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Making hockey analytics make sense (and look pretty). Writer on stats, the eye test, and hockey in general at @EPRinkside and

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JFresh
1 year
Before (hopefully) the trades start happening, here's the updated explainer/glossary of how to read and get the most out of the player cards:
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With talk of expansion to 33 & 34 teams in the near future, it's reasonable to believe the NHL could eventually expand to 36 over the next 20 years. Here is how that could happen: - All teams relocate to Nova Scotia - Expansion to Sheet Harbour, Sydney, Halifax, Musquodobit
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people will get on tate mcrae's case for putting the goalie pads on the wrong legs but give the oilers a pass for putting goalie pads on the wrong players
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Pop Crave
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Tate McRae announces her sophomore album, ‘Think Later.’ Out December 8.
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2 years
The Leafs have lost a winner-take-all final game in five straight playoff series. The probability of that having happened? 0.0036%, or 1 in 27,778. #LeafsForever
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2 years
this is kevin weekes reporting live from jacob middleton's player card
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1 year
Coming 2023: JFreshHockey 🤝 Fanatics A new design partner starting 2023-24. 😎
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2 years
sucks to suck, brand
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Shane Pinto has been suspended 41 games for activities related to sports wagering. Hopefully he at least used BetWay™, official helmet sponsor of the Ottawa Senators. #GoSensGo
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just imagine this: Jason Dickinson - Connor Bedard - Tyler Johnson getting chills already
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2 years
finally, a nurse in alberta gets some time off
@NHLPlayerSafety
NHL Player Safety
2 years
Edmonton’s Darnell Nurse has been suspended for one game for Head-butting Los Angeles’ Phillip Danault.
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boy do I wish slow motion footage of a man receiving a fatal injury didn't keep popping up on my feed
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people are saying this is an embarrassing overreach but the league is just protecting players who, for personal reasons, might not want to have a mask custom-designed to honour their wives' indigenous heritage quoting their dads on the back with the names of their kids
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Michael Russo
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As part of Native American Heritage Night and to honor his wife, who is native, Marc-Andre Fleury had a custom-designed mask created by Cole Redhorse Taylor. Mask quotes his dad on back, has names of his kids. He’s bummed the NHL has informed him he can’t even wear in warmups
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it happened folks karlsson is no longer in the 0th percentile defensively 🔥🔥🔥
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11 months
There is always a player ranked dead last in the draft and I would like to shout out the kid who is vibing in the Swedish junior league despite being 4'11 and weighing less than 100 pounds. Beat the odds, buddy
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2 years
McDavid's 23 points in 10 games so far would have led the playoffs in scoring in 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019.
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2 years
More than 6,500 of you answered the fanbase survey. Here are the results. Which NHL team has the most annoying fanbase? 🥇 TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS 🥈 New York Rangers 🥉 Montréal Canadiens
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Leon Draisaitl, reportedly pissy, is an elite forward with an almost unmatched blend of passing and shooting skill. Probably not the main problem in Edmonton. #LetsGoOilers
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nhl 09:
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@Thrash94Gaming
Thrash
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Here's a look at some Players in #NHL24 Connor Bedard Tage Thompson Matty Beniers ... and a Zombie
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2 years
unbelievably disruptive and distracting lol
@SBJ
Sports Business Journal
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The @NHL is replacing traditional signage on rink boards with virtual ads using digitally enhanced dasherboards. (via @wyshynski )
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Patrice Bergeron has announced his retirement. #NHLBruins
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hey guys I just saw an nhl player having a beer and I'm wondering, whats the most efficient way to contact the FBI
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7 months
the sens could have caught this earlier if they had simply hired mike babcock
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2 years
even if nhl players don't go to the olympics they should still announce the rosters so we can all argue about them anyway
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3 years
Mark Scheifele has been suspended four games for an illegal charge on what appears to have been his first backcheck in several years. #GoJetsGo
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this guy made the hershey team bus pull over off the side of the highway so he could be extracted by helicopter
@Canes
Carolina Hurricanes
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🚨 KUZY IS ALREADY AT PRACTICE 🚨
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pat maroon is freaking out like he owes a loan shark four Cup rings
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2 years
Good lord
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that's weird, just got a text from mike smith
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Goodbye to the 2023-24 Washington Capitals, who taught us that hockey's not about scoring goals or preventing them, it's about friendship. #AllCaps
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Amazing career for Tuukka Rask. One of the best of his generation.
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2 years
Some veterans who quietly hit career-highs in points this season Matt Duchene - 86 Vladimir Tarasenko - 82 Joe Pavelski - 81 Mika Zibanejad - 81 Mats Zuccarello - 79
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2 years
Robin Lehner is out for the season with surgery to correct a lower-body injury he suffered in March. He will be a game time decision tomorrow against SJ.
