Owen Power (Buffalo Sabres) and Kent Johnson (Columbus Blue Jackets) - NHL players on friendship, faith, family and hockey
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5 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
NHL players Owen Power of the Buffalo Sabres and Kent Johnson of the Columbus Blue Jackets join the show to talk about how their bond formed in college at Michigan, their paths to faith, and the challenges and joys of living out their beliefs as professional athletes.
Chapters:
(01:10) - Meeting at Michigan and becoming close friends
(04:16) - Their testimony of faith in Jesus
(08:15) - NHL Draft memories in 2022
(10:17) - Living out your faith in the NHL
(12:05) - Sharing Jesus with others
(13:47) - Identity in Christ and not hockey
(15:38) - Staying humble after signing a big contract
(18:48) - The joy in talking about Jesus to others
(22:34) - Becoming hockey players at a young age
(25:14) - Owen shares about his wedding
(26:33) - Owen and Kent playing against each other
(27:58) - Favorite on-ice moments
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Sports Spectrum podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20. |
| 0:06.0 | Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run. |
| 0:11.0 | Where Sports and Faith Connect. |
| 0:13.0 | Forte, diving catch, touchdown! |
| 0:17.0 | Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown. |
| 0:21.4 | And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back, Matt Forte. |
| 0:31.4 | What's up, y'all? |
| 0:32.4 | I'm Matt Forte here with Sports Spectrum, and I always got my guy, Jason Romano, with me. |
| 0:37.3 | And on today's podcast we got |
| 0:39.4 | owen power of the buffalo sabers and kent johnson of the uh Columbus blue jackets got to get that |
| 0:47.3 | right uh but two best buds man i'm excited to talk to these guys to hear their faith story here |
| 0:53.1 | you know kind of the story of how they met |
| 0:55.3 | and, you know, what they're doing these days. And what's up, fellas, welcome to Sports Spectrum. |
| 1:00.4 | Yeah, thanks for having us. |
| 1:03.7 | Is that, I mean, is that true? Are you guys best buzz? I mean, Jason kind of told me you were, |
| 1:07.9 | but I got to hear from you guys. uh i mean yeah i mean we got pretty |
| 1:11.9 | close at michigan uh still talk at ton now so um he was in my wedding party this summer and um |
| 1:19.3 | i would say for sure yeah yeah all right yeah those listening can't see can't you know he |
| 1:27.1 | looks very excited about that that he is in your wedding party and that you guys met. |
| 1:32.3 | But yeah, you guys met way back in Michigan. |
| 1:34.9 | Just, I guess walk us through that, Kent, you know, from your side of the story, I'll let you tell yours. |
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