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NHL playoff watch: Will the Panthers or Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup?
Though the sport Saturday between the Florida Panthers and Toronto Maple Leafs will not make a lot of an influence on the playoff races — the Panthers have clinched the division title in addition to the No. 1 seed within the Jap Convention, and the Maple Leafs are six factors forward of the No. 3 Tampa Bay Lightning — we’ll be watching this one carefully to decipher extra clues on every membership’s viability as a Stanley Cup contender.
A case may be made for any of the East’s eight groups to make the Cup Last. For the Panthers and Leafs, even getting that far could be a exceptional accomplishment; the Leafs have not gotten out of the primary spherical because the 2004 playoffs, and the Panthers have not received a playoff sequence since 1996. The Panthers’ playoff journey will begin with a matchup towards the East’s first wild-card membership, at present the Washington Capitals; the Maple Leafs are at present positioned to tackle the two-time defending champion Lightning. Cash Puck offers the Panthers a 63% probability of constructing the second spherical and the Leafs a 64.2% probability.
If each groups win that first-round sequence, they’re going to match up with one another, with the winner transferring on to face the survivor of the Metropolitan Division portion of the bracket, after which on to the Stanley Cup Last in the event that they win towards that crew. General, the Panthers’ Cup probabilities this yr are 9.6%, whereas the Leafs’ likelihood is 12.2%.
As we enter the ultimate stretch of the 2021-22 common season, it is time to test in on all of the playoff races — together with the groups jockeying for place within the 2022 NHL draft lottery.
Observe: Playoff likelihood is by way of FiveThirtyEight. Tragic numbers are courtesy of Damian Echevarrieta of the NHL.
Soar forward:
Present playoff matchups
Friday’s video games
Thursday night time’s scores
Expanded standings
Race for No. 1 choose
Present playoff matchups
Jap Convention
A1 Florida Panthers vs. WC2 Washington Capitals
A2 Toronto Maple Leafs vs. A3 Tampa Bay Lightning
M1 Carolina Hurricanes vs. WC1 Boston Bruins
M2 New York Rangers vs. M3 Pittsburgh Penguins
Western Convention
C1 Colorado Avalanche vs. WC2 Dallas Stars
C2 Minnesota Wild vs. C3 St. Louis Blues
P1 Calgary Flames vs. WC1 Nashville Predators
P2 Edmonton Oilers vs. P3 Los Angeles Kings
Tonight’s video games
Observe: All instances Jap. All out-of-market, non-NHL Community video games accessible to stream on ESPN+.
New York Islanders at Buffalo Sabres, 12:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh Penguins at Detroit Purple Wings, 12:30 p.m. (NHLN)
Carolina Hurricanes at New Jersey Devils, 12:30 p.m.
New York Rangers at Boston Bruins, 3 p.m. (ABC, ESPN+)
Montreal Canadiens at Ottawa Senators, 7 p.m.
Nashville Predators at Tampa Bay Lightning, 7 p.m. (NHLN)
Toronto Maple Leafs at Florida Panthers, 7 p.m.
Seattle Kraken at Dallas Stars, 8 p.m.
Chicago Blackhawks at San Jose Sharks, 8 p.m.
Vancouver Canucks at Calgary Flames, 10 p.m.
St. Louis Blues at Arizona Coyotes, 10 p.m.
Anaheim Geese at Los Angeles Kings, 10:30 p.m.
Final night time’s scoreboard
Watch Within the Crease on ESPN+ for highlights from each recreation.
