Not sure how this was missed yesterday, but PWHL Toronto's 11th straight win was a record breaker for the city when it comes to professional hockey wins.
The team spent yesterday skating with the Canadian Blind Hockey organization, who's national championship tournament is this weekend at Mattamy Athletic Centre. To quote their website, "The event takes place at the Mattamy Athletic Centre – the former Maple Leaf Gardens – and is free and open to the public to attend and will be streamed live on the Canadian Blind Hockey YouTube Channel."
A quick peek at the NHL out of town scoreboard from last night shows us Boston, Florida, Ottawa, Buffalo, and Montreal all losing.
Here's a transcript of Keefe's postgame from Wednesday's win, including what he had to say about healthy scratching TJ Brodie.
Sportsnet did an interview with Easton Cowan, plus they had some analysis of his play.
In case you missed the news, Tom Wilson has been offered an in-person hearing for the attempted decapitation of Noah Gregor. From DOPS, "if the infraction might require a suspension of six games or more, the offending player is offered the opportunity to an in-person hearing. In this case, the player remains suspended until the hearing takes place."
Akim Aliu, finally healthy from back and leg injuries, has signed a PTO with the San Jose Barracuda of the AHL.
Peter Laviolette, who hit 1500 games coached last night, is the third-most tenured coach in the NHL, behind Paul Maurice and John Tortorella.
30 years ago this weekend Gretzky passed Howe on the all-time goals list.
After a long time without NHLers at international tournaments, we might get a lot of hockey in quick succession. Doug Armstrong is the GM of the Canadian Olympic team and shared some of his thoughts about roster building in this interview.