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Kukla's Korner Hockey

As We Get Close To The End Of 2018

12/18/2018 at 6:22pm EST

from Carol Schram at Forbes,

With the calendar about to flip to 2019, the players and owners from the National Hockey League can congratulate themselves on a pretty successful year.

The league is healthy and just agreed to collect a record-setting $650 million from the ownership group in Seattle in exchange for the rights to a new expansion franchise. Scoring is up. Nightly highlight packages are filled with spectacular goals and jaw-dropping saves, while issues like illegal hits and goaltender interference rulings have faded into the background.

Here's what to watch in NHL in the new year.

Goals Goals Goals

Scoring is up significantly this season, with teams averaging more than three goals a game for the first time since the post-lockout season in 2005-06. A closer look at the numbers from Hockey Reference suggests that the reasons for this trend go beyond this season’s smaller goalie equipment.

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