All Entries Tagged With: "Zenon Konopka"
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 [...]
Divisional Series: The Beasts Of The Northeast
Over the next two weeks, the Boston Bruins will be given the luxury of a considerably light schedule, especially by NHL standards, with only three more games slated for the 2011 calendar year. This coupled with the beginning of winter break at colleges across the country, has left me with some extra time to write. [...]
Brian Burke’s NHL Fight Club Rules
The first rule of NHL Fight Club is you do not tweet about NHL Fight Club.
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. [...]
Bruins Fall To Ottawa 2-1 In Pre-Season Home Finale
Last night, in the final Pre-Season game of 2011 at the TD Garden, the Boston Bruins fell to the visiting Ottawa Senators, 2-1. It was the Bruins who would get on the board first, when Milan Lucic scored Boston’s 6th Power-Play goal in 4 games. Good puck possession, in the offensive zone from Boston’s [...]
@ The Trade Deadline, Facts Don’t Get In The Way
And so the NHL Trade Deadline, 2011 edition has come and gone. There’s tons of great coverage on the deals that were, the deals that weren’t and the deals that shouldn’t have been throughout the HI site. By all counts and measures, the block-buster deals of this trading season happened weeks ago, so today’s countdown to [...]
Islanders Deadline Should Be Quiet…Or Will It?
You know, every time I think it’s going to be a busy deadline, nothing….and everytime I think it’s not going to be busy it is (see Ryan Smyth). This year is more of the same. As we all know Garth Snow has been shopping defenseman Radek Martinek, and Center Rob Schremp. He’s been listening to [...]
Canucks at the Deadline: Making the Case for an Enforcer
To trade or not to trade, that is the question facing GM Mike Gillis in what has become one of the more interesting weeks on the NHL calendar.
Backchecking: Isles Send An Old Long Island Message — But Will it Stand?
In literally beating the Penguins last night, the New York Islanders seemed to respond to recent editorials, articles and blogs made through a number of different outlets over the last few weeks. There have been several calls to action for the Islanders players and coaching staff to have the Islander players begin to develop a [...]
Backchecking: “Thank you sir, may I have another?”
In the past two games, the New York Islanders have sent a clear message to the 29 other teams in the league. That message? “Thank you sir, may I have another?” Against the Penguins, the Isles were thrown around like rag dolls. Not the first time that has happened this season. Last night, John Tavares [...]
An Affordable Change Could Make A Big Difference
Achieving a playoff berth is still in question and the Blackhawks could use some tweaking. To make a playoff run the Hawks will have to be fully dialed in, even though they may not be facing a team with the depth of the Philadelphia Flyers in an early round. In the post season many times [...]
Potential trade targets for the Montreal Canadiens and pre-game blog vs Ottawa
Following the injuries suffered by Michael Cammalleri, Max Pacioretty and Jeff Halpern, all forwards, on Tuesday night against the Buffalo Sabres, Montreal GM Pierre Gauthier will certainly look for help up front if he hopes his team has at least a shot at a playoff berth. Currently ranked 7th in the Eastern Conference with 56 [...]
The Bolts Beat, 09/03/10: With Special Guests Steve Downie and Puck Daddy’s Greg Wyshynski
In the latest episode of The Bolts Beat, JJ and co-host Mike Corcoran visit with Tampa Bay Lightning forward Steve Downie to discuss last season’s individual success, off-season training with Gary Roberts, rivalries and much more. Puck Daddy editor Greg Wyshynski drops in as well and touches on Ilya Kovalchuk, the recent Mt. Blogmore series, [...]
Quite the Coup After All: Trade Price for Gagne Well Worth the Risk
So, yeah, I’ve spent much of the last week preaching every reason I could think of as to why Steve Yzerman and the Tampa Bay Lightning should not acquire Simon Gagne from the Philadelphia Flyers and I did so in several forums. Here, where comments and responses elsewhere were split – about 50/50, in terms [...]
Lightning Off-Season Rolling Along
Well, look what the cat dragged in? Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you, folks. Yup, it’s that guy (and in written form, no less!) Formerly of ‘Da Buzz, currently the co-host of The Bolts Beat podcast and soon to be a permanent fixture as a featured contributor at another prominent hockey web site (to [...]
Attention NHL Shoppers: Lightning Free Agent Frenzy Is Here!
Now that the draft is over, Bolthead Nation can focus on the “Free Agent Frenzy” that begins on Thursday, July 1. The Tampa Bay Lightning probably won’t get involved in signing an upper echelon free agent player. The free agent pool is shallow as compared to other years and new GM Steve Yzerman simply cannot [...]
Who Knew A Bruins & Bolts Game Could Be So Important?
After rattling off two straight wins and ending a ten-game long losing streak, the Boston Bruins sit in ninth place in the Eastern Conference and are just two points out of the eighth seed. Basically, they avoided calamity for now and are right back in the thick of a crowded Eastern Conference. Among those teams [...]
Vinny Steals The Dough
Hey Lightning fans! Let’s play a rousing game of “Who am I?” I have scored just six goals in my last 34 games. I am on pace to score only 16 goals this season, despite leading my team in shots on goal. I have almost as many penalty minutes as points this season. I was [...]
The First 15: Team Report
This is a full report of the Tampa Bay Lightning after 15 games. Team leaders, the good and bad news for the team, future forecasts, injury reports, and more!
Early Estimations: Bolts Under The Magnifying Glass
It’s not time to panic or lose hope, but they’ve given us no real reason to think playoffs. The Tampa Bay Lightning is 1-1-2 in the first four games of the 2009-10 season. Here are my impressions of the Bolts’ early season performance. Goalie Mike Smith is not right. He has been solid…even amazing at [...]