With the Bruins and Leafs’ stacked top-six groups set to try to cancel each other out come playoff time, Nazem Kadri's line — better on paper than Charlie Coyle's — could be the key to victory. That and more in lukefoxjukebox's latest Quick Shifts:
Hoffman says when the Sharks acquired him from Ottawa, he had no idea he’d be traded again so quickly.
The playmaker — another smallish, drive-his-line-from-the-wing type — is now leading the entire AHL in assists and points , snapping the Marlies’ all-time scoring in a 76-game season in the process. On the list of the NHL’s deadliest pairs — defined as players who score of each other’s assists — Guentzel and Sidney Crosby rank third, behind only McDavid-Draisaitl and Tavares-Marner, and ahead of Stamkos-Kucherov, Gaudreau-Monahan, and MacKinnon-Rantanen.
The Coyotes are running a similar risk, as they’re in a dogfight with Colorado for the West’s final wild-card slot.Toronto Maple LeafsLundqvist’s career .897 save percentage versus Toronto is the living legend’s worst among all Eastern Conference opponents, so in consecutive meetings, Rangers coach David Quinn has tapped backup Alexandar Georgiev.
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