Apr 30
It is playoff time once again, something everyone in the hockey world thought was going to be missing in January of this year. Despite a shortened 48 game season, the best teams were able to get in, with the exception of the Columbus Blue Jackets falling short of 8th place in the Western Conference. The …
Jun 12
No. 1 Star: Dustin Brown, Los Angeles Kings
Brown told reporters Monday morning that “tonight is the night” and he sure backed that up. Having not scored since Game 1 against the Phoenix Coyotes, the Kings captain scored the opening goal on the power play and assisted on the second one [...]
Jun 07
No. 1 Star: Adam Henrique, New Jersey Devils
With the game tied 1-1 in the third period, Henrique put home yet another game-winner with 4:31 left as the Devils forced a Game 5 with a 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings. LA leads the series 3-1. Henrique now [...]
May 21
1 Star: Shane Doan, Phoenix Coyotes
The Coyotes captain beat Jonathan Quick twice in Game 4, leading Phoenix to a 2-0 victory to cut the Los Angeles Kings’ series lead to 3-1. Doan’s power-play goal in the first period and shot off the goal-cam in the second provided the Coyotes with all the offense [...]
Apr 21
No. 1 Star: David Legwand, Nashville Predators
The 13-year veteran Predator set up Alex Radulov’s first-period goal with an aggressive forecheck and then scored the game-winner 13 seconds into the third period to lead Nashville to a 2-1 victory and a Game 5 elimination of the Detroit Red Wings. He was a plus-2 [...]
Jun 12
Boston — When Maxime Lapierre, of the Vancouver Canucks, scored a bad angle goal, to give his team a 1-0 win in game five and a 3-2 lead in the Stanley Cup Finals,
Vancouver rejoiced, and Boston dug in! How many goals does it take to win a game? One more than the opposition! The high flying Canucks had been putting on an offensive show[...]
May 27
Over the past five games of the Eastern Conference finals, a goal has been scored in the first 70 seconds or less four times, three of which were tallied by the Tampa Bay Lightning. That’s a lot of fun for fans to watch and great for the team that gets on the board first, but kind of has me baffled from a hockey standpoint.
What’s happening [...]
May 24
The Detroit Red Wings have announced a press conference for 11:00am Wednesday at Joe Louis Arena where it is expected that defenseman Brian Rafalski will announce his retirement from the National Hockey League after eleven seasons.* This was Rafalski’s fourth season in Detroit after previously playing for the New Jersey Devils, and in Sweden and Finland. [...]
May 21
It would appear that way after the Boston Bruins shutout the Tampa Bay Lightning by a score of 2-0 in Game 2 to go up 2-1 in the series.
The Bruins are 5-1 on the road in these playoffs and they are 5-1 for two main reasons:
1) Good Goaltending: Bruins’ netminder [...]
May 16
For as long as I can remember, games between the Detroit Red Wings and San Jose Sharks have always been exciting to watch. I am sure my fellow Red Wings fans and the fans of the Sharks can all agree with me on this. It all started in 1994 when the No. 1 Detroit Red …
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