🎯12-game slate to go over today w/@AndyFrancess presented by @Novig Here is my breakdown of the slate for today's show for @Covers. 🧃⛽️See the Pumpers in the Chat LIVE at 11am 🏒 NHL GAME DAY THREAD 12 games on the slate. Matchup notes, trends, injuries, and numbers worth knowing 👇 ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1/ 🦆 ANA @ NJD 😈 🥅 Dostal vs. Allen • NJ ranks 4th in xGF/60 and 7th in xGA/60. • Devils lead the NHL in SAT%. • Anaheim has lost four straight, scoring exactly two goals in each. • NJ outshot Colorado 32-13 through two periods Tuesday. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2/ 🟡 NSH @ BOS 🐻 🥅 Saros vs. Swayman • Nashville owns the NHL's 3rd-ranked PP. • Boston has collected 11 of a possible 12 points over its last six games. • Bruins return home after a four-game road trip. • Fraser Minten is averaging 18:21 TOI over his last four games. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3/ 🗽 NYR @ TOR 🍁 🥅 Garand vs. Bobrovsky • Rangers rank 9th in xGF/60 and 10th in xGA/60. • Toronto is playing its third game in four nights. • Dylan Garand has allowed two or fewer goals in six of seven appearances (1.85 GAA, .929 SV%). • Toronto owns the NHL's No. 1 PK. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4/ 🐆 FLA @ PIT 🐧 🥅 Cooper Black vs. Murashov • Florida is on the second half of a back-to-back after an emotional game in Ottawa. • At 6-foot-8, Black could become the tallest starting goalie in NHL history. • Pittsburgh ranks 28th in xGA/60. • Ben Kindel is out, while Bryan Rust is questionable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5/ 🦈 SJ @ OTT 🔴 🥅 Askarov vs. Ersson • Both teams face difficult scheduling spots: Ottawa played Florida last night, while SJ is playing its third game in four nights. • Sharks rank 30th in xGA/60. • Ottawa ranks 8th defensively but just 28th in xGF/60. • Alex Wennberg missed SJ's previous game. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 6/ 👑 LAK @ NYI 🏝️ 🥅 Forsberg vs. Sorokin • Two struggling offensive profiles: LA ranks 29th in xGF/60; NYI ranks 22nd. • Kings own the 31st-ranked PK. • Islanders counter with the NHL's 5th-ranked PK. • Quinton Byfield is questionable. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 7/ ⚔️ VGK @ STL 🎵 🥅 Hill vs. Hofer • Vegas ranks 7th in xGF/60 and 5th in xGA/60. • The two teams have combined for a 14-6 Over record. • VGK is looking to rebound from an ugly 6-2 home loss to Tampa Bay. • Mitch Marner has recorded an assist in seven straight games. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 8/ ✈️ WPG @ DAL ⭐ 🥅 Skinner vs. Oettinger • Dallas ranks 2nd in xGA/60 and owns a league-best 1.56 GAA. • Stars are a perfect 9-0 to the Under this season. • Winnipeg has lost three straight and is 6-2 to the Under over its last eight. • Josh Morrissey is on IR; Esa Lindell is also expected to miss the game. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 9/ 🌲 MIN @ CGY 🔥 🥅 Wallstedt vs. Cooley • Minnesota ranks 3rd in xGF/60 and 4th on the PP. • Calgary ranks 24th in xGA/60. • The Flames own the NHL's second-worst GAA (4.63). • Quinn Hughes played 31:18 last game and has recorded a point in nine of 10 games. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 10/ 🌀 CAR @ EDM 🛢️ 🥅 Bussi vs. Levi • Carolina leads the NHL in both xGF/60 AND xGA/60. • Edmonton owns the league's 2nd-ranked PP. • Connor McDavid is averaging an absurd 2.89 points per game, with multi-point efforts in seven of nine. • Ryan Nugent-Hopkins could make his season debut. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 11/ 🐙 DET @ VAN 🐋 🥅 Gibson vs. Lankinen • Vancouver ranks dead last in both xGF/60 and xGA/60. • Canucks also own the NHL's 32nd-ranked PK. • Detroit's PP ranks 12th. • Emmitt Finnie played a massive 23:20 last game. • Vancouver has scored at least twice in five straight. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 12/ 🏔️ UTA @ SEA 🦑 🥅 Vejmelka vs. Daccord • Utah ranks 5th in xGF/60 and 3rd in xGA/60. • Utah also owns the NHL's No. 1 power play. • Seattle ranks 25th on the PK and 22nd in xGA/60. • The Kraken rank 24th in offensive expected goals. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📊 All rankings are per 60 minutes at all strength