah, with a pizza dinner up for grabs.

Just a couple of hockey fans talking about the latest news coming from the NHL, especially for the UTAH MAMMOTH and VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS. In this particular we talk about the 5 years contracts of Leo Carlsson, Connor Bedard, and Macklin Celebrini.This weeks poll question on the Spotify app: If you were a hockey player, would you rather win the Stanley Cup or an Olympic Gold Medal? Lets us know on the Spotify App