Elev802 Podcast

The guys sit down with former US Olympian and current Pittsburgh Penguins scout Krissy Wendell-Pohl. Krissy talks about her hockey career dating back to playing with the boys in Minnesota High School, her time with the US Olympic team, and her new venture as a scout for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Have a listen!!

Episode 16 is here, the fellas share a few stories about Bill Guerin and then have a great chat with current Head Coach & GM of the Kitchener Rangers Mike McKenzie. Mike talks about his experience going through the ranks growing up in Toronto, his time at St. Lawrence University, and life in the OHL. He also shares his perspective on life coaching in Junior hockey all while having a college background. Be sure to have a listen!!

The crew is back for an awesome episode 13 of the podcast! Mitch has survived Montana and is back in familiar territory, and we reveal a new format for the podcast moving forward. We also get in-depth on the art of the game reports and how people view and use them, and then we talk with Patrick Burke from the NHLs Department of Player Safety about discipline, the NHL appeals process and much more, including the time he saw Straiter play -- and the report he wrote immediately following. 

The crew is back with a severely altered plan for Episode 11. Given all the COVID-related news, we scrapped our end of year show plans and moved into a discussion about the NHL players not participating in the Olympics, where Team USA goes from here and Straiter tells us about his experiences as the captain of the World Junior Team, and Batesy provides a little context on what it's like to scout the event.  And Mitch is nowhere to be found but we take care of his trademark ending....

The crew is back for Episode 9 as we continue on with a conversation from Episode 8 about creativity in the game and we expand it to discuss all kinds of players and how roles are established on the ice. Also, when did Mitch and Straiter learn their roles in the NHL and were those roles easy to accept? Would they have done anything differently? We also give Batesy grief for his busy professional life that's getting in the way of this episode and we're joined by former NHL player and current NHL scout Stephen Gionta. He talks about his career, the nerves that come with being a guy who has spent a lot of time in the AHL and he discusses winning two Cups as a scout with the Lightning. 

The crew is back for Episode 7 of the podcast with recharged batteries after the Thanksgiving holiday. We talk about how the holidays are impacted when you're in hockey and Mitch tells the story of the time he was traded at Thanksgiving and was stranded in Detroit for a week. He also shares the story of a young teammate who once got stranded in Costa Rica, and we talk about the Islanders new and permanent home back on Long Island and Straiter talks about how the arena situation impacted his time in New York. And, why is December 1st a significant date on the NHL calendar? 

The crew is back for Episode 5 talking about the big trade that sent Jack Eichel to the Golden Knights. How hard is to develop trust between a front office and the players and what are those relationships really like? Also, how long a leash should players give management? And the guys share stories from their careers about disgruntled players and the impacts it has on both teammates and the front office. And then, we're joined by sports uniform and logo expert Chris Creamer, who is the co-author of "Fabric of the Game," to have some fun talking about uniforms, logos and how certain teams got their names.

On Episode 3 of the Elev802 Podcast, we're back at our home bases and talking remotely for the first time. We make an announcement that Torrey Mitchell is going to be a regular on the podcast, but why does he want us to call him "Money Mitch?" We also talk about the idea of Hockey Sense and Hockey IQ, which goes back to something we talked about in Episode 1. And, how has the pandemic impacted the scouting world and the development of players, and what is the relationship between scouts and players?

Former NHL player Brian Strait, former NHL scout Jonathan Bates and sports media personality Brady Farkas come together for the first episode of the Elev802 Podcast. The guys explain what Elev802 is, where they are, and they talk about the ins and outs of recruiting from both the players and the university perspective. And then they sit down with longtime D-I head coach Kevin Sneddon to talk recruiting, his career at Union and UVM, and his time as a player at Harvard. Coming up in Ep2: Elev802 co-founder and former NHL player Torrey Mitchell!