What a weekend. It is now half way though the week and I am just now able to digest everything that went on. This past weekend was H2H2 in Detroit (more information on H2H and H2H2). Red Wings Bloggers and fans from not only around the Detroit area, Michigan, the United States, but Canada and ...
Between 1950 and 1956, the Detroit Red Wings and the Toronto Maple Leafs met in the Stanley Cup semi-finals five times. Detroit won every series. Only the 1950 best-of-seven series was close with the Red Wings needing a Game 7 overtime goal by Leo Reise Jr. to eliminate the Leafs. In Game 1 of that ...
The Washington Capitals claim the Eastern Conference’s number two spot tonight with a 2-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes after the Boston Bruins fell to the New York Islanders 4-2, and the Tampa Bay Lightning lost to the Ottawa Senators 2-1. Coming into tonight’s game, the Caps annihilated the Edmonton Oilers 5-0, extending the current ...
The Lone Star Skate: Improbable (But True) Stories of Texas’s Hockey Heroes By Glenn Hart and Rusty Burson. (2011, Austin, TX: Bridgeway Books. Hardcover. Pp. 180. $39.95 US. ISBN 978-1-934454-38-1) “Black gold…Texas tea…” When the average person thinks of sports in the Lone Star State, the images usually conjured in their mind tend toward ...
Game 64: No money, no problems, not much to write about Finally, a week after the trade deadline, the Red Wings hopefully will get the final piece to their playoff puzzle. Johan Franzen is excused for being preoccupied with the birth of his son of late. But now that that’s over he has to focus ...
Andrew Knoll discusses he Red Wings’ dominance over the Kings in L.A. Monday night
One of the nice things about hockey history is it gives everybody several years to ponder some of the most difficult and often-asked questions of all-time. The general consensus today is Gordie Howe was the greatest right-winger ever to play the game. You’ll get way fewer arguments now than you would have 50 years ago. ...
A couple thoughts as the Red Wings and their dads peel out of Florida, with 4 points in their luggage and two rinks full of satisfied Snowbirds in the rear view mirror: – I love Steve Yzerman as much of the next guy, but while some of the gobs of copy published last week praising ...
The man helped revive a dying franchise with his play, as opposed to his pocket book, and elevated it to the highest tier of professional sports teams. Recounting all of his achievements would be to regurgitate greatness. There could be worse things, I suppose. But I really want to try and identify why this player was and is so respected and meant so much to a city and a fan base.
by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent Edmonton at Nashville February 7th, 2011 Coming from a shutout in Detriot, expectations were high that Nashville’s return to Bridgestone on Monday would be triumphant. The result was a shutout that left Nashville in shock. The final score was 4-0 with the Oilers taking home a big, unexpected win. ...
