This week it’s just Brandon and Peter as Brandon covers his beloved Blue Jackets. Other topics include: University of Alabama-Huntsville becomes the first realignment causality, Jonas Hiller’s rad Movember mask and Peter gives his views on the Occupy Movement.

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Quick standings dump, no commentary today. Too busy preparing for my trip out to Gainesville for The Fest.

Jaye from Mile High Sticking joins the show once again to discuss the Avalanche, surprising starts in the NHL and Colorado punk rock. Other topics include: Bobby Hull’s comments to Evander Kane, animal testing ending at military bases and “The Other F Word.”

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Back before the season started, we put out a call for anyone who wanted to join a joint HockeyPunx/Up The Pucks! fantasy hockey league. We quickly filled up our 20 open spots (Yahoo’s max) with various readers, listeners, bloggers, band members, and radio personnel.

That wasn’t surprising, seeing as how awesome and wildly popular both we and Up The Pucks! are, but what was surprising and fun to watch evolve is how everyone immediately started using punk rock-hockey puns as team names. Check out who’s who in our list of big names and influencial people in our league, as well as the celever team names everyone came up with. After that, check out week 1 matchup results.

Rollins Division
GoGoligoski Bordello - Peter, co-host of Up The Pucks!
hüskins dü - Ryan Lambert from Yahoo’s Puck Daddy, The Score’s Backhand Shelf, The Two-Line Pass, and more
Dillinger Fehr - Jer from HockeyPunx (hey that’s me!)
Crime in Ferriero - Ty Anderson from Hockey Buzz
Run DMSeabrook - Jason from Discard What You Don’t Need

MacKaye Division
A DarrenHelm Scream – Brandon, cohost of Up The Pucks!
Tyler Dead Kennedys – Jaye from Mile High Sticking
AnttiNiemiFlag - Steve Gunn, afternoon-drive talk radio host
AgainstShootouts! – KW, formerly of imadethismistake and many other punk/music projects
Dag BizNasty – Neil Greenberg from Washington Post, Russian Machine Never Breaks, and ESPN

Viscious Division
StreitlightManifesto – Link from Puck & Punk, former writer for HockeyPunx
The Bouncing Sopels – Cait Platt from HockeyN3rd
Brooklyn Jawbreakers – Mr. Fancy, occasional Up The Pucks! contributor
Dalek Stammer – Jay, formerly from Young, Poor, and Angry
LagwaGonchar – Johnny from Coyote Van Shakedown

Strummer Division
The Two Minutemen – Bryan, occasional HockeyPunx writer
CircleToewsTheSquare – Drew from LeVanDesigns
Don’t Be A Hejda – Stephen of Mile High Sticking
Iron Maddens – Pattrick, HockeyPunx/Up  The Pucks! enthusiast (tell us about yourself, Pattrick)
88 Fingers St. Louis – Kyle from the Moguls

After the jump, last week’s matchup result!
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This week Brandon and Peter are joined by returning host Jason from Discard What You Don’t Need and self-proclaimed “chicken mogul.” Topics discussed include: Dallas Stars hockey, division realignment, Don Cherry’s latest outburst and Tim Armstrong’s newest project.

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This week Brandon and Peter talk to Nny Christie, a concert promoter from Albuquerque, about the Coyotes and the punk sounds of the Southwest. Other topics include: The start of the NHL regular season, Sean Avery getting sent to the AHL and the ins outs of concert promotion.

[Ed. Note- I realized after the episode was recorded that Nny's mic was having some technical problems. I tried my best to correct those in editing, but it may still sound odd at points.]

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For the past two years, every Wednesday before the start of the season I have posted my prediction for how the playoff picture would look at the end of the regular season (here and here). The first year I did it, well, I probably could have done a better job. Last year, the results were…. wait, I never took a look back at last season’s predictions? Fuck, am I lazy. Okay then, in today’s post I’ll give you both this season’s predictions, and the results from last season.

I was hoping “Prediction Wednesday” would catch on, but it never did. I am a horrible trend starter. However, feel free to chime in with your own predictions on our forums.

Haha, you’re totally pissed about where I placed your team. Deal with it, because you’ll feel even worse at the end of the year when I am right.

After the jump, I’ll look at the predictions I made before last season and how things really ended up. (more…)