All Entries Tagged With: "rick dudley"
Cup Finals, Strike 2 Atlanta and Remembering The Dark Days in Chicago
Interesting Stanley Cup Final as both head coaches, who are buddies, were in a similar situation to begin the season. Claude Julien and Alain Vigneault were expected to win this time around. Both are in the fourth season of a four year plan and this was supposed to be their time to win it all. [...]
Thrashers Lock up Big Buff, but Playoffs Far from Lock
Today was a fairly historic day for the Atlanta Thrashers hockey franchise as the team announced a 5-year, $26 million contract extension for cornerstone defenseman, Dustin Byfuglien, thereby removing one small shred of doubt concerning the ownership syndicate’s commitment to hockey in Atlanta, at least for the short-term future. Does this decision to lock up [...]
Thrashers Capitalize on “Pavelectric” Performance, Cling to 8th Seed at Break
There are big games and then there are even bigger wins. The Atlanta Thrashers earned the biggest win of their season last nite on the strength of a solid defensive effort and the brilliant shutout performance of goaltender Ondrej Pavelec, who stopped all 36 shots the Washington Capitals threw his way. While it may have [...]
Thrashers Wonder if Season Can Turn in Just 44 Seconds
Monday nite in Sonrise, FL, nestled between the Everglades and Sawgrass Mills Parkway, the Bank Atlantic Center’s modest crowd of 11,500 watched in shocked horror as their Panthers fell prey to a quick-striking Thrashers team that leapt from the depths of their own darkening swamp to chomp down on a share of the regulation lead [...]
Are the Thrashers broken? Or just “enjoying” their mid-season funk?
Greetings from “Snowlanta“, Georgia, THE southern capital of ill-preparedness when it comes to battling the elements of snow and ice. For several days I have been trapped in my apartment due to an unusual phenomenon in which a rare snow event is complicated by the subsequent injection of freezing precipitation into the mix to form [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Niemi Will Not Be Signing With Atlanta, Florida or Washington
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 [...]
Slats Pulls Another Rabbit Out Of His Hat
Harry Potter. Angus MacGyver. Glen Sather. All 3 manage to work magic to somehow get themselves out of sticky predicaments, and you have to suspend a bit of reality to believe it. Where the similarities end are that Potter and MacGyver are fictitious characters. Sather, as we all know, is quite real. Today, Sather somehow [...]
Stan The Man
The Hawks would be in fine form if Stan Bowman can retain his top restricted free agents and not have to deal Kris Versteeg. To survive this summer by making only one big salary dumping trade would be an outstanding accomplishment. If that’s the case the NHL should hand Bowman the award for the Top [...]
Blog Watch: Quick Hits for Your Evening Without Hockey
Good evening ladies and gents’. Here are your quick hits to get you through a night without hockey: Frequent Flyers: Your Flyers’ starting goaltender for Game 6 – Michael Leighton. Paul Kukla: Is tomorrow the last night of the hockey season? NHL Fanhouse: Why Guy Boucher decided to go with the Tampa Bay Lightning rather [...]
The quest for NHL head coaches about to begin for four teams
TAMPA BAY Now that the Tampa Bay Lightning have hired their new GM in Steve Yzerman earlier this week, they are ready to start their quest in order to find their new head coach for the upcoming season. Yzerman is in no hurry to name his new head coach as he first wants to talk [...]
