Hello, today I will talk about my spring hockey this year.

Spring hockey is an extra small season during the spring when kids’ regular season hockey is over. Most of the teams is either in Winnipeg or  Brandon for Manitoba. There is two organizations that make spring hockey in Winnipeg. MJI (Manitoba Junior Ice) and PHD (Proffesional Hockey Developement). MJI has more teams but I play on PHD. PHD’s teams are the PHD Elite, PHD silver, and PHD black. I am on the silver which is the second best team. We played the black and won 6-5 while missing some players and they were also missing some players, however if we both had all our players I think we still would have won because I think our team is better.

In spring hockey the main way of playing is by tournaments. We played 3 tournaments this year. The first one was the Spring Shootout, which we lost in the bronze game to the MJI Chill. Then we had a Regina Tournament that we played in the Gold division for some reason instead of the silver so we were playing against 6 foot beasts who I can barely believe are 2009’s. We got clobbered. Our only game we scored a goal was in the last one where we lost 13-5. Throughout that tournament I had a lot of close chances of scoring or getting assists but I was barely missing the back of the net. In the first tournament I did not play great but in the last game I got a goal and an assist. I also levelled some kids through those tournaments, since this year hitting started.

The final tournament was the North American Hockey Classic Super Elite tournament. I missed our first game for the band concert but the won 4-1. Our goalie faced 45 shots and let in only one goal. For the next game I came back and played a good game but I had no goals but I had some good chances and levelled someone. In the second game I hit a couple kids and also scored a  goal. We got a power play and our center, Jimmy, won the puck back to our defense, Cole. He shot it low and I tipped it with my stick the opposite direction of where it was going. The goalie got a piece of it but left a rebound for an easy tap in. The third game started at 8:00 so I had to get up at 6:30. Luckily where I was staying was close to the arena. Some kids had to get up at around 4 or 5 because they were out of the city. In that game I cranked someone and had two goals. One of them was basically the exact same play as the goal in the game before, but my second goal was different. Our center won the faceoff forward and battled the puck through past both the defense. He couldn’t get to the puck in time so I grabbed it and had a breakaway. I sniped it middle left. With two goals and a big hit I got the Game Star. Then, the next day in the gold medal game, I had so many chances where I almost scored but couldn’t get it in. At first I was on the penalty kill and the puck was getting tossed around in their zone. They made a mistake and the puck went free at about the top of the left circle. I was circling back from the lower circle and picked up the puck. First I had to skate around one defenseman protecting the puck. Then when I got free I saw the opportunity and backhand toe dragged around the other defense. Then I had a free shot on net. I saw the mid-low left side of the net open so I went for it but I hit the post and it bounced out the other side. Then, on another PK, I hopped on the ice right when the puck was coming to my area. I picked it up and skated in a little bit. Then I shot from above the circles. It was a muffin but looked like it was heading top cheese. Then, unfortunately, it dinged off the crossbar. We still won the game and celebrated with our gold medal and banner. It was a great way to finish off the spring season.

Here is a link to the North American Hockey Classic Super Elite website.                           

                                   

 

Ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, let me introduce you to our future Stanley Cup Finalists.

First up we have the Colorado Avalanche who are led by MacKinnon, Rantanen and Makar. They are a powerhouse in the regular season but have had trouble the last few years in the yoffs. However, this year they have had a new fire with their new goalie Darcy Kuemper. Can they finally win another cup?

Next we have the BACK TO BACK DEFENDING CHAMPS who have terrorized their opponents in the playoffs with a mix of offensive firepower of Kucherov, Point, and Stamkos, and defensive lockdown, with Hedman, Sergachev, McDonaugh, and their depth liners on the offense. When they can’t get enough offense to win the game, their goalie denies every chance. Andrei Vasilevskiy recently had a 49 save shutout and could possibly backstop them to  another cup.

For offense, this series is pretty close, but I think Tampa Bay slightly takes the hand in this one. They have more players who bring the offense every game. Kucherov, Stamkos, Point, Cirelli, and Hedman on the back can slightly outdo MacKinnon, Rantanen, Landeskog, Makar, and Kadri. And if Tampa Bay’s big 5 don’t score, secondary players like Perry and Killorn can step up. Colorado’s secondary players are not as good.

