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Auston Matthews passes 50 goals and on pace for 75. Are the Vancouver Canucks for real?  We assess it in our Team of the Week segment.  

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Title Player Derek Sanderson - Connect to Jaromir Jagr

News

Matthews past 50! On pace for 75 - truly remarkable

Jagr sweater retirement - came out for the warmup 

Kekalainen fired - finally - 410-362-97 record in 869

11 years

Jackets 18-28-10 this year - last in Metro, 29th in league

Tilman Fertitta - owner of Houston Rockets is in talks to get an NHL franchise.  

Are Jets in trouble? 

Trade deadline looming - 

Guess the 5th

Connections - What do Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Brett Hull and Alexander Ovechkin have in common?

Team of the Week - Vancouver Canucks - 

82 PTS (1) .683 PTS % (4)

GF% 59.44 (2)  SF% 49.15 (19th) xGF 51.04 (13th) 

SH% 11.69 (1) 

SV% 92.29 (7) 

PDO 1.04 

PP 22.8 (11) 

PK 78.95 (19) 

Points

JT Miller 29 - 50 - 79

E Pettersson 29-45-74

Hughes 12-58-70

Boeser 33-27-60 

Goalies

Demko 44 GP .917  GSAA 17.3 (2) 

DeSmith 17 GP .894 -4.6

 Hot / Not

Atlantic FLA, TOR 8-2-0 / MTL 3-6-1 - Florida pouring it on

Metropolitan NYR 9-10 / NYI 3-4-3

Central - MIN 6-3-1 / ARI 0-9-1 

Pacific - LAK 6-3-1 / 4-5-1  A lot of middling performances 

Crazy Stat

DOPes Rielly ended up with 5 games - Leafs appeal, Bettman upholds

Dale and Mike are thrilled to speak with retired NHL linesman Vaughan Rody. He gave us some great stories and fascinating insights into the life of an NHL official. The All Star Game happened this weekend and it wasn't a complete fiasco, so that's a step forward for the league. 

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Title Player Randy Burridge  

News

Trades:

Lindholm to Vancouver

Monahan to Winnipeg

All Star Game - Skills was an improvement - was fun and interesting and they were actually trying

3 Hours? WAAAAY too long - no need for bands 

Does the $1,000,000 prize make it more interesting for fans?

PWHL game was fun - skill is impressive - 

Draft feedback

All Star Skills competition - Steve Mayer - been Chief Content Officer for 7 years and this was most input from player - doesn’t speak well of him imo

3 on 3 main event.... meh

All Star Announcements - NHL Players in Olympics!!

4 nations faceoff - replaces all star next year

World Junior Charges - 

All players officially named - 

Michael McLeod has 2 charges

Dillon Dube

Alex Formenton

Cal Foote

Carter Hart

Vaughan Rody Interview - 20 years - 1228 regular season games / 19 playoff games

https://nhlofficials.com/nhl-officials/current/vaughan-rody/ - Read the bio - had some serious injuries

Connections: 

Guess the 5th 

Mike watched 1967 Habs vs Leafs on Youtube and was fascinated

AT THE ALLSTAR BREAK - 

Playoff picture

East - by P% wildcard teams are TBL / PHI

West - by P% wildcard teams are LAK / STL

ATLANTIC - 1st Bos / Last Ottawa Predictions - Leafs / Canadiens 

METRO  -  1st NYR / Last CBJ Predictions - Rangers / Flyers

CENTRAL - 1st WPG (Pts%) / Last CHI Predictions - Avalanche / Blackhawks - very tight

PACIFIC - 1st VAN / Last SJS Predictions - Oilers / Sharks

Player Stats - 

Kuvherov, MackInnon, Pastrnak, Miller

Goalies - league average save % .899!!

Swayman, Hellebuyck, Daccord, Demko, Ingram, Jarry

Crazy Stat 

DOPeS - Trouba 2 games for elbowing

https://www.nhl.com/news/topic/player-safety/new-york-rangers-defenseman-jacob-trouba-suspended

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