Cats Could Learn from Bolts’ Success
Hockey is now officially over in the Sunshine State, but Tallon can look up the west coast of the state for a successful model. The work is just beginning.
Categories: Eastern Conference, Florida Panthers, NHL Talk, Tampa Bay Lightning, [NHLHS] Team Coverage Tags: Dale Tallon, David Booth, Florida Panthers, Guy Boucher, Martin St.Louis, Mike Santorelli, National Hockey League, NHL, Stephen Weiss, Steve Yzerman, Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay Lightning, Vincent Lecavalier
Bluenotes: Tarasenko & Schwartz Decide, Perron & Berglund Updates
Bluenotes is a weekly does of news, notes, analysis and opinion on the St. Louis Blues. Catch my (sometimes) daily Bluenotes at BlueNoteZone.com. — Tarasenko Chooses Sibir over St. Louis As reported on Tuesday May 24th, St. Louis Blues top prospect, Russian sniper Vladimir Tarasenko, has elected to complete the final year of his two [...]
Read more...Categories: St. Louis Blues, Western Conference, [NHLHS] Team Coverage Tags: 2011 NHL Off Season, Alaska Aces, Colorado College, David Perron, Doug Armstrong, ECHL, Jaden Schwartz, Kelly Cup, KHL, NHL, Patrik Berglund, Sibir, St. Louis Blues, Vladimir Tarasenko
Liam Reddox off to Sweden
Edmonton Oilers correspondent looks Liam Reddox’s decision to leave the Oilers for Sweden and what his impact was on the team. After spending four season splitting time between the AHL and the NHL, Liam Reddox has signed a one-year contract with a Swedish Elite League team in Vaxjo. Reddox was drafted by the Oilers in the 4th [...]
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Today in Stanley Cup History: May 26th
In the second installment of “This day in Stanley Cup history…” Jose looks back to the 1987-1988 NHL season for the Edmonton Oilers 4th Stanley Cup Championship in five years. It was on this day 23 years ago, that Wayne Gretzky would score his first and only Stanley Cup winning goal. By Jose Simoes Storyteller [...]
Read more...Categories: Boston Bruins, Eastern Conference, Edmonton Oilers, NHL Talk, Western Conference, [NHLHS] Team Coverage Tags: 1988 Stanley Cup, Andy Moog, Boston Bruins, Cam Neely, Edmonton Oilers, NHL, Raymond bourque, stanley cup, Wayne Gretzky
Lightning Even Series with 5-4 Win in Game 6
Regardless of the deficit the Tampa Bay Lightning is in, whether it is in a game or a series, never count them out. Being down 3-2 in a best-of-seven series heading into Game 6, the Lightning not only overcame a deficit during the game, but tied up the series, 3-3. NHLHS Tampa Bay Lightning Correspondent [...]
Read more...Categories: Eastern Conference, Tampa Bay Lightning, [NHLHS] Team Coverage Tags: Boston Bruins, Chris Kelly, David Krejci, Dwayne Roloson, Martin St.Louis, Milan Lucic, Nathan Horton, Steve Downie, Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay Lightning, Teddy Purcell, Tim Thomas, Vincent Lecavalier
Thank You, San Jose Sharks
In my heart of hearts, I want to be able to recap the game for you all, but I can’t. Mostly due to the fact that my tears haven’t quite subsided. To lose a elimination game in double overtime on a incredibly freaky – bouncing off the glass to the blue line, onto the stick [...]
Read more...Categories: San Jose Sharks, Western Conference, [NHLHS] Team Coverage Tags: Antero Niittymaki, Antti Niemi, Dan Boyle, Douglas Murray, Evgeni Nabokov, Jason Demers, Kevin Bieksa, Logan Couture, Patrick Marleau, San Jose Sharks
Red Wings news: Brian Rafalski set to retire?
