Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsIt hasn’t been since the 2007-08 NHL season that the Chicago Blackhawks played the entire season with a true #1 goaltender. Even during that season, starter Nikolai Khabibulin only played in 50 of the team’s 82 games, losing a significant amount of ice time due to injury. Since the end of the 2008 season, the ...
What makes a strong division? Is it solid goaltending, balanced scoring or stingy defense? How about all of the above?
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about— Hildegard Knef Hope springs eternal. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. No matter what quasi-hackneyed quotation one chooses to believe when starting a new venture, a cold dose of reality will hit many of the participants at ...
The biggest need facing the Tampa Bay Lightning this off-season is without a doubt, an upgrade in the goaltending department. Most of the press has linked them with Roberto Luongo, the woebegone superstar seemingly headed out of Vancouver on a one-way ticket. However, it is not a foregone conclusion that the Quebec-native will be donning ...
Henrik Lundqvist said it best last night to the referee. Seriously, another week has gone by for those fantasy poolies and Round 2 will start by week’s end. As the second season continues ladies and gentlemen, playoff pools are becoming more popular than ever. So what are we going to do? Honestly it is time ...
Every year the NHL playoffs brings out the best in some and the worst in others. For every pleasant surprise there is an equal and opposite disappointment and no players feel more pressure than when they underperform in a first-round loss. Here are the players on teams down in their series or eliminated altogether who ...
After losing two straight in overtime at home to fall behind in their series 1-3, the Blackhawks face the chance of first-round elimination for the second straight season. With Chicago facing-off in Phoenix tonight, there is question as to who will be in the net for the Hawks. After giving up two, rather soft, goals ...
Everything looked set in the last minute of Game 2. The Phoenix Coyotes were up 3-2 in the game and set to claim two victories at home to take a 2-0 series lead into Chicago. The best start a team can earn in the chess match of momentum management that is a seven game series ...
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 ...
Jim Neveau, Managing Editor After the first two games of this series, it could easily be argued that the Phoenix Coyotes and Chicago Blackhawks were pretty evenly matched. Both games had gone to overtime, both teams had displayed some very solid goaltending and an ability to capitalize on mistakes when they were on offense, and ...
