Episode Matt Stajan (413): Team of the Week: New York Islanders
ScuttlePuck NHL Hockey Podcast
English - January 29, 2023 22:50 - 1 hour - 54.8 MB - ★★★★ - 49 ratingsHockey Sports News Sports News edmontonoilers hockey nhl Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
As the bye weeks start leading up to the All Star game, the Oilers are running hot and the Leafs are without Auston Matthews for at least 3 weeks. Lots of teams seem to be on a mission to get Connor Bedard but Gary Bettman says nobody tanks....hmm Listen Here: iTunes Google Play Stitcher Direct MP3 iHeart Radio
Banter
Title Player
Matt Stajan-> 01-02 Belleville Bulls Steve Cooke -> Matt’s brother
Matt Stajan -> 01-02 Bulls Jason Spezza -> 03-04 Senators Rob Ray
Matt Stajan -> 03-04 Leafs Nik Antropov -> 09-10 Thrashers Mark Dobson
Matt Stajan -> 09-10 Flames Olli Jokinen -> 99-00 Islanders kenny Jonsson _. 02-03 Islanders Eric Manlow
Feedback - Howard Hargrove
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