Shawn Lalonde: "the whole team knew"
Brent Sopel: "every Blackhawks player knew"
Nick Boynton: "everybody on the team knew"
Don't ever let Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, Duncan Keith, Joel Quenneville off the hook.
People said Matthews only scored 41 goals in 52 games last year because he was in the Canadian North division, and then immediately ripped an even more insane pace. Give him the Hart.
The Penguins have signed defenseman Sebastian Aho to a two-year contract.
The contract runs through the 2025.26 campaign and carries an average annual value of $775,000.
Details:
From 2015-2017, the Carolina Hurricanes finished dead last in attendance. In 2023, the Hurricanes finished 2nd in attendance setting the franchise record for best attendance in a season.
Carolina is a hockey market.
Pyotr Kochetkov finishes tonight with a 44 save shutout, which is the 2nd most saves in a shutout in franchise history.
The record is Cam Ward, a 47 save shutout against Boston on 02/02/2012.
Jaccob Slavin has been on the ice for 213:57 during the playoffs at 5v5
He's been on the ice for 17 goals for
He's been on the ice for 4 goals against
1 goal against every 53 minutes.
While this is pretty funny, the bench saved Kochetkov from an automatic 10-game suspension. Thank goodness for the awareness from the boys on the bench.
Shoutout to Petr Mrazek. Never forget about the guy who bet on himself and signed a contract behind his agent's back with the Hurricanes because he wanted to take a chance on a team that would let him be the number one guy.
Much love to 34.
List of players the last 10 years with 10 pts in a 4 game span in the playoffs:
Jordan Martinook
Roope Hintz
Mitch Marner
Leon Draisaitl
Connor McDavid
Brad Marchand
Cale Makar
Brayden Point
Nikita Kucherov
Nathan MacKinnon
Max Pacioretty
Mark Stone
Sidney Crosby
Jake Guentzel
The Hurricanes outattempted the Islanders by 61 shots (83-22) at 5v5 tonight, which is the largest difference in ANY non-overtime game since the NHL started tracking in 2009-10.
The previous playoff record was 50 (73-23) by the Chicago Blackhawks in 2012 against the Coyotes.
There is not enough love for Spencer Martin winning his revenge game.
4-0-1, .922 save percentage, 1.97 G.AA in his 5 starts.
At 5v5, he's at a .941. It's an unbelievable run right now.
For Canes fans who are looking to sell tickets during the next series. Keep your ticket sales internal. Reach out to me and other Canes fans so we can share your tickets with other Canes fans. I'll retweet and tweets you send my way.
Matiss Kivlenieks last career game was a 38 save shutout win vs Team Canada in the 2021 IIHF World Championship as Latvia upset Canada 2-0 in his hometown of Riga.
Seth Jarvis is the 2nd player in franchise history to score a Game-Winning goal in 3 consecutive games.
The other player?
Sebastian Aho (02-26-2019 - 03-02-2019)
Through 14 home games, the Carolina Hurricanes are averaging 15,598 per night, an astounding 22.5% increase compared to this time last season. (12,729)
I feel like that needs repeated. Attendence is up 22.5% in Raleigh!
Jake Guentzel's 27 games played with Carolina (all strengths)
12 goals
22 assists
34 points (1.26 PPG)
Even Strength
32 goals on ice for
10 goals against (76.2 GF%)
63.6 xGF%
Seth Jarvis, Jake Guentzel, and Sebastian Aho have been on the ice for 134 minutes together in all scenarios, including the powerplay.
17 goals for
0 goals against
Since the NHL trade deadline, the Hurricanes are 3rd in the NHL with a 32.3% on the powerplay, and 1st in the NHL with a 92.9% on the PK.
The last 17 games, the Hurricanes PK is at 95.2% 😮
With the shutout tonight, Pyotr Kochetkov is now 11-4-5 on the season
Shutouts: 4 (3rd in NHL)
G.AA: 2.21 (3rd in NHL)
Save Percentage: .917 (9th in NHL)
Games Started: 19 (51st)
My favorite part of today's game was Aho being nitpicked as a cheapshot artist every time he touched the puck by Olczyk, but when they brought up Brendan Smith they commended his play in the boards "expect some elbows, cross-checks"
Today's broadcast was truly embarrassing.
You can't truly fathom how elite Alex Ovechkin's goal scoring is, until you realize among active players, Sidney Crosby is 2nd and Ovechkin has a 261 goal lead on Crosby.
In the last 41 games (half the season)
Sebastian Aho has:
52 points (11th in NHL)
+22 (6th in NHL)
32 Even Strength Points (10th in NHL)
21 Powerplay Points (5th in NHL)
Elite
List of Defenseman in NHL Playoff History to record a +11 or higher in a 4 game span:
Jaccob Slavin - 2023
Larry Murphy - 1997*
Brian Leetch - 1994*
Paul Coffey - 1985*
Charlie Huddy - 1985
Brad Park - 1983*
Larry Robinson - 1978*
Serge Savard - 1978*
* = Hall of Famer