Allan Muir. (SI.com)
A new “Hockey Talk” podcast here, with a first-time guest. His name is Allan Muir, the lead hockey writer at SI.com, and a tremendous one at that. He’s a former colleague of mine at SI, and this is the first of what should be many podcasts with him. But the future ones will be on a new podcast, by the name of “Inside Hockey, with Dater and Muir”. It’ll have its own new logo and new place on iTunes, so look for that real soon. Call this a warm-up podcast for that one, on “Hockey Talk.”
Allan is a renaissance man. He plays in a rock band, he’s the father of two hockey-playing young boys, he’s a former hockey-card writer at Beckett, where he literally wrote the stuff on the backs of cards about players. When I was a kid buying at least 20 packs a week, most of the cards said the player “Owns a sporting goods store” or “Sells insurance in the off-season.” How quaint, eh? Players don’t have off-season jobs anymore.
In this episode, Allan and I talk about the Avs and Stars’ slow starts, what’s been going on with them. We also talk about the merits, or lack thereof, of the NHL expanding to Las Vegas, the merits of advanced analytics in hockey, whether Randy Carlyle should be fired in Toronto and much, much more.
Hope you enjoy it. Click on the player below or on the , and don’t forget to hit the to help a hockey brother out.
