NHL Bridge Deals Are Falling Down Kyle Gipe | May 14, 2018 A bridge deal is a team’s way of saying to a young player: “So you had some success on your rookie contract. We’ll give you a short contract to see…
Sharks’ Offseason Shopping List Mac Bass | May 8, 2018 The Sharks have officially entered the 2018 offseason after their Game 6 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights. Players and management will take a few days to digest the heartbreaking…
Is a Full-Scale Canadiens’ Rebuild Inevitable? Jordan Skuse | May 3, 2018 It must feel like 100 years for Montreal Canadiens’ fans – imagine how Chicago Cubs fans felt when their team won in 2016, ending a drought that had reached triple digits…
Flyers Top Targets at Center Matt Sitkoff | May 2, 2018 Philadelphia Flyers general manager Ron Hextall, in his end of the year press conference, gave fans insight on his off-season plans when he told the media: “You’d like to find…
Hurricanes Options With 2nd Overall Pick Mark Shiver | April 29, 2018 Fans of the Carolina Hurricanes that were sulking while watching the San Jose Sharks versus the Vegas Golden Knights, wishing their team was in the playoffs, got a little pick-me-up…
Rangers Rushed Rebuild Would Be a Mistake Tom Castro | April 24, 2018 The voices calling for an immediate return to playoff contention for the New York Rangers have become deafening at times these days. It only seems like every major media outlet…
Karlsson & Tavares for Fast-Tracking Rangers? Phil Kocher | April 20, 2018 In speaking to Larry Brooks of the New York Post, New York Rangers top exectuive Jim Dolan dropped a number of proverbial bombs, effectively confirming that the Rangers’ rebuild won’t…
Rangers Accelerated Rebuild Dangerously Ambitious Phil Kocher | April 13, 2018 As the old saying goes, in sports you can either sell wins or hope. Though in stark contrast to the winning product they’ve been accustomed to selling since the 2005…
Canadiens End of Season Roundtable Johannes Wheeldon | April 9, 2018 There was perhaps no more fitting end to the Montreal Canadiens’ season than when, just seconds after scoring to bring the Habs within a goal of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Carey…
Islanders Still Hurting from Nielsen Loss The Hockey Writers | April 3, 2018 At the start of the free-agency period in the summer of 2016, the New York Islanders started to look different. As the team began to take shape, fans quickly ran…
Islanders’ Desperate Decades-long Search The Hockey Writers | March 27, 2018 As the New York Islanders continue to see their 2017-18 season dimly fade into the night, it is undoubtedly the defense that has been the club’s Achilles’ heel. It is…
Hurricanes Hockey, Painful but Entertaining Mark Shiver | March 26, 2018 Carolina Hurricanes hockey is on familiar ground. It’s the end of the season and the team is playing out a string of essentially meaningless games. At times it can be…