by Jashvina Shah | Mar 15, 2015 | Archived Features, Homepage
NEWARK – Last year, Christian Brothers Academy left the ice of The Rock and walked down to the locker rooms, devastated over tying Morristown-Beard to become Non-Public Co-Champions. On Monday night, the Colts found themselves in the same situation, only against...
by Jashvina Shah | Mar 15, 2015 | Archived Features, Homepage
NEWARK – Before Middletown North’s state championship against Ramsey, Lion head coach Matt Clemente was trying to keep his team loose. “[We] like to keep the kids joking and laughing,” Clemente said. “We didn’t talk about hockey, [I] said if you guys don’t know...
by George Grimm | Feb 21, 2015 | Archived Features, Hockey History, Homepage, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
by George Grimm Armed with a slapshot that earned him the nickname “Smokey” because it was said he could “knock the sap out of the wood of his stick”, Jack Egers was destined for stardom. Unfortunately a series of injuries including a concussion...
by JP Hoornstra | Feb 4, 2015 | Archived Features, Homepage, Montreal Canadiens
This article originally appeared on AllPuck.com. Another pro-fighting gauntlet was laid today by an active NHL enforcer. I figured his argument was worth examining. Maybe he would cover some new ground in this era of Rule 48 videos and a heightened cultural...
by George Grimm | Jan 20, 2015 | Archived Features, Hockey History, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
by George Grimm During the Emile Francis era, the New York Rangers always took great pride in their penalty killing. They practiced it repeatedly throughout the season and it paid off very well for them in the ‘Win’ column. In fact during the years when those Ranger...
by Matthew Dibiase | Jan 9, 2015 | Archived Features, Toronto Maple Leafs
When the history of Brendan Shanahan’s reign as President of the Toronto Maple Leafs is written the early chapters of that history must been seen as an exercise in vacillation, uncertainty, and lousy timing in making command decisions. Never was this more blatantly...
