Hockey is an emotional sport as well as a physically punishing sport. These two factors, combined with the fact that teams play each other up to six times per season (not including playoffs) year after year, causes rivalries to heat up in a hurry. Of course, back in...
With the puck dropped on the NHL pre-season we are just a few weeks away from the start of the 2011-12 NHL campaign. Once that happens each team will play a full 82 game schedule. Following that the top 16 teams will go through a grueling 2 month tournament to try and...
Well the NHL has finally leveled its judgment regarding Rick Rypien’s altercation with a fan during the Vancouver Canucks/Minnesota Wild Game the other night. The verdict? A 6 game unpaid vacation for the Canuck slugger. Rypien got into an altercation with a fan...
With the start of the 2010-11 NHL season now little more than a week away I figured it was time to pull out my crystal ball and try and predict which Western Conference teams will be Stanley Cup contenders this year, and which teams are going to be dusting off the old...
It is commonly agreed throughout the hockey world that game four is the most crucial, most pivotal game of a playoff series. Sweeps are a rarity in today’s NHL, and as a result, after three games most series sit with one team enjoying a 2-1 lead. The team that wins...
