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Terriers And Eagles Take Care Of Business, Will Meet Again In Beanpot Finals
On Monday evening the two most prominent college hockey teams in Boston did their part in setting up yet another installment of one of the greatest hockey rivalries on the Eastern Seaboard. The Boston University Terriers and the Boston College Eagles will meet in the Beanpot tournament finals for the fourth time in the past [...]
Red Wings Start Second Half with Torching of Flames 3-1
The Detroit Red Wings started the second half of the season by playing the role of Road Warriors. No, I’m not talking about Mel Gibson playing the role of “Mad Max” or the WWE tag team of Hawk and Animal. The Red Wings came in to the Scotiabank Saddledome and doused the Calgary Flames 3-1. [...]
Five Deals That SHOULD Be Made Before The Deadline
As the late February NHL trading deadline approaches rumors have began to surface in every corner of the hockey world. From buyers to sellers and rentals, a plethora of deals always seem to be made this time of year. This year, as a few top-tier players are slated to become Unrestricted free agents at year’s [...]
Blackhawks Lose, the Toews Injury and Some Trade Misconceptions
The Blackhawks fell to the Nashville Predators Tuesday 3-1 to snap their five-game home-ice winning streak. The final score was flattering to the Hawks, as they chased the Predators for much of the night. Nashville could have been leading by four goals after the opening 20 minutes instead of only two. The Predators missed the [...]
Toews Injured as Hawks Fall to Predators
The Blackhawks split their weekend games and hopefully the loss to Nashville on Saturday was the worst of their problems. On Friday, the Panthers and the Hawks squared off in a contest that at times looked as if it was being played in about six inches of snow. After the NHL lockout games are played [...]
Filppula, Howard Leads Red Wings to 4-1 Win in Nashville
The Detroit Red Wings seemed to have pushed themselves away from seconds and thirds of their Christmas dinners and got back on track with a 4-1 win over the Nashville Predators at the Bridgestone Arena. Valtteri Filppula lit the lamp twice and added an assist for the Red Wings (22-12-1), while Jimmy Howard made 29 [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week in Review
With 28 games under their belt, the Detroit Red Wings (18-9-1) are one point behind the Chicago Blackhawks for first place in the Central Division. The team’s leading scorers are Johan Franzen (13 goals, 15 assists), Pavel Datsyuk (eight goals, 20 assists) and Valtteri Filppula (10 g, 15 a), who didn’t look out of place [...]
Red Wings Win Fifth Straight, Contain Predators 4-1
Valtteri Filppula scored two goals with an assist and Henrik Zetterberg added a goal and an assist as the Detroit Red Wings extend their winning streak to five games with a convincing 4-1 win over the Nashville Predators at the Joe Louis Arena. Jimmy Howard stopped 18 shots and is now tied for the league [...]
Streak’s Over: Bergeron, Bruins Edged By Red Wings 3-2 In Shootout
Sometimes it’s just not your day. Unfortunately for the 17,565 Bostonians that packed into the TD Garden for the annual Black Friday matinee game, today was simply not the Bruins’ day. Skating against a Detroit Red Wings squad that had won it’s past three games, the Bruins risked their own ten-game winning streak on Friday. [...]
B’s Struggle, But Scratch Out Shootout Win Over League-Worst Columbus
There is a reason the National Hockey League is the greatest and most competitive hockey league in the world. It is nearly impossible for any one team thoroughly dominate it’s opponents on a consistent basis. Very rarely can a team go through a an extended stretch of time without facing adversity. After reeling off six [...]
Hawks Win Depite Themselves As Crawford Shines
Blackhawks fans will either look back to the beginning of the 2011-2012 campaign as a foreshadowing of great times or as an indicator of future problems. The Hawks keep winning, but they often succeed despite themselves. On Thursday night, the Blackhawks defeated the Florida Panthers 3-2 in a shootout. The game marked the fifth time [...]
Hawks Struggle But Manage Split
The NHL regular season is 82 games long and there will be times the Blackhawks come up with a dismal effort. Often, the better teams save the substandard outings for later in the season, during the dog days of January and February, but the Blackhawks got the jump on half-hearted efforts on Friday night in [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Introducing The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 5-4-2 with 12 points through eleven games. After eleven games last season, the Bolts were 7-2-2 with 16 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division, tied with Florida, two points behind the Washington Capitals and seventh in the Eastern Conference. After eleven games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team in goals with [...]
Western Conference predictions for the 2011-12 NHL season
Predictions – everybody loves them and if you’re correct about half the time, you’re doing pretty well. Two years ago I had the Los Angeles Kings finishing sixth in the Western Conference. Nailed it. Last season, I slotted the Kings at fourth during my NHL season preview article. That’s certainly where they should have finished, [...]
Sky’s the limit for award-laden Nashville blue line prospect Ryan Ellis
After a distinguished four-year major junior career in which he put his name in the conversation of all-time best Ontario Hockey League defenceman while earning just about every award imaginable, 20-year old blueliner Ryan Ellis only took a brief rest this past summer before resuming his training program. This week, Ellis continues his journey to [...]
Like it or Not, Fighting is Essential to Hockey
This summer has been, most certainly, horrific for the hockey family. It seems that we are exposed to another hockey related tragedy on a daily basis. While the deaths of hockey pugilists Derek Boogard, Rick Rypien and Wade Belak are incredibly sorrowful, the fact that they were enforcers is not a reason to call for [...]
Lightning Prospects Take the Ice
Hockey is back in Tampa Bay. The Tampa Bay Lightning opens their 2011 rookie camp today as the prospects will undergo physicals and fitness testing. The youngsters will hit the ice at the Ice Sports Forum in Brandon, Florida tomorrow. The prospects will travel to the Saveology.com Iceplex in Coral Springs, Florida for a three [...]
One year after World Hockey Summit: Player transfer agreements – Part 2
Part 1 of this retrospective article on the one-year anniversary of the Molson Canadian World Hockey Summit quickly reviewed the nature of NHL – European league Player Transfer Agreements and the refusal of the Russian Hockey Federation to enter into such agreements. The acrimony surrounding the movements of Evgeni Malkin from Russia to North America and [...]
Season Predictions Part 2: Canucks Poised For A Repeat?
Hello again, and welcome to Part II of my 4-Part NHL season preview. In part I, I gave you all my Eastern Conference Predictions. In part 2, I will give you my predictions for the Western Conference. I will approach these predictions a bit differently than I did those for the Eastern Conference. Today, [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Release 2011-12 Schedule
The Tampa Bay Lightning announced their 2011-12 schedule today. The Bolts will open the exhibition season with two games in St. Louis against the Blues on September 20 and 21. The lone home preseason game will be on September 23 versus the Florida Panthers followed the next night by a meeting in Sunrise against those [...]