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This is the fifth episode of A Couple of Goons. This week we have on inaugural guest Emily Scherer of FiveThirtyEight for the episode you have all been waiting for: we assign tiers all of the awards given out to hockey players for participating in hockey in one form or another. There are like thirty!

That and more this week, in Episode Five of A Couple of Goons!Topics of conversation include:

* Hello Emily!

* Team of the Week

* Hockey: why are people doing it?

* Awards: How much do people want them, the aesthetics of prizes, drinkability.

* Assorted Curses

* The Stanley Cup

Neil is on twitter @neil_paine, Walt is @WaltHickey, and this podcast is @GoonsPod. Emily can be found @_schem.

We are now on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, find us there, and consider throwing us a rating. Neil’s Github is at github.com/neilpaine538.



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