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Evaluating the Merits of Jake Sanderson’s Big Pay Day
Last night, it was announced that the Ottawa Senators signed D Jake Sanderson to an eight-year deal with an AAV of $8.05 million. This extension (coming on the eve of the final year of Sanderson’s ELC and kicking in in 2024-25) falls into GM Pierre Dorion’s tendency of signing young players to long-term deals (see… Read more
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SKA Games 2-3: Domination, A Long-Awaited Debut, and a Frustrating, Narrow Defeat
SKA Saint Petersburg, it can now be declared, have begun the 2023-24 season 2-1 as they embark upon their Continental Cup defense/quest for their third Gagarin Cup title with four consecutive road games (their home opener is on Tuesday, September 12th against Spartak Moscow). While exhibiting fairly good form and having put in performances they… Read more
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Boston University Terriers: Macklin Celebrini… That’s It, That’s the Headline
[Editor-in-chief’s note: University of Michigan product Adam Fantilli, due to an oversight in both the writing and editing phase of the initial published version of this article, was mistakenly referred to as the second overall pick in 2023. This has since been corrected.] The 2022-23 season was a memorable one for the Boston University Terriers… Read more
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For the Goalies and Goaltending Fans: A Primer on Every European Vezina Trophy Winner
The lineage of the Vezina Trophy [which has had three different phases – First awarded in 1927 to George Hainsworth of the Montreal Canadiens, it served as a memorial to Georges Vezina also of Montreal, who collapsed during a game in 1925, was subsequently diagnosed with tuberculosis, and passed away from complications of the disease… Read more
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Alexis Gendron: The Next Chuck Fletcher Sleeper Pick?
It perhaps goes without saying that the Chuck Fletcher era was a disappointment for the Philadelphia Flyers and their fans. As GM, he gave out bad contracts and swung and missed on several major trades, while also at crucial times not being aggressive enough (IE: making no real replacement for D Matt Niskanen after his… Read more
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SKA Saint Petersburg vs. Dynamo Moscow: Penalty Kill Practice and a Win in a War of Attrition
[Editor-in-chief’s note: Due to an unintentional oversight in the editing phase of this article, SKA Saint Petersburg head coach Roman Rotenberg’s statement on the rationale for Matvei Michkov’s exclusion from the roster was initially not included. It has since been updated to include this.] I was not planning on publishing an article on SKA’s season… Read more