Posts About "Sergei Fedorov"
Hockey Hall of Fame 2015?
November 18th, 2014 With the 2014 Hockey Hall of Fame induction in the books, it's time to turn an eye to the potential class of 2015. It is quite the extensive list and fairly astonishing that only four will make the cut. One wonders how a player can be delayed if said player is a virtual lock right off the rip. This is how we end up with a Pat Burns...
Catching Up With Sergei Fedorov
October 26th, 2014 In this interview originally taken on the popular Russian radio station Radio FM, Sergei Fedorov, now GM of the CSKA Moscow of the KHL, talked about the Russian Five, discussed his trades, and shed some light on the Red Wings golden era. - You left Russia in 1990. Weren't you scared about leaving? Another country, different people, a...
Analyzing Detroit's Draft History - Are the Red Wings Really the Best?
May 11th, 2014 Aside from the eight teams remaining in the playoffs, the rest of the NHL has shifted their focus to the offseason. For the Detroit Red Wings, the offseason brings several difficult decisions regarding their free agents. The offseason also brings about the NHL draft. Since Mike Ilitch purchased the team in 1982 and tabbed Jim Devellano...
Red Wings: Future Numbers Among the Rafters
October 16th, 2013 It’s not often you see a player’s number raised into the rafters of arenas around the National Hockey League. Players are honoured quite often by teams for their contributions to the club, but it’s a special feeling for players to have their number retired by any given franchise. Usually, it’s career players - guys who have...
Putin's Russia And Gangsterism In The KHL
July 31st, 2013 "Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." Winston Churchill This quote would impress an intelligent high school senior. It's the most banal statement about Russia that a person can encounter, and I say this as a lover of quotes, an admirer of Winston Churchill and a student of the former Soviet Union....
Lockout 2012: Will We Move to a Multi-League Model?
November 5th, 2012 As the NHL lockout of 2012 drags on, feelings among fans range from apathy and indifference to frustration and anger. There's those who support the NHLPA, others support the NHL. Some are fed up with rich people squabbling over how to divvy up piles of money, others don't care how things get settled so long as there's NHL hockey back...
Sergei Fedorov Sends Detroit His Best
October 29th, 2012 Few things are as frustrating as seeking out news, attention and acknowledgment, and coming up with nothing. Silence isn't deafening, it's deadening. Hockey fans have become familiar with this feeling. This staleness is what made the sentimental Tweeting this morning from Yahoo! NHL writer, Nick Cotsonika, a welcomed gesture: Nick...
Book Review- "Hockeytown Doc" Gives Readers Rare Perspective
October 1st, 2012 "I'd never before seen a player leave the bench and go into the medical room in the middle of a game unless he was injured and needed immediate attention ... a watershed moment in the history of the franchise." Thus opens Hockeytown Doc, the newly published memoirs of Dr. John Finley, a man who served as the team physician for the...Growing Up a Red Wings Fan
Growing up as a hockey fan in the 1990s, the Detroit Red Wings were an easy team to root for. Their fast, skilled game made them the antithesis of my beloved Buffalo Sabres, who at the time were full of thugs like Rob Ray, Bob Boughner, and Matt Barnaby. That’s not to say I haven’t always been a diehard Sabres fan, but when your...
