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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Multiple Reports Indicate The Kraken Could Be Closing In On A Head Coach
It was reported just five days ago that Lane Lambert's name is in the mix for the Seattle Kraken's head coaching job, and recent reports indicate that he is emerging as the front-runner to land the job. "I heard Lane Lambert's interview went well in Seattle," said Elliotte Friedman on his podcast 32 Thoughts. The report came out Monday morning, and the 60-year-old fits the bill if the Kraken are hoping to eliminate the defensive issues they faced last season. On Tuesday, however, Kevin Weekes shared an update that announced three other coaches, the Kraken, alongside the Boston Bruins and the Pittsburgh Penguins, could be closing in on. According to Weekes, Jay Woodcroft, Marco Sturm, and Mitch Love are among the favorites as potential hires for the trio of teams. Love and Sturm have been linked to the Kraken previously, and multiple insiders, including Friedman, have said they are strong candidates for the job. Weekes' report about Woodcroft possibly being an option for the Kraken is the first time the coach and organization have been linked together. The coaching vacancies in Boston and Pittsburgh are more appealing at the moment due to the superstars each team rosters, but the Kraken are best set for the future out of the three teams. With another top 10 selection, the Kraken have a plethora of young talent both on their roster and waiting to make the jump to the NHL. Sounds like the Bruins are in the final stage of their Head Coach search this week. Both Marco Sturm and Jay Woodcroft are among the remaining contenders for the job; Woodcroft had his latest follow-up interview the other day. — David Pagnotta (@TheFourthPeriod) May 27, 2025 Lambert would get the best out of the players, focusing on playing a defensive game but Sturm, Love and Woodcroft's inexperience as coaches in the NHL could be a positive change for the young group of players. Stay updated with the most interesting Kraken stories, analysis, breaking news and more! Tap the star to add us to your favourites on Google News to never miss a story. REPORT: Kraken Head Coach Target Signing With Flyers Another domino has fallen, and the Seattle Kraken have watched another top available head coach sign elsewhere after Rick Tocchet reportedly agreed to a contract with the Philadelphia Flyers. REPORT: Kraken Considering Jeff Blashill As Head Coach According to Frank Seravalli of the Daily Faceoff, the Seattle Kraken are one of the teams considering hiring Jeff Blashill to be their head coach.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Sharks Should Target Auston Matthews, If He's Available
The Toronto Maple Leafs are expected to make some massive changes this summer, and while Mitchell Marner and John Tavares are expected to test the open market, Auston Matthews is another potential trade target. In a recent article from Daily Faceoff, the idea of them trading Matthews was released, and the San Jose Sharks should be all over him. Matthews, who is 27 years old, is one of, if not the best, goal scorers in the NHL today. This season, he scored 33 goals and added 45 assists for 78 points through 67 games. In the previous campaign during the 2023-24 season, he had an incredibly impressive 69-goal campaign. He dealt with some injuries this season, which may have lessened his production, so if he is fully healthy next season, he could bounce back. Matthews has a $13.25 million cap hit and has a full no-movement clause (NMC), which gives him full power over whether he gets traded or not. In the rare case he's open to a move, and would consider the Sharks as a destination, they should be willing to put plenty of assets toward bringing him in. Bringing in an elite goal scorer like Matthews could elevate the Sharks from rebuilder to contender almost immediately. Placing him alongside Macklin Celebrini could also elevate Celebrini's game in a big way moving forward. It would be tough to convince Matthews to join a rebuilding team, but if the Maple Leafs are truly going for a complete retool, he may not want to stick around. Are The Sharks A Potential Landing Spot For Maple Leafs' Mitch Marner? The Toronto Maple Leafs find themselves in a tough situation. Their star forward Mitch Marner appears to be on the way out, after being very non-committal about returning to the organization following yet another early playoff exit. Sharks' Macklin Celebrini Scores Highlight-Reel Goal Against Sweden At Worlds Another day, another great moment by San Jose Sharks' Macklin Celebrini at the 2025 IIHF World Championships. On This Day 30 Years Ago: Ray Whitney Scores Iconic Double OT Winner Some may find it hard to believe, but Ray Whitney's iconic double overtime goal happened 30 years ago today.
