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Title Player - Mike Richards
Shout out Noah Wilkerson from Minnesota!
News
Key injuries heading into 4 nations
Quinn Hughes
Sidney Crosby
Mikko Rantanen
Doughty to replace Pietrangelo
Pens terminate Puljujarvi contract
Ryan Suter plays 1500th game - only 3rd American - Matt Cullen and Chris Chelios
22 players all time have 1500 or more
Guess the 5th
4 nations preview
Schedule -
WED CAN vs SWE
THU US vs FIN
Sat - SWE vs FIN / CAN vs US
Mon - CAN vs FIN / US vs SWE
THURS FInal
Tie Breaks - using IIHF points system and we break down the tie breakers when teams tied at end of round robin
Connections
Last Week - Gerry Meehan, Jacob Middleton, Paul Maurice, Patric Hornquvist
This Week - no on got last week so it's a carryover
Crazy Stat
DOPeS - 10 games for Hartman https://www.nhl.com/news/wild-ryan-hartman-suspended-10-games-for-roughing
Appealing
History - https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/nhl/ryan-hartman-suspension-history-revisiting-5-instances-minnesota-wild-forward-s-multi-game-discipline
4th suspension since April 2023
Title Player Bruce Driver - played for Badger Bob Johnson - '66-'82 as Head Coach of Wisconsin Badgers
News
Leafs 4 Oilers 3 in game that went down to the wire.
JT Miller trade to Rangers
To the New York Rangers:
To the Vancouver Canucks:
The first-round pick is top-13 protected, meaning if it falls within the top 13 selections in 2025, it will transfer to 20262.
Other Trades
To Dallas
Mikael Granlund and Cody Ceci
To Sharks
2025 1st, 4th
To Flames
Joel Farabee, Morgan Frost
To Flyers
Andrei Kuzmenko, Jakob Pelletier 2025 2nd, 2028 7th
Golden Knights sign Brandon Saad $1.5MM
Salary Cap announcements -
2025-26 - 95.5 (up 7.5)
2026-27 - 104 (up 8.5)
2027-28 - 113.5 (up 9.5)
Will be interesting to watch contracts this summer - Marner, Rantanen, McDavid
Guess the 5th - a good one!
Tampa Bay season update from Paul
Rivalry with Panthers
Lightning are +34 Goal Diff (4th in league) but sitting in 2nd Wild Card
4 Nations - what are his thoughts?
Cooper playing favourites with Hagel and Cirelli?
Paul's Pet Peeves
Connections
Last Week What do the 1977, 1993, 1999, 2003 drafts have in common -
THis Week - Patrick Hornqvist, Gerry Meehan, Paul Maurice, Jake Middleton
Going Streakin'
NYI W7 WPG W6 DET W5
STL, NSH L4
Crazy Stat - Paul brings a beauty from soccer history
Title Player - Jason Allison - played with Troy Sweet in London/ Chris Longo Portland / / Barry Trotz - coach Portland Pirates - 3 goalies - Byron Dafoe, Rick Tabaracci, Olaf Kolzig / Todd Nelson, Trotz, Andrew Brunette,
News
Mikko Rantanen, Taylor Hall to Hurricanes for Martin Necas, Jack Drury, 2025 2nd, 2026 4th
Rantanen 6th in scoring when traded.
Contract up at end of season - $4.625MM- expecting Draisaitl type salary - $14MM
Comments from MacKinnon, Bednar
Makar due in 27-28 MacFarland must have decided he couldn't live with 3 guys over $12MM
Does this change how other GMs look at expiring contracts?
Marner?
4 nations players dropping out
Heiskenen
Pietrangelo - nursing injury but paying 24 min / game
Karlsson - "lower body injury"
Jacob Markstrom
Charlier McAvoy
Erik Haula
Per Wyshinski - no 1 game suspension for not attending unlike All Star game
Will we see more?
Captains - Crosby, Hedman, Matthews, Barkov
Brandon Saad waived by Blues and is free agent - Leafs and Oilers said to be interested
Klingberg to play first game as Oiler tonight.
Guess the 5th
Standings Update
East is tight!
We review the standings.
Connections
Last Week - Claude Julien, Alain Vigneault, Pat Burns, Benoit Groulx
This Week
Crazy Stat
DOPeS - McDavid 3 games / Myers 3 games
Lilleberg - 2 games - interference - head contact - https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/player-safety/lightning-emil-lilleberg-suspended-two-games-for-interference
Ridiculously lenient.
