With the New York Islanders having secured a playoff berth for the first time since the last day of the 2006-2007 NHL regular season, hockey fans must be wondering how the upstart team will fare in the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. It has been an even two decades since the New York ...
Cap Crunch Leads To Trade Speculation On March 1, Bruce Garrioch of The Ottawa Sun reported that New York Rangers’ General Manager Glen Sather was making phone calls regarding the possibility of trading RW Marian Gaborik. The rumor soon went haywire on the internet with many hockey pundits speculating that, despite scoring 40+ goals in ...
With the Islanders having passed the halfway mark of the season, many hockey fans might not have expected to see New York three points out of the Eastern Conference playoff picture. Even though the Islanders have been inconsistent over their first 26 games of the season, they have shown an ability to play at a ...
With many fantasy leagues entering the final stages of the regular season, some managers might be clutching their keyboards and mousepads waiting to hop on that one waiver-wire gem that could turn their fortunes around. However, with only about four more weeks left in the fantasy hockey season, many fantasy managers have probably laid claim ...
Who predicted that by the first of March, the Blackhawks would still be undefeated in regulation? It’s an unbelievable feat to amass at least a point in over twenty straight games, and when you have players like Patrick Kane, Marian Hossa, Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith all playing lights out, you set yourself up for success, ...
The 2013 NHL Trade Deadline (April 3) is about a month away due to the implications of the most recent NHL lockout, but hockey fans must certainly be wondering if their teams will be sellers, buyers, or idle in four weeks time. New York Islanders fans shouldn’t be any different as the team’s streaky nature ...
There are plenty of gems (owned in less than 30% in Yahoo leagues) out there just sitting in free agency in your league, and you’re getting impatient with an underachiever on your roster. Here are some names to keep in mind when your patience runs out. Jiri Tlusty (28%): With 9 points in 12 ...
After the tough 6-0 shut out loss to St. Louis in the season opener, the offensive wheels have finally begun moving in the motor city. The big offensive players like Datsyuk, Zetterberg, and Filppula are all producing as expected so far this season, and the Wings also seem to have acquired the top-6 sniper they were looking ...
Lubomir Visnovsky’s decision to stay in his native Slovakia and continue playing in the KHL is nothing new to Islanders fans. Over the years Islander fans have had their fair share of reluctant acquisitions. In 1995, the Islanders enigmatically traded their start Pierre Turgeon to the Montreal Canadians for Kirk Muller… who needed to take ...
After losing his arbitration hearing, everything seemed to point to the fact that Lubomir Visnovsky would don an Islanders jersey if the NHL lockout was lifted. However, returning to the NHL did not seem to be one of Visnovsky’s priorities as the Slovakian defender stated that he would play out the rest of the 2012-2013 ...
