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Jan 9, 2023

Canada takes gold at the World Junior as Connor Bedard justifies the hype. We're back from Vegas and not everything has to stay in Vegas. 

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  • Banter - Vegas

    Title Player Phil Watson

    Phil Watson -> 40-41 Rangers Bryan Hextall -> Grandfather Ron Hextall -> 98-99 Flyers Trent Klatt -> 00-01 Canucks Matt Cooke

    Phil Watson -> 47-48 Rangers Fred Shero -> Coached 79-80 Rangers Ed Hospodar -> 87-88 Sabres Benoit Hogue -> 89-90 Sabres Rob Ray AND 01-02 Bruins Eric Manlow

    Phil Watson -> Coached 62-63 Bruins Ed Westfall -> 78-79 Islanders Bryan Trottier -> 93-94 Penguins Shawn McEachern -> 03-04 Thrashers Mark Dobson DPP

     

    Feedback / Shoutouts - Islanders Fan / Philadelphia Coaches

    News

    World Junior - Canada wins back to back

    Connor Bedard

    Jochen Van Cauwenberg - first game experience - Oilers vs Kraken 

    Leafs - Marner gets 500th point

    Oilers - out of playoffs - trade deadline coming up - will they trade 1st round pick?

    Ken Holland under lots of pressure right now

    Oilers still giving up far too many good chances

    SH Against - 4th most in the league. Teams around them are ARI, MTL, CBJ, ANA - wtf?

    SH For - 10th but less than against

    All Star Game - Preliminary Announcements

    2 players and a goalie to be added to each division via fan vote

     

    Metropolitan Division (All-Star appearances)

    Sidney Crosby, PIT (5th)
    F Johnny Gaudreau, CBJ (7th)
    F Kevin Hayes, PHI (1st)
    Jack Hughes, NJD (2nd)
    F Brock Nelson, NYI (1st)
    F Alex Ovechkin, WSH (8th)
    F Andrei Svechnikov, CAR (1st)
    Igor Shesterkin, NYR (1st)

    Atlantic Division (All-Star appearances)

    Nikita Kucherov, TBL (4th)
    Dylan Larkin, DET (3rd)
    Mitchell Marner, TOR (2nd)
    Nick Suzuki, MTL (2nd)
    F Tage Thompson, BUF (1st)
    F Brady Tkachuk, OTT (3rd)
    F Matthew Tkachuk, FLA (2nd)
    G Linus Ullmark, BOS (1st)

    Central Division (All-Star appearances)

    Kirill Kaprizov, MIN (2nd)
    Clayton Keller, ARI (3rd)
    Jason Robertson, DAL (1st)
    Vladimir Tarasenko, STL (4th)
    Seth Jones, CHI (4th)
    Cale Makar, COL (2nd)
    D Josh Morrissey, WPG (1st)
    Juuse Saros, NSH (2nd)

    Pacific Division (All-Star appearances)

    Matty Beniers, SEA (1st)
    F Kevin Fiala, LAK (1st)
    Nazem Kadri, CGY (2nd)
    F Connor McDavid, EDM (6th)
    Elias Pettersson, VAN (3rd)
    Troy Terry, ANA (2nd)
    D Erik Karlsson, SJS (7th)
    G Logan Thompson, VGK (1st)

    Guess the 5th

    Predictions Review - 1/2 way

     

    Atlantic

    Bonn TOP 4 (3/4)

    Hoard (2/4)

    22-24 Games by Pts %

    1/2 Way (40 G)

    TBL

    TOR

    BOS

    BOS

    TOR

    FLA

    TOR

    TOR

    BOS

    OTT

    TBL

    TBL

    OTT

    BOS

    DET

    BUF

    FLA

    TBL

    FLA

    DET

    DET

    DET

    MTL

    FLA

    BUF

    BUF

    OTT

    OTT

    MTL

    MTL

    BUF

    MTL

    Movers - BUF - 8th to 4th / MTL 6th to 8th (Race for Bedard)

    FLA - what is going on?

     

    Metro

    Bonn (3/4)

    Hoard (2/4)

    22-24 Games by Pts %

    1/2 Way (40 G)

    CAR

    CAR

    NJD

    CAR

    NYR

    WSH

    CAR

    NJD

    PIT

    PIT

    NYI

    NYR

    NYI

    NYR

    PIT

    WSH

    WSH

    CBJ

    NYR

    PIT

    NJD

    NJD

    WSH

    NYI

    CBJ

    PHI

    PHI

    PHI

    PHI

    NYI

    CBJ

    CBJ

    Movers - NYI - 3rd to 6th / WSH 6th - 4th

     

    PACIFIC

    Bonn (3/4)

    Hoard (2/4)

     

    1/2 Way (40 G)

    CGY

    LAK

    VGK

    VGK

    EDM

    CGY

    SEA

    SEA

    VEG

    EDM

    EDM

    LAK

    LAK

    ANA

    LAK

    CGY

    VAN

    VAN

    CGY

    EDM

    SEA

    SJS

    VAN

    VAN

    ANA

    SEA

    SJS

    SJS

    SJS

    VEG

    ANA

    ANA

    Movers - EDM 3rd to 5th - trouble in EDM

    Bonn (3/4)

    Hoard (2/4)

     

    1/2 Way (40 G)

    COL

    COL

    DAL

    WPG

    STL

    NSH

    WPG

    DAL

    DAL

    STL

    COL

    MIN

    MIN

    DAL

    MIN

    COL

    WPG

    MIN

    NSH (Tie for 4th)

    NSH

    NSH

    ARI

    STL

    STL

    ARI

    WPG

    ARI

    ARI

    CHI

    CHI

    CHI

    CHI

    Movers - Not much movement

     

    Hot/Not

    Metro WSH 7-1-2 / CBJ 2-8-0

    Atlantic BOS 8-0-2 / MTL 2-7-1

    Central MIN 7-2-1 / CHI 2-8-0

    Pacific LAK 7-2-1 / SJS 2-5-3

     

    Crazy Stat of the Week

    DOPeS

    Mason Shaw 2 games kneeing https://www.nhl.com/news/minnesota-wild-mason-shaw-suspended-two-games-for-kneeing/c-339141568?tid=27754907