Posts About "Pavol Demitra"
Maple Leafs' Recent Dealings With the Senators
September 16th, 2018 Bitter rivals for years and regular opponents in the playoffs during the early 2000s, it’s understandable that the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators have rarely come to terms when it comes to trades. With just one move in the last 20 years between the two clubs, we had to go all the way back to 1933 to find the fifth most...
Top 5 Minnesota Wild Forwards of All Time
October 10th, 2017 The Minnesota Wild franchise was founded as an expansion franchise in 2000. It has enjoyed some mixed success so far in its NHL history and the past offseason has provided hope that Hockey Town could be about to be awarded with a top-notch NHL team. This article series will look at the top five players for the franchise at each...
The Top-5 European Blues of All-Time
December 19th, 2014 The St. Louis Blues have built a top-six forward unit the past few seasons that is mostly comprised of Americans and Canadians. David Backes, Brad Boyes, Paul Kariya and T.J. Oshie are just some of the names that have been the core of the team’s offense for the better part of a decade. However, the Blues are now seeing Europeans...
Blues’ Lack of Scoring Dooms Season... Again
May 11th, 2013 The prototypical Blues fan can speak up yet again. Since Brett Hull left for the Dallas Stars during the summer of 1998, fans have been calling for a sniping forward that will come up with the big goal when needed. The team cycled through the late Pavol Demitra, as well as 40-goal scorers Scott Young, Keith Tkachuk and Brad Boyes to...
Minnesota Wild: A Tradition of Busted Hopes
January 2nd, 2013 Much like the New Year, a new NHL season is also a time to hope. Minnesota Wild fans have hopes that cross and are at a crossroads this New Year: That there's a 2012-13 season to showcase the second richest free agent signings in league history, Zach Parise and Ryan Suter. In honor of the New Year and a new season, let's look back...
Wild Gambles: Chuck Fletcher's All-In Signings
August 31st, 2012 After a couple of aimless seasons out of the playoffs, Minnesota Wild general manager takes a huge gamble to reset the course of the franchise. Sound familiar? On the first day of the NHL Entry Draft in June 2006, Doug Risebrough traded his first-round pick and highly-touted prospect Patrick O'Sullivan to the Los...
Are Parise and Suter Worth 196 Million?
July 5th, 2012 Minnesota has suffered. It has for a while. Zach Parise, Ryan Suter, and 196 million dollars changes it all. The Minnesota Vikings are 0-4 in Super Bowls and their best two teams in franchise history never made the Super Bowl; 1998 and 2009. Gary Anderson missed wide left after being perfect the entire season in 1998 after a 15-1...
Can History Repeat Itself For the 3rd Time? Sharks vs Blues
April 9th, 2012 So as it goes, after 82 games, the San Jose Sharks have made the post season and once again will take on the St. Louis Blues. Ask old school Sharks fans about playing the Blues in the playoffs and they will bring you back over a decade to the 1999-2000 NHL season. The eighth seeded Sharks against the first seeded Blues and the feeling...
Hockey's Five Mournful Moments of 2011
December 27th, 2011 As 2011 comes to a close, it provides a time for hockey fans to reflect. In the first of a two-part series, The Hockey Writers’ Steve Kendall will examine the 10 things that saddened him about the sport over the past 12 months. In part two, he will explain the 10 things about hockey that made him happy in 2011. 5. Concussions:...
Demitra Dies In Tragic Plane Crash
September 7th, 2011 Former Minnesota Wild player Pavol Demitra has died as a result of a tragic plane crash in Russia today. A Russian jet was carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (KHL) hockey team to Minsk, Belarus for a game when it slammed into a riverbank moments after takeoff. Only two people of the original 43 on the plane survived. Twenty-seven...
