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The Panthers Have the Heart of a Lyon

After being the best team in the league last season, the Florida Panthers struggled to find their way for much of this year. Do not look now, but the Panthers appeared to have found themselves at the most important time of the regular season. Thanks to a Buffalo Sabres loss to the New Jersey Devils […]

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Capitals Split Final Back-to-Back

The Washington Capitals looked like a team with playoff potential Monday and Tuesday nights. Though the team was eliminated from postseason play on April 4, they managed to split games between two superior teams on consecutive nights. Three quick goals carried the Capitals to victory Monday against the New York Islanders, who hold the first […]

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Capitals Fall to Panthers Late

The Washington Capitals’ limp toward the offseason continued Saturday night against the Florida Panthers. Despite taking a 2-2 tie into the final five minutes of action, Washington lost 4-2 thanks to two goals in the last five minutes. Both of the final goals were scored by the Panthers, who had had goals waved off earlier […]

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Evgeni Malkin #71 and Sidney Crosby #87 skating for the Pittsburgh Penguins

Penguins Fans Set To Become Caps, Flyers Fans For The Day

For the first time in NHL history, all 32 teams are playing today, just a week before the regular season ends. Three games are a much watch if you’re a fan of a team in the Eastern Conference.  Those three games are the Pittsburgh Penguins versus the Detroit Red Wings (in which the Penguins are […]

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Montreal Canadiens forward Joel Armia takes a knee during warmups before the Canadiens' April 6 game against the Washington Capitals. This was the Canadiens' Pride Night game.

Joel Armia Powers Canadiens Past Capitals

The goal celebration for Nicklas Backstrom’s sixth power-play goal of the season was subdued. In the Washington Capitals’ first game since being eliminated from the 2023 Stanley Cup Playoff, the team looked like it was mentally already in the offseason. Washington lost 6-2 to the Montreal Canadiens, the second-lowest-ranked team in the Eastern Conference. Joel […]

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Lightning’s Vasilevskiy Heating Up at the Right Time

With the Stanley Cup playoffs set to begin in just two weeks, players are starting to amp up their games to the next level. One player that has taken that to the next level is Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy. Yes, this is probably not a surprise because he has been one of the […]

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Player Profile: Garnet Hathaway

John Garnet Hathaway was born on November 23, 1991, in Naples, Florida, before his family moved to Kennebunkport, Maine, when he was six months old. Hathaway played four seasons at Phillips Academy Preparatory School in Andover, Massachusetts, and was team captain his senior season. His teammate was New York Rangers wing Chris Kreider. In 106 […]

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Player Profile: Dmitry Orlov

Dmitry Orlov was born on July 23, 1991, in Novokutsnetsk, Russia. As a youth, Orlov played for Metallurg Novokutsnetsk as a -6-year-old in 2007-08. In the World Hockey Championships that season, Orlov shined with two goals and seven assists in five games with the U-17 Russian team, the most points by a defenseman in the […]

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ECHL: South Carolina Stingray Player Profile: Julian Kislin

Julian Kislin is a newly signed defenseman for the South Carolina Stingrays out of Sacred Heart University. Kislin is the son of Henry and Galina and has one sibling, Elizabeth. He was born on May 24, 1999, in Manalapan, New Jersey. Towards the end of last week, Kislin signed his first ECHL contract with the […]

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The Real Shesterkin Is Back

Occasionally, an NHL goaltender will have a great season, and then things will not go as smoothly the following season. That has definitely been the case this season for New York Rangers All-Star goaltender Igor Shesterkin. Last season, Shesterkin, 27, won the Vezina Trophy as the league’s top goaltender when he went 36-13-0-4 with a […]

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