by Angie Carducci | Aug 6, 2020 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, Pittsburgh Penguins
For the first time in his career, Penguins captain Sidney Crosby will play a meaningful hockey game on his Aug. 7 birthday. It couldn’t be much more meaningful, as it turns out, as his fifth-seeded club now faces elimination at the hands of the 12th-seeded Montreal...
by Neal McHale | Aug 4, 2020 | Florida Panthers, Homepage, Inside Hockey, NHL
Having a short memory might be important for the Panthers ahead of an elimination game on Wednesday versus the Islanders. Of course, maybe selective memory might suit the Cats better. In two games, they’ve seen the Islanders parade to a combined nine 10 power...
by Angie Carducci | Aug 4, 2020 | Inside Hockey, Pittsburgh Penguins
A best-of-five playoff series is a different situation than a best-of-seven. There’s less margin for error. One loss and the urgency rises quickly; with just one more, a team knows they’re on the brink, staring down the end of their season. So, when the heavily...
by John Zielonka | Jun 18, 2020 | Homepage, Inside Hockey, NHL, Seattle Kraken
NHL Seattle announced a two-month delay in the completion of the privately financed KeyArena $930 million renovation, according to the Seattle Times. Construction was expected to finish in early June and is now pushed back to the August-September timeframe. Work...
by George Grimm | May 29, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, Retro Rangers
Do the names Hub Anslow, Ron Rowe, Herb Foster, Huddy Bell, Jean-Paul Denis or Alex Ritson, ring a bell? How about Len Wharton, Henry Dyck, Max Labovitch or Art Strobel? Unless you’re a true student of the game and the Rangers of the 1940s and 50s, most of those names...
by George Grimm | Mar 23, 2020 | Hockey History, Homepage, Inside Hockey, New York Rangers, NHL, Retro Rangers
In February 1980, Mark Pavelich was sitting on top of the world as a key member of the US Hockey team that won the Gold Medal in the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. He then went on to be an unlikely star for the New York Rangers before walking away from the...