On December 19, 1995, the Calgary Flames traded captain Joe Nieuwendyk to the Dallas Stars for veteran forward Corey Millen and a junior player from Kamloops, Jarome Iginla. Now, nearly 18 years later, many people surrounding the team are debating the merits of trading Iginla and beginning a re-build in Calgary. Since he began playing ...
Los Angeles Kings forward Dustin Penner is known for a lot of things in the NHL. The two time Stanley Cup winner (’07 Ducks, ’12 Kings) made it to the NHL as an undrafted free agent back in the 2005-’06 season and watched his stock soar as a power forward. Despite his quick assent into ...
Even hut-dwellers in N’Djamena, Chad are keenly aware that social media has revolutionized how we communicate. Moreover, it allows us a glimpse into the unsolicited, unfiltered minds of celebrities and sports figures, a phenomena rarely available before the advent of Twitter. We’ve gone from not enough information to almost too much in a blink of ...
Since unlike some sports, where each player is awarded with a ring or another type of momentum to symbolize that he or she was a apart of a team that achieved beyond other teams in the league, in hockey, the biggest prize is a shared one. It’s tradition that every player take the Stanley Cup ...
This post is a THW Chirp By Peter Harling “You can’t win your hockey pool in the first round, but you can lose it” Hockey is full of tired old clichés and fantasy hockey is no different. I am sure you are all familiar with the above line and have heard it countless times. ...
In today’s edition of bizarre off-ice injuries, we bring you Edmonton Oilers first overall draft pick in 2012, Russian sniper Nail Yakupov. After giving his team a scare earlier in the summer by taking batting practice barefoot, news broke today that he suffered an injury falling off of a treadmill. Naturally, at first glance the ...
With the Flyers extending an offer sheet to 26-year-old All-Star Norris-finalist defenseman Shea Weber, let’s take a look back at some other significant offer sheets in recent NHL history: Changing Places 1991 – Blues Sign Shanahan, Lose Stevens The St. Louis Blues were big game hunters in the early ‘90s when it came ...
Just a few days ago, the Los Angeles Kings were on the verge of history. The Kings were just about to play game four of their Stanley Cup Finals series with the New Jersey Devils, up 3-0 and looking to sweep their diabolical opponent into oblivion on their way to coronation as one of the ...
It is never too early to at least casually think about next fantasy hockey season. Granted, we are only in June but already the “Free Agent Frenzy” looms ever closer. The goal of this “summer series” is to mix a bit of hockey and fantasy hockey together. July 1st is less than four weeks ...
Despite losing eventual hall of famer Nicklas Lidstrom and being soundly beaten in first round of the playoffs, Detroit Red Wings are not in a rebuilding mode. They’re also no longer the class of the western conference, overthrown by younger (and better) teams like Nashville and the Los Angeles Kings. General Manager Ken Holland has ...
