Two friends from preschool (Tots and Toddlers Alumi Class of 87) who have been working in the Atlantic Canadian sports scene set to put their unique East Coast perspective into podcast form.
Mavs Gillis can be found working towns with Eastlink Commmunity TV while Patrick McNeil is the voice of the Cape Breton Eagles on 1270 CJCB.
Expect a heavy dose of chatter about the QMJHL, Maritime sports figures and stories, a bit on the local wrestling scene's renaissance and life as broadcasters in the Maritimes trying their best to tell the sports stories from around the region.
Two fellas just trying to capture the spirit of the thing.
Mavs and McNeil - Feast of Friendship Live From Mr Puffs
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We're live from Mr. Pufffs on Agricola Street, they said it couldn't be done but my oh my, we have done it.
A cavalcade of personalities in person and over the air covering coast ot coast in Nova Scotia and beyond, from Yarmouth to Sydney to the Bell Centre.
Joining us Max Kearns, Brad Chandler, Stephen Dixon, Bubba MacPherson, Nicolas Ruccia, and Kevin Northup
Great to get everyone in, a massive thanks to Manav and the entire crew at Mr. Puffs for allowing us to set up and do a podcast at the location!!!
29 Oct 2026
Mavs and McNeil - Cape Breton Eagles #15 James Sheppard
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Lower Sackville's James Sheppard joins us to. chat about his time with the Cape Breton Eagles, playing pro in the NHL and Europe but the big part of this interview is his Eagles teammates Chris Culligan and Stephen Dixon letting James know his number 15 is being retired by the Eagles on January 29th vs Halifax.
This was just a nice piece of business to be involved with, big thanks to the Eagles front office for bringing us in on this to really get the surprise spot for James.
22 Oct 2026
Mavs and McNeil - Matt Anthony
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This week Charlottetown Islanders Assistant Coach Matt Anthony who just spent the last season coaching with Omskie Krylia of the VHL. A whole new experience for us talking Russian hockey and traveling across that vast country.
15 Oct 2026
Mavs and McNeil Ep 5 - Greg Macdonald
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This week we chat with hockey coach/analyst Greg Macdonald about the past week with the Atlantic Challenge Cup, the early season struggles of the Cape Breton Eagles and how we see the QMJHL shaking up at the quarter point.
Find Greg on X here - @rgmacsask
Find Pat on X here - @cbepbp
Find Mavs on X here - @eastlinkmavs
Find the video of the pod here - https://youtu.be/S1YHU4uXqgs (https://youtu.be/S1YHU4uXqgs)
8 Oct 2026
Mavs and McNeil Ep 4 - Schedule Wrinkles
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This week we were set to host Matt Anthony but a few wrinkles have Pat and Mavs chatting before Mavs heads to the Valley for Senior Baseball playoffs and Pat is into Quebec for the Eagles first road trip.
Welcome to the world of planning your life around sports results, good chatter about the recent weekend in the Q, Canadian AFL Club championships on the Halifax Commons, high school football and muppet talk.
Join us will you
1 Oct 2026
Mavs and McNeil EP.3 - The Steel Eagle Rick Chezenko
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We're talking a bit of wrestling with our friend Rick Chezenko this week who made his pro debut after winning WrestleCentre Boot Camp but more importantly after getting himself clean and sober. Rick holds nothing back in telling his story, holds nothing back but most importantly we're just glad our friend is still with us.
We talk our usual sports, where we've been and where we're too come on for the ride with us.
24 Sept 2026
Mavs and McNeil Ep2 - with Robert Chalmers
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Joining us this week Robert Chalmers who has been one of our leading voices for scouting prospects in the New England region for eliteprospects.
We get into all things USA hockey, the athletes to watch this year in the Q, the ones to be ready for next year, expectations for Carter Meyer and just exactly how does the minor hockey system work in the United States.
Find Robert on X here - @robbatwo
Find Pat on X here - @cbepbp
Find Mavs on X here - @eastlinkmavs
Find the video of the pod here - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKFggUNKlio0&si=4g-HsOeBhJcvTGfZ (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKFggUNKlio0&si=4g-HsOeBhJcvTGfZ)
17 Sept 2026
Mavs and McNeil - Twas The Night Before QMJHL Season
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We embark on a new venture just before the start of what should be a fantastic season of Quebec Maritime Junior Hockey League action so Mavs and McNeil pull up a seat in the Centre 200 penalty box to talk about it.
We also want to say thanks to the u13AAA Islanders for letting us hang in the penalty box as they started their intersquad game,
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