Four questions facing Canada’s Stanley Cup contenders

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We are about three weeks from the start of the 2023-24 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and it looks like Canada will send four teams to the postseason. TSN's Travis Yost has more.

We are about three weeks from the start of the 2023-24 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and it looks like Canada will send four teams to the postseason. have been shoo-ins for some time. Betting markets currently price the Oilers as a co-favourite to advance out of the West, along with Colorado, but all four clubs have reasonable odds to advance.

If we look at a three-year horizon of performance across these goaltenders, here is how they stack up: It’s not just that the goals have dried up. It’s that the goals have dried up in correlation with a thinning of scoring chances and offensive zone time, and this is not a team that can offset a slowdown at even strength through the power play – their man advantage year-to-date is just 23rd in the NHL .The problem is finding offence beyond Winnipeg’s big guns has been a chore, save for a temporary breakout in December.

It’s hard to nitpick this Oilers lineup. There is talent seemingly everywhere and when you have a player the calibre ofon the ice for nearly 40 per cent of games, you have a colossal margin of error to work with – McDavid has shown time and again he can single-handedly win games, to say nothing of his supporting cast in, can stress this team. Edmonton tends to look different structurally when playing high-powered offences; a three-goal loss to Toronto on Saturday night was no exception.

 

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