Posts About "Mike Milbury"
Islanders' Desperate Decades-long Search
March 27th, 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 not solely the job of defensemen to play responsible defense but the forwards as well, so the burden of one of the Isles' statistically-worst defensive seasons of the...
Off the Crossbar: With Cup Decided, Milbury Goes Back in Cave
June 13th, 2017 In the end, we all won Sunday night. Whether you’re rejoicing in your team hoisting the Stanley Cup or disappointed there won’t be a Game 7, there’s reason to celebrate. We finally get a break from listening to NBC’s Cro-Magnon, Mike Milbury. “I’m tired. Hungry. I have to hunt down some meat,” grumbled the...
Stanley Cup Final Filled With Inconsistencies
June 1st, 2017 The NHL playoffs, where the calls are made up and points don't matter. At least that's how it has seemed at times since the puck dropped in Game 1 of this Stanley Cup Final. Pittsburgh has gone hours without shooting the puck. Nashville has won nearly every stat line and still finds itself losing. The ice crew at PPG Paints Arena has had...
Off the Crossbar: McGuire’s Clichés Reach Stratospheric Levels
May 7th, 2017 The Washington Capitals beat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 4-2 Saturday night to force a Game 6 in their second-round series. It also unleashed a flood of clichés by NBC analyst Pierre McGuire. He fired them off before, during and after the game in a torrent. Instead of regaling viewers with seemingly endless tales of where each...
Mike Milbury Is a Clown
April 29th, 2017 It feels like the NHL has hated fun for a long time. It's a battle that has rights holders walking lock-step with the league because most of the talking heads are ex-NHLers in one fashion or another. The latest installment of painstakingly teasing the fun out of the game features Mike Milbury calling P.K. Subban "a clown" for dancing a...
NHL Announces More Milbury
April 29th, 2017 After another season of increased television ratings and an exponential boost of social media traffic across all platforms, the NHL and NBCSports have announced that in-studio analyst Mike Milbury will receive more air time. The increased social media conversation around Milbury was key to the decision. The NHL’s Director of Social...
