NHL 2025-2026 Season

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NHL Average Goalie Save % Lowest in 32 Years- .896%!!!!!!!!!!

NHL goalies' save percentage dips to lowest point in three decades

The average NHL goalie save percentage is under .900 for the first time in three decades.

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NHL Forwards Too Big, Too Skilled. The days of seeing guys ecllipse .930% or even .920% are over. It used to be that below .900%= you suck. Now many starters have a save % below .900, and a good backup is .890%.

 

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Bowness excoriates CBJ players; "They Do Not Care"

Blue Jackets coach Bowness torches players: 'They don't care'

Blue Jackets coach Rick Bowness questioned his players' desire to win after an uninspiring season-ending loss to the Capitals.

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Bowness excoriates CBJ players; "They Do Not Care"

Blue Jackets coach Bowness torches players: 'They don't care'

Blue Jackets coach Rick Bowness questioned his players' desire to win after an uninspiring season-ending loss to the Capitals.

www.espn.com

Funny thing is that Patrick Laine said exactly the same thing last year, prior to a game against them.

 

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Funny thing is that Patrick Laine said exactly the same thing last year, prior to a game against them.

Speaking of Laine, this article paints a less than enthusiastic picture about his prospects in free agency:

Projecting Patrik Laine’s Future After This Season

What does the future hold for the 2016 second overall pick? Read more at Pro Hockey Rumors.

www.prohockeyrumors.com

 

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Speaking of Laine, this article paints a less than enthusiastic picture about his prospects in free agency:

Projecting Patrik Laine’s Future After This Season

What does the future hold for the 2016 second overall pick? Read more at Pro Hockey Rumors.

www.prohockeyrumors.com

He Will end up playing in the KHL if he ever plays again.

 

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Funny thing is that Patrick Laine said exactly the same thing last year, prior to a game against them.

Although Rick Bowness essentially labelled his CBJ players a bunch of losers, he has agreed to a 1 year contract to coach these losers:

Bowness, after season-ending tirade, returning to Blue Jackets

Rick Bowness has agreed to a contract to return as coach of the Blue Jackets next season.

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The Flyers new sensation, Porter Martone has 2 winning goals in his first two playoffs games! Fans are going crazy over the kid!

 

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Fans are going crazy over the kid!

They have not had much to go crazy over for a while.

 

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They have not had much to go crazy over for a while.

Well they might sweep Crosby and the Penguins!

 

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Well they might sweep Crosby and the Penguins!

Philadelphia was playing well coming into the playoffs and so it was not a total surprise to me. Rick Tocchet has whipped them into being a good team. Even their goaltending, their long traditional weakness since the days of Rom Hextall, has been good.

 

[Cap'tain Fantastic]

Philadelphia was playing well coming into the playoffs and so it was not a total surprise to me. Rick Tocchet has whipped them into being a good team. Even their goaltending, their long traditional weakness since the days of Rom Hextall, has been good.

Have to take into account that the Penguins, despite a great push this season, are old and have significantly slowed down. I see very tough years to come for them.