For defenseman, the Avs are winning by a small margin. If Girard was playing it would be wider, but without Girard Makar and Toews have to carry. Erik Johnson can support but not at a high level. Still though, those are better than Hedman, Sergachev, and McDonaugh. Plus, Makar provides excellent offense. However, if you take into account the last defender (a.k.a. the goalie) then Tampa Bay wins this by a landslide (or should I say, an avalanche). Kuemper is  a very good goalie, don’t get me wrong, but Andrei Vasilevskiy is insanely dominant, especially in the playoffs. He is the greatest goalie on the planet and the way he is playing he is at the rate of a top 8 goalie of all time. He literally single handedly got the Lightning the dub in game 4 with a 49 save shutout. So all in all, the Lightning could win the cup if they play their best game. If the Avs play one bad game they are done, and I think the Lightning are good enough experienced they could recover from any series deficit if they really have to. I have the Lightning in 6.

Here is a link to the NHL website and here is a link to a video of a replay of Vasilevskiy’s best saves of his 49 save shutout.                                                                                                                        

 

If you read my earlier blogs, you will know I made Playoff predictions. However, many of my predictions for the playoff series got messed up because different teams played eachother and I realized I had different predictions. It would be too late to redo the first rounds so I am just going to do the conference finals and then the Stanley Cup final. Lots of people think the Toronto Maple Leafs will finally win the cup, however, that’s what they said last year and you know what happened last year, so I disagree. Also, the Florida Panthers won the President’s trophy, which has proven to be a curse, so I am going to have different predictions than many other people who think the President’s trophy curse will be ended. Today I am going to predict the Conference Finals in each side, Western Eastern.

First up is Edmonton vs. Colorado.

I think Edmonton will be able to battle their way through the first two rounds, barely getting through a rough Alberta series vs. Calgary. Colorado, on the other hand, will have an easy first round glide and then a pretty simple second round vs. the Wild, going to 5 or 6 games. Nathan MacKinnon is a beast in the playoffs and I think he can clean up vs the weak depth Oilers. On offense, the starting lineup is pretty close, with Kane, McDavid, and Draisaitl comparing to Landeskog, MacKinnon, and Rantanen. However, for depth, Colorado is deeper than the Pacific ocean, and Edmonton is as deep as a kiddie pool. Defense, Nurse and Barrie are way less than Makar and Girard and Toews. For goalies, Kuemper could backstop the Avalanche to the finals without all this help. Mike Smith is inconsistent and we never know when he will perform or not. This series should be another easy one for the Avs, and I think they can put it away in 5 games.

In the East we will have the Rangers vs the Lightning.

Igor Shesterkin will carry the Rangers this far basically by himself. The Rangers are a great offensive team but they give up way to many chances. The Lightning will easily capitalize with their depth and the series will not have any problems with Kreider, Panarin, or Zibanejad. And Vasilevskiy can turn into a beast come playoff time and could play insanely good. Point, Kucherov, and Stamkos will be too much for the lack of Rangers defense. This series will send the Lightning to the finals for the third straight year.

Thanks for reading! Next time we are going to cover the finals, with the Avalanche vs. the Lightning. Here is a link to NHL’s website and here is two links to cool and another cool blog.

Here is a video to Connor McDavid rapping when he was 7 years old!                                                                                                             

 

How’s it going everyone. This week is my second part of my NHL playoff predictions. For today I will show the Atlantic division some love. Comment down below what you think will happen in these playoffs.

Florida Panthers vs. Boston Bruins

This one is an absolute no brainer. Florida is in the top three teams of the league. Boston is still in ninth place but nowhere near Florida. Florida has wicked offense, great defensive play, and two goalies who can both play starter. Boston has decent offense but their offense is aging, and their defense is not as good as Florida’s. Swayman and Ullmark are pretty good but with less good defense in front of them, they are not as good. So far the season series is tied 1-1, but Boston’s win came from overtime and Florida’s came from 3 periods. Boston could have a chance if they get a top 4 defense or a two way forward at the trade deadline but overall I think Boston is just too old and they won’t have the same fight in them, especially because many of them have already won a cup. Florida has players who are still hungry for a playoff win, nevermind a Stanley Cup. Bobrovsky also knows how to play like a wall, like how he did against Tampa Bay in the Blue Jackets sweep a few years back. I think a 6 game series will have Boston taken care of.

