Backes, Bruins Moving On
St. Louis, MO- David Backes has 1,008 games of National Hockey League experience across thirteen regular seasons and nine trips to the postseason. 727 regular season and 49 postseason games saw Backes wearing a...
A Few Words With Ryan O’Reilly
"They have elite personnel out there. They work well all together, the way they move the puck. There are so many threats we have to be on them. We have to be as quick as possible. If we're not working, get tired out there, they're going to make us pay."
Blues Swarm Bruins in Overtime, Take Game Two
Blues tie series 1-1 with split in Bruins building.
Boston, Ma. - The St. Louis Blues just might be the most resilient team in NHL history. Since the calendar flipped from 2018 to 2019 no team has done as bi...
Bruins, Blues Emerge for Stanley Cup Final Rematch 49 Years in Making
A Stanley Cup Final rematch 49 years in the making will see the St. Louis Blues vie for their first-ever title against the six-time Cup champion Boston Bruins. The Bruins return to the Final for the third time ...
Boston’s Youth Movement Provides Spark
Bruins Take Game One Despite Trailing 2-0 in Second Period
Boston, Ma. - After a six day wait for the Blues and their faithful, and an eleven day wait for the Bruins and their fans, the Stanley Cup Finals fi...
Interview: Doug Armstrong and Craig Berube
Darryl Houston Smith interviews Blues GM Doug Armstrong and head coach Craig Berube in advance of the 2019 Stanley Cup Finals.
2019 Stanley Cup Final Preview
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 ...
Doug Armstrong: No More Heartbreaks; Let the Fun Begin!
In my book The Art of the Dealers: the NHL’s Greatest General Managers I not only ranked St. Louis Blues GM Doug Armstrong as one of the 50 greatest general managers in hockey history I was also forced to assig...
Four Wins Remaining
It is time for a trip down memory lane…
When David Backes signed with the Boston Bruins as a free agent during the summer of 2016, few entertained the possibility of this deal working out as well as it did.
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And Then There Were Four
So after the story we released a little over a week ago, the stage is finally set. Our predictions through two games of the second round of NHL games proved to be hit or miss. We predicted that the Columbus Blu...