Four games Friday night, with two more teams eliminated. All season, it seemed that just a little more offensive support for Ilya Sorokin (2.34 GAA and 0.924 SV%) and the Isles wouldn’t only have been a wild card team. The same fate bit them in Game 6, as their terrific goalie gave up two scores [...]
I’m writing this piece Wednesday evening, in the aftermath of Florida’s overtime win at TD Garden. Wow. Lest you forgot, Sergei Bobrovsky has won two Vezina Trophies, and he was far more of the story in this contest than anyone else. The “homies” in Boston gave two of the three stars to Bruins, not to [...]
Writing Thursday and Saturday this week, I can both smile that I picked DFS players from all four winning squads in my last article, and also take my lumps having missed any winning bets. Game props might be easier….or not. Gold selection: Colorado Avalanche @ Seattle Kraken - Pick: Avalanche to win (-155 ML) The [...]
The first four series are now two games in, and it probably should surprise no one that the Carolina Hurricanes are up 2-0. Last season’s playoffs, they were 7-1 at PNC Arena, and 0-6 on the road. So, a few quick bucks on the Islanders for Friday might look good. The other three matches are [...]
Four years ago, when I wasn’t yet writing about hockey, my very first article was the prediction that Tampa Bay, winners of 62 regular season games, would be swept in the first playoff round by Columbus. Ok, I’m blatantly lying. BUT the lesson learned here was that a team that’s been desperate to win every [...]
Surely, this is how the NHL envisioned their schedule back in the summer of 2022. We have three dogfights for division leads, and both wildcard races are undecided with only a week to go in the season. It’s a far cry from last year, especially in the East, where the eight playoff positions were largely [...]
Last night, the three-game slate’s biggest feature was the Central Division first-place contest between Colorado and Minnesota. Didn’t seem fair. 15% of the Wild’s salary cap is in limbo, and their best player is out on IR. The game was also at the Ball Arena in Denver, where the reigning champs, well, reign. None of [...]
I’m starting with a bone to pick. Another hockey writer, on another site (and no I don’t do their advertising work for them) wrote about the Pittsburgh Penguins’ lack of younger quality players - specifically top-five draft picks over the past several years - and that being the reason the Pens are fading, and will [...]
Do you know (or hazard a guess?) how many combined goals Kyle Connor, Blake Wheeler, Pierre-Luc Dubois, Mark Scheifele, and Josh Morrissey have scored in the Winnipeg Jets’ last nine games? I’ll give you a hint - not many. The Jets, who desperately need points to hang onto the West’s second wild card spot, have [...]
A bit of a shorter article maybe today, as I recover from watching the late-night barnburner between Minnesota and St. Louis. The Wild are 11-0-3 in the last month, and are knocking on the door of the Central Division lead. No Kirill Kaprizov, no problem! Both Marc-Andre Fleury and Filip Gustavsson step up every game, [...]
