#Erik Gudbranson

One of the biggest surprises this season has been the Seattle Kraken. Seattle looked like an expansion team in its debut season, but there is no hotter team in the league right now. Seattle just blanked the NHL-leading Boston Bruins to improve to 7-0-0 in January. As a result, multiple Kraken players make the latest "Who's Hot" list. Former…

They say sports are unpredictable. Unfortunately for Canucks fans, there tend to be a lot more surprises that make you say "YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME" as opposed to "F***ING RIGHTS, YES!" At this point, watching this team flounder isn't a huge surprise...until you remember that there were realistic playoff odds entering the season. Most outlets had…

Columbus Blue Jackets at Tampa Bay Lightning: GAME#39 Time: 7:00 pm Eastern Time Location: Amalie Arena Broadcast/Streaming: BSSUNX, BSOH, ESPN+, HULU Opponent SBNation Site: The Cannon DraftKings Odds: Lightning -1.5 O/U 6 "We're not turning the page on this one." Those were Coach Cooper's words after practice on Monday. It's a different message…

SUNRISE - The Florida Panthers find themselves in dire straights heading into the 30th game of the season. Just six months removed from ending what was a historically dominant 2021-22 season, the Panthers are nearing bottom-10 territory. And this is coming after Florida sent its 2023 first-round pick to the Montreal Canadiens to acquire Ben Chiarot…

Buffalo Sabres (11-13-1) at Columbus Blue Jackets (8-14-2) TV: TNT Radio: WGR 550 SB Nation Blue Jackets Blog: The Cannon Columbus Blue Jackets Record: 8-14-2 Last Game: 4-1 loss vs Pittsburgh Penguins Division Ranking: 8th in Metropolitan Division PP: 14.3% (32nd) PK: 77.9% (18th) 1. Die By The Penalty Kill We're really going to keep banging this…

Columbus Blue Jackets vs Winnipeg Jets 12/2/2022 Picks Predictions Previews The Columbus Blue Jackets will go against the Winnipeg Jets NHL action in Canada Life Centre, MB, CAN, Friday, December 2, 2022, at 8:00 PM ET. The offense of the Blue Jackets is having a terrible season; they are only averaging 2.86 goals per game, and their attack only…

Vegas Golden Knights vs Columbus Blue Jackets 11/28/2022 Picks Predictions Previews The Vegas Golden Knights will go against the Columbus Blue Jackets in NHL action in Nationwide Arena, OH, on Monday, November 28, 2022, at 7:00 PM ET. Due to their 3.48 goal per game offense, the Golden Knights are having a fantastic season. The top two lines, Jack…

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…

All but six of the NHL's 32 teams are in action today, leaving bettors with plenty of options to consider. The pregame narrative: The Boston Bruins and New York Islanders both hold value on the puck line against struggling opponents. Meanwhile, Nick Suzuki should be able to find the net early and often against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Odds as of…

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…

There's no way to sugarcoat it. The Blue Jackets are 3-7-0 after a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start to this NHL season and there's a chance it gets even worse with back-to-back games Friday and Saturday against the Colorado Avalanche in Tampere, Finland. The Avalanche are also sputtering at 4-4-1, but can blame their Stanley Cup hangover…

The Calgary Flames are legitimate contenders for the Stanley Cup this season. Even so, their odds of winning are long, and to improve their chances, they should add another offensive, puck-moving defenceman. That will not be an easy task for general manager Brad Treliving, but it should be at the top of his to-do list between now and the NHL trade…

The St. Louis Blues will begin their season with a relatively favorable schedule in the month of October. They'll play multiple divisional opponents and a couple of teams expected to compete for the best odds in the 2023 Draft lottery. Either way, this schedule is not all that difficult and should allow for the Blues to get off to a good start. As…

With the NHL season arriving, now is the time for fans and bettors to really start perusing the futures markets. There's no shortage of markets for fans to wager on, from picking your team to win the Stanley Cup to betting on various of player awards. We searched the futures bets available at NorthStar Bets high and low to pick out some of our…

The start of the 2022-23 NHL regular season is just around the corner so it is time to take a look at the Metropolitan Division as a whole and see what sort of competition the Pittsburgh Penguins will be looking at this season. This is Part 1 of our divisional preview and looks at teams we see finishing in the fifth through eighth place spots. What…

Should Jim Benning get a contract extension from the Vancouver Canucks? As the general manager enters his fifth year behind the wheel in Vancouver, it's a question many are asking. So many, in fact, that on Thursday the B.C. Lottery Corporation went so far as to invite fans to wager on Benning's future with the Canucks, before quickly scrubbing the…

And they said the NHL is one of the best leagues for parity? Not according to the NHL betting odds. The 2023 Stanley Cup outrights favor the defending Stanley Cup champions, the Colorado Avalanche, to win it all by the summer of 2023. Colorado sits at+400, which is more than double the Tampa Bay Lightning (+900). But can Colorado repeat even with…

The Blue Jackets are officially back to work. After medical evaluations Wednesday, they stepped onto the ice Thursday at Nationwide Arena for the start of their first training camp of the Johnny Gaudreau era. Excitement for this season skyrocketed in July, following Gaudreau's stunning decision to pick Columbus, and the Blue Jackets' re-signing of…

Our feature grading the positional depth of each NHL team continues this week, with a focus on the blueline. If you missed our prior talent tiers, they are referenced below - please check them out. Our approach to grading defencemen will be similar, but not identical to the way we evaluated forwards. We overweight top-four defenders - for most…