This is a .5 episode because this week’s conversation with friend of the show and Concordia Stingers women’s soccer coach Jorge Sanchez was just too good. We’re still not sure what will happen of Tristan D’Amours, Harrison-Milo Rahajason and Alexander Perez’s last show as hosts, we’ll get to you on that.
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PBHT129: The “From the Old Bee to the Cool C” Edition (ft. Fred Rajotte)
It’s the grand return of friend of the show Fred Rajotte!
Tristan D’Amours, Alexander Perez, Harrison-Milo Rahajason and Safia Ahmad welcome her back on the podcast after a long absence. Fred shares about her time with the Concordia Stingers women’s team coming to an end, her experience with the Canadian national team at the Rugby World Cup, what lies ahead for her and much more.
Also, Harrison has some choice words for U Sports and especially their digital platform used to air the national championships for all of their sports.
PBHT128: The 4th Annual NCAA Bracket Challenge Edition
It’s tradition. Every March, the Press Box Hat Trick podcast crew make brackets for the NCAA March Madness and share it with everyone. It’s the fourth annual PBHT Bracket Challenge.
It’s also a great occasion to roast Alexander Perez, more on this during the show.
Recorded live on Facebook Friday afternoon, this is the recorded version where Tristan D’Amours, Ireland Compton, Harrison-Milo Rahajason, Safia Ahmad and Julian McKenzie give their Elite Eight and national champion. Who will win? Who knows. Are their brackets busted already? Absolutely.
Also the show, the StingerLand segment returns! The hosts talk about the Concordia Stingers men’s hockey team’s loss to the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds at the U Cup and the upcoming matchup of the women’s team against the St. Francis Xavier X Women (which they like to call the X Folks). To close, the hosts chime in on the Canadian Women’s hockey playoffs and how Les Canadiennes de Montreal will do.
PBHT127: The Women’s Hockey Rules Edition (ft. Claudia Dubois, Audrey Belzile, Katherine Purchase)
The Stingers women’s hockey team is going to Nationals for the second straight year. We find that pretty cool so we invited three players to come talk about it. Ireland Compton, Dustin Kagan Fleming and Erika Morris interview forwards Claudia Dubois and Audrey Belzile as well as goaltender Katherine Purchase about the feat.
Tristan D’Amours and Harrison-Milo Rahajason join in later to continue on the topics of U Sports women’s hockey, the Stingers men’s hockey team which is also heading to Nationals, Les Canadiennes de Montreal and their new player Hilary Knight and finally, the situation involving Tristan getting hit by a puck in the head at a Stingers men’s hockey game.
PBHT126: The Olympic Update Edition (ft. Safia Ahmad, David S. Landsman)
The Press Box Hat Trick podcast crew updates you on what’s been going on at the Olympics, with a focus on women’s hockey. Like last week, Safia Ahmad, former host of PBHT and media relations manager at Les Canadiennes de Montreal, and David S. Landsman, of Habs Eyes on the Prize are joining Tristan D’Amours and Harrison-Milo Rahajason to talk about the best of Pyeongchang 2018!
PBHT125: The (Mini) Milestone Edition (ft. Safia Ahmad, David S. Landsman)
Episode 125, that’s a bit of a milestone no? Hosts Tristan D’Amours and Harrison-Milo Rahajason, very lightly, celebrate but mostly talk about the men’s and women’s Olympic hockey tournaments along with special guests Safia Ahmad, former host of PBHT and media relations manager at Les Canadiennes de Montreal, and David S. Landsman, of Habs Eyes on the Prize.
PBHT124: The Women in Sports Media Edition
Following a panel featuring Robyn Flynn of CJAD 800 and TSN 690, Les Canadiennes de Montreal general manager Meg Hewings and former The Link staff writer and Les Canadiennes press relations manager Safia Ahmad. Hosts Tristan D’Amours, Ireland Compton, Harrsion-Milo Rahajason and Alexander Perez welcome Safia to talk about the panel. They also give praise to Caroline Ouellette for becoming the Canadian Women’s Hockey League’s all-time leading scorer and also for being an all around badass.
PBHT123: The Unsolved Mysteries Edition
For the first of the year, Coordinating Editor Tristan D’Amours and Sports Online Editor Harrison-Milo Rahajason are joined by staff writers Dustin Kagan Fleming and Elaine Genest to raise some unsolved mysteries about the Concordia Stingers. What’s mysterious about the Stingers? Will we ever get the answers? Who are we to know, we just ask questions into a microphone.
PBHT122: The 2017 Link Athlete of the Year Edition
On this episode of the Press Box Hat Trick podcast, Tristan D’Amours, Harrison-Milo Rahajason and Dustin Kagan Fleming pay homage to 2017 in Concordia sports. They give their highlight and lowlight of the calendar year.
The main course of the show, however, is The Link’s inaugural athlete of the year as voted by the entire sports section. The hosts go through the shortlist and name the athlete of the year.
PBHT121: The Futsal P.O.T.Y. Edition (ft. Nazim Belguendouz)
This week on the Pressbox Hat Trick podcast, Tristan D’Amours and Alexander Perez welcome the first ever Canadian futsal play of the year, Nazim Belguendouz!
The hosts delve in on Belguendouz’s season with FC Sparte of the Premiere Ligue de Futsal du Quebec and the Canadian national team in futsal and AS Blainville of the Premiere Ligue de Soccer du Quebec in soccer. They also talk about the future of Canadian futsal, the likes of playing in the 2018 Canadian Championship in soccer and his former team, FC Montreal, of which he used to be the captain.
In the show’s second segment, Tristan and Alexander reflect on the trade that saw Laurent Ciman leave the Impact for Major League Soccer’s expansion franchise, Los Angeles FC. They also talk about who should the Impact bring up for the 2018 season and who should replace Patrice Bernier as the next captain.
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