The city of Toronto is once going to get a chance to witness professional playoff hockey. Yes, the Toronto Maple Leafs have still been eliminated. You don’t have look very far to see the furrowed brow of General Manager Brian Burke and you’ll know that the playoff hockey isn’t the kind he was brought in ...
The Blackhawks are the hottest team in the league, and the return of Duncan Keith and Jonathan Toews will only make Chicago more dangerous once the playoffs begin. However, for any hockey team to succeed, consistent goaltending is essential. This consistency is something the Hawks have lacked this season. Even though Chicago has gone 7-3 ...
The St. Louis Blues have become one of the NHL’s elite teams this season. While the goaltending of Jaroslav Halak was expected to propel the Blues into the upper echelon of the Western Conference, the real surprise has been the emergence of goaltender Brian Elliott. Brian Elliott was originally drafted by the Ottawa Senators in ...
Every year in the playoffs there are upsets in the first round as a lower seeded team defeats a higher seeded team. On occasion, the upsetting team is able to carry that momentum beyond a single round and become a Cinderella team going all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals. And although rather rare, ...
Detroit Red Wings fans have seen several glimpses of Gustav Nyquist thanks to the injuries that have plagued their regular roster members this season. Currently with the team, he’s accumulated 6 points in his last 10 games while seeing frequent time alongside the man who handed him his first NHL goal on a platter, Pavel ...
New York Rangers fans are thanking their team and showing love for the tremendous spirit shown throughout the season on blogs and in the streets today clinching the Eastern Conference after a win over the Philadelphia Flyers, 5-3. First place has become a rare occurrence having only won two postseason series since 1998. This season ...
Anyone catch that game last night? It was phenomenal, exciting, epic and thrilling! We came back from two 3 goal deficits to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-5 in OT and keep our playoff hopes alive! In the third period there was such desperation and the Sabres showed so much heart by never giving up! ...
The saga about the Phoenix Coyotes took another twisted turn yesterday when the City of Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs “blew a fuse” during the Glendale City Council Budget Workshop. Before the Coyotes’ last home game of the season where they blanked the Columbus Blue Jackets 2-0 thanks to a 54-save effort by goaltender Mike Smith, ...
Dynamo Moscow scored six goals, including three from late-season addition Mikhail Anisin to move into the Gagarin Cup final. Russia’s oldest team easily picked apart its northern rival, SKA St. Petersburg, sweeping the series 4-0. An impressive run by the blue-and-white’s from the nation’s capital, in three series, the squad lost just twice, both in ...
On Sunday, the Boston Bruins clinched the Northeast Division title with a 2-1 win over the New York Rangers, the reigning number one seed in the Eastern Conference. With the win, they would lock themselves into the #2 seed with three games still remaining. Although the number may indicate that the Bruins are the second-best team in the Conference, their overall record says otherwise.
Tell me who you think the top two teams in the Eastern Conference are. Here, I’ll answer my own question; it’s the Rangers and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Think again about who the top three teams are and you’ll hear some arguments for both the Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers. However, many would believe that a trip to the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals runs through either the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh or Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Bruins might be the defending Stanley Cup champions, but they’re already the underdogs to repeat as Eastern Conference Champions, let along back-to-back Cup winners.
This is accurate. The Bruins are underdogs. Again.
They were last year, too.
