Rise The Colorado Avalanche have the talent and skill. They proved this with impressive wins against Chicago and San Jose. They showed that they are indeed a good, young team with impressive talent and a promising core of young players such as Matt Duchene, Semyon Varlamov, Erik Johnson, and Gabe Landeskog. They knew the standings ...
Counting tonight’s 3-1 victory over the Calgary Flames, the Kings have now played fifteen games during this truncated, lockout-shortened season. Fifteen games, fifteen reasons to worry that this year’s edition didn’t deserve its preseason hype and in fact may even miss the playoffs. After all, this is the Kings — for a variety of reasons ...
One of the benefits of a “post-lockout” NHL is the parity that now exists throughout the league. Since the 2004-05 work stoppage, 29 of the 30 NHL teams have made the playoffs, and the divisional races and playoff seeding in every season are determined by just a few points. In the first part of this two-part series, ...
One of the benefits of the “post-lockout” NHL is the parity that now exists throughout the league. Since the 2004-05 work stoppage, 29 of the 30 NHL teams have made the playoffs, and the divisional races and playoff seeding in every season are determined by just a few points. With the constant turnover of teams ...
For the better part of two months, “The Week That Was” has provided an in-depth look at the past 7 days of what cannot be seen in the boxscore. From notable fights to controversial plays, the profiled stories have occurred over the time of a single week, where over 50 games were played and hundreds ...
Pittsburgh’s run is over. For the third straight postseason, that’s due largely to poor special teams play. It’s an old refrain. By talking much more about it, we risk beating the dead horse even further into the ground. But because the topic deserves a comfortable spot in the dirt next to Pittsburgh’s too-short 2011-12 campaign, ...
This series preview was published by THW St. Louis Blues correspondent Jeff Ponder and THW Los Angeles Kings correspondent Ramesh Shanmugam. Regular Season Series Winner Los Angeles Kings (3-1-0) Regular Season Series Top Offensive Performer Simon Gagne (2G-2A–4P) Regular Season Series Top Goaltender Jonathan Quick (.989 save percentage, 0.50 GAA and 2 shutouts; stopped 94 of 95 ...
With so much of the NHL’s recent royalty now sidelined for the season, there’s more than a few dejected fans out there right now. The Sharks, Wings, Canucks, and Penguins have all left their sizable followings with an unexpected amount of free time on their hands (and don’t even mention the situation in Leaf Nation ...
On April 25, 2002, the St. Louis Blues defeated the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 5 of their Conference Quarterfinal Series. Who knew that this would be the last series-clinching victory for ten years? The Blues finally overcame the playoff-round winless streak, eliminating the San Jose Sharks from the 2012 playoffs Saturday night with a 3-1 ...
The St. Louis Blues have eliminated the San Jose Sharks. After losing the first game of the series in overtime, the St. Louis Blues have rattled off four consecutive wins in their first round win over San Jose. The Sharks, seeded seventh in the Western Conference, fell victim to the Blues’ defense-first mentality. Is it ...
