With 32 teams, games every night and countless narratives emerging, the NHL season can make one\u2019s head spin, and it\u2019s easy to miss out on the weekly storylines. Not to worry; every Monday from October to April, I\u2019ll map out the major events, games, plotlines and milestones on tap for the next seven days.<\/p>\n
So what\u2019s happening the week of Feb. 2-8?<\/p>\n
Feb. 2: Celebrini, Bedard clash for second time ever<\/p>\n
San Jose Sharks<\/a> @ Chicago Blackhawks<\/a>, 8:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n The two friends, B.C., natives and fellow first-overall picks first faced off last year. Celebrini\u2019s Sharks won that game, and it proved an omen of things to come, as San Jose\u2019s rebuild has outpaced Chicago\u2019s, with Celebrini\u2019s breakout season leading a playoff push.<\/p>\n Feb. 4: NHL Olympic roster freeze<\/p>\n It\u2019s pencils down for GMs at 3:00 p.m ET Wednesday. No trades will be permitted from this point until 11:59 p.m. ET Feb. 22. Does that mean we\u2019ll see a mini Trade Deadline play out leading up to Feb. 4? It would give traded players three weeks to sort their lives out and prepare to join their new teams.<\/p>\n Also during the roster freeze, according to PuckPedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n \u201cPlayers can be sent down if they are waiver exempt, except for players that played in 16 of the team\u2019s 20 NHL games prior to the freeze, or have been on the NHL roster for 80 league days prior to Jan 21,\u201d and \u201cPlayers can be placed on waivers during the freeze, but if the player was waived after their NHL team\u2019s final game before the freeze, they do not have to report to their new team until Feb. 17.\u201d<\/p>\n Feb. 6-24: NHL regular season pauses for Olympic break<\/p>\n The actual Olympic tourney begins on the men\u2019s side Feb. 11. The NHL halts its play after a seven-game slate Feb. 5 and doesn\u2019t resume the schedule until Feb. 25. During the break, teams can\u2019t practise from Feb. 6-16, with practices resuming starting at 2:00 p.m. local time Feb. 17, per John Shannon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 32 teams, games every night and countless narratives emerging, the NHL season can make one\u2019s head spin,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-449149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}