 

Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Toronto Maple Leafs

I’m calling it right now, Tampa Bay is winning in Game seven. That is all that needs to be said. Don’t even argue me. Toronto has lost to a last place team in their division (Montreal Canadiens) and a first place (Washington Capitals) and second place (Boston Bruins) in the last 6 years. They have never won a single playoff series since 2004. Literally I have not lived to see the Maple Leafs win a playoff series. Besides the obvious that Tampa Bay is better anyway, I have a 99.99% prediction that the Leafs will lose to the Tampa Bay Lightning. There is nothing to analyze besides the Leafs playoff history here. I am predicting the Leafs will come so close but of course lose in Game 7.

Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Florida Panthers

This is going to be either the second best or best playoff series in terms of how closely matched the teams are. Florida has solid offense, with high scoring players mixed with two way defensive-minded guys, and decent defenseman, as well as an amazing goalie who has experiences winning playoff series. Tampa bay has solid offense, with high scoring players mixed with two way defensive-minded guys, and decent defenseman, as well as an amazing goalie who has experiences winning playoff series as well. It could really go either way. I think even though Florida will have a better regular season and Tampa Bay has lost a bit of their depth, Tampa Bay is a different kind of beast in the playoffs. Tampa Bay’s core still knows how to take down the best teams in the world, and Florida hasn’t got there yet because they don’t have as much playoff experience. Andrei Vasilevski is quite a bit better than Bobrovsky, and Kucherov, Point, and Stamkos are better than Huberdeau, Barkov, and Sam Reinhart. However, the late addition of Claude Giroux to the Panthers is definitely going to help out the Panthers. I think this series will go to a game seven, and Tampa Bay will unfortunately lose their first playoff series since 2019. These teams are so evenly matched, but Tampa Bay will be too tired to continue this on and with back to back game seven series, I think they will look really good at the start of the series but the tiredness will get to them. It will be a Game seven that Tampa Bay will underperform because I think they will be really tired.

Thanks for reading my Playoff predictions. Drop a comment  with what you agree with and what you think will happen. Here is a link to a cool video of hockey experts making their predictions, and here is the link to the NHL website. Also, checkout these two cool blogs.

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If these matchups get changed and there is different teams playing eachother, I still have Florida and Tampa Bay winning.

What is up guys. Today I am going to make my predictions for this years NHL playoffs. This blog post will be about the Metropolitan division. I will go through each of my predicted playoff matchups and who will win the first two rounds of the playoffs.

Starting off with Carolina vs. Washington.

Last year I thought the Washington Capitals were going all the way and winning the cup for the second time in the last couple years. I was wrong as they lost in the first round. I am not going to make that mistake again. There is a chance for an upset but the Capitals roster is aging and they are missing big parts of their cup win back in 2018. They have less good goalies, for one, and their offense has lost its firepower, besides Alex Ovechkin, who just gets better and better. Ovechkin is a candidate for the Hart trophy this year, because he has so many goals and points. Carolina is just so much deeper though, with Sebastian Aho and Andrei Svechnikov scoring and when those two don’t perform Teuvo Teravainen, Seth Jarvis, and their defense can step up. Kotkaniemi could also step up, although he has been relatively quiet this year. Carolina has amazing goaltending, with Frederik Anderson coming back from some below average years in Toronto to one of the best in the league. Their defense is also very good, with Jaccob Slavin leading the way and Ethan Bear, as an addition before the season started, playing good hockey. The Hurricanes are dominating this year and I expect them to continue in the playoffs. Washington did win the only regular season game between the two so far 4-0, but Carolina has to lose some games and when playoff time comes, they have been to the conference final before and they know what it takes to make it past the first round. I am predicting a 6 game series Carolina victory.

The next matchup is Pittsburgh vs. the New York Rangers.

This is a close matchup. Starting at forwards, the Penguins have Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin who will do anything to win. However, they don’t have any other top players besides Jake Guentzel. Kasperi Kapanen and Jeff Carter add depth but not very good skill. If Evan Rodrigues is on his game, he can deliver at a point per game, but he has seemed to have fizzled out since that time when he was hot. New York has Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad, and Chris Kreider as amazing top players who are delivering every night. Then youngsters Kaapo Kakko and Alexis Lafreniere can deliver sometimes as well. Ryan Strome and Barclay Goodrow add depth, and Goodrow knows what it takes to win a cup, as he did it twice with the Lightning. Then if you go to defense, Pittsburgh really only has Kris Letang, and the rest of their lineup in their top 6 is players who should be bottom 2 or scratch defense. New York is not that much better, but Adam Fox, reigning Norris champion, leads the way, with K’Andre Miller and Jacob Trouba following suit. Then the goalies come in. New York is the clear winner in this category, with Igor Shesterkin currently posting the second best single season save percentage in history, only Jacques Plante beating him. Backup Georgiev is decent for a backup. On the Penguins side, Tristan Jarry can deliver when he needs to but is nowhere near the calibre of Igor Shesterkin. Then they have Casey DeSmith who is not bad for a backup but he is incosistent and not trustworthy in the playoffs in my opinion. In the regular season so far, these two teams have played once and Pittsburgh won but it was off of Malkin’s goal, Sidney Crosby’s assist, in a 1-0 game. If New York shuts down those two key players from Pittsburgh, they can easily get out of the first round without a problem. I am predicting a 5 game series New York victory.

