Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsThe NHL trade deadline has come and gone, and the Buffalo Sabres were open for business. The Sabres made three major moves, one on deadline day and two leading up to it. By sending out Jordan Leopold, Robyn Regehr and captain Jason Pominville, the team is moving in a new direction. They acquired a slew of draft picks and a pair of prospects in order to improve the franchise.
After all the dust settles from the 2013 NHL Trade Deadline, hockey fans can finally start picking apart the trades that have occurred over the last several days. While a number of trades were made before the trade deadline rolled around, players such as Jaromir Jagr and Derek Roy found themselves switching uniforms with about ...
Captain Kirk once learned that one Tribble is cute, but too many Tribbles are trouble. The same goes for rookies on an NHL team. In a topsy-turvy season, the Minnesota Wild has been forced to go against gospel, playing an unusually large number of rookie skaters in high-leverage game situations. Freshmen Mikael Granlund, Charlie Coyle, ...
Ah, the holidays; a time for relaxing and cherishing the time you spend with friends, family and loved ones in general. It’s also time to sit back and watch some great junior, collegiate and—if not for the lockout—NHL hockey. As disappointing as it is to not have NHL hockey on TV, there is still another ...
October 13th, 2012 was going to be great, a day that I would long remember. Unfortunately, instead of seeing Finnish wunderkind Mikael Granlund play his first NHL game at the Xcel Energy Center, I was stuck at home attending a USHL game in another state away thanks to a very disgusting word—lockout. I was crushed; ...
Late round picks could be considered the most interesting part of the draft. A few very good NHL players have been drafted in the later rounds, (Pavel Datsyuk, Henrik Zetterberg and Pavol Demitra are a few good examples) but many, many more have turned out to be duds or nothing more than career AHL players. ...
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness…” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two ...
While the NHL Trade Deadline won’t come until February 27th, trade rumors will be heating up soon as many teams will be looking to add a player that can contribute to the stretch-run. The Wild are currently seventh in the Western Conference playoff picture, but the team’s fall from second place to seventh has many ...