USA Today
04-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
A reminder that the Avalanche reportedly traded Mikko Rantanen over trivial amount of money
A reminder that the Avalanche reportedly traded Mikko Rantanen over trivial amount of money The Colorado Avalanche are never going to live the disastrous Mikko Rantanen trade down. Especially not after Rantanen's epic Game 7 hat trick for the Dallas Stars to eliminate his former team on Saturday night. For a player of Rantanen's elite caliber, someone who won the 2022 Stanley Cup with the organization, it might rightfully already be known as the worst trade in Avalanche history. After Rantanen's iconic performance, it's worth remembering that the Avalanche traded him away to the Carolina Hurricanes over a trivial amount of money earlier this season. Carolina would later flip him to Dallas. According to The Daily Faceoff, Rantanen, a 28-year-old superstar with at least 100 points in his last two full seasons in Colorado, was actually willing to take a discount to stay with the Avalanche. In fact, when it came to final negotiations with the Avalanche, only $500,000 apparently wound up separating both parties. I know that $500,000 is a lot of money for most of us regular folks. No one's denying that. But it's insignificant in the context of a lucrative long-term contract for one of the NHL's best players. Even in the context of saving money for superstar Cale Makar's eventual extension, it's wild that the Avalanche weren't willing to meet Rantanen halfway in the middle of a Stanley Cup window. That decision wound up backfiring in the worst way possible. The Avalanche weren't willing to pay Rantanen what he was worth. He eventually made them pay with their season.
Chicago Tribune
16-04-2025
- Sport
- Chicago Tribune
Who will win the Stanley Cup? The season, odds, math and probability all collide when picking a favorite.
Everybody's got a hunch this time of year, a thought about the so-called Presidents' Trophy 'curse' or maybe a dark horse Stanley Cup pick. Only one team of the 16 in the NHL playoffs gets to be champion, and even before the first round begins Saturday, there is rampant disagreement on who the favorite actually is. Winnipeg and Washington were the top teams in the league all season, finishing atop the West and East, respectively, to earn home-ice advantage. Florida is the defending champion looking for a third consecutive trip to the final. Dallas is the oddsmakers' top selection, while some metrics favor Carolina. What played out on the ice has collided with math, odds and probability in the debate over who will hoist the trophy in June. 'As great as the season has been for Winnipeg and Washington, I think most people would agree that there's not one team out there that really kind of screams, 'Oh, this is the team that should win the Stanley Cup this year,'' said Andy MacNeil, a hockey handicapper and host of The Puck Portfolio on Daily Faceoff. 'It's just one of those years where even the Toronto Maple Leafs could finally go all the way and get to a Stanley Cup Final because the Eastern Conference, just like the Western Conference, I think is wide open right now.' The sports books BetMGM Sportsbook, which provides odds for The Associated Press, gives the Stars the edge at 13-2 early this week despite six straight losses down the stretch, blowing a chance to catch the Jets for first in the Central Division much less the West or Presidents' Trophy. The Panthers are next at 7-1, Colorado at 8-1, Edmonton 17-2, the Hurricanes 9-1, Washington 19-2, Vegas 10-1 and Tampa Bay and Winnipeg each 11-1. Dallas and Florida have been betting favorites since making big moves at the trade deadline. Matthew Rasp, BetMGM's senior sports trader setting the opening odds for hockey, thinks the Stars adding Mikko Rantanen to an already stacked roster makes them the most formidable contender. 