Article posted on Tuesday 22 September - 05:20 EDT
As the 2019-20 NHL comes to an end, nearly one year after its start, the league looks to the 2020-21 NHL Season schedule. Outside of the 2020 NHL Draft and the start of NHL free agencies, the league has yet to announce much for the upcoming season. The league expects the season to start on December 1. However, challenges such as whether the Canada-US border will open this year, certainly make planning a challenge.
Article posted on Monday 07 September - 05:25 EDT
Let's have a look at the 10 worst Canadian NHL players of all-time. We really wish the 10 NHL players were not Canadian!
Article posted on Thursday 13 August - 08:50 EDT
As the National Hockey League playoffs race towards the Stanley Cup finals, Canadian hockey fans scramble to find their favourite team on their preferred viewing outlet. Those games can be seen morning, noon or night depending on what time zone you live in since the league has had to cram a tight schedule of action on each day of the week. The puck drops early in the day in the East in Toronto and finishes late at night out West in Edmonton. So, the question is in our heads: how to watch the NHL games in Canada?
Article posted on Tuesday 11 August - 08:54 EDT
Canadian sports fans have the Toronto Blue Jays in baseball, the Toronto Raptors in basketball, and the Grey Cup in football. But hockey is the nation's overwhelming passion as most kids from coast to coast learn to skate with a stick in hand at a very early age.
This is why a decades-old drought of a Canadian team winning the Stanley Cup has many wondering if a team north of the border will ever capture the big one again.
Article posted on Tuesday 07 July - 08:31 EDT
Toronto and Edmonton will be sharing the Stanley Cup Playoffs as multiple reports have indicated that the NHL has chosen the two cities as their "hub cities". While this is yet to be finalized and more details are to come, this could be a boon for both the Toronto Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers who will be playing within their own city. Yet the Stanley Cup Playoffs remain a wide-open race.
Article posted on Monday 08 June - 07:19 EDT
The unprecedented 2019-2020 NHL season will restart sometime this summer, with the Stanley Cup finals taking place later than ever. There's no specific date that the league will return to action, but a 24-team playoff season is likely to occur.
Previous Stanley Cup delays have pushed the latest date of a Stanley Cup champion into the summer during labour disputes between owners and players - not a killer virus.
Article posted on Monday 18 May - 05:16 EDT
After travelling around the world for 125 years, you collect a few interesting experiences. The Stanley Cup is one of the longest active championship trophies in the world of pro sports. Additionally, hockey players tend to have extremely rowdy celebrations after grinding for years to win the cup. As a result, the Stanley Cup has been a part of quite a few unexpected events and adventures over the years.
Article posted on Friday 15 May - 04:49 EDT
The Stanley Cup. Hockey’s greatest trophy. To win one cements one place in history. However, the NHL is full of players in history who have never hoisted Lord Stanley above their heads. Many of those players are an afterthought, but some, even without the glory of capturing a Cup, are amongst the greatest to ever skate an NHL rink. Here is who we think are the best players to never win the Stanley Cup.
Article posted on Wednesday 19 December - 05:45 EST
After watching over 30 games from every team in the NHL, the picture of the best Stanley Cup contenders is much clearer.
Article posted on Monday 08 October - 06:03 EDT
After predicting which NHL team wins the
Stanley Cup, predicting the Hart trophy winner comes next. Naturally, fans want to know which star wins the prestigious award. New Maple Leaf John Tavares is a top candidate although superstars like Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby remain perennial contenders. It all depends on which team goes above-and-beyond expectations and which star leads them. We look at the Hart Trophy candidates.
Article posted on Thursday 04 October - 05:28 EDT
The current era of the NHL operates under a salary cap which creates greater parity, increasing the level of competition across the league. Some teams have adjusted well, maintining a group of up-and-coming talent to quickly replace aging stars. At some point, nearly all teams endure regression, sometimes due to circumstances beyong their control. These NHL teams will be solid over/under props for
NHL betting as teams likely to finish below their projected total of victories during the 2018-19 season.
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In the NHL, there seems to always be that one team that everyone counts out who manages to prove everyone wrong. This team looks nothing like a playoff contender on paper yet somehow makes it into the big dance. No amount of expert analysis or stat crunching could've predicted it and that's part of the fun. We look at a few of these potentially surprising underdog playoff teams this season.
Article posted on Wednesday 03 October - 04:48 EDT
Connor McDavid is the first player to win the NHL scoring title in back to back seasons since the late 90s, early 2000s when Jaromir Jagr won it 4 years in a row and 5 out of 7 seasons. Now no one would fault you for betting Connor McDavid to do it agains, even at the low value of laying 55 cents, however there is another name on this board that sticks out to me.
Article posted on Friday 28 September - 05:53 EDT
The 2018-19 NHL season arrives after an historic playoffs witnessed the Washington Capitals win the
Stanley Cup over the Vegas Golden Knights in 2018. Vegas and Washington will remain among the favorites to win a championship in 2019 as clubs like the Penguins, Lightning, Jets and Predators aim to thwart the Caps and Golden Knights. Our 2018-19 NHL betting guide previews the odds of all 31 teams from the eastern and western conference.
Article posted on Friday 28 September - 05:07 EDT
If you choose to online bet on NHL preseason games look for certain indicators of what may lead to winning plays. The most important questions to ask is, are the best players playing and how much ice time will they get? Another is to look for value. Since results don't mean anything yet the upper echelon teams may be overvalued when they are unlikely to give it their all.
Article posted on Thursday 27 September - 10:05 EDT
The NHL is a league of parity and the 2018-19 NHL season looks no different, and by that, we mean there is a good chance that each Division in the NHL this season sees a different champion than last year.
Article posted on Friday 21 September - 11:01 EDT
With preseason NHL hockey going strong, fans and bettors get a first chance to see their teams in action.
Article posted on Monday 10 September - 11:00 EDT
After the Vegas Golden Knights miracle run to the
Stanley Cup Finals last season, it would seem almost impossible to rule any franchise out of winning the Stanley Cup in 2019.
Article posted on Tuesday 19 June - 03:58 EDT
The 2018 NHL Draft is coming and all the buzz is around Swedish defenseman Rasmus Dahlin. Considered as the "Connor McDavid of defensemen", Dahlin is pegged with all-world capabilities on both offence and defence and will undoubtedly change the future for the lottery winners, Buffalo Sabres on draft night. Franchise-changing defensemen are incredibly rare and Dahlin could join the cream of the crop in the last forty years.