Artyom Levshunov is forgoing the NHL Prospects Showcase due to a foot injury. A puck happened to severely hit his right foot and will miss some time. The showcase is always an opportunity to boost their prospects at NHL training camp but with that being said, Levshunov is a former No.2 overall pick by the Blackhawks touted to be Connor Bedard’s running mate going forward.
Category: Hockey
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Stanley Cup Connor McDavid UnHappy Meal
Connor McDavid is the best NHL player in the league. He skates at about tops 23 mph and currently leads the postseason with a dominating 38 points. McDavid is a rare commodity.
He recently broke the all-time playoff assist record (32) and joined legends such as Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky to record at least seven 100 point seasons prior to the age of 28.
McDavid has timely sent the fans home happy. He works with a tremendous supporting cast of Leon Draisaitl, Evander Kane, Evan Bouchard, and coach Kris Knoblauch who could be credited.
The Edmonton Oilers reached the Stanley Cup Final and faced the Florida Panthers. The Panthers started hot but tonight lost to Edmonton 3-5 following a Connor McDavid goal, his 42nd point of the postseason and did not allow, this time, for Matthew Tkachuk to swipe a goal shot at the end.
In the end, it is to be argued coach Paul Maurice was the most unhappy.
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Kraken Have Krak the Code For Blysma
The Seattle Kraken have been a young upstart NHL organization for the better part of a couple years but today they just cracked the crackling, divisive code by hiring coach Dan Bylsma.
Blysma was known for his first-year championship run with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009 and was a name to be reckoned with alongside Sidney Crosby who performed his best season under the now Kraken coach. Blysma previously coached for the Buffalo Sabres back in 2016 but his cooling opportunity came for his first and longest tenure with the more successful East team.
Not many coaches ice at practice or suit up beyond three years since Blysma’s exit into the shadows. It is ironically unbelievable to say Blysma has not been coaching in the NHL or at least in the West since Buffalo. He led initially to a .615 winning percentage and was a coach soundly talked about.
Today, Blysma has worked with Seattle Kraken AHL talent on the surface of further not developing rookies but chaining ties to associate general manager and former partner Jason Botterill.
Meaning, Seattle is cracking the code with a promising coach, and a deep roster to work through its hurdles of one mere postseason appearance in the last three seasons under Dave Hakstol who came from the Philadelphia Flyers and college ranks and proved to be a squandering duck if Anaheim is most likely hiring.
The Seattle Kraken is on the way to possibly a power struggle but in the meantime, general manager Ron Francis maneuvered the next best step, feasibly, for the city of Seattle and its fans and that is crack the code by hiring Blysma to definitively continue his efforts in developing talent from a systematic standpoint to bring home and break the Cup record for the earliest Stanley win possible.
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2023 Stanley Cup Matchup Revisited Tonight
The Florida Panthers revisit the ’23 Stanley Cup champions in Las Vegas tonight to try and capture their first win against them in a regular season matchup.
Right now, the Panthers are 23-12-2 and have a chance to gain a competitive advantage over the defending Vegas Golden Knights (22-11-5) but William Carlson and Nick Cousins are out meaning not much is at critical stake besides the fact that Florida has lost seven of their last meetings in this particular series and need their leading points, goal contributor Sam Reinhart to lead a tremendous game between ruthlessly Jack Eichel, veteran Mark Stone, and Conn Smythe award winner Jonathan Marchessault who rank well respectively top-15 in Power Play percentage (22.22%) and are aid by Adin Hill’s work of GAA less than two.
The Panthers have dealt with a lot of turbulence when addressing the Golden Knights and it will be no easy test.
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Top Five John Tortorella Moments
John Tortorella has become just the eighth NHL head coach to eclipse 1,500 games, passing Daryl Sutter on the all-time list. Next, former Philadelphia Flyers head coach Ken Hitchcock.
Torts will have to muster more wins to surpass Hitchcock at 1,578. Lately, the Flyers lost one of their last 10, winning six in the process. Torts and the Flyers head for a small Canadian trip tomorrow when Philadelphia visit Calgary and Edmonton.
The Flyers (19-11) rank second in the Metropolitan division currently and who is to attribute to it than Torts and counting down his top five moments!
5. Torts, Media Goes Wrong
New York Post’s reporter Larry Brooks was honored into the 2018 Hockey Hall of Fame. Hopefully, these two can reconcile and meet over great prestige or a Starbucks coffee. Torts was not afraid to voice himself and Brooks turned out to face the wrong end of the school bus.
4. A la Vista Panarin
Once a Ranger, Panarin never goes back. Torts vitalize his full intentions to sit out Panarin not because of trade capita but his full desire on no qualms.
Panarin later that season, signed a $81 million deal with New York and has since averaged 77 points per season, ranking fourth behind Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, and Nathan MacKinnon.
3. Inflamed
Following a 2014 line brawl between two rivaled Canucks and Flames, Torts seems to run into the wrong hallway with 23 other active NHL players and staff members.
2. Torts is Going to Disney.. Sorta
At 7:30, Torts is seen with the jovial gesture of love and joy as the Tampa Bay Lightning win their first Stanley Cup trophy in 12 mere years of existence. Torts is a winner and that is what everybody enjoys about him in the finale.
Brad Richards was the Conn Smythe recipient and took one home for the pride of Canada alongside countrymen Martin St. Louis and Vincent Lecavalier.
1. No. 1,500
Torts mentions the improvement of quickness and grinding. He talks about the preparation of prohibiting a minuscule information to the player. The mistakes and pitfalls are incumbent on players but what about Torts?
Torts sits at 1,500 but the rest of his legacy will settle on what wealth of knowledge or wisdom he will impart left. Torts is a future Hall of Famer, but not with Brooks.
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