Jan 12, 2023 As the NHL’s teams reach the midpoint of the 2022-23 season, there are many proclamations to debate. The best and worst. The surprises and disappointments. Whether the Arizona Coyotes‘ Mullett Arena is a great place to watch a game or the greatest place to watch a game. But there are two claims
Max Domi didn’t want the job. In truth, not many do. But there were injuries up and down the lineup. Someone had to take the reins. Not on the ice during the action of a live NHL game, but in warmups as the player tabbed with distributing pucks to teammates. The task seems simple and
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The San Jose Sharks‘ self-inflicted wounds on a game-by-game basis speak volumes of much deeper problems than personnel issues. You might expect to see such mistakes from a young team, but not from a ‘veteran’ squad that has only dressed two rookies in the lineup all season. In fact, many of their unforced turnovers stem
The Seattle Kraken have officially hit the halfway point of the 2022-23 season, and what a 41-game stretch it has been. The organization is currently on a seven-game winning streak, and their 54 points in 41 games is just six off their total from the 2021-22 season. From strong team performances to surprise individual efforts,
NHL Network: EJ Hradek, Mike Johnson and Stu Grimson discuss the New York Rangers need for a high-end winger, someone like Patrick Kane or Vladimir Tarasenko. ** NHLRumors.com transcription Hradek: “There’s been a lot of discussion about the Rangers. And Patrick Kane’s name has come up. He hasn’t really indicated exactly how he wants to
Here is a look at Tuesday’s action around the AHL: COACHELLA VALLEY 3, SAN JOSE 2 (SO)Kole Lind scored the only shootout goal in the seventh round as the Firebirds got past the visiting Barracuda. San Jose got a goal from Danil Gushchin with a minute remaining in regulation to earn a standings point, their
7:00 AM ET ESPN staff The NHL has passed the mathematical midpoint of the 2022-23 regular season. We’ve graded all 32 teams — including one A+ and two F’s — and announced the winners of our own batch of awards. With the 2023 All-Star Game and skills competition approaching on Feb. 3-4, we turn our
Buffalo Sabres (20-18-2, fifth in the Atlantic Division) vs. Nashville Predators (19-15-6, fifth in the Central Division) Nashville, Tennessee; Saturday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: The Buffalo Sabres, on a three-game losing streak, take on the Nashville Predators. Nashville has a 9-6-3 record in home games and a 19-15-6 record overall. The Predators have allowed
Mark Kastelic spent the build-up to the game with family and friends. He signed a hockey stick for a kid during pregame warmups, something he rarely does. When the puck wasn’t in play, Kastelic found himself sneaking peeks into the crowd, even finding his mom in the corner. Kastelic’s first NHL game in his hometown
This wasn’t the most eventful date in National Hockey League history, but there was a huge win in Philadelphia in 1976. Fans in Edmonton and Los Angeles had a lot to cheer about, while there were plenty of personal milestones hit as well. Let’s strap in and go for our daily trip through the decades.
The Minnesota Wild had a tough game against the New York Rangers on Jan.10, getting out-played for most of the game but somehow managed to collect a point in a shootout loss. Hopefully, they’ve refocused and are reinvigorated heading into the final game to complete the first half of the 2022-23 season tonight against the
📝 by Andrew Streitel | AHL On The Beat It’s an early, chilly Swedish morning and Pontus Andreasson is already up and about, heading to his part-time job as an electrician at Volvo to work a long shift before going to the rink to fine-tune his skills on the ice. This was Andreasson’s reality until
7:01 AM ET TORONTO — Matt Murray and Ilya Samsonov present as an ideal odd couple. A classic yin-and-yang, if you will. The Toronto Maple Leafs have just wrapped up practice and their goaltenders sit side by side at the front of the room in companionable conversation. Murray then rapidly becomes focused on removing and
TORONTO – Ryan McDonagh was sitting in the same locker room where, eight months earlier, he celebrated another playoff series triumph — one that resigned the tortured team down the hall to another soul-searching spring. The veteran defenceman and his Tampa Bay Lightning came back from a 3-2 deficit in that first-round matchup against the
If you watch sports on TV, it’s impossible to miss them. Gambling logos, ads and endorsements for sports betting are also online, on streaming services and on billboards. The “tsunami” of advertising, as it’s been referred to, follows legislative change in Canada in 2021, when single event sports betting was legalized. Since then, provincial gambling
The Edmonton Oilers could have started contract negotiations with their restricted free agents (RFA) a while ago, as they did with Stuart Skinner. General manager Ken Holland acted early and locked up Skinner for three more seasons at a very good price in December. This is a gamble that’s already paying off since he has
The Ottawa Senators have plenty of work to do in the second half of the season, with their topsy-turvy form leaving them nine points below the playoff line at the midway mark. The Senators have been pretty competitive at times (they posted a 7-4-1 record in December), but were totally rudderless at other points of