Title Player Don Marcotte
News
Ndeljkovic scores - 16th goalie to score, 11th to shoot it
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-goalie-goals-all-time-313758920
Took a hit to make the play!
Also had an assist - 1st time ever goal and assist
Scored 2 in AHL and 1 in ECHL - 1st ever
McDavid chicken wing - no fine or suspension - what do you think?
https://youtu.be/NX8P28Fjats?si=b8ALcjbaZgyl7BIX
Oilers sign Klingberg - $1.75 AAV - 32 yrs old - gets $1MM - $350k bonus plus salary - hasn't played since Nov 2023
Oilers beat Kings, Wild and Avalanche this week - were done 3-0 to Avs and came back.
Matthews continues to score despite Leafs struggles lately
Rumours that Marchand might be on the trade block
- last year of 8 yr contract - $6MM
- 36 yrs
- if Bruins fall out of playoffs will they move him?
Guess the 5th
Columbus Blue Jackets - where did they come from?
Last 10 - 8-10-0
6W in a row
Currently in 1st wildcard in East
Fancies
GF% 51% (11) xGF% 48.71% (25) SH% 10.03% (3) SV% (25)
Since Dec 1
GF% 51.55% (12) xGF 45% (28) SH% 9.8 (8) SV% 91.12 (17)
Since Dec 22 - have scored a PPG per game
Have been on a hot streak but nothing to indicate it's real -
Schedule has been pretty soft over this span
Connections -
Last Week - lubes, swing, flase, teardrops - anagrams of NHL team names
This Week - Claude Julien, Alain Vigneault, Pat Burns, Benoit Groulx
Crazy Stat -
DOPeS - Tsyplakov 3 games hit to head https://www.nhl.com/news/new-york-islanders-maxim-tsyplakov-suspended-3-games
Title Player Claude Larose
Junior in Peterborough 59-60 - Peterborough TPT Petes - Toronto Peterborough Transport was sponsor
Other team name origins -
Hamilton Fincups -
Brantford Alexanders -
Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds
News
Zach Hyman family buys Brantford Bulldogs - first step to Belleville Bulls returning?
Andleauer interview
https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/video/andlauer-says-belleville-is-here-to-stay-provides-update-on-lebr~3059615
Canadiens keep rolling - Habs GM Kent Hughes - does he listen to ScuttlePuck? Mid-season interview was asked about trade deadline and he basically said - we're a game above 500 - relax.
Matthews - 7 points in 3 games back from injury
Will he play in 4 Nations? 5 weeks away
Leafs 1st in division, 2nd in Conf, 5th in league
Marner 4th in NHL in points - are Leafs fans enjoying this?
OIlers playing well but can't gain on hot Knights and Kings -
Jets honour Hellebuyck with 300 wins - wore Hellebuyck sweaters, number 300. .
NCAA Sweaters - saw some BU highlights - NHL needs more 2 colour teams -
Streakin' -
Dallas 7W Red Wings 6W
Sharks L3
Guess the 5th
First Trade Bait Board is out on TSN.ca
Other names
Taylor Hall
Ryan O'Reilly
Any players Leafs should target?
Oilers potential
Giibson - 91.6% SV - would put him in top 10 in league. Skinner currently 25th.
O'Reilly
Evander Kane out with knee surgery - gaming the cap system. Can add $5.1MM in salary and have Kane for playoffs
CONNECTIONS:
LAST WEEK - Pavel Bure, Jay Bouwmeester, Trey Augustine, Niklas Sundstrum - all won 3 consecutive medals at WJC
THIS WEEK - Swing, false, teardrops, lubes
Crazy Stat -
DOPeS - Zach L'Heureux - 3 games for slew foot https://scoutingtherefs.com/2025/01/46746/preds-lheureux-suspended-three-games-for-slew-foot/
Title Player Andre Savard -
News
Caps game - Ovechkin now 23 away
USA wins gold in OT over Finland
Canada loses in 2nd straight year to Czechia - lots of controversy - left Michael Misa - 33 goals for Saginaw, Beckett Sennecke - 26 G, 59P in 33 GP OSH. Carter Yakemchuk Zayne Parekh - both over PPG as defencemen
Canadiens are hot - now in playoffs by points but behind Senators in PTS% 8-2-0 in last 10
Includes wins over FLA, TBL, VGK, COL
For real?
