Posted by thesportsjunky on December 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The NHL season began with two young teams looking like they could strike the final blow in the youth movement but both have travelled very different paths leaving only one still standing.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on September 30, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The Pacific Division will certainly be a division with a lot of eyes on it as the California teams still fight it out and try to get back to the top while the Alberta teams look for a resurgence and the newest team tries to make an impression.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on June 4, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The Stanley Cup Finals are underway and it is beginning to look like a great series as the Nashville Predators struggled in net only to bounce back in Game 3.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on May 21, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The NHL Playoffs play head to head against the NBA Playoffs but the two conference finals are going slightly differently showing that the NHL is a league of parity.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on May 14, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The Conference Finals are set and both series are looking eerily similar to each other with a massive underdog against a dominant former champion with a few interesting potential Finals that could be in the near future.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on April 16, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The first few games of the playoffs allowed for an insight into the differences between youth and veterans on teams as the young teams stumbled out of the block but aren’t entirely out of it as the first round continues.
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The NHL Playoffs were not the focus for at least one day this week as the NHL Draft Lottery took the headlines with one team getting a chance to change their franchise for the foreseeable future.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on April 12, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The NHL playoffs are here and the best part of the NHL season is set to begin as the eastern conference looks to break the streak and the western conference looks to unseat the champions.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on November 1, 2015 · Leave a Comment
There is no league that depends more on their young talent than in the NHL where young players are spending less time in the minor leagues.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on October 7, 2015 · Leave a Comment
It has become the biggest reason for the NHL’s growth in the USA and around the world, the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
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