2010-11 preview: Minnesota Wild
A painfully punchless offense led to a long off-season in Minnesota. With more depth down the middle this season, the Wild will try to turn things around under second-year head coach Todd Richards. ...
A painfully punchless offense led to a long off-season in Minnesota. With more depth down the middle this season, the Wild will try to turn things around under second-year head coach Todd Richards. ...
You would think I had a leg up on avoiding the star-struck feeling that comes when a young hockey player starts competing against the names he grew up watching. After all, I grew up in NHL dressing ro...
A young team came of age in 2009-10, but still lost in the first playoff round. After missing out on the you-know-who derby, the Kings must hope a year of maturity can make the difference. • ...
The 48-year-old, who has played more games than any defenseman in NHL history, will advise Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland, whose aging team is in transition. Over the past two decad...
During the final day of the World Hockey Summit it became abundantly clear that Hockey Canada, USA Hockey and especially…
These will change before October for sure and will be wrong then too! But here are my VERY EARLY 2010-11…
The NHL won’t de-register the frontloaded contracts that teams assumed were kosher. They just can’t. The consequences would be…
You really can’t make this sh*t up…Numerous reports have been circulating around the Internet that the league rejected the Devil’s…
Don’t fret. The Northwest Division Preview should be coming this weekend. Until then, however, I’m going to give you a…
Agitator -Noun a person who stirs up others in order to upset the status quo and further a political, social or other cause a machine or device for agitating and mixing Of all of...
All hockey players know how to shoot a puck at the net. Yet only a select few of those players can score goals in the NHL seemingly at will. They are labeled as "snipers" – as accurate...
It’s saying something when one team owns the top two spots on such an undesirable list, but it also helps explain why the New York Islanders get to draft so high every year. Without further...
No general manager is perfect, but some have had strokes of genius when signing players to what seem like bargain contracts in hindsight. Some of the same GMs are responsible for the worst contracts...
Every hockey fan has their favorite place to watch or play the game. Whether it’s a local pond, a backyard rink or your local team’s weathered arena, everyone’s got a second home. ...
The week of the draft is upon us. Last week, we projected picks 11 through 20. With the Pittsburgh Penguins off the board, Hockey Primetime's mock draft will wrap up in a much more timely fashion than...
Earlier, we predicted picks 1 through 10 of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft in part one of our Mock Draft series. With Edmonton through the New York Rangers off the board, what will happen next? 11. Dallas...
The Stanley Cup has been awarded, beards have been shaved, mullets shorn and tee times booked. You guessed it. The off-season has arrived. Just as the last couple months of hockey were time for the...
In less than a month, 100 junior-aged hockey players will be pushing themselves to the limits mentally and physically, knowing their futures are at stake. The NHL recently announced its list of 100 players,...
QMJHL playoff preview: The Saint John Sea Dogs are entering the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoffs with more than just the honor of being No. 2 on the Canadian Hockey League's final top 10...
You would think I had a leg up on avoiding the star-struck feeling that comes when a young hockey player starts competing against the names he grew up watching. After all, I grew up in NHL dressing rooms,...
At the start of the 2008-2009 hockey season, I was in training camp with the Hershey Bears, going over my media guide – not the "media guide" the media get. This was the "guide to the media." The...
One writer who's probably a great guy, usually writes well, and writes for a great place, wrote something mind-blowingly stupid this week. It happens. He suggested that, in the wake of the non-trade of...
I grew up in an odd situation, what with my Dad being on an NHL team. Because of that, I was around the NHL a lot, got to know his friends and become comfortable in that environment. To this day, when...
For most serious NHL fans, Friday's draft provided them with the hope – whether real or not – that their team's picks mark a turning point for their franchise. Draft day is all about the...
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