Five games Friday night. The Whiteboard takes the home team in all five: Vegas at 69.4 percent and Carolina at 62.0 percent are the clear reads, with Winnipeg, Detroit, and Dallas near even.
Eight games Thursday night. The picks went five for eight, and three of the misses came down to goaltending: Shesterkin, Daccord, and Askarov all beat the Whiteboard's read.
Eight games tonight. The Whiteboard's surest pick is Utah over Chicago at 79.3 percent, Tampa Bay has the night's highest team score, and the goalies flip Buffalo-Columbus.
Three games on night two, Wednesday night. Pittsburgh crushed the model's 80.4-percent pick 7-0, and the Whiteboard says Toronto and Colorado won games they did not control.
Three games tonight. The Whiteboard, running tonight's expected lineups with goaltending in the number, likes Philadelphia, Toronto, and Colorado — and says Ilya Sorokin is the only reason the Toronto game is close.
Five games opened the 2026-27 season Tuesday night. The Whiteboard's chance ledger says three were decided in the crease, Edmonton lost a game it controlled at every strength, and the best skater on the ice finished without a point.
Zero points and a minus-2 in his first NHL game. The Whiteboard's tracking of Tuesday's Toronto loss says the 18-year-old's process was fine. The volume was the problem, and that is the thing to watch.
Five games open the 2026-27 season tonight. The Whiteboard, running tonight's expected lineups with goaltending in the number, likes Carolina, Montreal, Edmonton, and Vegas, and calls Rangers-Bruins a coin flip.
Toronto gave up Matthew Knies, Emil Andrae, a second-round pick, and $4.75 million more in annual cap space for six years to land Kirill Marchenko. The Whiteboard grades Marchenko 66.2 to Knies' 46.6 — and the math says the Leafs were right to pay it.
Buffalo lost both halves of its presumed goalie tandem in preseason within 48 hours, leaving Colten Ellis as the only healthy rostered goalie five days before the opener at Columbus.
Nikishin's holdout escalates, Larkin misses the whole preseason, and Kyrou wins it in overtime — the last weekend of camp across all 32 teams.
Day five of 2026 training camp, Monday, September 21. Alex Ovechkin is day-to-day with a lower-body injury, Brady Tkachuk marked his Panthers debut with a Gordie Howe hat trick, and Aleksander Barkov played his first game in fifteen months. Here is what happened at every rink.
Camps are open. I ran all 32 rosters through the Whiteboard’s lineup model — drive, engine, and chemistry scores for every line and pair — then adjusted for injuries and real deployment. Every team’s realistic lineup, what the numbers say, and the questions camp has to answer.
Thirty-two camps opened on Thursday, September 17. Hellebuyck suspended for failing to report, Makar on a lighter program, Larkin out hurt — what happened at every rink on day one.
Kirill Marchenko is in trade rumors, so I pulled his page up on The Whiteboard to see what my own data says he is.