NHLHS Correspondent Christina Roberts was vacationing in Disney World when she heard the rumors about Brian Rafalski’s impending retirement announcement. She quickly weighs in on what Rafalski’s departure may mean for the Red Wings. This off-season, all of the worrying for the future of the Detroit Red Wings’ defense revolved around whether Nicklas Lidstrom would [...]
Read more...Categories: Detroit Red Wings, Western Conference, [NHLHS] Team Coverage Tags: Brian Rafalski, hockey, Ken Holland, NHL, NHL retirement, Nicklas Lidstrom
Sharks Flop After Gaining Momentum
The San Jose Sharks looked to regain momentum after taking Game 3 away from the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 at HP Pavilion on Friday night. But after attending Game 4, I am feeling ashamed to be a Sharks fan. Why? Because not even before Vancouver had scored their first goal,or the puck drop had the throngs [...]
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Today in Stanley Cup History: May 24th
With the 2010-2011 Stanley Cup playoffs closing in on the Finals, Jose decided to start a new (hopefully) daily feature highlighting some of the more memorable Stanley Cup victories throughout history. By Jose Simoes Storyteller Coming fresh off the Victoria Day long weekend in Canada, I figured the May 24th 1990 Stanley Cup won by [...]
Read more...Categories: Edmonton Oilers, NHL Talk, Western Conference, [NHLHS] Team Coverage Tags: 1990 Stanley Cup, Andy Moog, Bill Ranford, Edmonton Oilers, Grant Fuhr, Los Angeles Kings, Mark Messier, stanley cup, Wayne Gretzky
Can the Canucks Seal the Series?
By Alexander Monaghan President With last night’s 4-3 win, the Vancouver Canucks now find themselves in a familiar place: quickly getting three wins and returning home to try to advance to the next round. Less familiar: advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1994. After letting both the Chicago Blackhawks and [...]
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Grading the 2010-11 Flyers’ defensemen and goaltenders
By David Strehle NHL Hot Stove Creative Editor After a trip to the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals and falling just two wins shy of winning it all, the Philadelphia Flyers’ 2010-11 season fell well short of high expectations. Subsequent to getting past the Buffalo Sabres in a tough seven-game first round series, Philadelphia’s season came to an abrupt [...]
Read more...Categories: Eastern Conference, NHL Talk, Philadelphia Flyers, [NHLHS] Team Coverage Tags: Anders Lindback, Andrej Meszaros, Braydon Coburn, Brian Boucher, Chicago Blackhawks, Chris Pronger, Cory Schneider, Ed Snider, Erik Gustafsson, Ilya Bryzgalov, James Wisniewski, Jeff Carter, Jeff Reese, joacim eriksson, Jonathan Bernier, Kevin Bieksa, Kevin Marshall, Kimmo Timonen, Kris Versteeg, Marc-Andre Bourdon, Matt Carle, Michael Leighton, Miikka Kiprusoff, Niklas Backstrom, Niko Hovinen, Paul Holmgren, Peter Laviolette, Philadelphia Flyers, Ryan Miller, Sami Salo, Scottie Upshall, Sean O'Donnell, sergei bobrovsky, Simon Gagne, stanley cup, Tomas Vokoun
Lightning Overcome 3-0 Deficit, Win 5-3 to Tie Series
Coming into Saturday’s game, the Tampa Bay Lightning have not lost more than two games in a row during these playoffs and it was quite the challenge to make sure that didn’t happen. NHLHS Tampa Bay Lightning Correspondent Danny DiNicolantonio has the breakdown of a resilient Game 4. The Tampa Bay Lightning was looking to [...]
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Bruins Fired Up After Taking Lead Against Lightning
The Boston Bruins kicked off Game 1 of their Eastern Conference final series at the Garden on Saturday night, hosting the Tampa Bay Lightning for the first time since March 3rd. This is the first appearance the Bruins have made to the conference finals since 1992, and this also marked the first playoff meeting between [...]
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