0 comments by Laura Astorian on 2/11/2013
The NHL has an interesting policy on wanting to know when things happened – you know, when evidence is present. An ejection from the game for a major match penalty? Nah. You don't need evidence at that moment… maybe the next day when you decide if you should rescind a penalty. Do you need evidence […]
0 comments by David Rogers
Welcome to the third installment of Hockey Fights of the Week! It was a bit tricky selecting this week's best scraps. There were plenty of fights to choose from, but the vast majority were pretty average. In some cases, neither fighter landed a punch before tumbling to the ice. Of course, there was also the […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 2/10/2013
Lots of people watched last night's back and forth match between the St. Louis Blues and the Anaheim Ducks. I'm sure very few watched it as chilled out as Dave, though. What makes it special that Dave watched the 6-5 Ducks shootout win so laid back? Well, Dave's a cat. http://youtube.com/watch?v= gAmNoFO_fag[/youtube] I don't think […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian
It's no secret that the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens do not get along. It's also no secret that teams get chippy during one-sided blowouts, as the game between the two teams on Saturday night demonstrated in clear fashion. In a melee along the boards at about 11:30 into the third period, Max Pacioretty decided […]
0 comments by Jeffrey Kleiman on 2/9/2013
Even Mother Nature doesn’t want hockey to be played this year. Between Friday night and Saturday morning, a blizzard dumped snow over the Northeastern United States and Canada. While some areas that received snow were able to get their scheduled games in, such as the Penguins taking on the Devils at the Prudential Center, […]
0 comments by David Rogers
When Martin Brodeur lost his stick during the New Jersey / Pittsburgh game on Saturday afternoon, no one could have guessed the hilarity we'd be in for. After declining a stick from his defenseman, Brodeur made a couple more saves without his stick before the Devils were finally able to clear the zone. Brodeur went […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 2/7/2013
The New York Islanders have acquired veteran goaltender Tim Thomas from the Boston Bruins in exchange for a conditional second round pick in either the 2014 or 2015 NHL Draft, as seen on the Islanders' official site. According to ESPN, Thomas still has no intention of playing during the 2013 season despite being traded to […]
0 comments by Mike Salerno
This time next year, we'll all be setting our alarms for the middle of the night, disrupting our sleep schedules in the name of patriotism as the 2014 Winter Olympics get underway. Now that it's been rumored that NHL players will be competing in Russia, one question burns as bright as any for USA Hockey: who's […]
0 comments by David Rogers
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nZxx9GY9-Wo?rel=0 Tomas Plekanec probably wishes you didn't see that. In on a breakaway against Tuukka Rask, Plekanec failed to get a shot off, instead mishandling the puck and sending it straight to the corner boards. As if wasting a scoring chance wasn't bad enough, the Montreal Canadiens were called for "Too many men on the […]
0 comments by Mike Salerno on 2/6/2013
By now, if you're a fan of hockey in the slightest, you've noticed a glaring initiative by officials to protect the game's players. Concussion awareness and player safety have been hot-button issues for years ever since devastating injuries to Marc Savard and Sidney Crosby. But as hard as the league has been coming down on […]
0 comments by David Rogers
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0 comments by Laura Astorian
By now, most readers should be familiar with the controversial fight Sunday night between Tampa Bay Lightning forward B.J. Crombeen and Philadelphia Flyers forward Zac Rinaldo. The fact that the two tussled wasn't surprising, but what did ruffle feathers was the fact that Rinaldo continued to throw punches on Crombeen's way down. http://youtube.com/watch?v= GjOJMnm3DW8[/youtube] It's pretty […]
0 comments by Mike Salerno on 2/5/2013
As the momentum from the United States' triumph at the World Junior Championships spilled over into the start of an abbreviated NHL season, there was much ado about Anaheim Ducks 2011 second-rounder John Gibson. Gibson, who carried the Americans to gold in Ufa, was extended an invitation to Ducks camp and widely seen as the goaltender […]
0 comments by David Rogers
Welcome to another edition of Hockey Fights of the Week! This time we take a look at the bouts that took place between January 28th and February 3rd. What's in store? How about the rare occurrence of two fights taking place at the same time. We'll also throw in an altercation between Bryan Allen and […]
0 comments by David Rogers
Sportsnet Ontario flexed their creative muscle during the Carolina Hurricanes / Toronto Maple Leafs game on Monday night. Midway through the second period, Carolina led the Maple Leafs by a score of 2-1 thanks to goals from Jordan Staal and his brother Eric. As the station prepared to go to break (or returned from break, […]