'The goaltending is strong for Dallas there (and) they've got the veterans there,' Rasp said. 'Even though they've kind of floundered here a bit of late — they've had some bad losses that have gotten a lot of publicity — we still feel good about their goal differential and their team construct from top to bottom here.' What the stats say The analytics disagree. The Stars' odds equate to roughly a 13.3% chance of winning the Cup. According to the hockey prediction site MoneyPuck's data from 100,000 simulations, they're sixth at 8.1%. As of last week, MoneyPuck had the Hurricanes with the highest odds. As of Monday, it was the Jets. On Tuesday, the Panthers held the top spot at 11.2%. 'It does look at recent play, but it does fluctuate some,' said Peter Tanner, the data scientist who has run the site for nearly a decade. MoneyPuck's formula involves a combination of scoring chances, expected goals, goaltending and some other factors that look at recent success and even how some players and teams come up bigger in clutch moments. That's one way of trying to quantify a sport filled with inherent randomness. 'When I was a kid, I always thought the team that won the Cup was like the best team,' Tanner said. 'Now I think they're probably a pretty good team that got lucky.' The intangibles The NHL and Major League Baseball are the least likely major sports leagues to see the best regular-season team win a championship, followed by the NFL and the NBA, which is the most likely. There are so many intangibles in play in hockey — player injuries, matchups across four forward lines, a goaltender on a dark horse team who gets rolling and shuts down more talented opponents. 'I also think there's just so much more parity now than, say, 20 years ago, so that kind of factors in,' Tanner said, adding MoneyPuck's highest-odds team has won the Cup just once since he started running the site. With no team with shorter odds than 6-1 and plenty of uncertainty on paths through the playoffs, Rasp said most of the money is coming in on longshots, like St. Louis at 45-1, and Montreal at 80-1, even though neither team had clinched a spot going into games Tuesday. 'We've seen it before in the past that these teams that have been playing meaningful hockey for the last month, they can catch fire,' Rasp said. 'We've seen 8 seeds take out 1 seeds, and the teams that have taken the foot off the gas a little bit here, they can get caught in the first round playing against a team that's been playing playoff hockey for the last month or two.' So who wins the Cup? Rasp thinks the Cup champion will come out of the West this year, given the high-profile talent on that side of the bracket. Dallas and Colorado — two of the top three favorites according to BetMGM — play each other in first round, meaning one of the Central powerhouses will be out by round two — along with anyone who bet on the series loser. 'I would say that a lot of operators are probably happy to see one of those two teams get knocked out in the early rounds,' said MacNeil, who likes Los Angeles to knock off the Oilers and potentially make a run. There's value in the Kings at 20-1 or even the Maple Leafs at 12-1 under 2019 Cup-winning coach Craig Berube, trying to end the franchise's and Canada's lengthy drought. Winnipeg has the NHL's top goaltender this season in Connor Hellebuyck, and the Lightning won back-to-back in 2020 and '21 with Andrei Vasilevskiy in net. Tanner said having an elite goalie in his simulation only increases the odds of winning by up to 3% in the Jets' case, but a hot goalie can often make the difference. 'Sometimes I think about it like the goalie is just getting lucky, but some call that 'hot,' as well,' Tanner said. 'It's tricky. The hardest thing to predict in hockey is goalies.'
