All Entries Tagged With: "Maple"
Despite winless Rookie Tournament, Nasreddine, Samuelsson positive
The Pittsburgh Penguins lost all three games of the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament in Oshawa, Ontario, falling by a lopsided composite score of 13-2 in three games over four days. Today, the Penguins’ prospects fell 4-1 to Chicago’s prospect squad in a game that turned near the end of the second period when after Pittsburgh [...]
McKegg’s 1 goal, 2 assists lead Leafs over Pens at Rookie Tournament
Greg McKegg, a returnee from last year’s Rookie Tournament, scored a third period goal and added two assists as the Toronto Maple Leafs won their second straight game this weekend, 5-1 over the Pittsburgh Penguins. Pittsburgh fell to 0-2 in Oshawa. McKegg, 19, scored 49 goals and 92 points for the Erie Otters of the [...]
Brandon Saad making most of chances with Hawks at Rookie Tournament
Chicago and Toronto played a competitive, back-and-forth game on Saturday night at the 2011 NHL Rookie Tournament with the Leafs’ propsects prevailing over Chicago’s youngsters 4-2 with Jake Gardiner scoring the game-winning and insurance goals in the third period. After Toronto took a 1-0 lead, the game featured two lead changes before Gardiner, a forward [...]
Vancouver has waited since 1915 for another Stanley Cup win
Exactly seventeen years ago today, the scene in Vancouver was very similar. The city buzzed with hope after the previous night’s Stanley Cup Final game on home ice moved the Canucks within one win of capturing the franchise’s first-ever championship. On June 11, 1994, the Canucks defeated the New York Rangers at Pacific Coliseum 4-1 in [...]
The Boston Bruins Week That Was: 10/25-10/31
The Boston Bruins have played the fewest games of any team in the league, yet only one week after our last “Bruins Week That Was,” the team stands in sixth place in the Eastern Conference. With only two games in the past seven days, the team earned all four available points downing their Northeast Division [...]
Bruins Pregame 10/28/10 – Boston Bruins vs Toronto Maple Leafs
The Boston Bruins look to rebound as they take the ice tonight against the rival Toronto Maple Leafs. Do you remember as a kid, watching wrestling when all of the storylines would finally culminate into one big melting pot of greatness known as WrestleMania? If so, then tonight’s game is your hockey edition of WrestleMania, [...]
“Co-anchoring” NHL on the Fly with ex-Leaf Bill Berg
At the NHL FACE-OFF 2010 event in downtown Toronto two weeks ago, NHL Network had a booth just off to the side of the main square where curious passersby could try their hand at “co-anchoring” their nightly scores and news show, “NHL on the Fly”, with one of their studio hosts. As fate would have it, Bill Berg [...]
