All Entries Tagged With: "alexander ovechkin"
Habs – Caps Episode 6: The Canadiens Strike Back; PK Called Up
It took five games, but Jacques Martin finally started to look like someone who’s coached over 1250 games in the NHL (including 85 playoff games). Yes, I’ve been a little hard on Martin in my recent blogs, I think a lot of us have been, even going as far as proclaiming that I wanted him [...]
Game 5: Do or Die for Habs + Live Blog Details!
LIVE BLOG TONIGHT! After the success of Wednesday’s live blog for Game 4, we will be doing another one tonight at TCL for game 5 of the Washington Capitals and Montreal Canadiens series. We have a great line-up of panelists and bloggers for tonight’s chat, including Kamal Panesar of Habs Addict, Steven Hindle of Hockeybuzz, [...]
LIVE BLOG: Caps @ Habs Game 4, Join us NOW!
The time has finally come! The LIVE BLOG is underway. Join George Prax, Scott Lowe, Kamal Panesar from Habs Addict, Jeremy Scriven from Hockey Independent, Steven Hindle from Hockeybuzz, Kyle Roussel, and many others as we blog LIVE about tonight’s game. The blog will run from 6:30 until well after the game, so drop by, [...]
Game 4: Price, Habs, Look To Save Series – Plus! LIVE BLOG DETAILS!
Scroll down below for the preview of tonight’s game! ———————————– LIVE GAME BLOG TONIGHT! Join us at TCL tonight at 6:30 PM as we welcome Steven Hindle of Hockeybuzz, Kamal Panesar of Habs Addict, Jeremy Scriven of Hockey Independent, the guys from RockTheRed.net as well as On Frozen Blog, not to mention Kyle Roussel and [...]
Are the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs becoming more popular than the NBA postseason?
One of the reasons why more and more people can’t deal with the NBA postseason anymore is the completely predictable first-round series. The home team almost always wins. The referees seem to always have a bias towards the home teams. As a result, home teams went 7-1 in the first eight NBA playoff games and [...]
Habs Drop the Ball in Embarrassing Game 3 Loss
Below is a fairly angered review of last night’s ”game”, but first, a word on what’s going in tomorrow on TCL, Hockey Independent and Hockeybuzz! ————————– LIVE BLOG TOMORROW Tomorrow night, TCL will be partnering up with Hockey Independent as well as Hockeybuzz to bring you a LIVE BLOG that will feature some of your [...]
Habs – Caps Episode 3: A New Series
After an interesting set of games at the Verizon Center in Washington, the Capitals and Canadiens will move things above the border to the Bell Centre for games three and four of their first round series. The Canadiens surprised pretty much everyone in the hockey world by taking game 1 last Thursday night, a 3-2 [...]
Pinch Me I’m Dreaming: Habs Take Game 1
——————- Note- Read this HILARIOUS blog from Mike Obrand of Habs Laughs: How the Canadiens Can Upset the Capitals ——————- Habs fans all over the planet are asking themselves several questions this morning: 1) Did that really happen? 2) No, really? 3) Seriously? The Habs beat the Caps? In Washington? In the playoffs? 4) Really? 5) [...]
Habs Perspective: Series Preview vs Caps
Note: Check out this link for all the Habs vs. Caps info you’ll need throughout the series (will be updated every day). It will include links to blogs from myself, Scott Lowe (TCL), Jeremy Scriven (HI), Steven Hindle (Hockeybuzz), and several others as is deemed relevant. Not to mention line-up changes, injuries, all all other [...]
So, You Need A Bandwagon?: Eastern Conference
Ah, the brutal pain of realizing your favorite team won’t be competing for Lord Stanley’s hardware. For some it’s more bitter than others when your club was a single point out of the top eight or are left out due to the inevitable injury bug. For others, just wondering the direction of your franchise can [...]
Blackhawks Down: Campbell Done For The Season
Brian Campbell smashed into the end boards, breaking his clavicle and ribs, courtesy of an Alex Ovechkin hit during the Hawks-Caps NBC Game of the Week Sunday March 14th. Blackhawks fans might have been thinking at that moment that their team’s Cup hopes were done, along with Campbell, for 2010.
Qualifications in the Books; Great Day of Quarter-Finals Ahead
Going into yesterday’s set of games in Vancouver, not many people expected Norway, Belarus, Germany or Latvia to beat their opponents and advance to the quarterfinal round of the tournament. Canada, Switzerland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are simply way too good for those other four growing hockey nations. Surely enough, we sit here on [...]
Olympic Famine: NBC Starving Viewers of Hockey Coverage
Since the opening ceremonies in Vancouver kicked off the 21st Winter Olympics, the cherished ice-hockey round-robin preliminaries have presented hockey addicts with some already memorable moments. Beginning with the Swiss nearly stunning the seemingly indestructible Team Canada in a 3-2 shootout loss, Slovakia coming back from a one goal deficit in the third period to [...]
Vancouver 2010 Olympic Hockey Preview
Even with Olympic hockey tournaments in 1998 in Nagano, Japan, in 2002 in Salt Lake City and 2006 in Torino, Italy, this tournament has to be exciting for hockey fans everywhere. Never has there been such a star-studded tournament of hockey that actually meant something on Canadian soil. Who are the favorites to win the gold? Who could surprise and sneak their way into a medal game? Find out here!
Habs Host Caps In First Game Of The Gauthier Era
What’s to come of the Pierre Gauthier era? What came out of the Bob Gainey era? What’s going to happen tonight against the Capitals? Many questions face the Habs heading into the future. Can any of them be answered?
Bruins Look For Upset Of The Century Over Capitals
Tonight at the TD Garden, the Boston Bruins and visiting Washington Capitals will present us with a two teams going in complete opposite directions. Winners of 10 straight and nearly already clinching the Southeast Division with a 23 point lead over the Florida Panthers, the Washington Capitals march into Boston tonight with all the confidence [...]
Garden Of Woe: Breaking Down The Bruins 2010 Struggles At Home
Happy February, or at least that’s what Bruins fans are hoping for. After a downright disastrous month of January that looked promising following the Bruins’ astonishing 2-1 overtime win at the 2010 Winter Classic, the B’s finished the month with a 3-9-2 record and find themselves on the outside looking in, sitting at 11th place [...]
My 2010 All-Star rosters… if there were actually a game
Below you will find my potential all-star selections if there were actually a game this season instead of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. Each is comprised of 13 forwards, seven defensemen and three goalies. Every NHL team has at least one representative at the game; therefore some players had to be left out of the [...]
Gameday: Habs @ Caps
Most of North America’s eyes will be fixated on the World Junior gold medal game tonight, but if you happen to gander towards the NHL’s schedule tonight, there is certainly a marquee match-up in the works between the Montreal Canadiens and Washington Capitals tonight at 7PM EST!
Russia unveils Olympic Roster
Ovechkin, Semin, Markov, Gonchar. Kovalchuk, Datsyuk, Malkin, Nabokov. How can Canada compete?
