When Philadelphia Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette joined the team in 2009, it was a welcome change for the often inconsistent franchise. Previous coach John Stevens left the team in a bit of disarray for Laviolette – who had led the Carolina Hurricanes to their first Stanley Cup four years earlier – though there was ...
On March 4, Stephen A. Smith did what he does for a living, which is to flail about some controversial subject at a loud enough volume to drown out the fact that he does not actually know anything about sports. The question was posed to Smith of which was more impressive: the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks and ...
This week, the National Hockey League will hit the midway point of the season. Because the year started in January (instead of October), it is often forgot who swapped sweaters in the summer of 2012. The offseason was full of notable trades, some of which were (and others were not) worth remembering. While many of ...
Last year, Brad Richards scored 66 points in 82 games for the New York Rangers. In his six-year career with the Buffalo Sabres, Patrick Kaleta has accumulated a total of 50 points. In terms of actually comparing the hockey talents of the two, one would first have to suspend disbelief to somehow rationalize the usage ...
The Colorado Avalanche are struggling to find their consistency in pretty much every place on the ice. Offensively they are either putting up six goals at a time or they are lucky to get one; defensively they are completely out of sorts; their passing looks like it came from a Sunday night beer league; and ...
Speaking of goaltenders, Philadelphia’s Ilya Bryzgalov famously was quoted last season as saying “the universe is humongous big”. Seeing as that’s difficult logic to argue with, I will not concern myself with attempting to determine the best goalie in the universe. Rather, I will narrow my search to determining the best goalie on the planet. ...
The sage is over, with a swift flick of a wrist, the Colorado Avalanche matched the offer sheet put to Ryan O’Reilly by the Calgary Flames, and O’Reilly will remain a member of the Colorado Avalanche. O’Reilly arrived in Denver on Friday and passed his first test, a physical, before fully re-joining his teammates. He’ll continue ...
When Dan Girardi stayed down, writhing in pain, after blocking a Montreal slap-shot with his ankle Saturday night, the entire Ranger organization and fan-base was frozen for a moment in palpable trepidation. Blocking shots is just one of the unheralded yet elite facets of Girardi’s game. The once undrafted free agent out of the Welland, ...
To get a number retired in the National Hockey League is a special honor, one that is typically reserved for a unique kind of player. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the honoree was winner, but rather that he did something important to either put his team on the map or help make it stand out. ...
What follows is a closer, gritty look, at the New York Islanders season from Sunday, February 3rd to Monday February 11th. The following events may not be suitable for some readers, especially those Islander fans who were walking on proverbial sunshine just a week prior. You have been warned. …And just like that the optimism ...
