Hurray! Hockey finally makes its return tonight with the Flyers opening the season in Boston against the Bruins. The B’s will be raising their Stanley Cup banner while also taking the first step in defending their title. The Flyers, on the other hand, will be doing their best to ruin the night for the Boston [...]
TSHQ NHL Season Preview: Southeast Division
This article will finish the series on previews the Eastern Conference. Today, we’ll look at the Southeast Division. Like the previous articles, we’ll go in the opposite order of where I think the teams will place. As a quick aside, if you haven’t already, make sure you check out AJ’s article on the Pacific Division. [...]
TSHQ NHL Season Preview: Pacific Division
The Pacific Division was the most competitive in all of hockey last season. The Dallas Stars finished the season with 95 points, and ninth in the Conference standings. Had the Stars not played so terribly down the stretch, and remained ahead of the Blackhawks, it would have been the first time since the NHL aligned [...]
TSHQ NHL Season Preview: Atlantic Division
Up next in the TSHQ NHL previews is the Atlantic Division. The Atlantic Division is routinely one of the most competitive divisions in hockey. This will be quite an interesting year as picking how the division will pan out is going to be tough. There’s really only one team that I’m comfortable with placing… New [...]
TSHQ NHL Season Preview: Central Division
The Central Division promises to be extremely competitive for the 2011-2012 season. With Chicago taking a step in the wrong direction last season after winning the Stanley Cup in 2010, the door was opened for the Red Wings to regain their spot atop the standings. With the Red Wings getting older and the Blues and [...]
Sean Avery and Wayne Simmonds: Avery, You Filthy Hypocrite
Wayne Simmonds is fresh off the incident where some idiot at the Flyers/Red Wings game in London, Ontario threw a banana at him during his shootout attempt. Now, he’s involved in another controversy, but this time, he’s not the “innocent” party. According to Sean Avery, Simmonds called Avery a homophobic slur. I’m sure you can [...]
TSHQ NHL Season Preview: Northeast Division
Over the next two weeks up to the start of the NHL season, we’ll be bringing you a division by division preview of the upcoming year in hockey. Can you believe it? Hockey’s right around the corner. Today, we’ll start with the Northeast Division, ranking where I think the teams will finish from lowest to [...]
Shanahan Makes Mark as New Disciplinarian and An UGLY Incident
It hasn’t taken long for Brendan Shanahan to make his presence felt as the NHL’s new disciplinarian, replacing the much maligned Colin Campbell. Only a week into the preseason, Shanahan has doled out two suspensions, the first to Calgary’s Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond and the second to Philadelphia’s Jody Shelley, both of which were for boarding violations. [...]
NHL Rule Changes? Oh please….
“It’s too confusing.” “I don’t understand what’s going on.” “What just happened?” “Why did they do that?” These are a lot of the complaints you get from the non-hockey fan while they watch a game. Hockey’s different from most other sports: most people didn’t grow up playing it and many didn’t grow up watching it. [...]
Hold Your Breath, Pittsburgh. How Long Will Crosby Be Out?
Everyone knew that Sidney Crosby’s concussion was serious. And with the new awareness of concussions in the sports world, Crosby and the Penguins were doing the right thing and taking things slowly. It seemed as though Crosby was progressing along well, but maybe that’s because people were taking the “no news is good news” approach. [...]
