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Welcome to our game day content presented by NHL betting site Betway! It is difficult to produce regularly in the NHL. The elite players do it year after year, but they are a small group. Most teams have four or five, maybe six, consistent goal-scoring and point-producing forwards year to year. But there are players who can get hot for a few…

After losing back to back games for the first time this season the Edmonton Oilers look to stop the bleeding. Every team loses games and every team loses consecutive games. The key to having a successful season is to keep the losing streaks short. So far the Oilers have been good at not losing large groups of games. The Minnesota Wild are in town…

Getting a little skin in the game can make watching NHL hockey even more exciting. During the 2021-22 season, Daily Faceoff will help you become an improved bettor thanks to this betting model and our betting tools. Each day we will look at each game, the, and the odds of each team winning based on the model created by Philip Bulsink. Based on…

And it begins. The Pittsburgh Penguins' attempt to reclaim the Stanley Cup begins with Game 1 of the 82-game 2022-23 NHL season. Many COVID restrictions have eased, and for the first time since 2019, the season should be uninterrupted and as close to "normal" as the world will allow. The Penguins host the Arizona Coyotes Thursday at PPG Paints…

In the third and final piece of my Central Division Rankings series, it's time to focus on the forwards. The Central Division is top-heavy on talent and features a few key players who could be on their way out by the time the 2023 trade deadline approaches. Please keep in mind that these rankings are based on each team's projected forward lines for…

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…

Every off-season it seems we in Oil Country micro-analyze each new signing and prospect in the system, and every training camp we obsess about players on the fringes of the roster and whether they might clear waivers when the time comes; and oh yeah, what about that salary cap? So what say we declare a vacation on (most of) that for a day, take a…

The Arizona Coyotes are in the first weekend of their preseason schedule. Before it started, Bill Armstrong was asked to explain his expectations for the 2022-23 season. It's a tricky question for the general manager of a team that's admittedly entering just the second season of a major rebuild. With that in mind, what would success even look like…

Scoring goals wasn't an issue for the Edmonton Oilers as a team last season. They tied Tampa Bay for 7th most goals in the NHL last averaging 3.48 goals/game. When Jay Woodcroft and Dave Manson arrived, the Oilers' offence improved to 3.82 goals/game, which was 5th best in the league for those 38 games. However, I'm not sure it was just the coaches…

After winning just 25 games in 2021-22, it is hard to imagine things could get much worse for the Arizona Coyotes. Yet entering the 2022-23 season, this team could again be contenders for the top spot in the draft, and they will play in an entirely new, smaller rink. Record: 25-50-7 (57 Points) Goal Leader: Clayton Keller 28 Goals Point Leader:…