bounce [bouns]
- verb (used without object)
1. to spring back from a surface in a lively manner: The ball bounced off the wall.
2. to strike the ground or other surface, and rebound: The ball bounced once before he caught it.
The Detroit Red Wings are only three wins away from repeating as Stanley Cup Champions, and [...]
A eulogy for the 2008-09 Blackhawks, a team that gave fans hope for the future.
“With every door that closes, another is opened up” – This motto can be applied to so many different situations in life, but the yearly NHL Entry Draft is not one of them. Each team has one chance to pick the stars of the future from this years crop of budding athletes, giving each team the opportunity to significantly fail if they cannot identify their current needs, their upcoming needs, the skills which the prospect best displays presently and those he will grow in to.
The Blue Jackets Drop A Bombshell
By Rick Gethin
The Hockey Writers
With the NHL Draft just twenty-seven short days away, Columbus fans were hit (some might say blindsided) by the revelation that the Blue Jackets want to take Nationwide Arena from a private to public entity and sell it to Franklin County. After losing an average of [...]
Ever since the announcement came that Games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals would be played back-to-back in Detroit the conspiracy-mongers have been coming out of the woodwork to denounce the NHL with theories the likes of which haven’t been seen since Kennedy was assassinated.
Everyone from the average fan to respected writers have [...]
Moving away from the theme of my last few posts in this segment, disappointing draft picks, I have chosen a goaltender who was not a widely known draft pick, who burst onto the scene in the NHL later in his career and who had several solid to great seasons in the NHL. Then all of a sudden he [...]
Jason Woolley had experienced much success before entering the NHL. After highly impressing with the Michigan State Spartans, the defenseman joined Canada’s National Team and helped his country earn a silver medal at the 1992 Olympic Winter Games.
Drafted in 1989 by the Washington Capitals (61st overall), he took part in his first league match in [...]
Hockey isn’t over for all cities in Canada. It is alive and well in Winnipeg.
The Manitoba Moose have made it to the Calder Cup finals, the AHL’s version of the Stanley Cup, for the first time in franchise history. And the buzz is significant around Winnipeg.
Add to that the world spotlight being cast on the [...]
The Pittsburgh Penguins are back in the Stanley Cup Final.
So are the Detroit Red Wings.
Even before the season started most people predicted that the Red Wings would become the first repeat champions since 1998.
People didn’t have the same positive feeling about the Pittsburgh Penguins. They had lost Malone and Roberts. They had lost Laraque and [...]
