Senators In The Thick Of It
Al Willig give us an update on the Senators, who are very much alive and ready to make some post season noise.
View ArticleSens and Pens; A Senators’ Perspective
Al Willig takes a look at the Pens/Sens series through a Red and Black lens. Enjoy!
View ArticleNHL Draft Live Blog — Updated Throughout
By Brian Metzer (This technically falls under the “Diary of a Mad Metz” category) Draft day – the first step towards rebuilding, retooling or reloading for all 30 NHL franchises. You can bolster your...
View ArticleFree Agent Frenzy is GO — Updated Throughout
By Brian Metzer We are roughly an hour away from what is akin to Christmas Day for hockey fans — the league’s FREE AGENT FRENZY. A case can be made for the trade deadline, but the day itself hasn’t...
View ArticleSenators’ Offseason: Just Another Summer!
Our resident Sens fanatic, Al Willig, takes a look at the Senators off-season.
View ArticleScifo on the Pens – Brassard’s OT winner helps Rangers finish Penguins in Game 1
By Dan Scifo From the Point Contributor PITTSBURGH – The Pittsburgh Penguins didn’t get the start they wanted in Game 1 or their best-of-seven second-round series against the New York Rangers. The...
View ArticleNHL Unbreakable Records
By Vince Comunale The saying is that records are made to be broken. Well, that may be the case with most records, but the NHL records profiled below are so outrageous that they just might stand...
View ArticleValuing the NHL
By Vince Comunale Forbes Magazine recently released its annual listing of the values of all 30 NHL teams. This year there was a change at the top, with the New York Rangers and their $1.2B value...
View ArticleDoes the Stanley Cup hangover exist?
Have you ever heard of the Stanley Cup hangover? If not, you will at some point during the first two months of the 2016-17 season. It is an often-used idiom that comes up every hockey season when the...
View ArticleAnalysis: What do the Penguins have that Detroit did when it won back-to-back...
If winning back-to-back Stanley Cups were easy, every good team that hoisted the 34.5-pound trophy would do it again and again. That’s the rub when it comes to winning the Cup. Only 13 of the 30 – soon...
View Article2016 belonged to Sidney Crosby
The past few weeks have been filled with people, pundits and talking heads complaining about 2016. They were all anxious for a year full of disagreements, polarizing political races, religious upheaval...
View ArticleBye week had its benefits, but condensed schedule could hurt
The NHL saw something begin on Jan. 1 that it has not seen in its storied 100 year history — bye weeks for its member clubs. Between Jan. 1 and April 9, all 30 clubs will send their players home, or...
View ArticleWas the NHL’s Top 100 simply a popularity contest? Evgeni Malkin’s omission...
Nothing polarizes groups of people like a “best of” list. Anytime an individual or group comes together to decide the top, the best, or most outstanding of something, there are going to be omissions...
View ArticleUpdates throughout: Penguins pick two in the second round in Dallas
The Penguins entered the draft with a couple of specific needs, which is a bit different than in some recent off-seasons. They hoped to add to the depth of their defensive pipeline as well as balance...
View ArticlePenguins Director of Amateur Scouting Weighs in on 2018 Draft
The Penguins entered the Draft in Dallas with six picks but only used four of them. There might not be much quantity, but the organization is very happy with the quality of those players they selected....
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