Yesterday the PWHL season began and Toronto won. They started a bit rusty, but found their offensive game and turned a dominating third period into too much for the league's (possibly) best goalie to handle. Any time you can beat Boston is a good day.

The Sceptres next game is Tuesday in Ottawa. Marie-Philip Poulin with a shootout winner over Ottawa.

Also there was a trade of the "wanted out" David Jiricek.

That's a haul in picks.

How this guy hasn't been traded as the sacrificial goat I don't know:

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And tis the season:

"A look at a player a lot of you probably have heard of"

I really appreciated that the first bit is about playing hockey, not having sick hands. What I came away thinking was that in the NHL he just doesn't know his teammates yet. When you see him with Fraser Minten, who he just gets at a deep level, he's a superior player.

I hesitate immensely to say this because comparisons always get read as oh, so he's an x-goal scorer, that's no good. But both Minten and Cowan are like Pontus Holmberg. It's not about level or goal-scoring, please be less obsessed with that, it's about how they get things done. When you're William Nylander, and you can marry the get it done to incredible talents of all kinds, well that's a star. When you're a normal NHLer, you have to use the get things done – the brain game – a whole lot more.

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