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Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

The Flying V: EP 15 - Trading Places with The Athletic's Chris Johnston

Blueshirts Breakaway: A show about the New York Rangers

Ryan Mead and Greg Kaplan

Sports News, News, Sports, Hockey

4.5686 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Flying V is back, and there's much to discuss! Vince Mercogliano breaks down the Carson Soucy trade, Artemi Panarin's future trade, and everyone on the horizon for the Rangers before the Olympic break. Plus, The Athletic's hockey insider Chris Johnston joins the show to break down the big decisions Chris Drury has to make ahead of the March trade deadline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'll now hand you over to my best man, Eddie.

0:04.0

Wow, wow, wow, second time's a charm, eh, Billy Boy.

0:09.0

Oh God.

0:10.0

Substitution, courtesy of Paddy Power, embarrassing Eddie, makes way for sensible Samuel.

0:15.0

Cool, that was close.

0:16.0

You might not always pick the right starter, but your sub can still deliver.

0:19.0

Because with Paddy's super sub, your bet rolls over to the player coming on. Panny Power. Valid on selected leagues and

0:24.3

markets only. Pre-match and in-play bets on qualifying player outcome selections only. T's and

0:27.8

exclusions apply. 18 plus scumannwellware.org.commodaware. What's going on, Rangers fans, and welcome to episode 15 of the Flying V podcast.

0:52.8

I'm your host, Vincent McCogliano, of the athletic, and I have to be

0:58.0

honest with you guys, I was debating whether or not to move ahead with this episode, given how

1:05.3

fluid the Rangers situation is right now, but I do have a little window to record. Things seem to be in a bit of a

1:14.9

holding pattern, at least for this moment. So we're going to roll. We're going to do it. We're not

1:20.5

going to wait until the morning to put this podcast out. I think we're going to hopefully have it out

1:24.4

by Thursday afternoon is the goal right now. I'm going to keep it a little bit

1:30.1

shorter than usual just to get this out before everything changes because we're very much in a

1:34.8

window right now where things can change at any minute. And we do have a guest who is as plugged

1:42.3

in on everything going on around the league and specifically what we're going to

1:45.8

talk about everything going on with the Rangers right now.

1:48.6

And that would be my colleague at the athletic Chris Johnston.

1:51.7

So he's going to be joining us shortly.

1:53.3

We're going to keep it to the two segments.

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