Former NHL goalie Mike Mckenna recently released his ranking of every NHL team’s goalie tandem on Daily Faceoff. While the list will surely change a lot as the season progresses, this first edition has the Vancouver Canucks in the middle of the rankings in 16th place.
The Toronto Maple Leafs got some love from Daily Faceoff’s Mike McKenna. The former NHL journeyman goaltender released his rankings of every NHL team’s goaltending tandem heading into the 2023-24 season.
How confident are you in the Vancouver Canucks’ goaltending tandem heading into the 2023-24 NHL season? According to former NHL journeyman goaltender (who at one point was a Vancouver Canuck himself) Mike McKenna, the Canucks have the league’s 16th-best tandem.
Over at The Daily Faceoff old friend Mike McKenna posited that the Tampa Bay Lightning goaltending situation may not quite be set. Don’t get me wrong, Andrei Vasilevskiy is going to be the starter for roughly 60 games in the upcoming season.
Mike McKenna has misgivings about the San Jose Sharks’ trade for Mackenzie Blackwood. “If the Sharks picked up Mackenzie Blackwood, and plan on starting him in the American League to build up his game back, I’d feel a lot better about this,” the 14-year pro goaltender, now with the Daily Faceoff, told San Jose Hockey Now.
Anaheim Ducks star and NHL 23 cover boy Trevor Zegras is due to get paid as he is a restricted free agent, but what will his contract look like, and are the Ducks and Zegras trying to agree on a long-term deal?
During the 2022-23 regular season, it appeared the New Jersey Devils solved their goaltending issues. General manager Tom Fitzgerald traded for goaltender Vitek Vanecek and Lindy Ruff ran him in tandem with Mackenzie Blackwood.
On Friday’s edition of Daily Faceoff Live, Frank Seravalli and Mike McKenna discussed some of the top Group 6 unrestricted free agents in the National Hockey League set to hit the market this summer.
Frank Seravalli and Mike McKenna discuss Philadelphia Flyers forward Kevin Hayes and what his future in Philly looks like. With trade rumours and potential buyout rumors swirling, Seravalli gives you the latest from the Flyers front.
By the skin of their teeth, the Florida Panthers eked out their first Stanley Cup Final win in franchise history after Matthew Tkachuk tied Game 3 Thursday with a goal in the dying minutes and Carter Verhaeghe scored the overtime winner.
The NHL’s offseason is kicking off early this year, so it seems. A three-team blockbuster deal broke out Tuesday afternoon that saw the Philadelphia Flyers, LA Kings and Columbus Blue Jackets broker a massive deal for all three franchises.
Daily Faceoff: Frank Seravalli and Mike McKenna on the offseason priorities for the Montreal Canadiens. ** NHLRumors.com transcription Seravalli: “The
In the wake of Darryl Sutter’s post-game comments about Jakob Pelletier on Saturday afternoon, longtime professional hockey goaltender Mike McKenna weighed in on the situation alongside Frank Seravalli on Monday’s episode of the Daily Faceoff Live show.
P.K. Subban watches a 39-year-old Mark Giordano log big minutes for a contending NHL club and thinks “I could do that.” The Toronto Maple Leafs seemed to have thought otherwise.
Tensions continue to run high in Vancouver and it came to a head further on Thursday night. With the Canucks down 3-2 late in the game, J.T. Miller had an on-ice freakout when the third-string goaltender Colin Delia wouldn’t go to the bench for the extra attacker.
At the conclusion of Thursday night’s game between the Vancouver Canucks and Winnipeg Jets, after making 35 saves on 38 shots, goaltender Collin Delia stayed on the ice as J.T.
Tradition went out the window long ago: it’s time for the NHL to institute pond hockey in overtime.
On today’s episode of Canucks Conversation, we were joined by journeyman NHL goaltender-turned-analyst Mike McKenna of Daily Faceoff. We talked about Roberto Luongo going into the Vancouver Canucks’ ring of honour, Thatcher Demko’s early struggles, and why McKenna likes what he’s seen from Demko as of late.
Of the 16 teams not holding down playoff spots as of Nov. 24, which do you expect to get in by season’s end?Over to you, Daily Faceoff Roundtable…
It’s Hall of Fame weekend! We’ll see a large class inducted this Monday, including Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Roberto Luongo, Daniel Alfredsson, Riikka Salinen and Herb Carnegie. Whenever the Hall of Fame gets its annual time in the spotlight, the mental wheels start turning about overlooked names.
He pioneered the first cage combination goalie mask and was an instrumental figure in equipment design.
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