Sean Gentille
Senior Writer at The Athletic
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5 days ago |
nytimes.com | Sean Gentille |Dom Luszczyszyn
As we inch toward the halfway point of the playoffs, the time has come for the Rankings Boys to bid adieu. This is it: the final batch of the 2024-25 season. As we rank the last eight teams standing one last time, we leave you with one piece of optimism for six of them and one piece of pessimism for the defending champs. For the team at the bottom ... well, we tried. 1.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Sean Gentille |Dom Luszczyszyn
Almost two weeks into the playoffs and 10 teams are left standing in what has been another incredible opening round. No surprises there, the first round is usually electric and the 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs have fully delivered on that front. Some players, though, haven't. Last week, we talked about the early heroes for each team. This week, we flip the script with the early ... players who could be doing better (or could've, in the case of those already eliminated).
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Sean Gentille
WASHINGTON - Spencer Carbery was sitting at a table in Capital One Arena, not long after leading the Washington Capitals to their first Stanley Cup playoff series win in seven calendar years, and he knew how he got there. There was no code to crack. There was no mystery.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Sean Gentille |Arpon Basu
WASHINGTON - Ahead of his team's game on Wednesday night, Spencer Carbery was asked how difficult it was to close out a series in the Stanley Cup playoffs. The coach of the Washington Capitals, his team up 3-1 in the series on the Montreal Canadiens, couldn't help but laugh a bit. "It's extremely difficult," he said. At the time, he'd never done it; the Rangers swept the Capitals in Carbery's first playoff series as an NHL coach.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Sean Gentille
ARLINGTON, Va. - If the Washington Capitals' game-tying goal on Sunday night told us something about Tom Wilson, their game-winner told us something about Dylan Strome. The Capitals are one victory from eliminating the Montreal Canadiens from the Stanley Cup playoffs - Game 5 is Wednesday at Capital One Arena - and they're in the catbird seat thanks in no small part to their No. 1 center.
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"It's lazy. It's lazy. ... There's a method to all of it. It doesn't irk me. It's fine. That's what you're trying to do. Put pucks to the net. That's how you score." — Rod Brind'Amour on the shot volume discourse. More from Canes-Caps: https://t.co/GT8h7vr7Mn
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We will see where things progress over the next few days, but all indications are that the LA Kings are closing in on Ken Holland as their next GM
