It is difficult to start this because it feels like I have already written it. A while ago, SBNation decided to let their hockey sites go, and it briefly seemed like I would be cut loose, never to write again.
While I am incredibly grateful to the people who donated to the GoFundMe, shared content this past season, and helped facilitate the move to an independent Five For Howling, it is time for this to end for me.
I, Carl Pavlock, will be stepping down from Five For Howling in all...
So, the Anaheim Ducks just got pants’d on live TV with hockey night in Canada 9-2 to the Toronto Maple Leafs. In what can only be seen as the bottoming out of this season so far, we saw the variance between two ends of the hockey spectrum in almost every way.
At one end, the Toronto Maple Leafs. A team between 2007 – 2016 that had been consistently at the bottom of the Northeast/Atlantic Division, now reaping the rewards of their full rebuild. A team with high draft picks demanding high c...
Seriously, what more can this guy do? | Photo by Andy Devlin/NHLI via Getty Images
Period 2 coming up.
Skinner letting in a few meh goals. Remember, he’s a rookie backup and everyone is praising Holland for Ekholm. What seems to have been forgotten is that our starter is unplayable and we are relying on a rookie to play 80% of the remaining regular season games and then to win 16 more in playoffs.
I love Skinner but it’s a big ask!
With five goals and seven assists in eight games Mitch Marner has had a fantastic start to the year. Marner is currently tied for first in NHL points with none other than Connor McDavid.