Finally time for the Winnipeg Jets?; Let's hand out some NHL awards; Remember Wayne Gretzky as a Blue?

The Winnipeg Jets are in first place. The Jets have a legitimate shot at the Stanley Cup. They have the league’s best goalie, they have depth scoring. They can win a track meet if opponents want to play that way. They can grind out chances along the boards and in the corners if that’s what’s asked. For most of our sporting fan life, that’s what we know to mean what fans want, what teams must do to sell tickets (unless it’s MLB, where they don’t really care if they sell tickets). - Sam Fels Read More

The NHL has seen some greats that stick out for their time with one specific franchise. What if we told you that they didn’t only play for that one team? Remember when Bruins Legend Bobby Orr was a Blackhawk? Us either. Here is a list of players you might not remember making the rosters of other teams. - Cale Clinton Read More

Cat Scratch Fever has shifted up the calendar a couple months this time around. Last year, the Florida Panthers spent the first half of the season looking for a signal on their phone before closing the second half with a flourish to make the playoffs. That carried over into the postseason as they chased down the Boston Bruins, taking seven games in the first round to kneecap the league’s best regular-season teams (and one of the best regular-season teams ever). That propelled them to a run to the Final after they absolutely clobbered the Leafs and Canes. - Sam Fels Read More

After working up a third of a season award post just so my editor would have something to publish during the Holidays, it only seems right that we do an equally meaningless one with some teams having cracked 60 games played. No, 82 doesn’t divide evenly by three, and there really isn’t a distinctive two-thirds point of the NHL season. But there isn’t a quarter-mark or quarter-pole either (they’re different!) so we’re just going to roll amongst the ambiguity and declare who’s leading various award races with some 20-25 games to go. It’s how we roll. - Sam Fels Read More