Day: June 22, 2022

Kadri makes triumphant return, scores in OT to put Avalanche a win within Stanley Cup

Welcome back Nazem Kadri. After missing the first three games while recovering from a surgically-repaired thumb, Kadri scored the game-winner Wednesday night in Game 4, scoring the game-winner over the Tampa Lightning with a scintillating move on a partial break to beat Andrei Vasilevskiy and send his Avalanche team within a win of hoisting the […]

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Bruins Prospect Profile: Mason Lohrei

The Bruins are looking down the barrel of a rebuild that may start as early as this season. Their foundation is solid, and they already have three young stars that will hopefully fast-track them to being a contender again. Other rebuilding/retooling franchises aren’t lucky enough to start with a Pastrnak, McAvoy, and Swayman. Poor drafting […]

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Nicklas Backstrom Has Potential Career-Ending Surgery

The Washington Capitals have received some very bad news in the form of their star center; Nicklas Backstrom has recently undergone hip resurfacing surgery. The surgery was done on Backstrom’s left hip, which was first operated on in 2015. He missed the first two months of the 2021-22 season due to an injury to that […]

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Igor Shesterkin Wins The Vezina Trophy

Igor Shesterkin has won the Vezina Trophy for the 2021-22 season. The award goes to the top netminder during the season. Shesterkin went on to victory by a wide margin and beat out Calgary Flames Jacob Markstrom and Nashville Predators netminder Juuse Saros. Down below shows just how the voting went for this award. Igor […]

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Bruins’ Jeremy Swayman Selected to NHL All-Rookie Team

The NHL All-Rookie Team was announced Tuesday, and Boston Bruins’ rookie netminder Jeremy Swayman was selected to the team. Swayman is the first Bruins’ goaltender to be selected to the All-Rookie Team since Andrew Raycroft made the team in 2003-04. The 23-year-old Swayman also finished fifth in the Calder Trophy voting for the league’s top […]

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Avalanche vs. Lightning: Game 4 Preview and Odds

We tried to warn you. The Lightning have been the comeback kids this postseason, having overcome deficits in the Quarterfinals and the Conference Finals to advance to the big dance for the third consecutive season. And Game 3 was no different as the Lightning defeated the Avalanche 6-2 to set up a crucial Game 4 […]

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Auston Matthews Award Recap

Auston Matthews has won both the Ted Lindsay, voted on by his peers as the most outstanding player, and the Hart Trophy, which is voted on by the media for the Most Valuable Player, after an outstanding 2021-22 NHL season. Matthews dominated the past season, where he scored 60 goals and 46 assists for 106, […]

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How Mark Recchi could help Boston in a coaching role

It was on full display in the last couple of months of the regular season, and the playoffs as the Bruins struggled heavily with the power-play. The Bruins, at one point, went on an 0 for 36 runs late in the regular season when David Pastrnak was out with a core injury. Management, especially team […]

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