We discuss Connor McDavid as he hits the 60 goal mark in 72 games, the fastest since Lemieux did it in 62 games in 1995-96. John Garrett is retiring from Canucks broadcasts, but it sounds like he isn’t done with Sportsnet. We look at the playoff picture.

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Banter

Title Player Dan Quinn

Connecting Dan Quinn to John Garrett 

Dan Quinn -> 89-90 Canucks Craig Coxe -> 84-85 Canucks John Garrett

Mike tells a Dan Quinn Story

News

1. McDavid hits 60 goals in 72 games – fastest since Lemieux in 95-96 (62 games)
   1. McDavid comments on best on best hockey
   2. Fridge says no 2024 World Cup due to Russians
2. Andrew Barroway – previous owner of Coyotes, holds 5% stake now arrested for “felony strangulation”
3. Joe Biden likes all Canadian NHL teams but the Leafs…he and his wife are Flyers fans and Leafs beat them in Jan
4. Not much else going on as we work our way to the playoffs
5. John Garrett moving on from Canucks regional broadcast

Guess the 5th

Stats Tracking – Possible 50 goal scorers (6)

McDavid – 60

Pastrnak – 49

Rantanen  -47

Point – 45

Thompson – 44

Draisaitl – 44

Points – possible 100 (12)

McDavid – 138

Draisaitl – 110

Kucherov – 102

Tkachuk – 97

Pastrnak – 95

MacKinnon – 93

Marner – 92

Robertson – 91

Petterson  -90

Thompson – 89

Nugent-Hopkins – 88

Karlsson – 88

Points/G

McDavid – 1.92

Draisaitl – 1.57

MacKinnon -1.55

Tkachuk – 1.41

Kucherov – 1.4

Pastrnak  -1.34

Petterson – 1.3

GF% – 5v5 min 1000min

Grzelcyk – 72.09

H Lindholm – 69.25

Pastrnak – 64.95

Verhaehe – 63.16

Spurgeon – 63.1

PIM – Pat Maroon 119

Shots – Pastrnak 318

Shoot %  -Kuzmenko Van – 26.9% – 35 goals

TOI/GP – Cale Makar 26:35

Playoff Picture – bold team is on the bubble

Who is legit?

Most likely upsets?

BOS v PIT – Bruins are not this good –

TOR  v TBL

CAR v NYI

NJD v NYR

Is Carolina actually better than Boston?

Changes from last week – NYI played BOS / CAR v PIT

Chasing – FLA -1, WSH -4, OTT -5 BUF -6

VGK v WPG

LAK v EDM

DAL v SEA

MIN v COL

No change

Chasing – NSH -5 (3 games in hand) CGY -6

Hot Not

Metropolitan  NYR 8-1-1 / CBJ 3-6-1

Atlantic BOS 7-3-0 / DET 3-7-0

Central COL 8-2-0 / CHI 3-6-1

Pacific LAK 8-0-2 / SJS 1-6-3

Crazy Stat

DOPeS –

Bruins AJ Greer – 1 game crosschecking  https://www.nhl.com/news/aj-greer-suspended-1-game-for-cross-checking-mike-hoffman/c-342663460?tid=277549076