The Stanley Cup Playoffs have been wacky this year. Don’t believe me? Go take a look at your bracket. If you’re like everyone else, it’s already been shattered, with more to come. The first overall Tampa Bay Lightning, who finished the season with one of the best records in NHL history? Swept in four by…
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How teams can exploit the Special Teams construct in Hockey
Just so we’re all clear before we dive into this, this article isn’t about Game 2 in the Leafs/Bruins series. At the same time, the events that transpired definitely gave me the inspiration to finally dive into the topic. For those who didn’t watch, fans throughout the hockey world were quick to declare this game…
Tampa Bay’s process isn’t complicated, so why does it work so well?
The Tampa Bay Lightning are having the most impressive season of the salary cap era. There is no other way to describe it, really – their 61-16-4 record with one game remaining gives them the highest point total since the 1995/96 Red Wings, their goal difference sits at +100 (+95 in true difference, aka removing…
A thought on Barry Trotz and NYI’s goaltending
We’ll try to keep this one as short as possible; I honestly just wanted to avoid a longer chain of tweets than the one I already started this morning. The Professional Hockey Writer’s Association released their mid-season rankings for the various NHL Awards (plus a few of their own), and there was one anomaly that…
Have the Oilers outdone themselves with the Mikko Koskinen signing?
On a day where the Oilers placed the guy who they traded for the guy who they traded Jordan Eberle for on waivers (Ryan Spooner), along with the guy that they thought was good because he went hot for three weeks on Connor McDavid’s wing (Ty Rattie), you would think that the above line would…