With Zay out on assignment, the boys are holding down the fort for a relaxed, freewheeling roundtable! Wags, Josh, Randy, and Two Three pour a glass and dive into a loaded slate of hockey talk.

• Saluting a Legend: Paying our respects to the iconic Barry Melrose.

• NHL News & Waivers: Breaking down contract drama, waiver wire moves, and roster shakeups heading into the new season.

• The Unlimited Gear Draft: The crew debates which single piece of hockey gear they’d swap out for fresh, brand-new stuff every single day if money was no object.

• Tournament Talk: Everything you need to know about upcoming 3rd Line Tournaments—plus a full preview of next week's stop in San Antonio. You definitely don’t want to miss it!

Grab a drink, pull up a seat in the Sin Bin, and hit subscribe wherever you listen.

Amputation didn’t stop Cassidy "Hopalong" Esty from lacing up his skates. In this episode of the Sin Bin Squires Podcast, Cassidy sits down with the boys to break down the grind of relearning how to skate on a prosthetic leg, the technical battle of finding his edges, and the sheer joy of competing with the USA Standing Amputee Hockey team.

Cassidy shares how his recovery evolved into a mission to design and manufacture cutting-edge prosthetics to keep fellow amputees active and competing. Plus, we dig into the Pacific Northwest hockey scene, chatting about his local Eugene beer league culture, rink banter, and why he bleeds black and gold for the Boston Bruins.

In This Episode:

• The mental and physical fight to return to the ice on a prosthetic

• Wearing the sweater for USA Standing Amputee Hockey

• Designing and engineering custom mobility prosthetics

• Eugene hockey culture and Pacific Northwest beer league life

• Boston Bruins talk and locker room chirps

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• Follow and rate the show on Spotify to support the pod!

• Share this episode with your beer league group chat.

Welcome to a special, unhinged crossover event from the Sin Bin Squires!

We are temporarily trading the ice for the gridiron. Join Wags and Zay as they live-record our inaugural fantasy football league draft, complete with questionable early-round reaches, fierce positional debates, and instant regret.

⚠️ Official Disclaimer: This episode is a fantasy sports special created solely for fellow fantasy football nerds and degenerate drafters. Never fear—our normal episodes featuring hockey content and awesome guests will return as scheduled. Blame Wags and Zay if your roster falls apart by Week 1.

Subscribe, leave a review, and let us know who you think reached too early in the first round!

From the wild early days of SoCal ice rinks to junior hockey brawls and legendary tournament road trips, Episode 14 delivers pure hockey culture. We’re joined by Jerry Hall for a wide-open, hilarious conversation about getting traded from Vegas to San Jose, growing up on the West Coast hockey grind, and why a lifetime in the game never actually slows down.

We fought through some early audio issues (and prevailed)!

Jerry pulls back the curtain on fifth-grade rink luck, junior teams with absolute goon reputations, finding billet housing, working at the rink, and playing college puck at San Jose State before transitioning into decades of beer league battles and tournament chaos. Plus, we dive into his work building a dedicated hockey team for utility line-workers and first responders.

🔥 In This Episode:

• The SoCal Origin Story: How a chance stop at a Torrance ice rink launched a lifetime on skates.

• Junior Hockey Wars: Life on the road with the Ontario Jets, Las Vegas Aces, and San Jose—complete with old-school helmets, no cages, and heavy metal locker rooms.

• San Jose State & Beyond: Building a hockey life from college puck to decades of tournament domination.

• Draft Tournaments vs. Beer League: Why the tournament lifestyle beats standard league play every single time.

• Linemen & First Responders on Ice: How workplace hockey is becoming the ultimate healthy outlet for hard-working crews.

• Unfiltered Locker Room Lore: Beard talk, legendary oddballs, crazy travel stories, and why hockey truly feels like family.

Got a ridiculous tournament story or beer league legend we need to cover? Drop it in the comments!

