by Brian Kennedy | May 26, 2020 | Archived Features, Homepage, Leagues, NHL
We know a lot more about the NHL’s 2019-20 season than we did a day ago after Gary Bettman made a return to play announcement Tuesday afternoon. The basics of the plan are these: twelve teams from each conference will make the show, judged by points percentage. The...
by Chris Lynch | May 27, 2019 | Boston Bruins, Homepage, NHL, St. Louis Blues
Boston- May 10, 1970, is a blessed day in Boston sports memory. On that Mother’s Day at Boston Garden, Bobby Orr took a pass from Derek Sanderson and slipped the puck through the legendary Glenn Hall’s pads to win the Bruins’ first Stanley Cup in 29 years. As the puck...
by Brian Kennedy | Mar 2, 2019 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, NHL, Vegas Golden Knights
It never really hit me how much hockey has changed until seeing the Golden Knights, and their fans, at Honda Center in Anaheim for a Friday night contest. Now, don’t mistake this: I’ve been to Vegas to see a game. It was a spectacle. Frankly, a ridiculous one. Perhaps...
by Brian Kennedy | Feb 18, 2019 | Anaheim Ducks, Homepage, NHL
The real story of Sunday night in Anaheim had nothing to do with the future Hall of Famer on the ice, playing with Washington, and everything to do with a four-time Cup winner on defense whose #27 was being retired by the Ducks. Scott Niedermayer’s sweater will now...
by Angie Carducci | Jun 13, 2016 | Homepage, Pittsburgh Penguins
Phil Kessel was traded to Pittsburgh last July by a Toronto Maple Leafs organization that didn’t consider him a winner. Trevor Daley wasn’t seeing the ice in Chicago when the Blackhawks sent him to Pittsburgh in December for Rob Scuderi. Justin Schultz was having the...
