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Terriers And Eagles Take Care Of Business, Will Meet Again In Beanpot Finals
On Monday evening the two most prominent college hockey teams in Boston did their part in setting up yet another installment of one of the greatest hockey rivalries on the Eastern Seaboard. The Boston University Terriers and the Boston College Eagles will meet in the Beanpot tournament finals for the fourth time in the past [...]
Fast Five: Predictions For the NHL’s Second Half
As we hit the all-star break this weekend with the Fantasy Draft kicking things off this evening at 8 P.M., the 2011-’12 NHL season has officially reached it’s mid-point. There have been many surprises — and equally as many disappointments — across the league this season on both an individual and team basis. In anticipation [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 14-17-3 with 31 points through 34 games. After 34 games last season, the Bolts were 19-10-5 with 43 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by twelve points. Tampa Bay has fallen to 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference. After 34 [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 14-16-2 with 30 points through 32 games. After 32 games last season, the Bolts were 18-10-4 with 40 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by ten points. Tampa Bay has fallen to 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference. After 32 [...]
Report: No Suspension For Bruins’ Adam McQuaid
In the entire sport of hockey, your likely not going to come across many players as honestly genuine as Boston Bruins’ defenseman Adam McQuaid. In the few interactions I’ve been lucky enough to have with no. 54 in Black and Gold, I’ve come to learn that despite the edge he’s shown himself capable of playing [...]
Red Wings Lose Again to Blues 3-2
The Detroit Red Wings put in a much better effort than the last time they were in the “Gateway City,” but it wasn’t enough as they lost again to the St. Louis Blues. The Blues got goals from Alex Steen, David Backes and Patrick Berglund, while Johan Franzen and Jiri Hudler each found the net [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week in Review
After 25 games into the 2011-12 season, the Detroit Red Wings record is 16-8-1, two points behind the Central Division-leading Chicago Blackhawks and fourth place in the Western Conference. Johan Franzen remains the team’s leading scorer with 25 points (team leading 12 goals, 13 assists) while Pavel Datsyuk is a close second with 24 points [...]
What’s the Answer to the Avs Problems?
The Colorado Avalanche can’t win at home. And it may be worse than that but we will have to wait till the current home stand is over to be sure. But it’s looking more and more like a fluke that the Avs started the season off with the best road record in team history. Since [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week in Review
After starting their six-game homestand with a 0-1-1 record, the Detroit Red Wings fired back on all cylinders by winning their last four games in convincing fashion as they outscored the opposition with a combined score of 18-4. Their record is now 9-5-1 and they are tied with Nashville for second place in the Central [...]
Horton’s Pair Sparks Bruins Past Isles 6-2
Don’t look now but befallen Bruins’ forward Marc Savard may have developed psychic powers while recovering from Post-concussion syndrome at his home in Peterborough, Ontario. Okay, while that may not be entirely true, the 34-year old pivot surely had a good handle on what was going to take place on Monday night at TD [...]
Poor Clock Management Proves Costly
Saturday night’s 5-4 shootout loss to Colorado Avalanche had something for every Blackhawks fan. For the always-optimistic Hawks supporter, their favorite team managed to capture three of a possible four points in the home and home series. For those who like to look for clouds on a sunny day, once again the Hawks failed to [...]
Quenneville And Hawks Prove To Be Best
It took the Chicago Blackhawksquite a while to conquer the Detroit Red Wings, the club they set out to emulate a few years ago. Thursday night in Colorado, the Avalanche appeared to have become the team they wanted to pattern themselves after. In the opening frame, it looked as if Colorado would handle the class [...]
Bruins Implode, Fall To ‘Canes 4-1
On Tuesday evening, the Boston Bruins played host to the Carolina Hurricanes at the TD Garden in the 2nd match-up between the teams, slated for the 2011-’12 season. The Bruins entered the game with a pedestrian 2-3-0 (4 Points) record, but were coming off a hard-fought come-from-behind victory on Saturday night, over the 2010 [...]
Boston Bruins Week In Review
After dropping a Columbus Day matinee contest against the Colorado Avalanche, the Bruins entered this week with a 1-2-0 (2 Points) record. Following a brief two-game road trip that featured stops in Carolina and Chicago, the Bruins record sits at 2-3-0 (4 Points). Standings The B’s currently sit in 3rd place of the North-East division, [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week In Review
Game Recaps Game 1: Ottawa Senators 3 Detroit Red Wings 5 Cory Emmerton scored a goal and added an assist as well as the number one star of the game as the Red Wings got the 2011-12 season started with a win on home ice. Todd Bertuzzi, Nicklas Lidstrom, Jiri Hudler and Ian White also [...]
Rask’s 35 Saves Not Enough, As B’s Fall 1-0 To Avs
On Monday afternoon, the Boston Bruins (1-1-0) played host to the visiting Colorado Avalanche (0-1-0) , for a Columbus Day Matinee contest at the TD Garden. Boston’s 24-year-old Finnish net-minder Tuukka Rask got the start for the B’s, his first of the 2011-12 campaign. In net for the Avs was young Russian goaltender Semyon [...]
Western Conference predictions for the 2011-12 NHL season
Predictions – everybody loves them and if you’re correct about half the time, you’re doing pretty well. Two years ago I had the Los Angeles Kings finishing sixth in the Western Conference. Nailed it. Last season, I slotted the Kings at fourth during my NHL season preview article. That’s certainly where they should have finished, [...]
Red Wings Spoil Avs’ Party In 3-0 Win
It would only be ironic that on Peter Forsberg night, the Detroit Red Wings would come to Denver and successfully crash the party in a 3-0 win over the Colorado Avalanche. It was the Red Wings second win in consecutive nights. Ty Conklin’s second stint with the team began on a high note as he [...]
Peverley’s Pair Leads B’s Past Bolts At TD Garden
On Saturday evening, the Bruins played host to the visiting Tampa Bay Lightning in the first of 4 meetings this season, between the two squads. Despite the pre-game expectations of Tuukka Rask to get the start, it was veteran netminder Tim Thomas who got the start for the B’s, against Tampa’s Mathieu Garon. The [...]
Moore’s Lawsuit Against Bertuzzi, Canucks Could Start In Fall Of 2012
It’s been more than seven years since one of the darkest moments in recent hockey history took place—but former Colorado forward Steve Moore will have his day in an Ontario Superior Court next year. Moore filed a $38 million lawsuit against current Detroit Red Wing Todd Bertuzzi, the Vancouver Canucks and Orca Bay, which owned [...]