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2021-22 NHL Season Recap - Best of the Season
Best Series - Colorado Avalanche vs. Edmonton Oilers It was a sweep, but there was a back-and-forth Game 1 and an overtime Game 4. It also showed what will come when you load up teams with next-generation superstars.
2021-22 NHL Season Recap - Stanley Cup champions and NHL awards
It started with a quote from Nathan MacKinnon after they lost to the Vegas Golden Knights in the second round.
2021-22 NHL Stanley Cup Finals Preview - Avalanche vs Lightning
The Avalanche have the +/- playoff stat on their side. The Avalanche occupy the second through seventh spots and have two others in the top fifteen.
2021-22 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Conference Finals Preview
The Carolina Hurricanes vs. New York Rangers Game 7 is why I never bet, even though I'm right more often than wrong.
2021-22 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Second Round Preview
What a first round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs! After some ugly lopsided games, we got five Game 7's, and all were close. That’s a first.
2021-22 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs First Round Preview
And so, we began our first normal NHL playoffs in three years. I got all the first-round matchups I wanted even though it wasn't looking good when the Predators were up 4-0 on the Coyotes.
NHL 2021-22 Recap Week 27 Predators make records, NHL scoring is up, big games Tuesday, zamboni news
Entering the final week of the NHL season, only three spots are left to be clinched. Only one seed in the East is set, the top seed clinched by the Florida Panthers.
NHL 2021-22 Recap Week 26 playoffs almost set, Price returns, Panthers Avalanche and Blues roll
With about six games remaining, the East has finally and predictably been clinched. Everyone's current seeding should stay the same. The only drama is who will get the top spot in the Metropolitan.
NHL 2021-22 Recap Week 25 Getzlaf retires, Matthews big week, playoffs unsettled, some-goalie-love
We have ten games remaining, and almost nothing is settled. The Washington Capitals are locked into the last eastern wild card, and the Colorado Avalanche are the western top seed.
NHL 2021-22 Recap Week 24 McDavid Draisaitl Matthews milestones, Tage Thompson consistent, Blues strategy backfires, Tyson Nash is an idiot
It's that time of the season when we hit milestones. Connor McDavid hit 100 points for the fifth time and 40 goals for the third time.
NHL 2021-22 Recap Week 23 Oilers fun week, Atlantic is best, J T Miller shines, Dadonov still a Golden Knight
The Edmonton Oilers played a string of gloriously entertaining games this week. First was the Colorado Avalanche that ended in overtime off a lost puck that Nathan MacKinnon buried for the win.
NHL 2021-22 Recap Week 22 Giroux Giordano Lindholm traded, Eichel injured again and more
We were all waiting to see where Claude Giroux of the Philadelphia Flyers would go. He was either going to the Colorado Avalanche or the Florida Panthers.