The Dallas Stars had their year-end press conference on Saturday. As expected, Pete DeBoer’s replacement of Jake Oettinger in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final was brought up. Both DeBoer and Oettinger said all the right things about their relationship, but another comment that DeBoer made was interesting. DeBoer revealed that the team discussed [...]
The Edmonton Oilers are returning to the Stanley Cup Final. This time, they hope to finish the job against the Florida Panthers. Could be quite the series. Edmonton 6, Dallas 3 (Oilers win series 4-1) The Oilers scored three goals in the first eight minutes of Game 5. From there, they let the Stars get [...]
Edmonton 3, Dallas 0 (series tied 1-1) One major question for the Oilers entering Game 2 was which version of Stuart Skinner would show up. After allowing five goals in Game 1, Skinner pitched a 24-save shutout to backstop the Oilers to a Game 2 victory and a split heading back to Edmonton for Game [...]
The panel picked three out of the four second-round series correctly, only missing on the Oilers defeating the Golden Knights. The panel’s lifetime record is now 150-93 when it comes to postseason predictions. Congratulations to Brennan DeSouza, Chad Simpson, Flip Livingstone, and Puneet Sharma, who correctly picked all four series in the second round! Here [...]
Dallas 2, Winnipeg 1, OT (Stars win series 4-2) Thomas Harley scored a power-play winner just 1:33 into overtime of Game 6 to send the Dallas Stars to the Western Conference Final and a rematch with the Edmonton Oilers. https://twitter.com/NHL/status/1923938134200324487 Our condolences go out to Mark Scheifele, who suited up for Game 6 even though [...]
With the second round of the playoffs underway, this week’s edition of Analytics Advantage takes a look at how teams and players are trending based on their underlying numbers. The box score doesn’t always tell the full story, and these updated Tableau visuals offer more context behind who’s driving results and who might be falling [...]
Florida 5, Toronto 4 (Leafs lead series 2-1) Brad Marchand scored the game-winning goal at 15:27 of the first overtime to give the Panthers a 5-4 win over Toronto in Game 3. The puck appeared to float off Morgan Rielly past Joseph Woll. https://twitter.com/HockeyDaily365/status/1921031965353885826 Marchand has now scored goals in back-to-back games, and he is [...]
We can stop calling the Utah franchise whatever we were calling them before (it was never Hockey Club in my book), as the team announced on Wednesday that the franchise is officially named the Mammoth. Overall, not a bad choice. The name is kind of fun and the logo looks good. That logo does kind [...]
Monday night was the highly anticipated debut of Montreal Canadiens prospect Ivan Demidov. It was not certain he’d make his way to the Canadiens following his KHL season but the contract situation was figured out and he was in the lineup as Montreal hosted the Chicago Blackhawks. Demidov started the game on a line with [...]
Mikko Rantanen has been traded for the second time this season. The Dallas Stars have acquired Rantanen from the Carolina Hurricanes for Logan Stankoven, first-round picks in both 2026 and 2028, and third-round picks in both 2026 and 2027. In order to make the deal happen, Rantanen has also agreed to an eight-year extension with [...]
