While the average amount of time coaches wait to pull the goalie is dropping, many teams are still much more conservative than they should be. “It’s easy to pick round numbers like one minute,” Macdonald said about teams’ temptation to wait until an easy checkpoint. The optics of pul...
Look No Goalie (Silver): Pull your goalie and score a goal against the CPU or an online opponent in a ranked match. Don't Let Up (Silver): Score four unanswered goals against the CPU or an online opponent in a ranked match. Pressure Play (Silver): Keep the pass completion % for...
“We’ve been real consistent in how we’ve had to play,” Tortorella said. “The biggest thing we’ve really tried to concentrate on was be connected in all three zones, and that has really helped us grind away here.” Goalie Samuel Ersson also deserves some credit for being pressed in...
1 in the Super 16 for the fifth straight week. The Boston Bruins have two goalies they feel can be their No. 1, and hey, look at that, they're No. 2 this week. The Winnipeg Jets have maybe the best goalie in the NHL in Connor Hellebuyck. No surprise, they're No. 3. But ...
So now I try to pull the goalie with two minutes per goal the team is down. I would never do this down 3 before but I will now! Down 4 is still a "Don't bother" in my book, but it will be interesting how this strategy plays out over my upcoming games! As you can see, it...
The Winnipeg Jets already have goalie Connor Hellebuyck going to Toronto for 2024 NHL All-Star Weekend from Feb. 1-3. With the way the Jets are playing, they deserve at least one more player to join him. Winnipeg is the new No. 1 team in the NHL.com Super 16 power rankings this ...
Carey Price, with a Jacques Plante action figure, and Michel Plante, the Canadiens legend’s son, after Price had passed Plante to become the winningest goalie in franchise history. Selected by the Canadiens with the No. 5 pick in the 2005 NHL Draft while playing for the Tri-City Americans...
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AP Photo/Skip Stewart Chicago Blackhawks' Martin Havlat (24) watches his shot go into the net behind Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo during the closing minutes of the third period to tie Game 4 in Chicago, Thursday, May 7, 2009. The Blackhawks won 2-1 in overtime. Washington...
All this makes one wonder about that fork in the road -- OK, sword in the back -- when the Golden Knights decided on Robin Lehner as their franchise goalie over Marc-Andre Fleury in 2021. What would their goaltending situation be today had they went the other direction? Granted, Fleury ...