Josh Gorges Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest The Hockey Writers | July 23, 2011 Deep in the majestic mountains of Kelowna, British Columbia lives a humble giant. Twenty-six years old, prime of his career, rehabilitated knee, and passion for the game. Josh Gorges wakes…
The NHL Backup Goaltender Phenomenon- Amateur Hour Daniel Schöpf | July 16, 2011 Who doesn’t like a nice feel good story? A cat rescued from a tree? A dog surfing? Imagine this; Pavelec, a few hours before game time for the Jets twists…
Laughter is a Junkies’ Best Medicine Rebecca Dobrinski | May 19, 2011 Blog: The Hockey Junkies Writers: Noodles & Henrik As hockey fans, the game makes us laugh and makes us cry (to be a little cliché). Most fans remember…
Sharks/Ducks: Quack, Quack, Cock-A-Doodle-Doo Walter McLaughlin | April 2, 2011 Throughout history, there have been a myriad of truly jaw-dropping, horrifying, ignominious characters that have withstood the test of time and reside in infamy, even today. Christians will point immediately…
Matt Bradley – Profiles In Awesome The Hockey Writers | February 23, 2011 This past Monday, when praise for Matt Bradley’s crunching hit on notorious jerk Matt Cooke and subsequent beat down of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ AHL call-up Ryan Craig (who asked for…
Nobody Puts Ovi In The Corner Jas Faulkner | February 12, 2011 by Jas Faulkner, still the Nashville correspondent as of 9:54 am Tennessee Time, bitches! News of P!nk’s impending motherhood may have sidetracked Julie Taymor’s remix of “Grease”, but it isn’t stopping Alexander Ovechkin…
Book Review: Hockey Superstitions Rebecca Dobrinski | February 6, 2011 Hockey Superstitions: From Playoff Beards to Crossed Sticks and Lucky Socks. By Andrew Podnieks. (2010, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Ltd. Softcover. Pp. 175. $19.99 CAN/$17.95. ISBN 978-0-7710-7108-9) Every athletic league…
Greetings From Smashville! Season 13, Week 17 Jas Faulkner | January 28, 2011 by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent The road trip to Western Canada is always a complicated, hard to predict affair for the Predators. Sometimes they storm through Alberta and British Columbia like a barbaric…
Book Review: The Making of Slap Shot Rebecca Dobrinski | January 25, 2011 The Making of Slap Shot: Behind the Scenes of the Greatest Hockey Movie Ever Made. By Jonathon Jackson. (2010, Mississauga, Ontario: John Wiley & Sons Canada, Ltd. Hardcover. Pp. vii-306.…
Greetings From Smashville! Season 13, Week 15 Jas Faulkner | January 19, 2011 by Jas Faulkner, Nashville Correspondent Week Fifteen was almost the only time in January most of Predsnation managed to see the team in the flesh. They’ve been on the road nearly…
Greetings From Smashville! Season 13, Week 6 Jas Faulkner | November 17, 2010 Yeah, yeah I know…Toronto…the wheels came off…etc. That’s for the next digest. Let’s talk about last week. Get Backes, Get Backes, Get Backes To Where You Once Belonged…
The Worst Maple Leafs Team Ever? Mike Moore | November 14, 2010 When Vancouver Canucks defenseman Dan Hamhuis scored into an empty net to seal a 5-3 victory over the hapless Toronto Maple Leafs last night, Leaf winger Kris Versteeg chased…