The seven game round robin seemed to take forever but it is at long last over. Early in the morning, the 2012 World Championships will take place for those of us in North America. That 6am ET start time may be a bit much for most but for the hockey diehards out there, they will ...
Teemu Pulkkinen, Calle Jarnkrok, Tomas Tatar, Tomas Jurco, Gustav Nyquist, Riley Sheahan; You’ve likely heard those names before. They’re some of the Detroit Red Wings’ most exciting prospects, all potential NHL stars, and all acquired via the draft. They have another thing in common as well, they’re all forwards. The Red Wings have been able ...
If you’re like me, every day since their playoff usurping you’ve spent at least a little time reflecting on what went wrong for the Detroit Red Wings in 2011-12. Encased in a bubble of depression, you’ve considered the unthinkable reality that Nicklas Lidstrom and Tomas Holmstrom may never take the ice again, the real possibility ...
Dear Brendan Shanahan, You have an extremely difficult job. I would not want to be in your shoes. As head of the NHL Department of Player Safety, you have the authority to suspend NHL players for a variety of reasons with few guidelines to rely upon when making such decisions. Last night, leading into Game ...
Detroit Red Wings, meet Pekka Rinne. Pekka Rinne, meet your Conn Smythe. 41 shots were fired on the Nashville Predators’ netminder Tuesday night. 40 of them were turned away, and the 1 that did manage to find its way to the back of the net exited so quickly it was reviewed. The Finnish Wall has ...
by Jas Faulkner, contributing editor In as many years, the NHL promotions people have featured two players who are and were “Who is that guy?” to the rest of the league and occasional whipping boys among the local fan community. Whether they meant to or not, in two short clips they have summed up what ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jimmy Howard’s frozen body and bewildered stare midway through the 2nd told the story better than any wordsmith could. He had just given up his 2nd goal of the evening, and it was the 2nd one to leave him helpless and puzzled. First a bad bounce off Brad Stuart’s skate found its way into 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 ...
