All Entries Tagged With: "michal handzus"
No Hard Feelings… It’s the Playoffs
The Blackhawks have locked up 1st overall in the Western Conference. They have 4 games left to maintain their lead over the Penguins for tops in the league. The quest for the Presidents’ Trophy shouldn’t affect Coach Q’s decisions leading into the playoffs. It appears the Patrick Sharp return was rushed, which then found him [...]
Blackhawks: Trading Places
The post-mortem on Stan’s 2013 trade deadline has come in and some may see his performance as a premeditated attempt to an early exit in the playoffs. The reality was there were too many teams still in the race, creating a more stagnant deadline “frenzy”. After watching GMs overpay for role players and Bowman’s unwillingness [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 26-26-6 with 58 points through 58 games. After 58 games last season, the Bolts were 34-18-6 with 74 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by seven points. Tampa Bay is in 11th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, six points out [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 14-17-3 with 31 points through 34 games. After 34 games last season, the Bolts were 19-10-5 with 43 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by twelve points. Tampa Bay has fallen to 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference. After 34 [...]
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 [...]
All Quiet on the Home Front
News and notes from around Hockeywood, LA.
Luongo, Canucks Look to Keep Kings From Stranglehold On Series
If Drew Doughty and Michal Handzus had their way, they would play every power play and the rest of the team would just draw the calls. The Canucks’ penalty killing woes continued on Monday night, Drew Doughty and Michal Handzus had three power play points each on three consecutive power plays for the Kings, all [...]
Kick Start with the Power Play
The Los Angeles Kings look to put a strangle hold on the Vancouver Canucks tonight on home ice. Game four is tonight from the Staples Center beginning at 10:00 p.m. EST, 7:00 p.m. PST.
The Road of Success
The Los Angeles Kings return home for Game 3 against the Vancouver Canucks. Will the momentum from game 2 ride into the Staples Center tonight? The puck drops at 7:00 p.m. PST, 10:00 p.m. EST.
Playoffs are upon us
The Los Angeles Kings begin their quest for the best prize in all of sports, the Stanley Cup as they face off against the Vancouver Canucks in the first round of the 2010 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Bleeding clots; Kings clinch playoff birth
The Los Angeles Kings are in the playoffs and there is an opportunity they can be the dark horse of the Western Conference.
Game 25 review – From bad to worse?
Things here in Oil Country haven’t been all sunshine and roses lately. The team is losing more often than they’re winning and most night the team seems to lack the intensity or focus to win games. It’s been bad so far and it easily could be getting worse very very soon.
