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Hockey Independent Playoff Roundtable: Conference Semi-Finals Predictions
— Welcome back to the Hockey Independent roundtable where five writers from the HI staff have come together once again to provide you all with our Conference Semi Finals predictions. The contributing authors to today’s piece will be Cris Cohen (New York Rangers), Alex Muscat (Detroit Red Wings), Bill Philp (Tampa Bay Lightning) and [...]
Blues Blast the Predators 3-0
The war that has been the Predators/Blues series continued for the final time in the regular season at the Scott Trade Center. 4 of the previous 5 contests had gone the way of the Predators, with their only loss occurring in overtime, and there was nothing that the league leading Blues would like to do [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 8-6-2 with 18 points through 16 games. After 16 games last season, the Bolts were 9-5-2 with 20 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division three points behind the Washington Capitals and eighth in the Eastern Conference. After 16 games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team [...]
Top-20 worst bang-for-the-buck NHL forwards in 2010-11
When the 2010-11 NHL regular season ended about three weeks ago, some teams analyzed the production of some of their key players thinking why did we give so much money to the players listed below. While some productive players like Joe Thornton (21 goals, but 70 points), Henrik Sedin (19 goals, but 94 points) and [...]
Questioning The Cornerstone? | Major Injury Update & Trade Ramifications | Claim Nabakov?
Just Saying… Erik Johnson Some days Erik Johnson just can’t win for losing. In the Blues 4-3 OT loss to the Evil Empire the brain vapor miscues began and ended with the top pick in 2006 Patrick Eaves game opening goal came on a quick feed by Henrik Zetterberg from the far wall to the [...]
New Jersey trades captain Jamie Langenbrunner to Dallas for conditional draft pick
Earlier this morning the New Jersey Devils have traded captain Jamie Langenbrunner to the Dallas Stars in exchange for a conditional third-round 2011 draft pick. Langenbrunner returns to the team that drafted him 35th overall in the 1993 NHL entry-draft, for which he played from 1994 to 2002. Langenbrunner won a Stanley Cup with Dallas [...]
Flyers interested in Devils’ captain Jamie Langenbrunner
It has been a season to forget for the New Jersey Devils as they sit in last place in all of hockey with only 22 points and 10 wins—as horrendous as the Phantoms have been this year, Adirondack still has more wins than the Devils in less games. Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello appears to [...]
Predators Bedevil New Jersey 3-1
The Nashville Predators made a rare trip to the Rock to take on the New Jersey Devils in a contest that presented itself as a trap game. A game against an Eastern Conference foe that the Predators rarely see; a game against a team that has been struggling; a game that is sandwiched in between [...]
Daily Rumors: Picking Apart Potential “Blockbuster” Deals This Season
The NHL’s annual trade deadline is still three months away (February 28th, 2011) but the lack of significant player movement early in the season has more than a few pundits and bloggers musing over potential deals as the deadline nears. Thomas Copain of The Bleacher Report recently looked at ten potential “Blockbuster deals that could [...]
New weekly fantasy hockey ramblings at Hockey Independent
This will be a new weekly feature here at Hockey Independent as I will try to give you advice on your fantasy hockey drafts, whether it’s a keeper pool or not, and whether you are allowed daily/weekly roster changes or not during the season. You can have a look at my article on the 2010-11 [...]
New Jersey Devils re-sign Ilya Kovalchuk***updated***
After Ilya Kovalchuk’s agent Jay Grossman broke silence earlier today announcing the Russian winger will make a decision today regarding his future as a NHL player, the New Jersey Devils announced via Twitter that Ilya Kovalchuk was just re-signed to a contract (as per Dmitri Chesnokov the deal is rumored to be a seventeen-year, $102 [...]
Who should be the next Sharks Captain?
Rob Blake served as San Jose Sharks captain for just one season before retiring. Now the keys to the car are available for the second straight off-season. The question is who takes over? The importance of the little “C” that’s patched to a players sweater is debatable. There’s evidence of a team’s captain being completely [...]
The New Jersey Devils expected to re-sign Ilya Kovalchuk to a seven-year, $60 million contract?
After Ilya Kovalchuk’s agent Jay Grossman broke silence earlier today announcing the Russian winger will make a decision today regarding his future as a NHL player, the NY Post reported the New Jersey Devils have the inside edge in re-signing the much-coveted free agent to a seven-year, $60 million contract. (Their headline has now changed [...]
Wednesday Night Rant: What’s So ‘Miracle’ About Team USA?
The memories of a screaming Al Michaels asking if we believe in miracles is etched into every hockey fans memory, whether they lived through it or not. Immortalized through books, documentaries, and the 2004 film aptly named for what their accomplishment was, the 1980 U.S. team made up mostly of college kids from New England [...]
Candidates for Team USA’s roster for Vancouver 2010
Brian Burke, Team USA’s GM, is planning on making the announcement of USA’s final roster on January 1st, 2010, during the Winter Classic. Burke will name his 23 man roster at Fenway Park, during the Flyers vs. Bruins game. Below you will find the three groupings for the 2010 Olympic hockey tournament: GROUP A: Canada, [...]
Hamrlik injured, Price’s soft glove and a boring game
Martin Brodeur reached another milestone, and the New Jersey Devils won another game against the Montreal Canadiens. Brodeur tied Patrick Roy’s NHL record for regular-season appearances by a goalie, and Patrik Elias scored the game-winning goal with 2:36 left in the third period in the Devils’ 2-1 victory over the Habs yesterday evening. The game [...]
Canadiens vs. New Jersey Brodeurs
The Habs are charged with a difficult task tonight, as they aim to stop Martin Brodeur from breaking yet another record. Can they do it? www.thecheckingline.com
