All Entries Tagged With: "mike milbury"
Whine And Fine
When John Tortorella was hired as the coach of the New York Rangers, he was a complete departure from the man he replaced, Tom Renney. His fiery temper and his outspokenness is part of why he was brought in, and is what makes him a polarizing figure even among fans of the team he coaches. [...]
A New Take Coming To Light On The Mike Milbury Situation
A conflicting tale of Mike Milbury alleged assault on a 12-year boy is coming to light. There seems to be a wide disparity between witnesses’ observations on the post-peewee game antics that has landed the off-air NBC analyst in hot water, crimes and misdemeanors. Per this new take, evidently Milbury was merely breaking up [...]
Did Boucher Outsmart Himself and Cost the Bolts a Point?
“It’s only one point lost. It’s too early in the season to panic,” said a fan. “Guy Boucher knows what he’s doing,” said another. After the OK Hockey circus left town, most Tampa Bay Lightning fans and mainstream media members were so hungry for anything positive, that after one successful season, they have bought into [...]
Julien and Chara Show Their Mettle in Bruins Playoff Run
Bobby Orr, Harry Sinden, Raymond Bourque, and Mike Milbury cast lengthy shadows in the city of Boston and in Bruins’ lore. The legendary Bobby Orr, one of the best to ever play the game and is the measuring stick for all Bruins’ defensemen, past, present and future. Harry Sinden, the mastermind behind the bench for [...]
Is Claude Julien Capable of Delivering the Stanley Cup to Boston?
His team has just collected 15 of a possible 16 points, and he is at the helm of a team which he was instrumental in returning from the depth of despair (otherwise known as “The Dave Lewis Era”). However, not since Terry Francona’s tag-tag group of freaks won the World Series in 2004 has a [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 1/28/2011
Continuing the Great Debate- David Legwand Last week, I touched on David Legwand by addressing Robby’s analysis of Legwand via the plus/minus stat. I ended that piece by making the statement that ” Legwand is also showing that once again, if given offensively-skilled wingers, he’ll produce offensively”. In this space, I’d thought I’d show Legwand’s [...]
Friday Face-Offs, 1/21/2011
Today starts a new, regular column from me called Friday Face-Offs. As I can’t watch/attend every game, I don’t do many post game wraps or game previews (and Mark does such a wonderful job with those anyway for HockeyIndependent). Besides, it’s much more fun to open myself up for all sorts of ridicule from my [...]
Down the Rabbit Hole with the Bruins, ’89-90 and ’10-11
The Pup and I took a walk with my brother through New Hampshire’s winter wonderland, and as it always does, the conversation turned to the Bruins. As lifelong Bruins fans we have reveled (as a family) in the triumphs of Bruins days gone by, and had looked forward to this season (as we always do) [...]
The Day The Isles Fan Stood Still! Why Fans Seem MIA This Season
Sure it’s early, but it is concerning that the fans haven’t come out as much as they did as opposed to last year. There are several issues and the usual baggage that comes along for the ride as they do in every year for Islanders fans. However, I thought we could take a look at [...]
OVECHKIN: Channeling Sean Penn?
Let it be said rather plainly. I think Alexander Ovechkin is the best NHL player bar none right now. But, his behavior from dodging the sports press in Vancouver, to pushing a fan…has been poor sportsmanship no matter what pressure, excuse or Milbury-insult launched from a host’s seat. Well, sadly it has continued as [...]
Mike Milbury’s Eurotrash Disco: Comments Override Canada’s Huge Win
“I was shocked that it was this one-sided. And I was really disappointed that these guys came with their euro-trash game. It was just. No heart, no guts, no nothing there to back it up. I mean Alex Ovechkin was an average player tonight. I know they’re going to bounce back, but to be that [...]
