And now on to the final installment of our power-play defensemen league tour. Week one is here. Week two is here This week on Frozen Tool Forensics: Around The League in 31 Power-Plays: Part Three - The Final Chapter. As a reminder from last week: “A couple of quick process comments. For this series, we [...]
With the new coaching staff in place, Montreal went back to their old lines with Tomas Tatar on the top line and Tyler Toffoli on the third line. That is where those guys were when the team was having all its success earlier in the year so it makes sense to go back to it. [...]
In September of 2016 I was given my start in hockey writing by Dobber, and from my first Capped article to today, I feel like the team here has helped me grow a lot. Luckily, Logan Doyle (formerly penning the Geek of the Week) is taking over the Capped column from me and I know [...]
The big news from Wednesday is that the Montreal Canadiens have fired head coach Claude Julien and assistant coach Kirk Muller. This comes off the heels of a pair of losses to the Senators, both games where the Senators looked like the better team, honestly. As a Habs fan, I will say this: the team [...]
In a move that some Canadiens fans had been praying for for a while now, a 5-4 shootout loss to the basement dwelling Ottawa Senators was the last straw in Julien's tenure as he was fired Wednesday morning. Julien had a successful set of regular seasons with the team, compiling a 129-123-35 record in his [...]
If it seems like we’re in an age of amazingly talented young defensemen, it’s because we are. Rasmus Dahlin had the best teen season output for a rearguard in almost 40 years, which is also as long as it had been since the last time two defensemen (Cale Makar, Quinn Hughes) who were age 21 or younger [...]
We had a typical Tuesday night with six games on the docket plus some other news, so get comfy, grab your coffee, tea, or drink of choice, and let’s get rolling. * The NHL rescheduled 31 games to help fit the schedule in around the constantly shifting Covid landscape. You can find all of the details here, [...]
In this week’s Eastern Edge, we’ll see how the East’s most productive defensemen this year compare to those of recent years. This article was inspired by Grant’s piece on the top 15 multi-category defensemen in the West, so I recommend you check that out over here. The Process I looked at the highest scoring defenseman [...]
Welcome to another week of ‘Lining Up’. Over the past few days we learned once again that Auston Matthews and Connor McDavid are very good at their jobs, that Sidney Crosby now has even more silver, and most importantly, that somewhere in the mountains of Nevada lives a man named Dusty Gooch. Just to quickly [...]
The big news from Monday was that Artemi Panarin will be taking a leave of absence from the team following abuse allegations against an 18-year-old girl stemming from 2011. This is not the forum for discussing geo-politics or abuse allegations so I will say this: Abuse allegations are serious.Russia is notorious for smearing dissidents, which [...]
