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GameDay: Bruins & Canes Set To Meet For Final Time This Season
Tonight the Boston Bruins will play their fourth and final match-up of the season against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes. The B’s are coming off a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the Ottawa Senators on Tuesday evening and will be playing in the second game of a three game home-stand. The ‘Canes will be playing in their [...]
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 [...]
An Inside Look At The NHL’s First Ever In-Game Trade
In any sport, it’s normal for a team to make trades. For a variety of reasons, trades are used to help build franchises. Nothing out of the ordinary, right? Well, what made the Montreal Canadiens’ trade of top line winger Michael Cammalleri so different was the fact that he was traded during the second intermission [...]
Old-School Rivalry Taking On New Feel As B’s Sink Habs 2-1 At TD Garden
Once upon a time, the rivalry between the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens was revered as one of the best in all of sport. A time when every meeting between the two Original Six foes was regarded as “must-watch television”, where each and every hockey fanatic in New England and Quebec, casual and die-hards [...]
Top 10 Bruins Moments Of 2011
First off, as I return from a week long vacation from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I’d like to wish everyone a safe and happy New Year. Here’s to another splendid year in 2012… Now, with the year 2011 coming to a close tomorrow evening when the clock strikes midnight, I figured that now [...]
GameDay: Kopitar, Struggling Kings Visit Chara-less Bruins
On Tuesday night the Boston Bruins will return to action for the first time since Saturday’s 5-3 win in Columbus as they get set to host Anze Kopitar and the Los Angeles Kings. The Kings, 13-12-4 (30 Points) are coming off a string of four straight losses, a streak in which they’ve been outscored 11-6 [...]
The Perfect Trade: 10 Months Later
In the NHL, most deadline deals orchestrated by genius General Managers in the heart of winter are one-sided. In a sense that you have “buyers” and “sellers”. One team looking to bolster their chances for a deep run in the playoffs, while the other is looking to collect assets to build upon for the future. [...]
Bobby Ryan A Bruin? Is There A Blockbuster On The Horizon?
Losers of seven in a row and thirteen of their past fourteen, there is little doubt that the Anaheim Ducks are in a complete tailspin. Their current streak has left them with a 6-13-4 (16 Points) record and has left them in 14th place in the Western Conference, a mere one point ahead of the [...]
A LOOK AT THE ISLANDERS DEFENSE: Part 2 of Series
Last week we looked at the Isles offense and asked if the makeup of the lines would lead to enough scoring to make playoffs hopes a reality. This week we look deep at the bigger and more porous issue of the last few years…The defense. Late last season, I was told that the Islanders would [...]
NY ISLANDERS SEASON PREVIEW: The Offense
Well here we are, on the cusp of another Isles season. It’s been a long haul for the Islanders faithful last few seasons, if not last 15 years. It has been very tolling on most hardcore fans over the Nassau Coliseum situation. As I warned back on August 1st and in subsequent blogs, no RFP [...]
Mike Richards – ‘Laperriere guided me in the right direction’
It’s only been a few months since an earthquake-like rumbling was felt around the National Hockey League, as the Philadelphia Flyers traded away two of their most important players. From the moment he joined the Los Angeles Kings, Mike Richards has been asked a lot of questions about his now former teammate and best friend, [...]
LA Kings Stoll, Martinez on sending Wayne Simmonds to Flyers
Martinez and Simmonds (photo: K. Spatz) During a conversation with coach Terry Murray just a few days after the Kings were eliminated from the playoffs, he acknowledged that Wayne Simmonds “hit a bit of a wall” last season. It wasn’t that surprising of a statement from the coach though. After all, Simmonds saw his goals, [...]
A Look at the Colorado Avalanche and the Semyon Varlamov Trade
It is now well established “fact” that the Colorado Avalanche severely overpaid in the trade with the Washington Capitals for netminder Semyon Varlamov. As the experts and the panic-stricken continue to babble I’ve detected a quiet feeling of satisfaction within the Avalanche nation. Let’s put a little perspective on the situation. After the sticker shock [...]
A ‘troubled’ Lombardi trying to trade Ryan Smyth
When the NHL schedule came out yesterday it revealed the Kings will host both the Washington Captials and Pittsburgh Penguins. Sid and Ovi coming to town? Usually that’s enough to talk about on a boring Thursday in June. Yet, leave it to Dean Lombardi to throw that one out the window. First, he made a huge [...]
Odd link between the Pens and Atlanta Thrashers’ demise
Much ink has been used over the past week detailing the downfall of NHL hockey in Atlanta for another generation of Georgian fans and the related relocation of the city’s franchise, like the Flames in 1980, up north to Canada, this time to Winnipeg. Many factors force a team to move to a different place: fan apathy for [...]
Highlights from Meeting w/ Kings GM Dean Lombardi
Kings GM Dean Lombardi recently met with a group of about 500 season ticket holders – whom he repeatedly referred to as the team’s shareholders – at their training facility in El Segundo, CA. Backing him up were Jeff Solomon (VP of Hockey Operations) and Ron Hextall (Assistant General Manager). Among the topics covered were the [...]
Penguins emerge from gruelling month still in contention
When the Pittsburgh Penguins skated off home ice on the night of Friday, February 4, 2011, they must have had a sick feeling in their stomachs despite edging Buffalo 3-2. They were just one point behind Philadelphia for the Atlantic Division lead and six points ahead of Washington sitting comfortably in fourth in the Eastern Conference. [...]
Welcome to LA – 10 Points on Penner
Kings General Manager Dean Lombardi paid a steep price on Monday to acquire the player he needed. Or did he? In Dustin Penner he got a 29-year old left wing who’s under contract for one more year and brings plenty of size, at 6’4″ 250 lbs. The deal was Penner for Colten Teubert (a former first round [...]
Kovalev returns to Pittsburgh but Orpik out 4 weeks with broken finger
In an unsurprising transaction that occurred this morning, the Pittsburgh Penguins acquired right wing Alexei Kovalev from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for a conditional 7th-round pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. TSN reports that if the Penguins win the first round of the playoffs and Kovalev plays in at least half of the games, [...]
A look at ex-Penguin Goligoski and other trade deadline matters
Now that the Penguins have made one deal already, what other possibilites are smoldering? Yesterday, Pittsburgh GM Ray Shero struck while the iron was hot, pulling the trigger on a trade that sent young defenceman Alex Goligoski to Dallas for a pair of even younger players: left wing James Neal and blueliner Matt Niskanen. Shero was originally [...]