When you look around at the financial landscape of professional sports, you see a frightening example of why it is so difficult to create and keep together a team that can win multiple championships. The Montreal Canadiens of the late 1960s extending into the mid-1970s were one of the greatest legendary dynasties in professional sports ...
After acquiring Oduya at the 2012 trade deadline, many people believe the writing is on the wall for Niklas Hjalmarsson.
Prior to the lockout, I started doing player evaluations for Duncan Keith, Marian Hossa, Brent Seabrook, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, and Patrick Sharp. While the evaluations still remain valid, please keep in mind the predictions must be prorated due to the shortened season. Now that a new CBA has been agreed upon, I decided to ...
During a time of labor strife and divisions over money, there is perhaps no team more interested in how a potential new CBA would affect them financially than the Chicago Blackhawks. The Hawks went from being the Stanley Cup champions in June of 2010 to an unrecognizable shell of themselves within a three month stretch ...
With the Flyers extending an offer sheet to 26-year-old All-Star Norris-finalist defenseman Shea Weber, let’s take a look back at some other significant offer sheets in recent NHL history: Changing Places 1991 – Blues Sign Shanahan, Lose Stevens The St. Louis Blues were big game hunters in the early ‘90s when it came ...
The Blackhawks kicked off Monday morning by announcing they had re-signed gritty winger Daniel Carcillo to a 2-year contract at $825,000 per year. Despite Carcillo’s injury and suspension taken in a game against the Oilers, the move shouldn’t be a surprise to Blackhawks fans. When Carcillo’s season-ending injury was announced, Coach Quenneville spoke very positively ...
Who said that teams vying for a spot in the western conference playoffs wouldn’t partner up to make a trade? Well ladies and gentlemen, it just happened. The Chicago Blackhawks and Calgary Flames have gone against the grain and have each taken a step forward by making an early trade to improve their clubs. To ...
Jim Neveau, Senior NHL Correspondent Coming off of a season a year ago that saw them struggle with chemistry issues after an off-season of personnel flying out the door, the Chicago Blackhawks came into the current campaign with high hopes of competing for another Stanley Cup championship. They started out well enough, but as of ...
Now that the smoke has cleared from the Stanley Cup finals and the 2010 season its time to look ahead to the 2011 off-season. This is the first real off-season for Stan Bowman who went into last summer with his hands tied behind his back thanks to Dale Tallon’s mismanaging of the salary cap. With ...
As the Chicago Blackhawks enter game four they find themselves in a deep hole down three games to none against the number one-seeded Vancouver Canucks and today their hopes at a comeback took a major shot as top defenseman Brent Seabrook has been ruled out for the game. It was announced Tuesday morning that the ...
