All Entries Tagged With: "Minnesota Wild"
Rangers Move Christensen
It seemed like sooner or later, Erik Christensen’s days as a New York Ranger were going to be numbered. Turned out it was sooner, as the Rangers sent the center and a conditional 2013 seventh round draft pick to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for Casey Wellman. Christensen was on the bubble in training camp [...]
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 Defeat Wild With ‘New’ Look
The Blackhawks played their best game of 2012 and came away with a 5-2 win over the Minnesota Wild Thursday night. The Hawks started out a little sluggish and fell asleep for a bit in the final frame, but in between they were very good. For the first time in quite a while, the Blackhawks [...]
Bruins Put Out The Flames, Route Calgary For 9-0 Victory
On a night less than 48 hours in advance of a highly anticipated Stanley Cup Finals rematch with the Vancouver Canucks, it would have been easy to expect a “let-down” of sorts in Boston on Thursday evening when the Bruins played host to the Calgary Flames. Also, in a game that the B’s would be [...]
Kane Dazzles as Hawks Defeat Wild
The Blackhawks played an entertaining game against the Minnesota Wild Wednesday and captured a 4-3 shootout win. The gamewas fun to watch and had a little of everything: fast-paced action, very good goal keeping, a fight, poor officiating and a dazzling shootout goal. In the opening period, the Wild battled but couldn’t find their skating [...]
Time Is Now For Another Cup Run For The Blackhawks
As the season rolls on, there seems to be three schools of thought on the fate of the Chicago Blackhawks. 1. The team is not as good as their record: When injuries hit and the schedule gets more difficult the Hawks will slide in the standings. 2. The Hawks are focused on trying to get [...]
Hawks Show Up In 3rd Period To Stun Sharks
Those who recorded Sunday night’s Hawks’ game and haven’t watched it yet, take my advice: Fast forward to the third period and don’t waste a second watching the opening 40 minutes. Many of the 21,456 who were in attendance would agree most of this contest was forgettable. Fortunately, the ending was great, as the Hawks [...]
Bruins GameDay: B’s Look To Get Back On Track As First-Place Cats Visit Garden
Tonight the Boston Bruins will look to get back to their winning ways and begin a new winning streak, as they return home for a showdown with the Southeast division leading Florida Panthers. Following a 2-1 loss at Winnipeg’s MTS Centre –their first regulation loss since October 27– Boston returns to the TD Garden for [...]
The Boogaard Aftermath
This week, The New York Times published a 3-part series about the late Derek Boogaard. Regardless of what team you root for, the whole series is a must read and as incredibly heartbreaking and disturbing as it gets. The third part that ran on Tuesday, December 5th laid out Boogaard’s life in the grips of [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 11-12-2 with 24 points through 25 games. After 25 games last season, the Bolts were 14-8-3 with 31 points. The Lightning are in fourth place in the Southeast Division and trail the division leading Florida Panthers by eight points. Tampa Bay has fallen to 13th place in the 15 team Eastern [...]
Tampa Bay Lightning Week in Review – Featuring The Quarterdeck Log
The Tampa Bay Lightning are 11-9-2 with 24 points through 22 games. After 22 games last season, the Bolts were 13-7-2 with 28 points. The Lightning are in third place in the Southeast Division four point behind the Florida Panthers and 10th in the Eastern Conference. After 22 games, forward Steven Stamkos leads the team [...]
The Quest For Seven: Hapless Jackets Visit Red-Hot Bruins
On Thursday evening, the Boston Bruins (9-7-0 (18 Points)) will conclude their five-game home-stand as they play host to Rick Nash and the struggling Columbus Blue Jackets (3-13-1 (7 Points)). Thursday’s match-up features two teams on opposite ends of the spectrum. Boston, who has recovered from a 3-7-0 start to the season by reeling off [...]
Red Wings Lose Heartbreaker, Streak Reaches Five
Jimmy Howard deserved a lot better. He almost ended the Detroit Red Wings four-game losing streak, but instead the Minnestota Wild left the Joe Louis Arena with a 2-1 overtime win. The loss extends the Red Wings’ (5-4-1) losing streak to five games, over which they have scored five goals. This is their longest losing [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week In Review
The Red Wings were hoping that after being chased out of the Verizon Center by the Washington Capitals that things would look up. Not so much….. Game Recaps Game 7: Detroit Red Wings 1 Columbus Blue Jackets 4 It would be easy to think that the Red Wings would take out their frustration on the [...]
Harding, Heatley Run Wild on Red Wings 1-0
When the Detroit Red Wings come back to the Joe Louis Arena for their rematch with the Minnesota Wild this Tuesday, Billy Joel’s 1982 hit “Pressure” should be in the song mix during timeouts. The Red Wings lost their fourth straight decision to the Wild 1-0 at the Xcel Energy Center in St.Paul. Dany Heatley [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week In Review
Watching the Red Wings play back-to-back games this weekend was like watching two different teams. At the game this past Friday, they played like a cohesive unit. And the next night… the wheels fell off. Six games into the relatively new season, to say there’s a lot of hockey left would be an understatement. Game [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week In Review
Game Recaps Game 3: Vancouver Canucks 0 Detroit Red Wings 2 It was four days since their last game, but the Red Wings showed no signs of rust as they beat the Vancouver Canucks on home ice with a 2-0 final. Red Wing goalie Jimmy Howard stopped all 25 shots for the team’s second straight [...]
Red Wings Remain Perfect In 3-2 OT Win
Thanks to Johan Franzen’s game-winning goal, the Detroit Red Wings (4-0-0) remain perfect this season in a 3-2 come-from-behind overtime win against the Minnesota Wild at the Xcel Energy Center in St.Paul. Franzen scored a power play goal with 48.5 seconds remaining in the extra period as he got a no-look backhand pass from Tomas [...]
Detroit Red Wings Week In Review
Game Recaps Game 1: Ottawa Senators 3 Detroit Red Wings 5 Cory Emmerton scored a goal and added an assist as well as the number one star of the game as the Red Wings got the 2011-12 season started with a win on home ice. Todd Bertuzzi, Nicklas Lidstrom, Jiri Hudler and Ian White also [...]
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, [...]