The Official National Hockey League Appreciation Thread

[KarateKen]

There is a new twist in the tragic death of Adam Johnson. The England authorities have arrested a suspect, presumably Matt Petgrave, on manslaughter chargers. Petgrave was the other player in the collision with Johnson.

[sensei8]

[KarateKen]

Is it my imagination or are we seeing more fights in the early part of this season than we have seen in many years?

[KarateKen]

After a dreadful start the Minnesota Wild have fired their head coach Dean Evason. Minnesota is on a seven-game losing streak and has struggled defensively. The Wild are currently 5-10-4 with the third lowest point total in the NHL. Only Chicago and San Jose are worse. Former Nashville coach John Hynes is in for Evason. Hynes first chance to get a win with Minnesota will be Tuesday night when the Wild host the Blues.

[sensei8]

Vegas Golden Knights lost to the Flames in OT 1-2. Knights hold first place in the Pacific Division with a record of 14-5-3 with just a 1 game over the 2nd place Kings.

Knights travel way up north to take on the 7th place 7-12-1 Oilers tonight. Knights won't be returning to their own ice until December 2nd when they face the 4th place Metropolitan Division Capitals with a record of 10-6-2.

GO KNIGHTS!!



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[KarateKen]

[KarateKen]

Minnesota's new coach gets a win in his debut, Wild beat the Blues 3-1.

There was a crazy game on Monday between Florida and Ottawa. There were fights and scrums and finally in the third period the ref ejected every player on the ice after a brawl broke out. I don't think I have ever seen a game where every player on the ice was ejected. No surprise that the Tkachuk brothers would be in the middle of chaos. Anyway, crazy game. Panthers won it 5-0.

[KarateKen]

Morgan Barron of the Jets celebrated his 25th birthday by scoring the game winning goal against the Blackhawks over the weekend.

Minnesota is undefeated under their new head coach.

The Oilers look to be on the rebound and the Ducks are falling apart.

The Rangers might be the best team in the NHL right now as they are

Capitals had found ways to win despite not playing well and now they are losing, lost 6-0 to Arizona yesterday. Zona is on a five-game winning streak with all five wins being against the last five Stanely Cup winners! Wild stat there.

Alex Ovechkin has been struggling to score this season, no goals in seven games and only five on the year, putting him on pace for 20 goals this season. He was on pace to break Wayne's goals record next season but if his pace does not speed up it won't be until the following year, when he is 40. What looked like an inevitable event when the season started now has some question marks of Alex will get there. I think he will, but it will take longer than expected.

[aurik]

I really enjoyed the Blues beat the Knights this past Monday. It was a great game on both sides, with Jordan Binnington standing on his head to keep the Knights to a single goal. Tonight they have a rematch in St Louis -- let's see if the Blues can win this one as well.
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[KarateKen]

Morgan Barron, a fourth liner for the Jets who is not known to be a goal scorer, now has five goals this season, which is exactly the amount of goal Alex Ovechkin has this year. Not sure why Ovi is struggling to put it in the net (other than the Caps ineffective power play) and I keep waiting for him to break out of this slump and explode but so far it has not happened. In fact he has been stuck on five for a while, not scoring since November 18, going back ten games. He is on pace for under 20 goals this season after putting in 50 and 42 the last two years.