All Entries Tagged With: "Tim Gleason"
Bowman Will Look to Lift His Team to the Next Level
With 50 games down and 32 to go, the Blackhawks are in position to qualify for the playoffs. If they can avoid a rash of injuries the Hawks should secure a spot for post season play but they aren’t an absolute lock. My true feelings about the remainder of the regular season could be best [...]
Top 25 NHL defensive defensemen so far in 2011-12
One-third into the 2011-12 season, enough hockey has been played to give us a good idea of the best players so far this season. Now let’s have a look at the best defensive defensemen in the NHL this year. Those rearguards are often forgotten when we look at their team’s overall success, but they are [...]
Bruins Implode, Fall To ‘Canes 4-1
On Tuesday evening, the Boston Bruins played host to the Carolina Hurricanes at the TD Garden in the 2nd match-up between the teams, slated for the 2011-’12 season. The Bruins entered the game with a pedestrian 2-3-0 (4 Points) record, but were coming off a hard-fought come-from-behind victory on Saturday night, over the 2010 [...]
Defensive pairings starting to take shape
It should come as no surprise that GM Jim Rutherford needed to rework his defense. After an excellent year in 2008-2009 where the Carolina Hurricanes advanced to the Eastern Conference finals, the team regressed mainly due to injuries, inconsistent goaltending and depth issues. Even though the Canes finished the season in 11th in the Southeast [...]
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 [...]
Red, White and Blue
An underdog is a person or group in a competition, frequently in electoral politics, sports and creative works, who is popularly expected to lose. Do you believe in miracles? “Sometimes, the best team in a tournament does not take home the Gold medal”. That was Team USA head coach Ron Wilson’s quote after the United [...]
Sanction not Cherry the Answer to Head Shots
Greg Wyshnyski, the editor and major writer of Y!’s Puck Daddy blog wrote a piece this morning on Don Cherry and asked the question should the flamboyant one join the charge against head shots in the league and drop his “old time hockey” mantra. Greg answers his own question “no“, but for different reasons than [...]
Erik Cole Helps Carolina Bounce Back From Five Game Skid
Erik Cole’s hat trick helps Carolina survive another nail biting third period and end their five game losing streak.
Jim Kelley Compares Ovechkin to McSorley and Bertuzzi. Really?
Jim, Ovechkin is guilty of having so much passion that occasionally he may play a bit recklessly. Perhaps he does need to pick his spots a little better. But comparing Ovechkin to the likes of Bertuzzi, McSorley, and Simon? Have you completely lost it man?
Sparks of Life Amid Hurricanes’ Rubble
Nobody really ever wants to see their team battling just to stay out of the conference basement; but that’s the position Carolina Hurricanes fans found themselves in last night against the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs. By the end of the first period, the outlook was bleak at best with the Hurricanes down 3-0. Things started [...]
