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12 Crease Situations to Watch in 2026-27 (opens the original)
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This NHL season, one thing to keep in eye out as you’re following the rest of the league outside your team are the following tandem situations. These are the situations that I find most interesting to think about and watch develop. In the 2020s, there are plenty of internal dynamics within a team’s crease situation simply due to factors like deployment, level of play, injuries, and waiver eligibility to name but 4. These factors (and more) form the basis of my selection — but mostly it’s an excu
The Cheat Sheet for (at least) the Next 6 years of HHOF Goalie Inductions (opens the original)
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I wasn’t expecting Rinne to be inducted into the Hall of Fame in this class — or any forthcoming one, frankly. Not because Rinne was a scrub, of course. I just personally didn’t think he had a good case and I didn’t think the selection committee would be convinced by a guy who played on mostly good, but non-descript, teams with the exception of his later career — you will come to see that those reasons do not follow from one-another, rather met as strangers at their destination. Perhaps cup fina
My Compromise on the NHL Playoff Format (opens the original)
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Some common things you hear around playoff time are “it’s a brand new season” and “the regular season doesn’t matter”. This is true, to an extent. Despite accumulating standings points from all the way back in October, teams are typically not the same as when they started the year. How they accumulated those points don’t translate necessarily to playoff hockey and when they accumulated those points count all the same. Furthermore, injuries may and often do alter the trajectory of any postseason
A Re-Write of NHL.com’s Top-10 Goaltenders (opens the original)
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Each season the NHL.com releases lists of the best players at every position with the alleged purpose of generating clicks for their website. I say “alleged” because some people are extremely genuine in their ludicrous beliefs and I’m not the best at sussing that sort of thing out.So, rather than give an “um, actually” top-10 list, and have to commit to making it forward-looking or retrospective (something these lists do not make very clear), I’m going to make my own list that does not reflect m
Under the Microscope #1 (opens the original)
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Something I’ve been promising to do for a while is to watch Jet Greaves play hockey. His stat lines in the NHL have been very impressive year over year, but with the smallish sample —even with his 50+ starts this season, there is some reason to doubt if he is legitimately what his numbers roughly suggest or if he’s actually just been very fortunate and well-insulated in a way not typically measured by xGoals. Similarly, I’ve been intrigued by Askarov’s seemingly catastrophic season. Even as his
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