The NHL Puts Up a Fight

Hang Up and Listen

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News, Sports, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh talk about the 4 Nations Face-off which kicked off with intense brawls and continued with high-stakes, best-on-best action. The panel also breaks down the NBA’s lackluster All-Star Weekend and wraps up with the latest moves in WNBA free agency. On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, the panel takes a look at JuJu Watkins and the current stars of college basketball. 4 Nations (1:53): Canada vs. U.S.A. vs. Finland vs. Sweden. NBA All-Star Game (17:02): A new format can’t save an obsolete game. WNBA (32:48): Have the Indiana Fever leveled up? (Note: time codes are only accurate for Slate Plus members, who listen ad-free.) Want more Hang Up and Listen? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page, or visit slate.com/hangupplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, February 18th, 2025.
0:09.0	We hope you had a good, long weekend.
0:11.0	Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen, the sports podcast here at Slate.
0:14.0	Back with you again, I'm Alex Kersner.
0:16.0	I'm a contributing writer for Slate, and I also co-host the college football podcast, Split Zone Duo. We have much to
0:22.2	discuss this week. We will talk about the very successful and ongoing as we record Four Nations
0:27.6	face-off in hockey, which has made that sport the talk of the mainstream sports world over the
0:31.9	past week. We'll talk about the NBA All-Star game, which is dealing with a lot of the staleness
0:36.4	problems that hockey had sought to
0:37.8	address with an event like this Four Nations. And we will dive into WNBA Free Agency, where some of
0:42.9	the biggest names in that league are shifting the balance of power at least a little bit. Lindsay Gibbs
0:46.8	will tell us how much. As usual, she's joining us. Lindsay is the publisher of Powerplace, a newsletter
0:51.1	that covers the biggest stories of the moment in women's sports. Lindsay, how are you?
0:55.2	I am ready for a fight after this weekend.
0:59.7	That is what I am.
1:02.3	Dukes up, Alex.
1:03.9	Dukes up.
1:04.8	Yeah.
1:05.3	We're already too long, too far into this episode without any fisticus.
1:09.5	I am officially bored if there are not punches thrown
1:12.6	within two seconds of the entertainment I'm watching starting. Also dropping the gloves on Hangup
1:19.0	and Listen Today is indeed Ben Lindberg. Ben is a senior editor for The Ringer. He co-hosts effectively
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