Quick notes on a Saturday before a nice little day of graduation open housing.
NHL
The wild are starting to take control of their series against the Blues. Each game in the series has been particularly lopsided but that’s back to back convincing wins for the Wild.
Kirill Kaprizov has arrived in these playoffs and now has four playoff goals. Joel Eriksson Ek also had his third goal of the playoffs in the Wild 5-1 route as well. Not to mention key saves from the man Marc Andre Fleury. The Blues cannot drop game four on home ice or this thing might just be over.
Meanwhile, the Oilers have found depth scoring, Ryan Nugent Hopkins and Evander Kane both with two goal nights in an 8-2 route against the Kings last night which moved the series to a 2-1 Oil lead. With that depth performing, Connor McDavid making beautiful passes and Mike Smith standing on his head every once in a while it seems, well Edmonton might just be in for a deep cup run after all.
Despite a 5-2 win for the Leafs, you just keep wondering, can this team keep it up? We have just seen Toronto collapses so many times, even when they respond positively like this there is still a little voice in the back of my mind that is telling me to avoid buying into the hype.
If Toronto can overcome years of loss though, it becomes one of the greatest sports stories in the history of Canada, and for that matter the world. As a journalist whose supposed to root for storylines, this is definitely one I am leaning into.
WNBA Fantasy Corner
Nothing like playing Fantasy WNBA with your boyz, and that’s exactly what I am doing this year. So once every week, I will look at the top three fantasy scorers in the WNBA!
- Candace Parker, 44 points
- Kelsey Plum, 40 Points
- Dana Evans, 39 points and available on Waivers.
Come Monday expect a brief breakdown of the weekend that was in the WNBA, weird side note, half of these players just aren’t playing in the WNBA because they just decided to go randomly play overseas, that is really weird. It also shows that the WNBA appears to be a weak league if players are leaving it to pursue more lucrative opportunities in Europe.
NBA
The return of Joel Embiid and a cold shooting night from the Heat get the Sixers back into the series. Tyrese Maxey continues to emerge as an NBA star putting up 21 points and again outpacing James Harden. Philly probably doesn’t stand much of a chance the rest of the way but it’s good to get the Sixers at full strength.
In the west, the Suns run into a similar issue, have a poor shooting night and Luke drops 26 points and is just an assist away from a triple double. The series involving the one seeds in the NBA are not competitive but Bucks Celtics and Grizzlies Warriors promise to be a lot of fun today.
More notes from the weekend, next Monday hopefully, heading on vacation but hoping to keep the blogging up.