Ottawa Senators 2, Columbus Blue Jackets 1 (SO)
Minnesota Wild 6, Seattle Kraken 3
Edmonton Oilers 6, Colorado Avalanche 3
Washington Capitals 2, Arizona Coyotes 0
Expanded standings
Observe: x = clinched playoff spot; y = clinched division title; z = clinched finest convention file; e = eradicated
Atlantic Division
Factors: 118
Regulation wins: 41
Playoff place: A1
Video games left: 5
Subsequent recreation: vs. TOR (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 108
Regulation wins: 43
Playoff place: A2
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ FLA (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 102
Regulation wins: 35
Playoff place: A3
Video games left: 5
Subsequent recreation: vs. NSH (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 99
Regulation wins: 36
Playoff place: WC1
Video games left: 5
Subsequent recreation: vs. NYR (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 71
Regulation wins: 24
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: vs. NYI (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Factors: 70
Regulation wins: 19
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: vs. PIT (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Factors: 67
Regulation wins: 24
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: vs. MTL (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Factors: 51
Regulation wins: 14
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ OTT (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Metropolitan Division
Factors: 108
Regulation wins: 44
Playoff place: M1
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ NJ (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 108
Regulation wins: 43
Playoff place: M2
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ BOS (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 99
Regulation wins: 35
Playoff place: M3
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ DET (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 99
Regulation wins: 35
Playoff place: WC2
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: vs. TOR (Sunday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 80
Regulation wins: 32
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 5
Subsequent recreation: @ BUF (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Factors: 77
Regulation wins: 24
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: vs. EDM (Sunday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Factors: 61
Regulation wins: 19
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 5
Subsequent recreation: vs. CAR (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Factors: 59
Regulation wins: 19
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: vs. PIT (Sunday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Central Division
Factors: 116
Regulation wins: 45
Playoff place: C1
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ WPG (Sunday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 107
Regulation wins: 36
Playoff place: C2
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ NSH (Sunday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 105
Regulation wins: 42
Playoff place: C3
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ ARI (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 93
Regulation wins: 35
Playoff place: WC1
Video games left: 5
Subsequent recreation: @ TB (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 98%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 91
Regulation wins: 29
Playoff place: WC2
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: vs. SEA (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 77%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 81
Regulation wins: 28
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: vs. COL (Sunday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Factors: 63
Regulation wins: 15
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ SJ (Saturday
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Factors: 50
Regulation wins: 16
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: vs. STL (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Pacific Division
Factors: 106
Regulation wins: 43
Playoff place: P1
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: vs. VAN (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 100%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 98
Regulation wins: 37
Playoff place: P2
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ CBJ (Sunday)
Playoff probabilities: >99%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 94
Regulation wins: 33
Playoff place: P3
Video games left: 3
Subsequent recreation: vs. ANA (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 95%
Tragic quantity: N/A
Factors: 89
Regulation wins: 33
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: vs. SJ (Monday)
Playoff probabilities: 28%
Tragic quantity: 7
Factors: 87
Regulation wins: 31
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ CGY (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 2%
Tragic quantity: 5
Factors: 74
Regulation wins: 21
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 4
Subsequent recreation: @ LA (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Factors: 72
Regulation wins: 21
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 5
Subsequent recreation: vs. CHI (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Factors: 58
Regulation wins: 22
Playoff place: N/A
Video games left: 5
Subsequent recreation: @ DAL (Saturday)
Playoff probabilities: 0%
Tragic quantity: E
Race for the No. 1 choose
The NHL makes use of a draft lottery to find out the order on the high of the primary spherical, so the crew that finishes in final place is just not assured the No. 1 choice. As of 2021, a crew may transfer up a most of 10 spots if it wins the lottery, so solely 11 groups are eligible for the draw for the No. 1 choose. Full particulars on the method may be discovered right here. The 2022 draft lottery can be held on Might 10.
Factors: 50
Regulation wins: 16
Factors: 51
Regulation wins: 14
Factors: 58
Regulation wins: 22
Factors: 59
Regulation wins: 19
Factors: 61
Regulation wins: 19
Factors: 63
Regulation wins: 15
Factors: 67
Regulation wins: 24
Factors: 70
Regulation wins: 19
Factors: 71
Regulation wins: 24
Factors: 72
Regulation wins: 21
Factors: 74
Regulation wins: 21
Factors: 77
Regulation wins: 24
Factors: 80
Regulation wins: 32
Factors: 81
Regulation wins: 28
Factors: 87
Regulation wins: 31
Factors: 89
Regulation wins: 33
Notes on conditionally traded picks impacting the highest 16:
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Columbus will obtain Chicago’s first-round choose if Chicago doesn’t win both of the 2 attracts within the 2022 draft lottery. In any other case, the choose defers to 2023.
