Welcome back to the fun that is the days between the end of the NHL's regular season and the beginning of the playoffs. You'll remember this time for Red Wings fans as pretty much always being about preparing for a first round series. This one is no different as the Wings prepare to take on the Tampa Bay Lightning starting on Thursday.

You can listen to our podcast at the link above by either downloading or streaming, or by searching us out on iTunes. You can also get it directly from our Blogtalk Radio Page here.

We'll had no shortage of topics to go over, but here's a quick rundown:

• Wings season in review: how did we get here?
• Wings/Bolts preview: how do we win this series? - We'll have Raw Charge contributor and Bolts fan Kyle Alexander (@KAlexanderRC) to provide us with the Tampa perspective on this series.
• NHL Schadenfreude: The Kings and Bruins missed the playoffs. Hahahaha.
• Draft talk, because that's how confident we are!
• Can we find it in ourselves to root against Steve Yzerman? (yes we can)
• What's Tyler Johnson's ichthyological favorite pastime?

Give us a listen as we prepare for Thursday to get here. It'll at least kill some of the time you have to waste waiting.

Stay tuned and LGRW