#Jaromir Jagr

The NHL just wrapped up the 2023 Winter Classic and is now looking ahead towards the 2023 NHL All-Star game in South Florida. That means we are officially in the second half of the season, and we are getting ever so close to the 2023 NHL Draft. The consensus number 1 overall pick to go in this year's draft is Connor Bedard and he has already made…

Welcome to NHL 99, The Athletic's countdown of the best 100 players in modern NHL history. We're ranking 100 players but calling it 99 because we all know who's No. 1 - it's the 99 spots behind No. 99 we have to figure out. Every Monday through Saturday until February we'll unveil new members of the list. Brett Hull was just 21 years old and coming…

Or, well, he will be. Soon enough - possibly Monday night when the Detroit Red Wings visit the Washington Capitals - Alex Ovechkin will score for the 801st and 802nd time and pass Gordie Howe for No. 2 on the NHL's all-time goals list. Ovechkin already moved Mr. Hockey down one big list earlier this season; his second-period goal Nov. 5 against the…

The season series between the Minnesota Wild and Edmonton Oilers concludes Monday night when these teams face off for the third time in 12 days. The Wild won the first contest at home 5-3, with the Oilers bouncing back with a 5-2 home win of their own. Minnesota is tied for third in the Central Division with defending Stanley Cup champs while the…

Despite so much of the attention being on Connor McDavid and Edmonton's top line, Kirill Kaprizov has 17 goals on the season and isn't far removed from a seven-game goal streak. Expect him to light the lamp once more in front of his home crowd. The season series between the Minnesota Wild and Edmonton Oilers concludes Monday night when these teams…

Pittsburgh Penguins great Jaromir Jagr thanked Jason Zucker for his homage salute and dropped a little chirp, too. Despite the Zucker salute, the Penguins are mired in a six-game winless streak. Dave Molinari offered some praise for Jake Guentzel's maturity. The Washington Capitals and Montreal Canadiens could be partners on the NHL trade market.…

An intense inter-conference duel is scheduled for this evening as the Washington Capitals make a long trek to the pacific northwest to take on the Seattle Kraken. Join us for our NHL odds series where our Capitals-Kraken prediction will be made. Coming into this matchup with a 10-11-3 record, the Capitals are fresh off of an impressive 5-1 win over…

It bothers Pat Verbeek that the Ducks are losing a lot. This was a player whose "Little Ball of Hate" nickname was created out of his legendary competitiveness. But as a first-time general manager overseeing a rebuild - and, perhaps bigger, a huge transition into a new era - Verbeek is also pragmatic about the painful process that the franchise…

After a couple days off the Washington Capitals are back in action as they look to put a down January behind them and have a much better month of February. Tonight they'll take on the Pittsburgh Penguins on the road with the season series split at 1-1-0 with each team winning on Washington's home ice. The Capitals held an optional morning skate…

The Calgary Flames lost their third straight game on home ice and both the fans and the head coach are concerned. Meanwhile, the Montreal Canadiens are shuffling things around but will be forced to make a deal of some sort soon. Could the Flames pounce on something there? NHL legend Jaromir Jagr offered an entertaining response to the salute. That,…

The Montreal Canadiens have turned up the heat on trade talks, most notably with the Washington Capitals. The Canadiens putting Evgenii Dadonov on IR is just buying them time. Jaromir Jagr offered an entertaining response to "salute". That, more Montreal Canadiens, NHL news, and NHL trade rumours in the latest MHN Canadiens Daily: Montreal…

Hockey fans learned to "believe in miracles" 42 years ago when the U.S. men's hockey team upended the Big Red Machine and iced the USSR in the 1980 Olympics at Lake Placid, New York. The 4-3 USA victory has justifiably reached mythic status. The all-amateur American team had been assembled just a few months prior. The Soviets were a full-time unit,…

The NHL is back for the 2022-23 season and you're not likely to watch a hockey broadcast this year without seeing or hearing some mention of betting odds or an online sportsbook. As veteran bettors know, wins and losses don't only occur in the standings. Fantasy hockey has been popular for years and the player prop bet market has seen an increasing…

Would you like to see me eat cat food on a live stream? Well, I guess it could happen. Earlier today on our new daily live show, Oilersnation Everday, I said that the Boston Bruins would miss the playoffs this year. One comments quickly pointed out that some projections have the Bruins winning the division. I promptly replied that if the Bruins win…

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…

Saturday is that rarest of days in Pittsburgh: A time when baseball can legitimately be celebrated, as opposed to convincing ourselves that it's OK to rarely make contact with the ball as long as it travels over 110 mph when you do, even if it's caught. Not only is it OK, but we are "witnessing things never before seen," as a fanboy blogger…