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Carolina Hurricanes
vs
Boston Bruins
Today's Featured Sports Pick

Game Date:
04/05/2016
7:05pm EST

Lines:
Carolina +1.5
Boston -1.5

Total:
Over 5 (-139)
Under 5 (+126)

Community Picks: Carolina Hurricanes 0% vs Boston Bruins 0%

Carolina Hurricanes and Boston Bruins Thread

Team Tweets & News Articles
Boston Bruins
Since we're down to the final moments of postseason life for teams in contention, Puck Daddy solemnly begins a daily countdown to annihilation.   The New York Rangers can breathe a little easier now that they’ve clinched a playoff seed, with their win over Columbus on Monday night. The New York Islanders? Sure, they can breathe easier as well, after their win over the Tampa Bay Lightning. But they can’t completely exhale. Here are the current standings. The Death Watch tracks the final Wild Card spot and the teams that are chasing it. Their “tragic number” is the number of points gained by the final wild card team or lost by the team chasing it. [ Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Hockey contest today ] All playoff percentages are from Sports Club Stats ; tragic numbers and other figures via the NHL. A team is eliminated from play-offs when their "Tragic Number" hits 0. The Eastern Conference picture, via the NHL: Continue to Article
April 05, 2016 10:24:am EST
Boston Bruins
With three games left and one point separating them from the playoffs, the Bruins seek their third win in a three-week stretch Tuesday night by extending their point streak against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes to nine games. Boston (41-30-8) opened March with a 5-0-2 run to bolster its standing in the Eastern Conference, but losses in seven of nine have dropped it one point back of Detroit for the Atlantic Division's third automatic berth and one behind Philadelphia for the second wild card. Boston closes the season with a key Thursday matchup against the Red Wings and Saturday's contest against Ottawa, hoping to improve on a 16-17-5 mark at TD Garden. Continue to Article
April 04, 2016 6:12:pm EST
Boston Bruins
Here are your Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. Have a link you want to submit? Email us at  puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com .   Church sign, @TBLightning edition. @RealStamkos91 #WinForStammer pic.twitter.com/nQ5ZF1zqiJ — Tyler Moore (@TheRevTy) April 3, 2016 • Pastor Tyler Moore tries divine intervention to help Steven Stamkos heal.  ( Pastor Tyler Moore ) • Have we seen the last of Stamkos in a Tampa Bay Lightning jersey? Last weekend it was announced Stamkos would miss the next 1-3 months with a blood clot. Stamkos is a pending unrestricted free agent and is likely to miss the playoffs unless the Lightning go on a deep run.  [ Tampa Tribune ] • How the Montreal Canadiens recalled John Scott. A detailed feature ont he enforcer and NHL All-Star Game MVP. [ New York Times ] [ Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Hockey contest now ]   • University of Michigan hockey coach Red Berenson will return for another season in Ann Arbor. Next year will be Berenson’s 33rd as head coach of the Wolverines. [ MLive ] • NHL ice expert Dan Craig has been sent to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn to help improve the playing surface. [ Daily News ] • A deeper look into the life of NHL director of hockey operations Colin Campbell, who has come under fire of late with the NHL’s release of several emails in their concussion case. [ Toronto Star ] •  Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Andrew MacDonald is listed as day-to-day with an upper body injury. MacDonald took a big hit from Tom Kuhnackl in his team's Sunday loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. [ Flyers ] • With four games left this season, Arizona Coyotes captain Shane Doan is trying to make them all count. The 39-year-old Doan is a pending unrestricted free agent. [ AZ Central ] • Troy Crowder made a career protecting teammates and getting into fights. Now with his inventions, Crowder is protecting how players skate. [ Wall Street Journal ] • London Knights forward Max Jones was given a 12-game suspension after his blindside hit on Owen Sound Attack’s Justin Brack in Game 4 of their opening-round playoff series. [ Buzzing the Net ] • Former Columbus Blue Jackets draft pick Stefan Legein writes candidly about his life as a young NHL prospect. [ The Hockey News ] • How Dallas Stars owner Tom Gaglardi saved the team. He purchased the Stars out of bankruptcy in 2011 and since then they’ve become one of the most exciting groups in the NHL. [ D Magazine ] •  Winnipeg Jets forward Blake Wheeler opens up on his team’s disappointing season: “Hockey News picked us