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, […]
Usually when I choose a goalie to put “In the Spotlight,” it’s because that goalie has recently shown some sort of impressive body of work, or because that goalie is currently breaking into the NHL and showing upside for the […]
Thatcher Demko. I’ve been waiting to write this spotlight piece for a long time. A long time. I waited until now, though, because I never really had much to write in terms of NHL experience. Until now, that was the case. […]
The Vegas Golden Knights are just one NHL team that traded for a new goaltender at the February trade deadline, and while they haven’t had the opportunity to reap the rewards of that trade for, well, obvious reasons, their new […]
When it comes to goaltenders, the Colorado Avalanche are intriguing – the Avs have found a way to get by without any one of their goaltenders in the last number of years being considered among the best in the NHL. […]
The New York Rangers find themselves in a delicate situation in goal. Read that back, and you might be confused – because no one has said that about the Rangers for the last fifteen years. Henrik Lundqvist, appropriately nicknamed league-wide […]
While the Carolina Hurricanes had themselves an unexpectedly excellent season in 2018-19, making it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals before losing out to the Boston Bruins, they weren’t the only club in their organization to do so. […]