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How Every NHL Team Can Overachieve in the 2025-26 Season

September 22, 2025 / 2 Comments

The NHL season is around the corner, and it’s a time of the year when every fanbase (or at least most of them) is optimistic. Any team can overachieve.

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1 Big Trade Every NHL Team Can Make This Season

September 18, 2025 / 1 Comment

It’s always fun to play fantasy general manager (GM) and speculate about the possible trades that can happen in the season.

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Therien’s Take: Gaudreau Tragedy Shows the Best and Worst

August 30, 2025

One year later — and forever — the tragic losses of the Gaudreau brothers show humanity and its very worst but also its very best.

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Buy or Sell Forecast: Borderline Playoff Teams

August 29, 2025 / 1 Comment

There are perhaps 15 teams in the NHL who could be considered borderline playoff clubs. They all have question marks and weaknesses.Which ones will make the playoffs?

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Fink’s NHL Rebuild Rankings: Blue Jackets (1st)

August 22, 2025 / 7 Comments

In the course of one year, the Blue Jackets’ perspective went from gloomy to hopeful. Moreover, the long-term future seems bright for the franchise.

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The Norris: Is It A 3-Player Race Again?

August 6, 2025

Last season, the Norris Trophy race was a close one, and the final voting reflected it. For the first time

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Which of the 8 Longest Playoffs Droughts Will End This Season?

August 4, 2025 / 2 Comments

Will one or more of these eight teams finally end their dry spells and earn a spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs?

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Metro Team Most Likely To Win The East: By The Odds

July 22, 2025 / 4 Comments

The last time a team from the Metro Division won the Stanley Cup title or the Eastern Conference was in 2018. Odds makers aren’t too bullish this year, either.

NHL Offseason: One Thing to Like From All 32 Teams

July 16, 2025

The NHL Offseason is in the dog days. Now is a good time to look back and see how each team has did so far this summer.

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15 Teams Have The Cap Space to Sign Ehlers, Which 5 Make Sense?

July 3, 2025

The Nikolaj Ehlers contract will most likely be in the $7 million average annual value (AAV) range.