Crosby is nice, but give me Ovechkin

April 4, 2008   8 Comments  

The sky of the modern NHL shines brightly with many young stars. Players like Evgeni Malkin, Patrick Kane, Paul Stastny, Pavel Datsyuk, and Jordan Staal are some of the fresh faces that hockey fans are getting to know via highlight reel footage on their local sports news program. Amidst all of these burgeoning studs, there’s [...]

The new and “improved” NHL?

March 6, 2008   4 Comments  

It’s been a rough time to be an NHL ice hockey fan since the turn of the century. Although hockey has always been the fourth of four major sports in America in terms of popularity, the hockey-following minority has always displayed a tremendous devotion to their sport. The past decade has seen our league’s rapid [...]

Simon Gagne is cooked

Feb. 15, 2008   Leave a Comment  

Simon Gagne is hopeful to return to the ice this season after suffering his third concussion of the season. Concussions aren’t knee injuries, and three of them is called a trend. This is a career-killing trend. Hockey isn’t tennis and I can assure you that if/when he plays again – be it this year or [...]