All Entries Tagged With: "Brian Campbell"
Blackhawks Stuck in the Past??
Corey Crawford will be back between the pipes as the Blackhawks skate into San Jose Friday evening. It will take a consistent, effective game by every Hawks player, including Crawford, to get back on track after a six game skid. Under the best circumstances, the Sharks wouldn’t be an easy foe, and Friday night they [...]
Marchand’s Hat-Trick Leads Red Hot Bruins To 8-0 Route Of Panthers
Widely recognized as the best team in hockey already, the Boston Bruins did everything they possibly could to further that assumption on Friday night. Unbeaten (in regulation) in his last ten starts against the B’s, Panthers’ netminder Jose Theodore entered Friday’s game fresh off a December 8 shutout of the Black and Gold, right here [...]
Theodore’s 40 Saves Backstop Panthers To 2-0 Statement Victory At TD Garden
Ladies and gentlemen, the Florida Panthers are for real. Now alone in first place in the Eastern Conference, Head Coach Kevin Dineen’s bunch just continues to prove the hoards who doubted his team completely wrong. The Panthers came through with a huge win on Monday over the division rival Washington Capitals. However, the South Beach [...]
Bruins GameDay: B’s Look To Get Back On Track As First-Place Cats Visit Garden
Tonight the Boston Bruins will look to get back to their winning ways and begin a new winning streak, as they return home for a showdown with the Southeast division leading Florida Panthers. Following a 2-1 loss at Winnipeg’s MTS Centre –their first regulation loss since October 27– Boston returns to the TD Garden for [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 7-5-2 with 16 points through 14 games. After 14 games last season, the Bolts were 8-4-2 with 18 points. The Lightning are in second place in the Southeast Division two points behind the Washington Capitals and seventh in the Eastern Conference. After 14 games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team and the NHL in goals with ten. and [...]
Panthers Starting Strong
The Panthers first 8 games are in the books and the results can be viewed as extremely positive. The forward group has played well but has been inconsistent other than the first line. The line of Weiss, Versteeg, and Fleischmann has been one of the leagues best to start the season and all three [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 3-3-2 with eight points through eight games. After eight games last season, the Bolts were 5-2-1 with 11 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division, six points behind the Washington Capitals and seventh in the Eastern Conference. After eight games, forward Martin St. Louis leads the team in goals with three. Defenseman [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 1-2-2 with four points in their first five games. Certainly not the start they wanted. They are in fourth place in the Southeast Division, already four points behind the Washington Capitals and 11th in the Eastern Conference. After five games, defenseman Marc-Andre Bergeron leads the team in goals (2), assists [...]
Good News, Bad News and What Could Happen
As the road to the playoffs gets bumpier let’s take a look at what was, what is and what might be. The good news is Patrick Sharp supposedly will be back before the end of the regular season. Fortunately Sharp is not forced to have surgery. The bad news is there isn’t anyone on the [...]
The top 10 most expensive defensive corps in the NHL
Some GMs like to build their team with a lot of offensive punch (Washington Capitals), others with a strong goalie tandem (Boston Bruins), and finally some GMs prefer to build their team with a very deep defensive corps. One month into the 2010-11 season, let’s have a look at the top 10 most expensive defensive [...]
The 20 most overpaid NHLers making more than $3.5M per year
One month into the 2010-11 NHL season, it’s time to have a look at the most overpaid NHLers who don’t contribute as much as their team and the general manger who signed them would like. I have not included players whose contract is buried in the AHL or oversees such as Jeff Finger, Wade Redden, [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Montreal Canadiens Interested in Chicago’s Brian Campbell?
A report late last week from TSN.ca hockey insider Darren Dreger noting Montreal Canadiens general manager Pierre Gauthier was recently spotted scouting a Chicago Blackhawks game gave rise to speculation the Habs might be in the market for a defenseman. Dreger suggested Gauthier might be looking, not at Chicago, but Vancouver where Kevin Bieksa has [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Players Most Likely To Be Dealt & Not Dealt
We at HockeyIndependent.com want to be your resource and filter for what is going on in the NHL. We try to disseminate the noise in the blogosphere. We don’t look to to attack those sources, but to question the veracity of the rumor with cold logic, hockey smarts and knowledge. To do that… we have [...]
Offer Sheet Oddities and The Panther Connection
A few weeks ago Stan Bowman seemed to be on course to complete his off season salary cap challenge. No doubt the Blackhawks weren’t going to be as deep but there appeared to be enough talent left to compete for the Western Conference crown. That was the case before the Sharks issued an offer sheet [...]
Sabres Take Pysyk at 23
Entering tonight’s first round of the NHL Entry Draft, there was much speculation on what Darcy Regier and the Buffalo Sabres were going to do with the 23rd overall selection. There had been rumors of a possible deal with Toronto for Tomas Kaberle. And since Toronto did not have a first round pick, the thought [...]
Friday’s Thoughts….Will Hawks Move Campbell?
Yesterday a confident Stan Bowman explained a little about where the Blackhawks are at concerning their salary cap predicament. He commented it was sad to see players go but they have been preparing for this situation for many months. Maybe Hawks management had a contingency plan in place for the all the bonuses which were [...]
One More Chance
Tonight we will find out if the Blackhawks can follow the lead of every other chalk in the Western Conference playoffs and even their series. If so Chicago and Nashville will be squaring off on Saturday in a best two out of three, with the Hawks having home ice advantage. A Game 4 Nashville win [...]
Felonious Assault: Hawks Hunted
Hockey is an ugly game. And isn’t that the way fans want it? The battling, the bashing, the bruising, the body checks, the broken noses and the blood have been part of the spectacle as long as the sport has existed. It’s the law of the frozen jungle. The Blackhawks got not one, but two unequivocal reminders of that fact in the last two games: first Brian Campbell, and now Brent Seabrook, knocked out of action. So what do they do now?
Ovechkin Issues Apology
Alex Ovechkin issues an apology for his hit on Sunday which warranted his third game misconduct.
Ovechkin Receives Third Game Miscoduct
So here we go again. During the Capitals’ amazing 4-3 comeback win against the Chicago Blackhawks, Alex Ovechkin received his third game misconduct of the year for a boarding call early in the first period of Sunday’s game. Unfortunately this latest hit by Ovechkin will outshine the play of Nick Backstrom and company and get far more media attention than it should. But that’s what happens when your Alex Ovechkin.
