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So what happens when a team with a 12 game winning streak faces off against a team with a 14 game winning streak?? Does the ice melt since BOTH teams are that hot?? This is the first time in NHL History that 2 teams have had concurrent 12+ game winning streaks and they are facing each other! Fitting that it takes place on December 31, to end one of the weirdest years I can ever remember.
So what happens when a team with a 12 game winning streak faces off against a team with a 14 game winning streak?? Does the ice melt since BOTH teams are that hot?? This is the first time in NHL History that 2 teams have had concurrent 12+ game winning streaks and they are facing each other! Fitting that it takes place on December 31, to end one of the weirdest years I can ever remember.
It'll be fun.
I guess they should've just contracted Columbus years ago, huh?
Just a pat on the back to my Habs for hanging in while hit with several serious injuries to key players.
Good news on the horizon though, for a couple of them. Galchenyuk and Shaw are close to returning.
Same for the Rangers. Buch is supposed to be back tomorrow, and Nash and Zabina...Zibnija...Whatever his name is are supposed to return soon. And they've done pretty well considering all of those guys were playing well when they went off.
So the Blues fire their head coach....with about 25 games remaining in the season! Oh, and the same guy was going to retire at the end of the season anyways. Why not just let Hitchcock finish the season and let him roll out into the sunset.
So the Blues fire their head coach....with about 25 games remaining in the season! Oh, and the same guy was going to retire at the end of the season anyways. Why not just let Hitchcock finish the season and let him roll out into the sunset.
I agree.
If they were gonna can Hitchcock, they should have moved on after last season, rather than publicly announce after last season offseason that he was coming back for one more year as a lame duck coach on a farewell tour. Or at the very least, not announce publicly that he was a lame duck.
I thought he made a lot of dumb decisions in the WCF last year, from his goalies, to the lack of usage of Tarasenko at certain times.
But bad goaltending gets coaches fired, and that's exactly why he was fired this year. Hutton is a replacement level goalie and Allen doesn't look like he's gonna be a very good starting goaltender in this league. Bad goaltending gets coaches fired all the time. It happened in Columbus when the Bob played like a street hockey goalie for the first month of last season and they fired the coach. Just using your eyes, it backs up the poor play on paper that you see from Jake Allen and Carter Hutton. They have given up bad goal after bad goal in so many games. I remember how poor Allen played against the Wild in the 2015 playoffs and even in game 6 against the Sharks in last year's Western Conference Finals. Which was a dumb decision by Hitchcock to bring him into that series after rolling with Elliott 3 rounds deep IMO.
I am looking for bad goaltending decisions to partly contribute to Dan Bylsma's separation from the Buffalo Sabres if they do not trend upward. Robin Lehner allows too many goals and does not make the saves the keep the Sabres in games. Linus Ullmark, ready for full-time status in the National Hockey League, is still with the American Hockey League affiliate Rochester Americans.
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