An open discussion of ideas on the latest hot topic news in hockey and goaltending.
Heading into the 2020-21 NHL season, the Chicago Blackhawks were all set to roll with newly-acquired Malcolm Subban as their number one goalie, and it didn’t appear as though there were any goalie prospects in the system who could truly […]
If you had told me I would be writing about the Toronto Maple Leafs’ goaltending situation in the 2020-21 NHL season, I would have assumed the goalie I’d be covering was Frederik Andersen. Perhaps something about how he’s taken his […]
After 25 years of unparalleled success, it’s safe to say the Detroit Red Wings aren’t used to losing. And they are certainly not used to losing this bad, and this often. But with a 2-6-2 record through 10 games so […]
Over the past decade plus, the Montreal Canadiens have had both excellent seasons and poor ones, some of the highest highs and some of the lowest lows. The farthest they have made it this century has been the Eastern Conference […]
The 2021 IIHF World Juniors are over, and what a tournament it was. The United States took home the gold medal for the first time since 2017, thanks to a 2-0 win against Team Canada in last night’s gold medal […]
With the exciting announcement of the news that the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association came to an agreement to play a 56-game regular season beginning on January 13th, 2021, I don’t blame the hockey world for being so fixated […]
Typically when I choose a team to cover with a ‘Grading the Goal’ piece, it’s because that team has shaken up their goaltending in some kind of fashion, through trade, free agency, or otherwise. For the Arizona Coyotes, however, their […]
For the NHL team that finished second from worst in league standings last season, it was time to make some changes and force some turnover in the roster. The Ottawa Senators have been in the midst of a full rebuild […]
In the early-to-mid 2010s, no team in the NHL could mess with the Chicago Blackhawks; they became the envy of the league, winning three Stanley Cups in 2010, 2013, and 2015, icing the same core of players each time to […]
It seems like just yesterday that the Pittsburgh Penguins boasted the luxury of two stud goalies on their roster, Marc-Andre Fleury and Matt Murray, coming off of their back-to-back Stanley Cup wins in 2016 and 2017. But fast-forward to 2020, […]