With these two teams moving on, it will be New York vs. Carolina for the Conference Final appearance. This one will be an interesting battle, as  it is possible either team could win. The last time they played Carolina won 6-3. That is how the whole series will go, in terms of goals. Both of these teams are high scoring and either of them could win. I think whoever gets 2 wins first will win. The New York Rangers will use their firepower though to win the whole thing. Barclay Goodrow knows what he needs to do to get the team pumped up and ready for a big win. Igor Shesterkin plays amazing when he needs to, and is the most reliable goalie in the entire league. Aho and Svechnikov could try to get a few past him, but the Rangers are going to be able to outscore their problems. Panarin, Fox, Zibanejad, and Kreider will all be able to outscore the Canes. I am thinking it will be a hard fought series, but the defense will not play a big part in it. Neither team’s defense is really that much better than the other, so it comes down to offense and goalies. Anderson is amazing, but Shesterkin is the best, and as I just said, the Rangers offense is better. So I am predicting a Game 7 Rangers victory.

That is the end of my blog, thanks for reading. Here is a link to a cool blog, and also a link to this other awesome blog. Here is the NHL website.                                                                                                         

Also, if these matchups don’t happen and the teams play someone else, I still have Carolina and New York winning.

Hello, today I will continue my series that I started last year on how to fix NHL teams. Today it is the dead last Montreal Canadiens.

1. Offense problems

Almost the whole offense core needs to be redone. Hoffman, Caufield, Dvorak, Suzuki, Drouin, Gallagher and Anderson can stay. They could keep some of their others too, but all these guys are mostly 2-3 liners. Suzuki, Caufield, and Anderson they need to build their whole team around. If those three get good chemistry with someone they would score so many goals and get so many points. So fill up the rest of your lineup with players worthy of the top spots. Its as simple as that. If Danault and Kotkaniemi stayed it would’ve been a lot easier because their center depth would be amazing, which is important, but now they need to trade for players who are worthy of the first line.

2. Solving that problem

Right now Caufield is not good enough to be a first liner, so they could go find a one or two year right winger. Their only problem is they have no cap space. And the reason that is is because of non-playing Shea Weber and decent goalie Carey Price (He only turns back to what he was in the playoffs.) They want to keep Price for sure, but maybe they could sneakily lower his cap. Carey Price is not even playing right now either. He will be 38 on a 10.5 M dollar contract when it runs out. He is 34 right now. What they could do is trade him to the Buffalo Sabres or Anaheim Ducks for future considerations (The considerations being they instantly trade him back on a 50% retained salary) and then Montreal gives the Sabres or Ducks Artturi Lehkonen or another low-cap young player in return as a thank you for giving them cap relief. Bang, 7.55M in leftovers when you count in Lehkonen. Then go after a high profile right winger who is an upcoming UFA and under 7M. Someone like David Perron, a great right winger who is a UFA after this year, and has only a 4 million dollar cap hit. With the extra 3.5, go after another forward, preferably another right winger since they lost Artturi Lehkonen. You could even go for someone over 3.5 and get a retained salary. Boom, you have two great right wingers who can put up points and win you games.

3. Defense/Goalie problems

The Montreal Canadiens don’t really have big problems here. Obviously Price is out right now but Jake Allen has been a starter before and put up great numbers so if they get a solid defense core Jake Allen could do it again. Their defense is pretty good, they would need a better first line left defense though. That is Shea Weber. Unfortunately for them he is injured. I think they might need to just do the forward moves and get whatever type of defense they can with whatever extra prospects they have, but they could not afford a good left defense. I think if they would stick with the moves in section 2 they might just be fine.

