by Mike Gambill | Dec 19, 2023 | Ottawa Senators
Sometimes it just takes a few days for predictions to come true and for the Ottawa Senators, head coach D.J. Smith just got flame-broiled and now is unemployed. Merry Christmas, Coach. Now clean out your office. The NHL head coaching carousel keeps going in circles...
by Robert Marks | Dec 16, 2023 | Philadelphia Flyers, Photo Galleries, Washington Capitals
The Philadelphia Flyers defeated the Washington Capitals 4-3 in a shootout on Thursday. Bobby Brink, Joel Farabee and Owen Tippett scored for the Flyers and Connor McMichael, Tom Wilson and Dylan Strome tallied for the Capitals during regulation. In the shootout,...
by Mike Gambill | Dec 16, 2023 | Columbus Blue Jackets, Ottawa Senators, Seattle Kraken
The NHL coaching fraternity is a notoriously tight circle with old coaches getting hired by one team, then fired, and finding their way to another team down the road. All you have to do is look around and see familiar names: Trotz, Montgomery, Bowness, DeBoer,...
by Mike Gambill | Dec 16, 2023 | Winnipeg Jets
Professional sports teams always have team leaders who are the physical and often emotional cornerstones of their organizations and when those team leaders go down to an injury, teams tend to either fall apart or find themselves with the “next man up”...
by Angie Carducci | Dec 12, 2023 | Pittsburgh Penguins
Kyle Dubas has been in sports long enough to know the saying – when things aren’t going as planned and you can’t fire the whole team, you fire the coach. Monday, the Penguins’ general manager made it clear that he has no intention whatsoever of doing that, despite his...
by Mike Gambill | Dec 11, 2023 | Winnipeg Jets
As the old adage goes, “time flies” and as we approach the one-third mark of the 2023-24 NHL season, are the Winnipeg Jets truly ready to fly in formation? We are now in Year Two of the Rick Bowness era and as the cold wind blasts down from Lake Winnipeg,...
