After watching the video of the Ovechkin hit on Brian Campbell and reading the morning after quotes by Bruce Boudreau, Ovechkin himself and a few others I want to weigh in on this controversy.
It is clear in the video on NHL.com that this was an intentional hit from behind by Ovechkin and that the final [...]
All it took was two listless games against Calgary and Edmonton at the end of the Western trip for Jacques Lemaire, the Devils coach, to call a team meeting Tuesday after practice. Halfway through the meeting Lemaire encouraged the players to talk to each other, closing the door behind him as he left. In Marty [...]
With all the Olympic euphoria going round, it may be time to take a closer look at our 2010 reality.
In 2010, we saw two or three great hockey games: the Gold Medal USA-Canada Final, the USA-Switzerland game, and perhaps the Canada-Russia blowout. The nationalist pride element may have moved these games one notch higher than [...]
Calgary generated its effort from top-to-bottom as their third and fourth lines won board battles, forced turnovers, crashed the net, sacrificed their bodies and even produced points.
Not since the eighth and final game of the 1972 Russia-Canada Series has there been such bubbly excitement and nervous anticipation as there was for Sunday’s Olympic Gold Medal final. Hockey fans in both countries pointed towards the three o’clock puck drop like children waiting on Christmas Eve for Santa to come. They were not [...]
Last week, USA Hockey, in celebration of Hockey Across America, asked parents and players in their minor hockey systems to name their hockey heroes so that they might be put on the honor list of the organization. The immediate answer that came to my mind was Keith Veltre and Dennis Ruppe, the hockey coaches at [...]
Lou Lamoriello has done it again!
Whenever dark clouds hover over Devilsland, the whole population shrugs their collective shoulders and thinks: “Lou will handle it. He will come
up with something.” This year’s dark cloud was the lack of scoring.
In early February every year, right around Groundhog Day, like Puxsutawney Phil, Lou comes above ground, looks at [...]
With just under a month until the official NHL Trade Deadline, all of the speculations involving one of the biggest players on the market, Ilya Kovalchuk, came to a dramatic conclusions.
Well, that didn’t take long.
A day after sitting down with his star player and telling him that he would be dealt, Atlanta Thrashers General Manager Don Waddell pulled the trigger on a huge blockbuster deal last night, sending 26-year-old sniper Ilya Kovalchuk to the New Jersey Devils.
In exchange, Atlanta receives defenseman Johnny Oduya, young forward [...]
Thrashers captain Ilya Kovachuk has been traded to the New Jersey Devils in a five-player trade.
The news broke Thursday night following Kovalchuk’s rejection of a 12-year, $101 million contract and general manager Don Waddell’s public announcement that Kovalchuk would be traded.
The Devils sent defenseman Johnny Oduya, winger Niclas Bergfors and center Patrice Cormier along with [...]
