Ottawa Senators

As long as there have been skates hitting ice, there have been people who question whether getting rest in the playoffs is good for a team or does the lack of play make them rusty. Heading into the 2018 NHL Playoffs, I had the same question. So, I did some research and the results were quite surprising.

Embed from Getty Images For the fourth consecutive season, Bruce Boudreau’s Anaheim Ducks have exited the postseason after losing Game 7 on home ice. In each of those seasons, the Ducks have had a 3-2 series lead on their opponent and gone on to lose both Games 6 & 7. This happened in 2013 against the Detroit Red Wings in the first round,…

http://gty.im/503095978 If the Stanley Cup Playoffs were to start tomorrow, it would mark the first time in 46 years that no Canadian teams made the cut. 46 years! Chew on that for a minute. The last time that no Canadian team was represented was 1970, a time when there were only two teams in Canada. The Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal…

NHL Power Rankings Week 10 http://gty.im/500497696 From one end of the spectrum to the other we have one team that seemingly can't lose and another that can't seem to find any traction as they stumbled through the first third of the season landing hard on their collective faces. The Dallas Stars continue to campaign for the President's Trophy,…