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Mirtle: Ranking the NHL’s top 22 buyout candidates

Mirtle: Ranking the NHL’s top 22 buyout candidates

Sep 22, 2020The buyouts are coming.The ’s buyout window opens on Friday, Sept. 25, and runs for two weeks until Oct. 8, the day before free agency begins. With a flat salary cap and a lot of teams feeling squeezed by the results of the pandemic – and the prospect of a fan-less season next year – this could be the league’s busiest buyout period yet.Not every team has a buyout candidate. But most do, with more than half of the league making our list below.Keep in mind that teams are not permitted to buy out injured players, so and others who spent a lot of time on LTIR are not listed here....

September 22, 2020
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‘Guys are not happy’: How the NHL’s positive tests will impact return to play

‘Guys are not happy’: How the NHL’s positive tests will impact return to play

Jun 20, 2020The received a significant wake-up call this week.Eleven players tested positive for COVID-19, leading to both inside and outside of team facilities. The known hot spots, at this point, are localized in Arizona and Florida, where the virus caseload has risen among the general public in recent weeks.The 11 players who tested positive were out of a group of more than 200 players tested, many of whom were taking part in Phase 2 of the NHL’s planned return to play. Phase 3 – the start of training camps – is scheduled to begin on July 10, less than three weeks from today.According to...

June 20, 2020
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Snubbed: The Hall of Fame case for Alexander Mogilny

Snubbed: The Hall of Fame case for Alexander Mogilny

May 14, 2020There are few players in history who have a story quite like Alexander Mogilny’s.But rather than have us make the case, we wanted to go directly to those who played with him and have them describe, in their words, why he is a Hockey Hall of Famer.They didn’t disappoint.Let’s start where it began and work our way through Mogilny’s NHL career, beginning in Western New York.Mogilny’s star was perhaps its brightest in Buffalo.After dazzling with the Soviets as a junior player and winning gold in the 1988 as a teenager, he escaped to Buffalo after the 1989 World Championships. He...

May 14, 2020
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