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NHL All-Star Game Fan Voting

8 December, 2018 (08:50) | HOCKEY TALK | By: Nick

The 2019 NHL All-Star Fan Vote™ presented by adidas, which allows fans to determine the four captains for the 2019 Honda NHL® All-Star Weekend, now is open online at NHL.com/Vote and via the NHL® App.

 

[VOTE NOW: CHOOSE ALL-STAR GAME CAPTAINS]

 

This marks the fourth straight year that fans can vote for captains of the four All-Star teams. adidas, the authentic outfitter of on-ice uniforms and an official supplier of licensed apparel and headwear of the NHL, is the presenting sponsor of the NHL All-Star Fan Vote for the first time.

The 2019 Honda NHL® All-Star Weekend will once again consist of a three-game tournament, played in a 3-on-3 format, featuring four teams – one for each NHL division. Fans can cast votes online at NHL.com/Vote and via the NHL App for one player from each division, without regard to position. Voting concludes at 11:59 p.m. ET on Sunday, Dec. 23, with the top vote-getters by division – regardless of position – named All-Stars and captains.

Fans are permitted to select as few as one player and a maximum of four players per ballot. The maximum number of ballots cast per 24-hour period for each fan is 10.

How to vote: 

• NHL.com/Vote features interactive ballots available in eight languages – English, French, Czech, Finnish, German, Russian, Slovak and Swedish – and accessible anywhere in the world.

• The NHL App offers fans a mobile interactive ballot that is available on most devices.

• Fans can join the conversation by using the official hashtag #NHLAllStar.

Eligible residents of the United States and Canada who vote online at NHL.com/Vote can enter in the 2019 NHL All-Star Fan Vote Sweepstakes for a chance to win one Grand Prize: a trip for two to attend the 2019 Honda NHL® All-Star Weekend in San Jose. There is no purchase necessary to enter or win. For Sweepstakes rules, visit NHL.com/Vote.

The Sharks and city of San Jose will host the 2019 Honda NHL® All-Star Weekend, from Jan. 25 26, including the 2019 SAP NHL All-Star Skills™ on Friday, Jan. 25 (6 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. ET, NBCSN, CBC, SN, TVAS) and the 2019 Honda NHL® All-Star Game on Saturday, Jan. 26 (5 p.m. PT / 8 p.m. ET, NBC, CBC, SN, TVAS). The 2019 Honda NHL® All-Star Weekend marks the second time NHL All-Star activities will take place in San Jose. The Sharks previously hosted the event in 1997.

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The Playoff picture at Thanksgiving

24 November, 2018 (08:58) | HOCKEY TALK | By: Nick

Every​ year US​ Thanksgiving​ serves as​ a natural breaking point in the​ NHL​ calendar,​ coming in​ at​ the quarter mark of the​​ season. At this point, the playoff picture really starts settling in and teams can already be virtual locks, ready to put the season in cruise control or reach a point-of-no-return, a depressing reality with so many games left to play.

There’s also the “Thanksgiving Day Rule” where – since the league expanded to 30 teams – roughly 80 percent of teams in a playoff position at this point generally hold on to their spot for the rest of the season. That doesn’t leave much room for leeway going forward.

Here are the numbers of teams that qualified for Stanley Cup Playoffs, after being in a spot on US Thanksgiving:

  • 2013-14: 13 of 16 qualified
  • 2014-15: 13 of 16 qualified
  • 2015-16: 12 of 16 qualified
  • 2016-17: 13 of 16 qualified
  • 2017-18: 11 of 16 qualified

Here’s how things stand right now, and why they may differ from the actual standings.

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FANTASY LINE RANKINGS for 2018-19

19 November, 2018 (23:11) | HOCKEY TALK | By: Nick

These rankings have taken into account NHL.com fantasy top 200 rank (listed next to applicable players), recent production in standard Yahoo categories (goals, assists, plus/minus, power-play points, shots on goal, hits), line stability or fluctuation from previous season(s), team scoring distribution and injury risk or contract status of any individual player(s).

1. BOS: Brad Marchand — Patrice Bergeron  — David Pastrnak
2. COL: Gabriel Landeskog — Nathan MacKinnon — Mikko Rantanen
3. CGY: Johnny Gaudreau — Sean Monahan — Elias Lindholm
4. DAL: Jamie Benn — Tyler Seguin — Alexander Radulov
5. NSH: Filip Forsberg — Ryan Johansen — Kevin Fiala / Craig Smith
6. WSH: Alex Ovechkin — Nicklas Backstrom / Lars Eller — Tom Wilson
7. BUF: Jeff Skinner — Jack Eichel — Sam Reinhart / Jason Pominville
8. CAR: Micheal Ferland. Sebastian Aho — Teuvo Teravainen
9. TOR: Zach Hyman — John Tavares — Mitchell Marner
10. PIT: Tanner Pearson — Evgeni Malkin — Phil Kessel / Patric Hornqvist
11. TBL: J.T. Miller — Steven Stamkos — Nikita Kucherov
12. FLA: Evgenii Dadonov — Aleksander Barkov — Mike Hoffman
13. SJS: Timo Meier — Logan Couture — Joe Pavelski / Tomas Hertl
14. TBL: Yanni Gourde — Brayden Point — Tyler Johnson
15. WPG: Nikolaj Ehlers — Mark Scheifele — Blake Wheeler
16. CBJ: Artemi Panarin — Pierre-Luc Dubois — Cam Atkinson
17. STL: Jaden Schwartz — Ryan O’Reilly — Vladimir Tarasenko
18. EDM: Drake Caggiula / Milan Lucic — Connor McDavid — Leon Draisaitl
19. NJD: Taylor Hall — Nico Hischier  / Travis Zajac — Kyle Palmieri
20. MTL: Jonathan Drouin — Max Domi — Andrew Shaw
21. PHI: Claude Giroux — Sean Couturier — Travis Konecny
22. CHI: Brandon Saad / Nick Schmaltz — Jonathan Toews — Patrick Kane
23. OTT: Brady Tkachuk — Colin White — Mark Stone
24. MIN: Jason Zucker — Eric Staal — Mikael Granlund
25. VGK: Max Pacioretty — Cody Eakin — Alex Tuch

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