A Guest post By Chris O’Neil
After writing an article for The Hockey Writers entitled “Training Day: What NHL Players do in the Off Season”, I have been given the opportunity to follow the Canadian Men’s Olympic Hockey Team as it develops. I will start with the orientation camp in Calgary when it is completed and [...]
Quebec born, French speaking, 12th overall, highly skilled All-Star wing-man Alex Tanguay is precisely the man Tampa Bay wants to lock down. And after four weeks of communication between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Tanguay’s camp, the deal has been given the okay pending a physical examination taking place tomorrow.
By Rick Gethin
The Hockey Writers
As most of you know, just after 3a.m. this morning Paul Kelly was fired as Executive Director of the NHL Players Association. How many people do you know get the axe in the wee hours before sunrise? Not too many, if any, I’m sure. Does this move by the Players Association [...]
There is little argument that the 2009 offseason is the most important offseason in franchise history for the Thrashers. Captain Ilya Kovalchuk will enter the final year of his contract, and General Manger Don Waddell is desperate to keep the team’s most recognizable name on the squad long-term.
Christopher Ralph is a hockey writer with a focus on prospects and the entry draft, as well as the Leafs’ correspondent here at THW.
As I relayed on my new blog Paint It Blackhawks,
“Team Canada’s Men’s Red and White scrimmage game was an unbelievably surreal experience. I was admittedly excitingly anticipating a game featuring an intriguing blend [...]
The Thrashers have the worst fans in the league. At least this is according to Derek Felska, a blogger for The State of Hockey News, a Minnesota Wild blog. Three teams managed to finish worse than the Thrashers in 2008-2009, yet somehow, the city of Atlanta has the worst hockey fans.
Al Sobotka, an affable man if ever there was one, is the building operations manager for Olympia Entertainment and the guy that has the enviable task — in hockey circles anyway — of resurfacing the Joe Louis Arena ice. Remember that song I Wanna Drive the Zamboni? Well Sobotka is living the dream my friends. [...]
If Todd Bertuzzi ever tires of playing in the NHL, he could always consider a career as a professional ping pong player.
One of hockey’s most notorious leap-froggers has moved on yet again or more appropriately, moved back, swapping red and black for red and white as he heads back to his former stomping ground, Detroit.
From [...]
The new doormat at Nationwide Arena/Photo by Average Jane – Flickr
By Rick Gethin
The Hockey Writers
You… yes, you. You know who you are. You were the ones who looked at the Blue Jackets as the doormat upon which the leagues’ teams (and your team, too) wiped their shoes before boarding the plane for the trip [...]
The Blues’ captain, defenseman Eric Brewer, had to undergo arthroscopic knee surgery on his right knee Thursday in Vancouver, therby allowing him to get injured by a Canuck. Brewer (as per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) tore a ligament in his knee doing rehab for his second back surgery this summer.
Apparently it might only add a [...]
