#American Hockey League

When the puck is dropped at center ice at the TD Garden on Jan. 14 against the Toronto Maple Leafs, it will be the official start to the second half of the 2022-23 regular season for the Boston Bruins. As the top team in the NHL with a 32-5-4 record, first-year coach Jim Montgomery and his team have far exceeded preseason expectations. There have…

The midpoint of the season arrived Wednesday, and all week at NHL.com we have been running our Trophy Tracker series. Consider the Super 16 power rankings this week the Trophy Tracker edition, or at least the MVP addition. Who is the biggest reason for the Boston Bruins being the unanimous No. 1? Who has made the Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple…

The Montreal Canadiens have hit the halfway point of the 2022-23 season and while their overall record is better than last year at this time, it's clear the team is still suffering through rebuilding pains and the roster remains a work in progress with significant holes to fill. The arrival of 2023 means that the fun is about to begin for the front…

The New Jersey Devilsand Detroit Red Wings enjoyed some early season success but both teams have fallen on hard times recently. Read on for our best Devils vs. Red Wings pickbased on topodds. Inevitably, the New JerseyDevils have cooled off. After a stretch in which they won 21 of 24 games, theDevils have dropped nine of their past 11. New Jersey…

This in from the Edmonton Oilers, winger Evander Kane is expected to miss three to four months. With Kane (and his cap hit) going on Long Term Injured Reserve, The Oilers have recalled forwards Mattias Janmark and Klim Kostin from Bakersfield of the American Hockey League. 1. First off, the obvious; Kane's injury was an extremely scary moment in…

Just like that, Montreal Canadiens forward Michael Pezzetta went from hero to goat (in the derogatory sense). Scoring against the hosting Dallas Stars on Dec. 23, Pezzetta put the the Habs up 2-0 in the second period with a shot that had the Reseau des sports telecast comparing him to Cole Caufield. However, Pezzetta was also in the box for an…

The Columbus Blue Jackets were certainly excited by the prospect of a Columbus native defying the odds and playing in the NHL at 18 years old. While it was certainly a fun turn of events at the time to have Cole Sillinger play for the team during the 2021-22 season, in the long run, it may have been a terrible mistake. Sillinger was the Blue…

The 2023 World Junior Championship is set to take place on Dec. 26 and Winnipeg Jets fans have plenty of reasons to tune in this year. Rutger McGroarty and Chaz Lucius will play within Team USA's top six, and Brad Lambert will fill the role of a top-six center for Team Finland. This article will go over a few things to look for from these prospects…

And as reprehensible as Evander Kane's history happens to be, the Edmonton Oilers couldn't ignore his hockey. When the Oilers caught their charter for the first game of a three-game road trip Saturday night in Montreal, the NHL's serial offender with a rap sheet as long as their recent losing streaks, Kane, was expected to be on board. A new…

Filip Gustavsson will get a chance to push his career-long win streak to five games tonight when the Wild face Detroit at Xcel Energy Center. Gustavsson is coming off a 35-save shutout on Saturday at Vancouver. That was the first shutout of the 24-year-old goaltender's NHL career. Over his last seven starts, Gustavsson is 5-1-1 with a 1.95…

Welcome to VSiN's NHL Bets page. Your source for comprehensive and dynamic hockey betting analysis. Read on for odds, predictions and best bets for December 13. Follow me on to stay up to date. Tuesday's Bets: There are currently no best bets. I'm tracking all my plays on Betstamp: a third party bet tracking app. The bets reveal themselves after…

Welcome to VSiN's NHL Bets page. Your source for comprehensive and dynamic hockey betting analysis. Read on for odds, predictions and best bets for December 7. Follow me on to stay up to date. Recap: Tuesday's loss was a frustrating one. The first best bet was on a home underdog (Winnipeg Jets) that didn't close all that strong. It won, rather…

All signs point to Tyler Benson making his NHL season debut on Wednesday (Nov. 30) when the Edmonton Oilers take on the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center. According to reports, he is expected to draw into the lineup in place of forward Klim Kostin, who is facing visa issues that prevented the Russian from traveling with the Oilers to Chicago…

