October 17th, 2011Once every decade or so a player comes along from juniors and leaps into the NHL with the expectation that he’s going to be a truly special player. A player with the capability to dominate a game and write himself into the history books. Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin were two of those guys in the past 10 years. In the 1991 NHL Draft,...
April 8th, 2011Right arm outstretched, the blade of journeyman forward Jim Nill's stick in hand, holding aloft a white towel on the butt-end, a Vancouver Canuck associate coach made history, and is forever enshrined in bronze outside of Rogers Arena. Rogers Arena, or Roger's Arena, as it may now be called, in the memory of one Roger Neilson, whose...
