We wonder what effect — if any — this interrupted and potentially cancelled NHL campaign will have on the league’s five interim coaches. Here are the records they are likely to finish with.• Dallas’s Rick Bowness: 20-13-5“I feel good about it. I think that given a fair chance, that I’m the guy for this team,” Boughner told Sharks reporteron Thursday. “And I think [general manager Doug Wilson] believes that, from what I know.
“We worked hard on being a team that’s hard to play against. For the most part, we were. Regardless of the wins or losses, when we played those games with the systems that we worked on,” Boughner explained, “it’s given guys a little bit of excitement knowing that coming back, they bought [into] those systems and they know we can be successful with them.
Coach Jon Cooper believes the Selke is “a pay-your-dues kind of award” that seldom sees such a young forward scoop the hardware but anticipates Cirelli will be right in that conversation soon, just as twenty-somethings are increasingly making noise for the Hart, Vezina and Norris.That includes players on their first or second contracts excelling in the defensive arts.
At a $728,333 cap hit, Cirelli is one of the sport’s greatest bargains. To think the Lightning won’t get a Cup run out of him on his ELC — and with the salary cap unlikely to rise — is a shame.Friday night, the Golden Knights invited fans to a Twitch live stream of a simulatedgame versus the Red Wings. The club’s in-arena host, Big D, manned the Knights controller and Daren Millard handled play-by-play duties.
lukefoxjukebox Honestly as crazy as it would be. 30 team March madness style tournament. Detroit sorry but you guys where terrible. Play out of the division in best of 5 games. Division finals on best of 7. Huge win for the sport because all markets will need hockey once this is over.
lukefoxjukebox Are my season tickets $$$ being lowered by 50%, because I may have other priorities