Monday’s Three Stars: Canucks close out Predators with 2-1 win
No. 1 Star: Ryan Kesler, Vancouver Canucks Like he's done for most of the series, Kesler was right in the middle of a Canucks win. The gritty centerman assisted on both Vancouver goals as the Canucks...
View ArticlePuck Daddy’s salute to awesome Beer League teams, Vol. 2
Last week, we presented a gallery of Beer League team names and sweaters that were inspired by the legendary Hat Trick Swayzes of Maryland. That gallery inspired even more readers to send in their...
View ArticleClowe out for Game 6; can Marleau step up for Sharks?
In his last 16 playoff games against the Detroit Red Wings, Patrick Marleau of the San Jose Sharks has just 2 goals and 2 assists. They all came in last postseason's 5-game elimination of the Wings....
View ArticleYour opinions on Avery, Uptown Sports, same-sex marriage
"He's a very special case. A very special head case. It sounds to me it's very self-serving." - Denis Potvin, XM Radio's Hockey Tuesday Morning, on Sean Avery's endorsement of legalized same-sex...
View ArticleListen to Puck Daddy Radio for Dennis Seidenberg, Sharks/Wings
It's a Tuesday edition of Puck Daddy Radio, and we're chatting about the following and much more: • Special Guest Star: Dennis Seidenberg, defenseman for the Boston Bruins, joins us to talk about the...
View ArticleBourne Blog: Sharks, Wings and winning 1-goal games
Much like the woman in the opening scene of "Austin Powers 2," the Detroit Red Wings simply refuse to die, despite the amount of times the San Jose Sharks have appeared to have them down and out. The...
View ArticlePuck Headlines: Richards vs. reporter; vote on Coyotes’ fate
Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • No offense to...
View ArticleWith Bergeron out, Seguin ready to take advantage of opportunity
Last June's No. 2 overall pick Tyler Seguin has not seen the ice for the Boston Bruins since their season-ending game against the New Jersey Devils on April 10. Since then, instead of tossing on a...
View ArticleSharks vs. Red Wings: Confident Jimmy Howard sets tone
For 40 minutes of Game 5, the best player on the ice for the Detroit Red Wings at the San Jose Sharks wasn't Datsyuk or Zetterberg or Lidstrom or any of the other prominent names on the back of a...
View ArticleWith Game 7 set, can Sharks possibly stop Red Wings’ rally?
Eighteen shots in the first period. Fourteen in the second. Pucks off posts, just missing wide, hitting defensemen's sticks, getting swallowed up in desperation saves by Antti Niemi. The Detroit Red...
View ArticleVideo: Pavel Datsyuk gets nutty with Joe Thornton in Game 6
Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings is a four-time winner of the Lady Byng Trophy, given annually in the NHL to "the player adjudged to have exhibited the best type of sportsmanship and gentlemanly...
View ArticleTuesday’s Three Stars: Detroit forces Game 7 vs. Sharks
No. 1 Star: Valtteri Filppula, Detroit Red Wings The Red Wings center scored the game-winning goal at 12:32 of the third period on a pretty feed from Pavel Datsyuk and had the secondary assist on...
View ArticleGlendale approves $25 million to keep Coyotes for 2011-12
There were fans who made pleas in their Phoenix Coyotes sweaters for the team to stay in Glendale. There were representatives from the National Hockey League, which is trying to sell the team, and the...
View ArticleEric Lindros blames NHL rules, cheap shots for concussion rise
There might not be another player more qualified to speak on the concussion issue in the NHL than Eric Lindros because (a) he had six from 1998-2000, then two more before his retirement and (b)...
View ArticleEulogy: Remembering the 2010-11 Nashville Predators
(Ed. Note: As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we're bound to lose some friends along the journey. We've asked for these losers, gone but not forgotten, to be eulogized by the people who knew the...
View ArticleBruins vs. Lightning: The battle of the aged netminders
The Boston Bruins don't have the same history with the Tampa Bay Lightning as they did in their previous rounds of blood feuds in the Eastern Conference. Storylines, and mutual animosity, will develop...
View ArticleListen To Puck Daddy Radio for Wings/Sharks, Coyotes fallout
It's a Wednesday edition of Puck Daddy Radio, and we're chatting about the following and much more: • Special Guest Star: Craig Custance of The Sporting News joins us to break down the Detroit Red...
View ArticlePuck Daddy’s NHL Rumors/Playoff Hockey Live Chat!
Will the Detroit Red Wings complete their epic rally against the San Jose Sharks? Who advances from the East between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Boston Bruins? Which coaches will be hired? Who are...
View ArticleLast chance for Islanders? Arena plans rest on Aug. 1 vote
UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- The New York Islanders' lease at Nassau Coliseum doesn't end until 2015, but there's been concern about the franchise's future for some time now. And for all that worry and for all...
View ArticlePuck Headlines: Many loves of Patrick Kane; Jackets lose $25 million
Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • Patrick Kane … never...
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