The NHL season begins tonight. It doesn’t seem like that long ago that TheSportsNotebook was writing post-mortems on the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals, as Chicago beat Boston in a thrilling Game 6. Now we’re back for more, and in an new era for the NHL.
If the calendar is approaching October it means…hockey? Yes, it does. Even as the baseball season moves toward the playoffs and college football and the NFL start to heat up, hockey is prepping for an October 1 open to the 2013-14 regular season. And that means TheSportsNotebook’s NHL analysis is prepping along with them. Today we take a short look at the Pacific Division.
The puck drops on the drive for the Stanley Cup on Tuesday night. Our last piece of pre-playoff NHL analysis will be final predictions and a review of the betting lines.