All Entries Tagged With: "Columbus Blue Jackets"
Pivotal Summer For Yzerman Regime Begins
With the 2011-12 Tampa Bay Lightning season complete, it’s time to focus on the upcoming campaign as the Bolts brass begins to build the team and solidify the roster as we race towards the official start of the NHL’s Free Agency period on July 1. Tampa Bay will certainly look to improve the goaltending and [...]
Red Wings Score Four in Third Period, Cruise Past Blue Jackets 5-2
No Pavel Datsyuk? No Nicklas Lidstrom? No Jimmy Howard? It looked as if it was going to be a trap game, but the Detroit Red Wings had no problems for most of the third period as they got four goals in a 10:09 span as they stormed back to beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-2 [...]
Bolts Bolster Blue Line With Three Deadline Day Deals
Tampa Bay Lightning GM Steve Yzerman revamped the Bolts blue line corps with a trio of trades on this deadline Monday. The Lightning acquired defenseman Mike Commodore from the Detroit Red Wings in exchange for a conditional seventh round draft pick in 2013. The 32 year old Commodore played only 17 games with the Red Wings accumulating two [...]
Report: Bruins Interested In Kings’ Captain Dustin Brown
Following Thursday night’s acquisition of former Blue Jackets’ center Jeff Carter, reports began to surface about the Los Angeles Kings’ interest in dealing their captain, Dustin Brown before Monday’s trading deadline. TSN’s Bob McKenzie and Darren Dreger were the first to break the news, with McKenzie later suggesting that Los Angeles is interested in dealing [...]
For Los Angeles, Jeff Carter trade has its risks
By Tom Dougherty | @todougherty In a blockbuster trade with the Columbus Blue Jackets Thursday, the Los Angeles Kings acquired center Jeff Carter for defenseman Jack Johnson and a conditional 2012 first round draft pick. Carter, who has 15 goals in 39 games with the Blue Jackets this year, will be reunited with his best [...]
Boston’s Case For A Blockbuster
With Nathan Horton being sidelined indefinitely with a concussion, and no timetable for a return after a “set back” occurred two weeks ago the Bruins were really put in a bad spot without their top-line right wing. Now, as news broke this morning that Horton’s replacement on the first line, Rich Peverley, has suffered a [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week in Review
At the end of the All-Star break, the Detroit Red Wings (33-16-1) barely remain on top of the NHL standings with 67 points, one point ahead of the New York Rangers. But what matters most is that they are in the middle of a heated race in the Central Division. The Red Wings are two [...]
Five Deals That SHOULD Be Made Before The Deadline
As the late February NHL trading deadline approaches rumors have began to surface in every corner of the hockey world. From buyers to sellers and rentals, a plethora of deals always seem to be made this time of year. This year, as a few top-tier players are slated to become Unrestricted free agents at year’s [...]
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 – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 20-23-4 with 44 points through 47 games. After 47 games last season, the Bolts were 27-15-5 with 59 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by ten points. Tampa Bay is in 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, nine points [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week in Review
With 48 games played and the All-Star break coming later this week, the Detroit Red Wings (32-15-1), winners of six straight, stand on top in the NHL standings with 65 points. They are one point ahead of four teams that are tied for second, two of them being in the same division. It looks as [...]
Red Wings Make It Sixteen Straight on Home Ice, Beat Blue Jackets 3-2 in Shootout
Valtteri Filppula scored the lone and deciding goal in the fourth round of the shootout as the Detroit Red Wings (32-15-1) beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-2 for their 16th straight victory on home ice. Jimmy Howard stopped the final shooter, Ryan Johansen, to seal his 29th win of the season, which leads all NHL [...]
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: Rask, B’s Set To Host Iginla’s Flames At TD Garden
Following a 6-1 slaughtering of the New Jersey Devils on Prudential Center ice on Wednesday, the Boston Bruins will look to kick-start another winning streak on Thursday when they host Jarome Iginla and the Calgary Flames. The Bruins, winners of seven of their last eight games, have not lost a home game at TD Garden [...]
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 [...]
Rask’s 41 Stops Enough To Bury Struggling Kings
On Tuesday evening at the TD Garden the Boston Bruins were able to begin what they hope will be another extended winning streak, shutting down the Los Angeles Kings to the tune of a 3-0 victory. Backstopped by 41 saves from Tuukka Rask, –who recorded his 1st shutout since March– the B’s used two tallies [...]
GameDay: Kopitar, Struggling Kings Visit Chara-less Bruins
On Tuesday night the Boston Bruins will return to action for the first time since Saturday’s 5-3 win in Columbus as they get set to host Anze Kopitar and the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings, 13-12-4 (30 Points) are coming off a string of four straight losses, a streak in which they’ve been outscored 11-6 [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 12-15-2 with 26 points through 29 games. After 29 games last season, the Bolts were 15-10-4 with 34 points. The Lightning are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eleven points. Tampa Bay has fallen to 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference. After 29 [...]
Life Without Chara? B’s Captain Befallen With Leg Injury
Sometimes the most undervalued players in Boston, Bruins’ captain Zdeno Chara has been about as steadily effective forces on the blueline as there is in the NHL. Often relied upon to shutdown an opponent’s top-line, — something Big Z has excelled at during his time in Black and Gold — Chara has more than proven [...]
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 [...]
