Free marketing advice for the NHL: Your 2018-19 season slogan should be “Goals, goals, goals.”
Pucks are going into the net at a record clip so far as slimmed-down goaltenders have struggled to keep scoring down. In the first five days of the season there were two 7-6 overtime games, with the Pittsburgh Penguins defeating the Washington Capitals and the Toronto Maple Leafs beating the Chicago Blackhawks, featuring tons of action and not much defense.
“It was a pretty crazy hockey game. It was a fun one to play in, just too bad we couldn’t get two points,” Blackhawks right wing Patrick Kane told reporters after the loss.