Roster Freeze and Boiling Tempers

32 Thoughts: The Podcast

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Sports, Hockey

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Kyle Bukauskas and Elliotte Friedman break down Craig Berube’s pointed postgame comments and the shifting tone around the Maple Leafs. They examine Edmonton’s goaltending concerns after another Tristan Jarry injury, the Oilers’ interest in Alex Lyon, and trade rumblings around the league ahead of the roster freeze. The episode also looks at Florida’s climb back into the playoff race and closes with a Final Thought on the Seattle Kraken’s alarming slide down the standings.

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0:00.0	Apparently, I was told that he has fined people for being late to meetings before.
0:07.9	Find them.
0:09.3	Yeah.
0:09.8	That's what someone said to me.
0:11.3	And he said, if you worked for Kekeleining, you wouldn't be able to afford your mortgage.
0:19.7	That's right.
0:23.2	All the money was going to the... Sabres, Year End Party.
0:26.7	Welcome to 32 Thoughts, the podcast.
0:28.9	Happy Friday, Elliot, Kyle, producer Dom Sharmadi, back with you once again.
0:33.2	Another busy week in the National Hockey League, Elliot, the holiday roster freeze coming into effect
0:38.7	later on tonight. Before we get to all of that, though, and it's busy night, Thursday, across
0:44.5	the NHL as well. We should probably, not that we are often looking to in this podcast, but we can't
0:52.3	not in this case, start with Toronto. And the reason why, Sean McKenzie
1:00.5	kind of laid it out perfectly before the Washington game Thursday where you could look at
1:05.8	the record and say there's six two and two. I think a lot of teams would take a run like that.
1:10.0	It just hasn't felt like a six-2-2 run around Toronto.
1:14.0	And on Thursday, it was their second lopsided loss, their last three games, shut out at the hands of the capitals.
1:20.7	We've seen Craig Barubi go at his team on the bench.
1:24.3	We've seen him go at individual players at the bench.
1:27.4	There's been a few
1:28.3	times in the media where it's looked a little different. Thursday night was a lot different.
1:34.0	We often say, Elliot, there's some quotes you read online and then you hear them and see them
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