to win it all in 2020. I don’t even know if I’ll still be here then.” [ Minneapolis Star Tribune ] • It may be better for the Boston Bruins’ long-term goals if the team doesn’t make the playoffs. [ Boston Sports Desk ] • The hockey world is trying to expand its international reach. [ Color of Hockey ] • On Shiann Darkangelo, a forward for the US Women’s National Ice Hockey Team: “Darkangelo, 22, has been chasing for nearly two decades at this point; her drive to play hockey and be the best has taken her from childhood to Division I colleges to the NWHL and the national team.” [ Sports Illustrated ] • The New York Riveters’ practice players played a big role in the team’s inaugural season. Who are they and what can the team expect of them moving forward? [ Today’s Slapshot ] • Reviewing the Boston Pride's Isobel Cup winning season. [ Victory Press ] • Kitchener Rangers forward, and Toronto Maple Leafs 2015 third-round draft pick Jeremy Bracco enjoyed a breakout year. [ Editor in Leaf ] • The top-10 most disappointing fantasy hockey players for 2015-16. [ Dobber Hockey ] • Denver's Nolan Zajac and David Carle follow their family history to the Frozen Four. They are the younger brothers of NHLers Travis Zajac and Matt Carle. [ Along the Boards ] • The Shaw brothers add a familial feeling to the University of North Dakota’s Frozen Four appearance. [ College Hockey News ] •  Finally, Interesting fight glitch on NHL16.  MORE FROM YAHOO HOCKEY             Continue to Article
April 04, 2016 1:38:pm EST
Boston Bruins
It was a big week on the power play for Sean Monahan, Wayne Simmonds and Kris Letang. Continue to Article
April 04, 2016 11:23:am EST
Carolina Hurricanes
(Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.) It wasn't so long ago that Chicago looked like one of the best teams in the league. On March 1, they were second in the league with 83 points in 64 games, sitting at 39-20-5. Their win total was second only to that of the Capitals' at the time (45 in 61 games played) but given the quality of their division, that was totally understandable. Since that date a little more than a month ago, however, things have gone more than a little off the rails. They've played 15 games since then, carrying a record of just 7-6-2 and generally going from looking like a probable Cup contender to looking like one of the worse teams in the league (yesterday's should-have-been-a-romp over Boston only somewhat withstanding). In fact, their point total in the last month is almost in the bottom third of the league, along with the likes of the slip-sliding and aforementioned Bruins and a club as mediocre as the Red Wings, and the downright-bad Flames. When the Arizona Coyotes have more points than you over any length of time, that is a cause for major concern. But what's interesting is that Chicago has been struggling longer than the record would suggest. This is a team that most people would agree is among the most talented in the league. They have All-Star players at every position, and even when they get deeper into the lineup, their third- and fourth-liners mostly compare favorably with their peers. However, a troubling trend has emerged that we frankly just haven't seen from this club since it began its run of dominance so many years ago: They're getting out-possessed on a regular basis. This is an alien concept. Chicago's hallmark is that it just has the puck constantly, regardless of score or situation. Since 2009-10, when they won their first of three Stanley Cups, only the Los Angeles Kings have a better score-adjusted possession share at 5-on-5 than they do. They're also eighth in the league in high-danger chances over that stretch, first in shots-for, and third in goals-for. This team has been miraculously good for a very long time, and it seems that whatever magic they conjured has faded not only since the start of March, but really more like around the middle of January. Since Jan. 15, and not including the Boston results yesterday, they have a barely above-water CF% of just 50.1, just 15th in the league. This is not particularly normal. There haven't been too many 32-game stretches of Chicago basically playing break-even hockey in that regard at least over the past seven seasons. What's more worrying, though, is that if you're used to Chicago being a 55 percent possession team (and really, how could you not be?) you might be surprised to find out that they haven't been close to that level of dominant since around the middle of last season. Here's what the past seven seasons have looked like for Chicago, moving in 32-game sets equal to the length of their most recent, more pronounced difficulties. Continue to Article
April 04, 2016 10:05:am EST
 
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