With just 11 games remaining on their schedule before the playoffs it sure looks like Nashville will net the West’s top seed. The first NHL team to clinch a playoff spot this campaign, owner of the league’s best record (47-14-10 and 104 points), and with the sour taste of a Cup Finals loss last year, [...]
With Evander Kane in tow, San Jose is making a late year push to up their playoff stock. There’s little chance they’ll catch Vegas in the Pacific which currently boasts a 12-point lead, but they have a solid shot at the West’s fourth playoff spot and home-ice advantage in the first series at least, [...]
The West’s most prolific scorer other than Connor McDavid since February 1 is Vegas’ Reilly Smith. With 22 points (nine goals) in 15 contests, Smith has now registered 60 points in 65 games. As with many of the Golden Knights, this campaign has produced a career high for the age 26, six-year vet [...]
A quick rundown of Western Conference action so far... While I’m sure there will be a bounty of other deals taking place Monday that may dwarf those that came shortly before, here are some thoughts on a few trade deadline happenings and how they pertain to the Western Conference as of Sunday evening: [...]
In the midst of a season-high four game win streak, and an 8-5-5 record since the calendar hit 2018, Arizona is salvaging some late success from another year gone wrong. For a team starting the campaign with 11 straight losses and not earning their fourth win until their 23rd contest it’s hopefully a harbinger [...]
Following Saturday’s 44-save shutout of Chicago, Devan Dubnyk seems recovered from a less-than-stellar first few months of the campaign and in a groove similar to that of last year’s outstanding first half. His 13-3-2 mark since November 30, coupled with a .927 save percentage and 2.36 goals against aren’t enough to entirely offset some [...]
As we enter the final third of the campaign, the Dallas Stars are wiping away thoughts of last year’s major disappointment and appear peaking at the right time. Led by Norris candidate John Klingberg, the ultra-dangerous Jamie Benn-Tyler Seguin-Alexander Radulov line, and a now apparently healthy Ben Bishop in net, they sit fourth in [...]
Anaheim Ducks: Miller Time? By Kevin Wickersham Note: all ownership totals pertain to Fantrax leagues Part of a four-way logjam with Colorado, Los Angeles and Minnesota for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference as the All Star Game break winds down, Anaheim has survived their ridiculous spate of [...]
Sporting a seven-game win streak as the NHL campaign passes the midway mark, the Calgary Flames are poised to separate from the tightly-clustered Pacific and grab one of the West’s three available non-wild card births. While it’s too early to think all that deeply about playoff chances, southern Alberta might enjoy looking at the [...]
