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It is game one of an all-Florida series in the Stanley Cup Playoffs as the Florida Panthers face the Tampa Bay Lightning. It’s time to continue our Stanley Cup Playoffs odds series with a Panthers-Lightning prediction and pick. The Florida Panthers finished the regular season at 47-31-4 on the year, which placed them in third […]

The Detroit Red Wings have missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the ninth consecutive season. While hiring Todd McLellan mid-season helped temporarily, they could not break the drought. At the NHL trade deadline, Red Wings general manager Steve Yzerman did not do much. When asked to recap the season on locker clean-up day, Red Wings […]

The New Jersey Devils look even the series as they face the Carolina Hurricanes. It’s time to continue our Stanley Cup Playoffs odds series with a Devils-Hurricanes Game 2 prediction and pick. In game one of the series, Jalen Chatfield got the scoring going. He scored just 2:24 into the game to give the Hurricanes […]

The Philadelphia Flyers missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the fifth consecutive season. They capped off their last-place finish by firing head coach John Tortorella with just nine games left in the season. General manager Daniel Briere has work to do this offseason, and trades should be in the plan. Who should the Flyers trade […]

The Vancouver Canucks have missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the fourth time in five years. After last year’s division title, they got off to a solid start to the year. But they scuffled through the rest of the season, winning only 24 of their final 57 games. The Canucks move toward an offseason that […]

The Ottawa Senators lost Game 1 of their 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs series on Sunday. Ottawa took on the Toronto Maple Leafs, hoping to get off to a good start. But their first playoff game since the 2017 Eastern Conference Finals ended in a 6-2 defeat in Toronto. The Maple Leafs got big-time performances from […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs won Game 1 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs on Sunday night. It’s a massive victory for them as they look to go on a deep playoff run. The Maple Leafs faced the Ottawa Senators in the Battle of Ontario. In Game 1, they came away with a massive 6-2 win […]

The Ottawa Senators lost to the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-2 in Game 1 of their Stanley Cup Playoffs series. After a seven-year postseason drought, Ottawa suffered a brutal defeat at the hands of their biggest rivals. The series is far from over, but the Sens put themselves in a deep hole on Sunday. Senators goalie […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs faced the Ottawa Senators on Sunday night in Game 1 of their first-round series in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Maple Leafs have had issues in the postseason in recent years. But those issues were not present on Sunday. Toronto claimed an emphatic 6-2 win on home ice at the Scotiabank […]

The Carolina Hurricanes faced the New Jersey Devils in Game 1 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs on Sunday afternoon. Carolina is hoping to make a deep run after coming up short in the second round last season. They got off on the right foot in Game 1. Jordan Staal and the Hurricanes picked up […]

The St. Louis Blues dropped Game 1 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs to the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday. St. Louis had a 3-2 lead with less than 10 minutes remaining in the third period. However, head coach Jim Montgomery watched as his team blew the lead. The Jets skated away with a 5-3 victory […]

The Edmonton Oilers made it all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals a year ago, but as they begin their first-round series against the Los Angeles Kings, it doesn’t look as if this year’s team can make it back to the championship round. The Oilers and the Kings are meeting in the first round […]

The Colorado Avalanche are off and running in their quest for the Stanley Cup after routing the Dallas Stars 5-1 in Game 1 of the first round on Saturday night. The Avs looked every bit like a contender for the Cup, but they still have plenty of work to do in order to get to […]

The Colorado Avalanche beat the Dallas Stars 5-2 on Saturday to take a 1-0 lead in their first-round series. This is Colorado’s eighth trip to the playoffs in Jared Bednar’s nine years as the head coach. With one Stanley Cup already, Bednar is entrenched in franchise history. But on Saturday, Jared Bednar became the winningest […]

The Dallas Stars came into the playoffs on a seven-game losing streak and searching for confidence, and they didn’t find much of it in Game 1 against the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday night. Despite a competitive game early on, the explosive Avs pulled away with a 5-1 victory in Game 1 in Dallas. Now, the […]

The Anaheim Ducks are out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the seventh consecutive season. Their rebuild has yielded them talented players, but not the cohesive unit they need to make the postseason. After their 80-point campaign, they fired head coach Greg Cronin. Ducks GM Pat Verbeek spoke about the coaching vacancy and playoff expectations […]

The New York Rangers have missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2021. After winning the Presidents’ Trophy last year, they had a miserable season in 2024-25. General manager Chris Drury made a plethora of moves during the season but none were enough to get over the hump. The Rangers have parted […]

The Colorado Avalanche and the Dallas Stars are going at it in a first-round series that could very easily be a conference finals matchup. The two division rivals both racked up over 100 points during the regular season, leaving hockey fans drooling over the heavyweight battle. Game 1 was close for most of the night, […]

The Toronto Maple Leafs enter these Stanley Cup Playoffs with a big cloud over their head as the team with arguably the most at stake in the postseason. The Leafs finished with the second-best record in the Eastern Conference this season and won the Atlantic Division, so expectations are sky-high as they look for that […]

The Minnesota Wild will travel to Las Vegas to take on the Golden Knights in Game 1 of the Western Conference First Round on Sunday night. Minnesota will look to get past the first round of the playoffs for the first time since 2015. The Wild will get a boost from one of their promising […]

