Hockey
NHL Trade Board Approaching Deadline
While the NHL trade deadline is not until March 7th, more trades will go down earlier this season. These two weeks pause for the 4 nations tournament is a great opportunity for NHL General Managers to make moves. Here are…
OpinionAlex Nass
Canucks trade JT Miller
Friday, Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin had a busy day. First, he traded JT Miller, Erik Brannstrom, and Jackson Dorrington to the New York Rangers for Filip Chytil, Victor Mancini, and the Rangers 2025 first round pick, that slides to…
OpinionAlex Nass
Mikko Rantanen Sent to Carolina in Blockbuster Trade
A blockbuster trade seeing multiple NHL star players on the move went down Friday night. The Avalanche have traded Mikko Rantanen to the Hurricanes. In return they have received Martin Necas, Jack Drury, Carolina’s 2025 2nd round pick and 2026…
OpinionAlex Nass
What Factors Have Led to the Trend of Goalie goals over the years?
Alex Nedeljkovic had a historic performance in a 5-2 win against the Buffalo Sabers on Friday. Aside from making 40 saves on 42 shots, he scored a goal, and an assist. It was the 19th goalie goal ever in an…
OpinionAlex Nass
January NHL Power Rankings
It is time for another Power Rankings. As always, recency bias and my future expectations are a big part of my criteria. This time the honorable mentions are the Carolina Hurricanes, and the LA Kings. 10-Toronto Maple Leafs(Previously Ranked 4)…
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Pittsburgh Penguins Waive Goaltender Tristan Jarry
The Pittsburgh Penguins have waived goaltender, Tristan Jarry on Wednesday. On October 26th Jarry was assigned to the AHL on a conditioning loan after a very poor start to the season. He was recalled on November 9th. Since then Jarry’s…
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Each Under 20 World Junior Championships Teams' Best Player This Year
With the World Junior Championships ending just over a week ago, who were the top players in the tournament for each team? This is what I think: Team USA-Cole Hutson (LD, Property of WSH) Honorable Mentions: Ryan Leonard (RW, Property…
OpinionAlex Nass
NHL player awards based on 2024-25 season so far
With December coming to a close there is still a lot of hockey left to be played but for fun if the season ended today what players would win awards? Hart: Nathan MacKinnon (COL) Runner Ups: Kirill Kaprizov (MNW), Quinn…
OpinionAlex Nass
World Junior Championship Power Rankings Post Preliminary Round
With the Preliminary Round just coming to a close now is a good time to do power ranking. 10-Kazakhstan (Group B) Coming in dead last is Kazakhstan. They got off to an awful start in the tournament getting blown out…
OpinionAlex Nass
NHL Post Christmas Break Power Rankings
With the NHL Christmas break recently coming to a close this is a great time to give my 2nd power rankings of the year where I will be ranking the top 8 teams this season. Like always a little bit…
OpinionAlex Nass
Long time Duck, Cam Fowler traded to Blues
On Sunday the Anaheim Ducks traded their current longest tenured player, Cam Fowler and a 2027 4th round pick for Jeremie Biakabutuka and a 2027 2nd round pick. $2.5 Million was retained on Fowler’s contract. This season, Fowler had 4…
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Rangers Part Ways with Their Captain and Avalanche get an Upgrade Between the Pipes
On Friday, The New York Rangers traded their captain Jaccob Trouba to the Aniheim Ducks for Urho Vaakanainen and a 2025 4th round pick clearing up just under $7 million in salary cap space for them. So far this season…
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