#Blackhawks, other tanking NHL teams will pay long-term price

#Blackhawks, other tanking NHL teams will pay long-term price

“Blackhawks, other tanking NHL teams will pay long-term price” The eyesore organization in Chicago now becomes the first major market revenue-producer in pro sports to shamelessly embrace tanking. It may be a while before the NHL’s favored nation franchise gets back into the Winter Classic. Trading 24 year-old Alex DeBrincat off his second 41-goal season…

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#Devils need Buck Showalter-esque figure to restore success

#Devils need Buck Showalter-esque figure to restore success

“Devils need Buck Showalter-esque figure to restore success” The Devils need their Buck Showalter. They need an individual with gravitas and a track record of success to restore seriousness and sense of purpose to a New Jersey organization that has fallen into a black hole while devolving into North America’s least relevant major league franchise. …

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#Why Marquee NHL trade deadline deals becoming rarer

#Why Marquee NHL trade deadline deals becoming rarer

“Why Marquee NHL trade deadline deals becoming rarer” Here is the question: If the Islanders had been able to knock off the Lightning under the Edmonton bubble in the 2020 Stanley Cup semis, would just about everyone in the league have spent the last two trade deadlines looking to acquire third-liners?  And would Blake Coleman…

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#Rangers can take lesson from Adam Pelech’s Islanders deal

#Rangers can take lesson from Adam Pelech’s Islanders deal

“#Rangers can take lesson from Adam Pelech’s Islanders deal” Perhaps lost in the analysis of why Adam Pelech would sign an eight-year deal with an average annual value of $5.875 million with the Islanders while just two years away from unrestricted free agency in an offseason in which inferior, albeit more productive, defensemen, such as…

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#NHL keeps looking the other way on dangerous play

#NHL keeps looking the other way on dangerous play

“#NHL keeps looking the other way on dangerous play” So NHL referees are kind of done with policing the game, that’s pretty much it, amirite? The Capitals’ Tom Wilson, flashing that lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card with which he has been endowed by the laughably named Department of Player Safety, rammed Brandon Carlo’s head into the glass…

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