All Entries Tagged With: "Colorado Avalanche"
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 [...]
Marc Savard Declared Out For Season – Career In Jeopardy
When Marc Savard when down to the ice in pain, on January 22, in Colorado, after a collision with former teammate Matt Hunwick, the city of Boston held it’s collective breath. This would be the 2nd time in 10 months that Savard would suffer a severe concussion. Following the infamous Matt Cooke hit, on March [...]
Season Predictions Part 2: Canucks Poised For A Repeat?
Hello again, and welcome to Part II of my 4-Part NHL season preview. In part I, I gave you all my Eastern Conference Predictions. In part 2, I will give you my predictions for the Western Conference. I will approach these predictions a bit differently than I did those for the Eastern Conference. Today, [...]
After 20 NHL Seasons, Draper Will Call It A Career
At an 11 a.m. press conference tomorrow morning at Joe Louis Arena, Kris Draper will officially announce his retirement. Injuries slowed Draper this past season and it limited him to 47 games. He chose to hang up the skates rather than having his role diminished. Draper spent 17 of his 20 seasons with the Red [...]
A Look at the Colorado Avalanche and the Semyon Varlamov Trade
It is now well established “fact” that the Colorado Avalanche severely overpaid in the trade with the Washington Capitals for netminder Semyon Varlamov. As the experts and the panic-stricken continue to babble I’ve detected a quiet feeling of satisfaction within the Avalanche nation. Let’s put a little perspective on the situation. After the sticker shock [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Release 2011-12 Schedule
The Tampa Bay Lightning announced their 2011-12 schedule today. The Bolts will open the exhibition season with two games in St. Louis against the Blues on September 20 and 21. The lone home preseason game will be on September 23 versus the Florida Panthers followed the next night by a meeting in Sunrise against those [...]
Lightning Re-sign Defenseman Vernace
The Tampa Bay Lightning has re-signed defenseman Mike Vernace to a one year, two way contract today. The six-foot, 215 pound defenseman played ten games with the big club last season and recorded an assist. The 2004 seventh round pick of the San Jose Sharks had seven goals and 28 points with the Bolts AHL [...]
Avalanche Goalie-Go-Round
Ever since the Avs went with Budaj/ Raycroft it’s been a joke. What you say? But Craig Anderson! Yes, yes. BUT. But, if you can be honest with yourself, that was a shot in the dark, a gamble, a roll of the dice. Ok, over doing the metaphors? It wasn’t a complete shot in the [...]
Will The Rangers Ring In 2012 In Philly?
While the San Jose Sharks and Detroit Red Wings were locked in an incredible game 7 Thursday evening, a story about possible plans for the 2012 Winter Classic was beginning to make the rounds. If the circulating story is true, then the Philadelphia Flyers will be hosting the New York Rangers on Monday, January 2nd, [...]
