The Chicago Blackhawks are one win away from locking up the Western Conference title in what has been one of their best seasons in franchise history. The Blackhawks have problems that many teams wish they had, which goalie to start since both are playing amazing? Who to play in the top 6 since there is ...
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 ...
The San Jose Sharks have won five straight games and are now comfortably back into playoff position. So it is understandable that some are scratching their heads as they continue to sell at the deadline. With Douglas Murray going to Pittsburgh, Michal Handzus going to Chicago, and now big man Ryane Clowe moving to New ...
When you think of the San Jose Sharks this season the first thing that pops to mind may be their undefeated 7-0-0 record or the return to dominance of Joe Thornton or the amazing sniping of Patrick Marleau. While the production from San Jose’s Thornton and Marleau are a HUGE reason why the team is ...
So as it goes, after 82 games, the San Jose Sharks have made the post season and once again will take on the St. Louis Blues. Ask old school Sharks fans about playing the Blues in the playoffs and they will bring you back over a decade to the 1999-2000 NHL season. The eighth seeded ...
With only 5 weeks before the February 27 NHL trade deadline, rumors are swirling all over the Internet, and especially on Twitter, as fake insiders try to get the attention of hockey fans by spreading out false trade rumors. I will try to dissect some of the hottest rumors and tell you which players are likely ...
Just in case you don’t recognize the turning of a phrase, consider the Merriam-Webster definition of the word wrest: wrest (verb\)ˈrest\ transitive verb 1:to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements. Saturday night’s game between the San Jose Sharks and the Los Angeles Kings featured enough pulling, forcing and moving by violent ...
It’s a popular misconception that NHL head coaches spend the majority of their time diagramming and implementing X’s and O’s. In actuality, they are mad scientists, performing chemistry experiments in fetid, cramped laboratories filled with metaphorical test tubes, Bunsen burners, and — legend has it — Gordie Howe’s perfectly preserved brain. The fact that Gordie ...
On paper, this was to be one of the strongest, most competitive divisions in the NHL this year. It’s a good thing “paper” is now a euphemism for pixels, as scribes across the land are furiously tapping their delete keys. Of course, it goes without saying that it’s early. Teams are only at the 1/3rd ...
When Michal Handzus was with the Philadelphia Flyers, he had wild hair and looked as if he may have recently escaped from Cell Block D. Cleaned up, he bears more than a passing resemblance to Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica. Escaped convict, or professorial intellectual — Handzus brings whatever persona is required to help his ...
