Mick Kern

3 days ago | siriusxm.ca | Mick Kern

It’s time again for the most wonderful time of the year. The Stanley Cup Playoffs. 16 teams left in the standings. In two weeks, half of those teams will be gone…and so on…and so on…And here we go, yet again, with the World Famous SiriusXM NHL Network Radio Stanley Cup Playoff Prediction Pool. This is the 19th year we’ve gone for silver. There have been 13 different winners over those years. Shane Malloy is the defending champion.

2 months ago | siriusxm.ca | Mick Kern

We’re just past the halfway mark of Winter, and that’s traditionally when the National Hockey League takes a breather from the regular season, and attention turns to the annual NHL All-Star Game. Not this time around. As enjoyable as the All-Star Festivities were this time last year in Toronto, the NHL has seen fit to change things up considerably this season, most likely in large part to stoke anticipation for the league’s return to the Winter Olympics 12 months from now.

Dec 6, 2024 | siriusxm.ca | Mick Kern

While the Maple Leafs handled life pretty well without sniper Auston Matthews (out of the lineup due to injury), having him back is nice. He finally scored his first goal since returning in a recent 4-1 win over the Blackhawks, then added two more in a 3-2 win over Nashville. Tonight, Toronto is in Pittsburgh to face a Penguins franchise that is still trying to determine which direction they’re headed in.

Nov 15, 2024 | siriusxm.ca | Mick Kern

Taylor Swift may be in Toronto all this week for a series of mega-concerts, but one of hockey’s reigning superstars also brings his mega-act to Toronto for a marquee matchup with the Maple Leafs. Connor McDavid and crew are off to another slow start this season, though not nearly as bad as last year. They face a Toronto team that recently has had to learn to live life without their reigning megastar, sniper Auston Matthews.

Oct 3, 2024 | siriusxm.ca | Mick Kern

It seemed like just yesterday that the Florida Panthers edged the Edmonton Oilers in Game Seven of the Stanley Cup Final. As the league gets ready to kickstart the 2024-25 regular season, a myriad of intriguing questions will eventually be answered. Will the Panthers repeat as Stanley Cup champions? A back-to-back Cup grab doesn’t happen often in the modern NHL, though the last team to turn the trick were also based in the State of Florida; the 2020 and 2021 Tampa Bay Lightning.