It’s no secret that the Anaheim Ducks are having one of their wort seasons in recent memory. For an elite team that has made consecutive playoff appearances the last four seasons, the Ducks, who are currently 10 points behind Detroit for the eighth and final playoff spot, are a long shot at making it five [...]
Prior to the 2010 Olympic games, the New Jersey Devils became the lucky recipients of Russian sniper Ilya Kovalchuk in a major trade with the Atlanta Thrashers. Once the NHL season resumed at the beginning of this week, most speculated that there wasn’t going to be too much on the market due to heavily contested [...]
It was only a month ago that Teemu Selanne’s fifth Olympic appearance came into question after his jaw came came out on the wrong end of a deflected Ryan Whitney slap shot. Fans inside of the Honda Center weren’t the only ones holding their breath when their star winger went down in a heap in [...]
Three seasons ago it would have been hard to imagine that G.S. Giguere would ever leave the city of Anaheim. His Conn Smythe performance during the 2003 playoffs established him as one of the premier netminders in the league. His Stanley Cup championship in ’07 immortalized his name. And yet, after nine years, one of [...]
You’d know who he was even if you never got to see the face under the mask. The snarling St. Bernard that was painted on it would instantly give it away. And his athletic and, at times, unorthodox style gave him an unmistakable presence in the crease. Unfortunately, in his 19-year hall-of-fame worthy career, we [...]
If you’ve already glanced over the roster for the 2010 Russian Olympic team then you know that the offensive fire-power they have up front will likely invoke the fear of God in opposing netminders and defenseman alike. And if you read through trademark names of Team Canada, a potent group that comprises veteran leadership with [...]
The Los Angeles Kings are currently in a place where they haven’t been since number 99 was wearing the silver and black: first-place. That’s right––after a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday night, the Kings now sit alone atop the Western Conference for the first time in almost two decades. Granted, other than [...]
With the 2010 Winter Olympics only two months away, nobody is feeling more pressure right now than Team Canada. When you consider that they are coming off their worst showing at the games (finishing seventh at the 2006 Turin Olympics) and the fact that in 2010 they will be playing in front of their home [...]
The NHL season may still be relatively young, but the Anaheim Ducks are arguably one of the most disappointing hockey clubs thus far. Although there was some cause for concern with the departure of defensive stalworths Chris Pronger and Francois Beauchemin, many expected the Ducks to have one of their best offensive seasons in franchise [...]
Just one week after the impressive 2009 class was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, Brendan Shanahan, a sure-fire hall-of-famer is his own right, announced his retirement from the NHL after 21 seasons.
After finishing the 2008 season with the same team that drafted him, the New Jersey Devils and Shanahan parted ways at the [...]
