If there’s one thing I know about the Stanley Cup Playoffs, it’s that we always get to see unsung heroes on these teams come out of nowhere and help guide their teams to victory or play a key role in it. With the postseason set to start this weekend, I wanted to take a look at seven players who I think are going to have “a moment” this spring. Whether that means they play well enough to earn more of a role on their team going into next year, make a key difference in a victory

With the NBA playoffs set to officially kick off this weekend, I thought it would be a great time to look back at some of the best playoff series we’ve had over the last five years and give you my top five favourite series, dating back from last year’s postseason to the 2021 postseason. Here’s hoping for a great and competitive spring of hoops this time around, and let’s see what can make this list come this time next year. (5) Timberwolves vs. Nuggets — 2024 West Semifinals

The NBA postseason unofficially kicks off tonight with the play-in tournament, where four teams in each conference battle for two playoff spots. In this post, I am going to predict how the tournament plays out and what those results mean for the postseason. Eastern Conference Play-In (10) Miami Heat @ (9) Charlotte Hornets Starting with the 9 vs 10 matchup, the Miami Heat head to Charlotte to take on the Hornets. The Heat know this stage. They have been in the play-in for fou

After being in first place in the Atlantic Division in January, around the Olympic break, looking like a playoff spot was basically a lock, and at the trade deadline the Detroit Red Wings traded an unprotected first-round pick to push for the postseason. And yet… here we are. The Red Wings have now missed the playoffs for the tenth year in a row. The NHL's newest longest active postseason drought now that their divisional rival, the Buffalo Sabres are back in the dance this y

So tonight, March Madness wraps up, which marks the end of many people's favourite sports tournament. For me, this kind of kicks off a fresh cycle of the sports season. March Madness is the unofficial start of spring for me, which is playoff season in a lot of sports. The NHL and NBA will kick off their postseason over the next couple of weekends. Then once those seasons end, we get into the meat of the baseball season and the postseason push there. Then the NFL begins, where

This past Tuesday, I attended my first MLB game in nearly 15 years as my friend and I went to see the Mariners take on the New York Yankees in Seattle, where the Yankees won 5-0. After going to that game, and after following baseball a bit more over the past couple of years, I’ve started to think about which stadiums I want to visit in the MLB. Baseball specifically stands out because the tickets are so cheap. I only paid about $45-50 to watch what are supposed to be two AL c

This Wednesday marks April 1st, which for a lot of people is around the time of year when the school year for college students begins to wind down and people are going home. You can see summer just on the other side of the bridge, which also means people are going to be trying to get into their best shape possible. In light of that, I decided to take a bit of a break from sports writing today and give you my personal plan on how I plan to attack this summer in terms of stayin

Before I get into this any deeper, let me just say, Kevin Durant is one of the greatest basketball players ever. He’s been an athlete I’ve looked up to and, in a way, related to. All he’s wanted to do is play this sport. He’s a guy that, in my opinion, does seem a bit socially isolated. He doesn’t come across as someone who really enjoys going out. He kind of just likes to get shots up, and in a lot of ways I relate to that. He’s one of the athletes I’ve raised watching, and

There’s less than a month left in the NHL season, and the playoff race is really starting to heat up. So with that in mind, I’ve kind of been looking at potential playoff scenarios, what the bracket could look like, and what it’s probably going to look like. I also played around with what my preferred first-round matchups would be. This will be based on the matchups, how the rest of the bracket could play out, and just how the atmosphere would feel. So overall, there’s a lot

The 2026 Major League Baseball season is officially here. There are plenty of storylines heading into this year. Can the Los Angeles Dodgers pull off a three-peat? Can the Toronto Blue Jays get back to the World Series and avenge their heartbreaking loss to those same Dodgers? Will the Seattle Mariners go on a revenge tour after their collapse in Games 6 and 7 of the ALCS? There are also new faces in new places, like Bo Bichette with the New York Mets and Kyle Tucker with the

