NHL Recap Week 24 – Anaheim Ducks Struggling, Is Jagr the Fix for the Maple Leafs?, Final Wild Card Intrigue, Blues and Avs Pass the Blackhawks and Fight Each Other and more
With just a few meaningful NHL games left, it looks like the Detroit Red Wings consecutive playoff streak record will stay intact. As much as I wanted it to...
NHL Recap Week 20 – Reviewing all those Trades, What did the Penguins Learn Out West?, The Canucks are a mess, are the Blues the New Team to Beat? and more
What a busy trading deadline it ended up being. I don’t recall the last time so many goalies were traded and shifted, no matter their credentials. Let’s look at...
NHL Recap Week 15 – Lack of coverage for the Ducks and their letdown in Chicago, Flames Canucks line brawl, NHL needs replay, Scrivens to the Oilers and more
One thing that really bugs me about hockey is the lack of mainstream coverage by the media. It’s always an afterthought by the big media companies like ESPN and...
NHL Recap Week 13 – The Winter Classic Phenomenon, Red Hot Ducks and Kyle Okposo, Bobby Ryan Team USA fallout, Kings Slump and more
In comes 2014 in the NHL much better than 2013 because now they are already playing hockey and, after a one year absence, we had a little something called...
NHL Recap Week 9 – All those long Shootouts, Montreal on Fire, Anaheim makes a Statement, Thornton has Problems and more
Recently we’ve had a lot of longer shootouts. Nine rounds, eleven rounds and sometimes it seems like almost every game ends in a shootout, which means parity is getting...
NHL Recap Week 8 – Stopping in Shootouts, Malkin on Fire, Islanders and Sabres struggle and more
The NHL needs to do a better job of defining what is a good shootout attempt or eliminate it all together. In the Anaheim Ducks vs. San Jose Sharks...
NHL Recap Week 5 – Ryan Getzlaf's big night, slumping Sharks, rising Lightning, Panthers just awful and more
The Tampa Bay Lightning have managed to, surprisingly, climb atop the Eastern Conference standings. Other than the 2010-11 season the Lightning haven’t exactly scared anybody recently. Ben Bishop has...
NHL Recap Week 3 – Who got the better of the Vanek Moulson deal, Alexander Steen's and Josh Harding's great runs, What's up with the Metropolitan division and more
The big news this week was Thomas Vanek of the Sabres being traded to the Islanders for Matt Moulson. In reality the trade is a wash as they are...
NHL Recap Week 13 – Is this it for the Red Wings Streak?, More Winter Classics?, Corey Crawford or Ray Emery? and more!
Before I begin this column, I’d like to give my condolences to everyone affected by the Boston Marathon bombings. That was a lot of bloodshed in a nonsensical act...
Between the Pipes – NHL Recap Week 18
Recap of week 18 in the NHL including Goalie Spotlight, Fights of the Week, Goat of the Week, Things I Like, Things I Don't, This Week in Hockey History,...