Eight games into this shortened NHL season, the Toronto Maple Leafs are wondering if they have their version of a pest in Leo Komarov. As of now, he leads the league in hits with 33 hits, one more than Emelin in Montreal and Luke Schenn in Philadelphia. He has been a regular so far this ...
Each time the Red Wings new gritty bottom-sixer Jordin Tootoo has fought in a game this season, the Red Wings have won that game. Whether you like Tootoo’s rough and agitating style of play or not, he seems to be exactly what this team needed. At 5’9″ 200 lbs Jordin Tootoo doesn’t appear all that ...
Players want a larger piece of the pie while owners want to revamp the current contract structures. Media wars, threats of disclaimer of interest… blah, blah, blah. Obviously, there are some legal matters that both sides need to discuss. But what about the real problems with the NHL? If the league is to gain back ...
Often deemed too small by NHL scouts, small, undersized, but skilled players, often have a harder time convincing NHL executives and coaches to give them a chance at the pro hockey level than a 6’4”, 220 pounds forward with lesser skills, but with a bigger physical frame. The rigour of the 82-game NHL calendar take ...
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 ...
A recent story by Ben Sumner of Caps Outsider revealed that it’s not just frosty Russian beauties and GMs who find Alexander Ovechkin cuddly. A toddler decided her best buddy Ovi was the perfect companion for a brief hospital stay. It seems that Ovi, or at least his Bleacher Creature counterpart, may have a soothing effect on little ones. Not too long after the story appeared, someone added a comment that their nineteen-month-old son cuddled a stuffed Ovi while recovering from heart surgery.
As Sunday’s “free agent frenzy” dwindled the Detroit Red Wings decided to liven things up a bit, making two rapid fire signings that took Hockeytown by surprise, the first of which brings a former Wings player back into the fold. View this tweet at twitter.com MLive’s Ansar Khan (among others) reports the terms of the ...
by Jas Faulkner, contributing editor It’s Sunday. For some, this means a day of rest. For those who have been busy scribbling down notes, tweeting their whereabouts to readers and making mad dashes to get the story out there, today will be a mix of last minute writes and rewrites, planning for next year, and ...
The time has come for the National Hockey League to announce the finalists for each individual award, with Adam Henrique, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Gabriel Landeskog already having been named the final three up for the honours of the Calder Trophy, David Backes, Patrice Bergeron and Pavel Datsyuk up for the Selke Trophy, and Brian Campbell, Jordan Eberle and Matt Moulson up for the Lady Byng Trophy
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 6 years, you’ve heard of, and are likely on, the social networking service known as Twitter. As the popularity of Twitter has grown, so to has the number of celebrities, world leaders, athletes, and other “important” people using the site. Now at over 350 million ...
