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 [...]
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 [...]
The Florida Panthers have hired Bill Zito to be their new general manager, a few weeks after Dale Tallon was let go. Tallon’s era was marked by a lot of turmoil between hiring, firing, re-hiring and plethora of terrible moves that sunk a team that had Aleksander Barkov, Jonathan Huberdeau, and Aaron Ekblad under contract [...]
It was the Penguins teams of recent Cup years that really cemented home to me the necessity of depth in the playoffs. This is very rudimentary, but this is roughly how I see playoff teams at the outset of every year: One good line: playoff contender Two good lines: may win a round or two [...]
I wanted to take the time to highlight some of the work our writers, podcasters, and editors have been doing around the site of late. Of course, there needs to be a mention of our Prospects Report. Dobber and our prospect team put in thousands of combined hours of scouting, writing, and editing to put [...]
In light of the NBA and WNBA players deciding not to play their playoff games, the MLS cancelling games, MLB teams like Seattle and Milwaukee deciding not to play, Kenny Smith walking off the NBA on TNT set, and Naomi Osaka pulling out of her tennis tournament, the NHL had a 70-some word statement before [...]
The big news on Tuesday was Kasperi Kapanen being traded back to Pittsburgh, the team that originally drafted him, for Pittsburgh’s 2020 first-round pick (15th overall). There were other pieces on both sides, and Cam had the full breakdown of the trade here. I have the Ramblings tomorrow so I’m going to dive into it [...]
Chicago was the first team out of the NHL playoffs (the play-ins don’t count), falling four games to one at the hands of Vegas. The Golden Knights are the deeper team with the better players. This is the result of that kind of matchup. I do wonder about Chicago’s coaching. Starting Game 5 with John [...]
Vladimir Tarasenko has left the NHL playoff bubble to return to St. Louis for further evaluations on his shoulder. At this point, that’s all the information that was given. This is a huge blow for St. Louis’s long-term prospects in this postseason. Their first-round matchup is down to a best-of-three and any team can beat [...]
It was clean out day for teams that have been eliminated. There were lots of quotes to come out of the Toronto dressing room – Auston Matthews used “embarrassing”; Zach Hyman used some variation of “sucks” a lot – but I’ll leave those alone for now. They need to back up words with actions. What [...]
