What a difference a few days makes. The New Jersey Devils became the first team since 1945 to force a sixth game after trailing three games to none in the Stanley Cup Final with a tough 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings Saturday night in Newark. “It doesn’t matter what people outside here think,” ...
The Detroit Red Wings traded soon-to-be UFA Brad Stuart’s rights to the San Jose Sharks on Sunday in exchange for a conditional 7th round pick in the 2014 draft and forward Andrew Murray (also an UFA). The move put an end to months of speculation about the veteran defender’s future with the Wings, and confirmed ...
I remember the first time I saw Jonathan Quick play: It was at the 2004 New England Prep School Championships. He was already being touted by many as one of the best North American goalie prospects, and he showed it that weekend, as he backboned Avon Old Farms to the first of two straight NEPSAC ...
The Draft season is here again and the Vancouver Canucks have a lot of planning to do. Two Presidents’ trophies in succession shows a strong team with many depth players but unfortunately drafting potential future superstars has proven difficult for the Canucks in the past 5 years. Despite Vancouver drafting a total of 36 prospects ...
The news has recently featured reports that former NHL, WHA and Team Canada player Paul Henderson’s cancer has advanced to the point where he is likely going to have chemotherapy or clinical trials in an effort to slow his rare form of leukemia down. Still, even in the face of this news, the hero to generations of ...
When you’re virtually flawless on the road and on the penalty kill, odds are that combination will win out more often than not. For the Los Angeles Kings, both of those qualities have been staples for their success in these playoffs. However after Game Five of the Stanley Cup Finals against the New Jersey Devils, ...
commentary by Jas Faulkner, contributing editor It all went off the rails when a dozen or so writers from various new media outlets agreed to spend the downtime between the regular season and the playoffs watching a series about a living spaceship manned (or wo-manned, as it were) by a crew of misfits on the ...
