ScuttlePuck NHL Hockey Podcast
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Episode Matt Stajan (413): Team of the Week: New York Islanders
Banter
Title Player
Matt Stajan
Feedback - Howard Hargrave
News
Jets struggling - Bowness pissed during press conference after losing 4-0 to Flyers
Matt Berlin - Emergency Back up for Edmonton gets 2 and a half minutes of playing time vs Chicago.
Gary Bettman on tanking:
“Nobody tanks because we have a weighted lottery,"
"You’re not going to lose games to increase your odds by a couple of percentage points. That’s silly. And frankly, suggesting tanking, I believe, is inconsistent with the professionalism that our players and our coaches have. Nobody tanks."
Friedman - NHLPA expected to announce new Exec Director - maybe as early as All Star Weekend
Mike Gillis one of candidates
Bally’s declaring bankruptcy - significant revenue shortfall - how will it affect the cap?
Leafs
Matthews - on LTIR due to knee sprain
Does it matter if Lightning catch them?
Bye Week Feb 2-9
Oilers
8 game points streak going into All Star
McDavid at 92 points in 50 games - 150 pt pace
Draisaitl nursing an injury?
Lots of trade speculation - Friedman says Bjugstad is possible
Oilers start Bye Week - Off until Feb 7
Binnington getting into scrum with Avs - Georgiev did the skate to centre ice
Does the NHL have a Pride night problem?
Rangers advertised they would wear pride-themed warm ups and then didn’t.
Flyers / Provorov
Guess the 5th
I have a pop quiz for you after Guess the 5th
Team of the Week
New York Islanders
25-22-5 55Pts
6th in Division
2 points out of Wildcard spot (Penguins have 3 games in hand)
CF% 49 (23) SF% 49.72 (18) GF% 54.1% (8)
SH% 8.55 (13) SV% 92.89 (5)
What the hell?
All Situations SH% 9.3 (23) SV% .914 (6)
PP% 15.54 (31) PK% 83 (4)
Sorokin is #1 but both goalies have been great
Summary - 5 v 5 play overall not great but good results
PP terrible
Not likely to make playoffs if results come back to actual play
Crazy Stat -
Hot / Not
Metro NJD 8-1-1 / CBJ 3-6-1 (now last in league)
Atlantic TBL 8-2-0 / MTL 4-5-1
Central COL 7-3-0 / ARI 3-6-1
Pacific EDM 7-1-2 / VGK 2-6-2 - things are tight in Pacific
DOPeS
Valimaki fine for slash on Max Jones - meh
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