NHL’s WAG culture, why Brad Marchand’s team used to hate him, and Sidney Crosby’s hair advice with ESPN’s Emily Kaplan (plus our Buffalo trip and Bills game recap!)
The Sports Gossip Show
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4.8 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
ESPN’s NHL reporter Emily Kaplan joins Madeline and Charlotte to talk about the biggest and best storylines heading into the 2025-2026 hockey season that kicked off on Tuesday. Did you know that there are a ton of brothers playing in the league? That the players fight to defend each other? That Brad Marchand’s current team hated him before he joined it? That Sidney Crosby took a player to get his hair cut? That the NHL is like a family? That WAGs take their jackets very seriously?
If you’re looking to get into hockey, Emily’s fun stories and facts about the guys on the ice are a great place to start. The season kicked off on Tuesday, so there’s no better time to brush up on the narratives.
Plus: Madeline and Charlotte recap their trip to Buffalo, which included a trip to Niagara Falls, a fiasco at a restaurant where they tried to order wings, and a visit to SGS listener Christina’s amazing tailgate! Thank you to Christina and thank you to Buffalo! The gals will certainly be back.
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| 0:00.0 | We look like we are high schools who work in an ice cream parlor. |
| 0:05.5 | Yes, or high schoolers who are working at a state fair. |
| 0:09.8 | Like funnel cake booth for a week. |
| 0:14.4 | If you're listening and you're not watching this on YouTube, it's worth going to check out. |
| 0:18.3 | But we both have our matching made of the missed sweatshirts on from our trip to Niagara Falls and Buffalo and matching hats from the Frank Lloyd Wright House that we toured. |
| 0:29.1 | We contain multitudes. |
| 0:30.3 | Testing, testing, testing. |
| 0:31.4 | Let's see how that sounded. |
| 0:47.4 | Hi, Shepardt. Hi Charlotte. Madeline, hello. We're back. We sure are. And in hats for I think the first time. |
| 0:51.1 | Yes, because we've been worried about the shadows it would cause on our faces. Yeah, but I actually think I'm looking at the video little monitor here on the computer and I think it looks pretty good. I think it looks pretty great. What do you guys think? Yeah, let us know. I wear a hat a lot of the time. We're always in a hat. We're both usually wearing hats and this could really help out a bad hair day on the show. Because we own a lot of dad hats. Oh yeah. A lot. Actually, maybe the collection I'm most proud of. Yeah. You know, I think that in my mugs. |
| 1:14.8 | Yeah. They're the same thing. I came home from this trip with this hat, which we'll get into. |
| 1:20.1 | It's a new purchase, obviously. Yeah. And my husband was like, new hat added to the collection, |
| 1:25.4 | I see. And I was like, yes, add into the collection, because you will probably wear it too. |
| 1:30.7 | Add to the collection, my husband said, this is, quote, the sickest hat I've ever seen. |
| 1:35.9 | Oh. |
| 1:36.8 | And I would agree. |
| 1:38.3 | And if you're, again, if you're listening, it is, mine is purple, Madeline's is green, |
| 1:43.1 | and it has white embroidery of the front facade of the Martin house, which is the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Buffalo, New York. |
| 1:54.7 | Yeah, that we toured, which we'll get to. |
| 1:56.9 | All right. |
| 1:57.4 | So, a lot going on. |
| 2:00.5 | We have an amazing interview today for you after a little |
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