The Seattle Kraken are beginning to set sail into their inaugural season. With the expansion draft coming up on July 21, the Kraken fan base will be eager to see what their future may hold. The city of Seattle has always had a notoriously good sports atmosphere around it. Whether it be the Seattle Seahawks
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General manager Marc Bergevin used this past offseason to add to the Montreal Canadiens roster. This year will be quite different as he has several significant pending unrestricted free agents to worry about, despite already extending Brendan Gallagher and Jeff Petry, and not a ton of cap space to get them re-signed. Not to mention
Columbus Blue Jackets general manager Jarmo Kekäläinen has quite a few contracts to negotiate this summer. The club has a number of key players on the verge of unrestricted free agency (UFA) and several more who can become restricted free agents (RFAs). But the most important negotiation of all may be an extension for a
It’s certainly no surprise that the Toronto Maple Leafs are the best team in the NHL this season. They’ve finally shored up many of the issues that have plagued them for the past few seasons. The Leafs’ goaltending is finally solid, and superstar Auston Matthews and company are playing arguably the best hockey they’ve ever
The Colorado Avalanche are set to challenge for the Stanley Cup this season. In a realigned West Division, the Avalanche will face tough opponents in the Vegas Golden Knights and St. Louis Blues. The rest of the division won’t be as much of a challenge, but the Avs still won’t be an easy ride. Among
Coaches at all levels of hockey will often tell you that depth is a vital key to long-term success in a hockey season. Your stars will win you a game, while your third and fourth liners, or fifth and sixth defensemen, will win you a championship. Depth, though, is a fickle beast in that it
The Minnesota Wild were incredibly active this offseason, which changed the landscape of the Wild’s future. In all honesty, it was inevitable as they maneuver past the barriers during this re-tool and make decisions that will affect the long-term as they look forward. After six consecutive playoff appearances, all of which came up short, Wild
The Buffalo Sabres enter the 2020-21 season on a nine-year playoff drought, one season away from tying the all-time NHL record. If they fail to qualify for the postseason this year, it will be an entire decade since the city of Buffalo has seen an NHL playoff game. After missing the expanded 24-team 2020 NHL
The 2020-21 NHL season is just around the corner after several months on hiatus with the 2020 Stanley Cup Final being in September. There are new changes to the league, especially with divisions, that they have never done before. The four divisions will feature wild changes to the alignment because of the United States/Canada border
Sports fans would not be sports fans without their expectations. Whether they are high, low or middling, expectations abound on social media, the local bar or suburban home. With the 2020-21 NHL season starting, fans, writers and even the organizations themselves and setting the bar for how they believe teams and players should perform. The
The 2020-21 NHL season begins on Jan. 13. With the new season comes a league-wide realignment based on geographic location. The Columbus Blue Jackets will have many new divisional opponents, as the Carolina Hurricanes are the only other Metropolitan team now in the Central Division. Here’s a look at the other teams in the Central
With the 2020-21 NHL season fast approaching, the New York Rangers still have decisions to make regarding their back end. Outside of Ryan Lindgren and Adam Fox’s dynamic pairing, the Rangers have many defensemen battling for a spot on the final two pairings. The departure of long-time Ranger Marc Staal left a void on the
The NHL season is around the corner and many hockey fans are more than excited for the season to start. With the start of the season comes prop bets and predictions for the upcoming season. The possible prop bets range from picking a Stanley Cup champion to picking a division winner to even betting on
With training camp in full swing, the Montreal Canadiens will have to deal with battles for position and cap issues. The taxi squad will help mitigate the cap issue, and the positional battles will help determine who makes the roster. One player, in particular, will be stuck in the middle of both issues, Paul Byron.
While the 2020-21 NHL season will be unlike any before it, the Calgary Flames’ defensive core will again be a major factor in how much success they have. The good news, in that regard, is they enter the new season with largely the same pieces, minus T.J. Brodie who signed a four-year, $20 million deal
A new year has begun and a new NHL season is about to. From the outset of 2020, no one could have predicted where we’d wind up by year’s end. But here we are, ready to embark on a 56-game season beginning in January that will see the Vegas Golden Knights battle the same seven
With the new NHL divisions set for the 2020-21 season, the MassMutual East Division, which includes the New York Rangers, will also now include the Boston Bruins and Buffalo Sabres, as the Carolina Hurricanes and Columbus Blue Jackets move to the Discover Central Division. The Rangers will face their division rivals eight times each this
With 14-year captain Zdeno Chara officially gone, there now remain four players from the Boston Bruins’ 2010-11 Stanley Cup-winning roster: Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand, Tuukka Rask, and David Krejci. All four are still integral parts of Boston’s game plan. Bergeron and Marchand are the Bruins’ best players, after David Pastrnak. Rask, the league leader in
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