Yearly Archives: 2015

Here are my biggest potential UFA busts for the coming summer; Ladislav Nagy to return?…and more... *** It was the Nash line versus the Triplets - and the Nash line won. I always kick myself when I don't place a bet after I'm so sure of the outcome. We all knew that the Rangers was [...]

Paul Romanuk is the worst play-by-play caller in the league. It is easy to mix players up on occasion, and older folk often lose the puck, hell the younger ones do, too.   But Romanuk is a mess. I'm sure he is a great guy, though. No disrespect.   I feel like at least three [...]

Here are my favorite unrestricted free agents; Also thoughts on the Leafs…and more... *** Being a fan of the Leafs, I find that it's killed my sense of…I guess "hope" would be the best describer. And this realization was never more clear than on Saturday during the Blackhawks - Ducks game. When Chicago scored to [...]

Game 3 healthy scratches pull Blackhawks even, Babcock/Leafs chatter, and Memorial Cup Day 2 It was a good thing that Joel Quenneville inserted Antoine Vermette into the lineup for Game 4 on Saturday. After he was one of the prizes of the trade deadline, Vermette has been used sparingly by the Hawks, averaging just 13 [...]

Rangers-Lightning Game 4, Henrik Lundqvist, All-RFA team and breakout defensemen. *** The Rangers grabbed a 1-0 lead in Game 4, and then they went absolutely rope-a-dope in the second period. Tampa Bay peppered Henrik Lundqvist with 19 shots in the second and only scored once. Lundqvist robbed Steven Stamkos early on a wrap-around opportunity, which [...]