Welcome back to the NHL weekend rankings, returning after a three-week Olympic break. Aw, I missed you too. Of course, those three weeks only contained a handful of NHL games for each team, so in theory our outlook on the league shouldn’t have changed too much. In theory, sure. But this is the real world, where half our job as fans is to overreact to anything and everything. So today, before we get to the Top Five and Bottom Five, let’s first take a moment to pick a few teams and go way overbo...
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A daily roundup of Jets, Moose coverage — all the pro hockey news that matters in Manitoba and beyond.
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Hockey East's commissioners office sent a memo today to all teams in the league banning the "use of any theatrical lights, dimming, or strobe effects after goals are scored." The issue will be further reviewed before next season.The memo became necessary following a problem in this past weekend's game between Massachusetts and Connecticut in Amherst.Playing in overtime, arena officials triggered their...
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Hey folks...
The trade deadline is this week, so let's try a mailbag.
I'm looking for your questions, comments, rants and hypotheticals. Trade talk/speculation/proposals are fun, although remember this won't run until deadline day.
Clever is good. Straight down the middle is good too, so don't feel like you have to steal the show if you'd rather ask something simple. Anything can work.
Send your stuff via email at [email protected] .
Thanks,
Sean
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Canada West will once again narrow the field from four teams to two teams as the hunt for the Canada West banner and berths in the U SPORTS National Championship continues. We already knew a team from BC would be in the Canada West Final, but we needed to find out which of those two teams would be moving on in their series. The second series saw two recent National Champions clash in Calgary as only one would move forward. Who would move onto the final and book tickets to Elmira? Let's find ou...
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Recap of the game.
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Recap of the game.
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The San Jose Sharks have started to slip in the standings. Despite a 5-4 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday afternoon, the Sharks are starting to slip in the standings. As of Sunday morning, they sit five points out of a playoff spot, losing five of their last six games. Earlier this season, when…
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Distance did not make the heart go stronger for Edmonton Oilers hockey. While noticeable improvements were made for players like Matt Savoie and Trent Frederic offensively, we were quickly reminded just how poor this team is in the defensive zone. In the category of Just Oilers Things, how do you score 17 goals on a…
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The Edmonton Oilers’ attempts to trade Andrew Mangiapane have failed, thus far, to find him a new home. And with the Oilers going 1-2 out of the Olympic break with disappointing losses to the Anaheim Ducks and San Jose Sharks, the team has taken the drastic measure of placing the disgruntled winger on waivers. Joining…
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The Edmonton Oilers’ Jekyll-and-Hyde season continued on their past three-game road trip. They gave up yet another lead to lose to the Anaheim Ducks in the first game, looked like men among boys in a dominating 8-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings, and just when you thought they had turned the page, they came…
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Latest on the veteran winger.
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A look at the projected lineups and pre-game interviews.
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One step forward, one step back. After an 8-1 win over the Kings in Los Angeles that felt like the team’s most complete effort of the season, the Edmonton Oilers followed it up Saturday with a 5-4 loss to a San Jose Sharks team that came in riding a five-game losing streak. Macklin Celebrini opened…
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With the NHL Trade Deadline less than a week away, the Edmonton Oilers have recently been linked to defenceman Oliver Ekman-Larsson of the Toronto Maple Leafs. “I do think Edmonton’s interest in Ekman-Larsson is real,” said Elliotte Friedman on the 32 Thoughts podcast. “And I think it’s just going to be really interesting to see…
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A daily roundup of Jets, Moose coverage — all the pro hockey news that matters in Manitoba and beyond.
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Five teams went into a mad scramble in the final weekend with a chance to take first place. That's more than half the teams in the league still capable of winning the league championship, even on the last night.Turns out, in the end, it was Minnesota State all over again.The Mavericks needed a shootout to defeat last-place Northern Michigan on Friday, but got some help in the process. That paved the...
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North Dakota had already sealed another Penrose Cup by defeating Western Michigan on Friday night. But it was nevertheless another riveting game Saturday between two of the top four teams in the NPI.With nothing really on the line, the teams didn't play that way, in going to a shootout. The Broncos won it there, 4-3, on a goal by Owen Michaels, his 11th.The two-point weekend allowed Denver to swoop...
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It was more or less a foregone conclusion by the team the weekend rolled around, but Providence clinched its first-ever outright Hockey East regular-season championship with a 3-2 win over New Hampshire. Providence also won in 2016, but shared the title.After an inconsistent first half, the Friars are rolling towards the postseason having gone 13-2 since an early January loss to Alaska at home had...
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Dartmouth and Cornell might it tight late, but in the end, it was Quinnipiac winning another ECAC regular-season title, its sixth in a row.The Bobcats defeated Harvard, 4-1, to seal the championship. Freshman forward Ethan Wyttenbach had one assist, to extend his lead in the national points race to 10 (57 to 47) over Michigan's T.J Hughes.Harvard had a big comeback win Friday against Princeton to ...
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Recap of the game.
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There's no free stream I can find where the game can be watched, but the AWIHL title will be decided today or tonight depending on your time zone. I say "today or tonight" because the teams are playing at the O'Brien Icehouse in Melbourne where the Brisbane Lightning will meet the Perth Inferno in the gold medal game at 5pm Melbourne time or at midnight in the Central Time Zone on March 1. Melbourne, for those doing the math, is 17 hours ahead of Winnipeg.
The AWIHL Final will feature the t...
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After beating the wheels off the L.A. Kings on Thursday night, the Edmonton Oilers wrapped up their California road trip with one last stop in San Jose to face the sliding Sharks. The Sharks came into the game on a healthy losing streak, and that meant an opportunity for the Oilers to keep building momentum…
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It’s safe to say that the Edmonton Oilers aren’t playing their best hockey at the moment. On Saturday afternoon, the Oilers headed to Northern California to play the San Jose Sharks for the second time this season, falling 5-4 in another high-scoring game. Let’s take a look at what went on in this one. The…
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Tough news on the veteran forward.
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