DCHP-1 Online
hot-stove 
adj. or attrib. designating discussions of sports, especially and originally hockey, usually taking place between periods of play.
- 1959 The auto industry has its own hot-stove league--the off-season gatherings of stylists, planners and engineers who talk of what might have been or what might yet be.
- 1962 . . . things we have missed may be mulled over in Hot Stove sessions which are as old and as popular as the sport of hockey itself.
- 1965 King Clancy . . . joined Bower . . . on the Hot Stove panel yesterday. . . .
- 1959 The auto industry has its own hot-stove league--the off-season gatherings of stylists, planners and engineers who talk of what might have been or what might yet be.