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Buffalo will obtain Vegas’ first-round choose whether it is outdoors the highest 10 choices. In any other case, the choose defers to 2023.
There are two NHL teams in Florida: the Florida Panthers and the Tampa Bay Lightning.
They are separated by about 250 miles and have been fierce rivals since the Panthers joined the NHL for the 1993-94 season. The Lightning joined the League a season earlier.
Florida (21-11-2) and Tampa Bay (18-10-2) meet for the first time this season at Amalie Arena in Tampa on Sunday (5 p.m. ET; FDSNSUN, CRIPPS, SN, TVAS).
The teams have played each other 157 times in the regular season; the Panthers have gone 77-51-19, and the Lightning are 70-64-13. There have been 10 ties.
For years, the rivalry was a parochial affair, deeply important to hockey fans in the state but under the radar nationally. Lately, though, Florida supremacy has often meant NHL supremacy.
The Panthers are the reigning Stanley Cup champions and defeated the Lightning in five games in the best-of-7 Eastern Conference First Round last season to start that title march. They reached the Stanley Cup Final two seasons ago, going on a miracle run before losing to the Vegas Golden Knights. The season before that, they won the Presidents’ Trophy with an NHL-best 122 points but lost to the Lightning in a second-round sweep, marking the second straight time that their noisy neighbors ended their season.
The Lightning won back-to-back Stanley Cup championships in 2020 and 2021 before reaching a third straight Final in 2022, losing to the Colorado Avalanche. Tampa Bay won the Presidents’ Trophy in 2018-19.
This season, each team is on course for another appearance in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and has a point percentage of better than .600.
So which team has the merits to claim bragging rights in this all-Florida showdown as the rivals face off for the first time this season? That’s the question debated by NHL.com senior writers Amalie Benjamin and Dan Rosen in the latest installment of State Your Case.
Benjamin: Let’s lay out what the Lightning have accomplished in their 32-season history: They’ve won the Stanley Cup three times, becoming the first team from Florida to win it when they took the championship in 2004. But that doesn’t come close to what they’ve accomplished during the past 11 seasons, starting in 2013-14, when they became a powerhouse. They’ve been to the Stanley Cup Playoffs 10 times in those 11 seasons, making the Stanley Cup Final in a whopping four of them. Let me repeat that: Four trips to the Cup Final in the past 11 seasons, winning twice, in 2020 and 2021. And if that’s not enough, they made two more trips to the Eastern Conference Final, in 2016 and 2018. Forget Florida’s team. They’re the team of the past decade in the entire NHL.
Rosen: Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what have you done for me lately? Florida’s team fluctuates. It was the Lightning. It is the Panthers. They’ve got the Stanley Cup. They went to the Stanley Cup Final two years in a row. Sure, a few years ago, this wasn’t even a debate. Florida’s team, the Panthers? Please. No shot. Even the top executives with the Panthers would tell you that. But things change. With success come the riches. Just think about the past three seasons for the Panthers: Presidents’ Trophy winners in 2021-22, Stanley Cup Final in 2022-23, Stanley Cup champions in 2023-24. The Lightning lost in the 2022 Cup Final, lost in the first round in six games the next season and lost in the first round in five games to the Panthers last season. Florida’s team is Florida.
Benjamin: OK, sure, you have a point. Florida has done pretty darn well lately. But let’s see how history will judge the state of Florida and its hockey teams. Hall of Famers? The Lightning have got ’em. Though Steven Stamkos has moved on to the Nashville Predators, the Hall of Fame is going to come calling, and the forward will go in as a member of the Lightning. Add in coach Jon Cooper, forward Nikita Kucherov, defenseman Victor Hedman and goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, and you’re talking at least five future Hall of Famers on a single team. That’s not just good, that’s historically good. It’s a group whose names are synonymous with winning, with the Stanley Cup, with the state of Florida. That’s powerful. That says the Lightning win this debate, no question.
