Posted by thesportsjunky on April 25, 2019 · Leave a Comment
The first round of the playoffs saw the two best teams in the league get eliminated early with little fight allowing the two final wild card teams to head to the second round.
Posted by thesportsjunky on January 12, 2019 · Leave a Comment
This week, John Tortorella reached a milestone that makes him one of the best coaches in the NHL and the best American coach in NHL history despite his sometimes complicated legacy.
Posted by thesportsjunky on October 3, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The Metropolitan Division is a division built around rivalries making it one of the more exciting division in the league as every game means more than just another regular season it also makes the division race a tight one much like it will be this year.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on April 23, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The NHL playoffs are almost through the first round and so far thigns have been surprsiing as strong teams have been easily taken care of while teams that had no chance are having an impact.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on October 25, 2015 · Leave a Comment
The NHL season is only three weeks old but that hasn’t stopped some teams from making massive changes.
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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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Posted by thesportsjunky on October 3, 2015 · 1 Comment
The Metropolitan Division is still a young one after the re-organization brought some of the biggest markets into one division.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on October 8, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The Stanley Cup Playoffs are widely considered some of the toughest in the sports world as it is a grind. The playoffs are designed to break teams and players down to the point where they can no longer go on. It is the second season after one that is grinding in itself. The regular season is a long set of games where players have to stay mentally tough as well as physically tough. The sport values physicality as the players have to fly down the ice as fast as they can while risking the chance that another player will take them out with a big hit.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on June 27, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The youth movement in the NHL continues to grow every year as younger players are having a bigger impact in the league every year. Last year the 18-year old Nathan MacKinnon would light up the NHL and earn the Calder Trophy, becoming the youngest player to do so. This youth movement has made the draft one of the most important events of the NHL calendar.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on April 15, 2014 · Leave a Comment
It is that time of year again as the NHL regular season is over and only 16 teams will continue to play as the Stanley Cup playoffs begin. This year the playoffs will have a different look though as the NHL moves on with their new system for the first time ever. The NHL would make some massive changes this year in the playoff system when they changed the alignment of the teams. The alignment would give some teams a chance to play where they should have been all along while other teams would see a new set of division opponents.
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