Here is a link to a place that does lots of these how to fix blogs.

Here is a link to the NHL website.

Comment if you have anything you would do instead. By the way, the how to fix blog place inspired this post so you should definitely check it out.

 

Hello everyone, today I am going to decide who is better between McDavid and Draisaitl. Last time McDavid got in the lead by winning the categories of Skating and Stickhandling. Draisaitl’s only win is in his shot so far.

First up today is the category physicality.

McDavid and Draisaitl both are more offensive minded players. Draisaitl is a sniper and McDavid is a playmaker. I think Draisaitl wins this one, because even though McDavid has double the amount of hits, a lot of the time McDavid doesn’t fight for the puck unless it is right by him. Draisaitl will stick check people and pin guys or get in a board battle a lot more than McDavid. Obviously Draisaitl is able to do this because of his size, but if McDavid utilized his speed he could also be physical. I think Draisaitl also needs to be more physical though, because McDavid has so much speed he doesn’t fight people to keep the puck, he just blows right by them, whereas Draisaitl fights people away. Regardless, Draisaitl wins this one.

Next is Defense.

I think Draisaitl is actually the winner in this too. McDavid doesn’t play much in the defensive zone without the puck. Draisaitl will cover the people he is supposed to, but McDavid does not always do that. When McDavid’s own team has the puck he will work to get open, but when the other team has it, he just circles around them and doesn’t work in the corner’s or along the boards that much. Draisaitl will do his job though, so he wins this one as well.

The final category is Hockey IQ

McDavid wins this one by a lot. He is always looking for the open ice he can skate to or for the open players he can pass to. Or he is getting open so he can get the pass. Draisaitl is also doing that but he does not do it as good as McDavid. Draisaitl is better at just plowing through and finding guys open that way, but McDavid creates space and because he has better hockey IQ he doesn’t need to plow through as much.

After all the categories are ranked, it is tied 3-3. However, McDavid is better because the ones he lost he would have to slightly tweak his game to dominate in those categories, and Draisaitl would have to do years of work to get as good as McDavid in the ones he lost. So because of McDavid’s potential for all the categories, he comes out on top.

Here is a link to the NHL website. 

 

 

 

Hello, today I will blog about who is better, Leon Draisaitl or Connor McDavid (This season only, I’m not taking into account other seasons)

I will be judging off of 6 different things, Shots, stickhandling, skating, physicality, defense, and Hockey IQ.

First up is shots.

Leon Draisaitl has the advantage here. This is Draisaitl’s best area in my opinion. Sometimes McDavid shows off his nice wrister with a quick one but Draisaitl knows how to use his stick and he can score from any angle. He is great at getting open so he can get a pass and once he gets ready to shoot, he scores a lot of the time. McDavid’s goals might make you think he is a good shooter, but McDavid likes to flick it top shelf in the close quarters. Draisaitl wins this one by a lot.

Stickhandling:

Both McDavid and Draisaitl are good stickhandlers, but it isn’t if you can do the moves, it’s who can pull them off faster and while doing it faster. McDavid has the edge here. Draisaitl’s tendency is to shoot the puck and McDavid is better at pulling off quick movements to leave the opposition flatfooted. McDavid even does it all at such a high speed. In my opinion, McDavid is the best stickhandler in the NHL because he does what Patrick Kane does but at a higher speed. So McDavid takes the cake in this one.

Skating:

The final category of today is skating. Obviously McDavid wins this one. Skating is his bread and butter. He is the fastest skater in the NHL and also has great edge and crossovers that get him around the defense. If  McDavid didn’t have his skating ability, he would not be even near as good a player because he couldn’t get in close as easy. Draisaitl is an okay skater but he relies more on just getting to an open place anywhere in the zone and shooting it rather than skating in, although he can do it too. So for this category, McDavid wins in a landslide.

So far it is 2-1 for McDavid with three categories left. Come back soon to see who wins!

Here’s a link to the NHL website.

Here is also a link to an interesting video that goes more in-depth on this.

Hey everybody, I am going blog about my fantasy team in my fantasy league.

