Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsIt’s no secret that the Edmonton Oilers have a number of holes to fill going forward, and new GM Craig MacTavish will have a full to-do list to prioritize in the off-season. One of those positions to address is goaltending. Devan Dubnyk did not play poorly, but he also did not put up the numbers ...
Chicago is speedy. St. Louis is dirty. Nashville is both. The only reprieve will come against a Nash-less Columbus. Detroit will play each of these teams nearly SEVEN times over the next few months. It will be bloody. It will be messy. It will be fast and fierce. Players who remained stagnant, that ...
During the lockout, NHL goalies were on their own, most even without a place to play. While scrimmages can accommodate as many as twenty skaters, there’s only room for two goaltenders. European clubs, often accepting of a star player or two to bolster their lineups, are hesitant to bench their goalies in favor of a locked out player ...
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 ...
With few unrestricted free agents catching the eye of Toronto Maple Leafs president and general manager Brian Burke, it has been a lazy summer in Toronto. Thus far, Burke managed to pull the trigger on a deal which brought forward James van Riemsdyk to the blue and white in return for defenseman Luke Schenn. Burke ...
The phrase “Nero fiddles while Rome burns” may not be historically accurate. Still, the meaning is familiar to most… that someone in power to deal with an issue has chosen to occupy himself with other, less urgent matters. Followers the Maple Leafs might see Burke in the role of ‘Nero’, and the fortunes of the ...
Just one week after having his negotiating rights traded from Toronto to Winnipeg, goaltender Jonas Gustavsson hit the open free agent market at noon on Sunday. 40 minutes later he was off the table, signing a two-year $3 million deal with the Detroit Red Wings. View this tweet at twitter.com The move bolsters Detroit’s weak ...
During the offseason, the Blue Jackets bolstered their goaltending staff, but did they improve it? Unless GM Scott Howson has other moves up his sleeve, the duo of recently-acquired Sergei Bobrovsky and four-season veteran Steve Mason will be manning the crease in Columbus for the 2012-13 season. Columbus Welcomes Sergei Bobrovsky Prior to the Entry ...
The Toronto Maple Leafs sent Jonas Gustavsson to the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday. Does this mean the acquisition of Roberto Luongo is imminent?
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 ...
