Puck Soup Podcast: Linda Cohn of ESPN, World Cup preview
(WARNING: STRONG ADULT LANGUAGE AND HUMOR. LISTENER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.)
PUCK SOUP is the new hockey podcast on the Nerdist network for Puck Daddy editor Greg Wyshynski and Dave Lozo of Vice Sports, Uproxx and The Comeback. This is a hockey podcast, in the sense that the talk about hockey, both on the ice and about fan culture. That’s the “puck.” This is also a podcast about movies, TV, fast food, life lessons and general idiocy. That’s the “soup.”
In Episode 17, Greg and Dave talk hockey with Linda Cohn of ESPN and her incessant boosterism of the New York Rangers and Henrik Lundqvist. Plus, the World Cup of Hockey gets previewed; Eli Manning vs. Peyton Manning vs. Tom Brady; why ESPN doesn’t cover hockey; which World Cup team you’d most like to play for; how the musical “Cats” is about ritual sacrifice; the NHL Las Vegas team’s gimmicks; and listener mail, including the best potato chip flavor.
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As a public service, we present the Episode 17 syllabus:
1:30 – We’re on Linda’s bucket list and Wysh wants Japanese sushi.
3:20 – ESPN hockey nostalgia.
6:55 – Las Vegas name updated, and game ops suggestions
18:00 – Linda Cohn thinks Jonathan Quick is better than Carey Price and everyone else.
21:20 – Linda Cohn reveals the background of her John Tortorella American flag scoop, and where the World Cup is on everyone’s radar.
27:35 – Wysh didn’t know CATS was about ritual sacrifice.
32:00 – In praise of Team North America in the World Cup.
37:00 – What teams really need out of goalies.
40:20 – Linda Cohn puts Eli over Peyton and makes Wysh spit-take.
45:20 – Which World Cup team would you most like to join?
49:15 – Talking ESPN movies, 30 For 30 and E:60 docs.
55:00 – Where is Linda Cohn on the NY Rangers celebrity fan pecking order? Plus, looking at the Rangers’ chances.
1:02:00 – Will we ever see a woman break through and play goal in the NHL?
1:04:40 – The Puck Soup mailbag!
