The Wild West

Playoff Western Leaders Goals – 10 – Bo Horvat – Vancouver Assists – 16 – Nathan MacKinnon - Colorado Points – 25 – Nathan MacKinnon - Colorado PPP – 10 – Elias Pettersson - Vancouver Shots on Goal – 65 – Shea Theodore – Vegas, Nathan Mackinnon - Colorado PIM – 46 – Antoine Roussel [...]

Playoff Western Leaders Goals – 9 – Bo Horvat - Vancouver Assists – 13 – Nathan MacKinnon - Colorado Points – 21 – Nathan MacKinnon - Colorado PPP – 10 – Elias Pettersson - Vancouver Shots on Goal – 54 – Nathan MacKinnon - Colorado PIM – 44 – Antoine Roussel  - Vancouver Best plus/minus [...]

Playoff Western Leaders Goals – 6 – Bo Horvat – Vancouver, Denis Gurianov – Dallas, Joe Pavelski – Dallas, Nathan Mackinnon – Colorado, Nazem Kadri - Colorado Assists – 10 – Nathan Mackinnon – Colorado, Miro Heiskanen - Dallas Points – 16 – Nathan Mackinnon - Colorado PPP – 8 – Elias Pettersson - Vancouver [...]

Playoff Western Leaders Goals – 6 – Bo Horvat - Vancouver Assists – 7 – Patrick Kane – Chicago, Quinn Hughes - Vancouver Points – 9 – Connor McDavid - Edmonton PPP – 6 – Elias Pettersson - Vancouver Shots on Goal – 25 – Nathan Mackinnon, Nazem Kadri - Colorado PIM – 20 – [...]

Now that the inaugural Play-ins are completed we know the matchups for the playoff series that will begin Tuesday, August 11th in Edmonton and Toronto. Some pretty large upsets saw both conferences 12th seed make it past the 5th seeds and continue. It will be interesting to see if the teams from the round-robin, Vegas, [...]

We had our first weekend of real NHL hockey in over four months and here are some impressions from each team after one game. There were some surprises, some stellar performances and some lineup decisions that either paid off or didn’t. Arizona Coyotes Taylor Hall, Phil Kessel, Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Christian Dvorak and Clayton Keller all [...]

The Play-ins begin August 1st and here is a look at players in the West on each team that are taking part in the Play-ins or Play-offs that might be value picks in your playoff pool. Not involved are Anaheim, Los Angeles and San Jose. Dallas and Vegas are through automatically to the actual playoffs. [...]

Now that we can focus on real-time hockey events, it is time to write about things that are about to happen. Not involved are Anaheim, Los Angeles and San Jose. Colorado, St. Louis, Dallas and Vegas are through automatically to the actual playoffs but will play a round-robin to decide home ice advantage. First round [...]

In part twelve of our look at the GMs of the Western Conference, we will look at Jim Benning in Vancouver who before being named GM with the Canucks, was Director of Amateur Scouting in Buffalo for almost eight years and Assistant GM/Director of Player Personnel in Boston for over seven years as well. Category [...]

In part eleven of our look at the GMs of the Western Conference, we will look at Doug Wilson in San Jose. Wilson was the Director of Player Development in San Jose for five years before taking over as GM in 2003.  Category Ratings:  5: below average 6: average 7: above average 8: top ten [...]