It didn't take long for the hot streak that brought Trey Fix-Wolansky back to the Blue Jackets to burn out. The rookie's scorching "heater" for the Cleveland Monsters in the American Hockey League hasn't made the NHL jump with him, but that doesn't mean patience won't pay off for Fix-Wolansky and the injury-riddled Blue Jackets, who still had eight…

The Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL) is the premier league for ice hockey in the UK and Ireland. As a predominantly indoor sport, ice hockey may not be on everyone's radar. But with the official top-level league offering high-speed, high-intensity games all season long and some of the best athletes in the world performing almost nightly, it's a…

ELMONT, N.Y. - The Blue Jackets were short seven regulars, including their top defense pairing, and five of them began the season in the American Hockey League. That's important to note after the Jackets stood toe-to-toe with the New York Islanders in a 4-3 overtime loss Saturday night at UBS Arena, where the patchwork Columbus group nearly pulled…

The Ottawa Senators are currently 4-8-0, have lost six straight games, and are on the verge of losing their season before it even gets started. On Wednesday, Nov. 9, they placed Nikita Zaitsev on waivers. He has two years remaining on his contract, which is valued at $4.5 million per season. The 31-year-old has played seven games this season and…

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Since returning from Prague in the Czech Republic, the Nashville Predators have struggled to win games and, in some games, have even struggled to look competitive. They dropped their first contest back in the United States at home against the Dallas Stars 4-1. Then, they lost again to the Stars, this time in Texas, 5-1. Then, they lost in a…

Perhaps the unsung hero of Nick Blankenburg's story is Liz Badder. Shortly after the Blue Jackets defenseman completed his high school career, he was still without an avenue to keep playing high-level hockey. An undersized forward who nonetheless filled up the net for a state championship team at Romeo High School outside of Detroit, Blankenburg…

Prediction: The kind of hideous franchise melt down we are now witnessing in Calgary - and have also experienced in Edmonton in the past - will not hammer this edition of the Oilers. I say this even as veteran hockey writer Stan Fischler predicts McDavid will not stick around in Edmonton. "If Johnny Hockey can leave the sweet city of Calgary and…

The NHL season officially started last week, with twogames in Europe, but the North American schedule starts Tuesday. Here are five futures bets to make before the NHL season really gets underway. Finding long-term value in the futures market starts with finding potential upside. Grabbing favorites at short odds might be the right play insome…

Thank goodness we don't stake money on our annual over/under predictions with the Golden Knights. Anyone who took an over last season would have gone broke. The signs of a Knights' season gone wrong can be found revisiting last year's exercise. The preseason co-Stanley Cup favorites went under our point total (106.5) and under our division finish…

The Montreal Canadiens are in an enviable position, with priority selecting players off waivers until Nov. 1. However, to benefit, they have to use it just right, targeting players at specific positions, players with specific profiles to boot. To do otherwise would be to arguably squander the advantage altogether. As teams finalize their rosters to…

A new direction and replenished farm system make the San Jose Sharks one of the more curious teams heading into the 2022-23 season. With so many question marks from top to bottom, just about any prediction would be a bold one for Team Teal. While there's plenty of reason for optimism, there's even more room for skepticism. Instead of dipping our…

GRAVENHURST - Morgan Rielly wouldn't mind speeding up the clock. His Maple Leafs teammates might agree. A lengthy, intense practice at the Centennial Centre on Thursday afternoon brought an end to the Leafs' trip to Muskoka, and if only the start of the regular season was next up. But there's a pair of pre-season games against the Detroit Red Wings…

The Red Wings' minor league affiliate, The Grand Rapids Griffins, will be a contender for the Calder Cup. The American Hockey League is some of the world's most exciting and underrated hockey. The Griffins have been solid but not spectacular since last winning the Calder Cup in 2017. This year's Griffins will be one of the most skilled teams…

Heading into this year's training camp, the Calgary Flames had two forwards attending on professional tryout offers (PTOs) in Sonny Milano and Cody Eakin. The latter accepted the team's offer on Sept. 11, while the former did so roughly a week later. At the time, there was optimism amongst the fanbase that at least one, if not both, may be able to…