To start off, I don’t want people to think this is a heat-of-the-moment type of blog post. I’ve actually had this idea sitting in my drafts for about a month. This conversation really started at a Legends pub in Richmond, BC, about a month ago, when my friends and I were just talking hockey and discussing how good Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov actually is. Then, this past Thursday, I got the chance to watch Kucherov and the Tampa Bay Lightning absolutely dominate

This week, NBA insider Shams Charania of ESPN reported that the Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo are in disagreement about what to do for the rest of the season. The Bucks want to shut Giannis down after yet another injury, one that has limited the two-time MVP to just 36 games in what’s been a frustrating year for both him and the team. Milwaukee is all but certain to miss the playoffs, and even the play-in tournament, sitting at 28–41, seven games back of the Charl

Before the NBA All-Star break in February, the Los Angeles Lakers just weren’t playing good basketball. The team felt awkward, like it was stuck in a transition between the Luka Dončić era and the LeBron James era. Austin Reaves was in and out of the lineup with injury, and it just felt like the Lakers were destined for another first-round exit this spring. And honestly, that still could be the case, but Lakers fans should feel great about their team right now. They’re curren

Tomorrow, every sports fan’s favourite tournament of the year begins: March Madness. 64 teams. One-and-done. All are battling to see who’s the best college basketball team left standing. I’ll fully admit, I’m not someone who watches college basketball consistently. I keep up with some of the top prospects heading into the NBA Draft, but I’m not tuning in every night. And yet, somehow, over the past five tournaments, I’ve managed to correctly predict the champion. Baylor in 20

I’ve grown up loving and playing the game of hockey since I was five years old. At one point, I probably thought I could be an NHL player, but it turns out the NHL wasn't looking for perennially mediocre rep hockey players, and it became obvious it was not going to happen. But along the way, I’ve had favourite players whose games I've really connected with. When I first started watching hockey consistently in the late 2000s or early 2010s, my first favourite player was Michae

On Tuesday, March 17th (my birthday by the way), the Montreal Canadiens picked up a massive win against the Boston Bruins in one of their most important games, if not the most important game of their season to date. This win kept them in third place in the Atlantic Division, two points up on the Detroit Red Wings and Boston Bruins for that final divisional playoff spot, and within striking distance of the Tampa Bay Lightning for second. With 15 games to go, according to Money

Entering this past week the Montreal Canadiens, according to multiple hockey stats websites, had anywhere from about a 92-94% chance to qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs this season. Now, after back to back losses at home against two California teams they had just lost to the week prior in the San Jose Sharks and the Anaheim Ducks, their playoff odds are still currently strong at about 80%, but they have set themselves up for a huge upcoming week with multiple Eastern Conf

So last night, after a few days in New York City, I returned to Vancouver. It was my first ever time solo traveling on my own dime and I wanted to write a blog post about my experience. To start off, I want to say it was a great experience for myself. It made me feel a bit more independent and that I can do this on my own. As I’ve written about a ton in the past, I am an introvert. I like to be on my own. I like to beat to my own drum. I didn’t really have anything planned wh

Tomorrow night, I will be travelling to New York City, and this will be my first time not only visiting the Big Apple, but it will also be my first time travelling solo. I’ll likely have a post later on in the week when I come back about my experience and how it went. But before I leave tomorrow, I want to relate this to my passion, which is sports. And New York is obviously a pretty unique sports market, as it has multiple teams in multiple leagues. Because of that, I wanted

Over the weekend, a few of my friends and I went over to Legends Pub here in Richmond to catch up and talk about what’s going on in our lives. But obviously, with us, the conversation always comes back to sports, especially hockey, which is all of our favourite sport. As the highlights started rolling on the TV, we found ourselves talking about how disgustingly good players like Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Quinn Hughes, Nikita Kucherov, Sidney Crosby, and ot