Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsIn what has become a postseason dominated by disciplinary actions, hockey fans, writers, and analysts alike spent yet another day anticipating Brendan Shanahan’s verdicts today. This time for Penguins forwards Arron Asham and James Neal. With each player’s respective hearing reportedly over for hours, Shanahan and the Department of Player Safety deliberated over the Pittsburgh ...
The 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs are being broadcast nationally in their entirety for the first time ever. That’s great. Early returns show that ratings are up significantly when compared to TV playoff numbers from the past couple of decades. That’s even better. But before the NHL puts that little feather in their cap, they ...
As in any sport, the time of the year that is the most anticipated by fans across the world is the start of the playoffs. In the NHL, this holds true even more because of the way that every aspect of the game is intensified. Even though they are already the world’s toughest athletes, the ...
Brendan Shanahan, the NHL’s head disciplinarian, has become the most controversial figure of the 2012 playoffs. Several puzzling decisions regarding supplementary discipline have left a bad taste in the mouths of hockey fans everywhere. In an attempt to explain his decisions further, Shanahan took to the airwaves Monday. In his interview with WFAN NY, Shanahan ...
Good, bad, or indifferent, the fact remains: Carl Hagelin is suspended for Games 3, 4, and 5 of the New York Rangers’ first round series with the Ottawa Senators. Another fact that also remains is that the Rangers, after winning the Atlantic Division and finishing with the most points in the Eastern Conference, have lost ...
Matt Carkner and Zenon Konopka were hired to play in the NHL, but in Game 2 of the Rangers-Senators series, they were hired goons. Call it payback and a way to win that worked. Ottawa’s coach Paul MacLean knew how to turn the series in his favor. Rookie Carl Hagelin elbowed Daniel Alfredsson, Brian Boyle ...
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. That seems to explain how most fans, media, and certain players feel about the NHL’s disciplinary dean Brendan Shanahan these days. Put under the microscope for the brawls and injuries piling up in the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, Shanahan is now feeling the heat much ...
You’ve seen the play by now. In the dying seconds of game 1 of the Western Conference Quarterfinal series between the Nashville Predators and Detroit Red Wings, Predators captain Shea Weber grabs a hold of Red Wing forward Henrik Zetterberg’s head, slamming him face first into the glass. Zetterberg slouched to the ice after the ...
On the opening night of the NHL playoffs, there have already been a couple of fantastic games for fans to consume as NBC makes every game available nationally for the first time. You had the Philadelphia Flyers coming back from a 3-0 deficit to down the Pittsburgh Penguins in overtime, and the Nashville Predators and ...
Was Ryane Clowe’s move cheating or just another example of the gamesmanship that occurs on and off the ice every night in the NHL?
