Posts About "Damien Brunner"
Six Must-See Matches in Champions Hockey League Group Stage
August 17th, 2016 The Champions Hockey League opened the 48-team group stage Tuesday with a slate of four games. The group stage runs through September 11 with 16 groups of three teams competing to get into the 2016-17 Champions League tournament. There are a lot of reasons to tune into Champions League play even outside of August being a hellish barren...
Senators Stuck With Colin Greening
December 11th, 2014 With a change at head coach happening on Monday, the Ottawa Senators have stated that they're hoping that new head coach Dave Cameron will be given the opportunity to take the team to the playoffs still. Not throwing in the towel to play the Connor McDavid sweepstakes -- a sweepstakes that will be tough to win with Bantam A superstars...
NHL Fans & NHL Players: A Special Bond
August 25th, 2014 Without its fans, the NHL would be nothing, I think we can all agree on that; its the fans who buy the tickets, watch the games, buy the merchandise, click the articles, etc. To a man all of the NHL players are all aware of this and whenever they get the opportunity to, they try to give back a little to their fans. Teams will hold open...
Damien Brunner: Looking Forward to a New Season
July 26th, 2014 To say to 2013-14 season was a disappointment for Damien Brunner would be an understatement as both he and the New Jersey Devils struggled to find consistency throughout the seven-month marathon known as the NHL season. The games he really excelled in for New Jersey last season he was hovering around the net, making slick passing plays,...
Swiss Sensation Damien Brunner Hoping to Shine in Sochi
February 12th, 2014 The New Jersey Devils will only represented by four players at the 2014 Winter Olympic games in Sochi, Russia and with three of those players representing the Czech Republic, Damien Brunner will be a lone wolf for Team Switzerland. Unlike the majority of the teams in the tournament the Swiss will only have eight players that are current...
Sochi Olympics: Elias and Jagr Lead New Jersey Devils Representatives
February 11th, 2014 Patrik Elias, Jaromir Jagr, Marek Zidlicky, and Damien Brunner will be representing the New Jersey Devils in Sochi during the 2014 Winter Olympics. While Jagr will be an Olympian for the fifth time in his hockey career, Brunner will be playing in his first Olympic tournament. Elias and Zidlicky have performed well on the...
The Yankee Stadium Experience Through the Eyes of the NJ Devils
January 29th, 2014 The outcome obviously wasn’t what they expected or preferred, but after their weekend at the new Yankee Stadium (aka the House That Jeter Built in these parts) the New Jersey Devils players felt very fortunate to be a part of the NHL Stadium Series that brought outdoor hockey to New York City for the first time ever. The disappointment...
Q & A with Damien Brunner of the New Jersey Devils
January 24th, 2014 After missing 14 games with a knee injury, Damien Brunner returned to the New Jersey Devils lineup on January 21 and finished with a goal and two assists in a 7-1 rout of one of the NHL’s best teams, the St. Louis Blues. Brunner was signed by the Devils during the summer to bring offense to New Jersey and he has been one of their...
The Fantasy Daily Reaper Strikes Again!
November 21st, 2013 Don't fear the reaper? Maybe you should think again. It has been some kind of start to the year for fantasy owners. For most, this has been one of the most disastrous starts in recent memory while a select few have enjoyed success in one form or another. All I know is this will be a rough and tumble post. Why The Fantasy Daily...
Damien Brunner: A Bright Spot in the Devils Dismal Start to Season
October 16th, 2013 The New Jersey Devils season started two weeks ago and yet they are still searching for their first win. With a 0-3-3 record (3 points) they have struggled to find consistency for the course of a 60-minute game. They’ve been shutout (twice); saw a three-goal lead evaporate in Edmonton and a two-goal lead vanish in Vancouver. One of the...
Third Liners Excelling Early
October 16th, 2013 They are known as the unglamorous. They are the guys who are expected to do the dirty work. They are more known as the checking line, more defensive blanket than dynamic scorer. They are oft-forgotten. Third line players in the NHL aren't the ones skipping the line at nightclubs around North America, but early on in the 2013-14 season...
Fantasy Hockey: Week One Analysis
October 8th, 2013 Alexander Ovechkin is a beast and Devan Dubnyk can’t stop a beach ball. There is your week one analysis. Thanks for reading! Okay, there is a lot more to get into as it was a very entertaining first week of fantasy hockey. Same Player + New Team = Profit Holy Mikhail Grabovski! His first career NHL hat-trick comes in his first game...
Should The New Jersey Devils Change Their Goal Song?
October 5th, 2013 Damien Brunner lit the lamp for the first goal of the New Jersey Devils season. The horn blared, "The Rock" roared and then something different happened. The goal song. Surely they must have been "Bruuuuu-ing" for Brunner right? Alas the Prudential Center crowd was not. The goal song that came on was by New Jersey's very...
