0 comments by Joe Tetreault on 5/24/2012
Outdoor hockey and Los Angeles seem to work together like oil and water, dogs and cats, or Canadiens and Bruins. But don’t tell that to the newly installed Dodger brass who are touting their ballpark as a future site of the Winter Classic. The new ownership group led by former Lakers point guard Magic Johnson […]
0 comments by David Rogers
In a story that would fit well under the “Strange Injuries” umbrella, Alexander Semin injured himself with his very own gold medal, as seen on Russian Machine Never Breaks. Evidently, Semin cut his forehead open when he was pulling his jersey off with the recently won gold medal from the IIHF World Championships still around […]
0 comments by Joe Tetreault
With a year left on his contract, and an unexpectedly premature exit from his team this year, Alain Vigneault had unfinished business in Vancouver. The Canucks decided that giving him some job security in the completion of his mandate as the team and their coach agreed to an extension. Like many NHL deals, terms […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 5/23/2012
Oops. Chalk this one up to not knowing any audience. The CBC announced the invasion of their ladies’ themed podcast “While the Men Watch” on Hockey Night In Canada broadcasts. The assumption that women watch hockey differently than men ticked people off (As Steve Lepore of Puck the Media suggested, just feature Cassie Campbell. Hell, […]
0 comments by Joe Tetreault
We’re a week away from the beginning of the Stanley Cup Finals. The puck will drop in a NYC Metro area arena still to be determined. But one thing we do know is that within two weeks after that and possibly as soon as one, the NHL will crown a new champion and Gary Bettman […]
0 comments by David Rogers
http://youtube.com/watch?v= rB-0NsGrrIM[/youtube] Game 5 between the Phoenix Coyotes and the Los Angeles Kings was exciting and controversial. We’re not here to talk about Dustin Brown’s knee and whether or not it clean or dirty. Instead, we’re here to analyze an incident involving Brown and Phoenix goaltender Mike Smith. As Smith was reaching to cover a […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian
The Phoenix Coyotes were eliminated last night in game five of the Western Conference Finals by the Los Angeles Kings, bringing their season to a close. In a year where they won the first Pacific Division title in team history and made it to the conference finals for the first time in team history, negativity […]
0 comments by Lawrence Dushenski
In case you hadn’t already noticed, the Kings are in fact the real deal. Sure it is easy to say this now that they have quaified for the Stanley Cup Finals and proven so many doubters wrong, but had you looked at the team on paper at the outset of the postseason, you could have […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 5/21/2012
Have you ever wondered which hockey page on Wikipedia sees the most traffic? Thanks to a group of individuals under the WikiProject Ice Hockey label, the answers are now revealed. The full list, which can be seen here, is loaded with surprises and rather odd findings. Which NHL player has the most popular page? What […]
0 comments by Lawrence Dushenski
No one has ever questioned Drew Doughty skill level. Only Steve Stamkos was drafted higher in 2008, and even questioned that move. But the one knock against him since his days in junior has been his compete and conditioning level. The nickname “Doughnuts” is not exactly flattering to a player with out of this world talent. […]
0 comments by David Rogers on 5/19/2012
The Los Angeles Kings have made plenty of noise with their new rambunctious social media strategy. They have given the LA Twitter account a distinctive, controversial voice that has brought in waves of new followers and waves of new critics. Thanks to a post over at Reddit Hockey, we can see that LA’s controversial marketing […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 5/18/2012
No more chuckling at the British hockey teams, hockey “purists.” They might just have more hockey cred than even Canada, based on some new evidence dug up by two Swedish researchers. Carl Giden and Patrick Houda uncovered a picture in a book dating from 1797, featuring a British youth skating on the frozen bank of […]
0 comments by David Rogers
In April you may recall that we featured an article discussing how the Colorado Avalanche would have a busy summer ahead due to their strategy of not negotiating contracts during the regular season. One of the biggest questions surrounded the future of veteran Milan Hejduk and whether or not he would return for another year […]
0 comments by John
(Photo Credit: Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) If the Los Angeles Kings were in the hit HBO television show, Game of Thrones, they would be close to controlling all of the seven kingdoms. In another impressive display of teamwork, the Kings left Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals with another tally in the win column. The victory […]
0 comments by John on 5/17/2012
In the past few seasons, the Edmonton Oilers have been on the road to recovery. Ever since their magical trip to the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals against the eventual champion Carolina Hurricanes, the team has been building through the draft. Their stockpile of highly offensive forwards has made the future of Oiler hockey quite bright. […]
