National Hockey League

If you're a New York Islander fan who wants to keep John Tavares, you're probably wondering if the universe is conspiring against you, these days. In November, the Islanders won seven of eight games to improve to 15-7-2. But evening during that hot streak the Isles gave up at least three goals...

Exactly as it says on the tin. Lot of deserving candidates so far. Hard to pick in several positions. My Hart voting for example would for sure be in a different order (I would vote Tavares higher for Hart than Stamkos+McDavid... but I think Stamkos has objectively been more 'outstanding' as an...

Watching the Wings win three straight is kind of rough. It's been great to see the kids play well. Larkin. Athanasiou. Bertuzzi. And Mantha and Frk played well last night, too. At the same time, a three- game win streak isn't helping our lottery odds (though I'm beginning to think that other...

Shortly after Thanksgiving of last year, the Florida Panthers relieved head coach Gerard Gallant, and their then, highly unqualified general manager, Tom Rowe, stepped in as interim head coach. Fast forward to today, where Gallant has taken an expansion team and as of today, is coaching the...

Zadorov is a guy who isn't going to get talked about a lot since he is never going to be an offensive dynamo, but he has been stringing together a very solid season. He had a tough October, showed up to training camp late after rehabbing from a pretty tough injury that cut his 16/17 season...

Before the season started, everyone on here trashed George McPhee for picking a horrible roster. He was considered a joke on here and nobody thought the team could even come close to the playoffs. Are his expansion picks completely redeemed at this point (and are people willing to admit they...

:rangers @ :sabres 1pm ET, Jan 1, 2018 (NBC, Sportsnet, TVA Sports) Citi Field, New York, NY Lines: :rangers NASH (A) | ZIBANEJAD | ZUCCARELLO (A) VESEY | DESHARNAIS | BUCHNEVICH GRABNER | HAYES | MILLER CAREY | NIEVES | LETTIERI LD | RD MCDONAGH (C) | HOLDEN SKJEI | STAAL (A) SHATTENKIRK...

Basically, whenever I see any argument about goaltenders on here it always comes down to save percentage. Whenever I see someone talking about a goalie, save percentage is the most important stat. I rarely, if ever, see an argument about a goaltender that uses a stat other than save percentage...

I'm saying this as a lifelong Flames fan so don't think that I'm trashing them. They just don't seem like a dangerous team. First line is producing, second line with Backlund is solid. Third line centered by Jankowski and Bennett is finally producing, though guys like Lazar, Brouwer and...

2 sick goals last night, 5 shots, 2 takeways, almost had 2 hat tricks. In 10 minutes. (VIDEO BELOW). It's a shame the Jets have so many RW's and forwards are stacked and they go top-6/bottom-6. He's coming along nicely. A sniper with size who's excellent defensively with few weaknesses. Plays...

Seriously. An expansion team with 23 players that have never played together before are currently 1st place in the Western conference near midway through the season. Everyone, myself included predicted them as a bottom 5 team in the league. Every expansion team that has ever come into the NHL...

Lundqvist received a great deal of criticism for his performance last season. He deserved that criticism. After posting seven consecutive years with a .920SV%+ (.921, .923, .930, .926, .920, .922, .920) he posted a .910SV%. By many fans, especially Ranger fans, not only was he no longer...

I did this to see how bad the 2008-2011 draft years were for the Habs and to compare it to what Bergevin has done since 2012. I was surprised to see some of these stats and I decided to share it with the rest of the league. Up to you to value what you want but there are some pretty interesting...

LAST TIME OUTSIDE Sidenote, crazy how different our roster is 3 years later.

So - where exactly do you see the Canucks in 2-3 years? I know most of you will disagree with the following statement, but lets just say that the Canucks actually have been rebuilding/re-tooling/whateveryouwanttocallit since 2014, and that a proper re-whatever will take a good 5-7 years. So...

05 May 16 - John Chayka appointed General Manager of Arizona Coyotes 05 May 16 - Head Coach Dave Tippett signs to a 5 year contract extension 05 May 16 - Dave Tippett promoted to Executive VP of Hockey Operations 25 May 16 - Ari Segal appointed to COO 26 May 16 - Assistant Coach Newell Brown...