Robin Lehner and Brock Boeser (Perry Nelson-USA TODAY Sports) No article summarizing anything to do with 2020 can turn out normally. Not even something as benign as my annual top 10 NHL trades of the calendar year. The revenues lost from the COVID-19 pandemic flattened the salary cap, tightened teams’ purse strings and slowed down...
T.J. Oshie (Nick Wosika-USA TODAY Sports) Part 1 of this 2021 mock expansion draft looked at the Vegas Golden Knights’ 2017 selections as a possible template for the Seattle Kraken to follow in 2021. You can read it here. To summarize: if GM Ron Francis wants to borrow from what George McPhee did for the...
Johnny Gaudreau (Sergei Belski-USA TODAY Sports) As we await labor peace between the NHL and NHL Players’ Association, we still don’t know whether we’ll get a mid-January or early-February start to the season, but we’re likely six to eight weeks away from NHL regular-season games. It’s time to start thinking about the 2020-21 season as...