{"id":951255,"date":"2026-11-03T16:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951255\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:18:16","slug":"report-card-grades-for-every-nhl-teams-first-month-of-the-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951255\/","title":{"rendered":"Report Card Grades for Every NHL Team&#8217;s First Month of the 2026-27 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Turning the net over to Joel Hofer instead of Jordan Binnington is the smart decision, and it&#8217;s giving the Blues a chance to compete this season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Even after trading Jordan Kyrou this offseason, there is a solid forward group here that is just starting to reach its prime years, and a few of them are off to slow starts that should turn around at some point. When they do, and assuming they keep giving Hofer the net, this could be an interesting team in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">They still need some help on the back end, but the group of forwards featuring Robert Thomas, Jake Neighbours, Jimmy Snuggerud, Dylan Holloway, Mason McTavish and Connor McMichael is intriguing. There isn&#8217;t really a star in that group, but when Thomas is at his best, he is one of the most underrated players in the league. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Mediocre start for the team, but there is a decent ceiling here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Turning the net over to Joel Hofer instead of Jordan Binnington is the smart decision, and it&#8217;s giving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-951255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}