Nuggets and Avalanche this season:

— Both had an MVP center
— Both are coming off recent championships
— Both destroyed their 1st round matchup
— Both lost in the second round to a strong, defensive, deep team

Colorado sports are facing a reality check right now.

Flyers projected lineup next season:

Farabee-Couturier-Konecny
Tippett-Frost-Michkov
Cates-Poehling-Brink
Foerster-Laughton-Atkinson

York-Sanheim
Seeler-Drysdale
Zamula-Johnson

Fedetov
Ersson

Other names that could make the roster:
— Rizzo
— Barkey
— Tuomaala
— Kolosov
— Bump

Imagine...

Slafkovsky-Suzuki-Caufield
Michkov-Dach-Roy
Newhook-Beck-Mesar

Hutson-Levshunov
Matheson-Mailloux
Guhle-Xhekaj

Fowler

Where the Canucks playoff powerplay would rank in the regular season this year:

29th: Pittsburgh (15.3%)
30th: Vancouver (15.2%)
31st: Columbus (15.1%)
32nd: Philadelphia (12.2%)

So much talent, not much execution.

Stuart Skinner tonight:

— 14/15 saves
— .933 save percentage
— 1.84 goals saved above expected

Is Stu back?

Points leaders this postseason:

23 — Leon Draisaitl
21 — Connor McDavid
18 — Evan Bouchard
15 — Cale Makar
14 — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins

The best offense in the league.

Evander Kane tonight:

— 1 goal
— 4 shots
— 7 hits
— 77.90 5v5 xGF% (1st on Oilers)

The heart of Edmonton right now.

Everyone with 100+ playoff points in 60 career playoff games:

— Wayne Gretzky
— Mario Lemieux
— Leon Draisaitl

Draisaitl is one of the all-time best.

Career 3-point playoff games:

16 — Sidney Crosby
15 — Connor McDavid

Is McDavid passing Crosby by the end of this series?

Everyone with 20+ points this postseason:

— Connor McDavid
— Leon Draisaitl

McDrai is just insane.

Lowest +/- in an Oilers playoff run:

-10 — Darnell Nurse (this season)
-8 — Steve Smith (1991)

6 more years at $9.25m AAV.

Every active player with multiple Selkes:

— Anze Kopitar
— Aleksander Barkov

Is Barkov the new-age Kopi?

Aleksander Barkov this season:

— 23g | 57a | 80pts in 73 games (90pt pace)
— 5th in NHL in +/- (+33)
— +30 net takeaways
— 57.3% on faceoffs
— won his 2nd Selke trophy
— captain of 4th placed team in NHL and conference final Panthers

The ultimate hockey player.

Darnell Nurse this postseason:

— 0g | 2a | 2pts in 10 games
— the lowest +/- in the NHL (-9)
— 40.89 5v5 xGF% (56th out of 62 dmen)

This is the 8th highest-paid defenseman in hockey.

Every remaining team's point leader:

21 — Leon Draisaitl
14 — Trocheck & Zibanejad
14 — Matthew Tkachuk
13 — Miro Heiskanen
12 — Boeser & Miller

Gotta feel for Leon...

Matt Duchene tonight:

— series winning double overtime goal

This guy was a $3m UFA signing like 10 months ago..