Commentary
The NHL's Most Underrated Superstar
September 19th, 2018 A superstar is a high-profile and extremely successful performer or athlete and it’s safe to say that the NHL has a handful of them littered around the league. While all of them are individually recognized for their pure skill and uncanny ability to dominate the game,...
Burning Questions for the Metropolitan Division
September 18th, 2018 Heading into last season, the Metropolitan Division was widely considered the most dangerous in hockey. With the Washington Capitals bringing home the Stanley Cup, the Metro now boasts the last three Stanley Cup champions. As a whole, however, the division took a dip...
NHL 19: Top 10 Player Ratings By Team - Pacific Division
September 13th, 2018 With NHL 19's official release right around the corner, it seems appropriate to start looking through each team's roster and seeing which teams appear to be the strongest and which appear to be the weakest in the newest installment of this legendary video game...
NHL 19: Top 10 Player Ratings By Team - Central Division
September 13th, 2018 With NHL 19's official release right around the corner, it seems appropriate to start looking through each team's roster and seeing which teams appear to be the strongest and which appear to be the weakest in the newest installment of this legendary video game...
NHL 19: Top 10 Player Ratings By Team - Metropolitan Division
September 13th, 2018 With NHL 19’s official release right around the corner, players of the franchise are anxiously awaiting the official release of the game on Sept. 14 2018. The hope is that this series of articles featuring the top-1o ratings on each team in each division helps tide those...
NHL 19: Top 10 Player Ratings By Team - Atlantic Division
September 13th, 2018 With NHL 19's official release right around the corner, it seems appropriate to start looking through each team's roster and seeing which teams appear to be the strongest and which appear to be the weakest in the newest installment of this legendary video game...
Burning Questions for the Atlantic Division
September 13th, 2018 The beginning of training camps has fans marking the days until Oct. 3. With just under a month until the real action begins, speculation, curiosities and questions are at the forefront. Answers to these burning questions could be season-defining. That's the criteria I look...
7 Biggest NHL Players in Today's Game
September 4th, 2018 In today’s NHL, speed dominates. No longer can teams roster slow, hulking defensemen capable of obstructing opponents into submission. But, if a player has speed and size, they can be lethal. According to Hockey-Graphs, the average NHLer stands six-foot-one and weighs...
NHL 19: A Refreshing Twist on the Classic Game
September 4th, 2018 With a new NHL season comes a new NHL video game. Similarly to the real NHL landscape where fans are sure to see things they've never seen before during the 2018-19 season, the new NHL 19 video game that's set to release on Sept. 14, 2018 should provide that same unique...
The Sabres Are Eichel's Team
August 20th, 2018 Buffalo Sabres general manager Jason Botterill promised a multitude of changes in the Sabres locker room at his 2017-18 season-ending press conference. Heading into training camp, there are almost a dozen new faces. New to the Sabres are goaltender Carter Hutton, forwards...
Projecting Canada’s World Junior Roster
August 10th, 2018 Once the World Junior Summer Showcase wrapped up in Kamloops, everybody in the hockey world turned their attention to the inaugural Hlinka Gretzky Cup under-18 tournament in Edmonton. That included Tim Hunter, the new head coach of Canada’s under-20 national team for...
Film Review: Ice Guardians
August 5th, 2018 Hockey may be the fastest game on earth, but Brett Harvey offers a measured meditation on the role of the slowest guys on the ice. His documentary “Ice Guardians” had a successful opening and received positive reviews. It is now on Netflix and will reach an even broader...
Dealing With Our Biggest Loss
August 3rd, 2018 Today is Aug. 3, 2018. I turn 30 and while I’m taking another step in life, that’s not what I’m thinking about. Instead, I’m focused on this week as a whole. You see, at some point this week I was supposed to become a father for the first time. Now I know what...
