{"id":62895,"date":"2019-12-03T14:34:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=62895"},"modified":"2021-12-27T01:02:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T06:02:20","slug":"the-4th-line-hockey-podcast-259-coach-controversies-new-york-islanders-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/12\/03\/the-4th-line-hockey-podcast-259-coach-controversies-new-york-islanders-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The 4th Line Hockey Podcast #259 &#8211; Coach Controversies, New York Islanders Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Hockey<\/a> presents The 4th Line Hockey Podcast #259 &#8211; The Coach Controversy. Carl and Nick provide their own unique and fun view of hockey. Every week the guys share their thoughts on the news of the week. We have a variety of guests from the world of hockey.\u00a0As well as spending some time in segments like The Elimination Station, The Rant Shack, and The Hot Seat. This week, a look at the NHL scheduling in the eyes of a key NHL player, and how arena financing works, plus other news around the league.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>The 4th Line Hockey Podcast #259 &#8211; The Coach Controversies<\/h3>\n<p>With Nick away, it takes three people to replace him.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/12258815\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ea0404\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Calgary Flames<\/a>, and the NHL as a whole, had a bad week after news of coaches behaving badly happened repeatedly. Thankfully, this news is coming to light. What does it mean for the future of the league? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanNPike\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Pike<\/a> of Flames Nation and The Sporting News joins us to discuss the week that was for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/flames\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flames<\/a>: the resignation of Bill Peters, the fallout and the future with Geoff Ward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewDillner\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthew Dillner<\/a>, producer of the Dale Jr. Download and lifelong<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> New York Islanders<\/a> fan, joins us to discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/islanders\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Islanders<\/a>&#8216; fantastic season. With <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/barzama01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mathew Barzal<\/a> <\/strong>leading the way and<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/g\/greisth01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Greiss<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/varlasi01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Semyon Varlamov<\/a> <\/strong>sharing the net, who are the unsung heroes leading this team?<\/p>\n<p>Alex Metzger, co-host of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/2019\/11\/29\/mnm-hockey-podcast-bill-peters-mike-babcock-suspensions\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MnM Podcast<\/a>, joins us as well to see what teams are destined for a playoff position swap with the season at the one third mark. Can the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lightning<\/a> turn it around? Are the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leafs<\/a> destined for failure? Can the Flames recover from this terrible stretch?<\/p>\n<p>All this and more on episode 259 of the 4th Line Hockey Podcast!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Word on Hockey presents The 4th Line Hockey Podcast #259 &#8211; The Coach Controversy. Carl and Nick provide their own unique and fun view of hockey. Every week the guys share their thoughts on the news of the week. We have a variety of guests from the world of hockey.\u00a0As well as spending some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":62621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,22,17,49,9,18],"tags":[836,103,703,491,4193,1198,42,1181,72],"class_list":["post-62895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-t4lp","category-flames","category-islanders","category-podcasts","category-lightning","category-leafs","tag-bill-peters","tag-calgary-flames","tag-mathew-barzal","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-podcast","tag-semyon-varlamov","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-thomas-greiss","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"modified_by":"Noah Foster, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}