The people in my league are Ernest, Jayden, My dad, my uncle, and my papa. We only had three people in it before it started but then we got another three last minute. The sad part about our draft was that most people auto drafted their picks so there wasn’t as much strategy inlcuded. This is how the draft lottery went:

1. Me
2. Jayden
3. My Uncle
4. Ernest
5. My Papa
6. My dad

Then the order switched for the second round and then back again for the third round all the way through the 22 rounds of the draft. All in all, it took about 2 hours to complete. I obviously took McDavid with my first pick, and Jayden took Drai with his pick. My uncle got the auto pick, which was Auston Matthews, and then Ernest got Kucherov. My papa got Ovechkin and my dad got John Carlson to finish out the first round.

My team has a chance of being good. I have two superstars and amazing goalies, but the rest of my team is players I’m betting on. The draft is just for bragging rights, so I guess I’m not actually betting on them, but I still want to win. My superstars are Connor McDavid and David Pastrnak, and my goalies are Connor Helleybuck and Darcy Kuemper. For projected totals, my goalies are the best by ten points, over Jayden’s pair of Vasi and Grubauer. I think Grubauer has a lot of potential to be good because Seattle has solid defense, but their offense sucks and a great offense is a good defense. Still though, his goalies and my goalies are pretty even.

Last year I won, but there was only four people and only two people (including me) edited their lines. This year, there is more people and so more players are included in the league. I think if I take advantage of some players hot and cold streaks and make some good trades I could come out on top, but it will for sure be harder to win this year. Luckily, I have McDavid so that is already a solid start. I hope I can get at least three players who get 180+ fantasy points this year, because that would mean I have 3 superstars. I could’ve taken Alex Debrincat instead of David Pastrnak, since Debrincat’s projected points was higher, but I figured Debrincat is on Chicago and Pastrnak is on Boston, plus Toews is back so Debrincat will lose some ice time. That is sort of an example of what you have to think about when drafting, dropping, and adding players. I think I might have got a steal in Tarasenko in the last round of the draft. Tarasenko isn’t projected to be good, but I think he has a high ceiling and he might get traded, which might help him out. I also took Jack Hughes, because even though he doesn’t have a projected fantasy points over 100, I am predicting him to have a breakout for two reasons; He already got better last year and he has great potential, and this is his contract year, so he could make a wicked amount of money if he is determined to play super good this year.

That is how my ESPN Fantasy league is going. Here is a link to the ESPN Fantasy website, and here is a link to Ernest and Jayden’s blog, who are both in my fantasy league.

 

Hi, today I am going to blog about how to fix the Winnipeg Jets and get them to win the Stanley Cup.

First of all, they NEED a new coach, Paul Maurice isn’t a bad coach but he is missing a key part of coaching. He never gives the players motivation. Sure, the players like it more if he always has their back, but the greatest coach ever, Scotty Bowman, had no feelings towards his players and he taught them that if you want to play in the NHL you have to play both sides of the ice and be really good at it too. Maurice is a great coach for developing players because he knows when to put them in the lineup and he isn’t too hard on them, but that is what the Jets were, not what they are. He needs to call his players out and teach them to play hard or else. So the best thing for the Jets is to fire Paul Maurice to a coach who can motivate his players. Someone like John Tortorella. I know that sounds like a bad idea but Torts knows how to push the right buttons  to motivate his players. The 2004 Stanley Cup that the Lightning won was  definitely part of Torts because he pushed his players to play at their top level.

Another thing they have to do is add a right handed defenseman. They have a really good lineup of lefties and young players  who play left defense, like Morrisey, Stanley, Heinola, Benn, Forbort, and Bealieu. However, on the right side they are much less deep. The only player who should play in the NHL is Pionk. This year, if they let go of Jordie Benn and Matthieu Perrault that would open up 6.125 Million and they could also resign Paul Stastny this year to a lower contract, around 3 million, and that would open up another 3.5 million, which would give them 9.625 million to sign a good right hander this free agency like Dougie Hamilton or Tyson Barrie. They could probably even sign one of them to a 5 million contract and then they could keep Perrault and just lower Stastny’s contract, but I think that that would give them a lower chance of getting one of them.

That would probably help them enough to make a deep run if not win the cup next year, but another thing they could do to try to get their team better would be to switch their lines for better chemistry on offence. They have good chemistry normally but sometimes they split up the lines and ruin the chemistry.  This is how I think their forward lines should look like.

LW               C                  RW

Connor      Schiefele     Wheeler

Ehlers        Dubois          Lewis

Perrault          Stastny         Copp

Vesalainen      Lowry           Toninato

Thank you for reading. Here is a link to Jaydens blog  and here is a link to Ernests blog and here is a link to the NHL website.