NHL 2018-19 Recap Week 24 – Golden Knights peaking, Bruins rising, last playoff spots up for grabs
One team I would not want to play right now is the Vegas Golden Knights. The Golden Knights started off slow, but that’s common when you lose the Stanley...
NHL 2018-19 Recap Week 22 – Playoff races tighten, Whalers reappear, NHL still can’t schedule games correctly
If you would have told me the Pittsburgh Penguins, Carolina Hurricanes, Columbus Blue Jackets and Montreal Canadiens would all be fighting for something at the end of the season,...
NHL 2018-19 Recap Week 20 – Blackhawks mostly turn it around, Kucherov reaches 100, Blue Jackets make trades, Gritty and Flyers dazzle outdoors
The Chicago Blackhawks are having one of the strangest seasons ever. They started out terribly and then they fired their three time Stanley Cup winning coach as a result....
NHL 2018-19 Recap Week 19 – Blues on a roll, Ducks rebound, Tavares faces criticism
A couple of months ago I said I didn’t really see what the point of the Blues firing their head coach was. They weren’t a very good team and...
NHL 2018-19 Recap Week 17 – In the Box with Pierre McGuire and Kendall Coyne Schofield, Flyers hot, Sabres Not
Pierre McGuire is an interesting man. He sits in the box between two teams in every NHL game and then adds commentary. Personally, I don’t find his commentary all...
NHL 2018-19 Recap Week 15 – Islanders on top, Flames still hot, Maple Leafs up and down, Avalanche even more up and down
After proclaiming the NHL playoff races over last week, things have become a little more interesting. In the Eastern Conference, the Islanders (more on them below) have ascended out...
NHL 2018-19 Recap Week 11 – Carter Hart in a tough spot, Bryan Rust and Jonathan Huberdeau get hot, Joshua Ho-Sang appears early
Former WHL Player of the Year and Goalie of the Year Carter Hart was called up by the Philadelphia Flyers this past week. And I worry about him now...
NHL 2018-19 Recap Week 8 – Flyers panic, Maple Leafs have great week, Wilson has ups and downs, Refs blow more calls
Sticking with there are no bad teams in the NHL from a couple of weeks ago, it seems like a lot of NHL teams don’t understand that yet. I...
NHL 2018-19 Recap Week 5 – Blackhawks fire Quenneville, O’Reilly and Chabot streak, Penguins have a bad week
The big story this week was the firing of Blackhawks coach and three time Stanley Cup winner Joel Quenneville. Should he have been fired? Of course not. But, as...
2018-19 NHL Season Preview
Keeping with the same format as last year, and not doing unrealistic team by team analysis, let’s take a look at what to watch for in the 2018-19 NHL...