Happy Saturday, folks. Amidst all of the third-round playoff entertainment, we were graced with some firm dates to mark on your calendars. The NHL Entry Draft has been firmly set for October 6-7, with round one falling on Tuesday, October 6. Although this comes as no surprise, it is exciting to finally have an official [...]
On Friday, the NHL formally announced the following schedule of offseason events: Tue Oct 6, 7 p.m. ET: 2020 NHL Draft, Round 1 Wed Oct 7, 11:30 a.m. ET: 2020 NHL Draft, Rounds 2-7 Fri Oct 9, 12 p.m. ET: NHL free agency begins The draft will be held virtually, of course. These aren’t the [...]
After taking a personal week off and being out of the loop a bit, I wanted to check in on our playing scoring races and see how things stand. I found a couple of things that are worth diving into and I wanted to take a moment to do so in this week’s article. This [...]
I saw Ian tweeting yesterday about fantasy baseball and how hard it has been to keep people interested. I’ve found similar things in some (not all) of my leagues, and I wonder if that’s going to be something that translates to the NHL whenever the next season starts. Especially when we’re in the throes of [...]
Picking up from last week, we’re going to cover a few more players who are set to hit the free agent market at the end of the playoffs. This is their last chance to build up their résumé for the bargaining table, and a poor regular season could be completely erased by strong play in [...]
This season isn’t over yet but it’s fair to look ahead to next year. Maybe your favourite team is eliminated; maybe your most-hated team is still in it; maybe you just didn’t have much interest in this Return To Play. There are any number of reasons to look ahead to the 2020-21 season. The hope [...]
Welcome back to your monthly installment of Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, which, for new readers, is a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Here though, instead of there being three bowls of porridge I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), [...]
Remember the good old days when there were 12 hours of playoff hockey on all day and I could simply watch until my heart’s content and then write 1500 words on it? Great times. Alas, as the teams fall by the wayside and depart the bubbles, we slowly but surely lose our quantity of hockey. [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll reflect on individual playoff performances from teams that were eliminated in Round 2, the Bruins and Flyers. We’ll highlight a few strong individual showings, as well as a couple of disappointing performances. If there’s anything you’d like to see in future articles, please let me know in the comments [...]
Over at Dobber Prospects, Mason Black put together a list of players that have been loaned overseas. If all goes smoothly (which, you know), the NHL hopes to start the 2020-21 regular season in early December. Loaning players overseas would just give them a chance to continue to develop while waiting for NHL training camps [...]
