Jim Neveau, Managing Editor/Coyotes Correspondent Glendale, Arizona – Hockey isn’t something that one expects to find in the deserts of Arizona this time of year. The Phoenix Coyotes have never been beyond the first round of the playoffs in their organization’s history, but this year, things seem to be different. After dispatching the Chicago Blackhawks ...
Jim Neveau, Managing Editor Glendale, Arizona – Over the course of three years, the Phoenix Coyotes have been the subject of bankruptcy hearings, relocation chatter, and general sniping from all areas of the hockey world. Fans throughout Canada and the US have both blasted commissioner Gary Bettman and company for going to such great lengths ...
Jim Neveau, Managing Editor Glendale, Arizona – If there was any year that proved conclusively that parity reigns in the NHL, it would be the 2011-12 season. Six of the eight teams that made the playoffs in the Western Conference have never won a Stanley Cup (in addition to three in the East), and out ...
Jim Neveau, Managing Editor On Wednesday night in Beantown, the Boston Bruins and Washington Capitals engaged in what is the first of three Game 7 contests that will end the first round of the NHL Playoffs. Just like 14 games before it, the game went into overtime, and even assured that all seven games would ...
Jim Neveau, Managing Editor After an emotional overtime triumph in Game 5 of this series in Glendale, the Chicago Blackhawks wanted to make a statement against the Phoenix Coyotes on Monday at the United Center, and they did just that. They came out of the gate firing in a big way, but in the end, ...
Jim Neveau, Managing Editor Lost in all the wonderful drama that has been occurring so far in these NHL playoffs has been an undercurrent of disdain among fans and pundits of the game. These ill feelings are mostly directed toward the league itself, and especially Vice President of Player Safety Brendan Shanahan for his handling ...
Jim Neveau, Managing Editor After the first two games of this series, it could easily be argued that the Phoenix Coyotes and Chicago Blackhawks were pretty evenly matched. Both games had gone to overtime, both teams had displayed some very solid goaltending and an ability to capitalize on mistakes when they were on offense, and ...
Jim Neveau, Managing Editor Glendale, Arizona – Coming into the NHL playoffs, there were a couple of series that really captured the attention of the hockey world. You had the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins battling the Washington Capitals, two of the Central Division’s best facing off in the Nashville Predators and Detroit Red ...
The Phoenix Coyotes have now made the playoffs for three straight years, and in what has become a continual irony, the squad from the non-traditional market of Glendale, Arizona has had to face Original Six foes in the playoffs’ opening round. The past two years, their foe has been the Detroit Red Wings, but this ...
On the opening night of the NHL playoffs, there have already been a couple of fantastic games for fans to consume as NBC makes every game available nationally for the first time. You had the Philadelphia Flyers coming back from a 3-0 deficit to down the Pittsburgh Penguins in overtime, and the Nashville Predators and ...
