Good morning Hockey fans, Welcome to the New Year. Hope all is well with you and that you all enjoyed a wonderful break or holiday season. We have a clean calendar slate for the upcoming new year, but there is still a lot of hockey news from around the world of hockey. Thoughts? Questions? Suggestions? […]
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The Winnipeg Jets are flying high and first class. They have propelled themselves to a 14-8-2 start this season and it seems like they are a legit contending team, after a weird season last year. They are currently sitting 3rd in the Central and have had great contributions all throughout their lineup so far. They
The Winnipeg Jets are Flying High! Read More »
The Vancouver Canucks are having a phenomenal start to the season. They are 13-5-1 as of today and have been steamrolling through teams each night. Their best players (Captain Quinn Hughes, Elias Petterson, J.T. Miller & Thatcher Demko) are all playing at their best (top level), and the supporting cast (Sam Laffetry, Dakota Joshua &
The Patrik Allvin Effect (Let’s Go!) Read More »
The Calgary Flames are 5-8-2 on the season and like their northern counterparts in Edmonton, have had a hard start to the season. Going into the 2023-2024 season, they had playoff aspirations after falling out of the race last season just by a few points, firing head coach Darryl Sutter and hiring Craig Conroy as
Flames need a Spark, but who’s gonna light the Match? Read More »
Shane Pinto of the NHL Senators has been suspended 41 days that is retroactive to the Senators opening season game for 2023. I know I am running this a couple days late but folks, this is still news. There is some confusion as to why. Yes, we know he was suspended for gambling in Sports
SHANE PINTO / Suspicious Suspension? Read More »
It’s been about 2 weeks of us being back with the regular NHL season in play and there has been a multitude of storylines happening from around the league (from Jack Hughes & Alex DeBrincat making a case for being Hart nominees, to Vegas having a remarkable 6-0-0 start, to Auston Matthews having back to
A Leaky Edmonton Oilers, but what’s the Remedy? Read More »
In the interests of full disclosure, this piece is largely copied, pasted, and updated for 2023-24 from an article I wrote at my old blog about four years ago (Good Lord, has it really been that long?). The goal of that piece was to explain the phenomenon of young Russian NHL draft picks getting very
Revisiting the KHL’s “Designated Junior” Rules Read More »
Any new hockey season anywhere in the world, as it gets underway, will almost immediately produce any number of “I wonder how this is going to end” storylines – those players, or teams, or situations that catch our interest, and keep us checking back in with the results, standings, and news stories. The 2023-24 campaign
Early KHL Storylines, 2023-24 Edition Read More »
Experience and Adapt. Those are two words that sophomore Dylan Holloway understands after his first 51 games in the NHL. Last season, after a great training camp and preseason, Holloway started the season full of swagger and confidence. On his very first shift in his first NHL game, unfortunately, he decided to do a saucer
Dylan Holloway: Breakout year incoming? Read More »
With training camp slowly starting up, and players returning back to their respective clubs, we know there is a lot of movement for all 32 NHL teams, as they begin to plan out their season, learn the respective systems, and GM’s making roster cuts to get under the cap. Therefore we know there will be
10 Key Storylines to Keep an eye on this coming NHL season Read More »