Speedy winger Kevin Rooney might be the best fit to complete the Flames' third line Throughout training camp, Calgary Flames head coach Darryl Sutter has repeatedly discussed his team's need for another forward to step into a top-nine role. Jonathan Huberdeau, Elias Lindholm, Andrew Mangiapane, Nazem Kadri, and Tyler Toffoli are pretty much locked…

Let's talk about Cole Schwindt. "Who?" you might ask. On July 22, Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving traded star winger Matthew Tkachuk to the Florida Panthers. Tkachuk had told the Flames that he was not interested in signing an extension, and fellow star Johnny Gaudreau had already departed for the Columbus Blue Jackets in free agency.…

Most betting sites have the Toronto Maple Leafs as the most favoured Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup in 2022-23 and the second or third most likely in the NHL (from'NHL Stanley Cup Odds: 2022-23 Winner Futures Betting', The Philadelphia Inquirer, 7/21/22). Considering what the Edmonton Oilers accomplished last season, making it to the Western…

This season the Boston Bruins have had no clue how to deal with the Carolina Hurricanes offensively or defensively. The two teams met three times in the regular-season and the Hurricanes won all three games. The'Canes outscored Boston 16-1. Now, they've met twice in these playoffs in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the Hurricanes won twice, outscoring…

In the 2022 offseason, the NHL witnessed a flurry of goaltending moves, with the Central Division seeing a lot of the action. In all, seven of the eight teams in the division made a move to bring in either a new starter or a new backup into the crease. For this series, we are going to focus on each team's projected NHL goalie tandems, forecasting…

With training camp just weeks away, the Montreal Canadiens have many unanswered questions regarding players and their lineup. These questions range from who will make the team out of camp, and who will be on the team by Christmas to who will have success, and who will flounder. Here is a look at the five most pressing questions going into the start…

The youth movement is in full swing in Buffalo, and general manager Kevyn Adams has a lot of future talent to sort through in order to build his team over the next few years. Names like Owen Power and Jack Quinn already have shown the value of a first-round pick, and players like Mattias Samuelsson and Jacob Bryson have shown how rewarding it is to…

Alex DeBrincat wasn't supposed to make it in the NHL. At 5-foot-7, 165 pounds, the Chicago Blackhawks forward was said to be too small to compete. And when he played for Erie of the Ontario Hockey League, many credited his production to his linemates, a group that included forwards Connor McDavid and Dylan Strome. Yet here he is, not only thriving…

NHL forward Evander Kane and the San Jose Sharks reached a settlement Friday on the grievance he filed over the termination of his contract last season. The Sharks announced the agreement that they said was approved by the NHL and the Players' Association, saying they were'satisfied that its terms will not adversely impact the team, either…

Last Thursday (Sept. 8), Justin Bailey signed a one-year American Hockey League (AHL) contract with the Bakersfield Condors, just one day after reportedly signing a professional tryout contract (PTO) with the Edmonton Oilers. The 27-year-old right wing, who has spent the last few years in the Vancouver Canucks organization, will look to showcase…

You know those recent articles I wrote about how I thought the Colorado Avalanche would promote from within to get a new No. 2 center to replace Nazem Kadri and were done on the free agent market? Yeah, scatch those. Evan Rodrigues is your new No. 2 center (most likely anyway) of the Colorado Avalanche. Rodrigues, who put up 19 goals and 43 points…

The Carolina Hurricanes are reaching the climax of their trajectory. A young, talented team on the rise for half a decade now, it's just about getting to be "put up or shut up" time. With a massive list of free-agents-to-be coming up the next three offseasons, the team could realistically look a whole lot different in just a few short years. It's…

Alex Nedeljkovic is a pretty laid back guy. But like anyone who becomes a professional athlete, he is fiercely competitive. If you talk to him about his dog, Zeke, a smile spreads across his face, almost as if the black lab is a reminder of the joys in life, no matter how tough things are away from home. But if you ask him about last season, his…