After a couple of weeks away, the boys are back and should really be back to a regular schedule going forward. Honest. Jay Woodcroft got fired by the Edmonton Oilers and Kris Knoblach has replaced him. Was it fair and who is running the Oilers these days?  William Nylander went home to Sweden for the Global Series and starred for the Leafs.     Listen Here:  iTunes  Google Play  Stitcher  Direct MP3   iHeart Radio   Title Player Serge Savard - connect to William Nylander Feedback - Doug from Amsterdam sent stickers - comments on Scouting the Refs. News Woodcroft fired by Oilers - Kris Knoblach in as replacement Despite win over Seattle, Woodcroft was done after loss to San Jose - seemed to know it Knoblach - coached McDavid in Erie, was coaching Hartford Wolf Pack in AHL 2-1 in first 3 games League Leading Scorers - 3 Canucks JT Miller, Pettersson and Hughes all have 28 pts   Leafs Nylander 7th with 25 - contract year - can Leafs afford him? Calder Trophy Race Bedard 9-5-14 Cooley 2-10-12 Jack McBain and O’Brien both get Gordie Howe hat trick in Arizona win over Chicago Last time 2 players had GH hat trick was 1988 - Jets over Flames - Andrew McBain, Jack’s dad was one.   Global Series Red Wings 4 vs Senators  5 Leafs 3 vs Red Wings 2 Senators 2 vs Wild 1 Leafs vs Wild   Hot n Not ATL - BOS 7-1-2 / MTL 2-7-1 MET - NYR 9-0-1 / CBJ 1-7-2 - Jarmo? CEN - DAL 7-3-0 / MIN 2-6-2 (CHI, NSH struggling) PAC - LAK 7-1-2 / SJS 3-7-0   Guess the 5th   NBA In-Season tournament - NBA Cup - what do you think? https://www.nba.com/news/in-season-tournament-101   Nov 3 - Dec 9 Group Play and Knockout Rounds Group Play - Nov 3 - Nov 28  - teams divided into 6, 5 team groups. Play a round robin against all teams in group. Regular season games. Played on “Tournament Nights” where all games on schedule count for the tournament Knockout - top 8 teams - top 2 in each group plus 2 wildcards Single game elimination - Quarters, Semis - Championship All games count towards regular season except Championship NHL - Gordie Howe Cup ? - replace All Star game.    What’s the Call? New Jersey Goal against New York Rangers - whistle clearly blown before puck goes in but it is called a goal. https://scoutingtherefs.com/2023/11/42316/devils-hughes-scores-after-whistle-on-continuous-play-vs-rangers/ The ruling was made under Rule 37.3: Puck entering the net as the culmination of a continuous play where the result of the play was unaffected by any whistle blown by the Referee upon his losing sight of the puck Goal Review Procedure - the clocks Situation Room observes goal, not observed by on-ice - contact ref, if goal should have counted, reset clocks to time of goal. If not, no change to clocks. Team A scores, undetected and Team B scores after - if legal goal, Team A goal counts, Team B goal doesn’t, reset clocks to time of Team A goal - If determined that Team A goal was illegal - kicked in, high stick etc, no goal counted for Team A nor Team B, clock reset to time of Team A goal CRAZY STAT DOPeS - Mangiapane 1 game suspension https://scoutingtherefs.com/2023/11/41899/calgarys-mangiapane-suspended-one-game-for-cross-check/ Stats - 6 suspensions so far - 3 of them 4 games, 2, 2 games, 1, 1 game 5 fines - all $5,000 This time last year, 8 suspensions 1, 3 game, 6, 2 game, 1, 1 game 13 fines UPCOMING -