Rosen: I have a question. Is Aleksander Barkov not paving his way to the Hall of Fame? Is Sergei Bobrovsky, with a Stanley Cup ring, 400-plus wins and two Vezina Trophy wins as the NHL’s best goalie, not a lock for the Hall of Fame? Is Paul Maurice, who could finish his career with at least the second-most coaching wins of all time, along with his Stanley Cup ring, not also a lock for the Hall of Fame? In the way-too-early department, could Matthew Tkachuk and Sam Reinhart be future Hall of Famers? I lied. That’s four questions. But you get the point. You brought up the Hall of Fame and I countered. That’s why the Lightning do not win this debate without question. Could they win it? Yes, certainly, if we were having this debate in 2023. It’s almost 2025. It’s a different world. It’s the Panthers’ world, at least in Florida. The Lightning are just living in it. At least the sun is still shining on them too.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The state attorney for northeast Florida said there’s no evidence that members of the JEA board violated Florida’s “Sunshine Law” with discussions surrounding the resignation and replacement of former CEO Jay Stowe.
A source said JEA leaders met at an Avondale coffee shop to discuss the CEO stepping down. It sparked an investigation
In May, a JEA employee filed a complaint with the city’s inspector general prompting the investigation.
The Sunshine Law requires that public business be conducted at publicly-noticed meetings.
In October, the inspector general found that some board members did talk business outside of the meetings but the report made no determination on whether the Sunshine Law was violated and referred the matter to the State Attorney’s Office.
The state attorney’s office conducted its own investigation and said the allegations were “unwarranted and unfounded.”
DOCUMENT: State attorney’s report on JEA Sunshine Law investigation
It said the outside conversations did not involve JEA board business or were not covered by the Sunshine Law. The report also said that even if there had been evidence of a Sunshine Law violation, the fact that the decision to appoint Vickie Cavey as interim, and later permanent, managing director and CEO were made during public meetings would have resolved any purported violation.
Cavey responded to the investigation.
“JEA appreciates the thorough investigation by the State Attorney’s Office,” Cavey said. “The JEA Board recognizes the importance of the Sunshine Law and its obligations to comply. The report determined JEA board members complied with the law and that no criminal conduct occurred. The baseless allegations by a former employee cast a shadow over the good work our board and more than 2,200 employees do each and every day delivering foundational services to Northeast Florida. Maintaining the trust of our community is of utmost importance and this report could not have provided a clearer vindication.”
Board Chair Joseph DiSalvo made this statement in response to the report.
“On behalf of the board of directors, we appreciate the diligent work of the State Attorney’s Office. I think it is important to note their findings reinforce the fact that each member on the JEA Board of Directors fully embrace transparency and Sunshine Law compliance and our commitment to remain above reproach when it comes to ethics and integrity,” DiSalvo said.
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The Florida Gators look to be losing edge rusher TJ Searcy to the transfer portal after he played two seasons in Gainesville. Searcy may not move too far away as he is reportedly visiting the Auburn Tigers this weekend.
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Searcy’s 247Sports transfer portal ranking comes in at No. 90 overall and 12th edge. Evaluating his accomplishments for the orange and blue, he’s clearly a quality player. Still, the Gators should not be overly concerned about losing Searcy and here are two reasons why.
First, the Gators are working with extensive NIL money. According to Saturday Down South’s Neil Blackmon, the buyout money once set aside to replace Billy Napier will go toward improving the Florida football roster, as his quote defines.
“Multiple sources close to the program told SDS that part of the logic in retaining Napier for 2025, as opposed to paying his $26.5-million buyout, half of which would have been due up front, was to use money raised for the buyout in the NIL space this offseason.”
Second, keep in mind that the teams currently competing in the College Football Playoff will see several players enter the transfer portal after their seasons conclude. Thus, even if the Gators do not find Searcy’s replacement from the current crop of players available, more talent will become available.
Third, prior to winning his fourth game in a row to close the season, head coach Billy Napier hinted that the Gators felt pretty good at edge and could still make additions.
“Wish TJ nothing by the best,” said Napier. “And maybe we’re not done there. We’ll see. But just think it’s a product of the world we’re living in, right? So, TJ has done a great job for us. It’s been a productive player. He’s done a good job off the field. Really grown up a lot. Proud of him, nothing but respectful.”
In the end, Florida loses a quality player in Searcy, but it will not be the Gators’ undoing and a comparable replacement should be coming to Gainesville.
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