Fox Sports
15-04-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
Who will win the Stanley Cup? The season, odds, math and probability collide on picking a favorite
Associated Press Everybody's got a hunch this time of year, a thought about the so-called Presidents' Trophy 'curse' or maybe a dark horse Stanley Cup pick. Only one team of the 16 in the NHL playoffs gets to be champion, and even before the first round begins Saturday, there is rampant disagreement on who the favorite actually is. Winnipeg and Washington were the top teams in the league all season, finishing atop the West and East, respectively, to earn home-ice advantage.. Florida is the defending champion looking for a third consecutive trip to the final. Dallas is the oddsmakers' top selection, while some metrics favor Carolina. What played out on the ice has collided with math, odds and probability in the debate over who will hoist the trophy in June. 'As great as the season has been for Winnipeg and Washington, I think most people would agree that there's not one team out there that really kind of screams, 'Oh, this is the team that should win the Stanley Cup this year,'' said Andy MacNeil, a hockey handicapper and host of The Puck Portfolio on Daily Faceoff. 'It's just one of those years where even the Toronto Maple Leafs could finally go all the way and get to a Stanley Cup Final because the Eastern Conference, just like the Western Conference, I think is wide open right now.' The sports books BetMGM Sportsbook, which provides odds for The Associated Press, gives the Stars the edge at 13-2 early this week despite six straight losses down the stretch, blowing a chance to catch the Jets for first in the Central Division much less the West or Presidents' Trophy. The Panthers are next at 7-1, Colorado at 8-1, Edmonton 17-2, the Hurricanes 9-1, Washington 19-2, Vegas 10-1 and Tampa Bay and Winnipeg each 11-1. Dallas and Florida have been betting favorites since making big moves at the trade deadline. Matthew Rasp, BetMGM's senior sports trader setting the opening odds for hockey, thinks the Stars adding Mikko Rantanen to an already stacked roster makes them the most formidable contender. 'The goaltending is strong for Dallas there (and) they've got the veterans there,' Rasp said. 'Even though they've kind of floundered here a bit of late — they've had some bad losses that have gotten a lot of publicity — we still feel good about their goal differential and their team construct from top to bottom here.' What the stats say The analytics disagree. The Stars' odds equate to roughly a 13.3% chance of winning the Cup. According to the hockey prediction site MoneyPuck's data from 100,000 simulations, they're sixth at 8.1%. As of last week, MoneyPuck had the Hurricanes with the highest odds. As of Monday, it was the Jets. On Tuesday, the Panthers held the top spot at 11.2%. 'It does look at recent play, but it does fluctuate some,' said Peter Tanner, the data scientist who has run the site for nearly a decade. MoneyPuck's formula involves a combination of scoring chances, expected goals, goaltending and some other factors that look at recent success and even how some players and teams come up bigger in clutch moments. That's one way of trying to quantify a sport filled with inherent randomness. 'When I was a kid, I always thought the team that won the Cup was like the best team,' Tanner said. 'Now I think they're probably a pretty good team that got lucky.' The intangibles The NHL and Major League Baseball are the least likely major sports leagues to see the best regular-season team win a championship, followed by the NFL and the NBA, which is the most likely. There are so many intangibles in play in hockey — player injuries, matchups across four forward lines, a goaltender on a dark horse team who gets rolling and shuts down more talented opponents. "I also think there's just so much more parity now than, say, 20 years ago, so that kind of factors in,' Tanner said, adding MoneyPuck's highest-odds team has won the Cup just once since he started running the site. With no team with shorter odds than 6-1 and plenty of uncertainty on paths through the playoffs, Rasp said most of the money is coming in on longshots, like St. Louis at 45-1, and Montreal at 80-1, even though neither team had clinched a spot going into games Tuesday. 'We've seen it before in the past that these teams that have been playing meaningful hockey for the last month, they can catch fire,' Rasp said. 'We've seen 8 seeds take out 1 seeds, and the teams that have taken the foot off the gas a little bit here, they can get caught in the first round playing against a team that's been playing playoff hockey for the last month or two.' So who wins the Cup? Rasp thinks the Cup champion will come out of the West this year, given the high-profile talent on that side of the bracket. Dallas and Colorado — two of the top three favorites according to BetMGM — play each other in first round, meaning one of the Central powerhouses will be out by round two — along with anyone who bet on the series loser. 'I would say that a lot of operators are probably happy to see one of those two teams get knocked out in the early rounds,' said MacNeil, who likes Los Angeles to knock off the Oilers and potentially make a run. There's value in the Kings at 20-1 or even the Maple Leafs at 12-1 under 2019 Cup-winning coach Craig Berube, trying to end the franchise's and Canada's lengthy drought. Winnipeg has the NHL's top goaltender this season in Connor Hellebuyck, and the Lightning won back to back in 2020 and '21 with Andrei Vasilevskiy in net. Tanner said having an elite goalie in his simulation only increases the odds of winning by up to 3% in the Jets' case, but a hot goalie can often make the difference. "Sometimes I think about it like the goalie is just getting lucky, but some call that 'hot,' as well," Tanner said. 'It's tricky. The hardest thing to predict in hockey is goalies.' ___ AP NHL: recommended
