Are you ready to GET INSIDE HOCKEY? Well then tune in this Saturday for the Inside Hockey Radio Show, 2-4 PM on “NHL Home Ice” XM 204 and Sirius 208, The Team 990 in Montreal, and 1120 AM WBNW in Boston. You can also listen online at team990.com or moneymattersradio.net. Join host James Murphy as he takes you inside the NHL, AHL, NCAA, CHL, and all things hockey!

Co-host Todd Carroll won’t be in studio this week but he will be joining us to go “Toe to Toe” as he always does and this week we’ll discuss the recent rules changes proposed by some NHL General Managers.

The Minnesota Wild were the last team to lose in regulation when they fell to the Stars this past week, and despite the absence of Marian Gaborik, are off to a great start this season. Forwards Mikko Koivu and Antti Miettinen have combined for 23 points thus far and the overall team chemistry seems to be clicking. We will bring on Wild Assistant General Manager Tom Lynn about how the Wild have been able to have such a successful start and can they keep it up?

Former NHL enforcer Ken Belanger will be calling in this week and we’ll ask Ken what he thinks about disturbing phenomenon of headshots in the NHL. Is there is a way the league can minimize or rid the game of them all together without taking out the physicality of the game? We also discuss the best and worst General Managers in the NHL. In case our listeners are wondering, Ken has a great business that helps athletes relocate and you can find out more information here...

We’ll head up to the Press Box where we’ll chat with Washington Capitals play-by-play man Joe Beninati and Rob Simpson of the NHL Network and MSG.

Much like the Wild, the Capitals have had to deal with their share of problems in this young season but are still off to a solid start. Despite new starting goaltender Jose Theodore having a bad first month and Alexander Ovechkin not looking like “Alex The Great” yet, the Caps still found themselves in second place in the Southeast as they headed into weekend play. Much of that has had to do with another Alex, Alexander Semin, who is finally healthy and was tied for first in NHL scoring with 16 points headed into Saturday’s tilt with the Sabres. We’ll ask Joe when and if we can expect the Ovechkin we saw last season and what, other than Semin, has the Caps flying high?

The New York Rangers are also off to a roaring start and Rob Simpson will give us the latest on the Rangers and what he has learned about this current squad while working with MSG this season. We’ll also chat about the new book "Black and Gold: Four Decades of the Boston Bruins in Photographs", that Rob worked on with veteran photographer Steve Babineau. For those interested in the book, Rob will be doing some book signings this coming week. He will be at Border’s in Braintree, MA Monday, November 3, with Hall of Famer John Bucyk and Bruins great Terry O’Reilly, and then on Wednesday November 5, Rob will be at the Bruins Pro Shop in the T.D. Banknorth Garden with another Bruins great and NESN analyst Rick Middleton as well as current Bruins captain Zdeno Chara.

We will also get the Campus Buzz as we bring on Tim Rosenthal of Inside Hockey and Bob Snow of NHL.com. What has happened to the Wisconsin Badgers? The storied program is off to one of it’s worse starts in recent memory as they were winless headed into a weekend series with WCHA rival North Dakota. Bob and Tim will tell us where the Badgers have gone wrong.

As I learned in a recent feature I wrote for NHL.com, the CHA is on the brink of extinction and the future of the remaining teams in that conference doesn’t look good right now. Can the hockey programs at Bemidji State, Robert Morris, Alabama-Huntsville and Niagara be saved? What conferences might take them on? Bob and Tim give us their solutions.

Finally we’ll look at the Inside Hockey Top Ten that Tim puts together each week and which can be found here...

The Golden Years is back this week and this Saturday, Mike Wyman looks back on the career of Sprague Cleghorn. You can read the companion feature here...

Finally, with the Hall of Fame inductions next weekend, we’ll bring on “The Keeper of The Cup”, Phil Pritchard to discuss what’s in store at the Hockey Hall of Fame November 7-11, when Igor Larionov, Glenn Anderson, Ed Chynoweth and Ray Scapinello are enshrined in hockey’s hallowed halls. We’ll certainly try and pry some Stanley Cup stories from Phil, specifically some from when the Cup was in the possession of Igor and Glenn!

So if you want to GET INSIDE HOCKEY, then tune in this and every Saturday to the Inside Hockey Radio Show, 2-4 PM on “NHL Home Ice” (XM 204), The Team 990 in Montreal, and 1120 AM WBNW in Boston. You can also listen online at team990.com or moneymattersradio.net.