Posts About "Jeff Halpern"
For Habs’ Bergevin and Therrien the Real Work Begins
July 24th, 2013 At the end of the 2012 season -- which saw the Montreal Canadiens miss the playoffs for the first time since 2007 -- change was afoot. Owner Geoff Molson, now fully in control of his franchise, hired Marc Bergevin as GM. Bergevin then brought in Michel Therrien to take the reins of a battered and defeated Montreal Canadiens team that...
Princeton Tigers Making Impact in NHL
February 5th, 2013 The Rangers made a swap of tough guys, sending winger Mike Rupp to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for defensive-minded forward Darroll Powe. With that trade, the Blueshirts boast a league-high two alumni from Princeton University in their lineup - Powe and center Jeff Halpern. Four former members of the Princeton Tigers are currently...
Getting to Know Your "New" York Rangers
January 2nd, 2013 The end can't come soon enough for the Rangers. They are easily one of the teams most impacted by the stoppage, as their offseason acquisitions would seem to have them closer to true Cup contention than they have been since 1994.
Operation Hat Trick is a Great Success for Players, Charities
November 27th, 2012 Even the NHL lockout wasn’t able to keep some of the league’s best players off the ice. Members of fifteen NHL teams hit the ice Saturday night as part of Operation Hat Trick to help raise money for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Over 10,000 fans were in attendance, making this the largest sold-out event at Boardwalk Hall since...
Rangers Must Find Spaces for New Faces
November 9th, 2012 As talks between the NHL and NHLPA continue, many fans maintain a cautious hope that the lockout might still be resolved in time to salvage the 2012-2013 NHL season. If that does happen, teams such as the Rangers who made significant roster changes in the off-season will have the task ahead of figuring out where their newest members...
Halpern enjoyed second stint with Capitals. Set to become UFA
July 1st, 2012 When the Washington Capitals were eliminated by the New York Rangers this past spring in the Eastern Conference Semi-Finals, it ended a season full of anxiety, early disappointment, as well as, a late season surge. High expectation are etched in stone year after year in the Nation's Capital. A young talented team led by Alex...
UFAs Spotted Over Washington
May 16th, 2012 What can be said for the Washington Capitals 2012 Cup drive? It was a team effort. They got OT winners from fourth liners, divvied up ice time so that everybody got a slice, won as a team, lost as a team, and now it looks like the team will be broken up. By July 1st Alex Semin, Dennis Wideman, Keith Aucoin, Jeff Halpern and Mike Knuble...
Bruins vs. Capitals Series Preview, Part IV: Key Players and Intangibles
April 11th, 2012 The second-seed Boston Bruins will face off against the seventh-seed Washington Capitals tomorrow in TD Garden. The Northeast Division champs lost three of four to the Caps during the regular season but hope to use their home ice in this first-round contest to springboard them into a successful defense of their title. After...
Bruins vs. Capitals Series Preview, Part III: Goaltending and Special-Teams
April 10th, 2012 The second-seed Boston Bruins will face off against the seventh-seed Washington Capitals on Thursday in TD Garden. There, the Bruins hope to start their title-defense with a bang and the Caps seek to take advantage of the reduced pressure of underdog status to start the Stanley Cup playoffs successfully. After discussing the B’s...Detroit looking to add depth at deadline
While many teams are infatuated by the likes of Dustin Brown and Rick Nash, the Detroit Red Wings are looking to just tinker with their roster as Monday’s trading deadline approaches. The Red Wings, currently second in the Western Conference with 85 points, like their roster as currently constituted, but may be in the market for a...
Trade rumors blowing hard in Boston
February 24th, 2012 With just a few days remaining until the NHL trade deadline, the Boston Bruins continue to contemplate just what they should do. Rumors are rampant, and with the news on Nathan Horton not being so good, the pressure to acquire a big-name player rather than a smaller puzzle piece continues to swell as the hours tick down to the...Seattle Media Buzzing Over Potential NHL Relocation
Jeopardy answer: In 1917, this was the first American team to win the Stanley Cup Championship. Question: Who were the Seattle Metropolitans? Granted, it was nearly a century ago, during an era when not only were the Stanley Cup Finals played between two defunct associations (the Pacific Coast Hockey Association, from which the...
What's in a number: #15 with the Montreal Canadiens
October 24th, 2011 By Jared Book There has been a lot of laughs when Petteri Nokelainen was given (or chose?) #15 with the Montreal Canadiens after being acquired yesterday. #15 in recent years, has been a number set aside for the team's fourth line center. It started with Glen Metropolit in 2008. Then last year, it was given to Jeff Halpern. Even...
