Trying to predict the next breakout star in the NHL is something we all enjoy. It involves both research and prognosticating, and often taking a risk or two. I tend to take moderate risks when proclaiming my picks for breakout stars. No guts, no glory, right? (Might be a bit of an exaggeration, as we are simply talking fantasy hockey here, but who cares!)
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Imagine this - you're sitting in a luxury suite at Ricoh Coliseum. A cold soda in one hand. Your fantasy hockey sheets in the other hand. Before you, Jiri Tlusty steals the puck from Karl Alzner and breaks in all alone. To your right - Dobber is also sipping on a cold soda, dispensing fantasy hockey advice. To your left, your buddy (who is also in your league) is enjoying some wings and chatting it up with Eastern Edge's Russ Miller.
This could be a reality.
What a sad state of affairs Manny Legace’s season has turned out to be. It wasn’t just the display of immaturity over the last week or the bad stretch of game in the last month. The true source of his demise actually goes back further than that, to the exact moment last season when he suffered that meniscus tear. Since then, the entire balance of Legace’s game has been upset, quite possibly marking the beginning of the end to his career.
Dallas a eu une idée intéressante cet été. Ils vont déranger outrageusement l’adversaire en ayant une peste sur chacun de leurs trios. Ils ont aussi fait en sorte que la peste ait un certain talent. En décembre, par contre, Brendan Morrow (qui est davantage un attaquant de puissance qu’un agitateur, mais restez avec moi pour ceci) a eu une opération au genou. Sean Avery a eu une chirurgie de personnalité et lorsque la poussière est retombée, il y avait un seul agitateur de talent restant.
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Dallas had an interesting idea in the summer. They would agitate the hell out of the other team by having a pest on each of their top three lines. And they also made sure that each of their pests also brought with them a ton of talent. By December, however, Brenden Morrow (more of a power forward than a pest, but bear with me) underwent knee surgery, Sean Avery underwent personality surgery and when the dust settled there was only one elite agitator left standing.
It's February, and time for another mock draft. In the month of love, what teams will find their perfect match?
The Carolina Hurricanes have picked up forward Jussi Jokinen from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Wade Brookbank, Josef Melichar and a fourth-round draft pick in the 2009 Entry Draft.
It’s been a tough ride since the All-Star break. My whole family has been on the IR. First it was the cough, runny nose, sore throat (inner body injury?) and then last night it was a cross between Linda Blair in The Exorcist and the pie-eating story in Stand By Me. It was not good! But as I've said before - if I'm feeling crappy, my picks are at their best...
Starting Wednesday February 11, the Ottawa Senators play five games in seven nights including two sets of back to back games. All of these games are on the road. Playing five games in a one week span doesn't happen very often - only twelve times during the regular season and this is the only time it happens to the Senators.
Steve Downie - fantasy pariah or future fantasy savior? The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines pariah as one that is despised or rejected. Steve Downie has been both early in his NHL career. Despised by many hockey fans as a no talent goon; rejected by the Flyers and traded to hockey’s sunny Siberia, Tampa Bay.
