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With nearly half the season in the books, this year’s edition of the Edmonton Oilers sit dead last in the Western Conference. Despite one of the highest payrolls in the league, the team has been grossly inept in all phases of the game. More specifically, the Oilers have:
The 3rd worst defensive record in the NHL [...]
By Jon Gabrielle, NY Rangers correspondent
There’s an expression in horse racing and it goes something like this, “don’t go to the whip too early and too often!”
The inference is that when you do use the whip, you will usually get a that little extra kick from the horse that you might need down the stretch. [...]
Jim Neveau, Blackhawks Correspondent
With the seventh overall pick in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, the Chicago Blackhawks selected forward Jack Skille. He was an immensely talented young forward, and he was one of the top prospects available in that year’s class.
Skille had a history of winning, picking up a silver medal in 2004 and a [...]
by Dan Canavan
With the New Year upon us, we thought it would be an excellent time to check back in with the 5 prospects that we highlighted at the beginning of the season in Tropical Storm Warning Part I: Five Prospects for Hurricanes Fans to Watch This Season. Here is our take on where they [...]
The 365 days known as 2009 was quite the year for the Boston Bruins. The best B’s team of the decade? I’d argue yes, especially since this was the only team to get past the first round of the playoffs, let alone qualify. But as far as games were concerned, there were many a gem. Some blowouts, others nail-biters that went down to the very last goal. There were some games that would come close to making this list, and others that would belong on a bottom five list. All in all, 2009 was good to the Bruins and showed a glimpse of promise into 2010 and beyond.
Christopher Ralph – THW’s Flames, Draft and Prospect Correspondent
The WJC U20s are well underway in Saskatchewan, Canada. Sweden have already hammered the Czech -Republic 10-1 in a surprisingly lop-sided fashion. Canada are not so surprisingly in the process of ripping apart the squad from Latvia (16-zip was the final).
In my review of the pre-tourney tilt [...]
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By Jon Gabrielle, Special to The Hockey Writers
With 15 of the 20 skaters selected for the Team Canada roster today, playing for teams from the Western Conference in the NHL…is it possible there was a slight bias from Steve Yzerman’s management team? And of the 5 Eastern Conference players, one is Chris Pronger who has [...]
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Bruce K. Hollingdrake is the [...]
By Jon Gabrielle, Stars correspondent
The Dallas Stars began a crucial three game homestand last night at the American Airlines Center by defeating the league-leading Chicago Blackhawks, 5-4.
The fact that the game resembled the vacilatory nature of their season, was of little concern in the home team’s locker room.
The back and forth affair had much of [...]
