All Entries Tagged With: "Sergei Gonchar"
Possession Is Nine-Tenths Of The Game
Memo to the “hockey experts” who predicted that the New York Rangers would easily dispatch the Ottawa Senators in 4 or 5 games: Go back and watch all 4 games of the season series between these 2 teams. If you had asked Rangers fans as the regular season wound down which potential opponent they’d least [...]
Analyzing The Bruins’ Possible First Round Opponents
With the regular season drawing to a close faster than a Zdeno Chara 108.8 MPH slapshot, now is as good a time as any to take a look at the possibilities for the Boston Bruins in the first round of the NHL post-season. Under the assumption that the Black and Gold will indeed clinch the [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 31-30-7 with 69 points through 68 games. After 68 games last season, the Bolts were 38-22-8 with 84 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eight points. Tampa Bay is in 11th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, seven points out [...]
Thomas’ 37 Stops Not Enough As Sens Blank B’s
Following Peter Chiarelli’s deadline wheeling and dealing on Monday afternoon, the Bruins were back at it on Tuesday evening as they hosted the Ottawa Senators at TD Garden for the third and final time this season. The game did not begin the way the B’s envisioned it as it took them nearly seven minutes to [...]
B’s Use Third Period Rally To Edge Sens 4-3 At TD Garden
The surprising Ottawa Senators have drawn fame this season from their ability to overcome early deficits and rally from behind to win games in the third period. Unfortunately for the squad from Canada’s capital, these roles were reversed on Tuesday in a 4-3 defeat at the hands of the Boston Bruins. Recovering from a 1-0 [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning is 17-20-3 with 37 points through 40 games. After 40 games last season, the Bolts were 21-11-5 with 47 points. The Bolts are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eleven points. Tampa Bay is in 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference, nine points out [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 12-15-2 with 26 points through 29 games. After 29 games last season, the Bolts were 15-10-4 with 34 points. The Lightning are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eleven points. Tampa Bay has fallen to 13th place in the 15 team Eastern Conference. After 29 [...]
Bruins Get Back In Business; Down Sens 5-3 At TD Garden
On Tuesday night, the Boston Bruins absolutely had to have a victory. That’s right, the defending Stanley Cup Champions were in a must-win situation…..on November 1. Coming into Tuesday’s game against Ottawa, the B’s had lost 3 straight and seven of their first ten this season, with a 2-5-0 record at the TD Garden. [...]
Senators back from a dismal road trip, set to face Kings in Ottawa tonight
After a dismal 1-3 road trip during which the Ottawa Senators were outscored 17-6, they are set to face the Los Angeles Kings tonight at Scotia Bank Place. This will be the Kings’s third game of a four-game road trip. They sustained a 4-2 loss at the hands of the Buffalo Sabres on Friday, before [...]
Fleury Not the Only Penguin To Blame
If you listen to Penguins radio or read most of the mainstream Penguins media coverage the poor play spotlight is focused on one man, Marc-Andre Fleury, as the scape-goat for some crushing Pens losses this year. After a solid first 116 or so minutes to his 2010/11 campaign Flower let in a soft goal to [...]
Filip Kuba breaks leg; a look at the Senators defensive corps
The Ottawa Senators have lost veteran rearguard Filip Kuba for an estimated five to six weeks after Kuba broke his right leg during the team’s skating session on Saturday. Kuba’s skate was caught in a rut in the ice after ten minutes in his first practice at Scotia Bank Place. It “looks like it will [...]
D-DAY! Gonchar out; Michalek, Martin in; what’s next for Pens?
General manager Ray Shero stuck to his plan on opening day of the free agency signing period and bolstered the club’s overall defensive corps despite saying farewell to one of the best defencemen in Pittsburgh Penguins’ history. Sergei Gonchar – power play QB, penalty-killer, minutes-eater, slapshooter through the eye of a needle – for the past five seasons [...]
Happy Canada Day and FreeAgentmas!
Recent research by Canadian historians has revealed that the Fathers of Confederation made one other landmark decision after signing the British North American Act in 1867, the document which gave Canada official status as a nation. Nobody knows for sure which Father came up with the idea, but on July 1, 1867 in Prince Edward Island, one wag [...]
Pens get Hamhuis’ rights from Flyers; Gonchar gone for sure?
The Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers completed a surprise deal tonight following the end of the first round of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. Unable to come to terms on a new contract with pending UFA defenceman Dan Hamhuis, Philadelphia shipped him to the Pens in exchange for Pittsburgh’s 2011 third-round pick, as reported by ESPN‘s Pierre [...]
DAILY RUMORS: Lyle Addresses Wild Trade Rumors This Week That Will Likely Not Happen
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 [...]
Like a swift kick to the head: Season comes to end for Penguins
Game 7: Montreal 5 @ Pittsburgh 2 “It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart,” wrote the late Bart Giamatti, describing the latent disappointment that ensnares any long-time passionate baseball fan. Giamatti, a former commissioner of Major League Baseball, used these two sentences to lead off an essay detailing his obsession with the Boston Red Sox [...]
Pens survive frantic final minute, take 3-2 edge up to Montreal
Game 5: Pittsburgh 2 @ Montreal 1 Marc-Andre Fleury came within thirty-one seconds of becoming the first ever Penguin to record two shutouts in the same playoff series, but still withstood a furious Montreal rally in the last three minutes of regulation time, helping Pittsburgh defeat the Canadiens 2-1 in Game 5 at Mellon Arena. [...]
Breaking News: Markov to Play?
In a developing story, Conor McKenna of the team 990 (later posted on Habs Inside/Out and RDS) has reported that Habs defenseman Andrei Markov has made the flight to Pittsburgh along with his teammates. RDS has confirmed the story, but added that he will not play tomorrow. Nevertheless, McKenna has hinted that since Markov has [...]
Canadiens tie series; overcome biased officiating and where’s Crosby?
Despite being badly outplayed and outshot (26-9) during the first 40 minutes, the Montreal Canadiens overcame a 2-1 deficit in the third period by dominating the Penguins and scoring two goals in a 1:33 span. Maxim Lapierre, the best forward on the ice for Montreal, tied the game at 2-2 with a quick wrap-around goal [...]
Penguins power past Habs 6-3 in opener; Staal out indefinitely
Game 1: Montreal 3 @ Pittsburgh 6 Twenty thoroughbreds thundered through a muddy track at the Kentucky Derby earlier tonight for a chance at horse racing immortality. Yesterday, in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinal at Pittsburgh, won 6-3 by the hosts over Montreal, the Penguins lost their iron horse for an indefinite amount of time. [...]
