All Entries Tagged With: "Vancouver Canucks"
At The Midpoint, The Rangers Are Surpassing Expectations
At the midway point of the season, the New York Rangers are 28-10-4. They have put together 4, 5-plus game win streaks in the first half of the season, something no other Rangers team has done and have not yet had a losing streak of more than 2 games. If someone told you when they [...]
Old-School Rivalry Taking On New Feel As B’s Sink Habs 2-1 At TD Garden
Once upon a time, the rivalry between the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens was revered as one of the best in all of sport. A time when every meeting between the two Original Six foes was regarded as “must-watch television”, where each and every hockey fanatic in New England and Quebec, casual and die-hards [...]
GameDay: Rivalry Rekindled As Habs Pay Final Visit To The Hub
On Thursday evening, the Boston Bruins will look to create a new winning streak when they play host to the rival Montreal Canadiens for the third and final time this season. The B’s and Habs have split the season series 2-2 thus far, with each side taking a game a piece at each of the [...]
GameDay: B’s Look To Get Back On Track Against Wheeler, Jets
On Tuesday evening, the Boston Bruins will look to bounce back from their 4-3 loss to the Vancouver Canucks, when they host Blake Wheeler, Mark Stuart and the rest of the Winnipeg Jets. The B’s and Jets have met twice already this season, with each team winning one game. This first meeting saw the Black [...]
Marchand’s Five-Game Suspension Reveals Inconsistencies In NHL Justice System
On Monday evening, Boston Bruins’ forward Brad Marchand was suspended for five games by NHL head disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan for his “hit” on Vancouver Canucks’ defenseman Sami Salo during Saturday’s matinee contest at TD Garden. In fairness to the league, Shanahan and the player safety department have done an excellent job in improving the league’s [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 17-20-3 with 37 points through 40 games. After 40 games last season, the Bolts were 21-11-5 with 47 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eleven points. Tampa Bay is in 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, nine points out [...]
“Eliminating Concussions?”: Suspension For Marchand Would Reek Of Pure Hypocrisy From The NHL
On Saturday afternoon, in front of a 17, 565 sellout at TD Garden and a nationally televised audience courtesy of NHL Network, perhaps one of the most poorly and hastily made penalty calls of the season was made late in the second period of the highly anticipated Bruins and Canucks Stanley Cup Finals rematch. It [...]
Canucks Edge Bruins In Penalty-Riddled Finals Rematch
In a game that saw 30 penalties, 18 power-plays, a penalty shot, and a combined 107 minutes of penalties, the Vancouver Canucks exacted a small bit of revenge against the Boston Bruins, as they defeated the B’s by a 4-3 score. With a chance to showcase arguably the two best teams in the league, and [...]
Bruins Put Out The Flames, Route Calgary For 9-0 Victory
On a night less than 48 hours in advance of a highly anticipated Stanley Cup Finals rematch with the Vancouver Canucks, it would have been easy to expect a “let-down” of sorts in Boston on Thursday evening when the Bruins played host to the Calgary Flames. Also, in a game that the B’s would be [...]
Top 10 Bruins Moments Of 2011
First off, as I return from a week long vacation from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I’d like to wish everyone a safe and happy New Year. Here’s to another splendid year in 2012… Now, with the year 2011 coming to a close tomorrow evening when the clock strikes midnight, I figured that now [...]
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 [...]
Sour Grapes: Cherry Defends Defenceless While Backing Bruins
Sour Grapes is a feature that will run weekly on Mondays to begin each week, offering a summary of another crazy week around the NHL from the perspective of none other than Donald S. Cherry, distilled and interpreted into plain English so NHL fans everywhere can come to appreciate the wisdom behind the ranting and [...]
Smarter Hawks Win Fourth Straight In Vancouver
A well-focused and smarter group of Blackhawks showed up in Vancouver and came away with an impressive 5-1 victory. The Hawks weren’t only the better team, they were also the least penalized club, which was a meaningful achievement. The Blackhawks performed very differently than when they met the Canucks at the United Center some 11 [...]
Blackhawks Roll On as Biggest Test Lies Ahead
Give the Edmonton Oilers their due, they fell behind early but didn’t quit. Playing their final game of a six-game road trip, the young Oilers didn’t get frazzled. On Sunday night, the Blackhawks left little doubt as to who was the better team. Chicago scored three goals in the opening frame and never looked back, [...]
Questions Abound As Hawks Struggle
In came November and out went the outstanding start to the season for the Blackhawks. In fairness, things have not reached panic mode, but a loss to the lowly Columbus Blue Jackets Thursday evening could shake the optimism of the most diehard Hawks fan. The Blue Jackets should not pose a huge threat if the [...]
Canucks Trounce Misguided Hawks
The best part of the evening for most of the 21,883 attending Sunday’s Chicago-Vancouver game was the ride home. The Blackhawks were defeated 6-2. Although the score was lopsided, it was still flattering to the home team. The Canucks completely dominated the contest and left little doubt from the opening puck drop they were the [...]
Hawks Win Depite Themselves As Crawford Shines
Blackhawks fans will either look back to the beginning of the 2011-2012 campaign as a foreshadowing of great times or as an indicator of future problems. The Hawks keep winning, but they often succeed despite themselves. On Thursday night, the Blackhawks defeated the Florida Panthers 3-2 in a shootout. The game marked the fifth time [...]
Net Results Lead To Points For The Rangers
After over 15,000 miles of travel over the last month, the New York Rangers will finally get to sleep in their own beds for a few weeks as they settle in and open the partially renovated Madison Square Garden with a 6-game homestand. Through seven games played in three countries on two continents and five [...]
Red Wings Shutout Streak Continues In 2-0 Win Over Canucks
Do you think Jimmy Howard told Ty Conklin during pregame warm-ups, “Whatever you can do, I can do it too”? Highly unlikely that was said, but Howard did do what Conklin had done five days earlier—shutout the opponent. Howard was spectacular as he stopped all 25 shots for his sixth career shutout as the undefeated [...]
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 [...]
