It seemed possible that the Columbus Blue Jackets would tinker with their blue line in the offseason considering the injuries and underperformance last season. They started that process by trading for Ivan Provorov earlier this week, and they continued that process on Friday morning by trading for a pending free agent from New Jersey, and [...]
Welcome to our third installment of the Most Valuable series. We have completed reviews for centers and right wingers already, and today we will move to the left wing. As a reminder here is a brief description from the first article on the process: ‘Most Valuable’ is a tricky term that is going to be [...]
It is Thursday once again, so let’s find some winning NHL props. We have game three of the Stanley Cup final tonight and the Florida Panthers are on home ice for the first time this series. Tonight is close to a must-win game for the Panthers as they dropped the first two games to the [...]
I’m going to start off today having total agreement with Steve Dotzel’s Saturday article – that for these single-game fantasy picks, you first need to imagine a final score and then run with that scenario. But the issue for that plan tonight is that I envision a 4–3 overtime game that’s a coin flip as [...]
In the pro preview, Sammi Silber @sammisilber of The Hockey News joins the show to talk about the pros. Forwards: Alex Ovechkin, Dylan Strome, Evgeni Kuznetsov, Tom Wilson, TJ Oshie, Nicklas Backstrom, Sonny Milano, Anthony Mantha, Ivan Miroshnichenko. Defensemen: John Carlson, Martin Fehervary, Rasmus Sandin. Goalies: Darcy Kuemper, Charlie Lindgren. In Cat's Instincts (57:30), Cat [...]
Welcome back to Goldipucks and the Three Skaters, a play on words of the Goldilocks and the Three Bears story. Instead of there being three bowls of porridge though, I cover three skaters and declare one too hot (i.e., doing unsustainably better than he should), another too cold (i.e., doing unsustainably worse), and a third [...]
We got something we don’t usually get during the Stanley Cup playoffs, and that was a sizable trade. One of the storylines out West this offseason was what the Los Angeles Kings would do because they had Gabriel Vilardi as a pending RFA (among others), Vladislav Gavrikov and Joonas Korpisalo as free agents, and not [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll see how certain players performed in their first season with a new team. This will be the first of three parts, so if there’s a big name you don’t see here, we’ll probably cover them in the upcoming weeks. Vitek Vanecek Vanecek’s third year in the league and first [...]
The Anaheim Ducks have hired Greg Cronin to be their new bench boss. It’s rare to see someone land their first NHL head coaching gig at the age of 60, but there’s no denying the wealth of experience Cronin brings to the table. A former player in the ECAC, Cronin parlayed that into an assistant [...]
Teams will need to make some pretty large decisions on some of these players as they all will be entering the 2023-2024 in the final year under contract with their current teams. As we saw with players like Patrick Kane anything can happen and no-movement clauses can be waived. Anze Kopitar - Los Angeles - [...]
