Kevin Lankinen entered the season as an insurance experienced backup goalie for the Canucks, who didn’t know how long Thatcher Demko would be sidelined. With Lankinen providing steady goaltending and Demko held to 17 games and injured again, Lankinen’s stock has soared to the point where the Canucks have extended Lankinen for a five-year extension [...]
Welcome back in, everyone! I hope that everyone out there enjoyed the break. I typically don’t like to date myself as to when I’m writing, but as of right now I am typing these words out to you all a good 11 hours before puck drop of USA/CAN. I’m excited. You’re excited. I must hype [...]
About a month ago we took a look at some percent rostered numbers as a way to try to highlight some players who might be free agents in some leagues. Today we are going to take a page out of that book but really focus on these last few weeks of the regular season. The [...]
That was a fun week and a half, wasn’t it? As a Canadian, I was 100% prepared to say that even if Canada didn’t win. If you’re an American, hopefully you concur. In the end, the big winner is the game of hockey, which generated the kind of buzz that it hasn't had for quite [...]
The injuries had really started to pile up for the Columbus Blue Jackets. Boone Jenner has yet to play this season, Yegor Chinakhov has been out since late November, Sean Monahan was injured in early January, and Kirill Marchenko broke his jaw after being hit by a puck a few games before the Four Nations [...]
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening everyone. Welcome to the Injury Ward. My name is Logan Clarkson and every Wednesday I will be chauffeuring you through injury news and updates from around the NHL, and for this week the Four Nations tournament as well. I’ll do my best to offer useful analysis and opinion as [...]
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 [...]
Charlie McAvoy’s injury and subsequent health questions, in addition to Matthew Tkachuk getting banged up, Brady Tkachuk being unable to finish the game against Sweden, Shea Theodore being week-to-week, and other injuries piling up through the tournament makes me glad that the NHL already announced a plan to the return to the Olympics. Otherwise, we [...]
The NHL has a break in the action, with games set to resume on Saturday the 22nd. The Four Nations Faceoff has delivered some spectacular hockey, giving fans a chance to witness best-on-best competition and highlighting the league’s top players from four of the sport’s most influential nations. Nonetheless, a Championship rematch between Canada and [...]
Team Canada punched their ticket to the Four Nations Faceoff Final thanks to a 5-3 win over Team Finland on Monday afternoon. They didn’t make it easy on the nerves for Canadian fans as they had a 4-0 lead with seven minutes left in the game and Finland reeled off three goals in under 5:30 [...]
