After a very lengthy layoff for Boston and the better part of a week for St. Louis, the Stanley Cup Final dropped the puck at long last. It was a game that didn’t lack for physicality and which the Bruins dominated most of the time. St. Louis got out to a 2-0 lead but Boston [...]
The big news from Thursday was Ottawa hiring their next head coach, D.J. Smith. That name might sound familiar to some as he ran both the defence and penalty kill of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He will be going into 2019-20 as Ottawa’s next bench boss. You can read Cam Robinson’s take on the [...]
It was a tall order on Tuesday night for San Jose. Let alone being down 3-2 in the series and having to go into St. Louis, they would do so without Tomas Hertl, Joe Pavelski, and Erik Karlsson. At least Pavelski was a game-time decision; both Hertl and Karlsson weren’t even in St. Louis. [...]
It was locker cleanout day in Carolina. There wasn’t really a lot of significant news to come out of it, there are still some interesting stories to watch nonetheless. Micheal Ferland said he wants to return to the Hurricanes. He’s coming off another 40-point season, which should be enough to earn him a lengthy-ish [...]
The San Jose Sharks are incapable of having a slow-paced series, or even a slow-paced game. They had leads of 2-0 and 3-1 in Game 3 against St. Louis but the Blues scored three goals in about 14 minutes to take a 4-3 lead. Who else but Couture would tie the game late to [...]
It was a very entertaining Game 2 from the get-go as Jaden Schwartz gave St. Louis a 1-0 lead less than three minutes into the game on a nifty play with Vladimir Tarasenko. With the Blues up 2-0 in the second period, Logan Couture scored two goals two minutes apart, one of them short-handed, [...]
A pair of Boston power play goals about 30 seconds apart in the third period was the difference in Game 1 between the Hurricanes and the Bruins, with the latter jumping to a 1-0 series lead thanks to a 5-2 win. It wasn’t as lopsided as the score indicates. Carolina carried a 2-1 lead [...]
The big news before Game 7 was that Joe Pavelski returned to the lineup for San Jose for the first time since the Vegas series. There may have been questions about how ready he would be for a game of this magnitude, but the fact that he scored a trademark redirection in the first [...]
Philadelphia hired Alain Vigneault to be their coach a little while ago and have continued to add to their coaching staff. Monday, it was announced that both Mike Yeo and Michel Therrien will be joining the staff. Therrien was last in the NHL as the head coach for the Habs in the 2016-17 season [...]
There was a big boost to the Hurricane lineup as both Andrei Svechnikov and Jordan Martinook returned in Game 3, with Svech on the third line and Martinook on the fourth. They’re still without Trevor van Riemsdyk and Micheal Ferland, but getting the two forwards back is a big boost for them. More on Game [...]