Since Dec 1 - GF% 51.31 xGF% 48.38 CF% 50.03
Before Dec 1 GF% 41.35 xGF% 45.82 CF% 46.47
Jakub Dobes - Czechia goalie played 2 nhl games - Shut out Florida, then 1G against Col
Crazy that they are in playoff spot with 51.3 PTS% (41 pts in 40 GP - 84PTS projected)
In 2023-24, Worst PTS% to make playoffs was 55.5 (91 pts) VGK was 2nd wildcard in West with 98 PTS (59.8%)
Guess the 5th
41 Game Mark Predictions review
CONNECTIONS:
Martin Biron, Sean Avery, Martin Brodeur, Rob Ray
Nora - all four have a rule named for them or had a rule changed because of them.
THIS WEEK
Pavel Bure, Jay Bouwmeester, Trey Augustine, Niklas Sundstrum
40 Game Who is For Real?
Based on xGF% - GF% (high positive number means probably going to improve, low negative number means probably going to fall off)
WPG -6.98
TOR -5.59
VGK -5.1
NAS +8.83
PIT +6.72
PHI +5.76
41 Games Stats Leaders
Goalies
Crazy Stat
DOPeS
Hamilton $2000 for embellishment - Friedge says lots of complaints about diving -https://www.nhl.com/video/hamilton-fined-for-embellishment-6366654206112
Norris back in Dec https://www.nhl.com/video/all-of-monday-s-goals-6366759964112
Bennett fined for roughing - NHL shows videos of embellishment fines, but not others
Title Player - Ryan Whitney - 481 GP
News
Dallas practice on boxing day - big no no. - $100,000 fine
Latvia beats Canada!
Spengler Cup - seems like fun
Derek Lalonde out in Detroit, MacLellan in - 4th coaching change
Crosby passes Lemieux for Assists with Penguins at 1034
Avalanche sign Blackwood for 5 years, $26.25MM
Kaprizov hurt -
Winter Classic - Chicago vs St. Louis -
St. Louis has been in 2 of last 4 - why?
16 Winter Classics, only 2 Canadian teams
Teams that have never played.
• San Jose Sharks
Guess the 5th
Going Streakin'
CHI 4L, NYR, SJS 3L - Rangers in 8th in Metro - 2-8-0 in last 10, 7 pts out of playoffs, with 5 teams ahead
VGK 6W, COL 4W, BUF 3W
NHL Stats for 2024 - see guide
27 3+ goal comeback wins
EDM 16 game winning streak
AZ move to Utah
Ovechkin - 25 goals to Gretzky - RS+PO - Gretzky 1016, Ovi 942 (-74)
82 game average goals - both at 49
Combined PO + Reg including WHA
Howe 1071G + 1518 =2589
Gretzky 1072G + 2297=3369
GP
Gretzky - 1695 + 93 = 1788
Howe - 1924 + 497 = 2421 (633 more)
Crosby - 600G, 1000A, 1600 PT, 1300 GP 19th PPG regular season - matching Gretzky record
McDavid 900 / 1000PT
Matthews - 69 G - highest since Lemieux in 95-96
McDavid and Kucherov - 4t, 5th players to get 100A in a season
Most KM Skated - McDavid - 605km (378mi)
Connections
John Gee, Nora and Paul Stewart, David Huyben all gave answers.
Ideas to Improve Hockey / NHL
Vary rink sizes - length from 210' - 190' - Boston Arena, before 1924 was 220 x 90 but in 1924 was 200 x 80 feet when Bruins moved in.
Width from 80-95 wide -
Boston garden was 191 x 84
Chicago Stadium was 185 x 85
Buffalo - 196 x 85
Player benches across, centred so no "long change"
1934-40 - Penalty shot circle - 20' Diameter 38' from goal line
1943 - Red Line added - to speed up game and reduce offside
Penalty shot for defensive zone stick infractions - hooking, tripping, slashing, cross check inside the house. Shoot from circle, puck live if a rebound. Players line up behind circles.