The Colorado Avalanche will attempt to take a commanding 2-0 series lead against the Dallas Stars on Monday as they face off for Game 2 from the American Airlines Arena. It will be a thrilling affair in Dallas as we continue our Stanley Cup Playoffs odds series and make an Avalanche-Stars Game 2 prediction and […]

The St. Louis Blues controlled Game 1 against the Winnipeg Jets until they rallied for a third-period comeback. The Blues owned a 3-2 lead with over ten minutes remaining in the first period when Alex Iafallo scored the tying goal. Overtime was on the horizon until Kyle Connor scored the go-ahead goal with a little […]

The Winnipeg Jets could’ve easily panicked when they found themselves behind early against the St. Louis Blues. The Blues stayed ahead until the nine-minute mark in the third period, when Alex Iafallo evened the game at three. It looked like the game was destined for overtime until Kyle Connor put the Jets ahead for good […]

Kyle Connor hopes to be part of the solution for a Winnipeg Jets team that many label as chokers. It has been a couple of successful regular seasons for the Jets since relocating from Atlanta, but they can’t seem to get over the hump in the playoffs. This year, the Jets got a good start […]

The St. Louis Blues will meet the Winnipeg Jets for Game 2 of the First Round at the MTS Centre. It will be an exciting time in Winnipeg as we continue our NHL odds series and make a Blues-Jets Game 2 prediction and pick. The Jets defeated the Blues 5-3 to take Game 1 of […]

Gabriel Landeskog’s injury journey with the Colorado Avalanche since the 2022 Stanley Cup Finals is hard to believe. The captain was on top of the world when he lifted the trophy above his head at the end of that series, but he hasn’t been able to suit up since that fateful Game 6. Many believed […]

It was a special season for the Calgary Flames, and the Rasmus Andersson injury update from their year-end wrap-up shows how important it was for the players. Andersson was one of the team’s key players this season, and he revealed in the press conference that he left everything on the line. Andersson told the media […]

The Dallas Stars have been missing a key piece on their blueline since Miro Heiskanen suffered an injury. Heiskanen has been out of the lineup since January 28 when he went down against the Vegas Golden Knights. The knee surgery robbed him of the chance to represent Finland at the 4 Nations Face-Off and left […]

The New York Islanders were not among the NHL clubs that qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season, finishing with a record of 35-35-12 in what was head coach Patrick Roy’s first full year behind the bench. Despite having qualified in five of the last six years and for the last three consecutive seasons, […]

After 1,312 games, the 2024-25 NHL regular season has finally reached its conclusion. And served its primary purpose: cutting the 32-team field down to 16. After nearly seven months of hockey, it’s time for the greatest postseason in all of sports to begin. And what better way to kick off the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs […]

The Tampa Bay Lightning and the Florida Panthers will square off in round one against one another. Unfortunately though for the Lightning, head coach Jon Cooper said that Oliver Bjorkstrand will miss the entire series, according to Elliotte Friedman on X (formerly Twitter). He’s played in 79 games this season, and 18 with the Lightning. […]

The Colorado Avalanche are gearing up for their first-round playoff series against the Dallas Stars, and if they intend on coming out on top in this series, they will need all the help they can get. Gabriel Landeskog appears to be close to making his long-awaited return to the team, but ahead of this game, […]

The Edmonton Oilers look to make another run at the Cup as they face the Los Angeles Kings in Game 1 of the series. It’s time to continue our Stanley Cup Playoffs odds series with an Oilers-Kings Game 1 prediction and pick. The Oilers finished the regular season at 48-29-5, which placed them third in […]

Although Florida Panthers winger Aleksander Barkov was hit with a discouraging injury update, his mentality hasn’t wavered in the slightest. After the Panthers finished with a 47-31-4 record, they underperformed compared to last season. However, Barkov isn’t concerned about last season to this season. He’s relishing the opportunity to be in the postseason, according to […]

Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals begin their playoff run as they host the Montreal Canadiens. It’s time to continue our Stanley Cup Playoffs odds series with a Canadiens-Capitals Game 1 prediction and pick. The Canadiens went 40-31-11 this year, which placed them in fifth in the Atlantic Division. Still, they were able to hold […]

The New York Rangers fired head coach Peter Laviolette and associate head coach Phil Housley, according to Chris Johnston of The Athletic. The team endured a 39-36-7 record in the 2024-25 season. However, the Rangers reached the Eastern Conference Finals one season prior. With nearly the same roster, they regressed drastically and had some interesting […]

After the Anaheim Ducks missed out on the NHL playoffs, a change was inevitable. As a result, the team fired head coach Greg Cronin following a 35-37-10 season. With players like Trevor Zegras on the team, it didn’t feel right that they missed out on the playoffs yet again. In a statement posted by NHL.com, […]

The Boston Bruins massively played below expectations in 2024-25. Many expected Boston to make a push for the Stanley Cup Playoffs once again this season. Not only did the Bruins fail to make the postseason, but they were also one of the worst teams in the league. One player who certainly disappointed on the ice […]

Dylan Larkin and the Detroit Red Wings did not make the Stanley Cup Playoffs in 2025. Unfortunately, this is not an entirely surprising development. The Red Wings collapsed after the 4 Nations Faceoff tournament. They went 9-13-2 from February 27th onward. And the season ended with a thud against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Red […]