The bottom line was the score, four to three in favor of the Predators, but the rest of the story was what made for compelling watching.
The Great Wall of Finland held off the usual suspects from The City of Brotherly Love in spite of a number of missteps from the normally dependable lines. Avoidable turnovers, [...]
First there was the March on Atlanta, and it was good.
Dan Ellis heard the Thrashers come a’knocking and told them in no uncertain terms that they couldn’t come in. To be fair, Andropov managed to get a puck past him during second period and thus kept it from being a shutout, but just the one. [...]
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
Watching the Predators take on Vancouver was a bit like living in the hockey equivalent of a grad student’s attempt at writing the Dickens novel that Chuckie D. never wrote because it’s 2010 and he has been dead for 140 years. The range of [...]
Okay ladies, it’s time to let go of those pearls.
For those of you who have been too busy watching spangly, booger-eating cousin daters figure skating on the Big Channel, Team Canada’s womens hockey team won the gold. They had the usual celebration on the ice right after the game, then left the rink only to [...]
With the NHL on hold thanks to the Winter Olympics, all is relatively quiet on the hockey front. But yesterday, out of the darkness came the news that Edmonton Oilers forward Mike Comrie got engaged to girlfriend, and Hollywood starlet, Hilary Duff. The couple had been dating for two years, and apparently Comrie popped the [...]
On February 15th, Evgeni Malkin was asked to remove himself from his place of residence in Pittsburgh and go play on behalf of his home country, Mother Russia. That request came from his parents. Deep down, he knew it was the right thing to do, but he also knew that someday, he would return to [...]
“On February 15th, Evgeni Malkin was asked to remove himself from his place of residence in Pittsburgh and go play on behalf of his home country, Mother Russia. That request came from his parents. Deep down, he knew it was the right thing to do, but he also knew that someday, he would return to [...]
“On February 15th, Evgeni Malkin was asked to remove himself from his place of residence in Pittsburgh and go play on behalf of his home country, Mother Russia. That request came from his parents. Deep down, he knew it was the right thing to do, but he also knew that someday, he would return [...]
While fans of some teams would be panicking if their boys had the kind of streak Nashville has had for the last couple of weeks, those of us who have followed the Predators since 1998 know it’s just the circle of life and there are good things to come once the Olympics are over.
For the [...]
Tom “Invisible Airwaves Crackle With Life” Callahan, Pete “No, I’m not Shea’s Dad” Weber, Terry “Will Pundit For Rink Time” Crisp and Jay “Fanger” Levin have all weighed in on their picks for the best at midseason. Have to say that it’s hard to argue with their choices. Not that anybody asked, but here are [...]
