All Entries Tagged With: "Craig Anderson"
B’s Use Third Period Rally To Edge Sens 4-3 At TD Garden
The surprising Ottawa Senators have drawn fame this season from their ability to overcome early deficits and rally from behind to win games in the third period. Unfortunately for the squad from Canada’s capital, these roles were reversed on Tuesday in a 4-3 defeat at the hands of the Boston Bruins. Recovering from a 1-0 [...]
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 [...]
Coach Julien Not Satisfied By Bruins’ 5-2 Win In Ottawa
Sometimes you just have to win ugly. As simple as that may sound, it’s often true in the game of hockey, especially in a league as competitive as the NHL. On Wednesday night, for the second consecutive evening the Boston Bruins won their second straight game without the services of captain Zdeno Chara. In a [...]
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 [...]
Bruins Get Back In Business; Down Sens 5-3 At TD Garden
On Tuesday night, the Boston Bruins absolutely had to have a victory. That’s right, the defending Stanley Cup Champions were in a must-win situation…..on November 1. Coming into Tuesday’s game against Ottawa, the B’s had lost 3 straight and seven of their first ten this season, with a 2-5-0 record at the TD Garden. [...]
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 [...]
Red Wings Hold Off Senators 5-3 In Season Opener
The Detroit Red Wings started the 2011-12 season firing on all cylinders. The Red Wings scored the first five goals of the game and held off the Ottawa Senators with a 5-3 home win at the Joe Louis Arena. Cory Emmerton, who is playing in his third NHL game, scored a goal and an assist [...]
Bruins Fall To Ottawa 2-1 In Pre-Season Home Finale
Last night, in the final Pre-Season game of 2011 at the TD Garden, the Boston Bruins fell to the visiting Ottawa Senators, 2-1. It was the Bruins who would get on the board first, when Milan Lucic scored Boston’s 6th Power-Play goal in 4 games. Good puck possession, in the offensive zone from Boston’s [...]
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 [...]
Mission Impossible
Remember the way Mission Impossible always starts? With the secret message self-destructing? Well in this case Peter Forsberg is watching the Colorado Avalanche self-destruct and apparently, just like in Hollywood, he is going to take the impossible mission. Injuries The latest blow to the injury-wracked Avs is the season long loss of Tomas Fleischmann, diagnosed [...]
Predators Bury the Avalanche 5-1
The Nashville Predators continued their six game road trip with a contest against the Colorado Avalanche, a team that plays wide open and with speed. The Avs are chasing the Predators in the standings by two points, and this contest shaped up on paper to be a significant test for the visitors. On paper. The [...]
Team Sophomore Slump?
The Colorado Avalanche are having a bit of a tough go at it this season. This time last year they were in and out of first place in the division. And while the Western Conference is ridiculously tight and teams shift in and out of playoff spots daily, one has to wonder if the Avs [...]
Canadiens set to face former teammate Ryan O’Byrne
After losing 5-3 to the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday and winning 4-3 against the Boston Bruins on Thursday, the Canadiens chartered a plane to Colorado yesterday, where they will visit the Avalanche and former teammate Ryan O’Byrne tonight at 8 PM Eastern time. O’Byrne, who was traded for forward Michael Bournival in early November, has [...]
Daily Rumors: Twelve Notable NHL Goalies Hitting the Trade block by the February Deadline?
The lack of real trade movement in the days leading up to this season’s NHL Christmas “trade freeze” has more than a few pundits and bloggers looking ahead to the February 28th NHL Trade Deadline – when we know for certain there’ll be real, honest-to-goodness trade activity – and speculating over which players might be [...]
Fantasy hockey: goaltending battles part 2
Two months into the season, let’s have a look at the goal tending battles raging on in the NHL. Some teams still don’t have a clear-cut starter like Roberto Luongo, Ryan Miller or Martin Brodeur. Goaltending battles: – Scorching: game-to-game musical chair – Blazing: no clear-cut starter – Moderate: mild battle going-on – Low: a [...]
Fantasy hockey: goaltending battles
One week into the season, it’s time to look at some of the goal tending battles going on in the NHL. Some teams don’t have a clear-cut starter like Roberto Luongo, Ryan Miller or Martin Brodeur. Goaltending battles: – Scorching: game-to-game musical chair – Blazing: no clear-cut starter – Moderate: mild battle going-on – Low: [...]
Do You Believe in Budaj?
It’s no wonder there is a bit of angst in Colorado over the Anderson injury. The angst has as much to do with backup goalie Peter Budaj as it does with starter Craig Anderson’s injury. There’s a lot of disagreement in Avalanche circles when Budaj is discussed. People love him or hate him. When the [...]
Weekly Fantasy: Top 20 goaltenders to draft this season
With the 2010-11 season slated to start on Thursday, October 7th, it’s time to have a look at the top 20 goaltenders to draft in your fantasy hockey league and at factors to consider when drafting your goaltenders. Is he prone to injury? Who is the backup goaltender? Do the team play many back to [...]
Sharks logjam in net
San Jose Sharks GM Doug Wilson got what he wanted in net… and some. With Antero Niittymaki, Thomas Greiss, and the newly signed Antti Niemi protecting the twine, the Sharks have fully addressed an area that was full of questions once they decided to let Evgeni Nabokov go. Yet new questions now emerge in net. [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits to Close out Your Weekend
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I hope that you all had a terrific weekend and are all refreshed for the week ahead. To close out the weekend, I figured I would give you folks some hockey blogs to check out before shutting your eyes and dreaming about the upcoming hockey season. Enjoy: The Hockey Guys: [...]