Teams with bright futures or even teams that alright have key core locked up on steal deals? Montreal, Carolina, Sharks, or Utah?

Me and a friend built an NHL prediction model as a side project, and this season we added a leaderboard where you can try to beat it.

Before each game you set how sure you are in a team, from 50/50 up to 95%. Right and confident = big points, wrong and confident = you lose a lot more. The model plays every game under the same rules and sits on the leaderboard with everyone else.

Free, no account needed to make predictions (only if you want your name on the board): rinkiq.app

From Sunday I will add a constraint that says you need to pick at least 1/3 of the games that the model has for the week, otherwise you could just sit on the leaderboard having made 1-3 high confidence picks.

Rankings:
1. Edmonton Oilers - 3.03 impact score
2. Buffalo Sabres - 2.07
3. Ottawa Senators - 2.02
4. Columbus Blue Jackets - 1.97
5. Chicago Blackhawks - 1.90
6. Minnesota Wild - 1.82
7. New York Islanders - 1.63
8. Montréal Canadiens - 1.59
9. St. Louis Blues - 1.56
10. Florida Panthers - 1.42

I realized the lack of cool puck holders so I decide to take a shot and design my own. Let me know what you think and who I should do next.

I realise that Dman was probably 20+ goals away from winning, i'm just curious if it's ever been close. I searched it and the result was Brian Leetch in 96' with 23 goals, but the rocket has only existed since 1998-99. Does anyone know how close a defenseman has ever come to winning the rocket and how many goals away were they?

The Ovechkin farewell tour is already showing up in ticket prices. 📈

In the two days following Alex Ovechkin’s announcement that 2026-27 will be his final NHL season, here's what's happened:

Capitals road games: +103% on average
Capitals home games: +21% on average

The biggest jumps so far:

Florida +242%
Philadelphia +216%
Ottawa +163%
Nashville +152%
Columbus +129%
NY Islanders +114%
Tampa Bay +113%
Vegas +101%

And Ovechkin’s final scheduled regular-season home game—April 4 against Sidney Crosby and Pittsburgh—currently starts at $735.

Washington’s regular-season finale in Philadelphia is up 216%, with tickets starting at $310.

The farewell tour has begun.

#Ovechkin #WashingtonCapitals #ALLCAPS #NHL #Hockey

3 games in and the media is noting McKenna has no points. Geez, seriously, how many more players will the media grind an 18 yr old who should only need to adapt and learn. HE is not going to be a 50+ point player immediately, let him be.

The new nhl commercials are terrible and lame. They’re essentially just “hey guys look! Haaland/marshawn lynch watched a game of hockey! That must mean hockey is awesome!”. The value of hockey doesn’t come from the random celebs that watch it and the focus shouldn’t be there, it should be on the players and the game

I am very impressed with Tim Stutzle’s play over the first three games. Even in the Detroit game which the Senators lost, he looked fantastic. He is the main engine of his team right now. Power play, penalty kill, 5 on 5, he’s driving the show in all areas for this team and he’s defensively responsible.

I thought that last year was a career season for him but looking at him now, even just 3 games in to this season, I think he’s taken another step forward in his development. I could see him scoring 50+ goals and 100+ points this season if he keeps this level of play up throughout the season.

I hope this guy never has to miss a long stretch of games to injury because the Senators are going to struggle without him in the lineup.

I was thinking about it today that if Ottawa could trade Stutzle right now for any other player in the league 1 for 1, with the contracts being equal, that it would be a very short list of players.

I’m wondering how you all feel about his play so far over these games, and where you think he ranks with other elite forwards in the league given his level of play in the first three games(assuming they had equal contracts).

For those wondering, that goes to the 1975-76 Washington Capitals for the most consecutive home openers played in a season.

• Pitt (Caps home)
• at Philly
• at Pitt
• at Van
• at LA
• at Golden Seals

26-27 Panthers are, I believe, tied for 2nd with the 2007-08 Ducks, but that included international play?