Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsWith the departure of future Hall-of-Famer Nicklas Lidstrom and Thomas Holmstrom to retirement, this shortened season was supposed to be the Detroit Red Wings’ year of rebuilding. Scratch that “rebuilding” talk. When the shortened season resumed on January 19, none of the so-called hockey experts gave the Red Wings a chance to crack the top ...
Detroit Red Wings fans may be caught up in the euphoria of Damien Brunner’s nasty shootout goal that earned the Wings two points and their first win of the 2013 campaign, but game two of the regular season showed that the Wings have more work to do and that they should not be satisfied with ...
The lockout is over and it is time for the St. Louis Blues to pick up where they left off. After seeing his team record one of the best records in franchise history, recently re-signed GM Doug Armstrong has brought nearly the same band back together. With just a few minor changes, the Blues will ...
Many adjectives have been used to describe the Detroit Red Wings off-season disastrous, disappointing, sub-par unproductive, ineffective, fruitless – the list can go on and on. For such a storied franchise that always seems to be the talk of the NHL in terms of getting it right they seemed to have done a 180 and ...
The Detroit Red Wings announced the singing of UFA defenseman Carlo Colaiacovo on Friday. It’s a signing that brings the team more questions than answers.
The Detroit Red Wings have been a playoff team for the last 21 seasons, in that time making six Finals appearances and winning four Stanley Cups. One of the most dominant teams in professional sports for the last two decades, the Wings successfully managed to stay on top even through the NHL’s implementation of a ...
When the Pittsburgh Penguins wrapped up their 2011-12 regular season with a 4-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers, they capped off their finest offensive campaign since the goal-happy seasons of the 1990s. An NHL-best 273 goals and a top-five power play led Pittsburgh to its third consecutive 100-point season. Their roster included the Art Ross ...
Being tenured with one team for ten years is a rarity in professional sports nowadays. 10-year veteran Barret Jackman, who has spent his entire NHL career as a St. Louis Blue, agreed to a three-year contract extension Monday morning. Jackman is not only the longest-tenured defenseman in the NHL, but the longest-tenured athlete in St. ...
Playing in a division that stresses defense-first, the St. Louis Blues are on the cusp of losing the only three defensemen on their roster over the age of 29. Kent Huskins, Carlo Colaiacovo and Assistant Captain Barret Jackman will all become unrestricted free-agents on July 1. While there are bound to be some contract talks ...
The end of the season brought more joy than anyone in the Blues’ organization could have imagined. It was announced Wednesday morning that the sale of the St. Louis Blues, the Peoria Rivermen of the AHL and a “significant interest” in the Peabody Opera House, which sits just behind Scottrade Center, was approved by the ...
