Getting Ready for the 2018-19 NHL Season
The 2018-19 NHL season opens on October 3rd with 4 games highlighted by Stanley Cup defending champion Washington Capitals. The Capitals will raise their banner before they face off against the Boston Bruins to kick of a well anticipated season. There are a few big questions going into this season. Will the Golden Nights be able to repeat their stellar first NHL season? Will young center Connor McDavid repeat his MVP season or will established veteran stars regain control of the MVP trophy? The Toronto Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning are the early favorite to end on top of this NHL season but what are the chances that the Capitals make another run for the Cup? Vegas has them at a 1-11 chance of making it 2 in a row.
MLB Regular Season Coming to An End:
The MLB regular is coming to an end but for a few teams, 162 games wasn’t enough. The NL has 2 more games today, October 1st, to see who wins the NL Central and who wins the NL West. First up, is the Brewers at the Cubs as Christian Yelich tries to continue his hot playing against Javier Baez and the Cubs. Jose Quintana will take the mound for Chicago to try and prevent the 1 game wild card matchup against the loser of the Rockies and Dodgers game. Rockies third basemen Nolan Arenado leads his team in home runs (37), batting average (.297) and RBI’s (109) as he hopes to lead his team to victory.
The only wild card game that’s already set after the 162 game season will be hosted in New York and the 100-62 Yankees will host the 97-65 Oakland Athletics. The real question is who will the Yankees send to take the mound? Do they send their true ace Luis Severino or do they send one of their hot starters such as J.A Happ or Masahiro Tanaka? More importantly, who will Oakland send out to pitch against the best power hitting team in MLB history as they broke the home run record by any team and have over 20 homers from every position on the field.
