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Mike Laybourne recently wrote a piece about the struggles of the Colorado Avalanche. The facts of his article are impossible to deny. The Avalanche do currently sit at 5-7-0. Semyon Varlamov does currently have a 0.881 save percentage in 8 starts. Matt Duchene is the only player on the team with more than 3 goals. Andrew Ladd did score. Twice. So, is Mike right? Are the Avs a bust? No. They’re not. And I’ll continue to tell myself that until they’re eliminated from the playoffs in late March. The team is 29th overall in goals for per game and 24th overall in goals against per game.Read More →

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By now it’s probably journalistic cliche to say ‘if the season ended today’, but it’s still a fun exercise and I’m not a journalist. Besides, who hasn’t gone on to the Wildcard standings on NHL.com recently and thought ‘What if”? I’m looking at you, Edmonton fans. Of course the season has barely just begun, some teams have only played 11 games, but early season form can still give a good insight into what the rest of the season may bring. For example, it’s not exactly a devastating hot-take to say that the Arizona Coyotes aren’t going to make the playoffs. 82 games is as manyRead More →

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The Minnesota Wild are winning games. With the 4-0 win at home to struggling Dallas, the team moved to 6-2-1 and at time of writing, are top of the Central Division. We’ve already looked into some early successes in the NHL, but now it’s time to turn the Trust or Bust microscope toward St. Paul and decide whether or not the Wild’s recent success has any chance at longevity. The Wild aren’t renowned for traversing the upper-echelons of the NHL, the XCel Energy Center’s sparse trophy cabinet is testament to that. I’m not saying the Wild are a bad team, they’ve qualified for four ofRead More →

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The season is just days away, and we’ve reached part three of our series looking previewing each team’s schedules. Until Prudhoe Bay, Alaska gets an NHL team (sort it out Bettman), the farthest distance between two teams is the trip from the Vancouver Canucks to the Florida Panthers. A journey by air of 2,780 miles. Considering that the Canucks are one of the worst teams in the NHL, they could save a whole of rainforest by just sending the two points by email with the subject title ‘foregone conclusion’. Geographically speaking, the closest teams in the NHL, perhaps unsurprisingly are the New York Rangers andRead More →