Posted by thesportsjunky on November 24, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The NHL is still in the early days but some teams looked to make a change early in order to get back into the hunt before it was too late.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on February 18, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The NHL is heading into their final stretch but as the playoff run approaches a few teams that were expected to be in the thick of things have fallen off completely.
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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 September 29, 2017 · Leave a Comment
The NHL season is back and the league is looking to move up in the world as they are often a forgotten league among the big leagues but that allows them to make interesting moves which will be seen 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 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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Posted by thesportsjunky on April 2, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Last year the NHL saw no Canadian teams make the playoffs but that trend has turned the opposite direction as there could be five of the seven Canadian teams in the playoffs this year.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on October 30, 2016 · Leave a Comment
Canadian teams have struggled to get back to the top of the league in recent years but the start of the season is giving promise that a Stanley Cup could return to Canada sooner rather than later.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on October 16, 2016 · Leave a Comment
The youth movement in the NHL continues to take over and opening night in 2016 showed that in a big way with great performances from young superstars.
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