Sidney Crosby is one of the best players in the National Hockey League, if not the best player in the game. One thing he is not anymore is one of the top 25 players under the age of 25. It’s hard to believe that ‘Sid the Kid’ is now 25 years old and about to ...
A little bit over a month ago, I made a list of the top 15 ice hockey bloopers. While some bloopers might not have made the top 15 list, several more videos were compiled in order to give hockey fans a few more laughs when looking at the lighter side of the sport. Since hockey ...
Last month, I documented some of the NHL’s best late round picks of the 2000, 2001, and 2002 NHL Entry Draft. Players such as Henrik Lundqvist, Kevin Bieksa, and Brooks Laich were just some of the names that made it out of the late rounds of the NHL Draft and established themselves at the professional ...
With just over a month to digest the results of the 2012 NHL draft and subsequently recover from NDWS (NHL Draft Withdrawal Syndrome), here are my projected top ten team selection performances for 2012. I say projected because one will inevitably require three to five years or more to reflect back and truly ascertain whether ...
Throughout the summer, The Hockey Writers will count down the ten best regular season games, and the five best playoff games from the New York Rangers 2011-12 season. The Rangers won 51 games and recorded 109 points in 2011-12, and won the Atlantic Division for the first time since the 1993-94 season. The 9th best game of ...
Throughout the summer, The Hockey Writers will count down the ten best regular season games, and the five best playoff games from the New York Rangers 2011-12 season. The Rangers won 51 games and recorded 109 points in 2011-12, and won the Atlantic Division for the first time since the 1993-94 season. The 10th best ...
With the skill level of young players getting higher, the amount of young NHL talent has spiked over the years. Every year there is a new crop of future star players shipped into the NHL through the NHL Entry Draft, and these players take the league by storm, setting scoring records, scoring highlight reel goals ...
The impact of American-born players in the NHL has intensified over the last few decades. Not only has there been an increase of U.S. born players on NHL rosters, but those players have been some of the best players in the league. The last two Conn Smythe Trophy winners have been American-born players (Tim Thomas ...
The NHL free-agency is just days away, and at this moment every NHL team is likely going over how they will approach this, ever important, time of the off-season. Will they make a run at trying to sign Zach Parise or Ryan Sutter, this year’s big names? Or, how much money will they offer that ...
With the NHL free-agency period fast approaching, the talk of the NHL is set to where the big name free-agents will end up. Ryan Suter, Zach Parise and Alexander Semin are just a few of the names that are being floated around every NHL city. Sometimes, the best free-agent signings may not even be one ...