No crosschecks - none
Eliminate standing with puck behind net to reset - defensive team must move puck - can be side to side or backward, but can not stand still waiting for line changes
Presentation - more conversations with players when prepping - similar to F1 - not scripted - just have reporter walking around, talking to equipment managers, maybe get a quick chat with a player if they happen to be standing around.
Stats done by reg+po
Ask for listener ideas - and rationale
Crazy Stat
DOPeS
Title Player - Craig MacTavish
News
Injuries - Matthews - does this go back to rib injury from cross check last year
Hyman - scary shot to face
Mark Allred
Guess the 5th
Connections - Last Week - David Perron, Wendel Clark, Francois Beauchemin, Mark Recchii - all played on the same team 3 different times
This Week - Pat Lafontaine, Martin Biron, Mike Donnelly, Taylor Pyatt
World Junior Preview
In last 12 tournaments - Canada 5, US 4, Fin 3
B Pool
Sweden -
Czechia
Switzerland
Slovakia
Khazakstan
Crazy Stat - NFL
Dopes - Rempe 8 games - https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/player-safety/new-york-rangers-matt-rempe-suspended-8-games
Elbowing and Boarding
23 games since last suspension for elbowing
Heiskenen -
Title Player - Yvon Lambert -
News
Trades this week!
Cam Fowler a strong pickup for St. Louis - currently in 6th in division - Krug on LTIR, Ducks eat $2.5MM - Blues trying to save season
Colorado looking to solve their goaltending woes and Wedgewood clearly wasn't the solution. Have traded both goalies in past 2 weeks.
Have played 6 goalies this year. Currently last in league in sv% - .870 and still in playoff position
Trades last week.
Trouba - Rangers threatened to put him on waivers if he didn't accept a trade to Anaheim. He had a 15 team no trade list and presumably Anaheim was on the list -
Rangers struggling - 5-1 loss to LA last night - tied for 5th with NYI and PIT
Jiricek trade
Guess the 5th
Connections - Last Week - dustin Brown, John Tavares, Mike Modano, Joe Thornton
This week - David Perron, Wendel Clark, Francois Beauchemin, Mark Recchii
Ullmark - hot for Sens as they have rallied - .967SV% over past 5 games
EBUG last night - Zach Dietz was at the game to watch but had to go to his car to get his gear.
Video of him running with his gear to get to rink because traffic was so slow
https://theplayoffs.news/en/watch-ottawa-senators-emergency-backup-goalie-zach-dietz-sprints-to-the-arena-with-full-gear-after-anton-forsbergs-injury/
Laine back to play Winnipeg - first time against Hellebuyck though - made a joke about Hellebuyck having Patty Flu
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9aGUe-Lr2wI
Crazy Stat
Going Streaking -
Wins - Oilers at 5 / Caps at 4
Losses - CHI, MTL, BUF, FLA 2
OTL CBJ 2
Next Week
World Junior preview
Title player - Dale McCourt
Feedback -
News
Luke Richardson fired
Anders Sorensen in as interim
What were Hawks expecting? Friedman seems to think team no happy with Bedard's development
McDavid up to 7th in points.
Necas at 41, 1.58P/GP Maintaining the pace.
PWHL Season Starts
No Escape Rule - players on team taking penalty can't change at start of penalty
HOT / NOT
Atlantic - TOR, BOS 7-3-0 / BUF - 3-5-2 - Bruins 4W - new coach bump?
Metro - WAS 7-2-1 / NYR 4-6-0 CBJ L3 Penguins - 5W in last 6
Central - MIN 7-2-1 / CHI 2-7-1 - CHI L5
Pacific - VGK 7-2-1 / SEA 4-6-0 - LAK W5
Home / Away records
CGY 10-3-1 / 3-6-4
VAN 4-5-3 / 10-2-1
DAL 10-2-0 / 6-8-0
TOR 12-4-0 / 4-5-2
Guess the 5th
Connections
LAST WEEK Robert Carpenter, Thomas Harley, Josh Dume, JT Compher
Dustin Brown, John Tavares, Mike Modano, Joe Thornton
4 Nations Faceoff teams announced
No Scheiffele, Bedard, Hyman
Canada
Rest of the roster
USA
Rest of the roster
FINLAND
Rest of the roster
SWEDEN
Rest of the roster
Crazy Stat
DOPeS
Timo Meier - v1 Game for Crosscheck -
https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/player-safety/devils-timo-meier-suspended-1-game-for-cross-checking
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