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Goodbye to the Winnipeg Jets, a balanced offensive team until they weren't, that played elite team defence until it fell apart, and was backstopped by elite goaltending until it wasn't. #GoJetsGo
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this is the Calder favourite and I won't hear anything else about it #LGRW
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Sidney Crosby, turning 34 today, is still one of the best players in hockey in case you were unaware. #LetsGoPens
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and it's an icing
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truly one of the best hockey stories of the past... decade? who possibly saw this coming? and he becomes a total unicorn. awesome
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The Providence Bruins honoured Peter Griffin on the ice before yesterday's game. This is TOTALLY unacceptable considering what he did to that children's hospital. There is literally video of that incident (I'm not posting it but it's easy to find).
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Providence Bruins
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Rhode Island's own Peter Griffin is set to drop the puck for day ✌️ of @ricomiccon Weekend! Get your tickets now for today's 4:05pm puck drop! 🎟️Me+3 Offer: #AHLBruins | @stevieoaks401
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🤝
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More than 4,500(!) of you answered the fanbase survey. Here are the results. Which NHL team has the most annoying fanbase? 🥇 #LeafsForever 🥈 #GoHabsGo 🥉 #NHLBruins
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nah I don't think I'm gonna keep an eye out for a 10 year old
@BarDown
BarDown
10 months
WOW… keep an eye out for 2031 draft eligible 2013 Liam Tep 👀🔥
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Niklas Hjalmarsson, reportedly retiring from hockey, was the best defensive defenceman of the analytics era and should be remembered as one of the best stay-at-home blueliners of all time. #Yotes #Blackhawks
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Holy crap
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3 years
if you think about it, firing tim peel is kind of a weak make-up penalty
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Did you know that the original contract Ilya Kovalchuk signed after this season with the Devils (which the NHL nullified) would still have four seasons left on it? It was for 17 years, $102 million.
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🪅 SURVEY RESULTS: NHL Logo Ranking 🎉 Over 3,500 of you rated each current NHL logo. Here are the results:
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nhl, 2016: "sorry vegas, your team name can't be aces because of gambling :/" nhl, 2022: "what if we played blackjack on the ice"
@wyshynski
Greg Wyshynski
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Las Vegas NHL 21 in ’22: It's blackjack meets hockey. Full deck of oversized playing cards on a rack. 5 players shoot pucks at them to make “21” in the least number of shots, without going bust. The player who wins two rounds is crowned Puck Shark.
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Here are the three most common fanbases picked as most annoying for each fanbase. The most common combinations were: Habs fans disliking Leafs fans Canucks fans disliking Leafs fans Rangers fans disliking Devils fans
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Here are the results of our Third Annual Airing of Grievances Survey. Which team has the most annoying fanbase? You voted. 🥇 #LeafsForever 🥈 #GoSensGo 🥉 #LetsGoOilers
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remember: the all star game is for the kids. that's why the first two shots in the breakaway challenge are references to miami vice and happy gilmore
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me evaluating the selke candidates:
@FriedgeHNIC
Elliotte Friedman
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Kuznetsov clears
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these unfortunate souls are about to make hundreds of millions of dollars, a sum that continues to rise the more bidders get involved. their dad's Beloved Asset is now desired by multiple celebrities. let us please keep them in our thoughts and prayers. 🙏
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Luke Wells
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I understand the star power element, but it's hard not to feel for the Melnyk ladies. They're just trying to sell their dad's beloved asset, and its turned into a media circus that has been drawn out over an entire season. Not ideal. #Sens #GoSensGo
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Connor Bedard now leads all Connors in points with 11 in 12 GP. Runners-up include McDavid (10), McMichael (5), and Brown (0)
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Timo Meier, acquired by NJ, is a top scoring winger, an elite driver of offensive possession and scoring chances with excellent hands and instincts in tight. A big player who doesn't shy away from physicality either. #NJDevils
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think the NHL is really gonna regret giving fanatics the jersey deal. people will pay $300 for an adidas product but I don't think they'll do the same for this company
Literally being sold at @LCArena_Detroit Every jersey in the racks numbers were messed up. How is @Fanatics getting away with this. @FanaticsSucks
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confirmed: it was fun
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it would be fun if the Avs followed this up by trading Byram for a second line centre
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my list of life goals when I was 8 years old - win the memorial cup with the Mooseheads - get drafted 1st overall - win the stanley cup with the avalanche - be best friends with Sidney Crosby but I guess it's ok that the guy down the street did it instead
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Auston Matthews, scorer of 51 goals in his past 50 games, is having one of the most impressive seasons of the cap era. #LeafsForever
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refusing to believe that's the return for Jeannot. it's just not possible
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Congrats to Joe Thornton on his retirement. One of the best to ever do it.
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ppl are like "hockey needs more personality!" and then someone at a game shows personality and you all freak out
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BREAKING: Colorado Avalanche star Jack Johnson has agreed to a five-year, $304 million supermax contract extension with the franchise, per sources. This is the richest deal in NHL history. Fully guaranteed, with a trade kicker. No player option.
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Congrats to PK Subban on his retirement following an excellent career.
