In the form of a weekly audio show that's give or take a half hour in length,The End to End Hockey Podcast is an extension of myself: Opinionated, more than just a little bit different, and willing to look at things from a different point of view. I'm going to start recording shows for Season 3 sometime in early September.

The goal of the End to End Hockey Podcast is to inform and entertain, and attempt to fill in the gaps and provide opinions that are not prevalent in the mainstream media. When I succeed, I'm providing a greater depth of analysis and opinion on topics that miss the headlines on outlets such as TSN, Sportsnet and ESPN. Sometimes I'm off-base, but sometimes I hit upon a nugget of information that'll make your friends around the water cooler go: "Man, that makes a lot of sense. I never looked at it that way before." Either way, I'm happy enough to stand on my soapbox, risk making a fool of myself while trying to get you to think of an issue from a different point of view. Whether or not that's a good thing, well that's for all of us to decide.

My name is Dwain Gallant and I'm a lifelong hockey fan born and raised in rural PEI, but currently living in St. John's Newfoundland. I was born into a family where my Dad was Referee-in-chief of the local minor hockey association, as well as coach, manager, referee and my mom was the ultimate volunteer and hockey mom. We were a stereotypical rink rat family and the love of the game came naturally to us all. I've played, coached and refereed in Minor Hockey, and I'm just overall extremely passionate about the game. My wife and I are expecting our second boy in late December, or as a hockey fan would say, sometime around the World Junior Hockey Championships. :)

Episode 5: Delays, delays, and no sleep

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After a three week delay, Episode 5 is live and plugged in. Talking about the Northwest division, spare parts in Montreal, Jacques Plante (trust me on this one, it'll make sense once you tune in), Brandon Sutter (don't hate my for my opinions, even if you don't agree), and tune in for who I think is the NHL's best-kept secret.

Episode 4: An interesting start to the regular season

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This week, we've got a fun show talking about a season preview for the Edmonton Oilers, talking about Luke Schenn, Dany Heatley, Saku Koivu, Kyle Wellwood as well as Alexei Cherapanov and Jiri Fischer.

Episode 3: The Luke Schenn Fan Club grows...

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This week, we've got a fun show including a season preview for the Ottawa Senators, a first week preview and predictions for the Calgary Flames, a quick discussion about Guy Carbonneau's extension and Luke Schenn's strong play, finishing up with some hockey talk about the Battle of Alberta. 

Stay tuned to my NHL.com fan page (link on the left) for some other good stuff that got left on the cutting room floor this week.

Cheers,

Dwain

Episode 2: My Grand European Theory

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This week, I stand on my soapbox and make a complete fool of myself. I have a radical proposal on how to make European in the NHL (sort of) work, along with a look at what a theorhetical European road trip would look like (who wouldn't want to travel to Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Prague and Moscow?). I also preview the upcoming year for the Toronto Maple Leafs, review the first week of the regular season for the Edmonton Oilers, and I ramble on about a few other topics as well.

As for my Grand European plan, I've already blogged about this on my NHL.com fan page, so my thoughts are already online, check them out here:

Episode 1: It all begins

New website: Check.

new microphone: Check

New NHL Season: Check.

Episode 1: Check

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I open up this season with a big bang, making my predictions for the upcoming season for the Calgary Flames, a look forward to the start of the regular season in Montreal, a potential new league in Europe and ticket prices in Vancouver and Buffalo.  

For those who've listened to this podcast and visited my old website in the past, you'll know that I occasionally post comments that I can't fit into the show on the website. Instead of doing that this year, I'll post comments on my NHL Fan Site rather than on my own site since it will reach a larger audience and prompt more discussion than my web site alone can do.