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CTC Podcast 177 – Colin’s Back from 2022-02-01T02:46:17
Alex couldn’t make it, but Colin found his way back to Sweden and has caught up with the Sharks. Ben get’s Colin’s take on the things he missed while away and Colin asks Ben about random Shark stuf...
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CTC Podcast 176 – Konfusion and Karlsson from 2022-01-27T17:03:07
Erik Karlsson is hurt and probably not coming back until late March. How will that affect our boys in teal? How does that affect decisions around pending free agent Tomas Hertl? Well, honestly? We ...
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CTC Podcast 175 – A Kanefederacy of Dunces from 2022-01-11T02:44:56
OK, so the only confirmed dunce in this story is COVID felon Evander Kane, but there is the possibility of a whole lot more duncery happening under the surface to emerge in the weeks ahead. Regardl...
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CTC Podcast 174 – Our Expectations Were Low from 2022-01-04T23:57:29
Alex and Ben return from holiday break to talk about where the Sharks are versus fan expectations. Why do many fans seem to think that this is a playoff team, though not one playing up to that idea...
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CTC Podcast 173 – Questions Answered from 2021-12-15T01:44:03
This week was just Ben and Colin, so we decided to answer reader questions! Primarily you wanted to know how we would grade the young forwards and what we think the Sharks will do with Tomas Hertl....
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CTC Podcast 172 – The Quarter Pole from 2021-12-07T06:59:32
This week we talk about what we thought this team might be at the start of the season and what has actually happened. Who has been the best forward? Who has been the best defenseman? Who has been t...
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CTC Podcast 171 – The Kane Kunundrum from 2021-11-29T22:42:04
We talk about Evander Kane, mostly, but also throw in a little bit about the Sharks’ goalie deployment so far. Spoiler: We don’t quite get why Adin Hill was traded for if the team isn’t going to se...
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CTC Podcast 170 – See Ya, Youths from 2021-11-15T16:31:42
The #sjsharks COVID breakout is over and, in a relate story, the third pairing returns to being a tire fire. We talk about COVID, how the NHL mishandled the Sharks’ initial outbreak, and how the un...
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CTC Podcast 169 – The COVID ‘Cuda Crew from 2021-11-11T01:24:22
The San Jose Sharks found themselves in a strange position this last week: missing 6 or 7 starters and their head coach thanks to COVID exposure. And somehow they proceeded to use their AHL squad t...
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CTC Podcast 168 – Feated from 2021-10-25T03:59:01
The San Jose Sharks lost their first game of the season and are now 4-1-0. God Emperor William Eklund spent his first game in the press box. What does it all mean? Who knows, really. Nonetheless, w...
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CTC Podcast 167 – Undefeated from 2021-10-18T05:47:10
One game, one win. Let’s start the playoffs, eh boys? Or maybe not so fast. There were good signs in the first game of the season against the Winnipeg Jets, but there were also some of the weakness...
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CTC Podcast 166 – A New Season (and a hot mic, oops) from 2021-10-11T05:07:26
Circling the Cup podcast begins its seventh (SEVENTH!) season of Sharks discussion after a long summer off. If, like us, the offseason has seemed jam-packed with drama and upheaval and you need a c...
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CTC Podcast 165 – We Try to Be Positive from 2021-05-16T23:00:54
I’m not sure how much we (Alex, Ben, and Colin) succeeded, but this week we tried to project what good came out of this season for the future of this team. That’s not a long list, though, so expect...
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CTC Podcast 164 – A Lost Year from 2021-05-10T03:40:49
Well, the San Jose Sharks officially have missed the playoffs, as expected. Alex, Ben, and Colin spend this week’s podcast talking about what went wrong. Next week, we’ll look ahead to what can go ...
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CTC Podcast 163 – Patrick Marleau > Gordie Howe from 2021-04-19T19:52:43
The #sjsharks were murdered by the trade deadline, which left us with not much of substance to talk about. So, Alex, Ben, and Colin spend some time talking about Patrick Marleau and NHL fan reactio...
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CTC Podcast 162 – Loan Sharks from 2021-04-12T21:23:53
Alex, Ben, and Colin caught up on Sunday and reacted to the Devan Dubnyk trade (Colorado, baby, what is you doin’?) and made predictions about the trade deadline. Now you can listen to see what the...
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CTC Podcast 161 – Playoffs??? from 2021-04-05T02:14:14
It feels like in the last couple years we always get to the point where we have to ask: is this team going to make the playoffs? This year, unlike the past, we’ve considered the current iteration o...
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CTC Podcast 160 – Paul Martin and Mental Health from 2021-03-22T04:47
In case you missed it, this week it was revealed that ex-Shark had been struggling with substance abuse and depression during and after his playing days. Here’s a link to the article: https://www.t...
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CTC Podcast 159 – What Does it Mean? from 2021-03-17T05:40:29
The #sjsharks have won 3 in a row for the first time all year. Which means, it’s STANLEY CUP RUN TIME BABY. Or is it. Colin and Ben discuss.
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CTC Podcast 158 – What’s It Gonna Be? from 2021-03-02T06:14:45
That 7-6 loss was something, eh? But #sjsharks fans are split on whether losing 7-6 is entertaining or not. This is the main topic this week, you know, aside from whether the Sharks are bad or hist...
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CTC Podcast 157 – Deflections (not the good kind) from 2021-02-15T01:39:23
The #sjsharks made the baffling decision this week to throw their bad goalie under the bus. That gets us started on a heck of tear into this team. This is a team that is fully off the rails, and it...
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CTC Podcast 156 – Baldy’s Back Baby! from 2021-02-08T21:08:01
The team itself isn’t giving us much to be very happy about, but the return of Drew to the broadcast team gives us hope that maybe the old pairing on TV is about to be recreated. We talk about that...
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CTC Podcast 155 – No Alex Means Rant Time from 2021-01-25T01:31:30
Colin and I got to drive this week’s podcast without parental guidance. This is what you get, Sharks fans. Mainly I complained about decisions to waste minutes on older mediocrities and EK65 being ...
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CTC Podcast 154 – It’s Early…Sorta from 2021-01-18T02:28:31
The #sjsharks are 1-1 after a home-and-not-home series against the Arizona Coyotes…and so far things don’t look very different from a year ago…mostly. We talk about our early takeaways on systemic ...
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CTC Podcast 153 – Cautionary Tales from 2021-01-12T00:13:34
Welp, we’ve finally arrived at the beginning of a new season and things look very different for the team in teal. No Jumbo (sadface), no Melkman (happy face), and basically no bottom 6. Oh and our ...
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CTC Podcast 152 – The End of the Season As We Know It from 2020-03-14T06:02:43
Postponed, this hockey season is. And what the hell are we supposed to do now?
Well, Alex and Ben have board game and booze suggestions for those long winter days at home...alone or stuck ...
CTC Podcast 151 – Simek’s Agent for MVP from 2020-03-07T08:19:23
The title of this podcast says a lot about what we talk about this week. But also, we took questions on the NHL salary cap projections coming out of the GM meetings and what the Sharks can do in fr...
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CTC Podcast 150 – World Turned Upside Down from 2020-02-29T08:32:50
It was the strangest of trade deadlines for #sjsharks fans -- the San Jose Sharks were, for the first time in a long time, sellers at the trade deadline.
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CTC Podcast 149 – The Brendan Dillon Coffee ‘Cast from 2020-02-22T08:43:53
This week we got some great questions about the rest of the season and beyond from the community and also bid farewell to Brendan Dillon, who's going to a better place -- Washington D.C.. And the p...
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