All Entries Tagged With: "Jordan Staal"
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 28-28-6 with 62 points through 62 games. After 62 games last season, the Bolts were 37-18-7 with 74 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eight points. Tampa Bay is in 11th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, six points out [...]
Rangers Overcome More Than 2-Goal Deficit At Winter Classic
When the NHL decided to pit the New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers against each other in the 2012 Winter Classic, it was based on the rivalry between the 2 teams and the 2 cities. Little did they know that these 2 teams would both be among the class of the Eastern Conference, with [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 9-8-2 with 20 points through 19 games. After 19 games last season, the Bolts were 10-7-2 with 22 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division three points behind the Florida Panthers and 12th in the Eastern Conference. After 19 games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team in [...]
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 [...]
Downie Delivers A Deciding Game 7 To Tampa Bay
The gritty Steve Downie is showing the Penguins and the NHL what we in Tampa have known for a while. He’s a valuable, complete hockey player, not just an agitator. The Bolt forward scored to break a 2-2 tie in the third period to lead the Tampa Bay Lightning over the Pittsburgh Penguins and force [...]
An Embarrassing Night in Dallas
The Pittsburgh Penguins rolled into Dallas Wednesday night eying to continue riding the momentum they started in Carolina last Saturday. Those hopes, and maybe Brent Johnson’s hot streak ended quickly in the 1st period after the Penguins and their poor passing and defensive play gave up a quick 2-0 lead to the Stars on goals [...]
Penguins Notepad – 11.2.10
Lets get this out of the way. Go Vote today. Imagine if you got to vote for NHL Commissioner, you’d all be there. If you don’t vote you lose your right to complain in my book. Now moving on… Penguins fans are all still dealing with the aftermath of the tragic news regarding Jordan Staal’s [...]
Staal Injured At Practice – Surgery Required, Will Miss 6 More Weeks
On what was the eve of his all but confirmed return to the lineup Wednesday night in Dallas, Jordan Staal left the Penguins Monday practice at Southpointe at 12:25 EST with an apparent injury. This s a bitter pill to swallow for fans who have seen Staal out of the lineup all season due to [...]
Penguins Notepad – 10.31.10
With a few days before the next Penguins game I wanted to take the opportunity to get some baseline information out there before the upcoming 3 game west coast road trip. Jordan Staal and Zbynek Michalek are expected to play Wednesday in Dallas. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that both players are targeting this Wednesday [...]
He’s Ponikarovsky With a Famous Wife
That’s what Seth Rorabaugh of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Empty Netters Blog had to say about Mike Comrie this morning during a discussion we had while he was a guest on Pens HD Radio’s Penguins Live. The reason for the discussion is the rapidly improving health of the Penguins forwards corps. With Arron Asham expected back [...]
Penguins Still Searching for First Home Win
The Pittsburgh Penguins host the New York Islanders tonight on the front end of back to back games. This will be the fourth attempt by the Pens to win a game in their new digs, The Consol Energy Center. Already fans are dropping the word curse due to the Penguins less than stellar losing ways [...]
Breakdowns Costing the Pens Points
Sometime in late March while the Penguins are in the midst of the hunt for the Atlantic Division title or likely at worst a playoff spot someone somewhere will wax philosophical about how the games in October are worth as much as the games in April and they’ll be right. The Penguins dropped their third [...]
Jordan Staal is Skating, Finally
The glorious sound of pucks slapping off of a familiar stick blade this morning inside of the Consol Energy Center is a welcome one considering that the stick is in the hands of one Jordan Staal and his feet are firmly wrapped inside of a pair of hockey skates. Staal has missed the beginning of [...]
Updated: Its Michalek’s Shoulder / Hutchinson Recalled
Zbynek Michalek departed yesterday’s contest with the New Jersey Devils in the second period after taking a hit from Rod Pelley. He left the ice clutching his right arm. Michalek sat on the bench for a few minutes for departing for the locker room. He did not return. Members of the Devils’ broadcast staff saw [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Lyle Addresses Wild Trade Rumors This Week That Will Likely Not Happen
We at HockeyIndependent.com want to be your resource and filter for what is going on in the NHL. We try to disseminate the noise in the blogosphere. We don’t look to to attack those sources, but to question the veracity of the rumor with cold logic, hockey smarts and knowledge. To do that… we have [...]
And the winner of the Award is …
NHL hockey’s most exciting off-season week begins tonight in the epicentre of hockey, Las Vegas. The annual NHL Awards show will take place at the glitzy Pearl Concert Theater inside the Palms Casino Resort at 4 pm MDT / 7 pm EDT. For all the criticism that the NHL receives - seemingly subjective officiating, a culture that for [...]
Catching the Stanley Cup Cold
Building a dynasty team in the NHL just isn’t what it used to be. Post lock-out Cup winners have had trouble dealing with the costs of success and has led to 5 different champions in the 5 years since the Collective Bargaining Agreement was established. One has to wonder if winning the Cup these days isn’t like catching a cold?
Pens survive frantic final minute, take 3-2 edge up to Montreal
Game 5: Pittsburgh 2 @ Montreal 1 Marc-Andre Fleury came within thirty-one seconds of becoming the first ever Penguin to record two shutouts in the same playoff series, but still withstood a furious Montreal rally in the last three minutes of regulation time, helping Pittsburgh defeat the Canadiens 2-1 in Game 5 at Mellon Arena. [...]
Breaking News: Markov to Play?
In a developing story, Conor McKenna of the team 990 (later posted on Habs Inside/Out and RDS) has reported that Habs defenseman Andrei Markov has made the flight to Pittsburgh along with his teammates. RDS has confirmed the story, but added that he will not play tomorrow. Nevertheless, McKenna has hinted that since Markov has [...]
Pens – Habs Episode 4: The Search for Consistency
———————– LIVE BLOG TONIGHT! Yes, we’ll be back for another live blog today, as the Canadiens as well as our record when we do these things look to get back on track! Set your reminders below and join us at 6:30PM for all the pre-game fun! TCL Presents: Pens – Habs Game 4 LIVE BLOG! [...]