The Sin Bin Squires crew takes a quick detour from the rink to talk fantasy football. We brought in our resident draft nerds—Zay, Wags, and TwoThree—for a laid-back, unfiltered breakdown of the upcoming draft season.

We cover mild draft strategy, reveal our top targets, highlight sneaky sleepers, warn you against major early-round busts, and argue over a few spicy hot takes.

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Grab a cold one and pull up a spot on the bench—Episode 13 is officially live!

This week, the Squires cover everything from NHL safety mandates to the eye-watering price of youth hockey:

• The NHL's Neck Guard Rule: Cut-resistant Kevlar tech, compression collar upgrades, and why the grandfather clause allows veterans to opt out.

• Locker Room Style & Gear Quirks: Dangling chin straps and the ultimate cage vs. visor vs. full-face bubble debate.

• Youth Hockey Sticker Shock: San Jose adult league fees hitting $15,700/season—are high-cost markets pricing future players right out of the game?

• Best & Worst Seats in the Barn: Tactical upper bowl views vs. lower bowl action (and why glass seats might actually ruin your puck-tracking).

• 3rd Line Hockey Tournaments: Individual draft-style adult rec tournaments featuring 5 guaranteed games, custom jersey kits, and upcoming stops in Fort Wayne (IN), Jacksonville (FL), and Edinburgh (Scotland)!

Enjoying the show?Leave us a 5-star rating on Spotify, share the episode with your team chat, and as always... keep your stick on the ice!

Episode 12 is in the books! Josh took the week off, Randy is in the house, and Wags was broadcasting live from what we assume was a tin-can-and-string setup (apologies for the lag, folks).

This week, the boys dive deep into the wild world of sports economics and adult league etiquette:

• NHL Money Machine: Where are player salaries heading, and who is about to demand the next record-breaking contract?

• Hometown Discounts vs. Risky Biscuits: Should players take less to stay put, or force teams to roll the dice on massive, potentially painful top-dollar deals?

• The Legend of Bobby Bonilla: A quick detour into the holy grail of deferred sports paydays.

• Soccer Slander? Do pitch runners actually run as much as people claim, or are they just pacing themselves?

• Beer League Dilemma: Draft tournaments vs. playing on multiple league teams—which gives you the best bang for your buck?

• Ref Whisperers: The secret art of actually getting along with adult hockey officials (Spoiler alert: Just don't be a dick).

• Life Hacks: Randy closes out the show by giving us a masterclass on how to properly address a banana. You're welcome.

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Welcome back, squires! Grab a cold one, pull up a spot on the bench, and join us for an episode that went completely off the rails in the absolute best way possible.

Here’s what went down on Episode 11:

• The New NHL Broadcast: We open the show discussing the new NHL broadcast setup... is an era of team house broadcast teams coming to an end?

• Upcoming 3rd Line Hockey Tournaments: Pack your gear—we’ve got all the dates and details you need for the upcoming 3rd Line Tournament.

• Beauty of the Week: Big love to our hockey family. We’re shining a spotlight on the DAWG Nation Hockey Foundation Midwest for their incredible Survivor Game, raising $20,000 for a local brother fighting Stage 3 cancer. This is why we love this game.

• Locker Room Bluetooth Anarchy: Think before you hijack the team speaker 10 minutes before puck drop to play indie folk....

• The Late-Game Food Debate Gauntlet: We saved the pure chaos for last with a rapid-fire triple header:

  1. The PB&J War: The PB&J debate got wild—things escalated fast.....

  2. Leftover Pizza Etiquette: Does the box go straight into the fridge, or does it live on the kitchen counter like late-night luxury?

  3. Is Cereal Soup?: A shockingly philosophical, friendship-testing argument over whether cold milk + grains = breakfast gazpacho.

Hit that subscribe button, share this with your team chat, and stay out of the bin, squires!

💬 COMMUNITY POLL: We need you to settle the madness in the comments: Is cereal a cold soup, or are we completely out of our minds?

Tag the teammate who definitely eats 2:00 AM counter pizza!