Brandon Sutter learned last week that he was coming to the Pittsburgh Penguins in a trade that sent Jordan Staal to the Carolina Hurricanes. In the days leading up to the trade, Staal had turned down a massive 10-year contract offer from Penguins General Manager Ray Shero. Since Staal declined such a generous offer, Shero ...
Another two weeks have passed, and another playoff round has come and gone. Eight teams entered the fight and only half have moved on. Each year, the final four offers a different theme present in all of the teams. In 2010, the four teams that remained were the Blackhawks, Flyers, Canadiens, and Sharks. The quartet ...
Paul Maclean’s young Ottawa Senators caught a lot of people by surprise during the regular season, and have done so in the postseason as well. Picked by many, at the start of the year, as a team that would languish in the depths of the Eastern conference, the Ottawa Senators briefly challenged for the Northeast ...
Mikkel Boedker has not received a tremendous amount of attention in the aftermath of Game 3. Quite understandably, the attention has been focused on the Raffi Torres hit and its consequences for both the Phoenix Coyotes and the Chicago Blackhawks as the series moves forward. However, Mikkel Boedker’s performance was tremendously significant and a big ...
The series between the St. Louis Blues and the San Jose Sharks is progressing as expected. Going into the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs, the Blues drew the Sharks as their first round opponents. The game was exactly what the pundits predicted…a tight checking affair that gave no space to either team. What was not predicted ...
On Monday night, the Sharks played a east-west game and ended up losing 4-3 to give the Blues a 2-1 lead in the series. The Sharks started off with some sense of urgency to the game, but maybe that’s because they were in their own building and they felt the fans sense of urgency. So ...
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 ...
Ilya Bryzgalov has allowed 12 goals on 91 shots through the first three games of the 2012 NHL PLayoffs, good for a save percentage of .869 and a 3.96 goals against average. And yet, the Philadelphia Flyers have one each of those games, taking a 3-0 series lead over the Pittsburgh Penguins. With the mayhem ...
The Phoenix Coyotes started their 2012 NHL playoffs series against the Chicago Blackhawks as the underdogs. That’s a label that Dave Tippett’s team has gotten more than used to over the last three seasons, but they have also gotten used to performing regardless. This is the third consecutive year that they’ve made the postseason and ...
BOSTON– The story coming out of Game 1 between the Washington Capitals and the Boston Bruins should have been about the performance of rookie goaltender Braden Holtby.
Chris Kelly had other plans.
Just 1:18 into overtime, Kelly scored the Bruins’ first and only goal of the game to seal the victory and take the 1-0 series lead for Boston.
