NHL 2018-19 Recap Week 6 – NHL parity is real, Joe Thornton notches 400, The Wild might be good, William Nylander keeps holding out
As we inch closer to Thanksgiving and a quarter of the way done the season, one thing is for sure in the NHL there are no bad teams. The...
2016 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs – Round 2 Preview – Western Conference
I’m not surprised the Anaheim Ducks lost another Game 7 at home. Nothing on their team changed. After they started out really badly and the coach was not fired,...
2016 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs – Round 1 Preview
The 2016 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs start with no Canadian teams and a Bruins team that choked down the stretch, again, to miss the playoffs for the second straight...
NHL 2015-16 Recap Week 6 – NHL All-Star Game changes, Oilers doing fine without McDavid, Bobrovsky bounces back and Ducks do not
The big news, of course, is the 3 on 3 NHL All-Star tournament that was announced and will take place starting this season. The current game format wasn’t working...
NHL 2015-16 Recap Week 5 – Canadiens, Rangers, Stars early favorites, Max Domi and Leon Draisaitl impress, Hurricanes going nowhere fast
The cream of the crop this season so far are the Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Dallas Stars. The Rangers have reeled off nine straight wins and are...
2015-16 NHL Season Preview
Instead of doing unrealistic team by team analysis, let’s take a look at what’s new in the NHL, what stories to watch unfold in 2015-16 NHL season and who...
NHL Recap Week 2 – What to do about the suspensions, will Sidney Crosby win the scoring race again, can the Ducks turn their powerplay into a strength and more
Brendan Shanahan has set out to clean up the game of hockey and enforce the cheap hits. While consistency is always an issue he has done a fairly good...
2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 2 So Far
I generally feel the 2nd round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs is the worst but the 2013 2nd round has been pretty good so far. The best series has...
2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 1 Preview
And so the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs begin after a shortened season. There’s really not a clear cut favorite, in my eyes anyway, to win it all. Many people...
NHL Recap Week 9 – What's Really Wrong with the Lightning, Maple Leafs and Wild Rising, Predators Falling and will NBC Sports Network get it Right?
The Tampa Bay Lightning hit the reset button the other day when they fired their coach Guy Boucher. While this season has been a disappointment I don’t really think...