Scouting future competition - Devils/Canes. 3-3 after two periods. Two good teams going at it - Carolina probably more rounded, NJ more dangerous offensively.
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Scouting future competition - Devils/Canes. 3-3 after two periods. Two good teams going at it - Carolina probably more rounded, NJ more dangerous offensively.
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Bruins better be prepared to start on time against the Kraken
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NHL Power Rankings: The Middle Mixes Up as Boston Stays First
Here are this week’s THN power rankings.
(All fancy stats are 5v5 and courtesy naturalstattrick.com. CF% stands for Corsi For Percentage and xGF% represents Expected Goals For Percentage.)
1. Boston Bruins (32-4-4, +68. CF% league rank: 6, xGF% league rank: 3)
Since the third week of the season, the Bruins have not dropped out of the top three spots in the Power Rankings. They’re so good it’s almost boring. Next!
Here are this week’s THN power rankings.
(All fancy stats are 5v5 and courtesy naturalstattrick.com. CF% stands for Corsi For Percentage and xGF% represents Expected Goals For Percentage.)
1. Boston Bruins (32-4-4, +68. CF% league rank: 6, xGF% league rank: 3)
Since the third week of the season, the Bruins have not dropped out of the top three spots in the Power Rankings. They’re so good it’s almost boring. Next!
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They been beating up on teams .Have to be honest though I view the Saturday game as a big game for Boston.The Leafs take playing them very seriously and shut the Bruins right down last meeting.Boston has lost last 4 vs them. I want to see Bruins play their top line physical.
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Indeed they are. They're having a great season on the whole as well. I guess at this point I've seen more Kraken games of any of the non-Bruins teams. Works out well for me since I can generally watch the Bs then watch the Kraken in the late game.
All season I've kept waiting for them to come back down to earth. They're just a really good hard-working team with nice balance. Also are well coached. McCann and Beniers have become my favorite Kraken players to watch, but of course they have a host of other good players such as Gourde, Burakovsky, Eberle, etc. Even Donato looks fairly good now.
It's quite remarkable that they are right in the mix for the top spot in their division given how weak their goalies have performed. They have 4 games in hand on LA and 2 on Vegas, yet are only 4 pts out of the top spot. I figured that the Kraken would be decent this season, but not anything like this.
Both Jim Montgomery and Bruce Cassidy will coach at 2023 NHL All-Star Weekend
Jim Montgomery and Bruce Cassidy will coach against one another at the 2023 NHL All-Star Weekend next month down in Sunrise, Florida.
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Montgomery and Cassidy were named as the head coaches for the Atlantic and Pacific Divisions, respectively, during the All-Star showcase, which will be held in Sunrise, Florida, from Feb. 3-4.
Both Jim Montgomery and Bruce Cassidy will coach at 2023 NHL All-Star Weekend
Jim Montgomery and Bruce Cassidy will coach against one another at the 2023 NHL All-Star Weekend next month down in Sunrise, Florida.www.boston.com
Montgomery and Cassidy were named as the head coaches for the Atlantic and Pacific Divisions, respectively, during the All-Star showcase, which will be held in Sunrise, Florida, from Feb. 3-4.
Has this ever happened- the present & former head coaches of the same team named to be All Star team coaches the season of their hiring/firing?
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In watching Nashville-Toronto the Preds are making Matt Murray look like a HOF. It seems like Nashville always struggles to score despite getting more than their fair share of chances year in and year out.
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The NHL needs to make one rule change. Defenseman lying in crease behind goalies should not be allowed.
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I was bored so I just watched full game highlights of Game 7 against the Habs in 2011 (I watch Horton's goal at least once a month, but I haven't watched the entire long-form highlights in ages)
Things that stood out:
- The refs were really bad - both ways, but they were worse on us. Habs got two goals off of powerplays that never should've been called. Bruins got one goal as a result of Kelly getting away with a high stick on Hamrlik too.
- The tension was real in that crowd and you can feel it through the tv screen, I don't think you can ever recreate that feeling again
- Mark Recchi cost us a goal with an uncharacteristically careless play as the last man back on the powerplay, overskating the puck and letting Plekanec walk in for a shorthanded breakaway
- This may be sacrilege to say out loud around here, Carey Price was the best player on the ice. Bruins absolutely dominated the third period and should've put up 3 or 4 goals if Price didn't rob them on several occasions
- The Habs carried play at their tempo throughout the OT period
- Thomas was very solid but didn't singlehandedly win it that night like he did in game 5's OT or the Vancouver series.
- The Habs almost scored the OT winner on two occasions, both a bit fluky. First a dangerous bouncing puck early on that Thomas had to kick out, and second when Dennis Seidenberg nearly kicked a rebound into our own net
- On what was ultimately the final faceoff of the game, Jeff Halpern jumped the gun and got tossed from the circle which caused Plekanec to have to take the draw which he lost clean to Krejci
- If PK Subban were a left-handed shot he would've been able to clear the puck out on that play, but he was caught on his backhand and could only bank it up the boards
- McQuaid made the goal happen with a brilliant pinch, because Mike Cammaleri was the Habs forward along that wall and McQuaid had 7 inches and 35 pounds on him - he used his size to dominate that puck battle while Lucic was marking Subban on the forecheck from the other direction
- Horton's shot flicked off Halpern's skateblade, which I think is karma for Halpern trying to embellish minor contact from Ference to try to milk a penalty in the third period
Things that stood out:
- The refs were really bad - both ways, but they were worse on us. Habs got two goals off of powerplays that never should've been called. Bruins got one goal as a result of Kelly getting away with a high stick on Hamrlik too.
- The tension was real in that crowd and you can feel it through the tv screen, I don't think you can ever recreate that feeling again
- Mark Recchi cost us a goal with an uncharacteristically careless play as the last man back on the powerplay, overskating the puck and letting Plekanec walk in for a shorthanded breakaway
- This may be sacrilege to say out loud around here, Carey Price was the best player on the ice. Bruins absolutely dominated the third period and should've put up 3 or 4 goals if Price didn't rob them on several occasions
- The Habs carried play at their tempo throughout the OT period
- Thomas was very solid but didn't singlehandedly win it that night like he did in game 5's OT or the Vancouver series.
- The Habs almost scored the OT winner on two occasions, both a bit fluky. First a dangerous bouncing puck early on that Thomas had to kick out, and second when Dennis Seidenberg nearly kicked a rebound into our own net
- On what was ultimately the final faceoff of the game, Jeff Halpern jumped the gun and got tossed from the circle which caused Plekanec to have to take the draw which he lost clean to Krejci
- If PK Subban were a left-handed shot he would've been able to clear the puck out on that play, but he was caught on his backhand and could only bank it up the boards
- McQuaid made the goal happen with a brilliant pinch, because Mike Cammaleri was the Habs forward along that wall and McQuaid had 7 inches and 35 pounds on him - he used his size to dominate that puck battle while Lucic was marking Subban on the forecheck from the other direction
- Horton's shot flicked off Halpern's skateblade, which I think is karma for Halpern trying to embellish minor contact from Ference to try to milk a penalty in the third period
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