In Friday’s playoff pucks, Barclay Goodrow scored in 14:01 of overtime to give the Rangers a 2-1 win in Game 2, tying the Eastern Conference Final at one win each. The series heads back to Florida for Game 3 on Sunday. https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/1794210698219659623 Vincent Trocheck scored the Rangers’ other goal, which was in the first period. [...]
This week we are returning with Part Three of our playoff series review. In the last two articles we covered the teams that were eliminated in the first round. This week we are going to take a look at teams who were eliminated in the second round. This means Carolina, Vancouver, Colorado, and Boston. Like [...]
New Jersey officially introduced former Toronto coach Sheldon Keefe as the Devils' new head coach on Thursday. Yesterday, I wrote about how Keefe ran Toronto's offence in 2023-24, how that contrasts to New Jersey's approach, and why other factors are probably more important than any of that. Go read that for more on this change. [...]
New Jersey has hired former Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe to be their new bench boss. The Devils missed the postseason this year after making it to the second round a season ago, and that led to the dismissal of coach Lindy Ruff. After years of playoff disappointment, Keefe was also let go [...]
Los Angeles removed the interim tag from head coach Jim Hiller and he’ll be the full-time coach heading into the 2024-25 season. After taking over at the All-Star break, the team went 21-12-1 to secure their playoff spot. They were bounced in the first round by Edmonton, but they were a legitimately great defensive team [...]
I fully realize we’re more than a month away from the start of free agency; but the question of how well the upcoming UFAs end up faring will be far more impactful on next season than what is yet to unfold in the playoffs. And if recent seasons are indications, many UFAs will turn out [...]
A couple of quick thoughts for the leagues where you get to replace eliminated players. In leagues where you cannot double-up on replacement players, then Edmonton is the last team I would like to select players from, because their scoring is so top-heavy right now that even selecting a few depth players would mean that [...]
Following a successful season with the Nashville Predators, Ryan McDonagh is heading back to Tampa Bay as the Lightning re-acquired one of their stalwarts from their two Stanley Cup runs. He had 32 points in his second year with the Predators, finishing second among the team’s blue liners in ice time per game. He also [...]
After closely monitoring the eastern fantasy hockey newsreel all season long we’ve arrived at the conference final with clearly the two best teams out east. The Florida Panthers and New York Rangers deserve to be here and should be looked at as the class of the conference - for a number of reasons. Elite coaching, [...]
Frank Seravalli reported that Brock Boeser’s blood clot issue is going to make him miss the rest of the playoffs regardless of the result of Game 7. That is just a brutal circumstance for the winger who had a career season and was such a big part of the team’s success. It appears he’ll he [...]
