In a fourth straight one-goal game, and one-goal win, over Carolina, the Florida Panthers are off the to the Stanley Cup Final for the second time in franchise history. Matthew Tkachuk put home a power-play feed from Aleksander Barkov with five seconds left in the game to lift Florida to a 4-3 win and a [...]
A 32-save shutout from Sergei Bobrovsky held Carolina off the scoreboard and helped Florida to a 1-0 win in Game 3 of the Eastern Final. It gives the Panthers a 3-0 series lead with four cracks at a trip to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since the late 1990s. Sam Reinhart scored [...]
With the Eastern Conference Final starting tonight, it is a time to offer some thoughts on the two series that lay ahead in the NHL playoffs. Florida-Carolina is not a Conference Final matchup many (any?) of us had, but with the benefit of hindsight, it certainly does make sense: over the final 45 games of [...]
The 2023 NHL Conference Finals are set thanks to a 2-1 Dallas win in Game 7 of their second-round matchup against Seattle. Roope Hintz chased down a loose lob pass to score what would stand as the game-winner for nearly 24 minutes, and Wyatt Johnston roofed a backhand in tight late in the third period [...]
One of the developing storylines for Toronto this postseason has been the goaltending. Not necessarily the play, but rather the health and status of their three netminders. Matt Murray is the third goalie right now, and maybe healthy, while Joseph Woll has been solid since entering for Ilya Samsonov. Speaking of which, the Leafs provided [...]
Now that they have the privilege of drafting Connor Bedard first overall, the Chicago Blackhawks have to go about actually building the rest of the team. It might seem a bit obvious, but we don’t need to look very far in history, or just at the present, for the teams of generational talents to not [...]
The most hyped NHL Draft in years, headlined by one of the most hyped players in years, had its Draft Lottery on Monday night. The winner would get the right to draft Connor Bedard first overall next month and potentially change the direction of their franchise for years. General managers were all-out tanking for this [...]
It was a fairly easy Game 1 for Carolina as they cruised to a 5-1 win over New Jersey on Wednesday night. That score doesn’t even really do the game justice as the Hurricanes held the Devils to just one shot on goal through the first 24 minutes of the game. Nathan Bastian would score [...]
After falling behind 2-0 in the series, the New Jersey Devils won four of the next five games, including their 4-0 shutout of the New York Rangers Monday night in Game 7. Credit to Akira Schmid, who saved all 31 shots faced in this game to secure the win, his second blank sheet in his [...]
Injuries are the part of every postseason for every team, but the way Carolina has endured theirs is something else. The team got five games from Max Pacioretty before he was re-injured and shelved for the season while Andrei Svechnikov blew out his knee out a week after the Trade Deadline. Add in the recent [...]
