There are numerous storylines to follow when it comes to Canadian teams, but the biggest one of all is whether the country’s Stanley Cup drought will end
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The defending champion Panthers, the Dallas Stars, New Jersey Devils and the Colorado Avalanche are all expected to do damage when the puck drops on the NHL’s regular season, which begins Oct. 4 in Prague with a game between the Devils and the Buffalo Sabres. In Rick Tocchet’s first full season as Vancouver’s coach, they fell just shy of advancing to the Western Conference final in a Game 7 loss to Edmonton. Can the Canucks be one of the Western Conference contenders again?Quinn Hughes is fresh off a hot season for which he was awarded the Norris Trophy, after leading all NHL defencemen with 92 points in 82 games, plus he contributed 10 assists in Vancouver’s 13 playoff games. He’s a solid leader who keeps getting better each year.
That was enough for head coach Rick Bowness, who called time on his career after an NHL-record 2,726 games. Now it’s the turn of former Winnipeg Jets winger Scott Arniel to take the tiller in the Manitoba capital, as he attempts to pilot the team past the first round of the postseason for just the second time since 2018.The success of the Jets starts and finishes with the play of Connor Hellebuyck, their No. 1 goaltender, who started 60 games and posted a dazzling .
There was a little jolt of anticipation in Canada’s capital recently when the Ottawa Senators announced a land-sale agreement that inches the franchise closer to building a new arena at LeBreton Flats.
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