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A Night For Revenge And Hate: Canucks-Blues Preview

Canucks (10-8-0) Blues (5-6-4) Game Time: 5:00 PM PST TV: Sportsnet Pacific The Enemy: St. Louis Game Time UPDATE: 10:14 AM PST: Cory Schneider has been sent down to the Moose today. Big glove tap t...

Playoff Stats are up!

It took a little while, but all of the Behindthenet stats are available for the playoffs. I'm hoping to update at least every other day.One sad note: the NHL isn't going to post shift charts from last...

Playoff Offensive Levels 1968-2008

One unsurprising result here: there are fewer goals scored in the playoffs than during the regular season. If you're down by three in the second during the regular season, you'll probably rest your be...

Playoff Performance by Age

There's no question that scoring rates drop during the playoffs, but James Mirtle wonders if it's fair to count "every game as being equal, whether those postseason games were played as an 18-year-old...

Swallowing the Whistle?

Since the early 1990s, many fewer penalties have been called in playoff games than during the regular season, with the ratio dropping as low as 74%. But for the vast majority of seasons before 1990, m...

Odds? Not in Pittsburgh's favor

The Vegas line for the Pittsburgh Penguins winning Game Seven tomorrow night in Detroit has been edging ever slowly against them. Twenty-four hours ago, a six-sports book average had them at 37.4% to ...

Who will benefit the most?

Of course, the whole team will benefit from making the playoffs and playing against the defending Stanley Cup champions. Of all sports, I'd say hockey is the one where experience and growing pains are...

Vigneault tight-lipped about Sundin injury

 After Game 3 Alain Vigneault flashed that AV grin when asked about Sundin's injury. He would only say that Mats is day-to-day. Can't blame him for saying next-to-nothing about it. It's the way o...

On board at SB Nation

Hello everybody! Mike, Clint, and I have had Blue Jackets blog going since December 2007.  Mike started the blog because, at the time, there was a lack of good Blue Jackets content on the web. W...

Pressure in the playoffs

Well here we are. The final 6 hours before New York Ranger nation is plunged deep into playoff fever. As the Rangers prepare to take on the Capitals in Washington for games 1 and 2, the fans are looki...


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