It’s been a great postseason so far. 16 team started, but only two remain. We’ve seen sweeps, seven game series, highlight reel goals, and incredible saves. And now we’re ready to watch the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins battle for the world’s most revered sports trophy, Lord Stanley’s Cup. So how did each team get [...]
NHL Conference Finals Predictions
I’m a day late, I know. Thanks to Bryan to posting his thoughts yesterday to cover me, but I’ll get mine up here now. For the record, I did comment on Bryan’s post before the Bruins/Lightning with my predictions for the series, but I’ll give my reasoning here.Eastern Conference Final: 3 Boston Bruins versus 5 [...]
NHL Conference Finals Preview
With the dropping of the puck in Boston tonight, the conference finals will start in the NHL playoffs and with our NHL writer perhaps on sabbatical, I know all you passionate NHL readers out there would be irate at the thought of no conference finals coverage before the series starts. In the East, the 3rd-seeded [...]
Your Team Lost Game 1? TIME TO PANIC!!!!!
To the Predators, Capitals, Red Wings, and Flyers fans out there who are flipping out about losing the first game of the second round, get a grip. No matter if your team lost in overtime or in took a 7-3 drubbing, it’s one loss after only one game. To the fans of the Canucks, Lightning, [...]
NHL Playoffs: Round 2!!!
I just wanted to start this out this: let it be known that the quarter’s predictions are already destroyed. Neither of his two teams to play in the Stanley Cup Final made it out of the first round. (Ignore the fact that my Western Conference winner is knocked out already and was the same pick [...]
NHL Playoffs Predictions
Playoff time is hereChippiness and beerFun for all that puckheads callTheir favorite time of year Playoffs? Playoffs? PLAYOFFS?! Absolutely. It’s that time of year again, and boy, did it come quickly. I could go into the “season in review” kind of deal to start this off, but I think I’m just going to dive right [...]
Leave the Flyers’ Goaltending Alone
That’s right, I said it. I’m sick and tired of hearing “Ya know, the Flyers aren’t going anywhere because they don’t have the goaltending.” Another favorite of mine is that an unproven rookie goalie can’t take a team through the playoffs. Well, someone better tell that to Antti Niemi. First of all, let me just [...]
NHL Playoffs Approaching: My Western Conference Predictions
Round Two, Western Conference style! If you missed my Eastern Conference predictions, you can check them out here. The West is a little more fun, currently with all five Pacific Division teams in the top 8 spots. Will they all hold on? So here we go, the West: 8. Dallas Stars: 12 GR, 82 points [...]
NHL Playoffs Approaching: My Eastern Conference Predictions
So the NHL regular season is winding down. No teams have more than 14 games remaining in the schedule and there are quite a few interesting races. Given that the title of this article says that I’m going to give my predictions, you’re probably thinking that I’ve derived a comprehensive, in depth mathematical model based [...]
Chara on Pacioretty: Dirty, Innocent, or Just a Whole Cloudy Mess?
It’s one of the more popular stories out there in the NHL right now. Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara rode Montreal Canadien Max Pacioretty into the boards at the benches and Pacioretty’s face caught the stanchion, which stopped him cold. He ended up with a severe concussion and a fractured vertebrate in the neck. Chara [...]
