Posts About "Matt Duchene"
5 Worst Trades in Senators History
May 4th, 2020 The Ottawa Senators have made their fair share of trades throughout their history. Some of those moves have seen them come out on top, but others have fans wondering what just happened. As with any NHL team, the return an organization can get for a particular player or pick can vary a great deal. Are they buyers or sellers at the trade...
Top 5 All-Time Avalanche Trades
April 27th, 2020 Over the past 25 seasons since they moved from Quebec in 1995, the Colorado Avalanche have made a handful of trades whose legacy was felt for seasons after the transaction itself. This list will discuss the five franchise-defining trades in Avalanche history (not Quebec Nordiques, so the Peter Forsberg/Eric...
Blue Jackets Q&A With Director of Legal Affairs Peter Lovins
April 14th, 2020 Welcome back to our 2020 Columbus Blue Jackets Q&A series. In this series, we are going to talk with different members of the Blue Jackets’ community about hockey, their jobs, how they’re handling things today and much more. Today in part five, Director of Legal Affairs Peter Lovins stopped by. We start with a great behind...
Predators: Evaluating Matt Duchene's First Season in Nashville
April 8th, 2020 Matt Duchene’s first season with the Nashville Predators was not what general manager David Poile had hoped for when he signed the 28-year-old forward away from the Columbus Blue Jackets last summer. Duchene was without question the second-best unrestricted free agent on the market, after Artemi Panarin, and he was rewarded with a...
Avs Go From the Basement to Contenders in 3 Years
March 7th, 2020 How did the Colorado Avalanche transform themselves from one of the league’s worst teams, with 48 points in 2016-17, to contending for the top seed in the Western Conference in three short years? Changes. Lots and lots of changes. And it all started with current general manager Joe Sakic. The Perfect Storm – 2016-17...
10 Reasons Hockey Is the Greatest Sport on Earth
February 23rd, 2020 If you're reading this, you're probably already aware that hockey is the undisputed best sport on the planet. But if you really need some extra convincing, here's a list of ten things (in no particular order) that make hockey the greatest sport on Earth: 1. It's Played on a Giant Sheet of Ice Football, basketball, baseball - what...
John Hynes Wins Revenge Game Against Devils
February 1st, 2020 He wouldn’t admit it, to the surprise of no one who has spoken with the former New Jersey Devils head coach, but it sure had to feel good for John Hynes and his Nashville Predators leave New Jersey with a 6-5 shootout win on Jan. 30. The Devils fired Hynes less than two months ago and he was hired by the Predators nine games ago...
NHL's Top 5 Goals of the Decade
January 23rd, 2020 In a 10-year span that has seen so much talent, and so many incredible moments, how could you possibly narrow it down to five superb goals? It's a difficult ask to say the least, but we attempt to find the five most spectacular goals from the NHL decade. From the elite superstars of the game to the depth players who only see a rare...
Avalanche All-Decade Team: Forwards
January 23rd, 2020 It’s time for the final piece of the Colorado Avalanche All-Decade team – the forwards. In some ways, this is the most difficult compilation. The past decade saw the Avalanche move away from wily veterans who played during the team’s Stanley Cup days, to forwards who slogged through the mid-decade turbulence, onto those who are...
Capitals Strike the Right Deal With Backstrom
January 19th, 2020 There are certain molds of players in the NHL that are quite rare and hard to come by. A franchise goaltender, or an elite D-man make great examples. But there's another staple for every team that will always remain a focal point — the versatile, two-way center. Nicklas Backstrom is just that and was rewarded handsomely with his...
Matt Duchene Trade Analyzed
November 8th, 2019 At the beginning of the 2017-18 season, expectations were high for the Nashville Predators and the Ottawa Senators. The Predators were just coming off of their first trip to the Stanley Cup Final and the Senators were one goal away from meeting them there, taking the Pittsburgh Penguins to game seven in the Eastern Conference Final. The...
Predators’ Offence Putting League on Notice
October 26th, 2019 This year seems different for the Nashville Predators. The goals are coming in bunches and, for the first time in a long time, if ever, there is real confidence that they can go goal-for-goal with any team in the league. In football, some games are described as “shootouts,” meaning, high scoring and whoever has the ball last...
5 Predators Storylines for 2019-20
October 3rd, 2019 The 2019-20 NHL season is finally upon us. After a longer summer than they would have liked, the Nashville Predators are set to kick off their latest quest to lift Lord Stanley's Cup with a home date against the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night. The season is long, grueling and full of ups and downs. After an eventful offseason,...
