Author Archive: SlayerScott

Toronto Maple Leafs coach Mike Babcock was fired last week – just after I posted so I didn’t get a chance to address it. I’m pretty glad I missed that deadline because that story seems to have exploded into a…
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The NHL’s Hall of Fame just inducted Hayley Wickenheiser, Guy Carbonneau, Sergei Zubov, Vaclav Nedomansky, Jim Rutherford and Jerry York. Congratulations to all of this year’s deserving entrants. I enjoyed this year’s inductees so much more than last year when…
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Some very interesting heroes and villains in this week’s NHL. The Boston Bruins should generally be considered a villain, so their continued dominance over the Eastern Conference can be called a victory of evil over good. The duo of Connor…
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So the New York Islanders have rattled off 7 wins in a row. Is anyone out there an Islanders fan that can tell me why? I like Mat Barzal, and I know they have a great unheralded D-corps. That’s not…
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Whooops! This’ll be the “a day late and a buck short” edition of the Roundup, I wrote it yesterday and forgot to post it. Still, last night saw a very light NHL schedule including a very irrelevant tilt between bottom…
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The Oilers are 5-0-1, Leon Draisatl and Connor McDavid are tied for the league lead in goals and “The Real Deal” James Neal leads the league in goals. Did you predict that before the season started? No, you didn’t you…
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Teams that are unsurprisingly undefeated – Boston Bruins Teams that are somewhat surprisingly undefeated – Carolina Hurricanes, Colorado Avalanche Teams that are bizarrely undefeated – Anaheim Ducks, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers Teams that are undefeated because they’ve only played…
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This section is dedicated to my Dear Father! Who casually asked me a simple but tough question over lunch the other day (Hi Dad!). Who would you take with third pick? Nikita Kucherov and Connor McDavid are the consensus 1…
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It’s that magical time of the year! And by that I mean dark magic, blood magic, evil magic, the kinda magic that is in the voiceover at the beginning of a horror movie. The time of year when your team…
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