Sticks And Salvos
David CastilloHockey thoughts, reactions, and outbursts.
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Hottakeification: Hear me out. The San Jose Sharks did fine, actually.
No sport comes close to the NHL when it comes to the gap between the perceived value of its’ players and their actual value. Allow me to demonstrate. Jacob Trouba, 32 years old and well past his prime, now makes $8.25M in AAV. That is more...
The casual critic's guide to the 2026 NHL Draft: What's the first overall really worth, names to know, names that will fall but shouldn't, and rumors!
Last year’s draft list was exhausting. So naturally, I decided if I were to do that again, I needed to be more organized. And so naturally, I didn’t. My bad!
Instead of going through my own personal rankings, we’re going to talk about all...
Stray Observations (Game 6: Cup Final): Sometimes, the good guys do win. Carolina is your 2026 Stanley Cup winner.
This series has been too closely contested to be anything other than needing all seven games. And so naturally, the teams threw us one more curveball. Instead Carolina closed out the series in emphatic fashion. The Carolina Hurricanes are y...
Stray Observations (Game 5: Cup Final): Carolina takes the series lead over Vegas and are now one win away from a Cup
They have to slow down at some point, right? This series has to give us a dud of some kind, right? The human body can’t handle this much excitement, can it? The fans but especially the players…correct? You would think that if anything is to...
Stray Observations (Game 4: Cup Final): Carolina ties up the 'hold onto your butts' series with a 5-3 win over Vegas
If there were any doubters before, I doubt there are any now. This matchup on paper was supposed to be only for the sickos and the hockey nerds. Like Whittaker versus Mayweather, the hockey would be too technical and low scoring for layfans...
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