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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Several NHL veterans are vying for roster spots on professional tryout agreements these next few weeks. For a select few, their career path in the NHL will continue while most will begin to move into other leagues to continue to get a pay cheque like in the AHL or even possibly the ECHL. For others
I’ve done a ranking of the top 10 goalies and top 10 centres. Next to ranking wingers (left and right), I wanted to focus on the current top defencemen 10 list, going into the 2023/2024 season. Playing defence is a very challenging position and it is tough to stand out, as you have to be
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Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League began its 16th season on Friday, and along with it came the usual collection of storylines for interested fans to follow. But there was one KHL storyline that quickly pushed all the others to one side, and it did so the moment that 26-year-old Ivan Dmitrievich Fedotov skated out to guard
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After doing the Top NHL Centers in the game, I figured I would do the same for goalies (although Evan may have more sway when it comes to speaking about netminders and goaltending). That being said I found that it can be a bit easier to measure goalies, given that there are fewer of them
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Who doesn’t love Top 10 list, for things like films, movies, albums and of course players, within any sport. This is because it creates discussion, debate, and even argument from other fans who wholeheartedly disagree with where you put player X and player Y. But I would like to do it anyways, for the NHL,
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