NHL 2019-20 Recap Week 16 – All-Stars shine in St. Louis, new skills events and too many missing All-Stars
The annual NHL All-Star Game festivities emanated from St. Louis, Missouri. The NHL Skills Competition was up first. The Blues did a great job of mixing in old NHL...
2018 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs – Round 1 Preview
Another great NHL season is down the tubes with a very competitive playoffs coming with the still screwy division seeding format. In the East, I like Boston. In the...
NHL 2017-18 Recap Week 16 – NHL All-Star Game and Skills Competition
The NHL had their annual All-Star festivities this weekend in Tampa Bay. Something they probably wouldn’t have had if they sent the players to the Olympics. So it needed...
NHL 2017-18 Recap Week 9 – Wilson and Carr emerge, Subbans meet, Kings hot, Senators not
It’s not always the big stars that grab the headlines and have long point streaks. Sometimes it’s the guys that have taken awhile to find their groove in the...
NHL 2017-18 Recap Week 5 – Ducks vs Kings Round 1, Charlie Lindgren time in Montreal, Oilers up and down week, Golden Knights first misstep
The freeway face-off series is one of the best in hockey. Even if it’s between markets not associated with traditional hockey ones. You know you are always going to...
NHL 2017-18 Recap Week 2 – Kings on the rebound, Stamkos and Kucherov start hot, Canadiens and Oilers struggle
Surprise, surprise but the Los Angeles Kings are the only team without a regulation loss. And that’s a pretty big deal for several reason. The first one being you...
2016-17 NHL Season Recap – Part 3 – Worst of the Season
Worst of the Year Disappointing Teams Dallas Stars Their season can best be described as, what the heck was that? They slightly get a pass because in the first...
NHL 2016-17 Recap Week 23 – Hart race heats up, Erik Karlsson makes his Norris case, Kings dynasty is done and much more
As we approach the final weeks of the season, the race for the Hart Trophy heats up. This race mirrors the NHL season. Very wide open and lots of...
NHL 2015-16 Recap Week 14 – Kopitar is a rich King but Kings are poor, All-Star John Scott no more, Lightning and Penguins rise, Getzlaf falls
The salary cap in the NHL is a funny thing. It’s currently set at 71 Million which isn’t really that much considering the NBA salary cap is 61 million...
NHL 2014-15 Recap Week 7 – Thanksgiving Showdown repeat, Calvin Pickard has arrived, Tyler Seguin is a beast, Oilers and Sharks have played better
The NHL and NBC just had their third iteration, I believe, of the their Thanksgiving Showdown on Black Friday and it featured the Philadelphia Flyers vs the New York...