All Entries Tagged With: "Dion Phaneuf"
How Sweep It Is: Third Line Leads Boston To 8-0 Romp, Season Sweep Of Toronto
BOSTON– After snapping a season-long four-game losing streak with a 3-2 shootout win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday afternoon, the Boston Bruins were looking to start a new trend on Monday evening when they played host to the Northeast division rival Toronto Maple Leafs. If Monday’s effort is any indication of things to come [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Red Wings Give One Away in Toronto 4-3
The Toronto Maple Leafs got a belated Christmas present from the visiting Detroit Red Wings—a 4-3 win at the Air Canada Centre. It was another Red Wings road loss where they didn’t play a full 60-minute game and it cost them. The first 12 minutes of the game was ugly for the Red Wings and [...]
Bruins Down Leafs To Complete Historic November
On Wednesday night the Boston Bruins made organizational history. Capping off a 12-0-1 month of November with a 6-3 victory in Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, the B’s completed their first month without a loss (in regulation) since January of 1969. Leading the way for the B’s on Wednesday was their much-maligned (this season) top line [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 11-9-2 with 24 points through 22 games. After 22 games last season, the Bolts were 13-7-2 with 28 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division four point behind the Florida Panthers and 10th in the Eastern Conference. After 22 games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team [...]
Seguin Stars In B’s 6-2 Trouncing Of Toronto
Regardless of either player’s feelings for one another, 24-year old Maple Leafs’ winger Phil Kessel and 19-year old Bruins’ pivot Tyler Seguin will be linked and compared to one another throughout their entire careers. All of this thanks to a trade in the summer of 2009 that sent 3 top-end draft choices (the first [...]
Toronto Maple Leafs Roster Battles, and What They Mean
With the season only two weeks away, and Ron Wilson saying that he hopes to get a full lineup into a few preseason games, it’s only a matter of time until we finally see the opening roster for The Toronto Maple Leafs. With the top six, and goaltenders virtually set, it will be interesting [...]
Stamkos Is NHL 12 Cover Boy
Electronic Arts announced Wednesday at the NHL Awards, that 21-year old Tampa Bay Lightning center Steven Stamkos will be the face of “NHL 12”, which hits stores in September. The new cover boy said, “It’s just something I’ve grown up playing my whole life. And to be on the cover is a pretty cool honor. [...]
Giroux, Flyers handle Toronto for back-to-back wins
Without Chris Pronger in the lineup, the Philadelphia Flyers found a way to win back-to-back games for the first time in nine games as they escaped the ACC Centre with a 3-2 victory on Thursday night. Claude Giroux and his line contributed a goal and three assists while Brian Boucher stopped 27 of 29 shots [...]
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 [...]
Canadiens set final roster, ready to open season against Toronto
Yesterday the Montreal Canadiens set their 22-man roster by sending goalie Curtis Sanford, forwards Ryan White and Ben Maxwell, as well as defencemen Yannick Weber and Alex Henry to their AHL affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs. With Roman Hamrlik likely to miss the season opener in Toronto tonight with a sprained right knee, and all-star rearguard [...]
With Khabibulin on trial the Oilers need to look at options in net
After watching the Devan Dubnyk-Jeff Deslauriers show last season I can’t imagine anyone in the organization would be too excited to see that combination take the reigns again for an extended period of time should Khabibulin not be available, so I think the Oilers need to be in the market for a cheap veteran backup.
It’s Your Turn, Pierre: The Great Captaincy Debate
Yesterday, the Toronto Maple Leafs ended an entire season of speculation when they announced Dion Phaneuf as their new captain, the 18th in their long storied history. The decision was generally met with approval from most Leafs fans. Phaneuf certainly represents the team that Brina Burke has built this far well, in terms of truculence, belligerence, [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits to Start Your Week
Good evening ladies and gents’ and welcome to another edition of Blog Watch: Quick hits, a general, quick roundup of what the hockey blogosphere is talking about. Here are your hits to start the week: Puck Daddy: Music and the NHL. From the Rink: Wishing on Free Agents. Japers’ Rink: Analyzing Caps’ head coach Bruce [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits for Your Evening Without Hockey
Good evening ladies and gents’. Here are your quick hits to get you through a night without hockey: Frequent Flyers: Your Flyers’ starting goaltender for Game 6 – Michael Leighton. Paul Kukla: Is tomorrow the last night of the hockey season? NHL Fanhouse: Why Guy Boucher decided to go with the Tampa Bay Lightning rather [...]
Bruins In Need Of Two In Toronto
For all five of the meetings between the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs in 2009-10, the focus has been on Bruin-turned-Leaf Phil Kessel. Now, with five games left in their season, the Boston Bruins and fans could care less about #81 because tonight it’s all about the dire two points on the line. After [...]
Official: Calgary Flames trade Jokinen and Prust to NY Rangers for Higgins and Kotalik
After 24 hours of rumblings and discussions about a possible that would send Calgary Flames’ centre Ollie Jokinen and tough guy Brandon Prust to the New York Rangers in exchange for forwards Chris Higgins and Ales Kotalik, the deal was finally made official a little after midnight EDT by the NHL. Jokinen and Prust, who [...]
If the Leafs wanted an overpaid slapshot with questionable defensive skills so badly why’d they trade me?
Young offensive defenseman with big shot averages around 50 points a season before his contract expires, gets rewarded with a multi-year extension averaging $6 million per. He initially plays well but soon production fades which draws attention to his lack of defensive skill. Fans revolt and demand a trade. Sound familiar?