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maybe provorov's play for the past few years has been so mediocre that he took issue with expressing the feeling of pride
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Max Pacioretty, acquired by CAR for literally nothing, is one of the league's elite snipers, a high-end creator of scoring chances who's consistently excellent at finishing them. #LetsGoCanes
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thank god they cut out the part of the Tim Horton's commercial where nathan mackinnon shoots a puck at a customer's head for ordering timbits
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I felt a bit bad about spending $14 on chicken fingers at the intermission but then a man walked by in a Shane Wright #51 Habs jersey
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JFresh
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we were so robbed, brutal that he only played 82 games in that span
@Guruelous
Guru
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Wow
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Patric Hornqvist is retiring. An absolute menace in his prime, one of the most underrated players of the 2010s and a crucial part of two Cup-winners. #Preds #LetsGoPens #FlaPanthers
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if the ducks drafted bedard and then switched back to the classic mighty ducks jerseys, the salary cap might go up $10 million from the boost to hockey related revenue from jersey sales lol
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@JFreshHockey
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3 years
Ryan Reaves, acquired by NYR, Tom Wilson Tom Wilson Tom Wilson Tom Wilson, Tom Wilson. Tom Wilson Tom Wilson. #TomWilson
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it is insane that this tweet is still up
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Trevor Zegras is reportedly on the trade block. #FlyTogether
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am I the only one who's kinda lost track of the NHL with all the postponements? like it kinda feels like the preseason right now tbh
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2 years
weegar is the goat but that's one of the funniest plays I've ever seen
@TheChargingBUF
The Charging Buffalo
2 years
Dahlin's move made Weegar run into the boards.
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After all the fighting, we've ended up here.
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wild if it turns out that young hockey players are less comfortable sharing what's in their camera roll than married 30 year olds
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2 years
JACK JOHNSON IS A STANLEY CUP CHAMPION
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credit to the Habs PR staff for convincing him the jersey was "Noah's Ark" themed
@rinkside
Erin Brown
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#FlaPanthers Eric Staal post-game, when told there is photographic evidence of him wearing a pride jersey in Montreal: “I haven’t before. I never have. … I haven’t worn a pride jersey before.” (Staal wore No. 21 with the Canadiens during the 2020-21 season.)
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imagine he turns up in beijing
@frank_seravalli
Frank Seravalli
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Brad Marchand: 6 game suspension
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One of the league's most skilled centres. #Canucks
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Adam Fox, extended 7x$9.5M by NYR, is arguably the top defenceman in the NHL, an elite two-way talent whose uncanny hockey I.Q. has led to amazing impacts at both ends of the ice. #NYR
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hearing reports that the Montreal Canadiens have traded the first overall pick for the UFA rights to kris letang
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Wow.
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we always see so many of these videos and yet goalies have had the same "aw i just got scored on" animation since like nhl 07
@EASPORTSNHL
EA SPORTS NHL
9 months
New celly idea? 💡 @EASPORTSFC Rasmus Dahlin stopped by #NHL24 Community Day to record Mocap 👀 @BuffaloSabres @rasmusdahlin00
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You ready to feel elderly? In January 2005, Canada dominated the World Juniors with the best team the tournament had ever seen, including Crosby, Bergeron, Perry, Getzlaf, Weber, Seabrook, Phaneuf, etc. Six months later, Connor Bedard was born.
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4 years
what's the point of wearing a mask that can't defend against anything
@NahremanIssaCTV
Nahreman Issa
4 years
I’m ready for Oilers playoffs 🧡💙 #yeg
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I always used to get annoyed by how hyped Jonathan Toews was back in the day. Maybe I was wrong.
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No qualifying offer for Daniel Sprong, one of the most efficient 5v5 scorers in the league. #SeaKraken
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1 year
Make it 150 points for the best player in the world. #LetsGoOilers
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Here the results of our NHL logo ranking survey: 1. Detroit Red Wings 2. Arizona Coyotes 3. Pittsburgh Penguins ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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JFresh
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Happy Festivus. It is time to air grievances. More than 5,300 of you answered the fanbase survey. Here are the results. Which NHL team has the most annoying fanbase? 🥇 TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS 🥈 New York Rangers 🥉 Montréal Canadiens
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joke league
@wyshynski
Greg Wyshynski
1 year
Fanatics will replace Adidas as the NHL's outfitter of on-ice uniforms and authentic jerseys, beginning with the 2024-25 season on a 10-year deal. This marks the 1st time @Fanatics branding will be directly on an official player uniform for a pro sports property. @NHL
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Patrice Bergeron, signed 1x$2.5M by BOS, is the best defensive forward in NHL history and just had quite possibly the best season of his 18-year career. He broke pretty much every 5v5 on-ice stat record in 2021-22 en route to a well-deserved Selke Trophy. #NHLBruins
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Proud to present my eighth and final ranking and mock draft for the 2023 NHL Entry Draft. A really talented group that has impressed me all season, and one of the tightest drafts in years. #NHLDraft2023
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Timo Meier, signed 8x$8.8M by NJ, is a high end top line offensive winger who creates chances and goals while driving play at an elite rate. #NJDevils
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11 years ago... #MNWild
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the hurricanes are weird because I don't think their logo is that good but I have literally never seen a concept redesign that is better than it
@The_JerseyNerds
Jersey Nerds
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Apparently the Hurricanes are considering a new logo! What do you guys think?
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Jack Johnson, signed 1 year by CHI, is a Stanley Cup champion. Are you?
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