Jay Daniel Bouwmeester is an Candian professional ice hockey player, who is a defenceman who currently plays for the St.Louis Blues in the NHL (National Hockey Leauge). In the NHL draft he was picked in the first round, and the third pick at the 2002 entry draft. Jay is thirty six years old, and is six foot four/. Recently on February 11, 2020, against the Anaheim Ducks in Anaheim. Jay suffered a cardiac arrest episode and collapsed on the bench after a long shift during a commercial break. He was seen about to take a drink of his water bottle and he began to slowly fall, the emergency reported right the the Blues bench. Jay was skating in his fifty seventh game of the season and was the 1,241st game of his NHL career. He skated one minute and twenty seconds in his last shift before collapsing and logged five minuted=s and thirty four seconds of ice time in the game. The paremedics had to give Jay a difubulator, each team went into the locker room what had happen to him, the game was called off a few minutes after tied at 1. He had played in all games this seson, and only missed four games all of last season. Jay did survive and is waiting to get back into action.
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Right now in the league Alex Ovechkin may be one of the greatest players to ever play as well, Ovechkin plays right wing for the Washington Capitals. Alex is starting to age but he still has repetitively had multiple 50 goal seasons, and this season he is not slowing down even though he is 34 years old and is 6’3, 235 pounds. So far in his career he has played 1133 games, and out of all this games he has scored 692 goals, had 569 assists, and has a total of 1261 points in his careeer. To be in the NHL and averaging a little over a point a game is just plain out crazy. Ovechkin is know for sitting on the left hash mark on the power play and gets one timers back door, goalies know it’s coming but he has such a good and elusive shot it’s just plane out hard for the goalies to save. I don’t know if we will see Alexander Ovexhkin retiring soon, but if he keeps it at the rate he is going, he will do big things, even tho he has already won multiple stanley cups with the Capitals.
Wayne Gretzky is the best player to ever play in the NHL (National Hockey League), he is the goat of hockey like Micheal Jordan is the goat of basketball. Wayne is the only player to ever get 200 points in a single season, he has been holding that record for many years. He was a very skilled player and lots of players and younger kids look up to him as a role model. Wayne Gretzky was a canadian ice hockey player and former NHL coach, he played 20 seasons in the NHL from 1979-1999. Gretzky had been named "The Great One", and has been called the greatest player to ever walk this planet by many sport writers, NHL players, and the NHL itself. The craziest statitstic of them all is that in 16 of his 20 seasons he averaged 100 points in those 16 seasons which is a record breaking number. I dont know if we will ever see a player like Gretzky ever again, it will be very hard to break the legacy of him.
Leon Draisaitl is the most lethal 3 on 3 player in the NHL. Draisaitl is one of the most lethal one-two punch player in the National Hockey Leauge. But, his ability to produce when the game opens up should not be over looked by people. Leon is the leader for the amount of points in 3 on 3 overtime, he so far has eight goals and ten assists, which is a total of 18 points in overtime games. The only other players in the leaugue with more goals than Leon is Jonathan Toews, and Brad Marchand who both have nine overtime goals. These are the only other players in the NHL that have found twine more than Draisaitl, yet Leon still beats them in total points, despite Marchand lacking players to help him in the overtime games. Leon is a crazy talented player and I cannot wait to see how he will produce points in the future.
The Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadians have a very big rivalry in the National Hockey League. No other NHL rivalry has provided so many signature moments. Thye most recent signature moment between these two teams was the hit on Max Pacioretty during the 2012 hockey season. The hit was so bad people in Montreal were making 911 calls the hit was so bad. Zdeno Chara was plead for criminal charges to be filed against him, the Boston Bruins captain defenseman. Yet after the herendous hit Chara and Pacioretty they both starred in a Mcdonalds commercial used to taunt opposing fans in Mcdonalds commercials during the past year. These two teams have had a rivalry for many years, these two teams have very successful organizations and very structured and skilled program. The rivalry between the two teams will be a never ending rivalry
The New York Rangers and the New York Rangers has a big rivalry, which most fans know as the Battle of New York. Both teams play in the city of New York, and both teams play in the metropolitan area. Both teams play eachother four times each season, and both team get two home games. These two teams have over 300 meetings, but the New York Rangers have he slight win advantage with a record of 127-115-19-9 over the New York Islanders. In 1975, the Islanders made their first playoff appearence, facing the Rangers. After the first two games, Islanders won game three, and the series when Parise scored eleven seconds into the overtime. These teams ended up meeting every season from 1981-1984, Islanders won every one of thos playoff series and made it to three stanley cup finals. Later, in 1990 they met twice, and finally the New York Rangers ended up beating the Islanders 4-1 series, and 1994 they swept the Islanders.The longest win streak between the two teams is hel by the New York islanders with a winning streak of eight games. The Rangers have won four stanley cups, and the Islanders have won four stanley cups. This New York rivalry is insane and watch out for these two teams on the ice.
One of the biggest hockey rivalries is the Montreal Canadians and the Toronto Maple Leafs. This rivalry is the oldest rivalry in the NHL, dating back to 1917. These two high skilled teams have met eachother in the post season playoffs 15 times throughout 1944-1978, and met in five stanley cup finals. While the two teams face off eachother, there competition is very skilled, yet very fierce. The rivalry is a big deal in Canada because Montreal, and Toronto are the two largest cities in all of Canada. Montreal has been a better team during the post season, The Montreal Canadians hold a 42-29 ratio against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Canadians have eight series won, and Toronto has seven. The Canadians have the largest victory on the Leafs, 11-0, which is a crazy high score for the NHL. The most recent victory, was October 14, 2017. The Maple leafs upset the canadians 4-3 in overtime, which ended a record breaker, 14 game losing streak against their rivals, dating back three years ago. But in 1967, both teams were in the Stanley cup Finals. It was a best of seven series, the Leafs ended up coming out on top, winning four games to two games. This rivalry between these two teams will never end, its crazy too see the history of hockey.
The National Hockey League has many rivalries, but the biggest of them all is the Pittsburgh Penguins vs the Washington Capitals. Both teams have been in the Metrpoliten division since 2013. This rivalry started early as the 1980's, right from the start the two teams had amnomosity toward eachother. Pittsburgh has emerged victorious in every series except for the 1994 Eastern Confrence First Round and 2018 Eastern Conference First Round, both series Pittsburgh were heavily favored. This rivalry is not gonna end, it is one tought battle each time these two teams play.
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