As part two of last week’s article, If We Had An NHL All-Star Game – Team East, we continue picking the roster of the game we never had. If we were playing some pick-up road ball in the street in between periods on TV, these are the guys you’d want on your team. They’d be team ...
A nice break for the players, some trials and competitions for the world’s best, and a showcase of a hockey that has a final score similar to a lacrosse game. All-Star Weekend was intended to take place in Columbus this year (just one more thing they’ve lost), but thanks to Bettman and Fehr, the closest ...
The Stars were in line last night in Providence, RI the home of the 2013 AHL All-Star weekend. Hockey fans of all ages flocked to the Dunkin Donuts Center to cheer for their favorite AHL All-Star in the skills competition. The All-Star Game will be played on Monday, January 28, 2013 at 7:00 pm in ...
For previous installments in the Draft Schmaft series, please visit here. Between 1963 and 1983, the Maple Leafs had seen varying degrees of success with players they’d drafted in the first rounds. Through the late 1970s and early 1980s, the team had selected a number of players who either never met their potential, were mishandled ...
For once, finally, during this whole god-awful mess, it seems as if the senseless and embarrassing work stoppage is coming to an end. We can say this because for the first time, words like “very pleased”, “positive” and “encouraging” have been used to describe the labor negotiations. And, if the buzz from alleged ...
Columbus hockey is going through a rough patch despite having no actual NHL games played. Newly-acquired top-line center Brandon Dubinsky, an Anchorage native, signed on with the Alaska Aces of the ECHL during the lockout. He was leading the team in scoring – with eight goals and four assists in 12 games – when he ...
Yesterday, approximately 30,000 fans packed Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ to celebrate a Super Bowl championship. The New York Rangers could be the next champions in the New York area, however, Coach Tortorella conveyed the need to stay the course and take “one game at a time.” That’s exactly the approach Coach Tom Coughlin ...
Have you ever wondered what it is like behind the scenes in the NHL? What would it be like to meet and interview the biggest stars in the NHL? I recently had the chance to find out as I had access to the NHL All-Star media event at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa during the ...
OTTAWA- Last evening the National Hockey League All Star game took place at the Scotiabank Place in Kanata, Ontario. It was the final event of a weekend filled with entertainment on and off the ice for Hockey Nation and it’s fan base. A long with the excitment, came the rumors and breaking news stories from ...
All week, New York Rangers teammates Marian Gaborik and Henrik Lundqvist chided each other heading into the All-Star Weekend. Not only was the pressure on Lundqvist to select Gaborik in the mock fantasy draft Thursday night, but the two would go head-to-head in battle. Instead of firing back tweeting, Gaborik gunned two goals on Lundqvist ...
