In a rematch of last year’s finals, the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins are slated to face off for the Stanley Cup. Last week, the NHL said the Cup finals wouldn’t begin until June 5, but the series was moved up six days, after the conference finals lasted only four and five games, [...]

With our sports editor hailing from Boston University so many years ago and our editor in chief graduating from Northeastern a bit more recently, Monday’s Beanpot championship game had special meaning for the Blast Magazine family.
Whether it had the intended result or not, Blast had a reporter at the TD Banknorth Garden and worked with [...]

Reported live from the TD Banknorth Garden
Fans trickled out of the Garden. They were either elated or in the dumps — justified or mortified.
A Boston University 5-2 win over Northeastern left many frustrated that the game — pitting No. 1 versus No. 3 in the country — really wasn’t even close.
At the beginning of the [...]

Reporting from the TD Banknorth Garden
The players are warming up and the fans are crowding the Garden for the 57th annual Beanpot Championship.
“Execute our game plan and come up high, there’s no more pressure than any other game,” said Albie O’Connell Northeastern assistant coach.
After a decisive win against Boston College, the third-ranked Huskies are ready to [...]

Next Monday, Boston University and Northeastern will face off in the Beanpot hockey finals.
No, that isn’t a mistake. Northeastern.
The Huskies haven’t won the Beanpot since 1988, but don’t be fooled; this is a much different NU team. Last night the Huskies pulled off a 6-1 beating of Boston College, the defending national champions, [...]

The Flyers advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals last night for the first time since 2004 with a 6-4 victory over the Canadiens in Montreal. After losing the first game of the series in OT, the Flyers rebounded by winning four straight and taking the series in five games.
After never trailing in any game [...]

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 one [...]

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 (over?) [...]