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Bobby Orr's Landmark Season
October 15th, 2018 When the NHL announced the '100 Greatest NHL Players of All Time' Bobby Orr was, of course, one of the easiest choices. In a truly remarkable Hall of Fame career, Orr not only re-wrote the record books but reinvented the way hockey was played. In honour of the NHL 100...
Broad Street Bullies: More Than Goons, Fists & Enforcers
October 15th, 2018 During the 1970s, only the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins had more victories than the Philadelphia Flyers' 424. During that decade, the Flyers won back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1974 and 1975, went to two more Finals, and missed the playoffs once. Furthermore, they...
12 NHL Teams Without a Stanley Cup
October 13th, 2018 Winning in the NHL is anything but easy. When considering how hard it is to win each individual battle within the game while also trying to come out ahead in the games themselves over the course of a season, the difficulty level increases exponentially. This is why winning...
Top 10 Dirtiest NHL Players
October 12th, 2018 Hockey is played hard and fast. Athletes will hook, trip, face wash and pester to gain a winning edge. Like all sports, hockey has official rules and unwritten rules. It also has a code of respect. And there are many players that blur the lines between the two. Or cross...
Washington Capitals Jersey History
October 12th, 2018 Perhaps no team in the National Hockey League had as inauspicious a start as the Washington Capitals. In the entire century-plus of NHL history, the 1974-75 Capitals, one of two expansion teams to enter the league that year (after a horrendously unfair expansion draft...
Top 10 NHL Legends Who Never Hoisted Lord Stanley's Cup
October 9th, 2018 If you ask any young hockey player what they want, more than anything, their answer will likely be to win the Stanley Cup. Precious few have the chance to play a game in the NHL, and even fewer get the chance to hoist the greatest trophy in sports. Many NHL players have...
Dale Hunter's Unbreakable Record
October 9th, 2018 Nicknamed "The Nuisance" for his sandpapery, face-wash, stick-to-the-groin style of play on the ice, Dale Hunter was a difference maker for every season of his 19-year NHL career. Though he never won the Stanley Cup, he must be considered a winner regardless. Hunter did...
Top 10 All-Time European-Born NHL Forwards
October 8th, 2018 Europeans are having a bigger impact in the NHL now than ever before. Of the 985 players to play in at least one game this season, 268, or 27 percent, were born in Europe. Europeans have been at the pinnacle of success in recent seasons, winning five of the past 10 Hart,...
Wayne Gretzky: The Great One's 10 Most Unbreakable Records
October 8th, 2018 Wayne Gretzky spent his entire professional hockey career (20 seasons in the NHL and one in the WHA) rewriting the record books. When 'The Great One' retired following the 1998-99 season, he held 61 NHL records. Gretzky's stats have set the benchmark so high that it...
The NHL's Exclusive 13 x 30 Club
October 7th, 2018 The 2017-18 season was an incredible season for Russian sniper Alex Ovechkin as he joined not one, but two exclusive clubs. On Mar. 12, he became the 20th member of the 600-goal club and on Jan. 25, the 10th player to join the 13 x 30 club, a group of players who scored 30...
The NHL's Most Unbreakable Records
October 7th, 2018 Many athletes believe - or at least pretend to believe - that records are made to be broken. If that’s the case, they haven’t taken a look at the NHL’s record books, or should I say the book that Gretzky re-wrote. Wayne Gretzky’s name is scribbled throughout...
6 NHL Teams You Might Have Forgotten
October 6th, 2018 The NHL lied. There weren’t six original teams when the league began operations for the 1917-18 season. There were technically only four. And, of those, only one—the Montreal Canadiens—has essentially survived up to the present day. The “Original Six” as...
A Royal Celebration: All-Time LA Kings by Country
October 6th, 2018 I will focus my attention on both traditional hockey power countries as well as a few lesser established, yet equally compelling ones, as well. The criteria is that the player must have played for the Kings for either one full season or multiple, partial seasons at the...
