Hampus Lindholm: The NHL’s Most Underrated Defenseman Hannah Bonnie | August 5, 2017 After finishing third in the league defensively, the Anaheim Ducks were sure to lose a talented defenseman to the Vegas Golden Knights via the expansion draft. However, thanks to general…
Meet the Golden Knights: Jonathan Marchessault Keith Scheessele | August 5, 2017 Hunker down while we ride out monsoon season fellow local, and do some more learning on the Vegas Golden Knights, the first and only “Big Four” professional sports franchise in…
Oilers Top Prospects: Nick Ellis Shane Sander | August 5, 2017 Last month our contributors helped compile the Edmonton Oilers Top 10 Prospects list. This month we’ll be looking at each of those ten prospects in depth in reverse order. Goaltending prospect Nick…
Carolina Hurricanes: 2017-18 Bold Prediction Andrew Forbes | August 5, 2017 Throughout August, The Hockey Writers will be releasing a series of bold predictions. Team by team, this series will take shape as we look at some of the more questionable…
Buffalo Doesn’t Love Lehner, Yet Jeff Seide | August 4, 2017 Judging by the comments on social media and around the water cooler, it’s easy to get the feeling that Robin Lehner could win the Vezina Trophy and still be hated…
A Final Look at Benoit Pouliot Zane Tomich | August 4, 2017 Benoit Pouliot’s tenure with the Edmonton Oilers can be compared to a roller coaster that slowly climbed the tracks until it reached the very top, and everything suddenly stopped. Thus…
Lightning Have a Depth Problem Eugene Helfrick | August 4, 2017 Depth is an important aspect of any team. While there are a few kinds of depth player, the types that have the biggest effect on a team are game time…
Biggest Pieces of Canadiens Trade Bait Ryan Szporer | August 4, 2017 Montreal Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin may very well not be finished this summer. One should hope he’s not anyway. With two massive projected holes in the line-up, down the…
Oilers and Franson: What’s Taking So Long? Jim Parsons | August 4, 2017 Recently I wrote an article asking the question, what is taking the Oilers so long to work out a deal with Jaromir Jagr? It was a somewhat rhetorical question in…
August’s All Free-Agent Teams Larry Fisher | August 4, 2017 With the calendar flipping to August, there are still plenty of serviceable free agents available — enough to ice more than three full teams, believe it or not. It is…
Kronwall Can Have Impact in Reduced Role John Curran | August 4, 2017 Niklas Kronwall, once one of the most formidable and hardest hitting blue-liners on the Detroit Red Wings, is facing one of the harshest truths that every professional athlete must come…
4 Bruins Likely to Disappoint Chris Gere | August 4, 2017 Boston Bruins fans are a unique breed. They are passionate, outspoken and often irrationally excitable. As such, there is an unfair amount of pressure on a player’s first impression and…